SPA that emulates the steam storefront, but only shows you unplayed games from your own library and lets you "purchase" them for a dopemine hit

Question for the maybe five other people in the world who can answer this kind of question about platform accessibility APIs: Is it worth it to include an alpha channel in a color struct for a cross-platform accessibility API? Does any platform accessibility API actually support this, and does […]

just as a little pro-tip for being a considerate help recipient, I’ve found that IT service people are quite happy when you use the exact words “resolved, you can close the ticket”

hey @Gargron I have been getting constant 500s for days on just about every sort of request while the requests getting those responses are succeeding and having side effects. no declared incident on https://status.mastodon.social — is this issue not known?

first I have to type in this ridiculous and inscrutable list of manual library overrides because it crashes at launch if I don't, and now I don't even see a _single_ eclair. not sure why everybody is making such a big deal about this game tbh […]

@xgranade @glyph I gave a talk a couple months back where I updated "A Modest Proposal" to illustrate the rather alarming state we're in re: AI Industry. This was within a conference where several talks, including a keynote, were focused on how to implement LLM tools into your workflows. The […]

Dark humor is a coping mechanism but it's also a barometer. The darkness is in the humor as a way to cope with the darkness in the world. So it tends to be proportionate.

I struggle to promote my own work but promoting this is getting easier all the time, because I have to keep raising the same issues in conversation over and over again: https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

OH: "Lets say it's sarcasm if it doesn't come true, prophecy if it does" — @jay

It is amazing how many people I see claiming that AI has one good use. No one seems to agree on what that one good use is, and there's always a hell of a lot of goalpost shifting and special pleading involved. For some reason a lot of folks quite reasonably follow the arguments against AI, but […]

(covered head to toe in posting, holding a shovel, in a cheerful but slightly manic tone) there’s got to be a “through it” in here somewhere!

look I know LLMs are problematic but this is my favorite one and I promise it’s fine, everybody else just isn’t using theirs responsibly enough. it’s great; you should really give it a try. you’ll love it

I am truly unreasonably excited about this https://github.com/glyph/Pomodouroboros/pull/90#pullrequestreview-3595799355

always love that pivotal moment where I find out what kind of day it is. is it a "second coffee too early" day (jittery; distracted; can't get work done; get to bed late because too tired to finish up at end of day) or a "second coffee too late" day (tired; distracted; can't get work done; get […]

uh oh https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-firefox-way-shaping-what-s-next-together/m-p/110259/emcs_t/S2h8ZW1haWx8ZGlnZXN0X25vdGlmaWNhdGlvbnxNSkJHVE9KQ1dPVFBBSHwtMXxPVEhFUlN8aEs#M42523 is getting new likes, what did mozilla do now

It always bugs me a bit when somebody is shipping a macOS application and they bifurcate (or worse) the download pipeline, particularly if they use weird bespoke terms that don't match Apple's branding. Manual download buttons for "x86" and "arm64" or "older Macs" and "M-series chips" are […]

at long last, my #emacs configuration has met its doom, and I will be forced to inhabit the world of "language server protocol" support in the far-flung futuristic year of (checks notes) 2017 https://github.com/anachronic/importmagic.el/issues/31

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

Annual New Year's Resolution advice from your local internet auntie who successfully turned around a lot of problems: That list of fourteen resolutions you have? To stop forgetting to brush your teeth, to lose weight, to stay atop your homework? Which ONE SINGLE CHANGE would have the most […]

Getting a little bit of a late start, but let's do this: https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ BY THE POWER OF SUDAFED

Futurists: The economics aside, computation inevitably creates more complex computers, and this process is basically deterministic: sentient organic life is just a predictable transition phase between amino acids and computronium (a form of matter that's maximally optimized for computation) […]

Sick again today, although I seem to be recovering rapidly. Trying to figure out if I'm likely to have the energy to stream in 13 hours or not.

pro tip, if you have to use Zoom, you can get rid of the "AI companion" on the web and in the app here; there are a bunch of toggles: https://zoom.us/profile/setting?tab=aicompanion

I am dying laughing at my spouse describing white people’s bad chinese tattoos right now, my favorite so far is someone who probably wanted “death before dishonor” but instead got something that a legion of translation sleuths have managed to backwards engineer into something more like “kill me […]

