A concept that periodically fills me with dread, wonder and frustration| Mikkel Høgh
Ain't THAT the truth!| Creations - Quilts, Art, Whatever by Nina-Marie Sayre
I think we've reached the limit of first-order code automation already| jodavaho.io
I've been feeling a bit down lately and haven't felt like going anywhere, but my husband is so manic. He hates sitting still for even a second and insisted t...| Tadaima.
Almost some fraction of a lifetime later, I am looking at my own house of truth as having been shaped as much as what I was taught by as much as what was never taught. Or Alan gets grapples with what the big academics talk about as positionally. And in so many big things in […]| CogDogBlog
What’s the difference between a flower and a weed? I don’t know if there’s a definitive test, but I have some criteria of my own. When I break the stalk off a flower in my garden, it will refuse to flower again, and probably die.When I pull all the visible leaves and stalks off a … Continue reading Flower or Weed?| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Today sees the publication of what is, OK, an interesting paper on how the serrated trailing edge of the flippers of the ichthyosaur Temnodontosaurus may have enabled it to generate less turbulence…| Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week
The Guardian is one of my favorite news sources. I’m a subscriber (support news organizations!) and I read it daily. But it is not immune to errors, as this headline shows: 68 °F above average is a lot. For a … Continue reading →| Random ASCII – tech blog of Bruce Dawson
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.| ⍻
I got an average of 2/3 emails per day from LinkedIn. I don't know if this is more funny or sad.| On Coding
Even if you never plan on carrying, there are some good reasons to get your conceal carry permit. Check out the details here on Primer Peak!| Primer Peak
I hope these idiots had fire extinguishers with them… but I doubt it. During our recent ‘heatwave,’ I’ve passed a few scorched remains of fires, or attempts at bonfires whil…| Writing Wrinkles, and Random Ramblings
Next week I plan to visit a friend who lives out of state. We've been both excitedly planning what we'll be doing together (mostly hiking and drinking it sou...| Tadaima.
My tech posts often come from kind of a negative place. I wish it wasn't like that, but we all know how the mind works: writing with nuance and positivity is a lot harder than fired-up screeds of the "someone is wrong on the Internet" variety.| Johan Halse's blog
Open Knowledge Foundation Germany has just released a new report titled: “From Software to Society: Openness in a Changing World” by Dr. Henriette Litta and Peter Bihr (I was also inter…| Tara Tarakiyee - Techverständiger
As a historian of beer I am, of course, delighted that Guinness is progressing with its latest Open Gate project in Covent Garden, London, bringing brewing back to the site of the former Woodyard brewery, once one of the biggest porter breweries in London. But if I read once more that porter got its name… Read More No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield and Billingsgate’ The post No, porter was NOT named after ‘the porters of Covent Garden, Smithfield...| Zythophile
(or actually they do, but they don’t use this knowledge effectively)Update, April 26, 2025: the address fix for W 6th Ave is live, mostly. Going forward I wish that Google Maps would make it harder…| Random ASCII - tech blog of Bruce Dawson
We’ve been having a lot of internet issues at the Romhaus, the subject of which will have to be a topic for another post. While we’ve been trying to get it fixed, one of the things that was recommended to us by Cox was purchasing a new modem to replace our old (but still otherwise … Continue reading "Cable modems are garbage"| Xkeeper's blog
Last night, I attended an insightful and well-organized Bits & Bäume Policy Lab event at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society. Cecilia Rikap delivered an expert breakdown of Big Tech’s dominance and how its control over our digital world extends far beyond mere ownership. She concluded with an inspiring call to resist and circumvent […]| Tara Tarakiyee – Techverständiger
As I've mentioned in the past, one of my goals with this blog is to launch my post-development career in tech punditry and eventually author an O'Reilly book with an animal on the cover.* So today I'm going to add click-baity titles to my previous pithy quotes and tell you about that one weird trick that will let you beat the experts and write faster code than the very best libraries and system implementations.| The Hacks of Life
Fantastic lightning talk from this year's cppcon:| The Hacks of Life
Two decades ago when I first started working at Avid, one of the tasks I was assigned was porting our product (a consumer video editor - think iMovie before it was cool) from the PCI-card-based video capture we first shipped with to digital video vie 1394/Firewire.| The Hacks of Life
