stupid question, I have annotations like // r[impl foo.bar.baz] in Rust code, but now... doing a text search for `impl<space>` is polluted by all these. I should rename the annotation verb to... <insert reply here>

god damn it in 2026 I need to STOP finishing sentences with "...or something", "...I think", or "...stuff like that". it's time to be CONFIDENTLY WRONG

do you think Norah Jones ever gets tired of being Norah Jones?

is Hetzner Object Storage (S3-like) super slow or is it me?

> go to robot dot hetzner dot com > checking that i'm not a robot > 😕

me: I'll use custom elements in arborium also me: I'll make facet-html which parses all HTML5 tags me, yet again: FUCK

I've looked at a Go codebase for 2.5 seconds and I already want to end it all. API endpoint returning shit in DB order because some type didn't implement some function and quack quack 🦆

one day reqwest isn't going to require ALL OF IDNA via url and it's going to be a glorious day.

so when you use a popular node.js ecommerce framework, it's normal to have to set up a watchdog so that various node.js processes kill themselves if their parent dies instead of ballooning up to 400% CPU right? that's just node now?

been building a few TUIs lately and that one was misbehaving, and... well, a screen recording is a tool you should never underestimate (this error was present for 1 frame)

finland has 25.5% VAT?????

@fasterthanlime To this day the open alpha is at: Documentation(web) -> `https://crocuda.com` Admin panel(terminal) -> `ssh -6 https://crocuda.com` I hope you'll enjoy exploring it as much as I enjoy building it!

opentelemetry is the final boss of "silent failure" somewhere, SOMETHING is not forwarding the context. it's most likely 12 dependencies deep. good luuuuuuuck!

today I learned about <wbr> — the whitespace opportunity element https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/wbr

now—*takes long drag on cigarette*—I have the full picture.

going back to TypeScript after years of almost-only-Rust is pretty brutal. https://arktype.io/ is pretty great but... everything being a string or a 53-bit number is anxiety-inducing

come hear me rant about the hundred things I've been up to in 2025 — I'll be in chat → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rj0Nxk6w08

ah yes if you set peertube concurrency to 16 it will download the same 4K@25 7.6GB source file 16 times to encode all the different variants. makes sense. maybe that's why they shipped and my platform stayed vaporware.

who has two thumbs and database backups running every 6 minutes instead of every 6 hours because Go CRON has a subtly different 6-field format instead of the traditional 5-field format? it's m*sobs*

personally I think it's badass that if you do "apt install pstree" nothing helpful happens. fuck people who can't remember it's actually in psmisc. weaklings!! stay out of our distro yo.

working on new merch (/s)

new video drops tonite btw, hope nobody has plans

I see the React port is going well

I'm generally a proponent of lower-case-most-of-the-things for stylistic reasons... except for LaTeX. I need.. I need to know which one you mean.

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is there an equivalent to `cargo ws publish --publish-as-is` that's concurrent? sequential publishing of all workspace crates is... long. I'll do it myself like I did for arborium in CI but... I don't want to.

did you know: if your postgres backups break (again), WALs will pile up and what should fit in 800MB can take 20GB+ over the course of a couple weeks.

who would win? 12 work threads across as many tmux sessions? or ___BUG_IN_CLIENT_OF_LIBMALLOC_POINTER_BEING_FREED_WAS_NOT_ALLOCATED

great, now there's /two/ numbers I have to get to 100% https://github.com/bearcove/tracey

what's your readme language of choice? markdown? rst? aasciidoc? why not non-syntax-highlighted-rust?

MORE CI! MORE JOBS! MORE WINE

we already had facet-xml and facet-svg so now I'm making facet-html because... well because I need it. (for HTML diff/patch and minification) https://github.com/facet-rs/facet/pull/1508

last season @jamesmunns.com taught me about traceability, and y'know, it's not a bad idea https://github.com/bearcove/dodeca/pull/165 https://github.com/bearcove/tracey

pikru (my Rust port of pikchr) now matches pikchr-c for all 106 tests. https://pikru.bearcove.eu ✨

I've been setting up an e-commerce shop (not fasterthanlime-related) twice, once with WooCommerce on Wordpress and another with medusajs + a custom Svelte5 frontend and guess which I've been enjoying more?

hi, claude successfully ported aasvg to rust so I can use it in dodeca https://github.com/bearcove/aasvg-rs it has zero deps and produces the exact same output enjoyyyy (except mine has light-dark support)

"human in the loop? like.. like a hamster wheel?"

today's lesson: copies are cheap hashing is expensive

youtube thumbnail: "day 13 of adding a click to the 'make this repository public' flow on github until someone notices"

INT: SWEATSHOP VILLAIN «NO, MR. BOND. I EXPECT YOU TO DYE»

- ..and we only use off-the-shelf components! - oh? - yeah, this beautiful, custom-made mahogany shelf where we put all of our homebrew components - oh

Darwin 25 corresponds to macOS 26????? ahhhhhhh

Did you know if you scan an A3 piece of paper at 1600 DPI you get a 316MB PNG that's roughly 18K by 26K pixels? That's a lotta pixels.

you /could/ get a free maxminddb license or you could:

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/115558474288926244 merry xmas everybody

hoisted 🤝 by my to module own petard scope

I'm currently going through the whole "Apple Developer → Identifiers → Certificates → Provisioning Profiles → Code signing → Why doesn't it show up in System Extensions → Missing an entitlement" dance, and in French we say that it's about as pleasant as se coincer les couilles dans une porte.

*sigh*

vertical integration is bad when apple does it but great when I (build system → query system → RPC system → CAS → serialization system → reflection ecosystem / data model) do it.

what's nice about my life r/n is that if I see ONE bad diagnostic I have the power to go ballistic on it and end up with something like this: (big up to miette, marries so well with the facet ecosystem). in this house we love agency