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Truly weird JWST images of a truly weird object: Supernova 1987A We’ve been studying it for over 35 years and still don’t really understand it

Happy 39th anniversary to an astronomical revolution: the light from the explosion of Supernova 1987A reaching Earth!

Here's what I wrote about JWST observations of this event.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/truly-weir...

🔭 🧪

23.02.2026 15:18 👍 225 🔁 51 💬 9 📌 1
iOS clock app showing a timer with over 14145 hours elapsed

iOS clock app showing a timer with over 14145 hours elapsed

Fun fact: after some time, it gets really janky. The seconds and deciseconds only update every five seconds or so on mine. I wonder if its a floating point precision bug

22.02.2026 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Inspecting the Source of Go Modules Code hosts like GitHub don't necessarily show the correct source of Go modules. pkg.geomys.dev is a new convenient viewer for module source.

The Go Checksum Database guarantees that every single Go build uses the same source for a given module version.

However, GitHub might not show you that code.

pkg.geomys.dev displays the canonical source of a Go module, and it comes with browser extensions to replace pkg.go.dev source links.

12.02.2026 14:21 👍 71 🔁 13 💬 3 📌 0
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gradient.horse Draw a horse, watch it run!

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for

gradient.horse

09.02.2026 23:11 👍 7011 🔁 3609 💬 35 📌 154

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

04.02.2026 21:08 👍 210 🔁 41 💬 6 📌 9
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PicoIDE – Pre-Orders Open - RetroRGB Pre-Orders are now open for the previously-announced PicoIDE - An open-source IDE/ATAPI drive emulator for retro PC's, from the creator of the PicoGUS. Using it is as easy as it gets - Simply connect ...

Pre-orders are now open for the PicoIDE. All retro PC owners should at least consider this, as it could be a massive upgrade to many existing systems: retrorgb.com/picoide-pre-...

29.01.2026 23:54 👍 92 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 2
A screenshot of Blackbox, showing a terminal output as follows:
 ducky@tanager:~$ su - ducky.ws
 Password: 
 Last login: Mon Jan 26 21:03:04 GMT 2026 on pts/0
 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$ echo "Hello from ATProto PAM!"
 Hello from ATProto PAM!
 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$ pwd
 /home/ducky.ws
 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$

A screenshot of Blackbox, showing a terminal output as follows: ducky@tanager:~$ su - ducky.ws Password: Last login: Mon Jan 26 21:03:04 GMT 2026 on pts/0 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$ echo "Hello from ATProto PAM!" Hello from ATProto PAM! 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$ pwd /home/ducky.ws 📦[ducky.ws@ ~]$

i just vibecoded something absolutely horrifying but i am so excited by it. holy shit. LDAP but #ATProto 👀

26.01.2026 21:04 👍 65 🔁 5 💬 8 📌 8

actually that editing syntax predates computers by more than a century: it's traditional copyeditor markup!

21.01.2026 12:50 👍 32 🔁 3 💬 4 📌 1

the calendar icon shows the right date

12.01.2026 13:22 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My prediction is AI will be mentioned at least once

05.01.2026 19:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blackbird & Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Hiromi Uehara (Complete Transcription)
Blackbird & Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Hiromi Uehara (Complete Transcription) YouTube video by Cornelius Tsen

This is giving me life. I’ve always appreciated Hiromi’s completely ecstatic way of performing and this is no exception:

youtu.be/XGjy73DPScc?...

14.12.2025 04:35 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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03.12.2025 13:21 👍 197 🔁 33 💬 0 📌 1

But surely, the correct name for a crate that removes restrictions for keys in a map is idkfa, not iddqd!

05.11.2025 15:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Workload identity federation allows infrastructure and CI/CD systems to authenticate themselves inside your Tailscale tailnet, using your trusted identity provider—no secrets or keys needed.

Blog: tailscale.com/blog/workloa...

Webinar (1pm EDT today!): tailscale.com/events-webin...

30.10.2025 14:37 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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JJ Con 2025 - YouTube

All of the videos from the first #jj-vcs conference are out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

30.10.2025 00:54 👍 67 🔁 11 💬 4 📌 0

Never mind about Zed; where can I get the Windows from that screenshot? 🥺
Congrats on the release!

15.10.2025 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

frohen tag der offenen grenzen euch allen

03.10.2025 18:44 👍 168 🔁 16 💬 3 📌 0
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New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

30.09.2025 10:55 👍 2977 🔁 1398 💬 95 📌 195
Airplane diagram with red dots marking where planes are shot

Airplane diagram with red dots marking where planes are shot

This is the single most overrated image on the internet. Pisses me off how every time I see it, it has thousands of Likes.

30.09.2025 00:17 👍 561 🔁 64 💬 9 📌 9
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

24.09.2025 20:30 👍 29690 🔁 9977 💬 726 📌 1546
Some observations concerning large programming efforts | Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

22.09.2025 20:40 👍 74 🔁 18 💬 7 📌 3

Oh nice! I’d been carrying along the previous PR in a private fork 🎉

18.09.2025 19:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A practical introduction to parsing

A practical introduction to parsing (in #rustlang)

jhwlr.io/intro-to-par...

19.08.2025 19:14 👍 68 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 0
start of "rules"

What is Flip 7?
Flip 7 is a fun, quick-to-play card game where players aim to avoid being the one to “flip” the dreaded 7 card.

start of "rules" What is Flip 7? Flip 7 is a fun, quick-to-play card game where players aim to avoid being the one to “flip” the dreaded 7 card.

OMG... Flip 7 is so complicated, Asmodee UK decided to let AI take a crack at the rules...
(the screenshot is only the start of this.. this... this.) #Boardgames

AI will screw us all

www.asmodee.co.uk/blogs/news/h...

25.07.2025 15:42 👍 70 🔁 15 💬 22 📌 20

I wondered, too, but I think it’s a cupboard or something. Pretty sure it’s this place: maps.app.goo.gl/vZnJgWvdUJm3...

14.07.2025 18:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Yes, you are. Though despite what the bottle says, even after 27y in Berlin I still think it tastes disgusting 🙃

14.07.2025 18:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’d be a „Sanitärhaus". Sanitätshäuser sell wheelchairs, crutches, bandages, etc

14.07.2025 18:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Also, go to any baker and buy some crusty bread

09.07.2025 11:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If the weather is sunny and clear, going up the tv tower at Alexanderplatz is good fun. Looks like you may be out of luck though. Second the Currywurst and Döner recs (esp the point about looking for slightly grotty looking places), but the best meal I had recently was at Bertie in Schwedter Straße

09.07.2025 11:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0