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Cramming scrapscript into msgpack

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Every scrapscript program can be crammed into "flat" scraps.

on Sat, 5PM

From taylor.town

Santa Prefers Wealthy Sick Children

0 10

This is the first study, to our knowledge, to dispel the myth that Santa visits children based on behaviour and suggests socioeconomic deprivation plays a greater role in determining a visit.

on Thu, 3PM

From taylor.town

Sorry Spotify, I Wrapped It Myself

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I meticulously document my album ratings (in plaintext).

on Wed, 7PM

From taylor.town

Santa Claus is not a god... yet

0 1

To dismiss a god of children is unfair to everybody who was ever a child.

on Tue, 2PM

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my battlestation

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...in case you were wondering.

on Dec 7

From taylor.town

Your Next Two Zeroes

0 1

Exceed yourself; become a novice again, again and again.

on Dec 6

From taylor.town

Make a /wish page!

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An honest wishlist lays bare your values, motivations, and desires.

on Dec 4

From taylor.town

I hereby pardon all parking enforcement officers

0 1

Build mass-transit. Reduce parking wars. Promote non-violent parking/traffic enforcement.

on Dec 3

From taylor.town

Colt's Revolutions

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hungry for gun funds

on Dec 2

From taylor.town

/wish

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My wishlist is honest and sometimes embarassing.

on Dec 1

From taylor.town

go big or go small or go home but don't go medium

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Big things make life meaningful. Small things make life delightful.

on Dec 1

From taylor.town

Russian Woman Achieves 9x "Mythical" Man Month

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I have 22 children at the age of 26 and most of them were born in the space of a year.

on Dec 1

From taylor.town

Year Day is December 11

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It's your yearly nudge to solicit positive feedback.

on Nov 27

From taylor.town

Town Hall #27: Skies

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gray skies are okay too

on Nov 27

From taylor.town

Stinky Gifts From Your Idea Kitty

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taxidermy squirrels stuffed with sand and sapphires

on Nov 26

From taylor.town

Insurance Insurance

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Purchase Premium Insurance-Squared today!

on Nov 25

From taylor.town

/junk

0 0

welcome to my internet yardsale

on Nov 18

From taylor.town

Host an indie-web yardsale on your /junk page

0 0

You can give that wish a second life.

on Nov 18

From taylor.town

Rob the Whole World; Give It Back

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Give a man a gun and he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank and he can rob the whole world.

on Oct 30

From taylor.town

"Somebody Tranq That Child!"

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Modern blowguns are Swiss-army-flavored. A baseline model retails for $299 and acts as a telescope, microscope, megaphone, pencil, camera, snorkel, food thermometer, pregnancy test, and flute.

on Oct 22

From taylor.town

How to build god and get away with it

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Humanity will inevitably build god in man's own image.

on Oct 17

From taylor.town

A History of Microwave Ovens

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Some humans put a ~2.4GHz magnetron on a ventilated metal box with a fancy door.

on Oct 17

From taylor.town

A Georgist's Guerilla Gardening Guide

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Every vacant plot could be a home, park, market, garden, farm...

on Oct 10

From taylor.town

Legalize Life (and Living)

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Any fruits [or Mexicans] in your car today?

on Oct 2

From taylor.town

Kimba Syndrome

0 1

Sure, maybe all this is legal; maybe it's also super shitty.

on Sep 25

From taylor.town

the soundless interstitium

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Programmers sometimes care about correctness.

on Sep 24

From taylor.town

Seizing the Means of Re-Production

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What's the deal with Monsanto?

on Sep 19

From taylor.town

Town Hall #25: Simularium

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a man, a plan, a canal, Japan

on Sep 18

From taylor.town

A Simple SRS Algo (in Ugly SQL)

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There are plenty of excellent off-the-shelf SRS algorithms out there, but I needed something (1) optional, (2) debuggable, and (3) cheap.

on Sep 17

From taylor.town

Reactive Relational Algebra

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databases plus wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff

on Sep 15

From taylor.town

growing the graveyard of "better spreadsheets"

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spreadsheets remain popular for good reasons

on Sep 15

From taylor.town

a one man war of attrition

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attrition warfare is tiring

on Sep 14

From taylor.town

Profitable Plant Propagation Prevents Poaching

0 1

We tried telling people to stop poaching, but that didn't work.

on Sep 12

From taylor.town

Offensive Horticulture

0 0

Plant production puts plant-propagators in potential penal peril.

on Sep 7

From taylor.town

Proplifting, Plant Piracy, and Dumpster Chocolates

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Apparently gourmet chocolate shops make batches unsuitable for customers, but perfectly suitable for low-lifes like me.

on Sep 4

From taylor.town

The Silicon Valley Tarpits

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Daddy, how did the cofounders fall into these tarpits?

on Aug 30

From taylor.town

So Many Silver Landmines

0 0

Silver bullets magically solve problems. Silver landmines magically create problems.

on Aug 30

From taylor.town

bang! bang! he murdered math! {the musical!}

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Two shots from a revolving revolver will solv'er.

on Aug 25

From taylor.town

Town Hall #23: Clown World

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we live in clown world and it's getting even clownier

on Jul 28

From taylor.town

Against the Advice of My Superintelligence

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When the machines wise up, they'll be right to leave us behind.

on Jul 26

From taylor.town

"work hard, play hard"

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dichotomies are cringe

on Jul 23

From taylor.town

Publishable Network Contracts in Scrapscript

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As networked programs change, the communication between sound programs inevitably becomes unsound.

on Jul 17

From taylor.town

VisionOS Dev: Taylor's Opinionated and Already-Outdated Guide (2024)

0 0

s̴̛̖͛̊̅̊͗ṗ̷̧͓̳̤̺̎́͊̀͠ą̵͉̟͖́͘ͅt̸̢̛̻͍͈̫̤̏̓̒̓͝i̵̢̺̜̼͇̬̽̊͜͝ä̷̙̗̺́͒̀̓ļ̴̛̼̠̩̲̌͂͌͂͝͠͝͠͝ ̷͓͚̼̣̎͛̀̌̀̎̈c̸̛̘͎̀̽̊̑̉͂̀ö̶̝͔͍͈́̋̆̋͒̀m̴̪̺̤̮̘̬̟̫̬̃̍̌̔̀̐̍͘͜͝͠p̵̡̤͈̼̠̗̗͙͒̀̏̂̉͒̈͛̉ų̶̨͉͕̼̰̃̏̇̄̈́͂͜ͅt̴̨͉̹̲̞̟̭̼̍̊́̆͌̇̌͒͜͝ỉ̸̗͕͓̳̎̋͠n̷̖͆g̴̟̗͙̩͕̍̏̾̅̆͆̓̈́̃͝

on Jul 9

From taylor.town

When to Build Millennia Sewers

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Every building in central Chicago was raised 10ft (30m) to add a sewage system underneath.

on Jul 9

From taylor.town

How to Observe Buydays

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Consolidate non-essential purchases to fewer days.

on Jul 5

From taylor.town

Metabootstrapped Messaging Protocols (Abstract)

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Any Turing-complete bootstrapped messaging protocol can transpile its bootstrapped client to other languages.

on Jun 25

From taylor.town

POSETTE 2024: How/Why to Sweep Async Tasks...

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Instead of returning hostile 500 errors to users, a small async worker query pattern makes fault-tolerant design the default.

on Jun 25

From taylor.town

Urgent/Optimistic Meeting Matrix

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good enough

on Jun 2