wish people would stop inventing lies about assholes who I hate so I can complain about them without having to go "no actually they didn't do that" repeatedly.

2026-05-05: It's the 55th birthday of the 555 timer; perhaps the most useful and evergreen of all ICs. How better to celebrate? Yes, one can make a 555 and do all that awesome stuff with just a hand-full of NPN & PNP BJTs and resistors: leap.tardate.com/electronics1... #electronics

the mulching machine harms and kills trans women on the regular, and instead of dismantling the machine, a machine that reproduces the oppression we live under, we think its okay *this time*. there will always be a *this time*.

btw, this phenomenon has harmed far more trans women, by an order of magnitude if not several more, than will stancil could if he *tried*

I have learned that I am going to be in Montreal this Friday. Got stuff to do, but if moots are in the area and want to say hi?

🙏 regarding things i'm not gonna talk about until they're certain, but good feelings.

someone hire this woman

I'm currently looking for some mix of Rust and LLM work, with a focus on Bay Area hybrid roles. I'm in the pipeline at a couple of places, but I'm open to exploring opportunities so please reach out if there's anything that you think might be a good fit (DMs open)

why is your most powerful weapon pointed exclusively at your least dangerous enemies

In the process I found some 7/4 songs which I rejected and began to populate another list. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I'm collecting 5/4 songs. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

you can nominate @microcosm.blue and your other favourite open-source projects for an @endowment.dev grant, if you want.

Post your 5/4s if you gotem. www.youtube.com/watch?v=upWD...

I think it is probably essential to renormalize the ability and willingness to distinguish between explaining something and endorsing it.

I'm pro "AI literacy" in that I think we can manipulate people who are mindlessly chanting buzzwords about it into supporting liberal arts funding.

An update on @ersc.io availability #jj-vcs ersc.io/blog/ersc-av...

Me: "Why am I getting None when trying to map a WebGPU buffer for writing? This is a terrible API." My GPU: Muffled screaming about the 7 GiB of WebGPU buffers that I'm allocating every frame.

baby

This is not my cat. Why is it in my kitchen?

Some people help their agents develop personalities by giving them smut to read or fanfiction. I help my agent develop an anti-personality by giving it mid-century Japanese management texts to read.

me: you’ve met me in a very chinese time of my life peng-peng the bodega cat: i’m deeply unimpressed, white lady, but enjoy your pickles

free feet

i'm seeing an unfortunate trend of atmosphere apps abandoning/forgetting the convention of including key protocol identifiers or URI components in their URL paths (rkey, handle, etc), making it impossible to easily locate/lookup the underlying protocol record makes adding @aturi.to support hard

I don't have a totally coherent view on this, but having spent time in this space, OSS funding is just *weird*. Users treat popular projects like products, and how software gets done somewhat reinforces that (packaging, "the ecosystem", etc.). A very tiny # of people do (or even could!) make money.

If you're forced to watch the devil wears prada 2, is this sequel injection?

The tummy is not a trap

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I think it's probably bad and maybe even a bit kiwifarms coded when people treat someone like a lolcow for the crime of making annoying posts

A lot of you use Bluesky like Kiwifarms and it’s fucking disgusting

i cannot believe that 'rust and memory safety are a gay woke moralist op and true redpillers run vulnerable c code' is a real thing. it seemed too stupid to be possibly real when i 'made up a guy to make fun of' about it years ago but here we are

a labeler that labels posts about American politics with the country of residency of the poster. is this anything?

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

tfw your little sister is saying “tail, tail, share it!”

mildly amused at all the very serious ai people and engineers who follow me getting an eyeful depending on their adult content settings.

why i literally have written 70% of the libraries I've written.

wrong order, maybe. good thing all properly declarative configuration is idempotent.

foots

stairs observer boo

grumpy boo

napping boo, neglecting her supervisory role

eepy supervisor

Anisota is pro-goblin. We are also in favor of other critters such as gremlins, raccoons, and pigeons. We promise never to suppress creatures and cryptids, unless one begins to scare away all the moths.

Thanks everyone for coming out! Really great to see how much interest and chat there was. Stay tuned for updates!

i don't care if the defense contractor tranny is a plant, i don't think we should be treating trans women with the level of scrutiny we would never apply to a cis person. when has a white dude working at a defense contractor ever been discourse?

I don't think tech at large understands how hard it is to be an open source maintainer right now. So many great folks are on the brink of burnout. Funding is drying out. We live in a security minefield. Companies think humans are disposable. If you're a maintainer, we care. You deserve the world.

Can we get some good discourse on here? Please? Fuck man I'll try, uh. I think visas and borders shouldn't exist as concepts. I think I should legally be allowed to walk into any country in the world, no questions asked, if I can figure out how to get there without making it the government's problem

Honestly I think the fact that the results were so much closer on Twitter vs the general population for the red button / blue button poll is a very good indicator that the people on Twitter are overall just worse people than the public at large

Gemma 4 runs best with liquid cooling

got to try this at the @atproto.to meetup tonight bc @mhdante.com brought it and I was blown away. video does not convey how *fun* it is to move in this game and how intuitive. I didn't even leave the starting zone I was having so much fun just skating around and trying things out.

If you want to be a better engineer, you need to take estrogen. Every 10x dev I know is on E. The mass Rust migration? E. Your favorite open source maintainer? On E. The girl using NixOS on a ThinkPad from 2012 who rewrote your entire infra in a weekend? On E. Stay competitive or get left behind.