Red-spotted admiral #Butterfly

New project to share and compose Nix devshells: https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/shell-game/ I'm a fan of Numtide's devshells, but have struggled to fold my ad hoc definitions for unflaked projects into published devshells for my projects with flakes. This fixes it for me. #nix #devshells […]

[Microsoft GitHub dark patterns] Getting notifications in multiple organizations for "Member requests for GitHub Add-Ons", referring to Copilot Business. No member is identified, because no member is requesting it. The choices are: - Buy Copilot Business - See how it works There is no way to […]

Someone sassed me today, so I have sassed back with an 88x31. #indianapolis

The CEO of Anthropic casually estimates a 25% chance of doom from his product, and we're supposed to use it? What the fuck? #anthropic

How does one explain to a dog that you're sorry for pulling on her leash while she was pooping, but have already had to do it three times this walk to stop her from eating chicken bones, and that's usually why the leash gets taut, and I made a bad assumption, okay?

The conclusion of five weeks of training is one of the closest feelings an old fart like me gets to the last day of school. Tonight, the ISO season begins with Dvořák and Saint-Saëns. Much needed. #indysymphony

From here forward, I will refer to dog and pony shows as "equine and canine paradoxes." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_and_pony_show

Was nearly flattened in a crosswalk at high speed through a missed stop sign. I verbally exploded on the drivers. Bystander at the park says, "I wish they'd hit you. I totally would have kicked their asses." Uh, thanks, but all told, I'm glad that wasn't necessary?

If you mash the audio example buttons on the wikipedia page for the IPA vowel sounds you can create a choir of mildly disgusted men

A utility that answers, "if 99% is two nines and 99.9% is three, how many nines is 99.5%?" Alternatively, Ross is finally learning Rust. https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/how-many-nines #rust

It's Fedi Donut Friday. Remember, if you have multiple accounts, you get multiple donuts. #FediDonutFriday #Donuts

Started a flake for outputs that don't make the cut for nixpkgs and don't benefit much from the literate programming of cromulent. More to come. https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/embiggens #nix

Forty plus years in the Midwest teaches many ominous weather terms, like "freezing fog" and "particularly dangerous situation," but I don't recall a "rapid onset drought." https://www.drought.gov/data-maps-tools/day-8-14-us-hazards-outlook-rapid-onset-drought #weather #indiana

If you're advocating to throw the red states to the wolves, 30% of the reddest of those voted the same way you did, overcame voter suppressions stark and subtle, may not have the means to leave, might not find affordable housing in your coastal paradise if they did, and shouldn't have to uproot […]

I can't find the release notes. Was Software 2.0 or Software 3.0 where we abandoned all regard for whether the output is correct?

Giving up GitHub is good. Doing it in a way that minimizes disruption to your users who might not like GitHub either is hard. I forked a script to _append_ the "we've moved" message to a repo and handle the archival. Send your message without breaking builds […]

Let's raise the stakes on the Indiana vs. Kennesaw State game tomorrow: loser keeps President Whitten. #iu #indiana

Apple 1, Ross 0.

10x engineer? Nah, I'm an engineer/0. We're hard to define.

Got the flu and covid vaccines at CVS this morning without any MAHA drama. Don't let the news scare you off, but maybe let the news make you prioritize it. #vaccines #indiana

Another difficult walk at the park after the holiday cookouts. Bones and bowels don't mix, and dogs are much better at finding bones than resisting them. Enjoy, but *please* be vigilant about the remains.

Cleaning up my forges and observing a naming trend: - github-copilot-filters - giveupgithub.sh - no-agents.md - no-littering - no - abolish-ice-graphiti Negating negativity is positive, but I miss the other kind of positive.

[no-agents.md] A new project that asks, can we use the emerging AGENTS.md standard to make agents leave us alone? https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/no-agents.md #agents #agentsmd

[Stares at GitHub like an old mariner at the sea] The slops are strong today.

