uh, this is *not* why our american friends are listening to donald glover today, spotify.

Someone pointed out dark mode didn't work on my website (a huge oversight!). Claude implemented dark mode in <10 mins. But the diagrams in my latest post still looked weird since I designed them on light backgrounds. But they're SVGs so it was easy to prompt a bit more and get dark/light versions

this post by @maggieappleton.com is the best checkpoint on agent-driven programming i've read yet. it's ostensibly about gas town but you can ignore that part. it's very "where are we in january of 2026?" and its clarity, in a sea of confusing terminology, is refreshing. maggieappleton.com/gastown

Skybrarians: My local mutual aid group is buying an ad in the paper for a February Reads section. I need a slogan/concept not overtly political but which will make a sharp point about ignorance, libraries, maybe fascism. Along the lines of "Books are weapons in the war of ideas" but not that. Ideas?

this is a flamethrower, straight out of the gate. more honest than any canadian politician i can remember in my lifetime.

configuring cloud stuff so indicative of big tech personalities google: it does *technically* work but it's really slow and we're stealing all your data with ajax requests apple: it doesn't work. at all. give us $100. microsoft: you know what? fuck it. just edit the json config yourself.

on the topic of *institutions*, i joined as a guest on the lifestyle democracy podcast with stefan ivanovski recently: shows.acast.com/lifestyle-de... the conversation was in the context of coops but, as I found out this past year, the concept applies even more acutely to nonprofits.

not wanting to miss out on the #indieweb bandwagon, microsoft chooses to bring back that classic embossed graphics look corel photopaint gave us in 1996. 3 decades later, they've added a shiny enhancement i think we can all agree looks like slime. peak design. mmmm, slime

here, americans: www.youtube.com/shorts/a5YxM...

aw, man. you had me until "at protocol". i particularly was digging this: "A manuscript doesn’t stay inside the typewriter, a photo doesn’t stay inside the camera, and a song doesn’t stay in the microphone."

Thread: Recent project: Full-Length Mirror, 33"x66". Black lacquer over red oak. Turns out it's a bit bigger than it needed to be. Oh, well. Such are the risks with first-time, one-off projects. #woodworking #decor #cnc #axiomprecision

i'm not big on black t-shirts, but i sort of wish i could have one of these.

i'll try not to "do american politics" very often, even on bhlisky (p's pronunciation, not mine) but if you are an american, you probably should pay for a @404media.co subscription. www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

I wrote the fifth part of my #blog series “Implementing Co, a small programming language with #coroutines”. This time, we add support for sleep in #co for time-based executions. https://abhinavsarkar.net/posts/implementing-co-5/ #programming #plt #programminglanguages #compilers #haskell […]

This answers the question no one had previously thought to ask, “what would have happened if you gave prime Hunter S Thompson Claude Code”

i love this thread so much. not because i love cars (i own a truck, but the wheel literally fell off while i was driving it in september so it's... not an r8) but because i love how incisive the metaphor is.

artificial stupidintelligence and airport sinks: www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-...

@repartee.party yup. the moment i'm committing anything of even the tiniest complexity, i switch back to magit too ... it's just the perfect git ui the fact i'd forgotten this tells me that i've been committing latex documents and not code for....... a while now.

haskell: if it compiles, it's probably correct [tm] es2023: if it lints, it's 17:00 and you're allowed to start work now [tm]

I’ll be around at @fosdem.org this year, and manning the FOSS United / funding.json / floss.fund booth.

backpack with 4 laptops and 4 incompatible chargers... ready for our first sample #endof10 repair cafe in #halifax

sweat on face at the gym yesterday, stretching after bike ride. p: "are you crying?!" me, taking headphones out: "no? oh... i think i'm just really sweaty." p: "oh. i thought you decided to put on some tracy chapman, then sit there and weep."

been thinking about "simple" software a lot lately: why can't you just use jquery? or web components? or just write something native? this talk hits some of those notes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmrB... i don't come to the same conclusions, but i am coming from a similar premise.

