#and the haskell community especially

[shadow-bender]

Please pray and raise awareness for Cole Brings Plenty, a Lakota actor and student. He was found on april 5th. This is such an awful and cruel act of violence, im having a hard time finding the words.

April 8th Rising Hearts has organized Braids for Cole, so please wear your hair in braids and bring awareness so that Cole and his family can get justice.

*edited to correct information*

[ravenyenn19]

On Shadow & Bone S2…

So, I’ve been considering making a post like this for a bit & I figured now is the time. These are just my thoughts so if you disagree, disagree! That’s fine! Constructive discussion is encouraged! 🖤 (Spoilers for book & movie!!!)

So. Kaz Brekker (tv edition), is who I’ll be discussing in this micro essay, along with Inej (tv edition).

Since the first season aired, I’ve seen a ton of things online, people shouting “make Kaz more violent! He never should have said something so bold to Inej as “I need you.”!” I DISAGREE. Here’s why:

Kaz Brekker on the screen is clearly aged up, as is everyone else amongst the Crows. I agree with this choice whole heartedly as it makes more sense in the merging of events from S&B. It would be odd to have Alina, the Darkling, Zoya & everyone else in these situations as older characters serving in the Ravkan military etc and leave the Crows as adolescents. Now, if the Six of Crows books had been entirely stand alone and adapted in a show that also majorly targeted only young adults, it would make sense. However, Netflix’s aim was not to only target young people. Just as Leigh has said she feels “Six of Crows” is more adaptable to an older audience as well.

If Kaz had still been a kid, I think you’re right. He would not have been so bold. But he isn’t seventeen in the show. I think showing him as a more mature iteration of the character, it was wise to make him bolder. Inej, older as well, would not stick around for silence as an adult. I firmly believe this. She knows what she’s worth, and that is shown in the books as well. I think this would only be magnified with maturity- as it should be!

I don’t think if Kaz had been an adult in the books, and those around him also adults, his friends would have settled for nothing. I think because they were young & blinded by trauma, all of them had something lacking in terms of communication & personal self-worth for some reason or another. Therefore finding Kaz’s aloofness and “uncaring” nature more palatable; if only because of their own ages & experiences.

I also think the show HAD to make Kaz more vocal about his thoughts/feelings. If only slightly. This is due to such a large amount of the context for his character only being found in internal monologue in the books. In order to make Kaz real on the screen and not immediately dismissible as “bad” for what he says and does, they had to give both the audience & characters around him glimpses of his internal landscape. This is especially noticeable with Inej, but also Jesper.

In the show, they clearly hint that Jesper knows at least some of Kaz’s history with Pekka Rollins. (Jesper asks, “did he recognize you?” Kaz answers: “I’d be dead if he had”). Now, we don’t know yet if the show is altering any of Kaz’s backstory yet (as they have changed something already- his affiliation with the Dregs was not mentioned & therefore we don’t know if Per Haskell even exists in this version of events). I think this is clearly a nod to the fact that Kaz has grown up in this iteration and has not left Jesper in the dark- at least not entirely. I do not think Jesper knows the crucial part of Kaz’s history regarding his severe aversion to skin contact with others. This was hinted at when Jesper grabs Kaz’s sleeve at one point in Ketterdam and doesn’t notice the shock on Kaz’s face.

As far as the violent streak goes- I think the show gave him just enough in the first season. This is because the story line didn’t necessarily call for more as they were kidnapping Alina & fighting off against Grisha rather than rival gangs etc. I do hope to see more of Kaz’s abilities as well as the other Crows in season 2.

This is all to say, I think making Kaz Brekker a little more “vocal” on screen saves his character from being cast aside for those who have no context & didn’t read the books. Netflix aimed to make a show for all viewers, not just readers, and I for one am glad to see others finding these characters that mean so much to me in a new way. 🖤

Anyways, these are just humble thoughts from your local Kanej author 🖤 Tell me what you think! (Also DWOD will be updated tonight!)

[xiexiecaptain]

Shadow & Bone rewatch live-commenting that was started on twitter and is being moved/continued here!

This is the post for EP 02: We Are All Someone’s Monster

[Episode 01 post] [Rewatch Commentary Links Masterpost]

((There WILL be spoilers mentioned for the books in the Grishaverse including the Crows duology & King of Scars duology! This is basically from the perspective of watching the show as someone who knows the books well.))

This visual interpretation of the way each of the 1st trilogy books are opened and closed with "the boy and the girl" narration is such a great visual motif

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I love the bleached white streaky effect on the deck from the burst of light

Listen, I'm a writer more than a visual artist, so when people do great clever/interesting visual ways of communicating or interpreting things I'm so in awe

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CAN WE TALK ABOUT HOW COOL KAZ'S WATCH IS??

These are the sort of tiny worldbuilding details that I just want to rub all over my face

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This is a really interesting adaption change--that Kaz couldn't buy her indenture all at once like in the books. But since it seems like they cut Per Haskell, Kaz doesn't have that money to use for buy her contract and such

The amount of trauma Inej must be dealing with on a regular basis, having to go back there is just unimaginable

Like it's one thing to be kept there by Heleen before Kaz bought her indenture. But to be able to leave and be out working for Kaz, but have to go BACK

Oof Inej is the strongest person in the whole series I s2g

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Of course you can't fool the Wraith. 

She's got your number, Dirtyhands~

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you can just IMMEDIATELY see he regrets it 

His first instinct is to always make people feel expendable and keep them at arms length 

["He's not the only irreplaceable member of this crew, Kaz. You need me."

"I need your skills, Inej. That's not the same thing."]

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Ok the fact that he goes after her-!

I mean, think about how much it means that KAZ BREKKER takes the time/effort and concedes the emotional investment in her to grab his cane and walk after her?!?!

[I'd settle for an apology, she decided. Even if Kaz isn't sorry, he can pretend. He at least owes me his best imitation of a human being.]

Listen I've been Kanej trash for almost 5 solid years now, y'all. The fact that I'm getting new material through this series is feeding me spiritually

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Kirigan: Closer 

Alina: *teeny tiniest of steps* 

aLINA STARKOV-!