Did you know I have a Patreon? If you were suscribed to it you would be reading my needlessly thorough deep-dive on the coding I did this week on Pomodouroboros and Fritter, and you'd also be helping that app and library (and other similar ones) actually exist and be usable by encouraging me to […]

#python friends, you got any favorite libraries to help introspect large import trees? (use cases: providing feedback during the early import-the-world phase of loading a monorepo; determining how to extract internal dependencies or resolve cycles; etc) My fallback is to just whip something up […]

posted about my Apple ID woes, please share widely? hey.paris/posts/appleid/

New version of Fritter today: https://pypi.org/project/fritter/0.1.0/ I really need to get actual changelogs set up for my smaller projects, but, in lieu of that, this release fixes the type hints on fritter.tree to distinguish between trunk and branch time types, which enables fritter.drivers […]

This is maybe generalizing and extrapolating from a bunch of other shit that I say, and my agreement with folks like @glyph and @SnoopJ, but I sincerely believe you both should criticize Python packaging, and that in order to do so honestly, you also need to acknowledge how bloody far Python has […]

Fewer services should be attached to mandatory customer humiliation rituals with "support agents" even if those agents are actual people and not useless "AI" timewasters

So, Apple has locked out my account... for no reason. Support cannot help. Anyone got an escalation path?

a pypi release script of mine just failed because sphinx linkcheck failed because… wikipedia has to throw 403s after the first request i hate living in the future

I will be streaming on Twitch at <https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/> tomorrow at 12PM US/Pacific, which is in about 12 hours. Come by for some #python coding in #emacs and some shenanigans with desktop apps or the python warnings module and maybe some virtual machines.

"Brands" get a bad name but branding is the primary user-facing abstraction in information security

i think this is a pretty good video and also a good summary of how i feel aboit "AI water use problem" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6MWk7PQc

If you maintain one of these projects, please just depend on 'pywin32'. This project was last relevant about 7 years ago; pywin32 has had its own wheels for a very long time https://www.wheelodex.org/projects/pypiwin32/rdepends/

FYI, if you sponsor me on Github but keep your email private and do not otherwise me a heads up, I can't get in touch with you about any perks, they don't have a messaging platform 🙂

It really annoys me that we have "display names" and "handles" on social media that are displayed totally inconsistently. There should be a squircle / losenge presentation that includes handle, display name, and maybe profile pic in a few different sizes so that when a person is referenced, it […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115685323975148848 this is what quote posts were added for

Zuckerberg has blown 77 billion – enough money to revitalize entire countries – on an idea so overwhelmingly, obviously stupid that I have never once heard anyone, from the Thanksgiving avuncular table to the most wretched depths of social media, say they liked it or even tried it. He was so […]

whats up, have you ever thought that programming languages are too anglocentric and wanted to write code top to bottom, right to left? introducing `vertical-python`: https://pypi.org/project/vertical-python/ complete with a custom codec so your vertical python files are importable just like […]

[AI] (liz lemon voice) Shut It Down!

This false theory of cognition is extremely dangerous, because it leads us to waste time on fallacies like AGI/superintelligence wiping out humanity through some misplaced intent + agency. In reality the risk is both more proximate and more mundane than that, and is the same risk that has been […]

We wrongly assign intention and goals to AI models like LLMs because we incorrectly assume the nature of their insides based on their outsides. It is meaningless to talk of AI goals or intent, or at least meaningless to think of them as in any way isomorphic to animal goals or intent, as the […]

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

a year or two after that i discovered that you need a diploma to be considered human for the purposes of immigration. after that point, higher education ceased to have any meaning besides "a ticket to survival". having to learn was an unpleasant byproduct at the time, AI didn't exist and i also […]

i just want to go on the computer and have a good time but the gosh darn racket that civilization is making as it collapses is *really* distracting

I still don't know when we'll see it show up in the metrics, but I now have an unshakeable conviction that Windows is cooked. For years, advocates have been touting successes from government office-software conversion projects to the popularity of the Steam Deck, and I remained unconvinced…

lying in bed all day useless with a migraine and then getting up to look at the news, only to think "you know I think I preferred the headache"

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115652336265227568 This has *got* to be a cause of action of some kind, right? fraud, maybe? libel? copyright infringement? if the law means anything surely you can't just do this with no consequences