no longer sure i interpreted the "ui as pure function of the state" screed correctly.

I've been feeling a bit nostalgic of late, I think others must be too as both geekup geekup.org (10y hiatus!) and Papers We Love (London) www.meetup.com/papers-we-lo... (5y hiatus) have started up again in the last month or so.

RacketCon is on Saturday! con.racket-lang.org If you watch the livestream, please consider supporting with an remote participant ticket ($10): www.eventbrite.com/e/racketcon-... The livestream is expensive and is how a significant proportion who can't attend in person participate in RacketCon.

the curse of decentralization nerds is they keep trying to build tools to do more decentralization instead of more tools to keep normal people interested in being on, engaging with, contributing to a platform that happens to be decentralizable

“We have been left with no choice but to stop our activities, as our clinics are encircled by Israeli forces... This is the last thing we wanted.” We have been forced to suspend our activities and leave Gaza City.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

If you don't like David Heinemeier Hansson I don't think you should call him DHH, it's like calling Robert C Martin Uncle Bob You want to live in a world where you have to say David Heinemeier Hansson so you don't confuse him with other David Hanssons

the best jokes are the ones that people google to understand

Big news: Internet Archive Europe ( @internetarchive.eu ) has opened its new HQ in Amsterdam! 🎉 A home for preservation, access & shared cultural heritage. Read coverage from @mariabustillos.com in Flaming Hydra: flaminghydra.com/freedom-and-...

Wanna build a slightly janky, self-hosted val.town alternative for #ElixirLang? I got you.

Blogged a bit www.thattommyhall.com/2025/09/24/w...

This post by @samwho.dev explaining Big-O notation in human terms with concise code samples and simple illustrative demos is a joy to read. samwho.dev/big-o/

🟥 REWIND | On #NationalTeletextDay, a reminder of the great resource of recovered teletext pages at: www.teletextarchive.com @ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social, @zxguesser.bsky.social and a team of volunteers are ensuring the rich history of otherwise lost teletext content lives on.

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

It's nearly time for my once a decade "changed my blog software" post

Finally got around to reading Build Systems à la Carte (dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...), it's really great (like everyone says). I love papers like this, that take a well-known, messy, unloved area and propose a useful organizing principle for it.

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

“By carefully balancing the intimate rhythms of the everyday with major political debates & vociferous activisms, Riley has produced a compelling & readable work… consistently anchored in the messy web of feelings that continue to make empire such a powerful feature of British life.” I’ll take that!

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

Always write and workshop some puns before entering the dreams of my teenage victims.

Started using DigiPaws to block apps for slices of the day, way more careful with permissions than ones in the play store. f-droid.org/en/packages/...

Maybe it’ll be disastrous but I note the lads all thought e.g. Remain would skoosh Leave, that Woman of Steel May had exactly the required grit; that Johnson had decisively reshaped the electoral map; that Sunak was the ideal Sensible, that Labour were the adults back in charge and on and on and on

This is scary but I'm taking The Film Maven off Substack and have transferred to Ghost. Not only does this give me complete ownership of my work, but also means I won't continue to lose money to Substack and Apple. I lay everything out for Subscribers here. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-film-m...

Very excited about things happening on the BEAM these days hexdocs.pm/lustre/index...

"Maybe not running a word guessing program is actual murder" - Serious Person 2025

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

you can't log into the HMRC childcare tax thingy unless you have a UK IP address... love how helpful the error message is

When Boudica's daughters were raped by Roman officials in AD 61, she gathered the Britains and burned London in such a fiery inferno that a layer of ash can be found still beneath London, known by archeologists as the "Boudican Destruction Horizon". In 1902 London erected a statue in her honor.

"We are a fast blob store, people know our name" "Yeah but can we say they are AI blobs"

AI definitely feels like when you hire a big consultancy and get all these massive reports that look really amazing but then you read them and it all seems fine except occasionally they use the wrong name for your company

dividing up generations like "generation above ground nuclear tests", "generation lead poisoning", "generation microplastics" "generation covid" and finally "generation slop"

jszym.com/blog/archivi... Help archive all the goo.gl shortened links before Google shuts it down

😂 just for the horror on everyone's faces 👇

Camden High Street—North London's acclaimed attraction bustling with shops, markets, music venues, and subcultural energy—is currently conducting a long-overdue experiment: a 12-month pedestrianisation trial aimed at rebalancing the public realm in favour of human beings rather than motor vehicles.🧵

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

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The oatmeal on helpcunts

Finally, a good use of AI

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

🎨I'm still looking for a paying project or a studio position. * I work remote. * I'm an expert on anything 2D, * classically trained illustrator * any style, realistic, stylized, and anything in between * world-class pixelartist * hands-on 2D sprite animator

We don't have to speculate about what more housing means: it means that more people can live somewhere. We don't have to speculate about what more and better transit means: it means affordably and reliably being able to commute/get where you're going.

Just packing up the house now, we got surprised with notice on our place as the landlady is coming back so moved quickly and put an offer in on a place (we were looking anyway but this made it more urgent).

We had the word shitty already before enshitification and words are supposed to mean things

Watching Disney films with my daughter and realising there was a time when Phil Collins did the soundtracks

I hate this so much

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived. We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/w... Want to take part? 🧵 #Wayback1T

"Test [as] a multi-tool that helps you: • visualize behavior as you hack on an implementation • express and document intent • freeze a carefully-crafted version of that output to protect against regressions." What if writing tests was a joyful experience? blog.janestreet.com/the-joy-of-...

I discovered that Stewart Brand made a TV series called "How Buildings Learn" based on his book of the same name, and it's available on YouTube. Highly recommended. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvEq...

Microsoft is asking managers to consider usage of AI tools in performance reviews and is considering formal metrics around AI tool usage. I don’t think usage of any tool, no matter how useful, has ever been a requirement to get a good performance review during my career. This is weird.

“Oh, did a sportsball happen?” I whisper smugly from my vantage point on a distant cliff, the sounds of celebration in the village far below just barely audible over the lonely wind whipping my tattered cloak