that's right ironically i've said this since the beginning bc my early career was 100% consulting and THIS IS HOW MOST LARGE COMPANIES USE CONSULTANTS if you are at *all* savvy, you will realize that many so-called engagements are using you as a handy, deniable loincloth to cover their ass

🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 🌸 No, not even to make fun of them 🌸 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸

🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼 🌼 Don't repost bad takes from bad people 🌼 🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼🌼

I looked up the "goto statements considered harmful" letter and idly scrolled pdf. To find "Language protection by trademark ill-advised", a conversation of about the merits and drawbacks of trademarking you proglang names. The arguments could be from today! 1968! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Linux maintainers should really step back and think why programming language library managers happened instead of ranting on stage that they exist.

Gute Nachrichten: Der Bundesrat hat den Vorschlag, Sonderregister zur Nachverfolgung von Namens- und Geschlechtseintrags-Änderungen nach SBGG abgesetzt, also gar nicht erst zur Abstimmung gebracht. www.bundesrat.de/SharedDocs/T...

Fahrgastächteformular

🎥 Rust in Paris 2025 🦀 At the latest edition of Rust in Paris, @skade.bsky.social explored how Rust helps us move fast—on stable foundations. 👉 Watch the full talk: youtu.be/DZkW5uozWcw Huge thanks to Florian 🙌 #RustLang #RustInParis #RustProgramming #OpenSource #RustCommunity

I have just compiled Rust code for bare-metal SPARCV8 and executed it under Solaris 2.6 on a microSPARC-II. I suspect that no-one has ever done this before. Literally no-one.

Merz hat für seinen neuen Kurs u.A. mit dem Versprechen geworben, damit lasse sich die AfD zurückdrängen. Heute lässt sich selbst mit viel Fantasie kaum noch leugnen, wie krachend er damit gescheitert ist.

you should buy the book at regular price, it’s worth it and good, but you CAN buy it at half price if you want

it's back to school season and I'm doing a sale on my book "building git", a deep dive into a ton of programming topics through the lens of rebuilding a tool you use every day visit shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ and use voucher code BGSEPT2025 to get 50% off

Absolute Giganten (1999) I take no questions. bsky.app/profile/soph...

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Anlässlich des Rückzugs von #BrosiusGersdorf hier noch mal ein Link zu meinem Blogartikel: Ja, man darf als Christ leidenschaftlich für den Schutz werdenden Lebens eintreten, und kann trotzdem guten Gewissens Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf zur Verfassungsrichterin wählen. Warum das geht? Hier:

Am 16.8. geht’s mit dem Bus von Berlin nach Plauen, das schon lange eine rechtsextreme Hochburg ist, um dort dem CSD beizustehen. Es gibt noch Tickets.

It’s a small story but the small stuff is what counts over the years, I think. And it illustrates who he was to me: always smiling, cracking jokes, a good software engineer and an even better guy. I’ll miss him a lot.

Anyway we ended up making some kind of mistake, and got on the wrong train. I was freaking out a bit, but Piotr was so chill. He reassured me we’d be fine. We got off in some random tiny town, got new tickets, got on the right train, and he was 100% right: it was all fine.

One time, we were in Belgium, at the same conference. I was still getting used to riding trains around (I love you Amtrak but it’s not the same), and so Piotr offered to go to the airport with me, after all, our flights were even at roughly the same time!

Incredibly sad to hear of Piotr’s passing last week. Just a great person. I’m glad to have been able to be his friend.

Nintendo franchises in general. I'm vaguely aware and even played some for a few hours, but never finished or even came close in one. bsky.app/profile/retr...

A big loss for the Ruby community and programming in general. @chastell.net had an amazing combination of sharp wit and a very humanist understanding of the world. bsky.app/profile/toma...

Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

Due to a discussion on another platform, I now want a "(Sexp Education)" t-shirt.

"The Tree Borrows paper is finally published" #rustlang www.ralfj.de/blog/2025/07...

I finally get to use this in an academic context today

Is this AI schlop?

Merz hat soeben 5,3 Milliarden Euro versemmelt.

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, or Marvel

Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz sieht angesichts des Erstarkens rechtsextremistischer Jugendgruppen eine Gefahr für Leib und Leben von Homo- sowie Transsexuellen, Mitgliedern der linken Szene und Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund

Budapest is cute

Mastodon having a strong “who owns your project communication?” “you do!” moment. (They are doing okay in it)

tired: learning french to read deleuze in the original wired: learning german to listen to a podcast trying to figure out who drew the guy on the döner paper www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/obse... (via @skade.bsky.social)

Hey people who are EU citizens, please sign this petition to ban conversion therapy EU wide. It's a practice that's very harmful towards LGBTQ+ people. It's already banned in some countries but we need a EU wide ban! eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#... #europe #lgbtq #germany

Happy Victory in Europe Day! Remember that Nazis should always have good reasons to be scared.

Exciting bug in my dive computer just dropped. This could kill someone.

This is high art

The Rust Foundation is excited to share that Ferrous Systems has agreed to contribute its Ferrocene Language Specification (FLS) to the Rust Project. Learn more about the significance of this news for the Rust ecosystem in our latest blog. rustfoundation.org/media/ferrou...

tired: binding_of_caller wired: #[track_caller]

opposite pun "who decided to call them 'Schneidezahn' and 'Mahlzahn' instead of 'S-Zahn' and 'U-Zahn'"

(eyeing the Hörnli on the SBB dining menu) "mmm, Bahnpasta"

Got my company described as "Post-Scrum" and still chewing on what that means... (We don't practice Scrum because we have so many time bound dependencies around our product that it's a struggle to fit in)

I've come to the conclusion that a lot of FOSS funding problems boil down to the issue that we're behaving deeply, deeply unprofessional and unreliable.

If all you have is a cliché, everything looks like a hammer...