list 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep. 1. vipassana 2. digital sovereignty built on 3rd-wave open source 3. hacker villages

any time i pass a car parked in the bicycle lane, i'm careful to knock loudly on the body of the vehicle with my knuckles. i find your average motorist is very receptive to this. they appreciate being alerted to their error. if concerned about your fingers, use a large metal object instead.

i spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about this tweet: glammr.us/@jessamyn/11... like, every day. i want my job to be whatever it takes to accomplish this goal.

even if (especially if?) you don't care that much about "ai", machine learning, or llms ... this newsletter is worth adding to your rss reader. glad it's back. ❤️

35 years on, we have decided to reinvent corba but in typescript this time: blog.cloudflare.com/capnweb-java... somehow, i don't hate it? i kinda wish they'd gone with standard-ish rich types for json... a minor complaint if you don't touch internals: > Arrays are treated as "escape sequences"

the most 1990s thing ever said about the effort to rejuvenate the 1990s web ❤️

Nintendo re-releasing the Virtual Boy wasn't on anyone's list, I assume. 🥲

"we don't like your fake plastic money or your free healthcare, so we're going to pay you less as punishment." cute that the numbers are lower _in canadian dollars_ like they're going to sneak the 32% paycut in there unnoticed 😂

yeah, i feel this. (not just in jobs, but in life)

It's a bit long (17 minutes), but this is a thoughtful look at a stellar career in journalism and its psychological costs. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgeh...

that michael dell, thoughtfully doing @endof10.floss.social.ap.brid.gy marketing for them. what a guy.

Sometimes you'll need to mix and match #gameassets by different artists. Even small tweaks like adjusting outlines or colors can help them feel more unified! Having a consistent art style goes a long way ✨ (Featuring art by GrafxKid & my Pixel Platformer pack)

i'm off-grid until sept 22. thanks to all the #gnome hackers for your support. you folks are very sweet. ❤️

yes, this was a real thing in my home province. www.youtube.com/watch?v=alm4...

So when you're cooking that's good, but if you're cooked that's bad. Never stop cooking?

just dropped p off at school for her first day of her second masters degree. we still need a lunchbox for this purpose: tiffin or american construction worker style? it'll be neat to have an epidemiologist in the house when the next pandemic hits.

watching golden girls episode "cheaters", where sophia is up late "having a maalox moment" and ends the scene complaining about the lack of brand name q-tips in the house. p: "omg. it's... it's you! you are sophia petrillo!" i WISH

same

thanks antonio! i can’t really speak to what happened but (to allay the concerns of others) it has nothing to do with my privacy. i’m doing alright and i’ll stay on as a gnome foundation member and volunteer.

today was my last day as the @gnomefoundation.bsky.social executive director: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2025/08... blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/... still around as a foundation member, though. see you on matrix. :)

aw, crap. yves is being shut down. vancouversun.com/news/canadia... thankfully, those hotdogs are shelf stable for like 20 years so i guess i just need to buy a second deepfreeze and load up

MARK YOUR CALENDARS, #BIKEHFX We're going to be checking out a new location, together! Sunday, September 7th, meet us at the Oval for 9:00am. From there, we'll cross the bridge and ride along the Dartmouth Waterfront and Pleasant Street to a harbour side park on Albacore Place.

sometimes i feel like conversations in this household might as well be between a puppy and a crow. i am the crow

i love that google is squeezing "ai" into every last corner of every one of its products but can't seem to detect a scam youtube ad with a deep fake of mark carney generated on a 286? out of curiosity, i clicked the link. it goes here: degreelaunch.pro/v4/ cool.

Every CPUID Vendor String: - “GenuineIntel” - “AuthenticAMD” - “CyrixIsFineToo” - “SomeOtherShit” - “ImAHypervisorLol”

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I'm giving a five minute presentation in a few hours on the preprint I and many others have worked on: 10 quick tips for making your software outlive your job. The slides are easy to read and here. #opensource #research #researchsoftware #academia docs.google.com/presentation...

तण्हा तृष्णा

during tea this morning, p and i were reflecting on the fact that most of our friends these days are 60 - 90 year old women. nothing insightful, romantic, or significant about that. it’s just nice.

@matt.godbolt.org you know, every *single* time i glance at your profile photo i think to myself "huh. i didn't know matt was a black belt." i do not learn

@geoff.at.dingdongdata.com it you

Are you a musician who is comfortable doing your act on Zoom for 10 minutes to start our all-hands meetings? blog.archive.org/2025/08/20/c...

teenytiny.ai Its retro

cc0, at that

whatsapp: because how else would i know that my urologist from chennai had a wholesome and fulfilling birthday party last night?

found out recently that the park by my house is still owned by the british and that we send an xmas tree to boston every year to thank them for helping out during the halifax explosion. unrelated boston fact: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_M... this tweet is not coherent

support => design => impl it really does wonders for an org’s user empathy to actually talk to users. if apple’s best years were defined by jony ive, imagine the influence of a company that championed support roles.

If you're like me and can't remember if it's RCX or R8 for the fourth parameter... Get the Compiler Explorer ABI Mug: actual calling conventions for x86-64 System V, Windows, and ARM64. Support @godbolt.org: grab yours here -> shop.compiler-explorer.com/collections/...

Already do

Desperate times. We rebuilt CE's OS image and now _something_ SOMETIMES takes cpu cgroup delegation away from us. We suspect systemd, and some kind of start-up race condition. But been unable to reliably repro or diagnose. Does anyone here know anything about such things? github.com/compiler-exp...

necessary www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTGD...

this is the area i call "the willin' trapezium," as described by the narrator of "willlin'." endpoints in tuscon, tucumcari, tehachapi, and tonapah

well, that's a huge relief

wow this is hard. my brain stores the numbers 1 - 10 as a linked list, apparently? it's like hitting a brick wall every time, unless i create two lists in advance and interleave them: one, three, five, seven, nine दो, चार, छे, आठ, दीस *zip* pretty sure the zipper technique counts as cheating, though

This week, #bikehfx, come hang at the Oval! Thursday, August 14, 7:00am We encourage folks to brew at home, bring hot water in a thermos if brewing outside, or get a coffee from your fav cafe! It’s crispy out there, folks.

四百萬年以來， 在海陸板塊的相互碰撞中 台灣一直就是： 持續向上、仰望星空

it's like when people sign their posts with their screen name but with none of the charm -Technology Connections

battletoads but i'd still hate myself the entire time

A great nephew had a fairly lengthy streak around 2-3 yrs during which he'd fairly frequently grumble "Fucking Jesus" at surprisingly appropriate moments.