Mike Samuel 🟣

For a project collaboration website, I want to avoid hover menus for entity references (e.g. project and people's names). More-info affordances should work with mouse, touchscreen, and screen-reader. Maybe instead of hovers, just a vertical oval that's reminiscent of the kebab menu.

I gave a talk at EMF titled "Men in Tech #YesAllMen", in which I told my experience of being a woman in tech. I was afraid to publish it in case it affected my current or future employment. With all the current news I would like to add my 2¢. So here is the recording: youtu.be/WXL6K1lhvt0?...

The more I see, the more I have to move Sen. Ossoff up in my rankings. And Rahm Emanuel down.

I am very pleased to share the program for LIVE'26: liveprog.org We have seven exciting presentations as well as a featured keynote by Brian Hempel! LIVE this year will take place remotely, so come join us over video-chat next Saturday (Oct 17) :)

Huh. Sometimes running an auto-formatter over one's old code leaves one with questions.

Sad to see that a lot of the E language stuff has been internet memory holed. For my future self and anyone else it may concern, some of it's still available via github pages directly. erights.github.io/erights-org-...

sometimes you just have to write a compiler that isn't a joke after you wrote a compiler as a joke

"Mayhaps" is what you get when you start down the track to saying "maybe" and end on the "perhaps" track. But has anyone ever tried "perbe?"

Getting dragged for writing `#ifndef ...` instead of `#if !defined(...)` like it's C89.

"impeachment is part of the work assigned to congress"

Type erasure is pretty cool, but it's tempting to do bad things.

Perl: There's more than one way to do it. Python (myth): There should be one -- and preferably only one -- obvious way to do it. Python (reality): There are multiple competing efforts to standardize 'the one' obvious way to do it, none of which will ever reach critical mass.

This is a legit great talk: accessible, engaging, builds intuitions. Bryan doesn't phrase it this way, but I love his counter-arg to "AI can solve that": There's intrinsic complexity in engineering when solving one problem interferes with solving others; sometimes you have to get your hands dirty.

[jeb bush voice]: please clap

Everything.

We're getting ready to be more public about Zena, so if you're curious and want updates, follow me!

Path planning algorithms are not a hot research topic, they said.

Giant mondo PR is so close to coming out of draft. So close.

GATO considered armful ~ Edsger Dijkstra

@kotlinlang.org's DSLs are just unreasonably nice. I've been using one to build ASTs in a compiler. class TreeFarm uses class Planting to allow specifying AST nodes as block structures, and there's some automagic that propagates node position metadata from injected AST nodes to synthesized nodes.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

so instead of bashing fil-C because it could take away attention from rust, what i would want to see would be people starting to think about how to combine the best of both worlds.

Going back through my slides looking for everywhere I abbreviated "mainframe developer" as "MFer." If a miss a few, I'm sure it'll be okay.

Member of Parliament Glenda Jackson said this within 48 hrs after Margaret Thatcher died. Elizabeth Warren couldn't get away with this type of ether. For US people: Listen to the whole thing, including the attempted rebuttal afterwards, and what the Speaker of the House responded to him with.

Project 2025 is one more step in a RW project that's been baking since the Civil War, not a recent reaction to black people and women pushing for basic rights. There's no perfect time to push for needed change, nor an obligation to wait, and suggesting otherwise is coded language for "uppity."

Phew www.maine.gov/sos/news/sec...

I'm a fan of Sam Seder and Emma Vigeland so I've been particularly disappointed with MR on Platner. They have bad judgements to answer for and "I too was lied to by a proven liar" doesn't cut it, but at least they've started on that in this video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=duEV...

Reducing a man's actual mortality to a procedural loophole for gatekeeping power is what Mitch would've wanted.

Glad @bradlander.bsky.social is not soft pedaling.

The shielding weight / reliability tradeoffs have been known about for a long time. Here's a table detailing expected effects of radiation on processor's available at the time from a 1998 Robotics Institute thesis I was a research assistant for. publications.ri.cmu.edu/storage/publ...

If the US can't have sports while being respectful of trans people and not getting weird about kids and gender then the US ought to do without sports.

As a mathematician, let me just say the term should be "Christian-Judeo." The part you're subtracting out goes *after* the minus sign. ---- (Both christianity and judaism are fine topics in comparative religion but neither should be elevated above other viewpoints in state-approved curricula.)

8 years is nothing. This was reported of software tools for hiring 38 years ago. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3128356/

If you want to allow Wayback, their spider name is ia_archiver which you can use in robots.txt and page meta elements. Unscrupulous actors do spoof that, but they can already ignore a disallow * in robots.txt.

Cute. Not sure what to make of this. Mistral seems to think I do formal verification; important but not my lane. Deepseek seems to think I worked on V8, but I think all I contributed was answering Robert Griesemer's monotonically exasperated "do JS programmers actually do this?" questions.

To better understand our problems, what if we built a giant problem accelerator? Then we could smash our problems together at near light speed and analyze the resulting spray of micro-problems.