Patricio Del Boca
@pdelboca.me
Tech Lead and Open Advocate @okfn.bsky.social.
Information Systems Engineer & Radical Anarco Hypermedialist. Working for a more simple and affordable technology.
ES / EN / IT
🌐 https://pdelboca.me
💡 https://pdelboca.me/writings.html
Information Systems Engineer & Radical Anarco Hypermedialist. Working for a more simple and affordable technology.
ES / EN / IT
🌐 https://pdelboca.me
💡 https://pdelboca.me/writings.html
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.
Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers.
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
February 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
People in tech talk about the idea of a “10x programmer” — someone whose work is worth that of 10 others. I get the impression Musk etc think they can apply it all over the federal workforce but like… there’s no such thing as a 10x ATC navigational aid maintenance worker. Some jobs just need people.
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jesus christ kibty.town/blog/mintlify/
how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick - eva's site
how to hack discord, vercel and more with one easy trick
kibty.town
December 18, 2025 at 11:34 PM
jesus christ kibty.town/blog/mintlify/
I love how CSS and HTML are evolving.
The better the platform, the better the future of web development.
The better the platform, the better the future of web development.
💡 CSS Tip!
Two circles, one arrow, and CSS magic. 🪄
A cool demo packed with modern features (anchor positioning, attr(), container queries, shape(), and more!) 🤩
css-tip.com/connected-ci...
The shape and position of the arrow are fully controlled using CSS (Yes, there is a collision detection).
Two circles, one arrow, and CSS magic. 🪄
A cool demo packed with modern features (anchor positioning, attr(), container queries, shape(), and more!) 🤩
css-tip.com/connected-ci...
The shape and position of the arrow are fully controlled using CSS (Yes, there is a collision detection).
December 16, 2025 at 5:11 PM
I love how CSS and HTML are evolving.
The better the platform, the better the future of web development.
The better the platform, the better the future of web development.
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It looks like I will have some capacity for PhD and visiting PhD supervision from next year; if you're interested in researching the cultural commons, cultural value and cultural policy, or know someone who does, get in touch!
December 15, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It looks like I will have some capacity for PhD and visiting PhD supervision from next year; if you're interested in researching the cultural commons, cultural value and cultural policy, or know someone who does, get in touch!
Bold statement from enhance.dev but I love the idea.
This is the tech we should aim to. Build around the platform and design to last.
This is the tech we should aim to. Build around the platform and design to last.
December 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Bold statement from enhance.dev but I love the idea.
This is the tech we should aim to. Build around the platform and design to last.
This is the tech we should aim to. Build around the platform and design to last.
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The UN General Assembly resolution against torture was rejected by only three countries: the US, Israel, and Argentina, who remind the world that they oppose even the most basic principles of humanity.
November 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
The UN General Assembly resolution against torture was rejected by only three countries: the US, Israel, and Argentina, who remind the world that they oppose even the most basic principles of humanity.
I'm wondering on the impact of LLMs in code migrations. Since it will always recommend out-of-date ways of doing things, will it have negative impact in the inertia for updating codebases?
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November 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I'm wondering on the impact of LLMs in code migrations. Since it will always recommend out-of-date ways of doing things, will it have negative impact in the inertia for updating codebases?
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I'm having so much fun with @htmx.org, Web Components and View Transitions while developing a simple app that can help me practice my Dutch.
I'm getting a really smooth UX with just a couple of lines of code. The whole Web Component is just ~150 LOC including CSS, HTML and JS.
I'm getting a really smooth UX with just a couple of lines of code. The whole Web Component is just ~150 LOC including CSS, HTML and JS.
November 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I'm having so much fun with @htmx.org, Web Components and View Transitions while developing a simple app that can help me practice my Dutch.
I'm getting a really smooth UX with just a couple of lines of code. The whole Web Component is just ~150 LOC including CSS, HTML and JS.
I'm getting a really smooth UX with just a couple of lines of code. The whole Web Component is just ~150 LOC including CSS, HTML and JS.
