I looked at a photo of myself from ten years ago and thought "Yeah, I've been just stabilizing my APIs since then". Is this how being old feels?

Would be fun if we went the full circle and started writing just assembly again.

Introducing winpulse An #emacs package to briefly flash windows on focus change xenodium.com/introducing-... #oss #foss #opensource #elisp #lisp

Monitors with GPUs in them when?

I just scored 53,408 on a game of at://2048 with a starting seed of 4034045508. Think you can do better with this exact same seed? Try it out here 2048.blue/seed/4034045... @2048.blue

I just scored 53,408 on a game of at://2048. Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue. 2048.blue

🚀 We’re thrilled to announce Zebra 3.0.0, our most feature-rich release yet! Now with NU6.1 support, faster sync, easier production runs, and wider platform availability. zfnd.org/zebra-3-0-0-...

A great article which touches on the basics of the GNU Readline library (which almost all modern shells and REPLs use), its long history and its relationship with #Emacs (the source of its default keybindings) twobithistory.org/2019/08/22/r...

windows.net doesn't run on https?

I haven't seen a for loop in a long time.

Yes, but

I don't want no cars or public transport, let me take this on a plane www.rideevolve.com/products/ren...

A healthy person has a hundred wishes, a sick person has only one. My only wish is that NixOS had a wiki like Arch.

People used to ask if I was German when I was a pup. Now they ask if I'm Russian when I have a weird beard and no hair.

Heard: - Having kids is pretty selfish. - Having no kids is pretty selfish.

And there's barely any pay for it. Doing a PhD has always seemed attractive to me, but doing it with zero external support felt like martyrdom. Especially after talking to PhD peers who had apartments from parents and those who had nothing.

It's always fun to self-check-in to someone's Airbnb house just before midnight.

First time

I recently managed to fix yet another failure of ASIC mining hw. The Z15 machine has three hashboards, each of which has three ASICs. This is what the hashboard looks like. The hole in the PCB is due to a previous failure in the power circuitry.

Adi Shamir's advice to young researchers: 1. Read, read, read. Back in the eighties, I read every cryptography paper out there. Once that became impossible, I read the abstract of every paper. Now I read at least every title.

someone took Emily's code and turned it into a package! www.npmjs.com/package/blue...

Just came across this classic gem.

I've put together a webpage that renders the ePrint author list I maintain for @eprint.bsky.social. It's a separate website to enable listing by the author name used in papers, rather than the Bluesky display name or handle.

Has anyone played with Meshtastic radios? I’m very interested in how well they work and what improvements could be made.

"And so, if you can’t do these things [such as getting trans people hormones even though it may be illegal where they are] —that might be disapproved by authority, but are actually perfectly ethical and the right thing to do— because you fear the consequences? Then that leads to a worse society."

not load bearing for just zcash. hero and inspiration for the entire space

I just explored `rustup doc`, which serves all Rust's docs locally.

How it started and how it's going.

DM or ping me! It's a manually-vetted list embedded into the bot code, so I'm the one doing updates.

This actually works, unlike the weird psy op with the flies.

A video note about mining Zcash: marek.onl/mining-zec/

This fella has been going strong for a decade now. It went through many short circuits and occasional flame but still in service.

Zcash's Zebra has produced its first block: zcashblockexplorer.com/transactions....

A recent ThinkPad can survive a three meter free fall just fine. I wasn't expecting that when I was picking it up. I'll commit and push more often anyway.

I like that the Internet is capitalized in English. It feels special. It's not like that in my native tongue, and it should be.

I know you didn't ask, but this is what's inside a 9V battery.

What the OS gets when you keep mallocing, but don't match it with free.

Posting these a little late, but I still want to celebrate! A couple weeks ago I had the honor or receiving an early career award at Crypto ‘23 along with Mary Maller and Elizabeth Crites! 🎊🙏💪 Here’s to more to come and to collaborating with great people and great friends

I've seen people complaining about Google results and it took me a while to notice the same, but it seems terrible recently. A clear cut example: A single result: www.google.com/search?q=%22... A bunch of results including the one I needed: duckduckgo.com?t=h_&q=%22Se...

switches love i (this post is about task concurrency)

Next is the Best Early Career Paper: “Fully Adaptive Schnorr Threshold Signatures” by Elizabeth Crites, @chelseakomlo.bsky.social, and Mary Maller (eprint.iacr.org/2023/445)

I’m going to have two dishwashers at home when I grow up. Having only one doesn’t make sense.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence the words Sapling and Orchard in Zcash have the same number of letters.

It’s the Perseids peak tonight.

Searching for 'error "Invalid search bound (wrong side of point)"' for the past month in Google doesn't return anything relevant. ddg.gg returns an exact match to a static html page in its first result.

Everything's just heat at the end of the day.

Emacs 29.1 is out.

The AT Protocol and whatnot, but the killer feature is that the button in the bottom left corner pixel-perfectly fits profile pictures.

Searching for '"RUST_BACKTRACE" documentation' in Google didn't provide anything useful. Trying multiple variations didn't help. I tried ddg.gg, and the right result was at the top. I stopped using ddg a while back because of poor results, but I'll give it a try again.