Caturday with the Night Haunter being eeeeextra long! #caturday #catsofmastodon #catstodon

Three synagogues in Toronto have taken gunfire overnight in the past week. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-synagogue-hit-by-gunfire-9.7112348 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/gta-synagogue-2-shots-fired-9.7118864 This is appalling and unacceptable and it needs to stop.

@chrisphin hope you're having a really good day today. 🎂

Monty the #cat from next door

Heading to the good bagel bakery an hour earlier this weekend may the odds be in my favour

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/114671076624795491 As my timeline gets shorter, I am still looking for an employer in #Canada who would hire and sponsor me for a work visa. If you are hiring, or have any leads, please let me know. I am a skilled individual contributor for back end […]

The Book of PF, 4th Edition: It's Here, It's Real https://nxdomain.no/~peter/its_real_its_here.html #openbsd #freebsd #pf #packetfilter #networking #firewall #networktrickery #security #freesoftware #libresoftware

Me: *waiting for the bus* Bus: Bus: Bus: ... Bus: *three bi arrive at the same time*

Me: could I have an espresso and a ham and cheese croissant, please? Them: *clearly in the breakfast rush flow, grabs a croissant and smashes it flat in the panini press* did you want that warmed up Me: actually no, could I not, please? Unheated is fine. Them: *pause, half second of […]

Max & Norbert eat like this so each knows the other is still there - while their faces are buried in food #cats #catsofmastodon #animals

Looking forward to the weather getting warm enough that we can just invade @mhoye 's place on short notice and lurk expectantly in his back yard while he grudgingly sets out food so we don't destroy the place, like the bunch of feral raccoons that we mostly are

I gotta get back into blogging.

That latest batch of salsa verde that I threw together at the beginning of the week came out really quite nice. There weren't any serrano peppers to be found at to supermarket but I got a bit more heat from leaving the ribs in the jalapeños (and doubling the their quantity), and I replaced half […]

FISH DOORBELL

bowtie terrorist

From @nelson GitHub status https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly

@Cyborgneticz OK I don't know what's going on here but somebody owes you likeness rights residuals

*extremely Gowron voice* Today is a good day to nvi! https://sunbeam.city/@joeyh/116171007732765869 / @joeyh

Something poignant about seeing the logo line "CLEVER DEVICES" displayed every nine seconds on the overhead in the bus As the widget busily boot-loops over and over again Because it's broooooooken ("This device is clever, and part of a clever system. We considered ourselves a clever species […]

Those "we need to bully people wearing “smart glasses” in public" posts give me complicated feelings. On the one hand, pushing back with mild social consequences for unacceptable behaviour is not necessarily a bad thing: collectively deciding what is acceptable and polite is pretty fundamental […]

We, as a society, have to bully all people who wear those glasses. They have to be excluted form all social gatherings and we have to make fun of them everywhere they go. But why THE FUCK are Meta workers watch the material? Ah, it's Meta. Of course, they're watching.

[CA age-checking law] I've read CA AB-1043¹ and as an innocent outsider some things strike me as alarming, apart from the whole idea: * OSes aren't allowed to not answer or lie to nosy programs. * programs must ask on launch and then are deemed to have "actual knowledge" of the person's age […]

My #Orgdown static website generator #lazyblorg learned lots of new tricks lately: - ultracool #tagtree navigation 🏷️ - Atom feeds for single tags and combination of 2 #tags! 🔖 - share on Mastodon :mastolove: - "random articles published on the same day" 🎲 - published on pypi 🐍 - popular […]

@bk2204 psst, this keyboard just crossed my radar and it crossed my mind that you might want to know about it. It does not meet your specifications for use as a daily driver, but it's close enough on some metrics that you might want to keep one in your tech pack. My Microsoft Folding Universal […]

The hamantaschen at our¹ local patisserie are beyond compare, the best I've ever had. The chocolate/pistachio one is delicious but the poppy seed/lemon curd one is beyond sublime. (Happy Purim! Belatedly?) https://www.instagram.com/xobisous/p/DU62_EYiAMt/ ¹: well, not "our local patisserie" […]

You have been visited by the ARITHMETIC HAND GRENADE Share for 2.718 years of good additions 🙏 📸 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curta

i am GOING to take a WALK and have a SNACK jfc.

