Tim Bray
@timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy
Web geek and environmentalist with a camera at the bottom left corner of Canada. He/him.
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@quixoticgeek OK, that was abrupt. Sorry. I tend to react bitterly to generalized complaints about open-source maintainers being unresponsive, for reasons outlined here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/16/Long-Links#p-12
Having said that:
1. I think it’s unfair to wield a brush […]
Having said that:
1. I think it’s unfair to wield a brush […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
January 6, 2026 at 5:42 PM
@quixoticgeek OK, that was abrupt. Sorry. I tend to react bitterly to generalized complaints about open-source maintainers being unresponsive, for reasons outlined here: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/16/Long-Links#p-12
Having said that:
1. I think it’s unfair to wield a brush […]
Having said that:
1. I think it’s unfair to wield a brush […]
January 6, 2026 at 5:33 PM
@quixoticgeek Sounds like Open Source just isn't your kind of thing.
January 6, 2026 at 2:37 PM
@quixoticgeek Sounds like Open Source just isn't your kind of thing.
@quixoticgeek That's what I used to say until I needed DBD:MySQL and all the package managers failed but "make" Just Worked, first time.
January 5, 2026 at 11:45 PM
@quixoticgeek That's what I used to say until I needed DBD:MySQL and all the package managers failed but "make" Just Worked, first time.
@quixoticgeek Also bear Plan C in mind: Download the source and build the sucker. Many (not all) OSS projects build easily on MacOS.
January 5, 2026 at 10:02 PM
@quixoticgeek Also bear Plan C in mind: Download the source and build the sucker. Many (not all) OSS projects build easily on MacOS.
Another dispatch from the implementing-regular-expressions front lines. Probably of interest to very few, but who knows. Includes thoughts on coding while old.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026
#software
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026
#software
Regexp Lessons
www.tbray.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Another dispatch from the implementing-regular-expressions front lines. Probably of interest to very few, but who knows. Includes thoughts on coding while old.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026
#software
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/01/01/Quamina-2026
#software
I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.
January 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
I suggest we call this “The Epstein Files War”.
From the excellent Standard Ebooks, “Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026”. Seriously, check ’em out.
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
标准电子书：2026年文学作品公共领域日
Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature (standardebooks.org)
16:40 ↑ 108 HN Points
standardebooks.org
January 2, 2026 at 11:37 PM
From the excellent Standard Ebooks, “Read 20 of the best books entering the public domain in 2026”. Seriously, check ’em out.
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026
January 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
@cheeaun Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
December 31, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@cheeaun Does this screenie exhibit a bug? Note the lonely "Followers" text at the bottom.
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
Best of the New Year to you and yours, and thanks for all the fine work!
Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions […]
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions […]
Original post on cosocial.ca
cosocial.ca
December 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Idly working on my Quamina state-machine-based pattern matcher. (https://github.com/timbray/quamina)
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions […]
Hit a bug that smells like an infinite loop. Looked closer. Hmm, seems like my code traversing a dinky little 4-state automaton thinks it needs to consider 25,165,824 possible state transitions […]
The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black
h/t @gruber
h/t @gruber
December 31, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The “Just coffee, black” meme brutally deconstructed: https://knowyourmeme.com/videos/433740-just-coffee-black
h/t @gruber
h/t @gruber
Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93248e502
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93248e502
December 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Blocking the work of MSF is absolutely depraved. Israel continues to fumble its way out of the community of civilized nations.
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93248e502
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-israel-hamas-palestinians-ceasefire-war-news-286106d7a5a911704cdcf1c93248e502
Peeking inside the process of how raw camera sensor data gets turned into an image that looks something like what you see: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
h/t @nelson
#photography
h/t @nelson
#photography
What an unprocessed photo looks like
Comments
maurycyz.com
December 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Peeking inside the process of how raw camera sensor data gets turned into an image that looks something like what you see: https://maurycyz.com/misc/raw_photo/
h/t @nelson
#photography
h/t @nelson
#photography
Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year
December 30, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Very decent year-end reading recommendations, featuring the contradictions of capitalism and whodunnits: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-12-30/capitalism-and-crime-books-that-got-me-through-the-year
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
OH: “My mind was hashtag blown.”
December 27, 2025 at 2:09 AM
OH: “My mind was hashtag blown.”
Best wishes! https://boris.bandcamp.com/track/last-christmas
December 25, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Best wishes! https://boris.bandcamp.com/track/last-christmas
Running pre-Christmas errands, a relative who likes cannabis wanted to stop at the dispo. I strolled in too, and at the checkout counter I noticed a sign about Tuesdays. Couldn’t resist, told the relative to consider this part of their Christmas present and pulled out my credit card.
Just so I […]
Just so I […]
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cosocial.ca
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Running pre-Christmas errands, a relative who likes cannabis wanted to stop at the dispo. I strolled in too, and at the checkout counter I noticed a sign about Tuesdays. Couldn’t resist, told the relative to consider this part of their Christmas present and pulled out my credit card.
Just so I […]
Just so I […]
New verb! “Enslopenize” https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready-or-not-here-they-come-notes-from-the-ai-force-feed/sharetoken/59aaed33-5309-4a28-8bfc-7f0ed29543f2
Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed ….
I just got a new iPhone. I didn’t need a newer version....
talkingpointsmemo.com
December 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
December 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
What a charming story.
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
Even Its Author Is Shocked by How Fans Have Embraced “Heated Rivalry,” the Gay Hockey Romance Series
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/books/heated-rivalry-rachel-reid-hockey-romance.html
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing
Humanist Plumbing
www.tbray.org
December 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“What happened was, a faucet started dripping. And then I managed to route around the malignant machineries of late-stage capitalism. These days, that’s almost always a story worth telling.” https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/12/18/Humanist-Plumbing