An Emacs rite of passage is to fork code-review and fix the bitrot. My turn has come.
https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/code-review
Between forge and code-review, I am starting to see a path to a tractable notification system. At the very least, I see a path to spending less time on github.com […]
Opened the season with a scoreless draw, but the weather is perfect. I'm claiming one point for the result and a second for the fresh air.
#YouthSoccer #Indianapolis
So, I got carded last night while drinking a Diet Pepsi in my late forties.
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social My neighborhood is across the street and slightly uphill of a large public park with a golf course, and that slightly uphill makes a critical difference to the insurance companies. I'd rather it wasn't a golf course, but if it weren't that, it probably wouldn't be […]
It'd be nice as an industry to have something in between 'vibe coding' and 'artisanal burnout'
In this channel: submitting esoteric permissive licenses for approval after finding them five crates deep.
In that channel: Claude Code goes brrrrrrr.
The duality of Slack.
This interstate should be renumbered to start at Mile Zero and get more negative the deeper in you get.
Jumped on the human.json bandwagon. Some good discussion tonight at IndieWeb meetup about how it relates to a blogroll. I don't see why they couldn't both be supported from the same source of truth.
https://codeberg.org/robida/human.json
#HumanJson #IndieWeb
@lars A review from another Illinoisan:
1. No notes on the pizza.
2. You only get one life, but ketchup on a hot dog is how my younger child learned the word "disinherit," at about age 4.
3. Instead of being concerned about structural integrity, order it dipped and accept the delicious […]
@oantolin Don't forget the buttload
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butt_(unit
Does the default indentation of quoted lists in Emacs bother you? Me too, so I packaged up a Stack Overflow answer from 2019:
codeberg.org/rossabaker/better-calcul...
#Emacs
In open source, features tend to outlast their original contributors. Each one you reject hurts your contributor base, but each one you accept may become your burden later. Features can always be dropped, but it's not the original contributor who takes the reputational hit for breaking changes […]
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social I more recall oboe jokes and Polish jokes, but I was a band kid in suburban Chicago.
@djspiewak Yes, I got asked this on Slack and mentioned something about it being a 21st Century term of art after the previous century's failed attempts.
> Error: WARNING: A terminally deprecated method in sun.misc.Unsafe has been called
has a lot of dramatic words for something that the build is able to move past
Google separates its search index crawlers from its more malignant Vertex and Gemini crawlers. I tried to let the former through, but now they're falling into the detection for fake Chromes, and all my pages have re-indexed as Iocaine-generated poison.
It is utterly exhausting to run a public […]
I don't stick forks in electric sockets. I don't enter crosswalks when a Tesla is approaching. But I *was* foolish enough to adopt a VC-backed company's dev tooling.
https://astral.sh/blog/openai
I was caught off guard by a #DecemberAdventure in March. This one's only a week, and a busy one at that. I'm spring cleaning my Emacs configuration. I started from nil, scratching at what itches, and restricting myself to Emacs builtins to see what could be left behind.
The first thing I deeply […]
My grandfather was a kind man. After something unenjoyable, he would brighten up and describe experiencing it thrice: "first, last, and only!" Tonight just gave me three reasons to think about him.
A dahcshund laying asleep on his side. He is on an overstuffed bed, next to a ripped up stuffed turkey toy. Pieces of the stuffing are beside him. One ear is up and his tongue is slightly stuck out.
A treeing walker coonhound, up close. She is contentedly napping on a stuffed Scottish highland cow pillow.
We deserve a nap.
#Dachshund #Coonhound
With everyone adding markdown files these days, I propose CLOD.md, a place where collaborators can share geological trivia or composting tips.
codeberg.org/rossabaker/clod.md/src/b...
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social I'm not sure either the President or Secretary of Defense could find the Strait of Hormuz on a map if you spotted them the Persian Gulf, and the Vice President and Secretary of State would pretend they can't so as not to show up the boss.
There’s a meme going around that an Open Source project “can’t” prevent LLM use by contributors because there’s no technical means to enforce this. This is idiotic and shows just how disingenuous slopmongers will be when told they can’t just submit slop.
Did you know there’s also no technical […]
I just saw a truck with two pairs of truck nutz. It's an Indiana four-leaf clover.
Copyleft is simple: share with others as others shared with you. Some say that large laundering models render it obsolete. I say it exposes those whose grasp of the social contract stalled out in kindergarten. It's as vital as ever.
#Copyleft
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/116177282859842761
> I think society is better off when we share, and I consider the GPL to run against that spirit by restricting what can be done with it.
> ...
> Content licensed under the Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial-sharealike License.
🤌🏼💋
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@lamp.bsky.social lmfao
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social We lost something as a society when Gtk stopped supporting keyboard themes, and we've never quite gotten it back.
@stephenjudkins.bsky.social I know you gave up on Mastodon, but I've seen a few Tk diehards on this side of the bridge, plotting their second act.