New links: CSS CPU, software is political, calendar bug, Wasm restrospective, fullsource NixOS bootstrap, phantom obligation, time tracking, Git in Postgres, optimal Caverna gameplay, window positioning protocol for Wayland archiloque.net/weekly/26-03...

window positioning coming to Wayland, you love to see it this is a blocker for WINE being really usable on Wayland without using XWayland (and it's a hard blocker for loss32 because the taskbar needs to be at the bottom of the screen!) gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayl...

I wonder if the LLM prompts used by Pete Hegseth to decide to start the war today will ever be published

www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli... "But nobody ever felt guilty about unplayed albums." I'm old enough to remember the mp3 era, and I think the guilt about unplayed albums was a real thing at the time. Also series, so many downloaded but unwatched series. (The article is very good)

Thinking of all the time spent to give various tools the ability to snapshot webpages, then thanks to LLMs more and more of these snapshots are an anime girl trying to be sure you're not a bot

FOSS Nerds: We are announcing today an exciting project, the Hurtsume Nexus, an AGPL fork of the closed source Torment Nexus

Thinking back about how Factorio fried some software people brain because they want teams to work like the game. They should try one of the mods where every building has a % of random products and the game is about dealing with these, because managing a team is much more like this.

The next release of Roblox Entreprise Platform will include VPN support, orgs with legacy apps that require VPN will finally be able to deploy on Roblox

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

...wh-what what the fuck do you mean what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...

Someone should make a SourceForge logo mixed with the GitHub one, for the very old people like me that have a déjà-vu feeling

Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code" Status dashboard:

today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes

"This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" 🎯

rip heroku o7 www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...

Since Microsoft Publisher always want to open my ssh public key files, I wonder if you could create a key that is also a valid Publisher file

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

In all EU, mandatory fire drills include the emergency escape of virtual meeting rooms. All corporate tooling like MS Teams or Zoom provide the required features for administrators so they can schedule the drills and audit who didn’t left the meetings on time.

There are custom screens models for medical practitioners, the only difference is their very large borders so people can put all the sticky notes filled with passwords they need to make things work

The scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...

blogged: Mozilla Slopaganda dbushell.com/2026/01/28/m... — I read it so you don’t have to.

Anonymous 360 degrees feedbacks are excellent opportunities to introduce your coworkers to the Italian brainrot thing

Does anyone know when the Roblox B2B business thing will be out of beta?

"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."

« We store things in a git repo » can have bad side effects but using git as a sync protocol can provide interesting features, like here to fetch emails for high-volume mailing lists. I wonder if alternate backends could solve some of the downsides. lwn.net/Articles/105...

I remember when internet users where mostly butterflies and we used LAMP to lure them to our sites

"we use salesforce's chat application to manage our community" a real thing people say

New links: package manager using git, handmade Graphviz, Pico GPU, PDS, control structures in programming languages, ASCII rendering archiloque.net/weekly/26-01...

Sharknado but it’s made of security audits

Timezones are the DNS of time

Very funny in restrospect that agile was initially a tax avoidance scheme, then some people missed this part and tried to apply it for real

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Google Meet show how late people will be based on meeting history

Computer keybords are a kind of ouija board

“What do you want on your tombstone” I dunno, the key or key range being deleted? A logical timestamp I guess?

Lots of a cursed knowledge in this article, I can’t unread it so at least I can try to infect you with it lwn.net/SubscriberLi...

Just discovered that the mermaid diagram tool is pivoting to AI, thanks for all the fish I suppose

Younger people never experienced the dread of corporate account desynchronization issues, where you randomly can’t log into various services for several days.

see also: engineers writing buggy code because they simply do not think about error cases or how things could break and it's all i see when i see "here's exactly one positive outcome! therefore all outcomes will be positive! please ignore every counter example! do not talk about social problems!"

i have a new hobby i made up where i look at hundreds of ancient stock photo cdroms from archive .org and try to find cool shit in them. ill post more later but for now these are "tonights picks"

Seeing how many AI features in so many exiting apps Microsoft is pushing into Windows, I wonder if they are able to properly secure them or if they will provide opportunities for fun.

I realized that IBM buying Confluent means they could make their Kafka enterprise version a part of their IBM MQ branding

I wonder how many package managers that only exists to manage other package managers currently exists. It probaly heavily depends on how you define them.

« Alexa, initiate the ritual »

as promised, here is a repository that lets you quickly turn any random VPS into a Forgejo Actions runner in under 30 minutes, for use with Codeberg or your private forge! codeberg.org/whitequark/n...

being mean to computers is easy, free, and legal. try it today!

sheesh, the only thing worse than getting kicked out of the polycule is finding out via jira ticket 😣