while in town to renew kid 2’s us passport, i took this photo because i thought it funny that the gas pump is now just a thing to lean a bicycle against

do furniture makers send out stool samples send toot

@wingo In case you haven't heard: "Atheists Don't Have No Songs" by Steve Martin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmwAD7nHqaY

i wish there were such a thing as atheist gospel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R5hW0h7sTI

this memory keys approach is a very clever way to get sandboxing without wasting too much virtual address space https://blog.cloudflare.com/safe-in-the-sandbox-security-hardening-for-cloudflare-workers/

🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | La mayoría de los países abandonan la Asamblea General de la ONU a la llegada de Netanyahu social.elpais.com/njzv3

when i submit a pull request to a git forge, i should not have to add a lamb to my flock of remote branch names

house construction/renovation is finishing up soon, so i think i am able to take a tally of the languages that have been spoken on the work site: french, english, turkish, romanian, ukranian, thai.

great post on what it's like working with a tracing jit in practice https://antocuni.eu/2025/09/24/tracing-jits-in-the-real-world--cpython-core-dev-sprint/#

"Nicolar Paul Séphan Sarközy de Magy-Bocsa is a French politician and convicted felon" wikipedia chef's kiss https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy

python types are amazing because they compile down to nothing: you can work on them for couple hours, and the result is no change in behavior, neither at run-time nor at compile-time

remember remember the twenty-third of september #remember

i sing too much to be allowed back into an office

ok nerds, i am going to buy some solar panels & prolly a battery soon. i have an electric car and a heat pump and would like for these devices to be buddies. what are your tips

business idea: taxonomy-as-a-service. the market is programming language people who are complying with european directives forbidding metasyntactic variables in new documentation. first taxonomy is free

my printer is the original technology brother

Hey, honey, I'm going to the Nix store, can I grab you anything while I'm out?

i am still baffled about github's missing support for stacked prs. how do people manage without this

[current events] the wild thing about this moment is that the media is transparently a cudgel for billionaires, from bolloré to murdoch, which needs to be fought with state power for the rest of us to have a chance at a healthy informational diet. it is good tactics to fight for press freedom […]

today i learned that the "wkg" tool that lets you publish and consume webassembly components and interfaces is pronounced... "wackage" 😎

software engineering is good and all, but i just had a python linter tell me i needed more whitespace on a comment that i had to add to disable python type checking for a mock argument that was part of a test suite of a test suite (yes). make it stop

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

i have been battling a stuck bolt on my sliding rear dropout for some months now. i have succeeded in stripping it, breaking the tip of a broke screw extractor, broke two metal drill bit tips, and the “bang in a torx bit” strategy has not worked. raaargh

icymi https://floss.social/@igalia/115140384722949632

first i have heard of clark kessinger; a fine fiddler https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-yVwkjJeTXI

success in life is motivation plus opportunity. so is murder. in this essay i will,,

not very often, but once or twice a year maybe I find myself thinking "i probably need a monad here". then i take a shower and try to forget about it

"we don't need no piece of paper from the city hall" well ok, that's true joni, but the guests are going to arrive in 4 hours and the caterer needs our opinion,,

good morning. what are we hexing today

a lovely version of this tune ~~ https://youtu.be/U_adDmc7x9s?feature=shared

this is good!! https://mastodon.social/@danunderwood/115175768565249411

every time you refresh https://sigbovik.org/ it gives a different middle name for harry q. bovik

imagine you have posix shell but no rm; how to rm?

my thoughts whenever I look into the technical details of graphics file formats and have to think about un-/premultiplied alpha

excellent recap and analysis of the the sánchez government's project https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/growing-pains/

knowledge base https://hachyderm.io/@samhenrigold/115118979341150575

today i learned that the folio society published neuromancer; bestill my heart https://www.foliosociety.com/row/neuromancer-william-gibson

bad idea you can have for free: a compiler from C to POSIX filesystem + shell scripts. objects are stored in memory in files named at their address. each function is a shell script. liberal use of BC and cat.

when someone's house looks like the one in "parasite", i wonder what else they have in common

probably easier to ask people how was their vey cat ion

i wish i had more opportunities to say the word "cation" so that i could annoy people by pronouncing it "cay shun"

after gluing 20cm of insulation around my house and then fucking off for the summer, workers are back prepping for paint. it involves covering the house with fiberglass mesh and metal corner beads and then going over the whole surface and spreading on a variety of pastes. literally a house facial

tx @bkardell & @Meyerweb for having me on to talk about all things wasm ~~ https://floss.social/@igalia/115140384722949632

programming, yo. some days you are the golden god, some days you are the dog dongle

[parenting] the almost-3yo has started throwing unconsolable irrational fits. it is exasperating and hard and also a little funny

who called it space fantasy romance and not rocketship

today is the rentrée, which is french for #back to school, which means going to take the older kids, then going #back to school to take the youngest, then #back again to pick the youngest up, #back again for older kids, and #back to school again for the orientation meeting #back

t. pain au chocolat end toot

Tenemos un reactor de fusión nuclear gigantesco flotando en el espacio, que va a funcionar durante miles de millones de años, y del que podemos aprovechar una parte minúscula de su energía para cubrir todas nuestras necesidades presentes y futuras. Adelante a la civilización solar.