Windows is the only OS that does not work well with spaces in paths. And also the only OS that installs programs in a path with spaces (C:\Program Files) by default.

Can anyone explain to me why someone came up with this and thought "yeah, this is a good idea, let's ship it"? (this is from cmd.exe help)

Please share: I'm currently looking for an artist to do illustrations for Keila (Open Source newsletter tool). I'm looking for a cute, minimal style of vector illustrations. Not looking for AI stuff 🙏 Attached image is an example of the style I'm looking for. #art #design #illustration #commission

Claude Code added /btw command, but I don't think it works correctly.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

The first release candidate for Expert is out! You can read the announcement here: expert-lsp.org/the-first-re... #ElixirLang

This is a huge milestone. At Jump, we’ve had @katafrakt.bsky.social working full time getting Expert dialed in for our large codebase. The stability and reliability are now hands down the best #ElixirLang LSP experience I’ve had, and we’re not done yet. Congrats to all the contributors. 🥂

5% 🙈

Man, I wonder how you "noticed" that, given I did not do such thing.

🤔

Gleam + curling curling.io/blog/the-nex...

Looks like MinIO was successfully killed by its maintainers. github.com/minio/minio

Building Websites With LLMS 🧌 blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/lots-of...

#TIL "This happens a lot on OS X, where an Emacs instance launched as a GUI app inherits a default minimal set of environment variables that are probably not the ones you see in a terminal window." This apparently is a thing for all GUI apps on MacOS.

compiles Rust to what?

Wait, so that's what the "Doom Emacs" is about? github.com/minad/doom-o...

zig libc ziglang.org/devlog/2026/...

TIL about %_{} in Elixir katafrakt.me/til/short-no...

Mistral Vibe 2.0 has been released and it's finally starting to look like a proper agentic coding tool

Think twice before you hit that "Yes, I trust the authors" button in VSCode. runjak.codes/posts/2026-0...

An official VSCode extension for Expert LS has been released. You can be a 30th person to download it. marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa... #elixir

jQuery 4.0 was released yesterday 😯 blog.jquery.com/2026/01/17/j...

This looks great - an LSP multiplexer created by eglot's maintainer. www.rahuljuliato.com/posts/eglot-... #emacs

elixirforum.com/t/localize-n... This is wonderful news, better, faster, stronger. TLDR ex_cldr will become localize and avoid long compilation #ElixirLang

GitHub at its finest again. And action logs that did not work last week, still don't work.

New blog post: Portable mruby binaries with Cosmopolitan katafrakt.me/2026/01/04/m... #mruby #ruby

Why we trust strangers’ #opensource more than our colleagues’ 00f.net/2025/09/01/o...

A simple thing to kickstart blogging in 2026: katafrakt.me/2026/01/03/e...

Meanwhile Oban Pro repo is down

I somehow managed to create a "~" subdirectory in one of my projects and now I'm really afraid to delete it.

This is interesting. I'm not sure I would be brave enough to put it into production (yet), but just knowing the option is cool. dev.to/matheuscamar...

Github Actions are seriously not working right now, but of course the status page is fully green.

Creating yet another Mastodon account. I think it's really nice UX to allow fixing a spelling mistake in the email address AFTER registration.

"Best practice" is a misnomer and, at best, misleading. It really is: "pretty good guidance for defaults till you've understood enough to appreciate context and nuance, and can choose and explain alternative choices" #RandomThoughts

🌸 Here’s your State of Hanami for 2025. We took our first steps into a new era: we made a substantial release, began unifying our ecosystem, launched our sponsorship program, and saw a real uptick in community activity. Read all about it! hanamirb.org/blog/2025/12...

Honest HN is great 😂 dosaygo-studio.github.io/hn-front-pag...

@josevalim.bsky.social on xitter #elixirlang > With Elixir v1.19 out of the door, @duboc_guillaume and I are able to focus on typing new features once again and we have made some fantastic improvements when it comes to typing maps > github.com/elixir-lang/...

#lifehack chaos.social/@FlohEinstei...

Just realized that D programmers (I don't dare say "we") were vibe coding for at least a decade. vibed.org

Place Cats is a service to get cute images of cats, as placeholders for your project. Miaou yes!

It was fun while it lasted. And it lasted a day and half.

Second attempt at #adventofcode in #ocaml. I wonder how it will go this year and if my ReScript experience with get in the way or help. github.com/katafrakt/ad...

A bit of a vulnerable post by me but we need your help to get us through what has been a more difficult period than 2020. It would be really appreciated if you could read and share in your networks too 💛 bell.bz/its-been-a-v...

I won't have enough time to finish and submit my entry for #Gleam Game Jam. But dang, it's most fun with building something I've had in months (if not years).

.mood

Huh, it seems Antigravity is doing TDD by default, without being instructed to. That's new (at least for me).

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

How many VSCode forks do you have installed on your machine?