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rahhh how do people get engagement. I am forever stuck in bot hell

Hello world!

Cringe and annoying (?)

what a time to be a hobbyist of literally any sort, huh

Good morning

Absolutely slopped out of his mind #deer 🦌

nitter and xcancel are back! Whoever is helping them legally - keep up the good work 😄

Being an open source maintainer in 2026

new blog post: self-hosting in the era of LLMs and cheap compute in general, about the kind of crap traffic i see day to day, as well as a more modern nuisance: claude code blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-...

the social contract that allows the web to exist at all is literally collapsing in real time https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies

Solar eclipse behind the Ještěd Mountain, Czech Republic.

the "MMM whisky... I should text him" pipeline

Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine? You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?

I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers. As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL.

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

omg @lauriewired.bsky.social on bsky?

omg why is serialized a u64 so complicated 💀💀💀 wdym I can use some instructions

omg nicest train guy saw that I was hot and told me where to sit so I could cool down. that was so nice I could cry. tysm 😍😭

I know I'm a dusty old crone, but I'm old enough to remember when real programmers could get a fully functional browser in 10k lines and an entire embedded system in 5k. We're bigging up vibe coding by measuring it against 21st century webdev hackers who absolutely cannot code for shit.

you can't really compare this to what a senior engineer would build. How do you know this is the best solution. Do you know whether a real engineer would need 100k LoC to remake this? Stop larping as a software engineer, then telling me my job is at threat.

i love you grain weevil

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I love rock climbing 🧗🪨

finallllyyy the start is worse but this time I didn't mess up the heel

how does at protocol even work for someone like @tangled.org. so you selfhost a "knot" and that you can push code there. then you can view other people's code on that same instance via at protocol?

look

potential beta break 👀👀👀

average transgender refrigerator @actuallyannalise.bsky.social

had to get up at 5am to wait in an online queue for an hour to book my driving test. now I get to wait 6 months. ??????? feels like it shouldn't be this hard but aight

You brought up a lot of good points.

Kill the QA in your head

i do not "predict". i do not "run calcs", i do not "mindgame", i do not know "speed tiers" i click TRICK ROOM. and if it doesnt work, I DON'T WIN

The Bitwarden CLI was briefly compromised after attackers uploaded a malicious @bitwarden/cli package to npm containing a credential-stealing payload capable of spreading to other projects.

theonion.info

Imagine being a coder but thinking there's no artistry to writing code. What an empty existence

Hongggryyyy mmmm dirrrrt

why doesn't mqtt support lz2 compression for data transmission? sure it's a transport protocol, I define the payload... etc etc. LET ME COMPRESS THE HEADERS TOO.

absolutely love that you can send literally anything over ssh. got my laptop acting as a bridge for an mqtt bridge and it just Works

I’m blinking 👁️👁️ giacomocavalieri.me/carrier-pigeon

wait nebula is only 2.50 a month???? I thought it would be like every subscription service 10 something a month

Some bumblebees absolutely lost in the sauce

SPRING is finallllly here!!!

Remembering the ancient ways