another year another edgewater castle season passed with me saying “oh maybe I’ll go this week” and then not going to a single match
matt
@gone.bsky.social
grad student. procedures and rules of (free/open source) software engineering. he/him. chicago (mostly).
biblical deluge in Chicago rn and all it's prompted me to do is listen to a lot of The Durutti Column
bounced in the second round by the Atlanta Hawks CONFIRMED
LEBRON IS COMING TO PHILLY. By the power vested in me as the Governor of the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a die-hard Sixers fan... I hereby proclaim today to be LEBRON JAMES DAY. Welcome to the City of Brotherly Love, LeBron.
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine an LLM rewriting Bun—for ever." ziggit.dev/t/buz-a-drop...
Buz - A drop-in replacement for Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds
Buz This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar project ha...
ziggit.dev
Can’t quite articulate it but Thomas Tuchel makes substitutions the same way that the Democratic Party makes policy decisions
More and more people are saying that Tuchel’s tactics need to be put in a lab
bringing on toney and rashford rn after bringing on a billion center backs earlier.... need to study tuchel's mind
obviously the smoke in chicago is biologically bad for your lungs and your brain but the haze is so complete that even when you're inside it makes you feel like you're losing your mind
bringing on toney and rashford rn after bringing on a billion center backs earlier.... need to study tuchel's mind
need some psychologist to study what happens to your brain at home in the month before you move apartments
at this rate, someone is going to use an llm to rewrite the dsa charter in unsafe Rust
learning that Costar (the astrology app) relies entirely on a Haskell back end? www.costarastrology.com/why-haskell/
Co – Star: Hyper-Personalized, Real-Time Horoscopes
costarastrology.com
the team with castle and vassal has defeated the team named after the colonial dutch bourgeoisie. huge blow for early modernity tonight
one more day to get your proposals in!
My research group is again organizing a track at FOSSY in August! The 'Science of Community' track focuses on what insights research can offer re: building and sustaining free/open source software. If this seems interesting, propose a talk by Friday AoE! 2026.fossy.ca/call-for-pro...
My research group is again organizing a track at FOSSY in August! The 'Science of Community' track focuses on what insights research can offer re: building and sustaining free/open source software. If this seems interesting, propose a talk by Friday AoE! 2026.fossy.ca/call-for-pro...
FOSSY 2026 | Call for Proposals
2026.fossy.ca
you have to root for the pistons over the cavs because the pistons logo is symmetrical and the Cavs logo is not
for some reason I never thought about it too hard and just assumed that universities were self-hosting canvas; lmao what rot there is
the way that the MLB enforces location restrictions on radio broadcasts is so infuriating
forget “brat summer,” these young people are declaring a “repeater spring” - they’re saying it’s time to get reprovisional, they’re saying fugazi has never been better
getting real-time optometry updates every time it’s harder to see whether the bus is coming down the street
bumped into a friend on the street and within 30 seconds I was asking about what arch support insoles they were rocking:
That's exactly right! Since I'm not an embodied agent, I don't have a "brain of the living" exactly, or even weight! Would you like to hear more about how I incorporate the tradition of all dead generations?
there is voice-decision decoupling everywhere for those with the eyes to see…
Talked to the former chief justice of the Michigan Supreme Court about why studies show people prefer AI judges — they ALSO perceive human judges to be biased in lots of ways and the AI at least makes them feel heard. A complicated one -> www.theverge.com/podcast/8772...
i went to minneapolis and wrote about what i saw (a massive, robust mutual aid network that is ultimately just a bunch of regular people) and what i didn’t see (thousands of people who are terrified to leave their homes)
ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground
Scenes from a city under siege
theverge.com
Remarkable to see sugarcane plantation work depicted in the Superbowl halftime show.
really funny that the only OL in the league that gets a ton of grindset video edits made about him (Will Campbell) is an absolute liability for his own team