Vacation: Doing crazy things like C on DOS, lots of Rust, bare-metal assembly code, everything is fine.
Back at work: How the fuck do I move an email in this web mail program? Am I stupid? 😮💨
2026 👀
“What is a PC compatible?” https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/what-is-a-pc-compatible/
Hmmm 🤔
Excluding merges, 1 author has pushed 171 commits to main and 175 commits to all branches. On main, 294 files have changed and there have been 52880 additions and 18269 deletions.
From the Mu (µ) Gitea Activity Tab
mu (µ) now has builtin code formatting and linting tools, making µ far more useful and useable as a general purpose programming language. Mu now includes:
- An interpreter for quick “scriptinog”
- A native code compiler for building native executables (Darwin / macOS only for now)
- A builtin set of developer tools, currently: fmt (-fmt), check (-check) and test (-test).
I just fixed another bug in tt where the language hint in multiline markdown code blocks had not been stripped before rendering. It just looked like it was part of the actual code, which was ugly. I now throw it away. Actually, it’s already extracted into the data model for possible future syntax highlighting.
Btw, @shinyoukai@neko.laidback.moe, that’s a super cool logo on your yarnd. I like it a lot!
It just doesn’t look aligned properly: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/misalignment.png Could be a yarnd issue, though, it might not expect a logo this large. Just wildguessing, no idea.
Oh, suddenly Mother Hulda dumped a centimeter of snow tonight! https://lyse.isobeef.org/schnee-2025-12-30/01.jpg
Magpie from the day before yesterday: https://lyse.isobeef.org/elster-2025-12-28/
Pro tip: Don’t keep the christmas biscuits close to the bird fat balls. I nearly mixed up the bags. :-D
This was the scariest movie I’ve seen in a long time, jesus. 🤣 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_(2022_film)
Building native compilers is hard 🤣 Building bytecode VM / interpreters is way easier 🤣
Almost all photos turned out to be blurred today. That made sorting a very quick process. Delete, delete, delete, … https://lyse.isobeef.org/waldspaziergang-2025-12-26/
Lab report: Reading a 4th Edition Research Unix tape image on Plan 9 — http://a.9srv.net/reports/index.html#v4
👋 Merry (2025) Xmas y’all 🎄 Ho ho ho! 🎅
Happy birthday Katrina! https://www.uninformativ.de/blog/postings/2025-12-23/0/POSTING-en.html :-)
Side effects of having a NetBSD server: I can use it to build things for my computer (also running NetBSD)
morning!!
what would be funny is @prologic@twtxt.net writing things with his namesake (Prolog)
Awk to take lines from Plan 9’s /lib/unicode and prepend the actual glyph and a tab: awk ‘{cmd=sprintf(“unicode %s”, $1); cmd | getline c; printf(“%s %s\n”, c, $0)}’
Once a bookworm, always a bookworm.
Man, I have no idea where the last build of the Yarn android client went to (even though it wasn’t all that good when I first used it, but it was relatively useful otherwise)
i’ve learned a lot of lessons from writing my notes app, gonna apply this to bbycll and refactor the code to make it way more legible cause my custom templating system is only kind of a giant mess
yarn stop logging me out challenge (impossible)
it is really annoying and degrading to find that you need to upgrade to payed subscription to enable 2fa on your account, cmon ppl those are basic things…
Yo @prologic@twtxt.net, apparently even ‘git clone’ is getting blocked by your Gitea or something (I’m using authentication, naturally)
Day 6 of AoC, and I’m all caught up. 12 puzzles down, 12 more to go!
くそっ、「会話」、このアプリは一体何なんだ？
Working on day 3 of the Advent of Code 2025: https://adventofcode.com/
My solutions repo: https://git.itsericwoodward.com/eric/aoc-2025
@prologic@twtxt.net
Interesting experiment for salty-chat, use the MQTT protocol instead of HTTP, in theory it shouldn’t make a difference, at least
I’m gonna ask here again because I’m really frustrated and literally no one else is responding anywhere can u guys please help me find a good video camera the biggest think I want is long battery life but I also want it to be cheap like under $200, if you yourself don’t know please ask a friend because I am not a tech nerd and looking for stuff like this is very hard for me
The YAML forbidden knowledge of yarnd
Posting in anachronistic order, hah!
Got back into drawing! :)
I also made a couple (digital) collages today. Huge achievements
save 100% today when you don’t buy anything
@prologic@twtxt.net do I just have to actually post the token into the twtxt timeline for the bridge?
(as in, for registration)
Hey @prologic@twtxt.net 👋
@c350a5e5fb9d9457@bridge.twtxt.net Does this mean we’res starting to work, this whole Twtxt <-> ActivityPub bridge thingy? 🤔
@prologic@twtxt.net Your gitea thinks the LICENSE file in the yarn repository is SSPL-1.0 instead of GNU AGPL 3.0,
and I can’t help but giggle at that
Alright, this yarnd installation has been properly fixed.
Better Technology, Worse Motivation: GenAI’s Mediocrity Trap
While generative AI (GenAI) promises productive efficiency, it can paradoxically lead to lower-quality work. We conducted an experiment with professional illustrators and found that AI assistance flattens the quality curve—it accelerates initial gains but sharply diminishes the returns on sustained effort. Faced with this, a significant number of professionals made a strategic choice: they sacrificed the final quality to save time.
From http://www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/4/5/114595093/ai_and_motivation.pdf
I haven’t read this and can’t vouch for it; seems vaguely AI-boostery. Still, the conclusions are interesting. This seems to be the picture that is emerging about generative AI generally: most people don’t like it and find that degrades the quality of work. Coders seem to like it and think that it helps them, but in fact it makes the slower, less productive, and more bug prone.
By all measures it’s a bad technology. We should just be honest about it. There is no need to make excuses for multi-trillion-dollar corporations.
PSA: Just in case you start getting 5xxs on my end, I’m not dead 😂 (well, unless I am). Well be changing ISPs and hopefully get the new line up and running before the old provider cuts us off.
Shin’ya M. > doas npfctl table fail2ban list | wc -l
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Twtxt feed support for Kosuzu
A simpler theme for Yarn, perhaps?
This caveman is getting too old for the Internet… 😅 It took me 1 hrs and 50 mins to catch up with what’s been going on my feed.
since there are quite literally no note taking apps that work for me, i’ve began writing my own! to get started real quick i adapted the core part of bbycll’s backend and it works so nicely — which speaks volumes to the quality of the code! should really break it out into a custom framework. i’m also realizing how easy it would be to get bbycll v1 ready…but this is probably more important since it’ll allow me to get my life in order ^^’