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📝 This community write-up on Unison asks: what if service boundaries didn’t mean serialization, versioning pain, or extra operational complexity?
Check it out here: https://medium.com/@thomas_alexandre/unison-the-language-that-makes-microservices-feel-like-a-monolith-64fa9cc5072c?utm_source=mastodon
Or here: https://github.com/ThomasAlexandre/programming/blob/main/unison-article-feb-2026.md?utm_source=mastodon
Making Firefox's right-click not suck with about:config
Link: https://joshua.hu/firefox-making-right-click-not-suck
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47251480
At #msc2026 Youssef M. Ouled from 
@AlgoRace explaining their research on racist & militarist uses of AI, like in ‘Lavender’ (the AI machine directing Israel’s bombing in Gaza) and biases in new uses of AI by Spanish police, where cops adopt similar to ICE algorithm-guided tools for making decisions on spot about "who is more violent". Also about collective efforts like the citizen's-AI coalition: https://iaciudadana.org/ for forcing EU to make deliberative calls and deliberation with citizens
who called it casting with verbal but absent somatic or material components and not “speak and spell”
はてさて 
1add29cf40 (upstream/main) Redirect to short account URLs when requesting HTML for one of the AP endpoints (#38056)
a70079968c Break `ScrollableList` component into parts (#38059)
3fbb7424fa Emoji text input and character counter components (#38052)
43b0113a4a Update ES versions in CI/devcontainer to match primary compose (#38041)
a89754f288 Re-run `db:schema:dump` with rails 8.1 (#38044)
8a0261c51c Add `missing_attribution` boolean to preview cards (#38043)
5472ab251a Fix existing posts not being removed from lists when a list member is unfollowed (#38048)
078b87bdc1 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#38047)
177f4ee3ae Update haml_lint to version 0.72.0 (#38042)
0a4f96be21 Update dependency tzinfo-data to v1.2026.1 (#38035)
0f2ad41f89 Update dependency public_suffix to v7.0.5 (#38034)
Somebody would like you to know his memoir Doing Life Right will be published later in 2026.
Overreliance
애플, 99만원 '맥북 네오' 공개…중저가·교육용 시장 겨냥
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 애플이 중저가 맥북을 내놓으며 크롬북이 장악한 중저가·교육용 시장에 뛰어들었다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260305003600091
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10196-1
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249809
I'm excited to be back in Barcelona in two weeks!
Fastly is headed to Wasm I/O 2026 in Barcelona, March 19–20! 🇪🇸
We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up:
🎤 Sy Brand — Co-operative Multithreading & the Component Model
🎤 Erik Rose — Componentizing Fastly Compute
🎤 Luke Wagner — Towards a Component Model 1.0
If you care about WebAssembly, components, or cloud compute, don’t miss this. ⚡ 
@webassemblyeu 
@webassembly
More info: https://2026.wasm.io/
The infrastructure phase of AI governance has begun. Recently, CC attended the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, and what became clear is that AI governance is shifting. The conversation is moving beyond high-level principles and into harder, more structural questions about infrastructure, stewardship, and power.
Read our reflection on the biggest takeaways from Delhi and what we believe is CC's critical role in filling a global implementation gap.
https://creativecommons.org/2026/03/04/ais-infrastructure-era/
Modern Illustration: Archive of illustration from c.1950-1975
Link: https://www.modernillustration.org
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47197749
사람이 정말 생각고서 최대한 배려해서 써줬는데 오해해 버리고는 냅다 차단하고 도망가버리지 마세요. 차라리 화를 내라고. 님이 나를 잘못 이해했다고.
what fresh hell is "PaymentDefermentRisk", DHL
What #pokemon type are you? “Normal” is not allowed.
@YeeHawClaireClaire Reynolds congratulations on your primary win in Texas 11 yesterday!!!!!
I’ll have much more to say about the MacBook Neo next week on Mac Break Weekly, but my early critique is that even tho I’m a fan of this, we shouldn’t pretend that at its core, this isn’t a $300 Chromebook being sold for $600. The $300 premium is prob worth it for a subset of buyers. I love expanding the ecosystem to more people. But this is still a very expensive Chromebook with way worse connectivity and more storage. Yes, it runs macOS but…
It's out! jj 0.39.0! today! now! RIGHT NOW!!! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...
Release v0.39.0 · jj-vcs/jj
Hi, can anyone give me some pointers around learning coding on the #AtariST ? I picked up a copy of Atari ST Internals, going to get a 68000 book, but any tips on setting up an assembler/coding environment, that sort of thing. I have very, very little assembly-language programming experience. Many thanks #demoscene #programming
It's out! jj 0.39.0! today! now! RIGHT NOW!!! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re...
