Love having an HDD on my home server so I can hear when my backups run. Like a little gizmo winding up in my room to copy down the daily ledger of the other machines

No literally spent so long today getting an old Xcode toolchain running and it wouldn’t load the simulator runtime DMG and the ONLY THING that made it work was rebooting my laptop RAHHHHHH

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

I kinda feel like if I own my PDS I should be able to set the image quality limit right? It’ll always be downloading using my compute and bandwidth unless I’m mistaken Or is it a client side thing in this case

turbo nerd hours

NOOOO

I own an anti-satellite missile system because that’s what Thomas Jefferson intended Four GLONASS satellites are visible above my house. “what the devil” I say grabbing my powdered wig and RIM-161 launcher.

Oh wow this gave me an ah-ha moment. Remembering that non-Sendable types are actually good is so important. Same with nonisolated. Definitely give this a read

I’ve yet to see Gentoo put into any box here. I think it might just be the 6th: - good Linux

Lead is still the greatest prank nature ever pulled

Brb making a node package that requires you to watch a short ad before starting your server

TIL the `dotenv` library now logs ads for their new service to `stdout` on startup Why in the world

Normal graphics API: let me arrange some rectangles, each of which can draw their pixels. Here are standard rectangles for 'button', 'text', and 'picture', go nuts. Web: all of the rectangles have a backstory and are programmed in seven languages across five files. Vertical centering is impossible

This butthead is so cuddly in the afternoon after biting my bicep so hard it left teeth marks and knocking over all the plants in the house this morning. Gaslighting me into thinking he’s so kind 🤨

Alright my CBOR parser now has a DAG mode (and tunable flags if you want to be a little less strict when decoding) and passes all the relevant tests in this suite. I’ve got a PR open to add the Swift library to the suite too! github.com/thecoolwinte... github.com/hyphacoop/da...

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

LOL: “We’re only approving the zoning change tonight. We’re not voting on the data center, although it affects the data center,” insisted Mayor Wayne Boucher.

I realized I never announced it but I haven’t been working on CodeEdit for about a month now. Everything is still great there, just time to move on especially because the project was running short on funds!

Hermantown city council members continue to utterly ignore the clear voice of the people. Largest attendance at a city council meeting ever? Every single person there against the data center? Still can’t name the company building it? www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

It's here! PDS MOOver now supports automated backups and restores that anyone can use! This also includes adversarial account migrations! pdsmoover.com

My Swift CBOR encoder is now 20-40% faster than Apple's JSON encoder (the new fast one) but I'm struggling to get dictionaries up to speed cause I wanted to sort them by default (required for a lot of applications, like dCBOR or DAG-CBOR). Complex here is a series of nested structs

Holy shit @mprnews.org did the meme www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

us-east-1 is shutdown, the government is shutdown, what’s next, the Louve??

1980: the internet routing system provides a virtually unlimited number of paths between any two machines to ensure maximum connectivity and resiliency 2025: can't flush the toilet because AWS East is down

Lexicon schema documentation on PDSls

seeing a bunch of people who don't know what end to end encryption actually means freak out about this

people who have no idea how the internet works aghast that parts of signal run on amazon lol

Seeing a lot more Facebook memes on the TL, ew

damn, TIL my favorite bluesky feed is being run on someone's gaming pc lmao

First attempt at an old family recipe for Honey Whole Wheat bread, turned out phenomenal. I left it rise about 4x as long as it needed the last rise, which I think caused it to collapse a little while baking, but turned out pretty good anyways!

The thing I’ve learned is that this is barking up the wrong tree. Don’t get me wrong, the fact that schools make so much money from football has its issues. But, the sports revenue in most cases is entirely tied up with the sports branch of the college. 🧵

Re: the stormlight archive Shallan be like

In no world would I have imagined I'd waste my whole morning dealing with __COCOAPODS__ dependency errors

I've finally written that blog post about how I ran the blue.mackuba.eu app on both MySQL and Postgres in parallel on two servers, testing and comparing them for six months, and how that went 😅

Big self hosted PDS dub today

Posted a question to the Swift forums if anyone has any thoughts! forums.swift.org/t/check-for-...

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

I’m now working on adding DAG-CBOR support. I’d like to be able to use this to encode and decode CAR files (although since Swift can’t do a streaming encoder with the built-in APIs it’ll be limited). 🧵1/5

Love making little automations in Factorio. This one uses just a clock and SR latch to alternate colors on my rockets!

I really should learn neovim

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning

Finished my first solo backpacking trip! The north shore is gorgeous, still my favorite region in the entire world. Did about 12 miles total on the Superior Hiking Trail, with an extra half mile in there where I got lost on another trail. Rained a little overnight but still a great trip

In many ways, C is a quirky, Earthbound-inspired RPG

I'm enjoying making Grafana dashboards for my home server WAY too much

Ping xkcd.com/3150/

finally, some Good Code crates.io/crates/fibon...