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young nerds: the latest @twoscomplement podcast has heartache-preventing hidden gems. ostensibly about "messages", but: * how big too big? * order matters * clocks are hard * tracing * o11y * deadletter and https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ kinda * cap * nanos * that car thing […]

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my brain is never not going to read “melon party / music dance experience” as “lemon party / music dance experience” because that web existed before apple made a comeback so it had dibs on my mind, i guess

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i liked 18f. i hope countries like mine are still brave enough to follow that model. https://18f.org/

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ok, the height comparison of the @frameworkcomputer desktop to a bottle of bawls definitely caught me off guard and made me smile: https://frame.work/

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https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/ #firefox

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fyi, hytradbois: zulip has a #flatpak https://hytradboi.com if you don't have a ticket yet

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i was hospitalized with transient global amnesia for one night last month. i haven't had any symptoms since then, but i've had the flu for the past week and a half and my brain definitely feels like it's trying to construct dreams half the time i'm awake. it's pretty annoying. long covid, maybe?

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https://fantastic.earth is growing, literally. After running on a small 4 GB server for two years, we have recently migrated to a 64 GB server. Now we can host even more services for our members. We currently run these services: - #Mastodon (Microblogging) […] [Original post on fantastic.earth]

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hooray! @frame.work desktop!

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the @frameworkcomputer 2nd gen event is in 10 minutes, y’all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8k7jTF_JCg ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

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i'm grateful the #localfirst monthly meetup coincides with a normal halifax lunch hour so i can almost always catch it. cheers @Yonz for hosting these so consistently! 🙏

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Just signed up to @ente photos, migrating everything from #Google #photos. Google unnecessarily jumbles up its data export into 2GB zip files :eyebags:, so it's a nightmare to put together manually for the #ente upload. I wrote this very simple bash script to do it automatically - maybe useful […]

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senior staff managing director manager of principal technical architect of architecture managers

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एक्सकोड मंगला सुत्ता: the buddha's timeless advice to dissuade oneself from rage-tweeting about xcode

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a thorough rundown of how flathub gets apps from the developer to us, the users: https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-source-to-user it’s a low-jargon explanation that just about anyone who cares about package safety would understand, i think. my latest debian machine is […]

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this ol chestnut

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and here we have @rain with my favourite monad explainer thus far ❤️ ... in rust. https://sunshowers.io/posts/monads-through-pbt/ i'll leave it to @abnv to tell me whether this blog entry qualifies as shitposting or not. ;) it's a delicate dance

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https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/ the matrix foundation is half a mil short of their revenue targets. gentle reminder: your best donations (especially as an individual) are recurring donations. if it's something you care about, toss a couple coffee's worth at it... in canada these […]

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macos desperately wants me to upgrade to sequoia. i am pretty tired of apple breaking the things i bought from them. my last ios upgrade didn't brick the machine, but now i get to pretend i'm typing into a telnet session in 1996. i have a final-gen intel mac. will i regret clicking "upgrade now"?

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this will be the last ed zitron post i read for a while. i am equally tired of self-indulgent and self-entitled rage as i am of ai over-hype. ultimately, they’re fueled by a similar confusion of our human desires. children of the 90s, it’s time we grew up. try not to write stuff like this if […]

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debconf 14, a decade ago. remembering this torvalds lecture (?) on abi compatibility — which can be extended to api boundary stability in general — and the subsequent rules one should abide by in userland. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzl1B7nB9Kc so much in there that makes me think about […]

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would mastodon and bluesky benefit from a "bow" button? i can't think of a non-verbal equivalent in western culture, but in asia a bow or head-wobble is extremely helpful for politely ending a conversation. we have agree-and-or-read-receipt (heart), but everything else is drastic […]

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this nearly 15-year-old macbook air is still a perfectly good computer but apple forbids upgrades. a colossal waste of electronics, at scale. #debian installed like a champ. #gnome is delightful. #flatpak is easy and keeps apps up-to-date. everything works perfectly. i’m just… so grateful. 🙏❤️

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There's just 2 weeks left to submit a talk for #reclojure 2025, a community-run #clojure conference that will take place in London in May. https://www.reclojure.org/

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i just opened @nextcloud on a 14-year-old macbook air (for which apple has forbidden updates since macos 10.12.x) ... they have a 10.10.x series legacy client! this is some thoughtful attention to detail. "hey, you might want files off an old computer. we'll help you with that." ❤️

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"news only in the living room": this also includes slack and discord and matrix and signal and telegram. the watercooler is still a place for news, even if there's the occasional useful conversation that happens over there.

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The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019. It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight. They’re free for […]

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this feeling that if i just fight hard enough, read enough, dig enough ... that i'll somehow get to the bottom of the news. "then i'll be done and i never need to do it again," some inane subconscious process tells me. time to stop, i think.

