"First they came for the Emacs and I said nothing."
13.02.2026 08:23
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"First they came for the Emacs and I said nothing."
It's Burns night, and in celebration of the Bard the first round of tickets to Haggis Ruby 2026 are now on sale! ti.to/haggis-ruby/...
The website hasnae even been updated yet you lucky people. 2 days, in Glasgow, with brilliant speakers, a ceilidh and workshops. Whit more could you want?
Two weeks ago, at the last RailsConf I brought an "I am Friendly" swag item to put up for auction.
A certain "Mike W" won it and never got to meet or thank him in person.
So help me find "Mike W" somewhere online so I can say "Thank you" 🫶
Credit to @bjennings90.bsky.social for the cartoon: bsky.app/profile/bjen...
The most interesting fact about Hulk Hogan is that as a kid in France, Andre the Giant sometimes got driven to school by playwright Samuel Beckett
thanks anne—and we're not done.
if you're considering subscribing to WIRED and still on the fence, this year, we also dropped paywalls for FOIA-based reporting (and some guides).
so, here is a 🧵 of some unpaywalled articles (which includes some of our most important work)!
The DD has always been a self-organised event. Southwark Cyclists and some other cycling groups organise transport back for the riders but that's it.
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
I still love the HEEx out of it.
Determinism and transformer functions are mutually exclusive, at least for the foreseeable future.
Your Lambdas Function (yes that’s how we pluralize it) are about to get more expensive, as AWS begins charging for the INIT phase.
aws.amazon.com/blogs/comput...
Defend the Internet Archive. Protect the Wayback Machine. Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit. Sign our open letter on change.org
📢 The Internet Archive needs your help.
At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine.
Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit.
👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the...
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For the paywall averse: archive.is/bDh4a
Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/
They’re not called Rare Earth Metals because they’re scarce, but because as a group of elements they took a long time to isolate. It’s an antiquated English use of rare meaning “widely distributed or isolated” that died in Victorian times.
RIP David Lynch
Elon Musk has had a lot to say about the grooming gangs scandal. With colleagues from BBC Verify, I've looked at 24 hours on Musk's X timeline. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Seeing an online ad shouldn’t mean surrendering your data to thousands of companies you’ve never heard of. It’s time to end online behavioral advertising and the mass surveillance it enables.
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
Vintage shot of a young Hugh Dennis. 👌
My colleague Devin Coldewey (who, good for him, is not on social) and I put together an updating list of free, open-source and/or self-hosted alternatives to popular apps — like Adobe, Dropbox, Google Docs, Pocket — that can help you reclaim your data from Big Tech.
techcrunch.com/2024/11/24/t...
A tale of two platforms:
BlueSky user numbers have hit a new record high in recent days, while the number of people deleting their accounts on X/Twitter has rocketed 🚀
How churlish to assume that this phrase is not still in common parlance (at least in the UK). #getmecoat
we asked A.I. for an ACCURATE depiction of trump actually working at mcdonald's — oh god
“I guess it shows the economy is very bad to cut it by that much, assuming that they are not just playing politics,” the Republican candidate for the White House said at a Manhattan bitcoin bar on Wednesday.
www.ft.com/content/da93...
Paraskavedekatriaphobia [paer-AS-kuh-ved-ehk-at-rahy-uh-FOH-bee-uh]
(n.)
- The superstitious fear of Friday the thirteenth.
Used in a sentence:
“Once working remotely from home became an option, Bob’s paraskavedekatriaphobia was no longer problematic with his employer.”
Newton Pro.
(or, more realistically, Apple Intelligence and some additional emoji related products)