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Again, I really like the adaption changes they made--this time with the visual/physical externalization of the Grisha testing

In books, because of interiority and description, it works perfectly for it to be described as touching an arm and then that feeling of rushing to meet the touch. But for a visual medium, having to be something more physical and something easier to convey visually was a smart choice.

But also to have the testing be as a response to sudden pain, like triggering a survival instinct, has lots of interesting things to say about the nature of Grisha power

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Man as much as I despise the Darkling, he's a very compelling and well-done antagonist and character.

Because you disagree with HOW he goes abt it, but you can understand WHY he does it. To me personally, that’s the kind of antagonist I really find fascinating--one you can sympathize with, who genuinely believes they’re making the hard choices to do good things but are misguided, misinformed, accidentally harmful, and causing harm that they justify. (Although there’s a lot to discuss about antagonists like that where then the overall narrative moralizes middle-road non-action in the face of oppression over revolutionary action ie Killmonger, but I digress).

But Ben Barns really kills it as the Darkling. Just pitch perfect, I mean this is 1000% the face of a man who has just found the final tool to start the work he's been planning for centuries.

But I ESPECIALLY love when there are no clear cut black and white, no choices made that are easily entirely definable “right” or wrong” for the antagonist (nor the protagonist for that matter.) Make all the choices grey and make everything have collateral damage  (You can start to see why SoC is my personal favorite in the Grishaverse, huh?)

But the Darkling is a very good antagonist. Doesn’t tick all my personal boxes but he’s very well crafted. (Eerily over-charismatic antagonists are really enthralling to me especially because they mirror real-life “villains” in that many people who are easily charming can also be very manipulative.)

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THE LOOK ON KAZ'S FACE WHEN PEKKA WALKS IN IM- 

[Kaz heard a roaring in his ears. As always, he experienced a strange kind of doubling when he looked at Rollins...]

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[The look that passed over the boy's face then had taken Rollins aback. It was hatred--pure, black, long simmering.]

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I literally hissed out loud when he took Kaz's cane how fucKING DARE YOU

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Good fucking luck, Rollins. Didn't turn out so well last time Ketterdam tried that

[One glance at Kaz Brekker told him this was a creature who had spent too long in the dark--he'd brought something back with him when he'd crawled into the light.]

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(( P.S. Yes I have the SoC books with me bc 

1. I'm the biggest nerd on the planet but 

2. It's really amazing to see how well they translated the character dynamics and emotions 

3. The books are some of the most quotable in the universe 

4. I don't own paper copies of the other ones))

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[Kaz waited for acknowledgement--a smirk, a sneer, some spark of recognition. But Rollins' eyes passed right over him.]

ITS JUST SO GOOD?!?!

I mean we’re seeing the Crows/Ketterdam folks in an entirely new plot, but the book quotes still fit flawlessly because the core of the characters and their dynamics have been translated to this adaption with such care and love for the source material!!!

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I mean, he's not entirely wrong

[The child he'd been had died. The fever had burned away every gentle thing inside him. Survival wasn't nearly as hard as he'd thought once he left decency behind.]

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She knows him so fucking well!

["Don't think I haven't noticed the way you go after him, Kaz."

"He's just another boss, one more Barrel thug."

"No, he isn't. When you go after other gangs, it's business. But with Pekka Rollins, it's personal."]

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It is in this moment I am heavily reminded that you can easily interpret the books as supporting that Jesper has feelings/the hots for Kaz at the beginnings of the books

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JUST BURY ME IN TINY CULTURAL WORLDBUILDING DETAILS LIKE THIS

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The Conductor is another addition I freaking adore 

Of course some enterprising individual figured out their own way through the Fold and used it to make money (I mean also helping Grisha flee Ravka, but still, he's charging them so)

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MY HEART 

I bet they feel like they just got each other back too, after thinking they were gonna be separated by the supply run through the fold 

OH MY BABIES

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fUCKING HELEEN VANHOUDEN THE EVIL BITCH 

On a weird side note, her voice has the exact same awful sickly sweet drawl as in the audiobooks and its just perfect for the exact type of abusive she is

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KazBrekker.exe has stopped working 

 (Also me. We live an Inej Ghafa appreciation life here in this household)

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Look at Inej's face. She thinks Heleen's sending her to a client 

I can't bear this 

She looks like she's trying so so hard to keep herself together

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The Komedie Brute costume revelers!! 

(at least I'm pretty sure that's what they're supposed to be)

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JESPER LLEWELLAN FAHEY (scolding, adoring)

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[He'd heard other members of the gang say she moved like a cat, but he suspected cats would sit attentively at her feet to learn her methods.]

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“OF COURSE, LOVE” I’M-

He’s so IMMEDIATELY ready to help her with whatever. OF COURSE, he says.

Bury me in their friendship

I also really adore we get to see Inej struggling with not wanting to kill people. Cus in the book only vaguely mentioned about her having cried the night she killed someone for the first time and Kaz overheard her.

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The unexpected gays have arrived!!

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The position of Grisha in Ravka is so interesting!

Because a lot of otkazat'sya see them as stuck up, thinking they're better than and getting preferential treatment.

But that’s only because the Darkling made it that way in response to Grisha literally being burned at the stake elsewhere

In the books, so many of the Little Palace Grisha that Alina trains with have the outlook of "well, we have powers, we were scouted to be trained here because we're special, so obviously we're better than otkazat'sya."

But here, I think its important that they show that at least some of the Grisha realize that this tiny bubble of safety (via fear, rather than acceptance) because of the Ravkan government (the Darkling’s work) is the exception. And many of the 2nd Army Grisha aren't from Ravka originally, they fled their homelands for fear of being killed, experimented on, sold into servitude, etc.

And while the Darkling has made it safer for Grisha who are recruited into the 2nd Army, the legacy of the Fold has also increased prejudice against Grisha among otkazat'sya and abroad..

I just really like this scene because of how it highlights the Grisha's very complex position

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The fact that they developed Fjerdan to the point where they have characters speaking it is just *chef kiss*

(once again, idk how people who watch things without subtitles don't miss 80% of content even when its not literally translating dialogue for you, but that might just be my ADHD ass talking)

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I’m not even a little bit sorry

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ok but the horror on Jessie Mei Li's face is absolutely stunning

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WINKS SO HARD I STRAIN A MUSCLE 

Somewhere on the Geldstraat, Wylan Van Eck is sneezing

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The little thing of Kaz tensing up when Jesper grabs his coat and then staring at it pointedly

Oh man oh man oh man

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HHHHHH KAZ’S FACE

 ["Would you? Trust someone with that knowledge, with a secret that could destroy you?" 