People in higher education gatekeeping by deciding that certain groups aren’t “really” under-represented and/or under-privileged and then needing people to show their suffering before wanting to help them. Colleagues failing to properly support and mentor junior faculty of color. Did you think that hiring a non-white person into your department was going to mean that […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Hi all, its me again with a fresh new beef to toss onto the grill. This one requires some context. Lately, #MeToo, the movement started over a decade ago by Tarana Burke, has been absorbed into academic discourse. In the sciences, this has manifested into #MeTooSTEM and #MeTooPhD–with very vocal femmes and men in science […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Hi all, your favorite sunflower is here with a quick reminder: performative allyship is not what we need from you. I am mostly directing this at white men in academia, because in my experience a lot of y’all are into allyship, just not principally because it is a good thing to do. What you want […]| Tenure, She Wrote
Joy Vernon Astrology * Tarot * Reiki Teaching Manifesto: What I Offer As Your Teacher 2025 is the year of the Hermit. That is to say, the digits 2 + 0 + 2 + 5 add together to equal 9, the number of the Hermit card in the Major Arcana. The Hermit is known as […] The post Find Your Inner Teacher in the Year of the Hermit appeared first on Joy Vernon Astrology * Tarot * Reiki.| Joy Vernon Astrology * Tarot * Reiki
Here’s one for the stamp collectors among you… a parcel from San Paulo, Brazil. A tribute anthology to the writer Boris Vian, published by Raphus Press which includes my short story ‘Let’s Get Pataphysical’. It just goes to confirm my … Continue reading →| Douglas Thompson's Blog
I was recently the victim of a "cruel" and "brutal" online slaying of my self-worth, my photographic ability, knowledge, dress sense, and the weird shape| EMULSIVE
After a lot of consideration – this weekend and this past year – and careful examination I’m requesting that my affiliate account with Tantus be closed immediately. There is no one reason, or one... The post And when it all goes to hell… appeared first on Dangerous Lilly.| Dangerous Lilly
Claims of technical death are always overrated, but in the hell mell rush and glee for the synthetic cartoon garish sadly robotic “style” of generative AI imagery I for one remain thril…| CogDogBlog
It’s pretty annoying that in Rust, #[non_exhaustive] structs don’t support “struct update” / “functional record update” syntax (the syntax that powers Stuff { a: b, c: d, ..blah }).| shift.click
Note: This assumes you have familiarity with Rust, memory allocation, etc.| shift.click
Web Components had so much potential to empower HTML to do more, and make web development more accessible to non-programmers and easier for programmers. Remember how exciting it was every time we got new shiny HTML elements that actually do stuff? Remember how exciting it was to be able to do sliders, color pickers, dialogs, disclosure widgets straight in the HTML, without having to include any widget libraries?| lea.verou.me
I’ve been a TiVo customer since 2000. Been using their platform for the longest time. Back then when it was new it was billed as a PVR (Personal Video Recorder) vs a plain ol DVR (Digital video recorder).| A Cup of Joe
This quote has little to do with Supersymmetry, Extra Dimensions and the Origin of Mass. [0h:41m:10s] "At the moment we have a system where ...| moryton.blogspot.com
The most important part of information is (still) the date and time.| moryton.blogspot.com
NOTE: This post was written in a state of anger, and its wording is stronger and more aggressive than it should have been. I am leaving it as is, as it was posted, under the given circumstances. Today, I would write it differently. | asylum.madhouse-project.org
A few of my readers might perhaps know that I'm working on a graphical configurator of sorts for the Keyboardio Model01, called Chrysalis. It is built on top of Electron. Even though it is a niche project, one that doesn't even have a usable alpha yet, I got called out for building on Electron a few times in the not too distant past. I've also seen pretty much every Electron-based project receive disproportionate amounts of hate, for the single reason of being built with it. The usual argumen...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
The other day, I made the mistake of getting involved in a kind of flamewar, that revolved around GitHub versus an email-driven workflow. As can be safely inferred, I do not subscribe to the email-driven workflow idea. There seem to be fundamental disagreements, and I think it's worth a shot to show my side of things.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
Twitter has been an increasingly frustrating experience lately, doing everything they can to alienate me. Today, they succeeded, and I will not be posting on there anymore. I will neither tweet, retweet, nor favourite, my account has been put into a read-only mode. I'm still keeping it, because there are people there whom I follow, and who have not left the birdsite yet. But I will not be interacting with it in any other way. By the end of the year, I plan to leave Twitter behind completely, ...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
A recent conversation on twitter, and the mention of the Das 5Q reminded me how different people are. A lot of people seem to be on the opinion that per-keyboard LEDs are so very useful for notifications, which is something I very strongly disagree with. Back when the 5Q was announced (and I'm not going to link to it, because it is easily one of the silliest ideas I've seen in recent years), I was baffled by their focus on using the LEDs for notifications from the host.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
