Ross A. Baker
@rossabaker.com
Never daunted.
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#Rustlang #Python #Typelevel #Emacs #Nix #Indieweb
Languages: en,de,es
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December Adventure, 2025: Day 1
The first step is a new repository. I’m open to collaboration, so this will be hosted on Codeberg. It is named KBBL after the radio station on The Simpsons.
> No sports, no rock, no information; for mindless chatter, we’re your station!
I like sports, rock, and information, but I also like the early seasons of the Simpsons.
Tonight was just a basic Nix and Cargo skeleton. It’s a long month.
rossabaker.com
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
It varies by latitude, but up here around 40°N, today is the earliest sunset of the year. Better news than the solstice, if you like to be outdoors after work.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It varies by latitude, but up here around 40°N, today is the earliest sunset of the year. Better news than the solstice, if you like to be outdoors after work.
Ich dachte, heute Abend wäre Krampusnacht. Ich habe sie verpasst!
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ich dachte, heute Abend wäre Krampusnacht. Ich habe sie verpasst!
I'm just going to start posting my entire site-lisp directory next to CLAUDE.md and we're going to see who blinks first.
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm just going to start posting my entire site-lisp directory next to CLAUDE.md and we're going to see who blinks first.
I did not anticipate spending part of this evening admiring Berkshire Hathaway's web design, but here we are. Thanks, @tantek.com!
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
berkshirehathaway.com
www.berkshirehathaway.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I did not anticipate spending part of this evening admiring Berkshire Hathaway's web design, but here we are. Thanks, @tantek.com!
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
December Adventure, 2025: Day 1
The first step is a new repository. I’m open to collaboration, so this will be hosted on Codeberg. It is named KBBL after the radio station on The Simpsons.
> No sports, no rock, no information; for mindless chatter, we’re your station!
I like sports, rock, and information, but I also like the early seasons of the Simpsons.
Tonight was just a basic Nix and Cargo skeleton. It’s a long month.
rossabaker.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
Tried to document Iocaine on the IndieWeb wiki, but I can't log in because IndieLogin is flagged by Iocaine for being a fake Firefox and thus served a garbage response instead of the links that power the login. Oops.
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
Set a user-agent · Issue #135 · aaronpk/indielogin.com
indielogin.com is pretending to be a Firefox browser when it fetches my website during login. This fails because it is detected as a bot, but it doesn't provide any distinguishing user-agent string...
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Tried to document Iocaine on the IndieWeb wiki, but I can't log in because IndieLogin is flagged by Iocaine for being a fake Firefox and thus served a garbage response instead of the links that power the login. Oops.
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM
I don't write Zig, but I continue to be impressed with how it's managed.
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
#giveupgithub #zig
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
#giveupgithub #zig
将主要Zig代码库从GitHub迁移至Codeberg
Migrating the Main Zig Repository from GitHub to Codeberg (ziglang.org)
09:49 ↑ 147 HN Points
ziglang.org
November 27, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I don't write Zig, but I continue to be impressed with how it's managed.
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
#giveupgithub #zig
https://ziglang.org/news/migrating-from-github-to-codeberg/
#giveupgithub #zig
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
I'm looking into the Zig programming language, and I found this on the language designer's blog. I always appreciate seeing other people being as cranky as I am about rent-seeking and the aggressive push for LLM coding:
“In this case it's even more suspicious because the company that bills you […]
“In this case it's even more suspicious because the company that bills you […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
November 24, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I'm looking into the Zig programming language, and I found this on the language designer's blog. I always appreciate seeing other people being as cranky as I am about rent-seeking and the aggressive push for LLM coding:
“In this case it's even more suspicious because the company that bills you […]
“In this case it's even more suspicious because the company that bills you […]
I have a long track record of patiently mentoring new Open Source developers. AI sloppeteers should be aggressively blocked and banned. How will they learn? Open Source is a big world. By being consistently blocked and banned for slopping, maybe they'll learn not to slop. And either way, the […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I have a long track record of patiently mentoring new Open Source developers. AI sloppeteers should be aggressively blocked and banned. How will they learn? Open Source is a big world. By being consistently blocked and banned for slopping, maybe they'll learn not to slop. And either way, the […]
Today in review:
- After a few weeks, Rust is starting to click.
- After a few years, Docker is still utterly baffling.
- After a few weeks, Rust is starting to click.
- After a few years, Docker is still utterly baffling.
November 22, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Today in review:
- After a few weeks, Rust is starting to click.
- After a few years, Docker is still utterly baffling.
- After a few weeks, Rust is starting to click.
- After a few years, Docker is still utterly baffling.
This Claude guy needs to be put on a PIP.
November 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This Claude guy needs to be put on a PIP.
The port of Basic Computer Games to multiple languages makes a lovely training corpus for Iocaine to protect your web servers and give the AI scrapers a tummyache. NixOS setting and example in the paste.