Yes, thought Kaz without any hesitation. There's one person I would trust. One person I know would never use my weaknesses against me.]

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The most realistic of portrayal of horse riding in a fantasy show

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already lying through his gd teeth 

gIRL DUMP HIM

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"Oh, so what's the Darkling's, like, story arc?"

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I MEAN SHE'S NOT WRONG THO?

(A side note, how interesting would it be if Alina actually wasn't the first sun summoner?)

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Well, well, look who it is: Malyen "Tunnel Vision" Oretsev 

(I’m kidding, I really like show!Mal)

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WE LEAD A JESPER 👏 FAHEY 👏  APPRECIATION 👏 LIFE 👏

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So I literally wrote a [post back in the day] about how I thought since queer, trans, and gnc folks have historically been pushed to the margins of society and work/live in poor areas and have a high rate of sex work, you can bet your ass the Barrel has its fair share of trans/gnc residents

And its so cool to see this gestured to with Poppy?? 

I’m also glad they're miffed at Kaz for a financial deal rather than anything gender/sexuality related. Like the writers didn't stereotype Poppy's life

Let's just get more of Poppy tbh? What's their story!?! I wanna see more of them and see them performing on stage and see them do some cool badass stuff???

Just more Poppy in season 2 please? 

We also need more people who call Kaz out on being a little scheming rat tbh

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I AM SO FUCKING INTERESTED ABOUT THIS?? 

They gave Inej a brother!!! Who was also stolen by slavers!! Which is a fascinating plot twist and I'm very excited to see how it adds to the story!!!

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I CANT BREATHE HER FACE- 

INEJ-!!!! 

[She had to believe her Saints saw and understood the things she did to survive.]

Amita Suman is the one and only Inej Ghafa and we are so lucky to have herrrr

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She's absolutely ready to believe he would choose profit over her never having to step foot in the Menagerie again 

It's heartbreaking but also like, yeah, Kaz, you built your reputation specifically so people would believe you capable of anything??

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The only people we have seen him let stand this close beside him so far in the show are Jesper and Inej and I have a Feelings about it 

He gets in people's faces for intimidation reasons, but the only one he’s gotten this close next to are them????

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THATS NOT AN ANSWER YOU MANIPULATIVE PIECE OF GARBAGE

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Change dot org petition to Give Alina Starkov a Fucking Hug

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🎵Doo-do-do-do-do 🎵 Definitely not about to desert the army to run off after my childhood friend 🎵  doo-do-do

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I fucking love these three's friendship so much. I’m so glad it had space in the show to get fleshed out and feel more real

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im fucking scREAMING

[His mind had concocted a hundred schemes to bind her to him, to keep her in this city. But she'd spent enough of her life caged by debts and obligations.]

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And that’s the end of Ep 02! Hot damn hot damn!

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Additional thoughts: 

Both visually and character-wise, this show is so gd diverse and it's just a pleasure 

And its diverse because the WORLD is diverse, not just for misguided ~diversity~ reasons

There are so many races and ethnicities, gender expressions, sexualities, body types, classes, dis/abilities on screen for the simple reason that all those people exist in the world, take part in major world events and in the stories of people's lives 

It's a fucking joy.

One of the things that endeared me to the SOC books right away (which I read first) was that in the first chapter where we meet our main characters, we already have two characters of color and a disabled character within this absolutely enthralling scene of the parlay with the Black Tips where those traits are not ignored but nor are they centered unnecessarily. They are integral to the characters and how they operate in the world, but they are never reduced to them. Everyone is complicated and textured and flawed and I just really fucking love Leigh's characters ok?

It's so wonderful we have a mixed-race main character (played by a mixed-race actress) 

 We have four mixed-race characters in the main/supporting cast: Alina, Mal, Jesper, & Zoya (though Jesper & Zoya’s backgrounds aren’t mentioned/explored in season 1)

We have a young man with a physical disability in the main cast who is portrayed to be one of the scariest people in his city 

We have five indisputably queer characters on screen in season 1: Jesper, Ivan, Fyedor, Nadia, Dima

We have heavy folks in main roles--Nina & Arken--portrayed as desirable and ingenious, both hero and turncoat

We have so many POCs it's useless to point them all out individually, which is a gift 

It all just feels like such a gift

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[Episode 01 post] [Rewatch Commentary Links Masterpost]

[nation-of-bros]

Update

I will continue this blog, but expect that Tumblr will delete hairybros at some point like so many others. That's why I'm now on Twitter too, where you can also follow me:

https://twitter.com/hairybros

I am currently planning my own website running parallel to Twitter to publish my writings. Hence, Twitter will be primarily for images, vids, short messages and general communication, while my website will be for longer text. I think this combination is a good alternative to Tumblr, with a much wider reach.

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For IT nerds like me

I have already thought about the domain and implementation of the website: Since I don't like PHP, I will also work with JavaScript on the server side using Node.js. I've always wanted to deal with this and this project would be a good opportunity to do so. On the server side you could theoretically use any language you like (you just have to install the interpreter or runtime environment), but I think keeping the front and back end in the same language is advantageous, especially since JavaScript is not that badly designed. Last but not least, there are some transpiling languages that directly spit out JavaScript. This way I can later use PureScript on the server and client side, since I'm one of the few elite programmers who can master Haskell and love functional programming. :p

[iag12]

indigenous and metis in canada have the highest suicide rate in canada indigenouse people in canada make up 4.9% of canadas population

suicides and self inflicted injuries are one of the biggest reasons for death among indigenous communities youth and adults up to 44 years of age

for first nations the suicide rate is triple the national average and for metis its double the national average and for inuit its 9 times worst

and in general indigenouse populations have a vunrability to trauma and such even more

Intergenerational trauma

Indigenous people have experienced, and may continue to experience, collective trauma stemming from colonization, the effects of which are passed on from one generation to the next; this is referred to as intergenerational trauma. Colonization led to the forced settlement of nomadic tribes, relocation from traditional settlements, forced removal of children from their homes into residential schools or non-Indigenous homes or orphanages (“Sixties Scoop”)

Colonization led to losses of culture, traditional values, and family stability, as it was made impossible, in many cases, for parents and Elders to pass along vital cultural knowledge and resilience to children who were taken away. In addition, relocation and settlement took many Indigenous people away from their traditional ways of living and thriving

The child welfare system

The current child welfare system continues to be especially traumatic for Indigenous youth. In Canada, 52% of children in foster care are Indigenous, while only 7% of children in Canada are Indigenous (Indigenous Services Canada, 2020).