It has been a while that I have been contacted by a recruiter, and the last few ones were fairly decent conversations, where they made an effort to research me first, and even if they did not get everything right, they still listened, and we had a productive talk. But four days ago, I had another recruiter reach out to me, from a company I know oh so well: one I ranted about before: Google. Apparently, their recruiters still do carpet-bombing style outreach. My first thought was "what took th...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
Strange as it may be, it turns out I never wrote about dh-exec yet, even though it is close to being four years old. Gosh, time flies so fast when you're having fun! Since its first introduction, there's been a reasonable uptake in dh-exec use: as of this writing, 129 packages build-depend on dh-exec. One might think this would be a cause for celebration, that the package is put to great use. But it's not.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
I used to look up to and admire Robert C. Martin, his Clean Coder series taught me a lot, and I enjoyed some of his blog posts, too. But lately, some of the things I read from him made me uneasy, and not in a good way. When I read his latest piece, I felt genuinely sorry for him, and those who follow his advice. "Make the Magic go away" is already a terrible title, and the rest doesn't make it any better, either.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
The other day, I wrote a controversial piece about why grepping logs is terrible, the reactions were interesting. I've got some great feedback (thanks!), and there were a lot of hostility too. I've been called incompetent, lazy, stupid and a systemd-fanboy and various other things. By people who didn't read past the second paragraph, no less. But this is something I expected.| asylum.madhouse-project.org
To this day, I am surprised at the number of people who complain about the Journal's binary storage format. Having spent years working as a system administrator, and after years of working with and on syslog-ng - in the capacity of maintainer of the Open Source Edition for more than a year -, I am increasingly puzzled about all the hostility towards non-text storage formats. I am even more puzzled about the arguments against it. Maybe I'm living in a different world, but there are very, very ...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
I've been using distributed version control systems for a good while, started with TLA back in 2001, when it was still a bunch of shell scripts and was simply called "Arch". I jumped the Git bandwagon quite early too, sometime around May 2005, I believe, though it was only something to test and play with on the side: I didn't migrate my projects over yet. There are many reasons why I preferred these over the systems I used in the past (RCS and CVS; never considered Subversion an option), most...| asylum.madhouse-project.org
Learning a new way doesn't immediately invalidate the old way. Recommending one way doesn't mean recommending against the alternatives.| blog.jbrains.ca
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“Farewell to the arts,- to eloquence” – Mary Shelly, “The Last Man” (1826) Weird things happen to language during a crisis. We have no way to describe what’s happening…| Blaise Lucey
Once upon a time, I’d written a post about sewing contracts and a few about quality control (links at close). Those were fine as these things go but lately, I’m seeing a lot of silly ad…| Fashion-Incubator
Two universal facts about user documentation: Documentation is really important. We are really bad at writing it. We don’t have good theories on what makes for useful documentation. That is except for the four document model, or Diátaxis.1 I’m glad that people use it. I’m also a little frustrated that people use it even when its inappropriate. My problem is that it’s not a universal or comprehensive model: there’s a lot of documentation people need to write that doesn’t neatly fi...| Hillel Wayne
A while back I wrote that Robert Martin was ruining software by being too good at programming. That was supposed to be a joke. Since then he’s done his damndest to actually ruin software by telling people they’re doing it wrong. His most recent response where he yells at software correctness was the breaking point for me, so I’m going to go ahead and say what many of us have been thinking:| Hillel Wayne
People keep claiming that modern OOP languages aren’t “really OOP” because they don’t follow Alan Kay’s definition of “OOP”. I can see the logic here, even if I disagree the conclusion. More recently I’ve seen people start claiming that Kay invented objects entirely. This is factually incorrect. Alan Kay did not invent objects. They come from Simula, which the Smalltalk-72 manual cites as a major inspiration (pg 117). The famous 1981 Byte magazine issue that popularized Smallt...| Hillel Wayne
Have a tweet: img {border-style: groove;} I have no idea if Pony is making the right choice here, I don’t know Pony, and I don’t have any interest in learning Pony.1 But this tweet raised my hackles for two reasons: It’s pretty smug. I have very strong opinions about programming, but one rule I try to follow is do not mock other programmers.2 Programming is too big and I’m too small to understand everything.| Hillel Wayne