After @tildetown upgraded, I dropped support for Emacs 27 in my config. I followed Nix's lead in requiring 30 due to CVE. But now 27 is back in my life via cloud shells. Reminding myself that if there is any bad place to run Emacs, it's a cloud shell. #emacs

I'm sorry to add to the Cracker Barrel logo discourse, particularly during the national celebration of the engagement of a pop singer to a tight end. But I used to drive through the rural south each summer, with little to think about but the typography on billboards. And what you're calling "the […]

I plan to cheat death by having the mason use string concatenation on my tombstone. There's *always* an exploit when you concatenate strings.

My mom used to react to aggressive drivers by imagining a "vaporizer" she could point at their cars, so suddenly they'd find themselves scooting down the road on their butts. I don't know the Slack equivalent, but I think of it every time I receive an LLM response to a serious inquiry.

The Emacs Carnival is back, and you just got on an elevator with one of *those* people. https://rossabaker.com/blog/emacs-elevator-pitch/ #emacs #emacscarnival

"We're talking about high availability..." [pause] [aside] "... did it die?" #overheard

[New project: pixelfed-cli] Currently supports looking up the user ID and fetching all statuses as JSON. Requires a personal access token on your Pixelfed instance. Further API coverage will be lazily added, or not, as needed. Written in novice Python, but tidily packaged with uv or a Nix […]

Added a locations taxonomy to my Hugo site. It's not always the subject of the post, but places that provide the background setting. In aggregate, maybe they paint a picture of the place. https://rossabaker.com/locations/ #indieweb #hugo

Everyone is 0-0-0 until tomorrow. #youthsoccer #sunset

I'm not leaving the Fediverse, but you can also find me on the hottest new social network, Org-social! https://rossabaker.com/social.org #orgmode #orgsocial #emacs

To colleagues celebrating free burgers at local chain after the Brewers' winning streak: > I hope your burgers come with an unwanted pickle and a little bit of the juice soaks into the bun!!! #cubs #brewers #baseball

Found my 21-digit profile ID so I could try to retrieve my Google Plus out of the Internet Archive. Found some of my friends, but the archive missed me. All the data Google keeps on me against my wishes, but they deleted that. Oh well. #googleplus

Last week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO says embrace AI or leave the profession." This week: "Oh no, GitHub's CEO is leaving." Next week, "Oh no, GitHub..." Let's channel this angst into a more productive alternative: https://join.codeberg.org/ #codeberg #github

Opened up a gallery on my site. So far, it's just backfilling from @[email protected], but it will unify older archives. Apps and networks come and go, but the personal site endures. https://rossabaker.com/gallery/ #indieweb #ownyourdata

Haulin' ass prolegs. #DaggerMoth #Caterpillar

I understand why the HVAC fails in heat waves and cold snaps, but explain to me why it always fails when most of the technicians have gone home for the week.

#Raccon #RaccoonKit

#Raccon #RaccoonKit

#raccoon #RaccoonKit

Just saw a Takt shirt in an unfamiliar logo. It never occurred to me that we recycle startup names. Is there a fallow period? A list of expiring trademarks for the aspiring tech bro to peruse? Perhaps another startup to rentseek the process?

Lady in front of me is throwing a tantrum that they won't let her pick her seat on a rebooked flight through a rebooked city. I'll ride strapped to the wing. Hell, I'd even consider flying Frontier. #airtravel

[Adventures in self-hosting] My Mastodon package didn't break. I broke my Caddyfile a week ago in a way that prevented reloading, which didn't manifest until I upgraded Mastodon. Sometimes the problem is temporally distant, but still can be found between keyboard and chair.

It's nice that my employer cares enough to send travel advisories, but, "medium?" > United States of America > Medium Level - Crime and corruption

#emacs friends on the web, the month of July is almost over. So many cool submissions to the blog carnivals in the past two months! There's not a topic or host lined up for August, yet. We all need you, yes you, to host an upcoming carnival on your blog 💪 […]