@samuraiames.bsky.social I don't know who storyboarded or animated "Brighter"... But in the scene where it shows Vox in front of a board with suggestions for the network... Vox canonically invented Doctor Who! Words can't express how happy that little detail made me. Please thank them for us.

If "everyone knows .unwrap() is a footgun", then why is it in #rust at all? Make the user use .unwrap_or, or match, or some other error flow mechanism so they're forced to make a decision. If they want to "panic!()", make them type it out. Let them ponder their life choices in those 9 chrs.

I remember having a discussion with someone about how I thought that a language having a runtime "panic"-like function should be an anti-pattern. A "memory-safe crash" is still a crash. Guess I have a high-profile real-world example to quote now.

Anyone else in the #hazbinhotel and #doctorwho fandoms thinking that Vox is now Ursula Blake, to Valantino's Elton Pope? ... I am nerd.

Hey @life360.bsky.social Not a fan of you floating advertisements over the map or the UI during normal operation. I get it, you want to sell more trackers… If this was a free service, I'd accept it. But I pay you for this service and I don't want it cluttering up the map I'm trying to navigate.

Can someone tell me what a "Black Hatter" is in #hazbinhotel ? I've looked, and searched - and find no (cannon) reference to it… just fan-art. They're mentioned in S2E4, and feels Chekhov's Gun-like…

I have two 30m slots of Radio Time every week on an AM Shortwave broadcast station that can be heard almost everywhere in the World - over *actual* radio. None of this "streaming" nonsense. My next show needs to be 30 minutes of @amirtalai.bsky.social cackling over screams with no context. Spooky

When I was in my early 20s I was offered a job in a third world country to build their first Internet Service Provider. "What a potential to do good!", I thought to myself. The salary was near nothing, but the offered housing, a driver, armed guards, and a live-in cook and maid. Ok…

AI summaries really do need to be opt-in. I don't need an Ocean boiled to give me ludicrous reesponses.

Two months ago I spoke at @codescarolina.bsky.social on the subject of @ponylang.bsky.social ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co2o... I had a most excellent time, met some most excellent people, and had many most excellent conversations with others around developing concurrent and safe software.

Conjuring up some magic to finish my #ponylang #ODBC library. My one unsolved problem is that different databases return different error codes for the same issues! How does one solve this in a portable manner?

I just bought a sonic cutter. It's basically an X-Acto-knife that vibrates at 40khz. It may be my favourite tool purchase since my thermaltonics iron!

Haha, classic. "Hacker" tries to modify passwd file to provide themselves with persistent access. passwd file is immutable. "Hacker" gives up. I can think of at least three different approaches to get past this if this were a legitimate engagement.

When log4j vulns appeared, I wrote an app that recursively searched .zip/.war/ear/.jar files in memory for a specified regex. (…or just recursively show you all the files in each). I've been using it recently to inventory all my backups and it was so useful I'm considering renaming it.

I just found a news article about the first security incident I ever worked. In 1997 (!) archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.... Even in 1997, having a default policy of blocking all outgoing traffic from our production servers saved our bacon.

Have my talk at @codescarolina.bsky.social . First time at a conference since the before times. Talked about one of the languages I've been working with the last 5 years or so: @ponylang.bsky.social 289 "Slides" in 30ish minutes. ... and somehow I resisted theming it MLP all the way through!

Chillin' at @codescarolina.bsky.social #polyglot and #infosec community conference. This morning's topics: #AI #DevelopersAndSecurityKissingInATree #QBasic64 #php #Fsharp and #NoCorruptionMigration. If you're here, come say "Hi" to me. Hint: I'm wearing a very "Subtle" Cat shirt 😉

I don't know what it is about fountain pens, but my EDC selection colors my mood for the day. Carrying a 100+ year old pen frames my day with care and deliberate wonder. Carrying a modern pen with sparkly ink frames my day like "Star vs the forces of evil" and I giggle like a 12 year old all day

Heading into my last days with my current employer - and as an Employee whose job was research and creativity I am leaving behind what feels like a thousand unexplored loose ends. All had some value to me. Few will be picked up by others and explored. Never enough time to do them all justice.

Okay #doctorwho - that's creepy af

Is this the first time #eurovision had allowed voting from the beginning, as opposed to at the end of all the songs? I don't remember it being this way... ... it just seems unfair to those later in the show. #esc2025

It had better be #Malta

Votes cast for #Malta #esc2025 Come on and win this thing! ❤️

I really hope this is the case. I adore this song with every fiber of my being... So catchy!

Is it me, or has the sound mixing of most of the songs this evening been just awful? #Eurovision #esc2025

Is that a treadmill on stage or really clever camera-work? #esc2025 Subtitles: "singing in an international language". Useful.

I'm kinda vibing to the lack of awful American hosts for #Eurovision. Let's hope this continues for the final too! #RestOfWorldVoter

Looking at this double-stacked nib under the microscope to see if I can work out why it's suffering from dry-starts from time to time. Where / how can I get training for nibmeister skills? As a fountain pen fan, I need to know!

More good stuff in the ponylang world...

Just putting together my weekly radio show. Need to find a theme for this week and struggling. Open to ideas...

Let's see if I can create a Feed for #ponylang…

Last Week in Pony - March 2nd, 2025 edition www.ponylang.io/blog/2025/03...

Tools to teach, practice, and inform. Looking forward to learning about herdsim!

This is possibly the best diagram I have ever seen to explain the different ways that writing systems encode information. Source: neography.info/writing-syst... #neography #shorthand #personalhands

Last Week in Pony www.ponylang.io/blog/2025/02...

Been implementing a HTTP Server from first principles. I was really pushing the networking library, and as such found a few race-conditions. Even if the webserver project goes nowhere, I'm learning a lot and fixin' obscure library bugs. Now I just need a name for it …

Spent the last few days chasing performance issues in a http server implementation. Finding substantial differences in supposedly "indentical" executions of wrk and ab, with one of them live-locking with my test servers. To Wireshark! To the RFC! (I live for these kinds of bugs) #ponylang

Friends don't let friends forget lube day.