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) recommends reducing the “over-representation of Indigenous children in the care of child welfare.”

Anyone who has experienced trauma is at greater risk for suicide. Most people receiving treatment for mental health issues have had some form of trauma (Rosenberg, 2011), and trauma places people at higher risk for additional mental health issues such as depression and addiction.

When people have healthy coping mechanisms and strong support systems, they are better equipped to heal from trauma. Not only did acts of colonialism cause trauma in Indigenous people, but it also affected their means of coping with and healing from trauma. This is how intergenerational trauma continues to negatively affect generation after generation of Indigenous people today (Linklater, 2014; Haskell & Randell, 2009).

People who have experienced trauma will cope with it in some way, whether they are aware of it or not, and some ways of coping may contribute to suicide risk.

[mourning-again-in-america]

wonder how much programming language adoption is driven by "types of guy" that represent the language

like, "rust faster, more robust and safer than python, why won't you rewrite your ML stuff to be in rust rather than python?" is a Kind of Guy i've seen a couple different times and i'm vaguely aware of the Haskell-flavored Kind of Guy ("oh actually this is just a paramorphism with some annotations you can collect with an auxiliary catamorphism", "just write it against an arbitrary categorical interface") i personally avoided Ruby and Javascript for a while because it felt like the entire community was devoted to trying to solve already-solved problems (esp. type safety) while not acknowledging that their choice of language made this hard; and C++ especially because I assumed that if I posted any C++ code online people'd lecture me about the glaring security faults that came from using basic std stuff minorly incorrectly, but that it'd devolve into a useless flamewar between several partial solutions -- but I never had any issues with Haskell people -- sometimes they'd speak a little bit out of their depth, but most of the time it was helpful because it meant I got to see what connections their brain was making even if they weren't strictly true analogies

[longbicycle]

Postgresql documentation

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[0xfc963f18dc21]

man I don't know why I've just been reminded of this (long read, kinda ranty)

but there's this one program that I (occasionally) express interest in trying to learn how to use it because of the amount of community support for it

it's an open source program, I've found my way around them (and I guess wrote some crappy ones myself) and it's been mostly an okay experience

though, things don't always go smoothly because the code usually has been written with unix systems in mind (sometimes to a fault) and sometimes support for mac os and windows has been pushed to the side (sometimes up to the point where you'd need heavy modifications for it to work on those two operating system families)

alright, fair enough, a lot of the time they do at least attempt to support everyone, with build instructions, releases for people who can't compile, etc.

there's this one program that kind of rubs me the wrong way every time I go to grab a binary from its homepage

not going to point fingers but there is a message saying that the maintainer group will never attempt to fully support mac os / windows for the program, citing their reason as "making people want to switch over to a 'free' platform like unix"

meanwhile their support for the program versions that they officially release on their page (which is outdated by several versions btw) is so bad that it works like garbage in mac os / windows (it's a longstanding program so it works fine on full unix systems)

how do you expect people to want to switch to a free platform when the first experience they got of it was garbage

why is your download page so pretentious that you could've easily replaced the text with a JS-generated HTML element that flips off the person reading the text if they are on mac os / windows and the message will be the same

if I express this all I get is the same cookie-cutter response of "your fault for choosing windows / mac os" and I'm like "I would switch if it wasn't such a pain in the ass to get it set up right and when you all stop acting like elitist pricks"

I also have other things running on my computer that requires windows so I can't fully commit to switching just yet

also, when I mean that mac os / windows support is delayed (especially windows a lot of the time), there is an entire programming language that is:

about the same age as java and haskell

the same kind of language as haskell

and it still has windows support only in beta while (natively-compiling) languages far younger than it have windows support for compilation for almost their lifetime

overall this is just me raving about elitism in computer software

tl;dr: (F)OSS is great but they really need to improve their PR so that people actually want to commit to switching instead of being turned away by elitism and crappy initial impressions of the software

[cicadaangle35]

Immunity Definition & That Means

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[dolls-and-cats]

Mahayla’s story, ch. 1

Clarksville, TX

February 1875

Mahayla Freeman*, age 20

"I'm so glad it's Sunday," Mahayla said,  putting her fork down from her breakfast. "When I first woke up, I thought it was a workday."

"Hurry, hon," Mahayla's sister-in-law, Leigh Ann, said. "We've got to get moving so we're not late for the service." Even though Leigh Ann had started to show from her first pregnancy, she still moved through the house efficiently, packing breads and jams for their lunch.

Mahayla picked up the bag so that Leigh Ann wouldn't have to carry it. Charlie, Mahayla's older brother, appeared at the door wearing a clean shirt and trousers. He bent down to tie his shoes.

When Mahayla was a child, this land had been inhabited by enslaved people at the Pease plantation. After emancipation, Charles Clark** had bought a plot from the Pease family. He sold sub-plots to other African-American families, including Hezekiah Haskell, who built a house and hosted church services in the community. Charlie and Leigh Ann had bought a small plot from him as well and built their house on it four years ago, in 1871. Mahayla lived in one of the rooms and paid rent to them from her pay working at the de la Croix house.

As the three of them neared Mr. Haskell's house, they greeted their friends who were also coming to the small church service.

Many of their friends shared the last name Pease, following the tradition of taking the last name of the white family of the plantation where they had been born. Mahayla and Charlie had also had the surname Pease for most of their lives. But Leigh Ann's family had taken the surname Freeman after Juneteenth, when the news of emancipation reached enlaved people in Texas. And four years ago, when Charlie and Leigh Ann got married, Charlie decided to take the surname Freeman along with her. Mahayla decided to switch to Freeman at the same time that her brother did.

