how *would* you explain this. "imagine if the only company making serious investments in JavaScript was, like, Mailchimp, and the language's only killer app/framework was written by JK Rowling, whose own business was utterly insignificant"

Untying the hands of our warfighters to be lectured on grooming by a TV personality

Why I’m not rushing to take sides in the RubyGems fiasco (but I’m tripping over my own dick to dish a decade’s worth of pent-up gossip and resentment about one person)

Shout out to all those pure souls just now getting looped in on medbeds

Like any modern web app, they use a shitload of third-party packages: github.com/rubygems/rub... What’s bundler got that they don’t besides maintainers who have pointed out that DHH’s a piece of shit?

Might fuck around and get into gravel

Which chapter of which Oliver Sacks book talks about the brain lesions which make it impossible for you to slow down and change lanes behind the car beside you

Feels a little early in the season for Portland to be ravaged by the War On Christmas, but ok

Gonna write “anti Wendy’s” on my bullet casings so when I shoot up a Wendy’s folks know I did it because I don’t like Wendy’s

Thanks, I’d rather suck a dog’s nose dry

Ruby Central: “We must secure the supply chain of our programming language–“ DHH: “and a future for, oh, right”

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

The idea that anyone is “chugging bottles of Tylenol” without dying a few days later really hammers home how ungrounded in reality this discourse is.

A week ago it looked like they'd found their Horst Wessel, then they got absolutely rinsed by Disney Adults. The most defeatable fascists in history, fuck 'em all

Absolute crab-in-bucket bullshit from Ruby Central: joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-t...

After listening to about a dozen first-hand accounts, I’ve published what I know about the RubyGems takeover.

The rapture happens but it’s just the pollinators that ascend

Can we just launch the fuckin’ psychic alien squid thing, I’m ready to be YIMBY about that

Rapture? Hell no. Around here we’re eagerly anticipating the hot countryture.

Oh yeah well I don’t even know how to calculate the surface area of a sphere so how’s that gonna stop me from making a Dyson sphere

*accosts random person with regular sized head and face* bro are you making fun of Charlie bro you can’t do that bro I’m gonna call the cops

I can’t believe Trump signed an executive order making it illegal for nightclubs to play Ginuwine’s “Pony”, what is happening to our country

“Hey Siri, play Freedom by George Michael” *plays Freedom by Wham*

Hawk Tuahcracy

Hey guys, just got off the phone with Antifa Commander; they say that we’re only doing Trump quotes on the bullet casings now

It’s time to return America to the Jeffersonian ideal of yeoman Sinclair subsidiaries making independent, rational choices

Got my covid and flu shots today, so get fucked Bobby Bearmeat, you burp-talking hollow ghoul

Always good to know Slack’s helping me stay informed

It’s unfortunate for whoever is writing the new “We Didn’t Start The Fire” verse for this year that the closest rhyme for “Charlie Kirk” is “gnarly jerk”

I don’t give a shit about Jimmy Kimmel but if you fuck with Lou Wilson’s money I’m gonna hurt you

Registering for the protest from behind a VPN

Calling my college campus tour “Prove Me Wrong” because I’m doing politics the right way and don’t know what a null hypothesis is

Using my real name to RSVP for a protest but shaking my head so the Feds know I don’t approve of protests

A New Democratic Think Tank Wants To Punch Itself In Own Balls Until It Pukes

Trying to sign up for this protest but Ticketmaster is down

Found a storm:

Asked my HomePod to play “The Underdog” by Spoon and it was like “sure, boss, the demo version that’s only vocals and acoustic guitar in mono, just like you asked”

The last decade in both security and distributed systems have really been a story of hardware beating software. Your code can be as clever as you like, but it’s not going to beat an atomic clock or secure enclave. Lotta repercussions for open source in that.

I found a bear today:

If it’s not a fucking boxing gym, don’t shadow-box between sets

Apple Sillycon

It’s not really a fun Go side project until you get a second @filippo.abyssdomain.expert import in there

Finding out where a Forest Service road goes stays undefeated

Thinking a lot about the particularly American obsession with some apocalyptic societal collapse, and how it's actually a dreamy fantasy we all cook up because it feels so much easier than knowing we actually have to fix everything.

boba fête

Bringing a five-gallon jug of water to the gym to put everyone on notice that I’m here to work hard and also I don’t know where the water fountain is

creatine sommelier

I don’t understand why in Aliens: Earth one of the aliens has a British accent and the others don’t

How the fuck does anyone have the time to read Ed Zitron, let alone try to argue with him

Zipper merges are a fraud perpetrated by Big Other Lane to try to cut ahead of hardworking This Laners like me