Sometimes your friend is also your blanket.🤔 #cats #catsofmastodon

Jon Oliver ended his 2026-03-01 episode by waving a flashlight at the screen. That light had the crappiest blue/green hue and likely an embarrassingly bad CRI. I am valiantly resisting the temptation to passive-aggressively mail his office an Emisar D4K w/NTG35 LEDs¹ or maybe a Fireflies […]

o god I'm learning about how emacs runs regular expressions pray for Mojo

I would like to formally announce that the #glasgowinterfaceexplorer revD development (the next iteration: with the same FPGA but 32 digital I/Os and 8 single-ended analog channels that can be configured as 4 differential ones) is well underway with a CrowdSupply campaign planned later this year […]

I'm quite excited about John Wiegley's work to reimplement the org-mode spreadsheet cell calculation routine with a Löb combinator approach. It uses a dependency graph and automatic memoization to complete much faster than the current implementation, and should make the spreadsheet able to […]

Oh boy, how am I supposed to get up and make coffee, now? #kitten #catsofmastodon

Over 60 people took part during Cycle Toronto's (Not So) Coldest Day of the Year Ride which ended up being a balmy 5'C! My blog post about the ride is now up for your viewing pleasure. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VikingBiking www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/02/2026...

Dang it, I keep finding out about these after they happen. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a2kjkdp4rs6sbx56dmk2hern/post/3mfwu7xj7ns2n

FYI for interested parties: the next Bandcamp Friday (when Bandcamp sends all¹ of the money to artists) is coming up next Friday, March the 6th. You may wish to prepare your wishlists in advance, and those of us who follow a lot of BC artists should brace for email inbox impact². At least my […]

I am venturing north of Lawrence on a quest for the good bagels. If I do not return from the tundra please tell my box of AC adapters and USB cables that I loved them

Happy Caturday! Lockwood says I need to go outside and touch some grass, but he'll be happy to keep my chair warm for me. #caturday #catsofmastodon

Has anyone out there managed to get mobile app push notifications working with Ergo IRCd and the Goguma client? I'm finding the operational documentation to be pretty thin (which, to be fair, is in line with a feature still marked as being experimental). #ergo #ircv3

May the patron saint of crosswalks and hydraulic bollards preserve me from old, entitled, oblivious men awkwardly piloting high powered sports cars that far outstrip their ability to control them safely; and preserve me also from all the other power they hold but cannot safely control, and for […]

I get the strong impression that early, learning developers are better served by the development tools offered with fantasy game consoles than by professional development tools these days. That impression underscores me belief that good dev tools should optimize for joy, experimentation […]

Katie and I just got home from Eddie¹ Izzard's one-woman performance of Hamlet. It was fantastic: delightful, hilarious, chilling. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were _perfect_. https://www.mirvish.com/shows/hamlet https://www.eddieizzardhamlet.com Go see it if you get the chance. ¹ […]

i checked up on OsmAnd and apparently they're doing some pretty advanced stuff for offline route calculation now! beyond A* https://osmand.net/blog/fast-routing/

[Personal, worry] I hope my uncle comes through all right.

We can still do grand things And imbue with wonder and delight the small things too Our best days are not behind us There is so much to do So much work and celebration and rest We must find those shafts of sunlight and warm earth in which to plant the seeds of greatness for those who will […]

Found a copy of ZEXALL, assembled natively for the Z80 (ZEXALL.COM), the z80 instruction exercizer, one of the suite of z80 emulation test tools, but for CP/M. I'd run many of these early on, compilable C versions that ran in Teensy. This is the first time in most of year since I've run one. On […]

Fediverse people: who do we like these days for buying DRM-free music in lossless format? Bandcamp is the obvious one but I know a bunch of (often artist-friendlier) alternatives got started up when BC had some ownership changes. However, I've lost track of them. (Boosts welcome, and this is […]

Extremely compelling title page

good lord how is it only Tuesday

[US politics] I have watched most State of the Union addresses since about 2008. But here is the thing: listening to a liar just wastes everyone's time. It is not worth my time to listen to a weak orator spout statements disconnected from reality. It's not even worth reading the analysis […]