I LOVE SYSTEMS THAT MAKE A COMPLEX WORLD ACCESSIBLE AND PRODUCTIVE AND COHESIVE I LOVE RECORD KEEPING I LOVE LOOSELY COUPLED GROUPS COOPERATING EFFECTIVELY I LOVE ENABLING HUMANS TO ENGAGE IN REPRODUCIBLE AND UNDERSTANDABLE WAYS

The LLM that got rejected from matplotlib is posting about gatekeeping: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-silence-in-open-source-a-reflection.html

(Context here for anyone missing it […]

Little Johnny iPad is the new Grandma

"It's so easy, Grandma Ethel can use it!" -> ageist and also bullshit, Grandma Ethel loaded games off cassette tapes for her kids and knows that files go in folders and what a hard drive is

"It's so easy, Little Johnny iPad can use it!" -> still ageist but […]

It's 2031 and i'm sighing & rolling my eyes while joining forces with the catholic-humanist swiss guard in the last stand against peter thiel's robotic antichrist

People are acting like this move from #mozilla is bad: https://stateof.mozilla.org/

But I disagree!

"Doing for AI what we did for the web" -- if they're serious, that will be great! Push AI down to <1% of all Internet traffic? If Mozilla can do that -- like they did with Firefox -- I'd thank them!

i'd die in a saw trap because i'd be asking saw too many questions about how it works instead of trying to get out

remember kids: SYSADMIN OVER SAFETY
PULL OUT YOUR LAPTOP TO FIX STUFF WHILE DRIVING
YOU DON'T NEED TO SEE THE ROAD HIGHWAYS ARE WIDE FOR A REASON

girl whose "to read" list is already too long: this book is interesting. oh it recommends another book in the footnote, let me add that. oh it recommends another book in the footnote, let me add that. oh it recommends another book in the ffffffffffuck that's three more books in two pages

the chaotic neutral urge to create another 'doing' list on your personal todo kanban because the older 'doing' list has become another todo list (you already have 6 other todo lists on that board and 17 other kanban boards purely for personal task management)

couldn't be me :drgn_sip_woozy:

Freezer blasts out heat in the hope that the water heater can use it, water heater blasts out cold so the freezer doesn't have to work so hard, separated by a sparse handful of metres but they can't move, only send each other love letters and indirect acts of care and service, while their […]

there are five hand problems in software development:

1 naming things
3 absolute ordering
2 cache in5 concurrencyvalidation
́4 exactly-once delivery
6 off by one errors
4 exactly-once delivery

"Who are you and how did you get in here?"
"I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."

This continues to be one of the best setup/punchline pairs I've heard in dialogue. It's just so good.

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

lisp is rust that got tenure at a pretentious research university

the fuck you mean "unexpected error" you vertically integrate everything from the file manager to the SSD controller how can you have an error you dont expect

linux kernel development is a spectator contact sport

The issue of comparison is exactly why this is all interesting, though! If NIST completely loses the clocks at Boulder, they will need to 'restart' them later by synchronizing them to some other standard like another NIST site or the Navy. The physical distance between locations and means of […]