The main reason Lisp had all this parenthesis is because at the time computers couldn’t support footnotes
05.03.2026 06:24
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The main reason Lisp had all this parenthesis is because at the time computers couldn’t support footnotes
New links: CSS CPU, software is political, calendar bug, Wasm restrospective, fullsource NixOS bootstrap, phantom obligation, time tracking, Git in Postgres, optimal Caverna gameplay, window positioning protocol for Wayland
archiloque.net/weekly/26-03...
window positioning coming to Wayland, you love to see it
this is a blocker for WINE being really usable on Wayland without using XWayland (and it's a hard blocker for loss32 because the taskbar needs to be at the bottom of the screen!)
gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayl...
I wonder if the LLM prompts used by Pete Hegseth to decide to start the war today will ever be published
www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obli...
"But nobody ever felt guilty about unplayed albums." I'm old enough to remember the mp3 era, and I think the guilt about unplayed albums was a real thing at the time. Also series, so many downloaded but unwatched series.
(The article is very good)
Thinking of all the time spent to give various tools the ability to snapshot webpages, then thanks to LLMs more and more of these snapshots are an anime girl trying to be sure you're not a bot
FOSS Nerds: We are announcing today an exciting project, the Hurtsume Nexus, an AGPL fork of the closed source Torment Nexus
Thinking back about how Factorio fried some software people brain because they want teams to work like the game. They should try one of the mods where every building has a % of random products and the game is about dealing with these, because managing a team is much more like this.
The next release of Roblox Entreprise Platform will include VPN support, orgs with legacy apps that require VPN will finally be able to deploy on Roblox
And indeed it’s a better idea
What about Bakelite?
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
He gives me Keir Starmer vibes, and I don’t mean it in a good way
@whitequark.org
The Ultra-Low Yield Antitank Weapon The Teeny Tiny Tacnuke (U) University of California Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
...wh-what
what the fuck do you mean
what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called
THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE
www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...
Someone should make a SourceForge logo mixed with the GitHub one, for the very old people like me that have a déjà-vu feeling
Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"
Status dashboard:
screenshot from C11 standard, appendix J.2, specifying that "The behavior is undefined in the following circumstances: — A ‘‘shall’’ or ‘‘shall not’’ requirement that appears outside of a constraint is violated (clause 4). — A nonempty source file does not end in a new-line character which is not immediately preceded by a backslash character or ends in a partial preprocessing token or comment (5.1.1.2). ..."
today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
"This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" 🎯
Since Microsoft Publisher always want to open my ssh public key files, I wonder if you could create a key that is also a valid Publisher file
A square marble tile with a shiny metal ball on it next to some papers and a coffee mug.
I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
In all EU, mandatory fire drills include the emergency escape of virtual meeting rooms. All corporate tooling like MS Teams or Zoom provide the required features for administrators so they can schedule the drills and audit who didn’t left the meetings on time.
There are custom screens models for medical practitioners, the only difference is their very large borders so people can put all the sticky notes filled with passwords they need to make things work
Ah and in case it wasn’t explicit: the person pictured is the dev who added the feature, he used his own picture
It was linked to www.reddit.com/r/ableton/co... and happened when there was an error
screenshot of a terminal running the command `git push origin main`, the output of the command has been modified to show a video player advertising squarespace, as a parody.
The scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...
blogged: Mozilla Slopaganda
dbushell.com/2026/01/28/m...
— I read it so you don’t have to.
