Bob Ippolito

I am going to become the Sqlite Joker, what the fuck???

One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...

Update: A goodly pile of BBS Documentaries have gone out the door at the increased price, with a little less than a couple dozen still in the box. If you want to pay too much for physical media, this is the time. ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755

Most successful designer & hater of all time 🐐🏆 @fwmj.bsky.social

What an achievement: * All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...

What sort of person wants to report something as spam but not also block the sender?

The Ex-Facebook groups are absolutely popping off in response to Meta’s policy changes 🍿 (for the record, these changes are shit)

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

Who wants to be next? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

I think at this point I'm almost unrecognizable to people that haven't seen me in a few years. Got fit riding bikes, decided to grow some facial hair after crashing a bike in a race a few months ago, and I even bought a tux to wear at the first @missionbit.org gala since I become board chair.

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...

tea​.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects February 26, 2024 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam

Apparently LG HU80KA projectors get a fatal blue screen of death even if you don’t use them very much… but you can find replacement “lg chassis assembly” boards for ~$20 (discontinued EBT65116402) or ~$510 (replacement EBT66594301). The $20 board worked! Probably should order a backup 😬

Seems like the floodgates are starting to open, just got a bluesky invite in the mail and a few new followers to block

Just phenomenal how quickly the streaming service suits went from “go live under a bridge writers, AI can do your jobs!” to “sooooo we tried to write a script with ChatGPT ourselves and, um, yes we swear we won’t do it again please give us the humans back”

My brain whenever the Ed25519 signature scheme shows up

Buying cycling kit is probably the closest I'll get to experiencing the joys of shopping for women's clothing. Does this jersey fit loose in M or tight in XL? Why don't most bibs come with pockets?

RIP to the sentence “Here, let me Google that for you,” the single most useful clapback of the 00s and 10s, killed by Google becoming absolutely useless for discovering any correct information whatsoever

Shout out to Instagram for having an option to "stop getting these emails for 60 days" when some clown is trying to jack your account and spamming password reset emails.

dr octagon sighs, turns off the lamp, and leaves the red telephone behind in the darkness as he walks out the door. no one has called 1-800-PP5-1-DOO-DOO in years

The Black community on BlueSky is owed an apology. We all see this. I sincerely hope it comes.

The spirit of gravel 🐕

Threads may not kill twitter, but it does seem to have temporarily replaced “all I do is complain about twitter” Bluesky with “all I do is complain about Threads” Bluesky

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Seriously considering putting this on my car. But for now it’ll live on my fridge.

Friday vibes

blue sky is lacking in the delightfully-weird-but-legitimately-science department so it’s a good time to take about my favorite study of all time, which determined that dung beetles navigate via the light of the milky way: https://www.science.org/content/article/dung-beetles-navigate-milky-way

Similar vibes as this bathroom sign I recently came across.

was looking at fried chicken recipes and found out that nashville hot should probably be called fuckboy chicken and my mind is blown https://www.seriouseats.com/hattie-bs-hot-chicken-from-fried-true

what is going to be the impact of generative ai on harassment? well, one shitty consequence already: platforms hiking api prices ostensibly to monetize data for llm training but also killing anti-harassment tools like block party https://time.com/6284494/block-party-twitter-tracy-chou-elon-musk/

"woke up as a giant bug. my dad threw an apple at me and it lodged in my carapace. also my boss said I still have to go to work, fml" would be a legendary shitpost if he hadn't already written it as prose

Today I saw a bad post on that other site and decided not to share a screenshot of it here, and I just wanted other people on here to know that this is also a choice that you have available to you.

What? This is a totally normal way to sit

I'd like to share a skeet with those of you thinking about suicide. In 2017 I ordered a shotgun online for delivery to a dealer nearby. I picked an abandoned lot I had driven by. I bought a tarp to make it easier to cleanup. I really bad about it. And one day, sitting in my cube, I got a call.

Having fun blocking all the skeeters who follow thousands of people and/or have crypto grift all over their profile 🫡

It is possible for someone to be rich, successful and have a lot of wrong opinions about how the world should & does work. Know this and know peace.

🤐I’m curating a few mute lists. You can subscribe my clicking/tapping my profile pic and then selecting the “Lists” tab. (@ me for suggestions of accounts to add)

as people have pointed out in replies, block party does this! i built the feature bc it made no sense that i had to suffer through seeing abuse when people actively wanted to helped me. a few additional thoughts on implementing delegated moderation: (cont’d)