Release v0.39.0 · jj-vcs/jj
ugh power creep is everywhere. even jury duty can’t even start players off with a few regular voirs, gotta go straight to dire voir
I am holding a sealed package of salt crackers and Odin is literally trembling with anticipation over the idea I might one day open it. #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon
Fastly is headed to Wasm I/O 2026 in Barcelona, March 19–20! 🇪🇸
We’ve got 3 amazing speakers lined up:
🎤 Sy Brand — Co-operative Multithreading & the Component Model
🎤 Erik Rose — Componentizing Fastly Compute
🎤 Luke Wagner — Towards a Component Model 1.0
If you care about WebAssembly, components, or cloud compute, don’t miss this. ⚡ @webassemblyeu @webassembly
More info: https://2026.wasm.io/
I've broken down the risks and potential response to California's new(ish) Digital Age Assurance Act. It has a giant open source gap that, if fixed, could allay many concerns.
Swift’s ownership tools don’t just help our users. They also help library authors keep themselves honest. When we lend a precious resource to a user’s closure, we wrap it in ~Escapable so it cannot outlive that closure.
Learn all about it: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep356-beyond-basics-superpowers
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116172179294783146
"Is there a point to understanding things?" is, I think, the single biggest open question about Software Engineering as a discipline that has opened up over the last 18 months.
I expect it'll be answered in the affirmative, but
a) I don't think there'll be consensus on that for another 3 years
b) I don't think the people who are acting as if the negative is true will ever realise that that's what they think
하…. 게임할 여유도 없는데
app: You must verify that you're an adult
me: I'm just so tired all the time
app: Verified
Hi, can anyone give me some pointers around learning coding on the #AtariST ? I picked up a copy of Atari ST Internals, going to get a 68000 book, but any tips on setting up an assembler/coding environment, that sort of thing. I have very, very little assembly-language programming experience. Many thanks #demoscene #programming
RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116172179294783146
"Is there a point to understanding things?" is, I think, the single biggest open question about Software Engineering as a discipline that has opened up over the last 18 months.
I expect it'll be answered in the affirmative, but
a) I don't think there'll be consensus on that for another 3 years
b) I don't think the people who are acting as if the negative is true will ever realise that that's what they think
좀만 멘탈에 여유 생기면 게을러지는
First Post! Uh, I mean, First CHERIoT Silicon!
We have our first chips back! It is very exciting! Spatial and temporal memory safety, fine-grained compartmentalisation, and also a load of other big chips on a board, so you can play 'Where's ICENI?' on the board picture!
life goals: write a program so intense it unlocks the halt-and-catch-fire ability https://gmplib.org/gmp-zen5
Somebody would like you to know his memoir Doing Life Right will be published later in 2026.
I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do
So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/#inflicting-unreviewed-code-on-collaborators
Does AI clean-rooming mean we don't have to discuss licensing anymore? 🍿
Faster C software with Dynamic Feature Detection via 
@fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/dzcrf7 #c
https://gist.github.com/jjl/d998164191af59a594500687a679b98d
I started a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide about anti-patterns - things NOT to do
So far I only have one: Inflicting unreviewed code on collaborators, aka dumping a thousand line PR without even making sure it works first https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/anti-patterns/#inflicting-unreviewed-code-on-collaborators
A "naming things is hard" anecdote I was just reminded of by an old web page:
In the 1990s, when 32-bit versions of Windows were introduced, a new executable file format was needed for native 32-bit programs. The existing 16-bit file format used by Windows 3.x was called "NE", for "New Executable". The 32-bit one was named "PE", for "Portable Executable".
Windows 95 could still run 16-bit Windows 3.x programs. But Windows 3.x couldn't run the newer 32-bit ones. (Ok, there was Win32s, but it had very restricted usefulness.)
In other words, the format called "New" was the older one of the two, *and* the format called "Portable" was the one that didn't work everywhere!
From 
@nelsonNelson Minar
GitHub status
https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/
A more honest third party monitor of GitHub services. The vital service has under 92% of uptime for the last three months. Rumor is they are migrating everything to Azure and it is going very badly
Agustí Emperador d' 
@ecologistasEcologistas en Acción al #msc26
El macroprojecte de Cerdanyola consisteix en centres de dades de col·locació: llogaran els llocs de càlcul a empreses que ho paguin millor de tot el món, a través d'empreses intermediàries. Això és extractivisme energètic en estat pur"
x.com/p5xofficialw...
화오링 영상 작년엔 없었는데 글로벌에서 나오면서 만들었네
Persona5: The Phantom X (Offic...
Wouter Tebbens ⁂
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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Misty
David Lord 