Leigh Ann sang deeply, her hand resting lightly on her belly, throughout the service. Mahayla never said this, but she did not enjoy church as much as her sister-in-law did. If it had been up to her, she would have taken the time off. What she did look forward to, though, was the socializing afterwards. When Mr. Haskell ended the small service, Leigh Ann burst outside, glad to see the bright blue sky.

Today was a break from cooking, her usual job during the week. The families who had gathered for church spread out in the yard to eat their picnic food. Then several of the women gathered to weed the garden, which would produce all kinds of greens and other vegetables to be shared. Mahayla loved being in the sunshine, feeling the rich earth in her hands, and doing only one task at a time.

Leigh Ann sat rather heavily on a stump, her hand still on her belly, near where Mahayla was weeding..

"I know you have been worrying about work," Leigh Ann said, "especially after the German girl quit and you've had more to do."

"Ilse didn't exactly quit," Mahayla said, without having the energy to go into specifics.

"I want you to remember something" Leigh Ann said, searching out Mahayla’s eyes as if she was saying something important.

"That job is not all there is to you. Remember that your life is here, with this church, with your friends, and me and Charlie."

"Oh," Mahayla said, gratefully. She had not known her parents since she was a small child; sometimes Leigh Ann was like a mother to her, even though she was only a few years older. "Thanks. I think I’ve gotten these weeds in place for the week. Let's get back to the house. It will be nice to have a few free hours before the workday tomorrow."

***************

More about Clarksville here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarksville_Historic_District_(Austin,_Texas)

Some people were subsistence farmers, and others, like fictional Mahaylah, walked into Austin for work. Austin has expanded and Clarksville is now within the city limits.

The Sweet Home Baptist church is an active church in 2021. The congregation stretches back to the 1870s and did originally meet in Hezekiah Haskell's home. Sweet Home Baptist Church has met in several different buildings, with the most recent one, shown below, built in the 20th century. Sweet Home served as the organizing center of the Clarksville community.

*Mahayla played by Addy

**Charles Clark and Hezekiah Haskell were real people. Clark was the founder, in 1871, of the freetown known as Clarksville.

The pictures are from Hezekiah Haskell's house, where church services were held before money was raised to build a dedicated church building. There's a community garden behind the Haskell house now, which is where I got the pictures with the plants, but I have no reason to think that the church community actually gardened together in the 1870s.

This is a boundary wall that used to mark the edge of the Pease Plantation; now pieces of the boundary wall are scattered in different people’s yards (see the stones toward the left in this image). The plantation house itself is still standing. It is privately owned and not accessible to the public.

[noredinktech]

Haskell for the Elm Enthusiast

Many years ago NRI adopted Elm as a frontend language. We started small with a disposable proof of concept, and as the engineering team increasingly was bought into Elm being a much better developer experience than JavaScript more and more of our frontend development happened in Elm. Today almost all of our frontend is written in Elm.

Meanwhile, on the backend, we use Ruby on Rails. Rails has served us well and has supported amazing growth of our website, both in terms of the features it supports, and the number of students and teachers who use it. But we’ve come to miss some of the tools that make us so productive in Elm: Tools like custom types for modeling data, or the type checker and its helpful error messages, or the ease of writing (fast) tests.

A couple of years ago we started looking into Haskell as an alternative backend language that could bring to our backend some of the benefits we experience writing Elm in the frontend. Today some key parts of our backend code are written in Haskell. Over the years we’ve developed our style of writing Haskell, which can be described as very Elm-like (it’s also still changing!).

🌳 Why be Like Elm?

Elm is a small language with great error messages, great documentation, and a great community. Together these make Elm one of the nicest programming languages to learn. Participants in an ElmBridge event will go from knowing nothing of the language to writing a real application using Elm in 5 hours.

We have a huge amount of Elm code at NoRedInk, and it supports some pretty tricky UI work. Elm scales well to a growing and increasingly complicated codebase. The compiler stays fast and we don’t lose confidence in our ability to make changes to our code. You can learn more about our Elm story here.

📦 Unboxing Haskell

Haskell shares a lot of the language features we like in Elm: Custom types to help us model our data. Pure functions and explicit side effects. Writing code without runtime exceptions (mostly).

When it comes to ease of learning, Haskell makes different trade-offs than Elm. The language is much bigger, especially when including the many optional language features that can be enabled. It’s entirely up to you whether you want to use these features in your code, but you’ll need to know about many of them if you want to make use of Haskell’s packages, documentation, and how-tos. Haskell’s compiler errors typically aren’t as helpful as Elm’s are. Finally, we’ve read many Haskell books and blog posts, but haven’t found anything getting us from knowing no Haskell to writing a real application in it that’s anywhere near as small and effective as the Elm Guide.

🏟️ When in Rome, Act Like a Babylonian

Many of the niceties we’re used to in Elm we get in Haskell too. But Haskell has many additional features, and each one we use adds to the list of things that an Elm programmer will need to learn. So instead we took a path that many in the Haskell community took before us: limit ourselves to a subset of the language.

There are many styles of writing Haskell, each with its own trade-offs. Examples include Protolude, RIO, the lens ecosystem, and many more. Our approach differs in being strongly inspired by Elm. So what does our Elm-inspired style of writing Haskell look like?

🍇 Low hanging fruit: the Elm standard library

Our earliest effort in making our Haskell code more Elm-like was porting the Elm standard library to Haskell. We’ve open-sourced this port as a library named nri-prelude. It contains Haskell counterparts of the Elm modules for working with Strings, Lists, Dicts, and more.

nri-prelude also includes a port of elm-test. It provides everything you need for writing unit tests and basic property tests.

Finally, it includes a GHC plugin that makes it so Haskell’s default Prelude (basically its standard library) behaves like Elm’s defaults. For example, it adds implicit qualified imports of some modules like List, similar to what Elm does.

🎚️ Effects and the Absence of The Elm Architecture

Elm is opinionated in supporting a single architecture for frontend applications, fittingly called The Elm Architecture. One of its nice qualities is that it forces a separation of application logic (all those conditionals and loops) and effects (things like talking to a database or getting the current time). We love using The Elm Architecture writing frontend applications, but don’t see a way to apply it 1:1 to backend development. In the F# community, they use the Elm Architecture for some backend features (see: When to use Elmish Bridge), but it’s not generally applicable. We’d still like to encourage that separation between application logic and effects though, having seen some of the effects of losing that distinction in our backend code. Read our other post Pufferfish, please scale the site! if you want to read more about this.