Web Components are a so powerful and the fact that they are platform native makes them really sustainable in the long term. Sprinkled with some @htmx.org they become magic.
It's sad that the last decade of web development divested SO much into corporate frameworks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUht...
It's sad that the last decade of web development divested SO much into corporate frameworks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUht...
How to use Web Components, and why you'd want to
YouTube video by Kevin Powell
www.youtube.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Web Components are a so powerful and the fact that they are platform native makes them really sustainable in the long term. Sprinkled with some @htmx.org they become magic.
It's sad that the last decade of web development divested SO much into corporate frameworks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUht...
It's sad that the last decade of web development divested SO much into corporate frameworks.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUht...
The worst kind of defeat 😂
The error occurs because there's a typo in your pyproject.toml file. The [projec.scripts] section should be [project.scripts] (missing 't').
The error occurs because there's a typo in your pyproject.toml file. The [projec.scripts] section should be [project.scripts] (missing 't').
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The worst kind of defeat 😂
The error occurs because there's a typo in your pyproject.toml file. The [projec.scripts] section should be [project.scripts] (missing 't').
The error occurs because there's a typo in your pyproject.toml file. The [projec.scripts] section should be [project.scripts] (missing 't').
I had a list of 1.8K words that I wanted to translate, I used same prompt. Both web.
- Deepseek: Thought 5 seconds, processed, and returned a two columns csv.
- ChatGPT: hallucinated the amounts of words, over-engineered a list of "solutions", contradicted itself. I gave up.
- Deepseek: Thought 5 seconds, processed, and returned a two columns csv.
- ChatGPT: hallucinated the amounts of words, over-engineered a list of "solutions", contradicted itself. I gave up.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I had a list of 1.8K words that I wanted to translate, I used same prompt. Both web.
- Deepseek: Thought 5 seconds, processed, and returned a two columns csv.
- ChatGPT: hallucinated the amounts of words, over-engineered a list of "solutions", contradicted itself. I gave up.
- Deepseek: Thought 5 seconds, processed, and returned a two columns csv.
- ChatGPT: hallucinated the amounts of words, over-engineered a list of "solutions", contradicted itself. I gave up.
Three years ago I started using a de-Googled phone. A couple of months ago I also moved my personal email to @proton.me .
Moving out of big-tech is way simpler than it looks. You should try.
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Moving out of big-tech is way simpler than it looks. You should try.
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Time to start de-Appling – Hi, I'm Heather Burns
heatherburns.tech
November 11, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Three years ago I started using a de-Googled phone. A couple of months ago I also moved my personal email to @proton.me .
Moving out of big-tech is way simpler than it looks. You should try.
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
Moving out of big-tech is way simpler than it looks. You should try.
heatherburns.tech/2025/11/10/t...
In one of the international projects I'm working we have two requests: some members ask to allow integration with LLM servers deployed in private networks and others to develop a mobile application because they do not have access to notebooks/computers.
That's the level of inequality we are in.
That's the level of inequality we are in.
November 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
In one of the international projects I'm working we have two requests: some members ask to allow integration with LLM servers deployed in private networks and others to develop a mobile application because they do not have access to notebooks/computers.
That's the level of inequality we are in.
That's the level of inequality we are in.
Me: I'm gonna browse the internet...
Internet: Lol, no
Internet: Lol, no
November 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Me: I'm gonna browse the internet...
Internet: Lol, no
Internet: Lol, no
Municipalities around the globe face common challenges and have similar necessities. We need a collaboratively built and maintained software layer for local governments. Open Source is the way to go.
If Municipalities were adopting a commons-based stack for their functions, it would not only be twice as cheap. This could result in a 50–70% lower carbon footprint for a shared, open digital commons stack. And more accountability!
November 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Municipalities around the globe face common challenges and have similar necessities. We need a collaboratively built and maintained software layer for local governments. Open Source is the way to go.
I HATE that GMAIL wraps every link in an email into its own tracking URL.
Not only tracks every click you do but also makes the web experience slower since instead of directly going to the web that someone share you now have an intermediate redirect.
F*cking nightmare.
