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• [viora]: sometimes i sit alone in practice mode and go third person and spam good work voice lines on domina to make myself feel something * Mamagounda (Mizuki) to you: Hello! * viora (Domina): Hello! • [Ecliypse]: dude • [hankiepankie]: thats cool dude • [Ecliypse]: I lowkey relate

unrelated but i found it very funny how ikea's corporate network blocks your website because it's considered a "dating" website

photo of a baby black cat held up next to the adult version of the same cat

bought a tiny photo printer recently and went through 2 packs of papers already and also got this wonderful pic

photo of a mildly perturbed black cat

live Basil reaction:

photo of the clair obscur expedition 33 original soundtrack vinyl album cover

oh hello

I've been informed that Python uses neither passing by value nor reference but "passing by object reference" which 1) of course it does and 2) the examples hold for the point I wanted to make so yolo

Crash course: Rust references, borrows, ownership and lifetimes A quick introduction to how computers manage memory, what is a pointer, what are lifetimes, and how to deal with them.

I found myself repeatedly explaining the Rust memory model, borrows, lifetimes, etc., so I frankensteined together a few of my notes, added in some extra narrative, and here it is: crescentro.se/slides/rust-...

L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static

Coding Agent VMs on NixOS with microvm.nix I have come to appreciate coding agents to be valuable tools for working with computer program code in any capacity, such as learning about any program’s architecture, diagnosing bugs or developing pr...

this looks very interesting: michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-0...
probably won't use it for vibe coding, but have some other ideas for micro vms...

all of my friends here should go check out wisp.place, it's a super cool project!!

ovens are temperamental demons anyway, probably not your fault

the trick is to parboil them first, rough them up a little bit to give them some texture, _then_ bake :)

The state of Linux music players in 2026 Reviewing Linux desktop music players in an escape from Spotify.

A more positive post for Fun February: The state of Linux music players in 2026. crescentro.se/posts/linux-...

(and for the record I last played KS when I was 17 so I very well might be overestimating its quality or the appropriateness of the Scenes - definitely not going back to check)

Originally I was quite miserable at the offerings. and this is in part because software discoverability in the Linux world is quite bad, and the best we have is Flathub. I have to tread carefully here: I really don't like Flatpaks because I think they are fundamentally the wrong abstraction, but I also respect the work that went into them, think they are objectively a good idea and that Flathub is a well developed storefront. Still, with that said, my siblings in Christ you *cannot* prominently show me Katawa Shoujo on the front page of your store front. Like, yeah it's a good VN, it's insane that a bunch of nerds on 4chan managed to write something _that_ good, but since it was written by a bunch of nerds on 4chan it's also **full of literal sex scenes with barely legal high-schoolers**, you just **don't push that stuff onto the front page** as a storefront if you want to have any veneer of legitimacy.

i have to leave this on the cutting room floor but this flatpak / flathub mini-rant was too good to never see the light of day so I'll leave it here (and maybe elaborate on it another day)

one of the IT guys at work gave me a bleak look of desperation when he saw me walk in with this a couple of months ago

macbook pro covered in many many stickers

welcome to the club 🤝

Everything is a File In this first half of a build-your-own-synthetic-file-system adventure, we take a look at what even is a file, and some inspiration behind building a synthetic file system.

Everything is a File
crescentro.se/posts/everyt...

npm complains about access token failures when moving to trusted publishing because github, owned by the same company and participating in this scheme, leaves an old version of npm on their images

black cat on a window glaring at the camera

a completely innocent creature who has committed no crimes today

"it feels like the scrum master in my head got fired"

a white dog giving you the side eye

my friend, who definitely is not autistic and definitely does not have adhd, took my medication for the first time today and said "well my brain is quiet and i can focus on one thing at a time rather than always multitasking, not sure what's so good about this"

I'm INFAMOUS for "making my own X" for deranged values of X.

BUT I will not sit by idly while friends roll their own linux distributions. You should just... go touch grass.

You know who makes a good linux distribution? Apple! It's so good, it doesn't even have linux in it.

SAVE YOURSELVES.

fellow european devs: give the EC feedback on open-source software, especially on maintenance and adoption. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/comm...

--without messing up the parser. no need to guess whether something is a nested object or a duration if you know exactly the shape of the data you want out, right? i hope this makes sense 🙃

feature request: please make it typed 🙏 every config language has types as an afterthought (in the form of schemas), meaning most people don't write them, no LSP, have to play shitty "config golf" to try and make it work. but if you started with a type definition you could even have bare durations--

this is very cool!

I put "You're responsible for your contributions regardless of how you created them." in my team's repos at work, it generally works (though at work you can generally filter for people with brains which is not a given with a public repo)

packages/zenpower5/package.nix at main · crescentro.se/dotfiles (mirror) personal dotfiles

for the two people who have Zen 5 CPUs, use NixOS, and want temperature monitoring, you can run zenpower5 from `main` with this: tangled.org/crescentro.s.... hope this finds and helps the other person!