Out of many options we’re currently using the handle pattern for managing effects. For each type of effect, we create a Handler type (we added the extra r in a typo way back and it has stuck around. Sorry). We use this pattern across our libraries for talking to outside systems: nri-postgresql, nri-http, nri-redis, and nri-kafka.

Without The Elm Architecture, we depend heavily on chaining permutations through a stateful Task type. This feels similar to imperative coding: First, do A, then B, then C. Hopefully, when we’re later on in our Haskell journey, we’ll discover a nice architecture to simplify our backend code.

🚚 Bringing Elm Values to Haskell

One way in which Haskell is different from both Elm and Rails is that it is not particularly opinionated. Often the Haskell ecosystem offers multiple different ways to do one particular thing. So whether it’s writing an http server, logging, or talking with a database, the first time we do any of these things we’ll need to decide how.

When adopting a Haskell feature or library, we care about

smallness, e.g. introduce new concepts only when necessary

how “magical” is it? E.g. How surprising is it?

How easy is it to learn?

how easy is it to use?

how comprehensible is the documentation?

explicitness over terseness (but terseness isn’t implicitly bad).

consistency & predictability

“safety” (no runtime exceptions).

Sometimes the Haskell ecosystem provides an option that fits our Elm values, like with the handle pattern, and so we go with it. Other times a library has different values, and then the choice not to use it is easy as well. An example of this is lens/prism ecosystem, which allows one to write super succinct code, but is almost a language onto itself that one has to learn first.

The hardest decisions are the ones where an approach protects us against making mistakes in some way (which we like) but requires familiarity with more language features to use (which we prefer to avoid).

To help us make better decisions, we often try it both ways. That is, we’re willing to build a piece of software with & without a complex language feature to ensure the cost of the complexity is worth the benefit that the feature brings us.

Another approach we take is making decisions locally. A single team might evaluate a new feature, and then demo it and share it with other teams after they have a good sense the feature is worth it. Remember: a super-power of Haskell is easy refactorability. Unlike our ruby code, going through and doing major re-writes in our Haskell codebase is often an hours-or-days-long (rather than weeks-or-months-long) endeavor. Adopting two different patterns simultaneously has a relatively small cost!

Case studies in feature adoption:

🐘 Type-Check All Elephants

One example where our approach is Elm-like in some ways but not in others is how we talk to the database. We’re using a GHC feature called quasiquoting for this, which allow us to embed SQL query strings directly into our Haskell code, like this:

{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-} module Animals (listAll) where import Postgres (query, sql) listAll :: Postgres.Handler -> Task Text (List (Text, Text)) listAll postgres = query postgres [sql|SELECT species, genus FROM animals|]

A library called postgresql-typed can test these queries against a real Postgres database and show us an error at compile time if the query doesn’t fit the data. Such a compile-time error might happen if a table or column we reference in a query doesn’t exist in the database. This way we use static checks to eliminate a whole class of potential app/database compatibility problems!

The downside is that writing code like this requires everyone working with it to learn a bit about quasi quotes, and what return type to expect for different kinds of queries. That said, using some kind of querying library instead has a learning curve too, and query libraries tend to be pretty big to support all the different kinds of queries that can be made.

🔣 So Many Webserver Options

Another example where we traded additional safety against language complexity is in our choice of webserver library. We went with servant here, a library that lets you express REST APIs using types, like this:

import Servant data Routes route = Routes { listTodos :: route :- "todos" :> Get '\[JSON\] [Todo], updateTodo :: route :- "todos" :> Capture "id" Int :> ReqBody '[JSON] Todo :> Put '[JSON] NoContent, deleteTodo :: route :- "todos" :> Capture "id" Int :> Delete '[JSON] NoContent } deriving (Generic)

Servant is a big library that makes use of a lot of type-level programming techniques, which are pretty uncommon in Elm, so there’s a steep learning cost associated with understanding how the type magic works. Using it without a deep understanding is reasonably straightforward.

The benefits gained from using Servant outweigh the cost of expanded complexity. Based on a type like the one in the example above, the servant ecosystem can generate functions in other languages like Elm or Ruby. Using these functions means we can save time with backend-to-frontend or service-to-service communication. If some Haskell type changes in a backward-incompatible fashion we will generate new Elm code, and this might introduce a compiler error on the Elm side.

So for now we’re using servant! It’s important to note that what we want is compile-time server/client compatibility checking, and that’s why we swallow Servant’s complexity. If we could get the same benefit without the type-level programming demonstrated above, we would prefer that. Hopefully, in the future, another library will offer the same benefits from a more Elm-like API.

😻 Like what you see?

We're running the libraries discussed above in production. Our most-used Haskell application receives hundreds of thousands of requests per minute without issue and produces hardly any errors.

Code can be found at NoRedInk/haskell-libraries. Libraries have been published to hackage and stackage. We'd love to know what you think!

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How does one actually learn how programming works? I started an online course in R but whenever I look at people talking about programming it's incomprehensible...where does everyone learn what type systems and inheritance and object oriented programming are?

(Sorry if this answer sucks, but I am trying to combat my natural perfectionist tendencies and give some answer to asks rather than guiltily ignoring them forever.)

Learn one particular common programming language. Get proficient enough to do a hobby project or something, and learn the internal terminology of the language and how to apply those concepts. Don’t worry about other languages. This is definitely the most important part, since by the end, you’ll actually know how to program, but you probably won’t have a well-developed vocabulary for talking about programming languages in the abstract or the differences between languages.

Learn some other common language. Treat it on its own terms, but you will inevitably find a lot of overlap with the first one you learned. This will help a lot with learning to separate the terminology/concepts within a given language from the more general concepts they are instantiating (e.g., the way “object oriented programming” and “inheritance” are handled in C++, java, javascript, go, and python are all very different in the details, even though they’re similarly shaped).

