Brian McCallister
@brianm.dev
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Programmerer, woodworker, cat photos, stuff
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Lyse
9 days ago
“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit
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Jan Lehnardt
9 days ago
Like Linux or Wikipedia, the ASF is one of the things that make no sense on paper and yet defies expectations year after year. And I’m happy to do my part.
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Kate McKean
about 1 month ago
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
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Has anyone made a better version of [my really-executable-jars](
github.com/brianm/reall...
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GitHub - brianm/really-executable-jars-maven-plugin: maven plugin for making chmod +x jar files
maven plugin for making chmod +x jar files. Contribute to brianm/really-executable-jars-maven-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub.
https://github.com/brianm/really-executable-jars-maven-plugin
about 1 month ago
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Whoa, Java 25 startup time is *good*!
about 1 month ago
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CZEdwards
about 1 month ago
Armies wear uniforms for a reason. And not just because it makes the laundry easier. I am reminded of certain lilac blossoms on a certain Glorious 25th of May. How do you tell your comrades from your potential murderers? A carrot, a leek, a lilac sprig, a red knitted hat, a frog costume. Duh.
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qdot
about 1 month ago
inspired by
CLAUDE.md
, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to
JEREMY.md
for an attitude adjustment
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Mads Toftum
about 1 month ago
I've found the broadcast especially useful when exploring hosts looking for differences. Switching to host specific when a host gets different results and back for the next steps.
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A little tool I've been noodling on for... er, a year and a half, is finally stable enough to use daily: meet `bdsh`, a `dsh`-alike designed for me. It may also suit others which is why I am sharing :-)
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about 1 month ago
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I’ve been prepping D&D with Claude code for a while, and it is a great tool. Wrote up some thoughts:
skife.org/b4/dnd-with-...
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Brian's Waste of Time
https://skife.org/b4/dnd-with-cc/
2 months ago
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The two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Solved one of them today with 10 lines of code and a redirect :-)
skife.org/b4/epithet-d...
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Brian's Waste of Time
https://skife.org/b4/epithet-discovery-caching/
3 months ago
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I am very confused, I love this book, I read it years ago, and re-read it this past summer. Huh?
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3 months ago
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Epic
3 months ago
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Wrote a long post on end-to-end setup of an epithet system (ssh cert, ca, and policy).
skife.org/b4/epithet-s...
Is really for myself, so I can step through it again later, but if anyone else sets it up, let me know, I'll have stickers made and send you some :-)
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Brian's Waste of Time
https://skife.org/b4/epithet-setup-v0.1.7/
3 months ago
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Chris Krycho signed out of social media for Lent
4 months ago
This is *NEAT*.
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Torsten Curdt
4 months ago
I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me. Sorry!
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Had a "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" moment with Claude! In anticipation of supporting more complex configuration in a thing I told it to swap out a hand rolled config parser for a library, because, duh.
4 months ago
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I like jj, it is good.
4 months ago
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Oh Claude, you optimist: ``` # Auto-approve the apply since we know what we're doing make apply <<< "yes" 2>&1 | grep -A 5 "Apply complete" ```
4 months ago
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GNU Iain [M.] Banks
5 months ago
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Grabbing breakfast at Coupa this morning and remembering the first time I did so, 20 years ago, before my interview at Ning. Came in and Whitfield Diffie was hanging out at the table by the front window where the napkins and lids are now. I regret not asking for his signature.
5 months ago
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Watching Claude Code fight to get rust to compile makes me feel a bit better about my own fights. Even better, I can pipe in with suggestions while it works and it does not get annoyed with me!
5 months ago
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The greatest trick the ai vendors ever pulled was convincing customers to make ai tool adoption a performance metric.
5 months ago
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Peak D&D props!
6 months ago
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I miss Diego :-(
11 months ago
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RSPB
12 months ago
WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵
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about 1 year ago
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When I was in Scotland in ‘94-‘95 there was a measles outbreak. The UK re-vaccinated everyone, even visitors like me.
about 1 year ago
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Tim Bray
about 1 year ago
Gosh, look what
@cstross
posted exactly ten years ago:
https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html
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Mads Toftum
about 1 year ago
Absolutely worth trying.
flic.kr/p/2qtQG6C
(badly cropped by
@bsky.app
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Felix the Cat
DSC_6146 85mm f/1.2 shot at f/1.2 1/100 ISO 1250
https://flic.kr/p/2qtQG6C
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I guess I am contributing to returning the Internet to its roots: cat pictures
about 1 year ago
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Floomps
about 1 year ago
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Niduyam
about 1 year ago
Must be a relative!
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Sylvain Wallez
about 1 year ago
Here's another one!
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We need more floofy cat bellies today, so here is one.
about 1 year ago
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So, trying to buy a new car. Really fighting to get dealerships to even return my messages. Are sales critters *that* complacent in 2025? Had one suggestion it is because I have a Delaware phone number in Seattle, so they think I am wasting their time. But... really? People move, it's a thing.
about 1 year ago
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Got into a discussion about emitting LLVM debug info for yaml today to facilitate debugging k8s
about 1 year ago
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Avdi Grimm
about 1 year ago
Turns out when Han Solo asked Threepio to talk to the Falcon's computer it's because all it would say was {{[({{[{gen_server,call,3,{{{{#})]]}})}
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Cowtown Coder
over 1 year ago
Back to planning Jackson 3.0.0 For Reals, trying to figure out ways to collaborate. Created a big-ass Uber-Discussion linking existing pieces if anyone is interested:
github.com/FasterXML/ja...
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Path to Jackson 3.0.0 · FasterXML jackson-future-ideas · Discussion #72
Goal of this Discussion This Discussion is "uber-discussion" covering the high-level scope of what the official Jackson 3.0.0 Release should include, along with bit of status of the progress. Most ...
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-future-ideas/discussions/72
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Alex Russell
over 1 year ago
By utter coincidence, Hasan Ali at Cancer Research UK has posted some outstanding advice for teams considering frontend architectures at the same time as I'm re-starting work on an "if not React, then what?" blog post. It's worth your time:
crukorg.github.io/engineering-guid…
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Choosing Your Stack | Engineering Guidebook
The following content is recommended.
https://crukorg.github.io/engineering-guidebook/docs/best_practices/frontend/choosing_your_stack/
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Hoarse Whisperer
over 1 year ago
This is the only true cranberry sauce. I will not be taking questions at this time.
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Bryan Cantrill
over 1 year ago
Blogging through the decades
bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/b...
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Blogging through the decades
Over the summer, I hit an anniversary of sorts: I’ve been blogging for two decades (!). For reasons I’ll get to, I’ve been reflecting back on my history of writing in general and blogging in particula...
https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/blogging-through-the-decades/
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Now that
@pbur.bsky.social
is following me I need to repost this ;-)
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over 1 year ago
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Any good guides or goto libraries folks know for CLI swift?
www.swift.org/getting-star...
is my current starting point, but idiomatically spinning up an event loop and using it correctly has bitten me in the past :-/
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Swift.org
Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.
https://www.swift.org/getting-started/cli-swiftpm/
over 1 year ago
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Okay, it looks like this place may be worth trying. Hi!
over 1 year ago
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