• student brought a bb gun to class and fired it at the japanese exchange teacher
• graduating year kids decided to "prank" a pregnant teacher by covering the stairs to her office in slippery material (eggs, iirc)
• another graduation "prank" was to let horses out of their field; they got onto train tracks and, well ... no more graduation pranks
• history of teachers and staff sexually abusing students
• graveyard full of dead monks

wait this was a private catholic school nvm

at least all those state actors will have to fight it out to control my system

and i have an excuse for poor application performance

oh such hope

in a week IntegerThatTracksOneThingForOnePurpose will be an object tracking 30% of the game state and mutated in 15 places without ever being renamed

The true test of a person's character is what he they do when no one is watching.

with no apologies to john wooden

oof ouch my bones

“Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful, 2002

have you ever tried to recreate a simple shell pipeline in Python

youre right

thats what sed is for

There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup

TIL about IzzyOnDroid's repo; thanks!

jokes on them

im going back to lynx

StaffEng is a great resource for "how the fuck do I staff engineer", including tech lead:

https://staffeng.com/guides/operating-at-staff/