ehm, to be clear, the correct phrasing is ‘it really ties the room together’

Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil

this dragonfly was in the mood for steampunk cosplay

🔡🤓 underappreciated letter post: ‘eng’ ŋ, capital Ŋ, #unicode U+014A U+014B, short for ‘ng’, very compact and readable once you get the haŋ of it! (only for the ‘ng’ sound, e.g. not for pan·gram) bonus fun: dot above to shorten ‘‐ing’ to ŋ̇, e.g. talkŋ̇, beŋ̇ #lingsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_(le...

‘talk is cheap, show me the code’ was a proxy: it implied that an idea was conceptually thought through, proven to be technically feasible, had a clear relation to existing architecture, etc. now that (clanking out) code is ‘cheap’, that's still true, but apparently easy to forget. *yells at cloud*

well yeah okay cool @eurovision.tv but don't forget to kick israel out first otherwise i still won't watch #eurovision

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027

ah wow someone actually built it: the ‘#ai → 💩’ enshittifier browser extension

Enshittifier — replace AI with 💩

The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts.

enshittifier.wells.ee

wouter bolsterlee@wbolster.nl · 10mo ago

asking for a friend… has someone, by any chance, already built a cloud-to-butt browser extension, 2025 edition? #ai LLM → LyingLM AI → AI 🤡 artificial intelligence → aRtiFiCiaL iNtEgiLeNcE!! agentic → agentic 🧟‍♂️🤖 ChatGPT → ChadGTP 😫

rustedpy/result (a library with a Result type for #python) is no more. it was an interesting experiment, but ultimately unsuccessful. rip 🪦 as a (former) co-maintainer, i've just closed all issues and pull requests, and archived the repo: github.com/rustedpy/res...

Project Status: UNMAINTAINED · Issue #201 · rustedpy/result

Hi everyone, I've been meaning to write this for a long time. As can be noticed from the queue of PRs and unanswered issues, this project is no longer receiving the attention and maintenance it nee...

github.com

this needs settling, so here goes: 📣 ‘zee stud’ is the the correct way to pronounce zstd (zstandard) ❌️ zed standard (boring, too long) ❌️ zee standard (same, but with a german accent) ❌️ zed es tee dee (a std?! yuck) ❌️ zee es tee dee (worse, a german-sounding disease) ✅️zee stud (short, easy)

is #unicode numerology a thing? i believe i may be on to something: ☔ + 1 = ☕ (U+2614 UMBRELLA WITH RAIN DROPS + 1 = U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE)

tending dotfiles is essentially gardening for nerds 🏡 🤓

woohoo, good news for #javascript #security: it seems like npm will make install scripts opt-in! rfc got merged just now: github.com/npm/rfcs/blo...

hello little frend 🐝

😫 computer says no today: browser has wrong fonts, no text in terminal, emacs segfaults… with a fonts related stack trace. 💡 culprit seems fontconfig: gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/f... requires running `fc-cache -fv`. btw i use #archlinux so maybe i am just among the first to suffer?😬

jia tanstack really? can't believe i am the first one to make this terrible joke. well, here you have it.🥁 ba dum tish #javascript #security

It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore.

Too many keys on a piano. How am I supposed to remember what they all do? There should be just one key that plays a song in its entirety. And there should be a machine that can press the key and listen to the song on my behalf. I don't need to be involved.

wow, invasive alien species in the garden! didn't expect to see a 🦝 raccoon / wasbeer / waschbär. and yes, really, in the eu #🇪🇺: eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-conten...

days since i was bitten by a yaml multiline gotcha: 0️⃣

been avoiding uppercase letters for many years already. lazy i hear you say? now it's apparently a sign that i am *not* a lazy human 🙃 > laconic lowercase messaging has one big advantage: it suggests you didn’t entirely outsource the tedious business of communicating with other human beings to ai

How can you tell if your boss has a big ego? Their email habits are a definite tell | Emma Beddington

Only those in unassailable positions of power would ditch capital letters – or reply to colleagues with a thumbs up emoji, writes Emma Beddington

theguardian.com

well done! 30º seems about right 🚐 🌊 (no casualties, so i can make jokes: www.omroepwest.nl/112/5091160/...)

delibreately leaving typos to signal that i'm human. waht a world we live in

how it started: visited a modern dance 🧑🏼‍🩰 performance tonight, had a wine 🍷 or two afterwards… hey cool i hear live music 🎶 further down the building! how it ended: joined the band 🎹 with a singer i met two minutes earlier 😎 (yes i admit those wines did help get me on stage 🙃)

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forgot to bring my freshly brewed cup of coffee ☕ from another room to my desk *twice* within 2 minutes. maybe i should get some… oh wait 🤦

looks like my extremely prudent attitude (aka being effin lazy) by sticking with old-skool boring #python tech and never looking into all the ‘uv’ hotness is finally paying off 😉

theater de regentes, den haag 🇳🇱 serves as a polling station today for the municipal elections #gr2026 #verkiezingen #denhaag quite a special location to cast your vote. it even has live music #🎶 for the voters… yep, with me playing the piano! 🎹

🤔 i would like a shorthand syntax in #python for ‘foo=foo’, similar to ‘{foo}’ in javascript/typescript, e.g. f(foo=foo, bar=bar) → f(=foo, =bar) it also composes nicely with *args and **kwargs syntax: f(*args, **kwargs, foo=foo, **more_kw, bar=bar) → f(*args, **kwargs, =foo, **more_kw, =bar)

my biggest professional fear as a very experienced software engineer is that the back half of my career will force me into sad #ai slop mopper roles. 🧵

shoutout to the person who scribbled a complaint in the margin of this 50yo book (which i found in a ‘minibieb’ street library) using the pseudo-intellectual faux latin phrase ‘in ultima analysi’, stating ‘nonsense! analysis is greek, not latin’. amen brother 🙌🏼, neither is it italian 🤝🏼 #lingsky