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2. Fork the upstream project (optionally remove other -- now useless :^) -- build scripts), oh god, it's meson wrapdb all over again. my heart goes out to all the library maintaine…

look at inspect source. the comments like are pretty stark llmisms. also the random emojis in front of the duplicate and triplicate "Browse Music" links, the corny tagline in the f…

the formality slider (play with it at the google fonts page linked in the article[0]) is genuinely one of the coolest uses of a variable font axis i've seen in recent memory. it fe…

nixos is already, from a certain perspective, an exotic take on gentoo. take away cache.nixos.org and it becomes a source-based distro. it's not even too out-of-the-question to do …

the consequentialist "may as well" or "for all intents and purposes" is implicit. of course you can't ascribe literal teleology to something like a megacorp; diffusion of accountab…

hang about, the smalltalk return operator is why objc block syntax uses carets, isn't it? how did that only just click for me?

finding it increasingly difficult to summon any optimism with respect to this stuff. opposing policy, proponents of which can fall back on "think of the children", is an uphill bat…

inkscape has had a long and quiet ascent from quintessentially janky foss creative software to genuinely pleasant to use. i still wish it were a little easier to edit the individua…

genuinely remarkable, the altogether perhaps even productive mischief you can get up to, especially with `__VA_OPT__` becoming a proper standard in both C and C++ so you don't have…

please keep the erlang ecosystem out of the llm griftosphere. jesus christ.

multiple services depending on different outputs of a single acme client can be expressed, right now, in 2025, within systemd unit definitions, without deeply integrating a systemd…

also the namesake of the unit fwiw

the nonprofit line has not been believ{ed,able} or relevant for what, in tech, may as well have been a century by now. had this happened around the time the veil was lifted, that w…

linking old discussions is considered good style and is not making the implication you think it is.

i remember looking through these during a deep dive on type selection -- naturally radon, krypton, and arguably xenon come across as a bit gimmicky, argon has stiff competition in …

another one? was one inflicted upon the world not enough?

for starters, toolbox grouping and icon theme changes are reversible in settings, and in fact the "legacy" icons have gotten a lot of love in 3.0. they look nice at high dpi now! (…

you can slap a hash on a binary distribution and it becomes "reproducible" in the same trivial sense as any source tarball. after that, the reproducibility of whatever "build proce…

i frequently generate something resembling this and/or the hamming distance texture in a fairly dumb manual way, by just doing blend mode overlay on progressively smaller checkerbo…

there is a very real sense in which nix has been riding on a good idea while ergonomics elsewhere in the field have advanced, yes. make no mistake, the technical work, getting prog…

understanding submodules has not caused me to stop wishing that something in the vein of nix (in the sense of being able to provide a "lockfile" that transcends language-level pack…

please tell me this means chromium will un-drop jxl and we can just stick them on the web like png/jpg/gif

kingdom come, the last book written before his death, at once falls tremendously short of his reputation for prescience on the literal level, but exceeds with flying colours in pre…