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Top three.

  1. Macbook Pro (M Series) - A laptop primarily, should have a very long battery life, this does.
  2. Dell XPS (linux edition) - It comes with linux preinstalled, and all the drivers are in the kernel.
  3. Asus Rog Zyphyrus G16 - It has a battery life, and it’s for gamers like me.

Top four.

  1. Honeycrisp Apples (Good Ones) - For some reason honeycrisp apples are often not good now, but when they are they’re still the best.
  2. Mandarin Oranges - These are quite juicy, sweet, just the right size, not to sticky, they good!!
  3. Green Grapes - Sowa Sowa sowa, I love sOUR!!!!
  4. Strawberries - Deliciously sweet, but only when sweet, when they’re not sweet, they’re just kind of hard slime.

Top five.

  1. Super Meatboy - Absolutely bonkers amount of designerly level crafstmans.
  2. The Legend Of Dragoon - It’s kind of mediocre, but is deeply interwoven into my childhood nostalgia.
  3. Touhou: The Embodiment of Scarlet Devil - It’s a touhou and it’s the one I"ve spent the most time with, so it’s here.
  4. SDVX - A Right good button slappin time!
  5. Celeste - IT’s like super meatboy, if super meat boy had you feel like a genius every 25 minutes, except it’s also slower.

Top six.

  1. Croissant Cinnamon Roll - This is a rare perfect treat.
  2. Doughy Cinnamon Roll - This is a common pretty dang good treat.
  3. Chocolate Croissant - This can be sort of rich, but it’s delightfully enticing nonetheless.
  4. Chocolate Brownie - We all love a good brownie, NO NUTS.
  5. Chocolate Chip Muffin - As long as the chips are gooey, and not chewy, we’re good to go.
  6. Chocolate Beignets - These range from not good to extremely good, but when they’re good they’re unlike anythign else.

Top seven.

  1. Nagato Yuki - How can you not love her, she’s suffered for hundreds of thousands of years for all of us.
  2. Miku Hatsune - How can you not love her, she’s sung in hundreds of thousands of songs for all of.
  3. Ryou Yamada - How can you not love her, she’s played bass in a few episodes of a great anime.
  4. Koishi Komeji - How can you love not her, she’s downright absolutely annoying, and insane..ly annoying.
  5. Victorique De Blois - I get how you could hate her, she’s a bit of an as shole.
  6. Neferpitou - How can you not love her, she’s just doing what she was born to do and she’s great at it.
  7. Hachiman Hikigaya(8kun) - How can you not love him, he’s him.

Top eight.

  1. Kotlin - Oh it’s beautiful, native compilation, JVM ecosystem, expressive native DSL features, oh dear me why choose anything else.
  2. Scala - It’s like kotlin if it wasn’t beautiful but had more features for freaks.
  3. Java - It’s got.. great ecosystem and I’m kind of too deep at this point.
  4. C++ - I had to learn it to do stuff, and now I’m in too deep.
  5. Python - I kinda hate python becaues I love types, but I love that I can use it in a pinch
  6. Golang - I like when something is written in golang because it’s hard to write it in a way that isn’t easy to read.
  7. Javascript - I’m in too deep, and honestly it’s not that bad once you understand all the pitfalls
  8. C - It’s fun to write shit code.

Top nine.

  1. Apache Flink - What a beautiful work of art, spend the time to understand the nuances of managing a cluster and assigning proper resources for your jobs and you’ll never be let down.
  2. Apache Kafka - In some ways I feel kafka’s greatest asset at this point is the interface between server and client, the actual underlying implementation feels on the way out (kora, pulsar)
  3. Apache Cassandra - Once you figure out compaction and proper resource allocation for your nodes, it’s remarkably easy to scale this baby.
  4. Apache Iceberg - Fuck vanilla parquet, love live iceberg.
  5. Apache Pinot - I’ve never used anything as flexible and pain free as pinot. Druid should take notes.
  6. Apache Zookeeper - Once you’ve unfucked a zookeeper cluster, and everything just works, you kinda feel indebted to it.
  7. Apache Helix - So you decide to go all in and use it for the entire state machine of your system.
  8. Apache OpenNLP - Remarkably easy to start doing cool shit with word analysis, and scary complex if you want to do something complex.
  9. Apache Spark - It’s no flink, but when it comes to doing big ole batch queries over HDFS it’s got a lovely SQL interface.

Top ten.

  1. Affliction - It just feels like a great word, even if it’s totally evil.
  2. Menagerie - It’s got a ring to it that pleases me.
  3. Ubiquitous - Need I say more?
  4. Slippery - SLIPPERY SAM!!
  5. Rotund - Ooooh, ROTUND
  6. Barnaby - What a lovely name, and a lovely rat.
  7. Parquet - The word fits together like it’s definition.
  8. Plaque - This word shouldn’t exist, and that’s why it’s here.
  9. Sizzle - SIZZLING!!
  10. Egalitarian - It feels so fancy, but it means the opposite, yet it’s fancy to be this.