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someone in a recent interview pointed me to clay shirky's "situated software", which i hadn't read before: https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html the intersection with @maggie 's home-cooked software (barefoot developers) is... high, it seems? […]

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a funny thing about trying to write about "the terminal" in a holistic way is that I often get pushback (“no julia, the terminal is not 1 thing, it’s the terminal emulator/shell/many different programs/OS terminal driver/etc”) and while that's obviously true, it feels important to me to take […]

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i'm not a rust person (i'm sure they all know about it), but this is just such great oss branding: https://ratatui.rs/

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if kendrick brings back boot cut jeans (the only good jeans), i may consider switching away from suits. https://www.thecut.com/article/kendrick-lamar-bootcut-jeans-super-bowl-halftime.html

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helping a friend brainstorm. i have a feeling i’ll be doing this particular dance a lot for a few years, treating “desktop computing” as a variable. i don’t hate this exploration. i’m not an ai doomer. but we gotta slow down and think.

young nerds: the latest @twoscomplement podcast has heartache-preventing hidden gems. ostensibly about "messages", but: * how big too big? * order matters * clocks are hard * tracing * o11y * deadletter and https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ kinda * cap * nanos * that car thing […]

my brain is never not going to read “melon party / music dance experience” as “lemon party / music dance experience” because that web existed before apple made a comeback so it had dibs on my mind, i guess

i liked 18f. i hope countries like mine are still brave enough to follow that model. https://18f.org/

ok, the height comparison of the @frameworkcomputer desktop to a bottle of bawls definitely caught me off guard and made me smile: https://frame.work/

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/update-on-terms-of-use/ #firefox

fyi, hytradbois: zulip has a #flatpak https://hytradboi.com if you don't have a ticket yet

i was hospitalized with transient global amnesia for one night last month. i haven't had any symptoms since then, but i've had the flu for the past week and a half and my brain definitely feels like it's trying to construct dreams half the time i'm awake. it's pretty annoying. long covid, maybe?

https://fantastic.earth is growing, literally. After running on a small 4 GB server for two years, we have recently migrated to a 64 GB server. Now we can host even more services for our members. We currently run these services: - #Mastodon (Microblogging) […] [Original post on fantastic.earth]

hooray! @frame.work desktop!

the @frameworkcomputer 2nd gen event is in 10 minutes, y’all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8k7jTF_JCg ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

i'm grateful the #localfirst monthly meetup coincides with a normal halifax lunch hour so i can almost always catch it. cheers @Yonz for hosting these so consistently! 🙏

Just signed up to @ente photos, migrating everything from #Google #photos. Google unnecessarily jumbles up its data export into 2GB zip files :eyebags:, so it's a nightmare to put together manually for the #ente upload. I wrote this very simple bash script to do it automatically - maybe useful […]

senior staff managing director manager of principal technical architect of architecture managers

एक्सकोड मंगला सुत्ता: the buddha's timeless advice to dissuade oneself from rage-tweeting about xcode

a thorough rundown of how flathub gets apps from the developer to us, the users: https://docs.flathub.org/blog/app-safety-layered-approach-source-to-user it’s a low-jargon explanation that just about anyone who cares about package safety would understand, i think. my latest debian machine is […]

this ol chestnut

and here we have @rain with my favourite monad explainer thus far ❤️ ... in rust. https://sunshowers.io/posts/monads-through-pbt/ i'll leave it to @abnv to tell me whether this blog entry qualifies as shitposting or not. ;) it's a delicate dance

https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/crossroads/ the matrix foundation is half a mil short of their revenue targets. gentle reminder: your best donations (especially as an individual) are recurring donations. if it's something you care about, toss a couple coffee's worth at it... in canada these […]

macos desperately wants me to upgrade to sequoia. i am pretty tired of apple breaking the things i bought from them. my last ios upgrade didn't brick the machine, but now i get to pretend i'm typing into a telnet session in 1996. i have a final-gen intel mac. will i regret clicking "upgrade now"?

would mastodon and bluesky benefit from a "bow" button? i can't think of a non-verbal equivalent in western culture, but in asia a bow or head-wobble is extremely helpful for politely ending a conversation. we have agree-and-or-read-receipt (heart), but everything else is drastic […]

There's just 2 weeks left to submit a talk for #reclojure 2025, a community-run #clojure conference that will take place in London in May. https://www.reclojure.org/

i just opened @nextcloud on a 14-year-old macbook air (for which apple has forbidden updates since macos 10.12.x) ... they have a 10.10.x series legacy client! this is some thoughtful attention to detail. "hey, you might want files off an old computer. we'll help you with that." ❤️

"news only in the living room": this also includes slack and discord and matrix and signal and telegram. the watercooler is still a place for news, even if there's the occasional useful conversation that happens over there.

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019. It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight. They’re free for […]

this feeling that if i just fight hard enough, read enough, dig enough ... that i'll somehow get to the bottom of the news. "then i'll be done and i never need to do it again," some inane subconscious process tells me. time to stop, i think.

someone in a recent interview pointed me to clay shirky's "situated software", which i hadn't read before: https://gwern.net/doc/technology/2004-03-30-shirky-situatedsoftware.html the intersection with @maggie 's home-cooked software (barefoot developers) is... high, it seems? […]

i'm not a rust person (i'm sure they all know about it), but this is just such great oss branding: https://ratatui.rs/

if kendrick brings back boot cut jeans (the only good jeans), i may consider switching away from suits. https://www.thecut.com/article/kendrick-lamar-bootcut-jeans-super-bowl-halftime.html

helping a friend brainstorm. i have a feeling i’ll be doing this particular dance a lot for a few years, treating “desktop computing” as a variable. i don’t hate this exploration. i’m not an ai doomer. but we gotta slow down and think.

really makes ya think https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/

i like this vintage store