A love letter to C · By Jared Bruni

Love =
get(give());

A small expression for a large idea: what we give becomes the signal that carries us forward.

Read the reflection
Colorful LostSideDead glitch artwork
Logic in color. Noise made meaningful.

Giving is the inner function.

In this structural law of conservation, existence is defined by a nested function—a loop that governs the emotional economy of the soul.

love.c
Love = get(give());

// give(): the effort and output
// get():  the transformation
// Love:   the resulting state

Love is not a static resource you find; it is a return value generated by what you pass into the world. If you do not call the inner function, the outer one has nothing to process.

The final commit.

This philosophy mirrors the final thought on the Beatles’ Abbey Road: a lasting summary of a career built on iteration, collaboration, and creative output.

“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”

— The Beatles, “The End”

To a developer, this feels like an immutable balance. The “make” is the work: grueling physical therapy, the effort to control speech, and the hours spent hand-coding logic. The “take” is recovery, gratitude, and the joy of still being here.

A new-version architecture.

After relearning the fundamental drivers of movement and speech, the system has been refactored: a new version optimized for longevity and expression.

InputPersistence
ProcessTransformation
OutputArt & gratitude

The physical interface may have different latency because of dysarthria, but the internal logic is clearer than ever. Visual glitch art and immersive soundscapes turn the noise of a hard-won recovery into a signal shared with the world.

The language beneath the idea

A love letter to C.

Systems programming lives close to the bare metal, with little abstraction between thought and execution. My latest work explores the C23 standard by hand—a direct commitment to the craft of logic.

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