omg u can just post .svg files on here

nix is inspiring me again that beautiful software is possible

are there bsky feeds or thingies that are easily parameterized across different lists of people like "popular with friends" is my most interestingly feed currently, but id be interested to quickly see its algorithm applied to other lists of people besides my friends

The "cold uncaring universe" line treats consciousness and feeling as somehow external to the cosmos, a weird fluke hovering above the "real" machinery of physics.

my current biggest issue as a developer is the unwillingness to give up either simplicity or complexity and instead making elaborate situations that are like a zen garden with a secret door into a rube goldberg machine

had a dream last night where I was in a coastal city in peru, ~twenty years in the future, where a collective political action had been taken in the region to disconnect from the internet and people were communicating via radio. it felt neither utopian nor dystopian

seems annoying that you need to push a system to its limits with weird edge cases to make sure the basic abstractions of the system can accommodate the real edge cases, but finding the limits often requires implementing them

kiki needs bouba bsky.app/profile/valo...

this. one of the big issues for independent oss devs getting funds, is that on top of maintaining code, we expect them to be marketing masterminds. i think we win together, or we all lose alone.

enjoying doing overly-complicated things with axum extensions

tfw a giant refactor starts to feel like skiing downhill off trail

to me seems like the hardest problem in computer science is to decide if a thing should be one thing or two things

boston today

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

crazy that in an evening you can write down a project idea that would take a decade to implement

imagining a music library in nixos-style config form that then can reproducibly reconstruct/download it from various sources

interesting non-moralizing article that complicates the venn diagram between adhd and the effects of stimulants www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/adhd-beyon...

decided to take this fine occasion of my laptop's ssd failing to switch from debian to nixos

for many years "try to make code idempotent" was one of my most useful internal directives, and it seems like the one im thinking about the most now is "try to make error states unrepresentable"

ive been critical of twitter forever but also sort of cant believe it was purchased by someone spewing ai-generated racist propaganda and baseless conspiracy theories left and right ... like this is old news at this point ... but i still find it kind of hard to believe

if you are in nyc or nearby, come join this sunday for the first ever nyc co-op cloud convergence, at 2:30pm at ridgewood commons ❄️ co-organized with paul & calix flyer created by @halopoem more info about co-op cloud at coopcloud.tech

there is a lot that could be said about the age of instagram health influencers like brian johnson etc. ... but at the very least, at a basic scientific level, it doesnt make a lot of sense to give health advice on a one-to-many-platform given how human biology widely varies person to person

holy cow this is sloppy as fuck journalism. i think theyre right in the conclusion; but you cannot be asking large language models for opinions on images being ai generated or not and accept that as good evidence! it is not!

Congestion pricing is a heckuva street safety strategy www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan… * Vehicle traffic: -11% * Foot traffic: +3.4% * Storefront vacancy: -0.9% * Pollution: -22% * Revenue for mass transit: $548M So YES this has been a huge success.

rust seems to be insisting that i am very clear about what i am doing, which is sometimes helpful but also not always realistic

I know that Arc stands for "Atomically Reference Counted' in rust and I understand what it means but some of part of my brain still thinks of it is as a little arc boat that is protecting the data as it goes between threads

probably gonna get a lot of use out of this over the next few years

bsky.app/profile/snow... ^ this is the critique of ai water usage that makes sense to me (based on stress or abundance and in relation to specific environment and contexts), not the general averages and statistics etc.

i love the feeling of not understanding something while writing rust, and then slowing down into the rabbit hole to understand it

mycology often feels to me like a type of queer love -- learning to know and understand and care for strange beings with needs both entirely different and similar to ones own

was radicalized by @cblgh that there is no layer of the stack that is separate from “ux” because if code is difficult to change or maintain, the *users* are not going to enjoy the *experience* of the software becoming out of date & unmaintained over time and unresponsive to feature requests

is there any website/e-mail list listing any and all tech job postings from not siliconvalley/VC tech organizations? or something similar?

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

This document radicalized me.

the bug oscillates between being a puzzle and a punishment depending on sunlight, caffeine, air temperature and a variety of other factors

at the gym, various machines and instruments, no clear directive exactly what you are supposed to be doing here, tens of people moving around doing various things, no explanation needed, if there is a common denominator it is a secret

the gay impulse to go to the gym during off-hours to make still life drawings of the equipment

is this platform still massively against labubu or has it moved more towards acceptance?

is this platform still massively into methamphetamine or has it moved more towards acceptance?

sometimes feels like silicon valley has never read wittgenstein arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

for who it may concern: was trying to use filen for a while for encrypted cloud backups, but then it stopped syncing. switching to borgbase now for my laptop

gateway co-op remains unaffected by the cloudflare outage

is there a service anyone likes where you can easily buy phone numbers with monero? ideally can also use the number in your browser and not have to ensure your phone is secure this seems like the necessary workaround for all the surveillance services that bottom out to requiring a phone number

dreaming of permacomputing software that is so simply designed and bug-free that it quietly supports system administrators to not think about it, to sleep at night, to think about other things, like a healthy microbiome invisibly supporting digestion or support from the ancestors

One must imagine a Linux user happy

RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this shit

wondering about "terminal-emulators" / "permacomputing-graphical-application-frameworks" thats can run tuis and terminal programs, but also can run programs that have fewer weird keyboard/mouse quirks than tuis and support images... like i sort of love tuis but they also seem deranged

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