I would like to welcome “goose was not valued” to the club of things I mutter that no one around me understands, along friends such as “SSL added and removed here” and “no I’m spartacus”.

The game I help with just launched on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287550/Farm_RPG/ completely free (it's really just a wrapper for the normal farmrpg.com website) but if you like cozy RPGs check it out :)

TIL Reddit allows reporting moderator "this thread was removed because it was spam" _as_ spam.

I will die on the hill of banding is not actually that complicated.

The best time to not write tech debt is last year but the second best time is today.

A very merry "really?" to Synology for burying the connector for this NAS _inside_ the back panel such that you need a 90-degree C13 head to plug it in.

Twisted 26.4.0 is out today! Some highlights: - there's a new "tls:" endpoint that can absorb your certbot config/live directory, or any other pile of PEM files, and it will automatically identify which certs and chains go with which keys and serve them all, making HTTPS deployment much easier […]

I have packed many board games (and Commander decks) for PyCon US as I begin my trek.

Preface: This is not a dunk or an I Told You So. It is a reminder that other (better?) worlds can exist. GitHub Actions is clearly all over the tech news lately. A repeated weak point across the industry. I, for the most part, do not use GHA and you don't have to either. When I started my […]

I really can't overstate just how much all the social hubs for software people (of all kinds) are dying due to bots and spam. Across the board, places to learn the craft of building good software are being locked down because the tide of capital-c Content™ is unceasing. I have been a community […]

Quick Friday task to improve your personal security: go check your browser and text editor plugins, and disable any you haven't used lately. You can always turn them back on later.

I don't mean to be a killjoy but "vouching for trusted people" is not a scalable way to build a software ecosystem. I was there, I ran signing parties, I was a CAcert assurer, I've got a strong-set GPG key in a hardware token, none of it worked beyond the most fringe of the fringe dorks. You get […]

This is your regular reminder that "loquacity" is a real English word. That is all.

And the show has reached a new low. Just got a cold call from a vendor at a conference I am not attending asking if I can come by their booth to see a product demo. Who does that?

Listening to a talk on "open supply chain security" and I just get so mad that all these answers seem to resolve around "extract _even more_ labor and value from internet randos until the problem is solved".

People keep telling me to treat LLMs as junior devs, as if "a junior dev who is structurally incapable of learning from mistakes" isn't a working definition of hell.

Too many people have forgotten YTP so here's Intensive Hair Unit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8coX8VkUKY8

With Alice Isn’t Dead starting back up, does anyone know of a somewhat short summary of the past seasons? It’s been a lot of years and I’m not sure I want to do a full re-listen.

[magic sarcasm] Given that ECL prereleases are sold out everywhere, is UB still killing the game?

A thing I found at random looking for something else: the original painting that is the cover for The Diamond Age. Interesting to see it uncropped.

Still thinking about Anathem and how their solution to enshittificiation was to have a local IT team assigned to each pile of smart people. Self-hosting as community praxis.

Current status: running knapsack solvers to work out a layout for so I can (re)design a custom card so I can explain the rules to other people so I can eventually play a children's card game. (remaking my reminder card for the Commander Game Changers list now that there's more things on it)

> This email was sent to [*data('email')|html*]. We respect your privacy. Sure you do, buddy.

Checking that a PyPI project has a release history going back before 2021 and thus probably isn't an LLM-hallucination-driven supply chain attack vector is basically our equivalent of low-background steel.

I would not have guessed this was possible! Vladan Majerech has found a one-dimensional spaceship in the Game of Life: a pattern just one cell high and 3,707,300,605 cells wide that, after 133,076,755,768 generations (during which it is not confined to the one-dimensional line, of course) […]

Do I know anyone who has deleted an OpenAI organization? Their support person is telling me they have no mechanism to do it.

The number of people who think "the Kubernetes developers" are their sysops team is mind boggling.

Anyone know how to reach Rackspace support easily? They think I owe them 29 cents despite having not touched the service in probably a decade. The invoice came from [email protected] which bounces and emailing [email protected] yields "The recipient's mailbox is full and can't […]