Not only tracks every click you do but also makes the web experience slower since instead of directly going to the web that someone share you now have an intermediate redirect.
F*cking nightmare.
November 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I HATE that GMAIL wraps every link in an email into its own tracking URL.
Not only tracks every click you do but also makes the web experience slower since instead of directly going to the web that someone share you now have an intermediate redirect.
F*cking nightmare.
Not only tracks every click you do but also makes the web experience slower since instead of directly going to the web that someone share you now have an intermediate redirect.
F*cking nightmare.
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"...servers tend to be relatively stable. Hardware failures are relatively rare, and once a server is up and running it usually runs flawlessly for years without much intervention.
Managing your own servers is not a full-time job."
rameerez.com/send-this-ar...
Managing your own servers is not a full-time job."
rameerez.com/send-this-ar...
Send this article to your friend who still thinks the cloud is a good idea
You've been lied to. You don't need the cloud – you can just run servers and save 10x your AWS costs. It's not that difficult.
rameerez.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:53 AM
"...servers tend to be relatively stable. Hardware failures are relatively rare, and once a server is up and running it usually runs flawlessly for years without much intervention.
Managing your own servers is not a full-time job."
rameerez.com/send-this-ar...
Managing your own servers is not a full-time job."
rameerez.com/send-this-ar...
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I said there would never be an htmx 3.0
but I never said anything about an htmx 4.0
htmx.org/essays/the-f...
but I never said anything about an htmx 4.0
htmx.org/essays/the-f...
</> htmx ~ The fetch()ening
You know, technically, I never said anything about a version *four*
htmx.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I said there would never be an htmx 3.0
but I never said anything about an htmx 4.0
htmx.org/essays/the-f...
but I never said anything about an htmx 4.0
htmx.org/essays/the-f...
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Welcome to technofeudalism on steroids: Just 8 of the S&P500 companies account for 35% of the entire US market’s value, 69% of the gains since the market bottomed in April, and almost 80% of the S&P 500’s net income growth in the last year.
www.ft.com/content/ae4d...
www.ft.com/content/ae4d...
Big Tech’s market dominance is becoming ever more extreme
In a week when Nvidia’s value reached $5tn, investors in even the broadest index of global companies are now heavily exposed to the AI boom
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Welcome to technofeudalism on steroids: Just 8 of the S&P500 companies account for 35% of the entire US market’s value, 69% of the gains since the market bottomed in April, and almost 80% of the S&P 500’s net income growth in the last year.
www.ft.com/content/ae4d...
www.ft.com/content/ae4d...
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The future of tech is commons-based, open by design & built with people at its heart. With #DCEDIC, Europe leads a new way, creating digital infrastructure that others can adapt, reuse & grow globally. This is our @okfn.bsky.social vision in action. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
Commission to launch Digital Commons EDIC to support sovereign European digital infrastructure and technology
The European Commission today adopted a decision establishing the Digital Commons European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (DC-EDIC), a new instrument enabling Member States to jointly develop, depl...
digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
October 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The future of tech is commons-based, open by design & built with people at its heart. With #DCEDIC, Europe leads a new way, creating digital infrastructure that others can adapt, reuse & grow globally. This is our @okfn.bsky.social vision in action. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...
I want data around Bare Metal vs Cloud complexity. I'm not sold on the argument that cloud is easier. In fact, I believe the opposite is true for most of the use cases.
Last time I deployed a Webapp/Redis/Postgres in Azure was a nightmare of products, pricing and private networks. Not simple at all
Last time I deployed a Webapp/Redis/Postgres in Azure was a nightmare of products, pricing and private networks. Not simple at all
October 29, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I want data around Bare Metal vs Cloud complexity. I'm not sold on the argument that cloud is easier. In fact, I believe the opposite is true for most of the use cases.
Last time I deployed a Webapp/Redis/Postgres in Azure was a nightmare of products, pricing and private networks. Not simple at all
Last time I deployed a Webapp/Redis/Postgres in Azure was a nightmare of products, pricing and private networks. Not simple at all
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TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 27, 2025 at 2:47 PM
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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