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/d848ac45ba5b476daac56c525e66b9f7 […]
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/d848ac45ba5b476daac56c525e66b9f7 […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
The port of Basic Computer Games to multiple languages makes a lovely training corpus for Iocaine to protect your web servers and give the AI scrapers a tummyache. NixOS setting and example in the paste.
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/d848ac45ba5b476daac56c525e66b9f7 […]
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/d848ac45ba5b476daac56c525e66b9f7 […]
Upgrading to Iocaine 3, and got a persistent exit code 216 from Caddy. It seems that the iocaine.service must be started before caddy.service, which is not true of other services I reverse proxy with Caddy. Curious.
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/83475e4a1d1b4006b082453aefa93287
#caddy […]
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/83475e4a1d1b4006b082453aefa93287
#caddy […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Upgrading to Iocaine 3, and got a persistent exit code 216 from Caddy. It seems that the iocaine.service must be started before caddy.service, which is not true of other services I reverse proxy with Caddy. Curious.
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/83475e4a1d1b4006b082453aefa93287
#caddy […]
https://paste.rossabaker.com/ross/83475e4a1d1b4006b082453aefa93287
#caddy […]
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as there support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Seeing open source and privacy companies having Discord as there support channel feels like a vegan community meeting at a steak house for events.
There's a good song to be written about learning of an artist's death via a clickbait headline, and Todd Snider would have been my first choice to write it. RIP.
November 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There's a good song to be written about learning of an artist's death via a clickbait headline, and Todd Snider would have been my first choice to write it. RIP.
Remember how nice getting your project found and receiving pull requests on GitHub used to feel? Still feels that way on Codeberg.
#codeberg
#codeberg
November 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Remember how nice getting your project found and receiving pull requests on GitHub used to feel? Still feels that way on Codeberg.
#codeberg
#codeberg
Took a detour from my Rust studies to artisanally handcraft a frontend for How Many Nines. It is unmistakably the frontend of a backend developer.
https://hm9s.rossabaker.com/
https://hm9s.rossabaker.com/
How Many Nines?
hm9s.rossabaker.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Took a detour from my Rust studies to artisanally handcraft a frontend for How Many Nines. It is unmistakably the frontend of a backend developer.
https://hm9s.rossabaker.com/
https://hm9s.rossabaker.com/
When I was new to jazz, I started with Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." I knew of Coltrane – I played the sax in school – but I learned the names Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. I found their albums, explored their side players, and immersed myself. Decades later, that journey continues.
This […]
This […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
When I was new to jazz, I started with Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue." I knew of Coltrane – I played the sax in school – but I learned the names Cannonball Adderley and Bill Evans. I found their albums, explored their side players, and immersed myself. Decades later, that journey continues.
This […]
This […]
Watching AI sloppeteers chase newer sloppeteers off their unwanted GitHub issues, like squirrels protecting their favorite walnut tree at the park. In neither case is working software being produced, but nature always entertains.
#github
#github
November 10, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Watching AI sloppeteers chase newer sloppeteers off their unwanted GitHub issues, like squirrels protecting their favorite walnut tree at the park. In neither case is working software being produced, but nature always entertains.
#github
#github
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
November 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
November 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
[uspol]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
Original post on woof.group
woof.group
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
[uspol]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
This weight presses upon me every day. I am flooded with stories. There are so many I cannot remember them all; cannot keep straight who was gassed, beaten, abducted, or shot. I write to leave a record, to stare at the track of the tornado which tears through our city. I write to leave […]
140 minutes of soccer yesterday. We needed just one goal that would not come – or was called offside when it it did.
Freed up my afternoon for the baroque performance by the ISO I thought I'd miss. The nice thing about being oversubscribed is having a fallback plan.
#youthsoccer #indysymphony
Freed up my afternoon for the baroque performance by the ISO I thought I'd miss. The nice thing about being oversubscribed is having a fallback plan.
#youthsoccer #indysymphony
November 2, 2025 at 9:05 PM
140 minutes of soccer yesterday. We needed just one goal that would not come – or was called offside when it it did.
Freed up my afternoon for the baroque performance by the ISO I thought I'd miss. The nice thing about being oversubscribed is having a fallback plan.
#youthsoccer #indysymphony
Freed up my afternoon for the baroque performance by the ISO I thought I'd miss. The nice thing about being oversubscribed is having a fallback plan.
#youthsoccer #indysymphony
When all hope seems lost, never forget: uBlockOrigin supports XPath.
```
github.com##:xpath(//div[contains(text(), "Mention @copilot")]/..)
```
#ublockorigin #xpath #copilot
```
github.com##:xpath(//div[contains(text(), "Mention @copilot")]/..)
```
#ublockorigin #xpath #copilot
October 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
When all hope seems lost, never forget: uBlockOrigin supports XPath.
```
github.com##:xpath(//div[contains(text(), "Mention @copilot")]/..)
```
#ublockorigin #xpath #copilot
```
github.com##:xpath(//div[contains(text(), "Mention @copilot")]/..)
```
#ublockorigin #xpath #copilot