<p>Monday’s book was Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death by MC Beaton. </p><p>I started out hating Agatha … but she grew on me. I might even read more of the series.</p><p>Very short review: <a href="https://app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/e0ebd479-06e5-45b0-9013-2867845f382e" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">app.thestorygraph.com/reviews/</span><span class="invisible">e0ebd479-06e5-45b0-9013-2867845f382e</span></a></p><p><a href="https://wandering.shop/tags/CosyMystery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CosyMystery</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://types.pl/@pigworker" class="u-url mention">@<span>pigworker</span></a></span> </p><p>Here is the actual executive order: <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">whitehouse.gov/presidential-ac</span><span class="invisible">tions/2025/01/defending-women-from-gender-ideology-extremism-and-restoring-biological-truth-to-the-federal-government/</span></a></p>

<p>Ah… well… that did not take long</p>

<p>Finding many things that are just sort of It&#39;s Assumed You Know This but may or may not be written anywhere. Like, there&#39;s a &quot;movb&quot; instruction which is not in the instruction reference I&#39;m using and is not recognized by my syntax highlighter, but gas accepts it.</p><p>Question. I do</p><p>mov %al, %esi</p><p>It says operand type mismatch. OK. I think I can simulate this with</p><p>mov $0, %rax<br />mov $eax, $esi</p><p>BC non-al bits of rax get cleared in instruction 1.</p><p>…But what&#39;s the &quot;widening&quot;/truncating version of mov?</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wandering.shop/@yomimono" class="u-url mention">@<span>yomimono</span></a></span> &quot;easy to learn&quot; like twice as hard!</p>

<p>Back from groomer. Ready for the good fight. I&#39;ll just leave those bows in there.</p>

<p>Making software that’s “easy to use” is more work, not less, than making software with inscrutable or broken interfaces. Software isn’t hard to use because nobody thought they should make it easy. It’s because it’s not trivial to figure out *how* to even do that, let alone actually do it.</p><p>When you find usable software, be impressed by the competence and effort instead of acting like you found the only brain geniuses who ever heard of usability.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fgc.network/users/missingno" class="u-url mention">@<span>missingno</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@Shatur" class="u-url mention">@<span>Shatur</span></a></span> hush now child</p>

<p>This is a sister part to one I currently use. Thankfully the one I use is a nice sane 676-BGA with a uniform 1mm pitch, not whatever this mess is.</p><p>cc: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CursedFootprint" class="u-url mention">@<span>CursedFootprint</span></a></span></p>