I noticed this thing with people (support or just day-to-day people you talk with) where if you ask two questions, they never ever answer both of them. And it's not queued either. Sometimes they answer the first one, sometimes the second one. Why does almost everyone do this?

Wonder when the first IP over Thunderbolt switch is coming out and who is going to make it. Regardless, it will probably cost an arm and a leg.

Gaussian Catting superspl.at/view?id=10a4...

I tried Gleam for Advent of Code, and I get the hype. AoC was only 12 days this year (24 parts). The easy days were tougher than usual, the hard days were hard but fun. Rust-like compiler errors, pipes everywhere, echo is great, fold_until feels like cheating. blog.tymscar.com/posts/gleama...

I was watching Michael Stevens on the Within Reason podcast and around hour 1 minute 14, Michael says: "Who decided the C# means Azure?". I know this one!! Microsoft did!

I still don't know what to write this years advent of code in. I'm torn between Roc, Gleam, and some Lisp

Is @openvibe.social broken for anyone else? Hasn’t worked for the past few days.

Hey @b0rk.jvns.ca, I was reading your lovely blog post about BGP again, and you linked bgpview.io in it, but: > BGPView will shut down on 26 November 2025. Thank you for using the service. For comparable BGP lookup and analysis, we recommend BGP.Tools. Might be worth changing URLs to that?

The fact that nVidia makes 2x more revenue from networking (Mellanox) than from gaming (<10%) is kind of crazy.

I know it doesn't matter, but the fact that Xcode shows the phone colour in the menu bar is the cutest thing ever. We need more whimsical things like this in tech!

New internet, who dis?

I love how YouTube thinks @matt.godbolt.org is Matt Damon

Somehow I just recently found out about @Open Collective . It lets you contribute to opensource tools you use in a very transparent fashion. It was really hard to pick only ten, but I think this is a good start for me! I wish @blender3d.bsky.social was on the list!

AGI has been achieved internally

I wish @github.com would have a visual diff for images where they overlap and show the difference that way. They support 2-up, swipe, and onion skin, but for small differences, none of those help at all a glance.

My homelab has better uptime (more 9s) than AWS. Sure, it’s only during the past 24 hours, but that’s something!

So I am debugging a weird networking issue that happens when I stream only Parsec or Sunshine, but not both at the same time. How's your weekend?

i wrote about atproto and why it matters

The Nix Repl is goated. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

So Sonnet 4.5 is a downgrade when it comes to making buckets in Blender, even with the new screenshot viewer feature.

The iPhone 17 pro max sim slot is identical to the 15 pro max one, except the bottom bit is inverted. So you can’t interchange them, but you can plug one into the other 90% of the way.

Broke 10k multi-core score on geekbench on my phone!

Why are these sort of errors so common on Windows? I'm so glad I only use it for gaming.

We had printers before screens. Now we’ve got folding 8K OLEDs… but my printer still refuses to print a PDF without a ritual.

So that was a lie

So it’s 2025 and I am defragging my drives. Why? Well, I’m on btrfs and because of CoW and the nature of the files I store there, everything tends towards chaos over time. This wouldn’t be an issue with SSDs, but I cannot afford replacing my NAS drives with those just yet.

Funny how Americans call it physics, but maths is too far of an ask.

I'm very proud of coming up with this meme.

Apparently you can have biblically accurate eyes? gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xey...

You use gpt O3 I use gcc -O3 We are not the same

Oh man, don’t you love USB-C?

So @vscode.dev has this new homepage. You can see in the background some binary, so I couldn't help but inspect the page, and yeah, the whole binary isn't repeated at random. It's all written in CSS. So I decoded it to ASCII, and it says: HAPPY_CODING!

Tried GPT-OSS locally on my RTX 4080 after work today. Tool calling: rough. Lots of errors and loops. Reasoning in chat mode: pretty solid. Even wrote working C code (with some hand-holding). Mixed results, but interesting to see what runs locally now. blog.tymscar.com/posts/gptoss

I was watching the Lex Fridman and DHH podcast and was surprised that neither knew of any other language that can do `5.times` like Ruby. Smalltalk is 20 years older and can do something very similar. Kotlin and Swift can do it exactly like Ruby thanks to extension functions.

Yeah, sleep is great, but have you ever garbage collected 56 gigs in Nix?

So I found some shsh2 blobs I saved around seven years ago for my iPhone 7+ and using Turdus Merula I fully downgraded to iOS 12.1.4 and also jailbroke the phone. Memories are flooding me.

I asked 15 different LLMs from the cheapest to the most expensive one, at the same time, to guess a number between 1 and 50. 14/15 picked 27, and Opus picked 23...

configurable chromatic aberration with SVG ✨

Just shipped a new post on running Docker containers with secrets on NixOS! 🐳 Finally moved my homelab from #Proxmox to pure #Nix using Agenix for secret management. Everything's declarative, everything's public on GitHub, and the tokens stay encrypted. blog.tymscar.com/posts/nixosd...

Tried the prompt in "The Illusion of Thinking" in #o3pro. Only added "no tool use and return the whole result array" The result is 480 moves long, not 1023 as it says(and should be). It's also wrong along the way Don't listen to yt-ers saying the paper is false Try it yourself!

What the hell did my homelab minipc do at 12pm?? 

Is the opposite of a life pro tip an anti death scam?

Do you get cookie-doughella if you eat raw salmon?

Oh man, Java is 30 now! Applets were what wasm is now. Runescape was my main usecase as a kid! #Java30WithIntelliJIDEA www.jetbrains.com/lp/java-30/a...

Dijkstra wrote the best takedown of vibe coding OVER FOUR DECADES AGO: www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcr...

Lambda calculus bros be like: yo that's so true

Seriously Mozilla.ai: The fuck? The whole project is a bit of a mess but this meme is so tone deaf, such a slap in the face. In a time where people feel corporations abusing all data they can find it is a special kind of brain worm to claim: "Yeah, we also believe that."

Peppa pog

It’s only called a sandwich if it comes from Sandwich, UK

Thanks Kotlin. Nice one!