i feel like quite a few of my technical projects recently have started with, essentialy, "ok I know it's nontrivial, but how hard _exactly_ would it be?", with the answer usually ending "frankly more irritating than hard and even then not too much so"

this is how git-pages / grebedoc handled an 1.2 Gbps peak of egress just now: a blip (nb: the p99 is inflated by slow clients, since this particular chart shows request times as long as the client drags them out)

"I write React code to relax" as a statement is akin to me to something like "I sleep on wooden boards only and take an ice cold shower every day to bring myself some joy"

enjoy https://openbsd.llvm.moe (not my project, but i contributed to it)

hey chat what do you think of my input UI element for compiler flags? it handles spaces correctly!

hey can someone who follows me and is on TC39 please add `Array.equals` and `TypedArray.equals` thanks the fact that you need IndexedDB to compare two arrays is a disgrace

i really hate react. it's like they took programming and turned it into Programming 2, Inexplicably Worse

endianness is just a plot by big endian to sell more byte swap operations

lrt: send me all of your biblically accurate foxgirls

@whitequark no you are mixed up. aaa games putatively have a lower risk of default than aa, a, and b, but the rating agencies are so corrupt that the distinction barely matters

so like... AAA games are smaller than AA games which are smaller than C and D games, right? i'm new to this

just read a post with a "content warning: you" and i think that's it. we've found the perfection. now we can shut the fedi down, it is only downhill from here

"Geomys", a golang open source maintenance firm, is the genus name of eastern pocket gophers, who are... wait for it... _fossorial_ herbivores

the existence of `nix flake` implies the existence of `nix yayo`

I'm self hosting all my infrastructure on my own infrastructure. And then my infrastructure went down. So I don't have any infrastructure to run my infrastructure infrastructure. @whitequark

people are like "don't put all of your infrastructure on github, if github is down it will stop working!!1" but i put all of my infrastructure on codeberg and now that codeberg is down it stopped working. please advise

apparently gentoo penguins specifically are doing very well despite climate change because they're very adaptable to their local environment. poetic "yeah, just... let me rebuild my mitochondria with different USE flags"

@whitequark And to add to the horror, all of the cars and chargers are in the same physical powerline broadcast domain, so when another car is plugged in, it needs to broadcast ping and measure the response signal strength(*) to find out which charger it's […] [Original post on chaos.social]

@whitequark The real horror is that #EXI is used in an ISO 15118 sandwich on top of HomePlug AV (with broken encryption) and TCP (mostly with no encryption, but sometimes mixed with a wild PKI) to real-time control up to a Megawatt of electric power flowing into a car. #powerline #v2g #ev

if your homelab setup involves "kubernetes" or "traefik" i think there's essentially two options there. 1. you have no life and study these applications for work reasons. sad to see, but ultimately as someone who has no life i have to acknowledge this as valaid 2. you have too much time on your […]

I mean this gist: https://gist.github.com/bagder/07f7581f6e3d78ef37dfbfc81fd1d1cd

tired: traveling for halloween wired: spooky action at a distance

hey wanna read some horrors? https://www.w3.org/TR/exi/

they made a compiler passive aggressive (pictured: openbsd playground, a webpage that lets you click a button and get a compiled openbsd binary downloaded in a few seconds, all done locally using WebAssembly)

i'm going to the Nix store, you want anything?

im going to bed

ok so, check this out i have the YoWASP toolchain extension use a full OpenBSD toolchain cross-compiled to run on Wasm in the browser produce OpenBSD binaries!

hey... do you think LLVM is juicy inside, if you can just bite through the skin? it looks so chonky and biteable...

me: it's good code! them: *look inside* them: it's incomprehensible regular expressions!

did you know bash has builtin gettext support? i sure didn't https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Locale-Translation.html

quote with cw https://mastodon.social/@aryl/115414406081132929

no autoconf. i do not think you are truly sorry. you will suffer for your sins

wait, the bear that's on the flag of california is extinct?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_grizzly_bear

hey wanna read some cursed golang stuff https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/08/25/go-default-methods/

pleased to say that grebedoc.dev was unaffected by the AWS outage (due to a decision to not use AWS)

@fasterthanlime non-monotonic versioning, where version numbers sometimes go up and sometimes go down because you change versioning schemes every once in a while, forcing distributions to use epochs or add such a concept if they don't already have it.

quick question: what the fuck

idk

Big shoutout to the community of people who could be developing better ballistic missiles or earning a fortune as quants but instead are saving frames in super mario 64 tool assisted speedruns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yx0eutBwII

thesis: vs code is a game engine. consider: - produced by a billion dollar company - renders using opengl - optimized like dogshit - ships using a cursed runtime inheited down generations - people hate it but use it anyway - updates every few weeks, if something breaks the developer mostly just […]

OH: "the Steam overlay is really janky. I use it mainly to open https://gcc.godbolt.org when playing Counter-Strike [...]"

OH: 'i don't have a thing for sad girls, it's a deflation fetish'

[uspol, awful, do not open] mr president... another lotr-themed startup has hit the US defense industry. yes, mr present, it is thiel again https://www.thestreet.com/crypto/peter-thiel-backed-erebor-bank-occ-approval

why is the linux input subsystem so fucking bad i've _never_ had installing libinput fix anything. the only thing it does is break shit that worked before

This should have been big news! Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals: FWF 🇦🇹 RCN 🇳🇴 Forte 🇸🇪 ARIS 🇸🇮 SRC 🇸🇪 FCT 🇵🇹 CSIC 🇪🇸 DFG 🇩🇪 Formas 🇸🇪 ANR 🇫🇷 Only two of them issued press releases in […]

*points at your dog* a fox

just found a node_modules folder that's inside a node_modules folder that's inside a node_modules folder

"sir... sir this is my emotional support android build tree. please, i need these 200 GB of object files ;w;"

the vscode build system is almost as bad as the android build system