i'm pretty sure the magic number is just 1000km. it's a nice round number. it's hard to drive farther than that in one day. driving 1000km on one charge is *definitely* more convenient than any tank of gas i'm aware of. when ev's are the laziest choice they'll also be the default choice.

Hey I’m the developer of the Bazaar App Store! I absolutely love making Bazaar, it brings me a lot of joy. :) Unfortunately I’m in a bad financial situation right now and my only source of income is from donations. I absolutely hate asking for money but it’s been kind of rough for me lately, so […]

this @falseknees.bsky.social strip is xkcd-calibre as far as its ability to live rent free in my brains forever wrt this topic

Just set up a small monthly donation to @accessnow.org. One-off donations are always welcome to non-profits, but smaller recurring ones can be super impactful, too. @deobald.bsky.social wrote about this in the context of GNOME, but it applies to any non-profit: blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Canada needs more tools for online protection, not less. Write one: www.internetsociety.org/our-work/int...

little sad about the end of openml.fyi but the writing will be interesting to look back on in 10 or 20 years when humanity has really come to terms with the required changes to copyright

Couldn't resist capping that off with my all-time favorite quote from @matt-levine.bsky.social

Confession

p got me “the real world of technology” recently as a joke. now i’m more excited to read it than any other book on my shelf. ❤️

Nothing to see here, just a MacBook Neo and a GNOME OS laptop talking to each other via the #p2panda #GObject bindings for #Go . They even found each other via mDNS! (Needed a 5 line patch to the Rust build config, but that's it - everything just kind of works!)

i think a big part of why i love immutable data is because i'm afraid of computers

nine inch noize is the best nin album in a quarter century. a+

12 minutes in and this is such a delightful and lovely story already. ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y24v... #clojure

fun app and libadwaita updates in this week's twig (errybody excited about goblin), but i'm the kind of dork who's most excited about wordbook going 1.0 ... it might be my most-used gnome app. ❤️ this week's foundation update's beefy, too: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/04... #gnome #goblin #gremlin

https://blog.discourse.org/2026/04/discourse-is-not-going-closed-source/ This.

ctos and senior staff engineers in my alumni networks going "please star my github project, bro" but it's just a bash script with a loop and a markdown file named `SKILL.md` which contains the words "ok, try even _harder_ this time, robot" what is even happening

#p2panda 's GObject library running inside of Flatpak, called from #puregotk (Golang) - and it all kind of just works, including mDNS discovery?

p bought me a book from the farmer's market today. "i bought this for you because you like technology" i definitely like this cover, i'll tell you that much. i'm 100% here for mind-meld floppy disk

the boozle has always been a bad license template (the busl itself isn't a license). there are many things wrong with it, but this is one of the worst. github.com/captn3m0/fin... "source available" is always a scam. #opensource #busl #osi

okay. wow. i am late to the @typst.app party and i regret every line of latex i've written since i heard about it. problems it solved for me in a matter of seconds that require insane hoop-jumps in latex:

One hopes images like this, when paired with the knowledge that everything we burn ends up in that tiny slice of gasses, would help contextualize why we need to move away from energy sources we set on fire. One hopes. Climate communicators should make some hay of this.

4am on the nose. time to sleep. commit messages have already degraded to their minimum. once again, i'm in awe that anyone does this for a living.

there's a very real chance this blurb ("the role of the human") becomes the sort of thing people print out and tape to the paper towel dispenser in the office kitchenette.

fantastic.earth/@bagder@mast... "a tsunami of useful security reports" is new. equal parts scary and interesting. elsewhere: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd2...

Great news: My little voice typing app for Linux is now available on both Flathub and Snapcraft. Links for both here: www.speedofsound.io/getting-star...

i'm at the summer camp we rent for meditation courses, doing a little painting. i think this coffee was roasted in celebration. in 1945.

I thought for sure that this must be fake, surely even @microsoft.com would not have the gall to say this while simultaneously spending millions on advertising to small business owners that they should rely on Copilot. But nope it is right there.

