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Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌

@Aradayn@mastodon.social

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Programmer and game developer.

Added vertical writing support to the Calibre eBook reader.

My current project is working on a new, simplified approach to creating programming languages that are written without the need for traditional grammars or parsing.

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Joined May 13, 2017

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https://github.com/mwgabby-li

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Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Jul 19, 2026

Replying to @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io

@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io I read this as "Unaccountable executives causing huge social damage to save face." This is an example of a capitalist, corporate social structure catastrophically failing. Let's get back to democracy, extreme antitrust enforcement enforcement, and strict progressive taxation please!

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Jun 07, 2026

Replying to @Hex@kolektiva.social

@Hex@kolektiva.social Huh? Residential internet is not free of data caps in the USA. Using 200 GB is massive! It could easily cause people to blow past their caps and owe their ISPs money.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · May 28, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social That's not the ThinkBoy, it's the ThinkBoy Color! smh

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · May 11, 2026

Replying to @Aradayn@mastodon.social

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social You know, this gives me an idea. If I was in Congress, I would try to pass a law declaring him personally liable for reparations for the school bombing, and require them to be paid out of his personal funds. I have no idea if that would be legally possible, but it certainly seems just.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · May 11, 2026

Replying to @Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social

@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social Donald is the only person who owes Iran anything. This war is entirely his, and everything that's happened is his fault, because he ignored both the citizens of the USA and Congress. If we had better civics education and a more informed populace in this country, Congress shutting the whole thing down would be applauded.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · May 06, 2026

Replying to @lindsey@recurse.social

@lindsey Beyond Compare. Fork. Everything by Void Tools.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 20, 2026

I was trying to figure out what version SteamVR was last updated to and I was looking at the list of releases, as in this image.

I saw all the beta updates but I wasn't seeing the main app updates until I realized that my brain was apparently filtering out the large, bright banner in the middle here announcing the "Major SteamVR Update!" as irrelevant information and only seeing the smaller "SteamVR Beta Updated" banners above and below it.

This is your brain on internet advertising.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 17, 2026

LLMs teach us just how far you can get writing code by thoughtlessly parroting what you've seen without actually understanding it, but they also show us the limits of this approach.

The output can be misleading, it can solve the problem, and it can do it poorly or well. But as it is partly RNG guided, the results will also depend on how lucky you are!

For me, the biggest lesson here is we don't have to get lucky, we can use our brains.
Don't code on autopilot like an LLM. Be a human: think!

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social

@CarlMuckenhoupt@mastodon.social 🤯 Hmm, thinking about why that also surprises me, I guess it's because I think of them as "opening" and "closing", not as "enclosing the right side" and "enclosing the left side?"

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 13, 2026

This line from the XDG Desktop Specification documentation is making me lose my mind. They are going over reserved characters:
> Reserved characters are space (" "), tab, newline, double quote, single quote ("'"), backslash character ("\")

Then they get to parenthesis and my brain just throws a parse error here:
> parenthesis ("(") and (")")

- https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry/latest/exec-variables.html

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 12, 2026

This is incredibly good news. I hope for the sake of Hungary and the European Union that Tisza brings pro-democracy and other pro-citizen reforms to that country.

https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-election-2026-live-viktor-orbans-fidesz-faces-challenge-opposition-peter-2026-04-12/

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 11, 2026

RE: @skeletor@mas.to

While I do support the idea of justice, there's a lot of wisdom here. "Should" is such a loaded word, anyway!

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Apr 10, 2026

The *Lord of the Rings* movie series kind of made a silly blunder by, I think accidentally, communicating as an overall message that the mistake Bilbo made was telling Gollum his real name.

In the books, it was quite strongly implied that Sauron didn't need that sort of technique to find the ring, he could locate it by a sense of its magic.

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Mar 10, 2026

Replying to @christianp@mathstodon.xyz

@christianp 0.0020. Apparently that's impossible. Anyway, I object to his decision to round to 3dp, because I can definitely tell the difference on his website in his animated color examples 😛

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Jan 29, 2026

Replying to @Vivaldi__dup_1841@social.vivaldi.net

@Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net No offense, but this post actually breaks the official Mastodon client on iOS. Really annoying. I think something about how it does link previews combined with the way you wrote the post on your website resulted in this outcome?

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Sep 28, 2025

Replying to @rl_dane@polymaths.social

@rl_dane@polymaths.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social It's quite heartwarming, actually, in a bizarre way. Here is the joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · Feb 21, 2025

Replying to @ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social

@ZachWeinersmith 😭

Mark W. Gabby-Li 🐌 @Aradayn@mastodon.social · May 23, 2022

Replying to @Gargron@mastodon.social

@Gargron@mastodon.social Free software has traditionally had a major issue with off-putting names. I've been very impressed with the prudence of your leadership of this project, and I would like to say that I 100% support you in this decision. It's a solid choice that I think will help lead the project to wider adoption.

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