Dabble in a variety of languages (or take a “programming languages” survey course), learning just enough of each one to get a sense of what your existing conceptions of programming languages were missing. Aim for breadth and diversity rather than for depth or usefulness. (E.g., learn a little of something lispy like scheme, something ML-y like ocaml or haskell, etc.; rather than learning yet another popular imperative, vaguely object oriented language.) At this point, you will be very well equipped to talk about programming languages. (Another way of looking at this is that you are now cursed to talk about programming languages all the time.)

One thing that might not be obvious while you’re trudging through step 1 is that “learning” additional languages (especially if they’re very similar to languages you already know), is actually pretty easy. Now, if you want to be really good at programming in a particular language, that naturally takes time, but if I just want to investigate a language to figure out what makes it interesting, that’s easily doable in a day or two.

A really popular format for teaching programming languages to people who already are proficient in some other language is the “koan” approach, made popular by (I believe?) the Ruby community. It’s a bunch of prewritten code with some errors in it. You run the program, it eventually gets to some point where there’s a failed assertion or broken test, and it prints out an error. You look at the relevant example code and comments (which are teaching a basic concept within the language), you make the one or two line change, and you rerun it. There are usually several dozen examples, each teaching something different. They start with familiar things (e.g., you already know how if-statements work in some other language, here’s how they work in this language) and gradually work up to the features that make the programming language unique.

Here’s a big list of “koans” for different programming languages.

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Books read so far during while cooped up:

Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe: haven’t watched the movie yet. the book was okay, a bit disappointing, although some of that may have been due to the translation by e. dale saunders; the prose was sometimes a slog, but mostly it’s incredibly effective at conveying the incredibly unpleasant experience of sand covering your skin and clogging every orifice and being held against your will and heat and thirst. abe doesn’t seem to be a huge fan of women.

The Plague by Albert Camus: really good. much more plot driven than the stranger or the fall, fairly reassuring at the moment as it reminds you that none of these experiences are new and in the face of horror and sickness people have banded together and done what needs doing (another difference from the stranger and the fall is the growing sense of community and friendship experienced by the characters as they work with each other to fight the plague); it’s also pretty funny.

What Is Japanese Cinema? A History by Yomota Inuhiko: the book covers more than a century of japanese cinema in about 200 pages, so it doesn’t go into great depth, but it’s a useful and very readable primer on the decade by decade trends of the film industry in japan, it’s literary and theatrical roots, the territory and signature filmmakers of each studio, etc. it gives you lots of things to research further.

The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh: i watched the film adaptation of this a little while ago and was disappointed (although haskell wexler’s widescreen b&w cinematography is worth seeking out the film for) but i knew it was a departure from the book that fans of the book were generally not into so i hoped the book would be better. the book was also a disappointment, although at least it’s a bit nastier and meaner than the film. wikipedia says that the new yorker declined to publish it because they felt the territory had already been covered better by satirists like nathanael west (the loved one pokes fun a hollywood and advice columnists, the subjects of the day of the locust and miss lonelyhearts respectively). i’m inclined to agree; the loved one is shooting fish in a barrel, but you get the sense that waugh, being among the snobbiest of english snobs, didn’t care to learn about americans during his visit to hollywood so he doesn’t know enough to be able to do anything but graze the fish in the barrel. it goes for shocks; it barely elicited a shrug. at least it’s short, but just read miss lonelyhearts and day of the locust instead (they’re also short and have retained their essential ugliness and intensity, especially miss lonelyhearts, in spite of being older than the loved one),

On Parole by Akira Yoshimura: helped by a good translation, a very stripped down story of a man paroled after 16 years in prison and his attempts to readjust to life outside. he was given an indefinite sentence (basically a life sentence) so even though he’s out of prison, he’ll spend the rest of his life on parole. quick, gripping read. went into it knowing nothing about it (got it for $1 at a library book sale) and was pleasantly surprised. apparently shohei imamura’s film the eel (which tied for the palme d’or with taste of cherry) is “inspired by” on parole, although nothing i know about the eel sounds like it has much to do with on parole; from the wikipedia synopsis of the eel it sounds like the opening of the film has the protagonist committing a similar (but not the same) crime and then it picks up with him being paroled before the rest of the movie turns into something entirely different. 

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Mid-Year Book Freakout

@the-knights-who-say-book tagged me in this so I’m taking a break from studying

1. The Best Book of the Year So Far: Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. It was magical and unique. I can’t say much without spoiling it bit the worldbuilding blew me away.

2. Best Sequel of the Year So Far: Muse of Nightmares, the sequel to Strange the Dreamer. I hope there’s more in this world by Laini Taylor because I need to know what happens next to Sarai and Lazlo and Minya (and the rest I guess, lol)

3.  A New Release You Haven’t Read Yet But Want To: I’d say the latest Dr. Greta Helsing (gotta get through the second one first, though!), and Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce - 2018 still counts as a new release, right? I’m never sure when the books on my tbr actually came out...

4.  Most Anticipated Release for Autumn/Winter: Probably Call Down the Hawk. Maggie, don’t disappoint me!

5.  Your Biggest Disappointment of the Year So Far: I’m usually good at not getting books that will disappoint me, but Labyrinth Lost was such a disappointment. The storytelling was a mess, the romance was unconvincing, and every bit underwhelmed. A lot of people were hyped af for it so it bummed me out that I couldn’t like it.

6. Your Biggest Surprise of the Year So Far: Planetfall by Emma Newman. I was just that vine of the guy going “is this allowed?” during the entire book. Excuse me ma’am who gave you the right

7. New Favorite Author: Merrie Haskell. I read both her short story collections and they were both so good, I added the rest of her stuff to my wish list. Rarely does my thirst for romance get fulfilled in such a specific way. The Wedding Dress Tea Parties of 2443 is my model of romance now.

8. Your Newest Favorite Character: Beatrice from The Witches of New York by Ami McKay, Penelope Duncroft from The Roman and The Regency short by Merrie Haskel, and both Calla and Major Larn from That Game We Played During the War by Carrie Vaughn.

9. Your Newest Fictional Crush: Cinnamon Blade and Soledad from Cinnamon Blade: Knife in Shining Armor. Ladies, this is untoward.

10. A Book that Has Made You Cry: Record of a Spaceborn Few, the third in Becky Chambers’ Wayfarers series. I highly recommend this entire series, especially The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but Record had community building and an aro character and finding your place and what home means and traditions and my little heart just quit.

