I wrote a thing I needed, if you also need it: github.com/jcs/atalk-pr...

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a printer.

Over the break I spent time on my complete remake of MacPaint (with some quality-of-life improvements). I started in 2024 and intended to release for the 40th anniversary, but MacPaint has way more god damn features than I think anyone remembers. Here's some video of me using the latest build. 😄

send help

Hey, Lingo. Let's party!

No cheating. Reskeet the most recent picture of your pet(s).

neat talk on bypassing multiple hardware security layers in the rp2350 media.ccc.de/v/39c3-of-bo...

i hear the high power demand of all these new datacenters for ai is requiring upgrades to the power infrastructure to deliver it all so once the ai bubble bursts i guess we'll still have an upgraded power infrastructure maybe we can trick these idiots into funding other things that we need

I was going to be a bit more celebratory today with getting the last video of the year finished and stuff, then it got dropped on me pretty hard this morning that over the weekend we lost an icon in the world of tech reporting. 😔 obits.goldsteinsfuneral.com/stewart-chei...

for christmas this year i got strep throat and 3 days of isolation seasons greetings

The boxed copies of my Mac software that I sold at VCF Midwest this August had these registration postcards in them I finally got my first reply mailed in, it's a Festivus miracle!

Still snowing in 2025 thanks to @rckjnsn.bsky.social

my kid went to an art thing and they got CDRs to draw on because apparently such things are worthless now, but one of them had this magnificent label that seems kind of sad to discard

a penny for your thoughts is now being rounded down to zero, your input is worthless

a dumb idea i had yesterday

Time to keep my inner Monk satisfied. Me:

typical openbsd

hot dog stand 4 lyfe

you suck penny, nobody liked you

heck yeah half-life

Symantec developer in 1992: "Surely no one will still be using this software 33 years from now"

Quality. Value. They're what Shanghaimuxinmuyeyouxiangongsi is known for around the world.

did you ever have an mp3 with corrupted bytes that made winamp or whatever make that little hiccup sound and you got so used to hearing it that now when you listen to a proper version of that song you still expect to hear that noise at the same spot?

why are whistles the standard by which we judge cleanliness

this new australian law is going to decimate my plan.cat userbase

I had an appointment for a ham license and got cold feet after reading the conditions. It appears that it requires waiving your 4th Amendment rights by agreeing to random warrentless "FCC inspections". Without a license, this becomes much less actionable regardless of what the FCC claims.

Even better: there are amazing folks like @jcs.org still building new software for it today. A whole VCS, an IRC client ... wild what this little machine can still do. amendhub.com

Warnings About Retrobright Damaging Plastics After 10 Year Test

GitHub was the answer to "what if sourceforge didn't suck?" I'm kind of worried we're getting a new sourceforge 😢

Big news! Pushover for iOS has not won an Apple App Store Award apps.apple.com/us/story/id1...

After a few nights of reading through thousands of pages of PRMs I have finally implemented a modesetting driver for Intel HD graphics on Redox OS: gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/bas.... There is much more to do, but there is now a clear path to native hardware accelerated graphics!

where give money

When the stupid snow is too wet and heavy to use your snow blower so you have to shovel it by hand and now you're sweating in a parka and the legs of your jeans are wet and your back hurts and you smell like a wet dog and it's still snowing so you know you're going to have to do it all over again

merveilles.town/@neauoire/11... github.com/ocaml/ocaml/... "I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days" "Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it." Why are people like this?

what if instead of www over http, internet sites were git repositories and every day your browser fetched updates to each one and navigated them offline and as a bonus you had archives of your favorite internet sites that you could search with grep it could be called ggg: the Global Git Gossamer™

"Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License" opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11...

Who coulda seen that coming.... 🙄

Loose wires sink ships www.ntsb.gov/news/press-r...

The kerning on that Tr pair is really bothering me

"We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls" utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/b...

It's official! #PicoIDE, the open source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator I've been working on for the better part of this year, will be launching at Crowd Supply! Go there to sign up for updates and to be notified when the campaign is live: www.crowdsupply.com/polpotronics...

Just as I suspected, it was all Rust's fault blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-...