https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSKTfG1GXYQ It was a great talk about the challenges they faced while building uv package manager and how it's so fast (Spoilers it's Rust to some degree). #python #uv #packagemanagement

I just learned that King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have all their albums to be downloaded for free in Bandcamp! They are the most awesome band ever. #kinggizzardthelizardwizard

New blog post called "Algebraic Types are not Scary, Actually"

Yet another @nushell praise: I wanted to improve my website writing workflow by generating it as I write my posts. For this I was looking for watch utilities. I came accross watch primitive in nushell. It's has the perfect and simple interface where you just give the path to watch and the […]

AWS deletes Ruby developers entire life https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

In this video, you can see just a part of the massive damage in my neighbourhood. In Gaza, you can only see death, damage and displacement. Please help my family buy food https://chuffed.org/project/121561-urgent-help-for-ahmads-family Please donate and share ♥️🇵🇸 #gaza #palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olioleZBS-E #listeningnow #deathmetal #atheist #progressivemetal

this club mate bottle looks weird as fuck

Little lesson on using proper APIs for special/protocol strings instead of cobbling strings together: Yesterday I spent 30 minutes about a CORS issue. Tured out I accidentally constructed a url like "http://foo.com//bar" instead of "http://foo.com/bar". By my mistake both hostname ended with […]

Since yesterday, I have found nothing to eat except these two things just 48 hours’ worth: a cup of coffee made from ground lentils and a single fig I stumbled upon, which cost me five dollars. And yet, I consider myself lucky. We are not exaggerating. Days […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I am once again asking for you to do proper email address validation in forms. '+' is a valid character in email addresses -.-

It turns out that sum types/discriminated unions were already invented in 1966. We could have them all along if Bjarne Stroustrup decided to include it in C++, but he didn't to encourage use of virtual functions. https://youtu.be/wo84LFzx5nI?t=2901 #programminglanguages #plhistory

A website complained that "your experience is important to us, please disable your ad blocker". So I opened the site in Edge. The experience without an ad blocker:

I made a quiz about the JS Date parser. It's very easy and you will score very high. https://jsdate.wtf

So AI "productivity" myth being a myth is empirically proven now https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/ I know it's not logical to generalize empirical studies, but it at least shows that we can't for sure claim that coding assistants are actually productive […]

I've started browsing reddit for vibe coding chat to get a better sense of the state of things and it has been eye opening.. For example one today titled "How do I give the website to the client" ... Let's just say there is going to be plenty of work for developers, the jobs might dry up […]

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

I had the sentiment that every social media app is malicious simply because of the economic structure requires to be so. Someone who tried to build a social media app actually confirms that https://masonyarbrough.substack.com/p/engineered-addictions

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas. Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented? Here's the actual impact. "AI" is a […]

> Wars are waged against people. Yet we judge them by their impact on governments. This is a profound moral error. It causes you and your friends and neighbors, nice normal loving people, to countenance the most grotesque violence on earth with little more than a momentary shake of the head at […]

The street that my mum lives in is a one-way street, but wasn't marked as such on #google Maps. This caused many drivers to drive the wrong way. I have tried to edit it on Google Maps (there is such functionality), but to no avail. No matter how often I submitted a change (with photos of street […]

[health, another horrifying consequence of promoting LLMs to a naive public] This question is making me wonder how many people have already been straight up killed by chatgpt

If you are noticing blank screen at the start of Youtube videos recently and you are using adblock, they started artifically blocking buffering in the beginning of videos so that everyone waits for the duration of the ads even if they block them. https://iter.ca/post/yt-adblock/ explains how you […]

No, we don't. We need to talk about your trackers.

I keep seeing comparisons along the lines of "trying to ban LLMs in classrooms is pike trying to ban calculators!" There's something interesting buried in there, I think. Calculators possibly have made me worse at basic arithmetic, sure. But I'm OK with that because basic arithmetic isn't […]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning freedesktop system made useful […]

Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book […]

This is why people don't support big media. Greta Thunberg was kidnapped. Point blank. Was on international waters. Israel is not the world Police. They do not have jurisdiction in international waters. That is kidnapping. No denying it. And not a single […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

https://neilmadden.blog/2025/06/06/a-look-at-cloudflares-ai-coded-oauth-library/ This was super informative reading. I didn't have the knowledge to evaluate if this library was adequate enough, but I am happy to find some expert sharing his findings. #llm #codingassisnant

Just as Mitchell Hashimoto boasts vibe coding a 50 line change which only consists of moving code around, Microsoft tried vibecoding on .Net runtime in 4 different PRs and decided to reject all 4 of them. So basically they just wasted time of incredibly valuable engineers […]

It's 2025 and #google scholar website doesn't respect `Accept-Language` header and instead uses geolocation guessing stuff. This is really embarassing even for a medium sized company let alone Big Tech level.

me, watching a documentary about stock market gambling addicts: these poor fools. these wretched souls. how awful to be compelled to throw what little wealth you can scrape together into a furnace of perpetual futility, sacrificing over and over again for nothing. to eternally immiserate […]

Whole day of CS talks and no mention of AI so far. Is this heaven?

I think we should use the term "machine generated" more and more when referring to the outputs of generative AI. Given how tech companies try present "AI" into some kind of magic tool, and how they try to humanize the bots, I believe it's important to ground any discussion by pointing out that […]

There is a lot of speculation on effect of AI in productivity, yet the empirical studies aren't discussed enough. https://fortune.com/2025/05/18/ai-chatbots-study-impact-earnings-hours-worked-any-occupation/

If you are using #postman apparently they send all requests that goes through payload to their servers. https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424

Shoutout to @nushell for providing no-hassle parallelisation. I had a simple script which formats my Latex files like this: ``` def main [] { let files = ls latex/**/*.tex | get name; $files | each { |file| let abs_path = $file | path expand; latexindent --silent $abs_path --output $abs_path; } […]

Read this article about how Google became deliberately a bad product in https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/ . I found it interesting that the author is annoyed about Google purely focusing on profits even if it means Google search becomes worse. I am surprised that he finds […]

got into a rather extreme kink lately (running an e-mail server)

Having to deal with #latex in work and I am very grateful that #typst exists. I swear I will never create a new document in Latex and make future generations suffer. #typesetting

Today I met with someone who was interested in writing a #staticsitegenerator in #ocaml and saw mine. It was very fun to talk about your passion projects with people of similar interest. We exchanged a lot of knowledge to each other This is one of the many good parts of writing on the internet […]

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

To raise our spirits again, remember that every base is base 10: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/05/04/every-base-is-base-10/

Is there way to find which tex package one needs to install based on the name of the `.sty` file? Searching in CTAN works only if package name and the name of the `.sty` file matches. I want to find the text package with the name of the `.sty` file directly. #latex #tex

Is it legal for a company to only accept credit card and no debit cards? Asking for EU. Specifically I am talking about #easyjet in this case. #eu #europe #legal

A great writeup on Zig's comptime: https://matklad.github.io/2025/04/19/things-zig-comptime-wont-do.html I never learned Zig but maybe I should. It's compile time capabilities looks awesome. #zig #metaprogramming