Anyone else seeing terminal corruption when switching tabs after upgrading Ghostty to 1.4.0? Fixes itself after a few hundred milliseconds, but very noticeable and quite annoying. macOS, if it matters...

Last weekend was Gatliff 50k, this weekend Beachy Head Marathon. Really enjoyed this one, first half weather was calm and even a bit sunny, second half was sideways hail (ouch!), torrential rain, and gusts that blew me up the Seven Sisters! Still over an […] [Original post on federate.me.uk]

Apropos nothing, I wonder how many things have been seeded with 7 as a "random" number...

Tell me you used Claude to generate your website without telling me. 01 / MONOSPACE FONT STEP ONE 02 / MONOSPACE FONT ... 03 / MONOSPACE FONT PROFIT

If you are using my macOS packages available from https://pkgsrc.smartos.org/install-on-macos/ then note that due to newer compiler and SDK requirements, the 14.5 package set will no longer be updated, and there is a newer 15.5 SDK target now available. Upgrade instructions are available here […]

"Signing in using your GitHub account without a pre-existing account in gitlab.gnome.org is not allowed. " I'm so tired of people making it difficult to report bugs and submit patches, and then people complaining that I don't upstream my patches from pkgsrc.

I was already a little annoyed that Apple replaced rsync with openrsync, as it broke some of my own personal ways of working (e.g. listing remote directories), but now the version in macOS 27 is also breaking "bob publish" because it has an incompatible --delete-excluded implementation. #pkgsrc […]

Bit disappointing. Upgraded pkgsrc macOS build host from 14.x to 27.0.1, and MacFUSE to latest. First run is showing consistently slower builds. bindfs CPU usage seems higher, but I don't have accurate numbers on that. Also there is still the 2 minute delay to unmount /System. Maybe next […]

Initial experience with Octopus Plug-In Solar let down quite a bit by Fox ESS incompetence. 1. Setting up wifi overwrote login password 2. Link to reset password doesn't work 3. Find password reset page, doesn't work 4. Have to email them like it's 1997

Anyone else getting false-positive redundant_field_names warnings with the new 0.1.99 clippy? #rustlang

Fulfilled a dream today, that was so much fun! #avgeek

Upgraded the home iMac to macOS 27. Disappointed, as I thought I'd read they were going to tone down the whole Liquid Glass nonsense, but it appears all I can do is reduce the transparency, and not get rid of the ridiculously oversized bubbles. Guess I will be holding out on Sequoia for a lot […]

25 years ago, at BBC Kingswood Warren, we were trying to keep bbc.co.uk up and running. https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/12/brandons_history_of_bbc_on_the_2.html

Today's rabbit hole: * gitea broken due to sqlite.go update * sqlite.go blocked by libsqlite3.go * libsqlite3.go blocked by libc.go * fix libc.go * libsqlite3.go now blocked by upstream sqlite bug * caused by "-Wl,-R" in shell scripts getting brace expanded when converted to tcl array Turtles […]

The fun I had trying to get gpt-5.6-luna to perform a trivial task moving some functions from one file to another. The kind of mind-numbing, tedious work that computers should be perfectly capable of doing, freeing up our precious time for more human and creative endeavours. I should have just […]

While I am a firm believer in using all available tools to improve the software I work on, I do really like that NetBSD's firm and unequivocal anti-LLM stance is proving popular, and helping it to gain traction. To all the new users I'm seeing over the past few weeks, welcome! Hope we can help […]

First home workout since cancelling gym membership and getting a cheap set of adjustable dumbbells and a bench. Really quite happy with them. I'll miss having access to the cable machines, but can already feel e.g. skullcrushers hitting muscles I don't think […] [Original post on federate.me.uk]

Continuing treadmill debugging. Am now satisfied the scary capacitors are discharged, and testing the 12V rails with a spare CPU fan exhibits the same issue (voltage drops, LED goes dim and starts flashing). My intuition is suspecting the 2 x 25V capacitors […] [Original post on federate.me.uk]

Have been really enjoying MinuteCryptic since discovering it, despite not ever being interested in cryptic crosswords. Thought I'd take a fresh look at The Times. Read the example. Big "nope" after the first clue! Just completely different. It would take me centuries to complete one.

Today's fun: trying to fix my treadmill. I think I've narrowed it down to three options: * Take a punt on a new power board (~£200) * Buy a new treadmill * Diagnose possibly faulty 25V capacitors on a board containing scary 400V capacitors I'm not sure I like any of those options. #diy #running

First parkrun sandwich for a few months, and I felt it. 2 minutes slower than last week. So long fitness, it was nice knowing you. That's my lowest VO2Max since getting my Garmin 4 years ago. (First post with Buffer. Nice to see a healthy amount of parkrun content on BlueSky.) #parkrun #fitness

Keep hearing good things about Octopus Energy. Not quite ready to switch supplier to them yet (mostly because OVO will almost certainly mess up our credit balance). I have however just ordered one of the plug-in solar kits that they've just announced. I think with the baseline draw that we […]

Have been trying to get my youngest daughter along to parkrun for ages, including the offer of some pretty substantial bribes. Nothing appeared to be working. On the drive home from her football training last night, her friends had created a running group […] [Original post on federate.me.uk]

Ok, what's changed very recently in Mastodon land? Suddenly my instance is constantly filling up with stupid amounts of data in system/cache/media_attachments. My daily cron jobs to clean up appear to no longer be enough. Previously it was very static, with almost always around 20GB free […]

Our hotel wifi sucks, so for today's Geoguessr game I thought I'd try no steps for the first time. As predicted, did absolutely terribly for the first 4 rounds, but then finished with a 5K! Tempted to give up and stop playing, I'm never going to improve on that. #geoguessr

Excited to try this, have wanted a Rust alternative to ShellCheck for a long time now. https://github.com/ewhauser/shuck The main issue with ShellCheck is that the Haskell infrastructure in pkgsrc is sub-optimal, and it currently pulls in the full ghc as well as lots of hs-* dependencies […]

I've been working on some optimisations to bob's dynamic scheduler, which has resulted in a huge new personal best for a from-scratch pkgsrc bulk build: Built 26943 in 17h 40m 23s (22688 succeeded, 0 cached, 2577 failed, 1678 skipped) Not quite an apples-to-apples comparison as I've been using […]

If you're running the SmartOS trunk package set, then ensure you have the latest pkg tools installed: $ pkg_add -U pkg_install pkgin This will help avoid a potential issue I discovered when upgrading a host that hadn't been updated for a long time […]

It all started so well today, before going downhill and finishing badly on my nemesis continent. #geoguessr

A nice little usability improvement coming in the next version of bob: you can specify a dewey pattern for commands that accepts a package match, e.g.: $ ../target/debug/bob history -o pkgname,duration 'nodejs>22<24' PKGNAME DURATION nodejs-22.22.2 53m39s nodejs-22.22.2 51m55s nodejs-22.22.2 […]