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

i just heard someone pronounce ar-em-dash-ar-ef as "rimraff" ... is this a thing? from context, this person was not referring to whatever this is: github.com/isaacs/rimraf

@felicitas.pojtinger.com friend is complaining that my gtk typescript app is 39mb i wonder how small it would be in go ... it really does feel like maybe it was the c# we never wanted but the c# we deserve. :p

just chatted with pablo correa gomez from @postmarketos.org re: f/oss nonprofit governance and structure, social issues, and the current tipping point in digital sovereignty. he mentioned his recent pmos finance update: postmarketos.org/blog/2026/03... ...always a delight. ❤️ #transparency

local halifax hacker group has decided angine de poitrine is the most french canadian thing ever. and while perhaps not "most ever" ... man, it's up there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..." Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

my friend @s3thi.bsky.social just wrote a thing - ankursethi.com/blog/program... the mental health section is perhaps the thing i’m hearing about most often these days.

Related: “code is not the hard part” is part of where doctrinaire free software went badly awry. “We just need to give people source code and they’ll be Free” was wrong because source code is painful at best and completely useless at worst to about 99.9% of humanity. That has changed now.

Not to pick on Blaine, because this is widely shared among coders but: for lots of people good taste was easy and code was hard, or at least deeply unfun. “Coding was never the hard part” is one of the most selection-biased statements to have ever selection-biased.

i vim /etc/hosts occasionally to let myself onto the youtube. frequently enough that google should know by now: "overly-confident middle-aged white male with big stupid mustache explains things" channels are not of interest, no matter how plentiful they are. i thought this was year of ai

@castrojo.bsky.social ltt's every-four-years linux experiment should see every staff member at linus media group running bazzite by 2030. maybe fedora for the accountant if pop_os still exists in 2030 he's gonna choose it a third time, i swear

the correct amount of ginger for 2:30am ugh-why-cant-i-sleep chai is “more than that”

Me: "ugh the world is messed up, I'm going for a walk outside" Outside: "hey so the world is ending, you may as well invest"

switchkabob

i know just enough about pokemons for this comic to be one of my favourites. it’s about stealing little animals and murdering them or gremlins maybe

that’s quite a bit. archive.org can always use your monthly donation to keep this up, btw. it’s a public library for the planet.

this past week has been a weird experiment of seeing how far i can take a tiny xplat gtk app written in typescript. here's how it looks. i must say, gtk on mac and windows is *damn* pretty. untweaked. kudos, gtk devs. ❤️ but ultimately, i ported to c# and wpf on windows, even though it's hideous.

better yet, a "click here for slop" toggle, disabled by default. a girl can dream.

What in the absolute fuck is this.

"i know a thing or two about personal computers" he says to himself as he downloads microsoft powertoys, while pretending it's 1996

good GOD. and here i thought my mac was doing a good job of making me thankful for my linux machines. 3pm. still in my pyjamas. windows 10 finally installed. (i had it on a boxes vm. briefly. then i installed wsl and it stopped booting.)

ok, well isn't *this* funny timing: help.obsidian.md/sync/headless my (very) dumb immutable + local-first bookmarks thing currently has a headless sync daemon. i was just about to kill it off. would you want a headless daemon to sync your bookmarks (between devices) all the time for you?

tauri came up. for desktop apps so far, i only have linux (gtk + adwaita, typescript) and it's already gone pretty bitrotten since I've been focused on the mobile apps and browser extensions. i'm.... torn.

"please let this be the one... they took away all my sres, devops nerds, AND sysadmins. i just want to go to bed." he whispers into the cold, unloving void

i'm not sure *how* but i guess all the hubbub about the new ceo didn't seem "real"? this caught me off guard thankfully the other box is debian stable and by the time forky is released the industry will be over this garbage ✨ #2027herewecome

Most of you have heard about Block's 40% layoffs by now, but the numbers are even worse. Engineering was hit harder, we've lost close to 70% of our engineers. Our leadership is plagued by false promises of "intelligence". The company you once knew as a prolific OSS contributor no longer exists.

"आसव", यह है

ok, so 3 alpha testers have requested oauth2 *on a phone* this week... including my mom. ;) oauth2 people: is this a thing you do? you want to log into an app on your phone with the same oauth provider you use for a service? i never use oauth2 unless a website forces me, so i'm ignorant.

me: “i’m telling c that he should be a day trader. but all i know about day traders is that they love this mario sound.” p: *upward punching motion* “because they punch to get money?” i laughed til it hurt

this was possibly the best lofi meetup i've attended yet. great set of speakers. brendan's talk, in particular, was an absolute firehose of information. very fun and makes me even more excited about iroh. ❤️ recording is here: www.youtube.com/live/e3bsA2A...

hi frens. i've been making a very silly little bookmarking app for a few weeks now. the play store apparently now requires *twelve* active (closed) testers for two weeks before i'm allowed to push this dumb little thing to prod. if you're willing to install it on an android device, please email me.

the lofi/34 meetup on tuesday will be a good one. lofi.so * kleppmann on geopolitics * nate hardt, behind footnote.wiki * brendan o'brian from n0.computer, the folks behind iroh i'm probably most excited about o'brian's talk, but all 3 of these should be bangers. cc @thattommyhall.com

i have a question for people who actually use safari for some reason: is this normal? do you expect safari to tint your icons, and would you understand that this blue Save Button icon is actually "greyed out"?

vaultwarden is very, *very* good.

jamie brandon once suggested the term "over-the-wall open source" to me, long before slop patches were a thing. i liked the idea then & i like it now. when 98% of open source projects consist of one or two dedicated hackers anyway, maybe the "community" of open contrib is optional. just a thought.

i didn't really use github much in 2025. i see they unleashed the microsoft product managers on it? so that's fun. if a disgruntled ms employee wanted to release the 2023 github projects source to anna's archive, there'd be gratitude. 🫠 it was for the briefest of moments, the best kanban software

i'm doing this often enough that i need the whole song, please

i spend more time than i want wishing more people would grok this

this "delete" button (required to delete a build and upload a new one, if your app is rejected on review) only shows up on-hover. why. WHY. the only way to know it's there is to already know it's there. apple, if i wanted to solve hidden blocks puzzles, i'd play zelda.

my friend @abnv.me just published "a short survey of modern compiler targets" in @pagedout.bsky.social on page 44: pagedout.institute/webview.php?... pdf: pagedout.institute/download/Pag...

let’s try again this week, #hfxbike! Thursday morning, 7:00am, Granville Park. See you there!

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Do not put googly eyes on the table saw should be common sense and yet.

the problem with llms www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-...

in related news, i'm late to the party with the wildly disorienting osx tahoe experience. my brain can't reconcile the parts apple pretty clearly stole straight from #gnome and all the overly-rounded corners in places they don't make any sense combined with 1998 corel photopaint emboss effects. fml