When they came up with the filesystem standard for unix/linux, I always assumed they got to '/etc' and just kind of gave up with 'etcetera...''

Debugging a USB audio issue and: 😭

What happened with Insomnia? (the http testing tool). I can't find a way to make a simple HTTP request anymore 😢

Process list on a clean Debian install is so short! Feels nice to start with such a minimal system. Know every process and why it's running and add what I need. Only sshd was added at this point #homelab #linux #debian

Finally watched 'The Substance' after having to pause and continue the next day because it's so grotesque. Curious how people felt stepping out of the theater. Jeez

Hot take: `curl [url] | bash` is no worse than `npm i [package]`

i made this at 2am

When deleting project directories, #git has trained me to use -f, because .git will always have some write-protected files

strictNullChecks is too annoying in javascript-only (jsdoc) projects #typescript

Completed my first SOC 2 Type II !

I used to love Lego but aren't all the brand tie ins kinda annoying and opposite of timeless?

the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry

I mostly switched to pure CSS now. But dang i miss Sass' `@extends`

Figma should allow more things than colors to refer to CSS variables, and it should have a CSS export for all variables

Do you read any blogs of people you disagree with mostly, but are interesting?

Async, too much blog.s-schoener.com/2025-09-22-a...

I feel I would make such a good electrician because I would just label and document things

Holy crap this is a neat-ass resource: https://www.makingsoftware.com/

Our next Creative Code Toronto meetup is September 24! Come on out and show us what you've been working on!

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

leading the fight against onion caramelizing disinformation

Oh look my famous Stack Overflow question got closed as opinion-based 18 years after asking. 😅 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/978061/http-get-with-request-body

Neat deep-dive into A/UX: Apple's original Unix OS https://youtu.be/L_b8nWRoFA0?si=uGjTok9oVmsrV1kw

Doing a minimal Debian install has been one of my best recent Linux experiences. Kind of forgot what its like to get a processlist with only a few processes and for each you know what it does.

Do people still unplug things during thunderstorms, or did something change in our devices or grid that it's no longer needed?

I'm back on the market! I'm a Toronto software eng with 20 years of experiene and looking for a role with good technical/management mix. Remote or hybrid in Toronto. Know anyone who might need someone like me? Resume: https://evertpot.com/assets/evert-pot-resume-2025-apr.pdf

North america has bad taste in indoor light. So many ugly pot lights

I'm a bit of a trekkie and I'll rewatch most of it every few years, including the original 60's show and BOY is it sexist and rapey. Hard to imagine this was groundbreaking tv.

Building a new home NAS with debian, and I forgot how nice it is to start with an ultra-minimalist system and every addition is a choice

oops, i said “fuck” in the newsletter again

My 10 month old is back in a 'unannounced trust fall' phase

There's a Starship Troopers 3? I thought it was just the one

GPT-5: the slop thickens

TIL #safari doesn't support the is= attribute for web components and doesn't intend to. 😢

This is incredible

The Foundation show is so flawed but I love watching it. The visuals, epic scope and acting make up for the bad writing.

📢 Incredibly excited to announce I signed with a publisher! My retro tycoon game 'Car Park Capital' will be published by MicroProse! The one behind classics like Transport Tycoon and Civilization. Thanks everyone for the support so far! 🙏 s.team/a/3031880

Are there any other sports besides ping pong named after the sound it makes when you play?

Whenever I see a HDR photo on a phone, it doesn't just look bright it looks 'wrong'. Is this just because I'm not used to it or is it actually just bad?

I sometimes accidentally start watching an essay-style music-related youtube video. It always takes me too long to remember we're at most going to hear 3 seconds of each song. Why is this not fair use?

Dang my android phone now has Debian built in. Just had to turn on Developer mode. No apps or jailbreaks. I wonder if there's enough here to run my dev environment.

It still melts my brain that they fit 400,000,000,000 of something on a microSD which is the size of a pinky fingernail.

I can't open a tar.bzip and browse around and extract just what i need? Dang I've been using #linux for 25 years. What's the seekable native archive format to go for?

A what now

Vandalism by Google: https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline Also why you don't use a URL shortener. You can't even trust Google.

#Gnome users, how do you easily insert emoji in an app, or special characters? Sick of googling what I'm looking for and then copy-pasting it, and I don't want to remember unicode code points

Found a neat remix of a radiohead song on Youtube. It's on the official Radiohead youtube channel, but it's clearly ripped from a scratched CD. It's funny to see Radiohead fans arguing in the comments that it's intentional. It's really obvious, and other versions exists without the [1/2]

DNS record editing tools should have a comments field

Spotted at local second hand shop: some kind of yahoo audio device with an analog gauge for bitrate