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You're looking for something that's readable but more efficient and smaller than #JSON or #YAML?
Structure data with #ASCII control codes like people did in 1963!

https://trans.github.io/c0data/

There's also a library in @CrystalLanguage available.

#crystallang #crystallanguage

Debugger Engineer - Jobs at Apple (UK) Apply for a Debugger Engineer job at Apple. Read about the role and find out if it’s right for you.

My team at Apple is hiring Debugger Engineer to work on LLDB in London: https://jobs.apple.com/en-gb/details/200643284/debugger-engineer
If you’re interested, please submit your CV through the website. Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions!

TIL #PostgreSQL 16 and above has a level above the SUPERUSER role: the "bootstrap superuser," from whom you cannot revoke SUPERUSER privileges: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/18/glossary.html#GLOSSARY-BOOTSTRAP-SUPERUSER

And since internal components may still refer to it by name or expect it […]

@kravietz what model are you using it with?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rileytestut/115917812751736532

OK nevermind, THIS is the coolest thing I’ve ever done to my iPhone

Vojtux - Accessible Linux distro which is almost pure Fedora

Vojtěch Polášek has put together a technical preview of a version of Fedora that should work well for blind or visually impaired users. While his goal is explicitly to see these improvements and changes become part of Fedora itself […]

So there's a #Mastodon instance for people that are into #math called mathtodon… and that instance allows users to use #LaTeX.

The #Fediverse is amazing on so many levels.
Ah, and also you might read about #Erdos problem 728: 😉

https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115855840223258103

You are not required to close your <p>, <li>, <img>, or <br> tags in HTML Debunking an alarmingly common HTML misconception.

I'm writing HTML by hand today and was reminded that closing <p> and <li> tags is optional https://blog.novalistic.com/archives/2017/08/optional-end-tags-in-html/

Friendly.rb 2023

@adrian is it my device/internet or is there an issue with the gallery?

https://friendlyrb.wfolio.pro/disk/2023

Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec

I lost a lot of work by accident that I didn't push yet. 🥲

And I excluded them from backups because I thought that I'd push them "soon" anyway.

All it took was a mistake when running `rsync`.

Stay safe folks.

@marcoroth here's the official clip from Rails Foundation:

Xavier giving Marco the award

I'm really happy to see @marcoroth receive the 2025 Rails Luminary Award! 🎉

He’s done so much for the Rails ecosystem and the broader Ruby community.
He's always humble, thoughtful, and full of positive energy.
And I think that he never sleeps. 😅
Feels great to […]

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@eregon is `ArgumentError: UTF-16 string byte length (51) is not a multiple of 2` something that should be handled in my PR or in TruffleRuby?
ArgumentError is semantically off but I vaguely remember that it was some encoding performance stuff or so?

It would be nice if it would act like the […]

Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of #CSS:

https://wiki.csswg.org/ideas/mistakes

Wow, @noteflakes' #uringmachine looks very promising:

https://github.com/digital-fabric/uringmachine/blob/main/benchmark/README.md

#ruby #rubyprogramming #rubyonrails

[39c3] Wie wir alte Flipperautomaten am Leben erhalten Der Vortrag gibt einen Einblick in die verschiedenen Generationen von Flippern und deren Technik. Angefangen von elektromechanischen Geräten aus den frühen Sechzigern, über erste Prozessorsteuerungen, bis hin zu modernsten computergesteuerten Auto...

@noniq https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2025/fahrplan/event/wie-wir-alte-flipperautomaten-am-leben-erhalten

Musste gerade an Dich denken 😅

git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...

this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc

zine sale! coming november 28, 50% off PDF zines, 30% off print zines A cartoon of a person in a spacesuit, accompanied by a penguin (also in a spacesuit), flying through a colourful tunnel. The person has an excited expression, a medium skin tone, and big curly hair that fills the bubble helmet of their spacesuit.

tomorrow November 28 we're doing a Big Zine Sale! Here's a thread about every zine that will be on sale (it's all of them)

(feel free to mute this thread :))

(1/16)

HTTP has a new method: QUERY. Tl;dr: GET with a body.

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-httpbis-safe-method-w-body-14.html

#ietf

YARD-Lint looks useful https://mensfeld.pl/2025/11/yard-lint-ruby-documentation-linter/

Graph showing curl's source code age over time

More than half of #curl's source code lines have been changed within the last four years. 1,101 lines from before year 2000 still remain "untouched".

:ruby: #Ruby's #Float contains a bunch of interesting constants.

Like EPSILON, which is the

> difference between 1 and the smallest double-precision floating point number greater than 1.

What is it useful for you ask?
Well, Floats are kinda difficult for computers and if you want to compare […]

@porras 😅

@eljojo sehr gut 😅

strcasecmp in Turkish A friendly user submitted the (lib)curl bug report #2154627 which identified a problem with our URL parser. It doesn’t treat “`file://`” as a known protocol if the locale in use is Turkish. This was the beginning of a minor world-moving revelation for me. Of course this is already known to mankind and I’m just behind, but really: lots of my fellow hacker friends had no idea either. So “`file`” and “`FILE`” are not the same word case insensitively in Turkish because ‘i’ is not the lowercase version of ‘I’. Back to strcasecmp: POSIX pretty much makes the function useless by saying that “The results are unspecified in other locales [than POSIX]”. I’m a bit annoyed by this fact, as now I have to introduce my own function (which thus cannot use tolower() or toupper() since they also are affected by the locale) and use since the strings in our code is clearly used for “English” strings so file and FILE truly are the same string when compared case insensitively…

On this day seventeen years ago I learned something about locales and Turkish that has scarred me for life: I is not always uppercase i!

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/10/15/strcasecmp-in-turkish/

New app Icons 🤩

I'm not in the MS ecosystem but this looks pretty cool.

@microsoft365 https://bird.makeup/users/microsoft365/statuses/1973825310681367031

TikaRegexTest#test_converts_Java_double-escaped_octal_sequences: RuntimeError: Neutered Exception Polyglot::ForeignException: invalid group reference 101 <internal:core> core/regexp.rb:226:in `Truffle::RegexpOperations.match?' <internal:core> core/regexp.rb:226:in `Regexp#match?' test/tika_regex_test.rb:28:in `TikaRegexTest#test_converts_Java_double-escaped_octal_sequences'

@eregon do you have any advice for me?
I'm surely doing something wrong.

https://github.com/rails/marcel/actions/runs/18431879625/job/52520253962?pr=132

Also I kinda wouldn't have expected a `Polyglot::ForeignException` here but rather something that could be […]

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WIP: add `tika.xml` regex support · rails/marcel@e0fde31 Find the mime type of files, examining file, filename and declared type - WIP: add `tika.xml` regex support · rails/marcel@e0fde31

@headius it has been ages that I stumbled over a different handling between #MRI and #JRuby but today it has happened. 😉

https://github.com/rails/marcel/actions/runs/18431055272/job/52518425738?pr=132

#TruffleRuby is affected too.