Evil emperor kicks a wretched homunculus into the pit for failing to find the Chosen One – a classic failure to apply the RACI matrix. 💪 Responsible: the Wretched Homunculi 💀 Accountable: the Scheming Vizier <- kick HIM into the pit 🤷 Consulted: the Dark Oracles 👁️ Informed: the Fetid Stakeholders

😈 Maleficent, the evil queen, had her goblins searching for Sleeping Beauty for 16 years. 🛑 BUT…. they were looking for a baby the whole time. Acceptance criteria fail! 🧠 This is why it’s so important for villains to leverage AGILE practices. Don’t let this become your team. My new ecourse will

If you’re despairing to find a cool present for someone working in IT, remembers that you can gift Winrar licenses

systems thinking is a cybernetic loop that outputs despair and inputs it again

Imagining being a sound designer at Microsoft and being asked to work on Teams, knowing the sounds you’ll create will inflict PTSD on millions of people.

Announcing the Gem Fellowship, a grant program for improvements to Ruby-related open source projects. gem.coop/fellowship/ Want to improve your favorite gem? Submit a proposal, starting next month.

I’m old enough to remember when Jinja was called Velocity and it was already a pain

New links: small scripts, build systems, LLVM instruction scheduling, Java exceptions compilation, recursive macros in C, UI framework, reading code archiloque.net/weekly/25-11...

I guess there's an interesting contrast with today where in the 90s trying to Make The Computer Work was sort of an exercise in collaboration, like you and the computer were together trying to make compute happen. Whereas today it feels like the computer is your enemy. You are fighting it.

It would be way funnier if the PM laid 83 digital assistants eggs and they are currently hatching them but they are cowards

In French, to validate a merge request we don’t say « LGTM », we say « suis en PLS » and that’s beautiful #tech

My main grip with modern #JavaScript is that the spread operator mandates using three dots (…) while they could have allowed using the ellipsis character (…)

Due to federal regularions, if you use #Blender with the Swiss language, the starting grey cube is replace by a cube of 🧀 of the same size.

Took a picture of an unused store space and decided to edit it. #photography #liminalspace #dreamcore #photo #edit

the former maintainers of Bundler and RubyGems have a proposal: we want to move Ruby forward andre.arko.net/2025/10/26/w...

Question: when using BrickLink Studio and importing LDR files, is there a way to have the main file reference custom external LDR files? I tried several ways that works with other tools and they fail or get stuck with Studio, and I found no answer on the internet. Thanks! #Lego

251022_164535_D.clj tweegeemee.com/i/251022_164535_D #ProceduralArt#generative

"Visualizing the #cpp object model" sofiabelen.github.io/projects/vis...

Microsoft sends an email about Copilot straight into the Outlook junk folder 🤡 I've configured nothing this is a brand new 365 account

I realize there are at least two ways to build #Lego brick lines: - try to use the largest pieces you have - use one or two types of pieces to create a regular tiling And there are probably others ones

please enjoy: a complete (ish; I only have the Python and JSON extensions enabled), working (ish) build of vscode-web that is hosted on a static page website with no active server code whitequark.grebedoc.dev/static-vscode/

in a way, npm is doing your work for free for you: they're priming _everyone_ to the fact that there's about to be some _super obnoxious and very very urgent_ changes. blood's in the water already; all you have to do is to hunt

I installed all 65 thousand Firefox extensions in a VM and it has yet to render a second frame

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

I wonder in how many apps I added a hook to print the call traces of all threads or equivalent to understand why the app was stuck, and I’m still surprised no framework I ever used came with this feature by default

announcing a new community-focused gem server from the team previously behind rubygems: gem.coop. join us and start using it today!

archiloque.net/weekly/25-10... NTP accuracy, supply chain, tracing JIT, not null in PostgreSQL, prioritization, HTTP edge cases, pre-emptive multi-tasking, OpenGL

lol

Kubernetes is what happens when you ask water temple enjoyers to design a system

I finally cleaned up my messy cablework

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade. Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more. You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

The end of Microsoft Project was surprising undermentionned

I’m surprised that Microsoft didn’t push their AI tools in NPM, or maybe they have and I missed it?

i built a pages server for Codeberg that's way cheaper to operate than the existing one, please enjoy grebedoc.dev/

What Abeba says! A report by academics from Memorial University, Newfoundland, on, amongst other things, the ethical use of #AI in education, contained fake references and seems likely to have been created using #LLMs ... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

It’s always funny when a junior dev lie about having already met a senior scaling agile scrum master. And then the dev notice the scrum master’s lacks of eyelids. And then the scrum master use their tongue to lick their eyes clean.

Research in new sorting algorithms is too constrained by the fact that we don’t tolerate losing some of the elements to be sorted. Maybe we should just be a bit more chill about this.

« Lower microphone to unmute »

New article: An #EPUB tutorial for people who want to make their own ebooks, one I wish I had when I started learning this tech archiloque.net/blog/epub/

Linux PR: feat: Improve syscall by implementing Labubu github.com/torvalds/lin...

New links: Impossible objects, SSDs, Baba Yaga licence, affirmations for bloggers archiloque.net/weekly/25-09...

It's 2025 and neither #HTML nor #EPUB have a native spoiler tag, I'm grumpy

Fantasy magic system with your typical "oh each wizard class fuels their power with a different emotion – rage, lust, intense focus, etc" except one of the valid magic-fueling emotions is Pedantry; thus the magic is powered by explaining how the magic is supposed to work

I’d you’re back from holidays, remember to casually check if all your coworkers still cast shadows

Everybody who claims they they "use HTTP" but don't do it like this is a phoney github.com/pfrazee/http...

Be reminded that dedicating the last summer retrospective to the Goddess of Bones will help your unit tests to grow stronger

I discovered that ZIP files can use different compression level for different files For example if you store texts and images in a ZIP file and the image are JPEG, you can store them directly, skipping the useless compression, while still compressing the text files.

There are surprising few programming languages that use declension for their syntax

In #HTML <input type="radio"> should display a small 📻 where you can pick a band a frequency to submit as part of the form

Started to work on a #TypeScript #EPUB library and I have draftet an API codeberg.org/archiloque/e... , feedbacks are welcome