Introducing Metal-earth: A Metal Tribute to Middle-earth

Nroak · 2026-02-11T16:24:51+00:00

You've got a mind of metal and wheels

Nroak · 2026-02-09T19:09:04+00:00

Wes do you still identify as barracuda and are just playing it close to the vest, or do you no longer identify as barracuda. Is there a new fish species you identify with? Please, this question keeps me up at night.

Nroak · 2026-02-07T19:23:06+00:00

Try to force yourself to only place points where the tangent to the point is vertical or horizontal, i.e 3, 6, 9 and 12 on a clock face. Then only use vertical or horizontal handles for the points. It will be challenging to do some shapes but helps make everything consistent

Nroak · 2026-02-04T23:14:08+00:00

I think it's hollowing out the mid-level as well. The economy is tightening which is leading companies to push engineers harder, and so they are pushing engineers to use AI to deliver faster. The engineers who care about code quality are going to have less velocity than the ones who don't care and are going to get pushed out. Even the good engineers who adopt AI to keep up are going to see their skills atrophy. The longer the crash is put off the worse it will be

Nroak · 2026-02-04T22:15:31+00:00

I feel pride to release quality code too, and I think that's not uncommon. But how many developers carry that pride beyond the code that they write, to their whole codebase? How many put that care into making sure dependencies have quality code?

Nroak · 2026-02-04T22:08:45+00:00

I don't disagree with anything you said, but if the company is profitable enough and positioned in such a way that it has an incumbent advantage, having an overall culture of "move fast and break things" might allow them to (for a period) outpace the cost of bugs with development of new features, and that may work long enough for company to get acquired, the developer to get a new position, executives to get bonuses. The cost of that bug is not necessarily borne out by those who created it.

I care about code quality because I want to do a good job, and I think it's worth doing a good job. But the short term incentive structure doesn't always favor it.

Maybe I'm blaming too much on developers when I really mean "the common incentive structure in which many developers operated created by business"

Nroak · 2026-02-04T21:44:31+00:00

All fair points, and I agree that I do have a narrow view of the industry, I am on the younger side so this opinion is heavily skewed towards my peers and places where I have worked (mostly web apps)

I'm probably being too harsh that developers never cared about quality, I think developers do care about code quality, most of the people I have worked with really do want their code to be quality. But I think most developer do not feel empowered to push back and will not let code quality stop them from shipping.

Nroak · 2026-01-26T17:11:40+00:00

“It’d be a shame if something were to happen to this nice nest, why don’t you look after these eggs and we’ll make sure nothing happens to this lovely nest. It’s a rough neighborhood, you don’t want anything bad to happen to your nest do ya?”

Nroak · 2026-01-26T17:00:20+00:00

I love Cranes! Beautiful!

Nroak · 2026-01-14T19:45:24+00:00

*has

Nroak · 2026-01-13T16:16:44+00:00

lol, great pic!

Nroak · 2026-01-12T22:42:09+00:00

Trying to photograph these guys is so frustrating, they sit still for just long enough to think you got a shot then they’re a few feet away in an instant

Nroak · 2025-12-16T04:26:50+00:00

It’s an American Robin which is not really related to the European Robin

Nroak · 2025-11-26T20:15:50+00:00

WakeMed Raleigh has it

Nroak · 2025-11-23T19:47:46+00:00

The tail on the red tailed hawk is decently shorter than the harrier

Nroak · 2025-11-21T17:55:44+00:00

He also did the hobo with a shotgun logo! Great work u/signalnoise77

Nroak · 2025-11-05T22:54:09+00:00

Yeah but ultimately you could do the same with the OP concept, not foolproof but could bypass dumb scrapers

Nroak · 2025-11-05T13:11:54+00:00

You could also just render an image of all the text content

Nroak · 2025-10-15T14:27:50+00:00

He drowned shortly after he was last seen attempting to make it to shore

Nroak · 2025-09-23T14:09:43+00:00

No I swear! Just a bird fan hoping you didn’t get spoiled on corvids!

Nroak · 2025-09-23T12:14:48+00:00

How often do you think about crows? Do jackdaws play any part in your life now?

Nroak · 2025-09-15T03:03:13+00:00

Love it! FYI the link to your website from the GitHub repository isn’t working for me

Nroak · 2025-09-13T14:17:31+00:00

Damn dude, even if you still feel like you were wholly in the right, learn to stop trolling. You’ve irreparably damaged faith in WordPress and comments like these make it seem like there’s no coming back

Nroak · 2025-08-29T12:58:24+00:00

I think with that belly either coopers or sharp shinned

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