diskette is to floppy as hoodie is to bunny hug nobody every said "hoodie" except maybe over-the-top scottish characters in movies (or did they say "jumper"? doesn't matter since neither of those words is real) floppies and bunny hugs. that's the 1992 i remember

WHY INDEED

if you're just getting back online from a long winter holiday, this week's linux drama is about these. yup. cool. also, there are no more laws in the usa i guess. but i think we can all agree the real lawlessness was the middles we clicked along the way. #linux #drama #lawlessness

one of those moments. p wanted to print off doi.org/10.1093/jnci... for a masters biostats class. "can you fix the printer? my jobs are hanging." "send the pdf to me?" the arm mac with tahoe and latest updates failed. my @frame.work running linux added the printer in a second and worked first try

ok my dudes it's 2026 and i'm calling it. a supergroup led by @felicitas.pojtinger.com and @castrojo.bsky.social ends up steering the #cloudnative crowd back to the fun of desktop software development.

i missed the nov two's complement and as i listen to it on the plane, i can't help but think about the simpson's "your duty is clear" speech www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkg3... as always, a good episode: www.twoscomplement.org

Some people get fan mail. I apparently get fan code. This is a rust-based interface to TEXTFILES.COM for people who want to go full console. github.com/nesdeq/textf...

please help create a beautiful new logo for @openstreetmap.bsky.social ! wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_o...

I mean sure, go track them down. But acting like "boring" == "secret" is a little off. One datacenter I was part of got a million dollar upgrade, dot Com bust happened, it was 100% ripped out, 2 years after being built.

As someone who worked in datacenters for a decade and a half I want to gently add that until recently nobody gave a whit about datacenters any more than they cared about network hub locations. Datacenters employ a tiny fraction of folks compared to a factory and landlords are glad anyone is leasing.

ask your friends, everybody. also, cc @geohacker.in

book i would swear an oath on

revised "LocalFirst: You Keep Using That Word" based on feedback from @[email protected] and @[email protected] and others: www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-... more feedback welcome! this essay was a little slapdash but it's been bumping around my head for most of 2025.

2010

localfirst: you keep using that word www.deobald.ca/essays/2026-...

happy dumpling, gyoza, potsticker, momo, and bun day!

Thanks to my Advent of Code Optimisation #AoCO2025 Compiler Explorer's shop sales have raised $1,780! Huge thanks to all who bought mugs, t shirts, desk mats and hoodies!! Order yours: shop.compiler-explorer.com I'll do a detailed breakdown of CE costs soon. Thanks everyone and Happy New Year!

"Win32 is the stable Linux ABI!" it's the future i always dreamed of as a 16-year-old

It’s pretty pathetic that this needs to be said but of course it needs to be said. (It’d be interesting to reimagine @fsfe.org around this challenge, related to but distinct from US FSF.)

a few folks have added to the #reflection story! some from #39c3 and some not. feel free to add to the story... enjoy yourself and have fun! ❤️ 🐉 🦄 🌈 5d47 351f cb8f dee8 1fc4 816a dc82 a149 2e7e 075b c179 33e2 1511 b80c ea25 92c1 install: modal.cx/blog/reflect... #gnome #lofi

new nina kalinina just dropped and it's windows 2 on an apricot: www.ninakalinina.com/notes/win2ap...

A few folks have asked if there's a single list of the #AoCO2025 posts and there is: xania.org/AoCO2025-arc... It's in reverse order but they're all there!

spent xmas day with @calmudgeon.bsky.social ripping apart this elliptical to diagnose why the leds weren’t emitting their promised light and wishing this was just an arduino or rpi or something.

i'll just be over here getting captchas wrong because i still prefer the old ways of confusing the robots

as someone who has built "cloud services" for 30 years (we used to put those in a place called '/cgi-bin') i can confirm: trust the cloud service zero percent. assume it's at best broken and at worst actively malicious. if it's only broken today, a corporate merger might make it malicious tomorrow.

Giving it control over something that opens a water valve is just a bridge too far for me, though. While it's theoretically just as good at lowering the setpoint as a dumb controller with an outdoor temperature sensor, its failure mode is not only potentially worse but could also be harder to detect

My favorite PA Christmas strip