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i’m curious how to handle the “new” part. which is better aligned with the spirit of the month: something entirely novel, or something i’ve dabbled with but haven’t properly engaged with in a while? because if it’s gotta be entirely novel i’mma need someone to whip up a random skill generator right quick.

2026-08-17 01:20:08 UTC

the thing is, when companies insist on making software worse and worse and worse, “this makes no sense and i’ve never had to do it before” stops being the first line of defense against low-effort bullshit like this: https://bird.makeup/users/moonlock_com/statuses/2088010016926109872
you know what else companies never insisted on until they did? sharing phone numbers for multi-factor auth. completing at least one motherfucking captcha every time you want to view a website. or, alternatively, watching a strange catgirl fill a progress bar or complain that your browser won’t accept cookies every time you want to view a website. having a microsoft account to install windows. agreeing to have your whole-ass face scanned to, again, view a fucking website. being asked to set up something called a “passkey” even though you just signed in with your fuckin’ pass**word** and a code you retrieved from an app that generates these funny six-digit keys but always makes it so you have enough time to view a key but not enough time to be confident it’s going to be valid when you copy it so you have to wait for the next one to be generated.
“$COMPANY would never ask you to do $STUPID_BULLSHIT” only works if you aren’t living in the era of every company asking the people unfortunate enough to still use their products to constantly do stupid bullshit.

2026-07-16 15:04:07 UTC

never bought a whoop because a subscription-locked fitness device sounds like a terrible idea, but this fucks https://github.com/OpenStrap/edge

2026-03-28 10:30:16 UTC

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OpenBSD vi should be nvi, or derived from it, at least based on my recollection and the vi man page:
> The ex editor first appeared in 1BSD. The nex/nvi replacements for the ex/vi editor first appeared in 4.4BSD.

2026-02-14 15:20:38 UTC

A question for more experienced devs: is the rise of CONTRIBUTING.md organic, or is it becoming more popular as a sort of proto-AGENTS.md that allows projects to have some plausible deniability regarding their use of or tolerance for vibecoding tools?
It *feels* like I almost never saw a CONTRIBUTING.md before a few months ago, but now it’s everywhere, and I’m curious.
#software #dev #foss

2025-10-28 21:55:31 UTC

That’s… not ideal.
https://coloradosun.com/2025/10/28/flock-camera-police-colorado-columbine-valley/