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jwz wrote:

Yeah, so, yesterday I wrote a whole-ass VT100 emulator from scratch. I had my reasons.

It's way more complicated than it has any right to be.

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jef ("Jef Poskanzer :batman:") wrote:

@MLNow

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ellioth@social.lol ("elliot! 💙") wrote:

your outie has auto-capitalization turned off on their iphone's keyboard

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:

This interview is of @helenchong ! Please read and share and follow Helen! I really deeply appreciated her answer to the second question in particular.

🖊️ I just posted a new article to krrd.ing!

Helen Chong - omg.lol Interview Series 6 https://krrd.ing/posts/helenchong-omglol-interview-5/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

In other news I'm getting real good at 2048

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
carnage4life@mas.to ("Dare Obasanjo") wrote:

From 32 investigations by 11 agencies into Elon's 6 companies to zero in record time. While also being able to claim you saved the government money along the way.

https://gizmodo.com/doge-reportedly-cuts-fda-employees-investigating-neuralink-2000565213

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
overholt@glammr.us ("John Overholt") wrote:

I am old enough to remember being warned that you can't trust Wikipedia and now it is the very last thing I still trust to accurately reflect a consensus reality.

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Apparently, in developed democracies you can actually use law to fight fascism: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/19/jair-bolsonaro-charged-alleged-brazil-coup

Here in the USA we have Merrick Garland who waited 2 (two!) years to even appoint a prosecutor to start looking into the J6 attempted coup. Because, you see, it's "too political"… This entire disaster could have been avoided.

Which is why I no longer believe #Democrats have the right structure to be effective and represent the majority of Americans. We need a new party.

#uspol

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

So apparently, every single customer of Humane will have their "AI Pin" effectively bricked with just 10 days notice. I bet those are three seriously angry dudes right now.

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

I’m not a big fan of Mayor Harrell, but the high points of today’s State of the City address were pretty damn good: https://www.cascadepbs.org/politics/2025/02/heres-what-mayor-bruce-harrell-has-planned-seattle-2025

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
iamskye@social.coop ("Troy Atlantis") wrote:

i have taken
the profit
that was in
your labour

and which
you were probably
entitled to

forgive me
i'm the boss
or don't
i don't really care

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

"Taxonomy of Small Floating-Point Formats"

https://uwplse.org/2025/02/17/Small-Floats.html

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Small request: When boosting toots that contain rage baiting screenshots, can we make sure the toot contains a link to a source? Thank you, friends.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Officially Meta-free. Deleted my instagram last week.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Apparently I cannot type Panic's Mastodon address correctly without three tries. :) (One was the original crosspost from Croissant, which picked the wrong instance entirely but that might be my fault? I don't know.)

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

This makes me love@panic@social.panic.com that much more. (I've never seen them post for a technical writer, but if they ever consider it, I'm just saying, I'm willing to relocate…)

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

And my personal favorite:

“I'm not a real programmer. I throw together things until it works, then I move on. The real programmers will say ‘yeah it works but you’re leaking memory everywhere. Perhaps we should fix that.’ I’ll just restart Apache every 10 requests.”

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

If anything, he’s done the exact opposite with such pragmatic gems as these:

“PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?”

“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”

“There are people who actually like programming. I don't understand why they like programming.”

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

I’m grateful for the fact that the guy who created my programming language of choice has never said or done anything to make me feel gross about building things with that language.

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doctormo@floss.social ("Martin Owens :inkscape:") wrote:

Now I get to find out if anyone is interested in #Boston to learn about how to use #inkscape to design their homes/physical spaces.

My workshop at the Boston Resource Center just dropped. I'm nervous how a non-physical skill will be received by the community. Will anyone attend? I'll have to find out...

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/use-inkscape-to-design-your-space-tickets-1248717480599

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pratik@writing.exchange ("Pratik") wrote:

Sigh! An offer we made to hire a postdoctoral scholar was turned down citing the new WH administration. The person accepted a position in his home country (China) instead.

This is gonna be multipled thousands of times across the country and universities. So much for maintaining our competitive edge. Self-sabotage at its best.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jedda@social.lol ("JCProbably :prami_pride:") wrote:

I got a little irked by something I read today.

https://notes.jeddacp.com/blogging-is-not-always-about-traffic/

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GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A US judge is absolutely roasting the US government today. Here’s the text and a photo of them.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
evan@cosocial.ca ("Evan Prodromou") wrote:

How important is an independent civil service?

#EvanPoll #poll

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
trabern@mas.to ("Sin of empathy 🕷️🧂🌈🫙⚖️") wrote:

Dear fellow law profs:

This will blow you up.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Mikhail Glinka (Russian composer) dies, 1857

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: William "Smokey" Robinson is born in Detroit, 1940

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: US Marines land on Iwo Jima, 1945

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Serfdom supposedly abolished in Russia, 1861

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Nicolas Copernicus born Thorn, Poland, 1473