#caffeineposting

[estonian-is-horrible]

my favorite thing about learning languages is connecting words you sort-of know but not fully with words you see. of course, you can invent a lot of fake etymologies or mistranslations that can hinder your progress, but also. it's fun

säästumarket = a cheap supermarket säästu = cheap

oled säästnud = you cheaped

clearly

[captive-caffeine]

.....where....

[unusualshrimp]

sorry for not shutting up about caffeine but it's genuinely changing my life

[agapi-kalyptei]

me: tummy hurty. it's a mystery. nobody knows why

also me: this 3 months expired milk is fine, actually

[cats-and-confusion]

How’d you get the idea for Melatonin and Caffine?

OHOHO WELL YOU SEE,

Melatonin stems from my chronic fatigue and the way I cope with it (pretending I'm being tortured in a basement to make my reality feel better in comparison), as well as my theory that I had for most of my life that the reason I'm so tired all the time is because my brain produces too much melatonin (which has since been disproved and replaced by you're physically disabled idiot.)

Caffeine was inspired by the opposite - whenever I drank caffeine, I got super shaky and spazzy, productive and almost volatile. It stood out to me because of the contrast between this state and how I normally am, and I thought it would make a funny little duo.

From there I developed the characters based on color schemes and amplifying their base personality traits to give them nuance and depth, and played with ideas about how they'd interact with one another; would they balance out, or fight? Would they transition between the two? How would their individual stigmas and traumas conflict and guide their actions?

And thus you have the chemical siblings! Let me know if you want me to elaborate more. :3

[unusualshrimp]

[ID: Three tumblr replies that read as follows.

ericbogosbian: five

sodajuicesoda: Don't worry about it (thumbs up emoji)

flygutz: when u start feeling like you could solve the jon benet ramsey case

End ID.]

whats the limit for caffeine in one intake

[gingertomcat]

Coffee too strong hit me like a truck

Now I can't decide between being productive, being horny or going to sleep

[mossyvessel]

They invented a new kind of gay sex called listening to loud ass music while absurdly caffeinated

[chaotic-neutral-melatonin]

Hello, Melatonin! I was wondering, would it be possible that you might know someone called Caffeine? Just curious.

- 🌊

Oh, her? ....yeah. She, uh... well, she's not here right now, but she might be...later. she never stays in one place very long.

[agapi-kalyptei]

As a user, I 100% agree. As a software developer, I also 100% agree. But only that apps should be less bloated, and not that freezing hardware growth would help.

The problem is not so frequently in developers being lazy (if anything, usually just inexperienced), but I'd say 90% of the time the main problem are harsh deadlines, and in general the predatory nature of software marketplace. If you have a good idea that DOES have a mainstream appeal, there WILL be a large software company swooping in, allocating 100+ developers to the project, and taking over the market.

Putting aside that most startups are unprofitable, and are about gaining growth to woo potential investors when they go public, the main software paradigm in almost areas of software development (besides like, control software for trains or particle accelerators) is to hurry the hell up to deliver new things on the market constantly.

The problem isn't in developers writing poor code to deliver a feature; it's because most everything has been done before, and is available as (usually) open source libraries, which you would be foolish to not use. Reinventing the wheel is expensive. Regardless of what language and platform you use to develop, you generally need dozens, hundreds, or thousands of these small 3rd party packages to deliver even a hello world app.

Not to mention that you want your app to work on literally thousands of different devices. So maybe instead of using the system libraries (like WebView), you package in your own, so you can rely on the exact version with its exact features.

They all add up. Now your 20 lines of code compiles to 100+ MB of bloat on disk, and you need 300MB RAM just to open some blank Electron app on a desktop OS.

In the 90s there was a rumor / joke that Microsoft and Intel have a secret deal: Windows will be buggy and slow so that Intel can sell more chips.

In reality it's much more about people getting used to fancy new features (having new content pre-loaded when you open an app without any delays, cloud save, shiny buttons and animations, statistics, fancy editing tools, nested comment replies, whatever you cannot even think of because it became so ubiquitous it's invisible; and corporations mining more of your data, spying on you more, but also having things like background error reporting and analytics to improve the quality and experience and fix bugs). All of these are the straws that break your "ancient" 2 year old phone's back.

we should globally ban the introduction of more powerful computer hardware for 10-20 years, not as an AI safety thing (though we could frame it as that), but to force programmers to optimize their shit better

[braindamagedboykisser]

Today I learned that anything is possible with enough caffeine, taurine, vitamin B12, and sheer force of resentment.

[captive-caffeine]

......my hair has grown.....how long have I...been here...?

...when was the last time I ate...? ...or spoke, or played...?

....

....it's a miracle I can access...whatever this method of contact is....

...

...I don't want to fall asleep again. I've been dreaming for so long....

[unusualshrimp]

[agapi-kalyptei]

XKit Rewritten - for Firefox and Chrome

is the third generation of XKit, a browser extension that helped ease off the rough hellsite edges, and added a functional shitlist, fast reblog/queue, tag bundles, icon for mutuals, etc, all like ten years ago

I know you're on mobile but......... like. honestly. using Tumblr with XKit on desktop is 100x less painful than whatever shenanigans the app has been doing over the past 10 years.

like so:

I spent 2011-2017 blocking "supernatural" and "spn" and "hannibal" and it was glorious.

Every time Tumblr, in its brogramming phase in early 2010s, would introduce an annoying change, days later XKit would fix it. Like when Tumblr first started collapsing tags into one line, for years, there was no way to change it in settings. XKit was there for us. She's our cool aunt.

im curious, do you have a favourite tumblr sexy man?

……what if I told you that I somehow missed that entire Tumblr sexy man poll phenomenon and that the only one I saw anyone talk about was the fucking onceler so idk who was even in the running

I think I accidentally disappeared from Tumblr while that whole thing was happening….. oops?

[agapi-kalyptei]

me giving in to caffeine addiction again: too much of a good thing is an awesome thing actually

me 3 hours later: I can feel 37 emotions and 32 of them are anxiety

[hansneumann]

Flow state Written and Directed #hansneumann From our cover story for Vogue China featuring Qin Shupei @shupeicute shot in Hawaii First and most thank you @margaretzhang it’s been maybe 7-8 years now since we met? and it’s always such a pleasure to collaborate. Happy to know you my friend you are such a legend. And thanks to everyone who worked so hard on this one. Love you all. Artistic Director Matt McDonald @mattrmcdonald Casting by Denise Suen @denise.suen Stylist Edward Bowleg III @edward.bowleg DP @basilfauchier Hair Stylist Tsuki @tsukihair Make Up Artist Kuma @kuma1206 Fashion Editor Vivienne Sun @viviennesun_ Fashion Coordinator Yang Yi Production Editor Summer Guo, Anita Lau Line Producer Lola Production @lolaproduction @maraleibrock Local service production @sightandsoundhawaii Post production. @caffeinepost Editor @jeffoftheyear Sound @santiagofauchier https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq2v7PYrj4G/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=