It's interesting how clearly Google vs Apple shows up in something as small as virtual devices frames. iOS simulator: sharp, natively rendered Android emulator: transparent PNG, rough corners with jagged edges

i will say: i would still prefer inane email sent directly to me identifying the existence of a concern over someone escalating their concern to the highest possible authority without even bothering to speak to me first. you know. not thinking of anything or anyone in particular.

It's time! Coffee Outside is back for 2026, kicking off at our old favourite: 9 Point Pleasant Gazebo Meet us this Thursday, April 2nd at 7:00am. Never joined us before? Here's the gist: bring your camp coffee setup, or a thermos of coffee from home & come hang out!

cindy cohn is extremely cool and i enjoyed her half of this conversation.

In some more fun #puregotk #GNOME news - I managed to get Meson to work on macOS. You can even write a GObject library in Go now, compile it to a dylib and typelib, and then another puregotk-based app (or GJS, Python etc.) can load the custom widget and display it with no issues!

Take a look at some of the custom editor tools I'm using to build my city 🔨 Once the city is complete, it'll be distributed as a public domain model - ready for your games and projects.

the p2panda people are doing some great work to bring #localfirst to the masses: autonomous.zone/@p2panda/116...

Very excited to see the Clojure Documentary trailer is now available! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEy... - coming April 16th

i have basically spent my entire life waiting to receive this particular text message

lol, the #gnome fellowship news was so big that i almost missed this sleeper update from allan about accounting: blogs.gnome.org/aday/2026/03... this fix to accounting and reporting cycles is bigger news. it's *massive.* the new leadership at the gnome foundation is fixing so, so much. ❤️

this is huge! super exciting news. it's been a long time coming since this idea was introduced back on june 3rd, when donate.gnome.org was pitched. THIS is the thing that makes the donation program worthwhile to users. if you've been thinking about donating to #gnome, today's the day, friend. ❤️

ah, yes. since microsoft recall was so popular, these folks have brought it to mac and phones for the low price of $20/mo littlebird.ai hahaha wat i'm happy to say that worlds-dumbest-bookmarking-tool is effectively the exact opposite of this. (hopefully releasing april.)

revisiting this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oQ...

@3blue1brown.com You might want to let the Stripe folks know their 3b1b.co/talent form is broken. (Unless it's a puzzle I didn't figure out ... which ... possibly.) cc @waln.es

enjoying latest 3blue1brown and drinking dill pickle juice with coke: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldxF... good sunday.

Get yourself a copy of INDIA STREET LETTERING www.blaft.com/products/ind...! Better still, secretly send one to a friend 🫠 @blaftrakesh.bsky.social

in case you need an example of "gets worse every day" ... what the actual heck, vercel? "by using our services, you give us the right to open your source ... to ourselves." i mean, sure, vercel was already a garbage company. but this is impressive, even for them. it's so over-the-top i'm giggling

in a world where almost all the software you use gets worse by the day, the gnome 50 release makes me smile so much: only upgrades, only improvements, only stuff people asked for. it just gets faster and more beautiful every release. in a year or two it will absolutely eclipse macos and windows.

Sorry if you're tired of seeing my cute animals, here's some guns. kenney.nl/assets/blast... (very free) kenney.nl/assets/deser... (also free)

my monthly donation just went through to @kolunmi.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy for their work on bazaar, the flatpak app store for linux: github.com/kolunmi/bazaar there's no corporate sponsor or grants yet, so your monthly donation (i recommend github sponsors) makes a huge difference to the project.

p is insisting we drink every old bean in the house before buying “fancy new ones”. including these, which are well over a year old. i’d tell you it’s undrinkable but, somehow, i am drinking it (while i wait for chai to boil)

going to great lengths to release a gentoo package for THAT ONE FRIEND who runs gentoo and refuses to install flatpaks. "practically a saint," they said

written in a cover letter, just now: "sometimes a project’s difficult decisions are more remarkable than its successes" this might be my mantra for 2026