11. A Book that Has Made You Happy: The Witches of New York by Ami McKay. Witches and love and wlw and ghosts at the turn of the previous century.

12. The Most Beautiful Book of the Year So Far: Strange the Dreamer. Hey Ms. Taylor, give me back my heart!

13. Some Books You Need to Read Before 2019 Ends: Oh god, so many. I’d like to get to the next Witches of New York, Pride by Ibi Zoboi, Dreadful Company by Vivian Shaw (because rereading the first one just isn’t cutting it anymore), Spinning Silver and That Inevitable Victorian Thing before the year is out.

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99 Shiny New Bugs in the Code

 Y’all have been asking for a sequel to this one, and here it is!

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“How did you do that?”

Rick looked up when Marina spoke. She was real pretty. Big green eyes and red hair. Rick hadn’t worked up the courage to really talk to her yet.

The narrow-eyed expression of suspicion wasn’t really a good sign. Rick had sisters. He knew that look meant trouble.

“I told you; it’s called code,” he said and focused on the line he was trying to get work.

So far, it wasn’t working.

Well, he managed to get some spectacular sparks, and lit the curtains on fire, but Marina was decidedly calm about that. Maybe student mages did that kind of thing a lot? Rick didn’t have any way to know and Marina didn’t seem likely to tell him.

“Yes, but how did you do it?” she persisted, and finally set her book down so she could get a better look at the code he was tryingot write out on the floor in chalk.

God he missed his computer. Less than a week, and he would never take it for granted again.

Seriously. The backspace button. He would sell his soul for a backspace button that worked on chalk.

“I’m trying to figure out how to go home,” he said, and rubbed out one character to replace it with another. Days of trying and it still wasn’t working. He was starting to think it was wasted effort. “Open!”

Nothing.

“Portal magic is something only the Masters can use,” Marina told him shyly. She was still unsure what exactly she was supposed to be doing as Rick scribbled on the floor. For that matter, he really wasn’t sure what she was supposed to be doing. Until he could work the bugs out of his code, nothing was going ot happen. “It can be very difficult, and very dangerous.”

“Well, I got here one way or another,” Rickk pointed out. The code on the floor didn’t do anything, even after he rubbed out one clause and changed it by a few characters. “Crap. I was doing this in Haskell, but it’s not working. Myabe if I run it through Python…”

“What is that?” Marina asked, leaning forward to examine his code. “We use runes for some spells, especially in student magic, but this is something entirely different.”

“Python and Haskell are programming languages,” Rick sat back on his heels and sighed. At least on a computer he could try his code and maybe see what the problem was. This was nothing but ‘it works’ or ‘nope’ and it was driving him crazy. “Some languages are better than others, depending on the task you’re doing. I know a couple different ones, but this is… not exactly my wheelhouse. The magic, I mean.”

Real magic. That was trippy beyond measure and he really didn’t know what to make of it. Still, if code worked on magic, he could figure it out.

Probably.

Maybe.

He hoped, anyway.

Something occurred to him.

“Hey,” he looked up at Marina. “You know magic, right? What makes magic work?”

The question took her by surprise, but she thought for a while before relyping.

“It is energy,” she decided at last, and held out a hand. A little glittle or light ran across her fingertips. “In our world, there are rivers, unseen but present, called leylines. They are invisible, and usually under the earth. That energy is mutable, and shaped by will as guided by word, item, gesture, and rune.”

“Huh,” Rick muttered as he started to translate his line of code from one language to another. “Items?”

“Components, mostly,” Marina produced a vial fo glittering dust out of her belt pouch. Rick paused to examine it. “That is powdered mirror. I use it for communication spells. Another of my spells calls for rose petals, dried before midsummer. Often, the component speaks to the spell.”

“I didn’t write down CatDem,” Rick pointed out as he wrote, but he had a sneaking feeling that it wasn’t going to work any better in Python than it had in Haskell. “It just went off when the code flashed across my mind. But that was different. I mean, I know CatDem so well I could probably write it in my sleep.”

“What is CatDem?” Marina asked, bewildered.

“Huh? Oh, Catastrophic Demise. That spell that… kinda blew a hole in your castle.”

Blew a hole was downplaying it. Catistrophic Demise was an end-game spell that players could only get by doing a long series of complicated side quests. It was supposed to be a game-changer.

It was overkill for the whatever-it-was he nuked with it, but probably better than dying, which seemed pretty likely at the time.

He still felt kind of bad about the giant hole in the castle.

Marina was looking at his code again, and slid off her bench to get closer. “So this is a different language? Why did the first language not work?”

“Python is more object-oriented,” he told her, and held his hand over the line. “Open!”

Nothing. Not even sparks. Not even a waver in the air to suggest what had gone wrong.

God he missed his computer.

“Try with this,” Marina dug in her pocket for a minute and came up with a bottle of black liquid. When she shook it, it shimmered with powdered gold. “It’s made with powdered charcoal of holy basil, and gold.”

Rik examined it and shook the bottle to see the gold flakes float around in the thick liquid. “Does the type of ash matter?”

“Holy Basil is for moving forward, in the literal, and for seeking truth, in the metaphorical,” she told him with a shrug like it was common knowledge. “And gold conducts magic. Light magic, particularly, which I think is what you’re using.”

It was worth a shot. He eyed the floor, but was happier when she offered a slip of rag paper and a glass pen. He wasn’t accustomed to the antique tools, but they were better than chalk.

When he had the code transcribed, he handed the ink back, and looked down at his paper.

“Open!”

The paper lit on fire, and the air shimmered, before spitting out something that looked like a kitten.

Except, of course, kittens usually didn’t have feather wings to match a grey-spotted body.

“Ah,” Marina blinked, and offered her fingers for the little creature to smell. “Well, Ch’reet aren’t from this world…”

The kitten meeped and bumped its’ nose against her fingers politely, before leaping onto Rick’s shoulder, purring loudly.

Rick petted it helplessly and sighed.

“99 shiny new bugs in the code,” he sang glumly as the kitten made itself comfortable on his shoulders. “99 shiny new bugs. Take one down. Pass it around. 200 shiny new bugs in the code.”

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Counter-Code

Code for Magic

99 Shiny New Bugs

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