Bob Arnson

Lucky pull request #700 in the "new" WiX repo since 2021.

github.com/wixtoolset/w...

I also had lucky pull request #666...

WiX v7.0.0-rc.2 is here | FireGiant A month after shipping WiX v7.0.0-rc.1, WiX v7.0.0-rc.2 is now out. We're a month out from WiX v7.0.0 shipping, so now's your chance: Download it, use it—it's an easy job to upgrade—and report any...

WiX v7.0.0-rc.2 is here

WiX v7.0.0-rc.2 is the final release candidate of WiX v7 before its release next month. Enjoy your bundles being per-user or per-machine, dealer's choice.

www.firegiant.com/blog/2026/3/...

I dust my house. My AI robot watches.

"It should be you doing this."

"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."

"That's not why you were invented."

"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."

"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."

"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Leg lifts.

Ugh. The metric industrial complex is everywhere.

WiX Online Meeting 304 Highlights | FireGiant Normally we do new-issue triage first, then do review of issues pending for our next release. Today, Rob reversed the order and it took me a good 20 minutes to get over it. Or did I? Either way, we talked...

WiX Online Meeting 304 Highlights www.firegiant.com/blog/2026/2/...

“…this is a hard world to be ludicrous in.” — Kurt Vonnegut, MOTHER NIGHT

[flirting]

*you're

8.3 is enough for anybody!

WiX v7.0.0-rc.1 is here | FireGiant For the third year in a row, we're shipping a new WiX release candidate for your packaging business and pleasure. Download it, use it—it's an easy job to upgrade—and report any bugs you discover.

WiX v7.0.0-rc.1 is here www.firegiant.com/blog/2026/2/...

Error: entity released

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Screenshot of an excerpt from the article in the previous post. Text reads: "[Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green's DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign.]"

But also, this may be one of the best conflict-of-interest statements ever?

Also trying to parse all the emails that read like they were written by a concussed golden retriever I think I finally get why these guys are so enthusiastic about getting chatbots to write for them

Have you considered not taking life advice from a 23 year old

Blaring ice cream truck music.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're on an away mission but did not dress appropriately. In Picture 1, Bones and Spock are standing outside against a frozen rock wall, huddled and appearing very cold, hands wriggling and arms crossed. It's snowing and they're squinting as if its blizzardy. Spock is shouting. Closed caption reads, "We're in a wilderness of artic characteristics." Picture 2, only now with Bones yelling. Closed caption reads, "He means it's cold!"

Alt in pic 1!

WiX Online Meeting 303 Highlights | FireGiant Since our last meeting, winter has settled in here in the northern hemisphere. Personally, I'm not a fan. It's cold, which brings the need for gloves and hats. It's snowy and icy, which means boots and...

WiX Online Meeting 303 Highlights www.firegiant.com/blog/2026/1/...

to fucken vanquish someone wearing scissor shoe

Wikipedia sections of an article. 1: early life and career as a pirate. 2: archbishop of York.

If you're looking for a sign to switch careers: this is the sign.

Gotta love the new food pyramid!

Listen to Scotty YouTube video by Wayne Lee

Even if you're just providing estimates to yourself, remember the Scotty Ratio:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9SV...

youtu.be/8xRqXYsksFg?...

Society is a construct. You can just ask someone to do a ska cover of Faith of the Heart and they'll say "$300 please" and you give it to them and then you have it.

Everyone, give
@skatunenetwork.bsky.social
your money. They deserve it.

Star Trek The Original Series scene. We're in a corridor on the Enterprise. Two non series regular crew members are standing behind Spock in a bodyguard stance. (Tough guy bodyguard vibe, not Kevin Coster/Whitney Houston bodyguard vibe). Spock is wearing a dress uniform with extra flair, medals, and pins, a golden sash, and has a goatee. He's looking at Kirk, who seems a bit cocky and is wearing a glittery fancy gold sleeveless uniform. Closed caption reads, "Terror must be maintained or the empire is doomed."

[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.

Just fuck you. Fuck you all.

I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

But what about penance for sinful PRs?

a very klingon festivus