Ben Ramsey

An old reel to reel magnetic tape. It has a label, in Jay Lepreau's handwriting, proclaiming it to be "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for fmt)"

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

#retrocomputing

This is hilarious! I saw my name and email address in the author annotation on a Symfony HttpKernel exception class, and I wasn’t sure why it was there, so I traced it back to a commit I made back in 2012, which I have no recollection of. 😅 […]

TIL Sanford and Son was based on a BBC 1 show named Steptoe and Son.

@kyleford @jalefkowit Anyway, thanks for sharing, and sorry for repeating it back to you here. 😉

@kyleford @jalefkowit This is also very enlightening:

“Directed, in the case of Jedi, means Marquand sat in the director’s chair. What else it means, is unclear. [Marquand] otherwise deferred to Lucas, who directed as producer.”

Lucas finally understood what Lynch was telling him:

“I hadn’t […]

@kyleford @jalefkowit Oh, wow! Classic Lynch!

“you know George is a guy that does what he loves, and I do what I love, the difference is what George loves makes hundreds of billions of dollars […] But uh, I did I called my lawyer and told him I wasn’t going to do it and he said you just lost I […]

Adam Golaski On David Lynch's "Revenge of the Jedi" — Bennington Review ADAM GOLASKI is the author of Color Plates. His work has appeared in 1913: A Journal of Forms, Best Horror of the Year, The Lifted Brow, and LVNG no. 11.

I'd have given anything to see this version https://www.benningtonreview.org/adam-golaski

@kyleford @jalefkowit > By ’81 for instance, Terry Gilliam had directed only one film, the fantasy comedy Jabberwocky (’77) (Time Bandits was released in November of ’81, six months after Lucas chose David Lynch for Revenge of the Jedi).

He had also co-directed Monty Python and the Holy Grail […]

Has anyone used GoAccess to analyze web server logs offline (instead of using things like Google Analytics, etc.)? I'm curious about your experiences with it. Did you like it? Did you decide to use other, similar tools instead?

I’d prefer not to run something that requires a constantly-running […]

Moè is a real thing.

#Anime

I’ve heard the word “kerfuffle” used no less than 3 times this week. What’s going on?

Tailwind CSS Component Library ⸺ daisyUI Tailwind CSS Components Library for 2026 - Tailwind CSS components examples, Tailwind themes and Tailwind blocks for fast UI development

It happened. Someone re-created Bootstrap but for Tailwind CSS.

“daisyUI adds class names to Tailwind CSS for all common UI components.”

They did the thing that Tailwind preaches not to do!

https://daisyui.com

I used to be a fundamentalist Christian who was obsessed with end times prophecy and eschatology. I know exactly how these folks think and the giddiness they feel over this. It’s real and it’s sick.

“A combat-unit commander told non-commissioned officers at a briefing Monday that the Iran war is part of God’s plan and that Pres. Donald Trump was ‘anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth,’ according to a complaint by a […]

I just had a realization (I’m sure this isn’t a new thought—just new to me):

The AI bubble is driven by capitalists who desperately fear the end of capitalism, and they are frantically trying to realize a capitalistic singularity, which is why everything is moving faster and faster towards […]

This case shows how Open Source will die. With anyone just being able to pipe existing code and tests through an LLM and claiming that to be "clean room" (which is hogwash) no licensing can protect your work from being accumulated and monetized by anyone. The commons are actively being shredded […]

Famous meme template from Arnold Lobel's children's book series Frog and Toad. Caption: Frog put the [../] in [the WAF]. "There," he said. "Now we will not [get pwned in production]". "But we can [%2e%2e%2f]," said the Toad. "That is true," said Frog.

#directoryTraversalMemes

@glyph @benjamineskola Part snark, part honest question:

Does it really matter what the code looks like or how it’s organized when machines are the ones reading and writing the code?

I went looking through the repo to see if there had been any community discussion on changing the license. There wasn’t, but the history of issues concerning the license and ownership of tests, etc. leads me to believe the maintainer doesn’t really know much about licensing, and it was causing […]

RE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

That’s one way to piss off all your contributors. I think I’ll do this with books. “Claude, rewrite this book in my own style and using different words from the original, so I can’t be accused of copyright infringement.”

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hotdogsladies/116169059679233653

every day somebody's born who hasn't heard merlin mann's flintstones analogy

@glyph @benjamineskola I think a third thing (and the way I use them) is that code reviews are for teaching and steering. Especially on a legacy code base that’s being slowly modernized, I’ll leave tips and hints on ways to improve the code instead of following the old anti-patterns around it […]

“Expected parameter of type 'mixed[]', 'array' provided”

Go home PhpStorm! You’re drunk!

#PHP #PhpStorm

@ramsey Yeah, I’ve noticed a distinct drop in quality since coworkers started using LLMs.

It’s hard to be sure, because it’s made me judge every PR more harshly anyway. But I notice some distinct patterns, like specifying default values unnecessarily.

And usually a failure to notice […]

Dianna Cowern (aka Physics Girl on YouTube, and possibly @dianna) has been fighting COVID-induced ME/CFS since 2022. ShevqeIeIcDHD0d her first video in three years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3m3AMRlYfc

You can learn more about her battle and amazing comeback here […]

@cebe Hey! In cebe/php-openapi, I’ve noted that an internal security scan turned up vulnerabilities in some Yarn packages that are required, but these only appear to be used for tests. Would you accept a PR for a `.gitattributes` that excludes things like tests/, Makefile, package.json, yarn […]

Before AI, I felt like I could review PRs and, based on whose code I was reviewing, I could be more trusting and casual with my review, since I knew they usually wrote good code and paid attention to details. Now, with AI, no one pays attention to details, so I have to deeply scrutinize every PR […]

IRC made me to make curl

https://youtu.be/ohzzGy5K9Dk?si=YH1JcSQ7z6-YlktW

RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/all-about-artificial-intelligence-c4ob1hesz/-/a-cebY-YlyTF64pIA1xmu0vw%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0

“‘Thanksgiving Day’ is described as following a bear and his assistant platypus as they ‘travel through the galaxy on a spaceship that resembles a flying dumpster.’ […]

Reified generics by php-generics · Pull Request #21317 · php/php-src Add reified generics to PHP Summary This PR adds reified generics to the Zend Engine — generic type parameters that are preserved at runtime and enforced through the type system. Unlike type erasur...

Sigh, the AI Slop has now come for the PHP project.

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/21317

#AiSlop #php