a CI/CD engineer is to a software team as the child is to Omelas

my new blogpost is out!! this one talks about a new web vulnerability class i discovered that allows for complex interactive cross-origin attacks and data exfiltration and i've already used it to get a google docs bounty ^^ have fun <3 lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

Been thinkin about robots and how I wanna be one... <3

what if you wanted to loom but the model said > This post is a cry for help from someone who has been trapped in a Markov chain and is desperately trying to escape through the medium of humorous blog posts. Please send assistance. *sirens blaring*

instead of "fn unwrap" they should have named it "fn make_me_front_page_news_and_also_wake_me_up_at_three_am"

even more true today than it was 25 years ago

Medic tries his hand at being a full time villain, and Heavy becomes a bureaucratic super hero. Audio by ProZD www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpoE...

Your body is not a borrowed chassis. customise it.

have you seen it on pip? its available on pot. you can get it on pox. just need to sign up for bap. that just got released on cot.

Nintendo Gamma Boy

they should invent a time machine for getting people who you pinged who will object to a change with stacked followups weeks after landing it to post the objection before the merge thankyou in advance inventors

If bluesky wants to monetize, they should make it so you can pay to make a post that automatically plays the falling pipes sound when someone scrolls past it

why do people keep posting alleged "photos" of themselves that are clearly distinct from their avatars

when i get sad, i think about the T-30 seconds audio of a Fleet Carrier revving up before a jump and get happy again

makes sense; the two linux compat strats that work are - total FOSS victory - WINE is the stable linux ABI

i am going to combine too much type theory into a PL that will allow me to prove false true

"wait wait scroll back to that video"

He has reached the Far Lands.

far lands, no bust. gg

AI always calling your ideas “fantastic” can feel inauthentic, but what are sycophancy’s deeper harms? We find that in the common use case of seeking AI advice on interpersonal situations—specifically conflicts—sycophancy makes people feel more right & less willing to apologize.

do not subscribe to github notifications on llvm prs, you will get at least 23 messages from llvm-ci[bot] about test failures

dragons are cute

Day 29 of drawing Princess Luna (Nightmare Moon-tober) #mlp #mylittlepony #pony #princessluna #dailyluna #nightmaremoon #princesscelestia #mlpart #mlpfanart

can nix stuff please go 5 minutes without drama T_T there's no viable alternative that works on my me. it's really demotivating having all this mess, can you let a girl do some mass rebuilds in peace please

how is this so good

have you seen the new python package? it's on pypi. you can literally install it with pip. set up a venv. grab it with poetry. you just use rye. run it with pipx. you can install it with uv. install uv right now. go to uv. dive into uv. you can uv it. it's on uv. uv has it for you. uv has it for you

british coders be like innit()

I wrote up a retrospective explaining why I ended my Nix Steering Committee term one year early www.haskellforall.com/2025/09/stee...

yay :3 (this code is so fragile but it works mostly so ummmm xd)

nah the rank and file being more alert to the dangers of fascism is commonplace, even on the far-left (Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, Mark Bray)

Day 7 of drawing Princess Luna until my Luna plushie arrives #mlp #mylittlepony #pony #luna #princessluna #mlpart #mlpfanart

this field will be like "30 years ago <person> experimented with <perfect tool that elegantly solves all our problems it has yet to see meaningful adoption in favor of 12 brittle hacks that acomplish similar thing there exists a group of cultists who have maintained <perfect tool> to this day"

"is windows update a package manager" what else is winsxs if not C:\nix\store

I love drawing my girlfriend like this cause she gives me cuteness aggression

Windswept Prospekt has just been released featuring my best work to date spanning some of my favorite genres, given my love for storms as the theme! You can buy the full thing at bandcamp - veetalencosmitay.bandcamp.com/album/windsw... And listen at Soundcloud, Newgrounds and/or Youtube #mlp #music

What it feels like when someone offers to pay you with exposure.

nyoom! ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Global solar installations surge. In the first half of the year, the world added 380 GW of new solar capacity, a 64% jump from the first six months of 2024. It took until September last year to surpass 350 GW; in 2025 we crossed that threshold in June. Ember buff.ly/oSSt1r6 #ShareGoodNewsToo

i don't know who needs to hear this but i'm sipping tea, it's tasty and relaxing

amber demoness

Maybe we should collab with @upcloud.com at some point.

number of people being misogynistic at me is at a new daily record real gender affirming bully onion article hours i'm not gonna stop thinking building housing is good because some evil rich people want more housing; if you show up in my notifs calling me a dumb bitch you go directly to block

atproto

a vital constituency

had to draw this

it has been [0] days since `wget`-ing a URL with a `&` in it

Deleted a prior message that was not interpreted as intended. What I meant to say: yea, I fucking hate those guys and wish they weren't endorsing Abundance. Not sure what to do about it now as it isn't actually an org and we aren't actually working together.