I waited for literally the very last day to activate this 🙃

Good behaviour

writing prose without proper em-dashes just because ChatGPT ruined that for humans :(

a diff showing two ways of doing the same code. The first is a simple `if {} else {}` block in rust. The second is with a match statement, matching true and false. The text is as follows: 35 - let source_files = match script.ends_with(".py") { 36 - true => vec![script.clone(), "*.py".to_string()], 37 - false => vec![script.clone()], 35 + let source_files = if script.ends_with(".py") { 36 + vec![script.clone(), "*.py".to_string()] 37 + } else { 38 + vec![script.clone()]

this is the ideal conditional. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

Have you ever considered that your PM is “vibe coding” you

Israel's lies about Gaza's famine taken apart Israel has deliberately starved Gaza. Here are its lies taken apart one by one

The famine in Gaza has been entirely manufactured by Israel.

Israel and its cheerleaders are lying through their teeth about the crime of the century.

Here are Israel's lies taken apart 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israels-li...

Clojure Meetup - July 2025

We are having a Berlin Clojure meetup next Wednesday. The topic is going to be clojure-mcp, so bring your 💻 for some experimenting.

clojure.berlin/events/2025-...

Screenshot of the pictures of an Amazon listing for an espresso knock box (i.e. where you knock the grinds out of the portafilter after pulling a shot). The manufacturer has photoshopped the box underneath the espresso machine, demonstrating the ability to pour an espresso directly in the bin.

Hmm.

:(((

I'm a big fan of the pomodoro technique for productivity, where I do my best impression of a tomato and sit in the dark for 48 hours before I am devoured by beings beyond my comprehension

it got better, then I started again, then it got worse again, so I went to a physio, which I finally just finished up last week. Just wondering WTH I should actually do in the gym now, esp. since the physio seemed to be recommending machines I can't remember the names of, and v. slow progressions

ahh I didn't know that's what it was based on. I remember trying to follow grayskull just because it looked easier a few years ago.

Last year I attempted to follow GZCLP right up until getting tennis elbow and fell off the wagon :( Figured maybe it was the T3 progression...

any opinions on GZCLP?

i’m sure all we need to make things better in our lives is just One More App

"lisp programming"

subject field of an email: 🏃💨 *FNAME|*, jetzt aber schnell! [Inbox]

Can't believe the runner farted out this template variable just like that

U.N. Warns Trump May Be 7 Months Away From Acquiring Nuclear Weapons

U.N. Warns Trump May Be 7 Months Away From Acquiring Nuclear Weapons
http://theonion.com/

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

Going to FOSDEM for the first time at the end of this month. Anyone else I know going to be there?

Building Bauble I made something that I think is pretty neat, and I want to tell you about it. This is a little hot air balloon made out of alternating layers of brass and bronze that lock together with these angle...

building bauble

ianthehenry.com/posts/bauble...

Changes to Nightjet planned from 7 April: Amsterdam-Innsbruck/Vienna becomes a new-generation Nightjet. Double-deck sleepers disappear completely, replaced on Zurich-Vienna & Zurich-Hamburg by Comfortline sleeping cars. Last 3 months to experience the double deckers!

How performant are JOINs?

Easy, `_2`, `_2_new`, `_2_new_final`, `_2_new_final_final`, `_2_new_final_final_honest`...

In the Christmas markets here (Germany) they serve "Kinderpunsch" alongside the Glühwein, and the base is usually one of apple juice, apple juice+orange juice 1:1, or apple juice + fruit tea (e.g. berries)

Is there any kind of movement to make trams lighter? Would that allow them to go faster (from a safety POV)?

Doesn't "touch grass" have undertones of an assumption of having a suburban lawn? Like why grass in particular? A lot of the nice places I like outside don't have any grass

Dunno who cares about this that hasn't already taken advantage of it, but there's just under an hour and a half left to take advantage of a 25% discount on interrail tickets. 4 days of unlimited train travel within a month for 213€

anyway, back to Elster...

Such a nice surprise that when requesting some bureaucratic forms from TK that they not only typeset stuff accessibly, but also that things are written in simple English! My German comprehension isn't too bad, but this made me realise that I had been wading through quicksand the whole time