"First they came for the Emacs and I said nothing."

Haggis Ruby 2026 A Ruby conference in sunny Scotland! Bringing the Scottish, British and European Ruby scenes together in Scotland's biggest city. Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face

It's Burns night, and in celebration of the Bard the first round of tickets to Haggis Ruby 2026 are now on sale! ti.to/haggis-ruby/...

The website hasnae even been updated yet you lucky people. 2 days, in Glasgow, with brilliant speakers, a ceilidh and workshops. Whit more could you want?

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

Two weeks ago, at the last RailsConf I brought an "I am Friendly" swag item to put up for auction.
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.

So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶

Credit to @bjennings90.bsky.social for the cartoon: bsky.app/profile/bjen...

The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett

thanks anne—and we're not done.

if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).

so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!

The DD has always been a self-organised event. Southwark Cyclists and some other cycling groups organise transport back for the riders but that's it.

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

I still love the HEEx out of it.

Determinism and transformer functions are mutually exclusive, at least for the foreseeable future.

AWS Lambda standardizes billing for INIT Phase | Amazon Web Services Effective August 1, 2025, AWS will standardize billing for the initialization (INIT) phase across all AWS Lambda function configurations. This change specifically affects on-demand invocations of Lamb...

Your Lambdas Function (yes that’s how we pluralize it) are about to get more expensive, as AWS begins charging for the INIT phase.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...

Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.

At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.

Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.

👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...

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For the paywall averse: archive.is/bDh4a

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.

RIP David Lynch

Ros Atkins on...24 hours on Elon Musk's X timeline The BBC's Analysis editor, Ros Atkins, investigates Elon Musk's recent posts on X about grooming gangs - and looks at how one day unfolded on his timeline.

Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. With colleagues from BBC Verify, I've looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How Each time you see a targeted ad, your personal information is exposed to thousands of advertisers and data brokers through a process called “real-time bidding” (RTB). This process does more than deliv...

Seeing an online ad shouldn’t mean surrendering your data to thousands of companies you’ve never heard of. It’s time to end online behavioral advertising and the mass surveillance it enables.

Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n

Vintage shot of a young Hugh Dennis. 👌

These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance | TechCrunch Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps.

My colleague Devin Coldewey (who, good for him, is not on social) and I put together an updating list of free, open-source and/or self-hosted alternatives to popular apps — like Adobe, Dropbox, Google Docs, Pocket — that can help you reclaim your data from Big Tech.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...

A tale of two platforms:

BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀

How churlish to assume that this phrase is not still in common parlance (at least in the UK). #getmecoat

we asked A.I. for an ACCURATE depiction of trump actually working at mcdonald's — oh god

Donald Trump says Fed’s half-point rate cut shows US economy is ‘very bad’ Former president adds that central bank could be ‘playing politics’ as it reduces interest rates ahead of election

“I guess it shows the economy is very bad to cut it by that much, assuming that they are not just playing politics,” the Republican candidate for the White House said at a Manhattan bitcoin bar on Wednesday.
www.ft.com/content/da93...

Paraskavedekatriaphobia [paer-AS-kuh-ved-ehk-at-rahy-uh-FOH-bee-uh]
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.

Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”

Newton Pro.

(or, more realistically, Apple Intelligence and some additional emoji related products)