I wonder why OSs need to go all the way to the BIOS/UEFI whenever they need a reboot for updates. Could they not free all memory and re-load their own kernel? Or is that simply too hard

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

I love that raspberry pis somewhow still have the IBM DOS VGA font starting up. How does that happen?

PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:

If you have a throwaway script and you need to host it at some public https:// endpoint with minimal effort, what do y'all grasp for these days?

“You shouldn’t care if JavaScript builtins are modified, just let things break when someone does dumb things!” enter react2shell.com

In a year or two Next.js will have the same reputation WordPress had in the 2010s

Is variable shadowing ever desirable?

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Picked up a $10 dell thin client, hoping it can be my Windows 3.11 or at most Windows 98 happy place. Hoping that removing the CMOS battery clears the bios password!

The top licenses published on #npm . Number #2 is interesting because it's not really a well-known one, but it's the default choice when running `npm init`, so it likely represents all the people that just pressed enter without having an opinion. [1/2]

'format' not being in the base json spec has to be the most annoying thing about json schema

Gold

Any startups/companies looking for a good TypeScript + JS developer? I have someone in the US, remote, has a strong GitHub portfolio + OSS contributions. Let me know!

Introducing Phased Package Installations blog.vlt.sh/blog/vlt-build

I just realized my Keychron keyboard is not ideal for messing with a raspberry pi, because it has a battery and will draw more power from the Pi's USB port than it should!

The diplomat is a fun show but it's competence porn, and the illusion that the white house might be filled to the brim with competence is so shattered that the show just feels a bit self-serious and silly.

Sports made me sad for the first time

No

I'm using my free time this weekend to try to move all hidden files in my ~ to XDG. Feels nice!

Lobste.rs ( https://lobste.rs/ ) is bit like HN but good.

Kind of an interesting story of the AFP cracking into a crypto wallet from the new commissioner today, after discovering random numbers in the notes app www.afp.gov.au/news-centre/...

I have long held that watching a series of rapidly cycling unconnected video clips is doing some kind of fucked up Kuleshov effect to human brains, forcing them to make connections that do not exist and driving everyone insane. I literally NEVER watch scrolling video because of this lol

Omarchy is the Hannah Montana Linux of the 2020s

yes

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

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