I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

a hug to whoever needs one. all this fucking sucks, man.

I like programming. I've had fun doing it since I was 7 years old. I have fun doing it as a profession, most days. I'll probably do it forever, because I like it.

Why impeach **just** Kristi Noem?

This is your daily reminder that Republicans in Congress voted to kick 17 million Americans off health insurance to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley introduces bill to end qualified immunity for #ICE agents.

I support the protests.

C++ is a perfectly valid school of magic

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream.

I just disabled gitweb access on my colo machine because it was being consistently hammered at 20 Mbps. #fuck_ai

Apparently paying with PayPal now requires a password, a 2FA code via SMS, *and* a 2FA (3FA?) code from my email. Everything but a blood draw and a signed note from my mother. WTF.

but… her emails

jq is honestly so incredible for small scale data analysis, extraction, and manipulation.

/2 In light of that, I am in awe and deep respect of the people who are still showing up to monitor the ICE Gestapo, protect and defend their neighbors, do whatever they can to hold ICE to account and call out their lawlessness. What incredible bravery.

my nightmare is someone reporting a correctness issue in my code and fixing the issue would require making the code significantly slower

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

whichever candidate runs on prosecuting every single ice agent fuck to the fullest extent of the law has my vote

spherical snake

Trying to understand a public API with the Rustdoc source button only to get some internal macro is an awful experience.

The President of the United States is an embarrassment and a national disgrace.

That’s right, Congress. Keep letting him do anything he wants, unchecked. Keep showing the country (and the world) what total feckless pussies you are. Well done.

I suspect two of the hot words for 2026 will be “impeach” and “remove”

You people who voted for him, this is your fault.

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation. I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Well 2026 got to being 2026 in a big damn hurry didn't it

USENIX put out a 50th anniversary video, and I'm in it in two places! It's at www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdpR.... There I'm in it at 3:56 and 6:17. Lots of well known people in it (Sujata Banerjee at 0:32 and 6:41!).

This is how @benpfaff.bsky.social is kicking off the New Year! 🚀

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

Every time my eye doctor dilates my eyes, I ask for the reversal drops, which are apparently a thing. "We stopped doing them because it hurts too much." Me: As much as not reading DMs and social media for 3 hours? HOOK IT UP TO MY VEINS.

The sure sign of an email from @edzitron.com or @techdirt.com is at the end.

An essential development over the past decade-plus is that the ignorant went from feeling chastened when their ignorance was revealed to banding together and deciding that, actually, they were right. They might disagree at times, but they agreed that ignorance itself was an indicator of trust.

It was reprehensible when people mocked condom usage at the height of the AIDS pandemic. It is just as depraved to mock those wearing masks to reduce the spread of airborne viruses today. Whenever someone takes any kind of step to protect public health, they should be applauded, not mocked.

Again,

The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important

I think Stan in The Americans and Stan in American Dad are the same person.

AI has enabled so much spam.

This format was designed by a lunatic. Keywords interpreted by a computer program should not be localized. <pageSetup chart-size="as-is"> shouldn't become <pageSetup chart-size="без изменений"> just because the user text in the file is in Russian, and "0.3 cm" should *definitely* not become ",3 см".

this story has been designed in a lab to confuse foreigners

There are definitely things Cargo is not perfect at, and there are definitely edge cases it flat out does not handle well at all. That being said: It is an indescribably better experience for 95% of users than prior domain tools, and has been an unquestionable boon for Rust usage and adoption.

`mod test` or `mod tests`? #rust #rustlang

From reading Dick Francis novels, I know there's nobody tougher than a jockey.

I am so tired of package thieves. Leave my stuff alone you fuckers.

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

TIL about RandomState under std::collections::hash_map. I would have guessed that this was just for HashMap because of the module it is in, but you can use it yourself, too, without pulling in any non-std crates to generate randomness. #rust #rustlang

I like to run `cargo watch -x doc` in the background, so that the documentation gets regenerated automatically soon after I do an edit, but occasionally rustdoc uses up all memory and gets terminated by the OOM killer. I haven't been able to figure out when it happens. #rust #rustlang

I wore a nice imported wool, traditional style kilt to a party on Saturday and got a compliment from a woman who said that she appreciated someone wearing a "real" kilt instead of a modern or hybrid one. It was a nice compliment. She sounded Irish to me.