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Why use #React? "This isn’t a rhetorical question. I genuinely want to know why devs choose to build using React. There are many reasons. Alas, none of them relate directly to user experience, other than productive devs will make better websites. (Citation needed.)" https://adactio.com/journal/22265
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and 
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build 
@anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
From launching Bounce, to a new settings page, DM notifications, moderation features, and so much more. What a year it's been 🚀
If you believe in our mission and want us to continue this work, please support us on Patreon!
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build @anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto 
@mcc Chinese dictionaries are sorted this way, by the main bu-sho 部首 - the word radical while is the regular word for it, doesn't carry all the meaning, which is more "indexing component" (and not just any radical in the word) as wikipedia calls it - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_character_radicals - https://www.chineasy.com/bushou-%E9%83%A8%E9%A6%96-a-basic-concept-of-chinese-radicals/
Anthropic acquires Bun
Link: https://bun.com/blog/bun-joins-anthropic
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124267
Short PSA for all the Minecraft admins on here: Please consider setting "hide-online-players" in your "server.properties" to true. Doing so will do no harm and instead help protect the privacy of your players.
https://blog.eps-dev.de/admins-protect-the-privacy-of-your-players/
Admins, protect the privacy of your players!
By default, Minecraft servers publish a sample of their currently online players through their Status Response which is shown by the client when hovering over the player count field in the multiplayer menu. Since this Status is given out to everyone who requests it, without prior authentication or authorization, server
blog.eps-dev.de · Lillychans Blog
Link author: 
Lilly 
@lilly@mstd.ink
do a kittys wag they tail
Holy smokes I now share a film credit with HIDEO KOJIMA. This is so cool.
저는 일반 연합유저가 아닌 사실상 연합매거진 계정이다
You can delete a range of ZFS snapshots (a-z) in multiple ways.
The following will delete d and all earlier snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%d
To delete d and all later snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@d%
To delete all dataset snapshots:
zfs destroy mypool/data@%
Make sure to let ZFS perform a dry run (-n option) first and display (-v) what
it would do to confirm that the delete operation is removing exactly what you
intended.
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
Can we build WeChat Mini Apps using open web standards? https://lobste.rs/s/yvb1ve #android #ios #mobile
https://dmathewwws.com/antler-an-irl-browser
100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite
Link: https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124205
New vatnik spam mail domains detected: speakerion.com, nembors.com and allfreemail.net
Do you know good hashtag? Like #fedimailblock or so?
First challenge of the SadServers advent event done
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115651549321396223
I'm so grateful to 
@snarfed.orgRyan Barrett for giving me a chance to partner with him on @anewsocial.
I still can't believe he decided to say yes after the wild essays I sent him over email about all the great things we can do with Bridgy Fed.
What an amazing year. We're just getting started 🚀
Zig's new plan for asynchronous programs
Link: https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1046084/4c048ee008e1c70e/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121539
@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto This much makes sense to me (although I keep forgetting if the meaning radical is on the left and the pronunciation radical is on the right or the other way around… it definitely doesn't seem consistent. 右 and 有 are both "you", neither of these is "kou" or "yue")
Today is #GivingTuesday, and we are also around the one-year mark of @snarfed.org and @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja teaming up to build @anewsocial.
We've accomplished more than we could've imagined and have incredible momentum going into 2026!
Here's to another year of building A New Social for people, not platforms 🌐
i just really wish there was some built-in logging thing that showed hit/miss live as they happen together with inferred keys. would really help gain an intuition on it @owoce.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @unstubbable.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @storyhb.com@bsky.brid.gy maybe something like this already exists?
진짜 딱 이쯤 걸리겠지...한 데에서 끝낫군...ㅋㅋㅋ 3시간이라도 자야한다...
Ny krabat i vinduet på jobb 🐘😃
become unenshittifiable
cache components is very very fun to play with. i'm a big fan. one thing i'm not sure about is whether to place "use cache" closer to the data layer (particular queries) or ui layer (particular component trees). obviously could do both but i wonder which pattern i'll gravitate towards
Current source of Mandarin learning frustration: 时 and 肘 are not only different but entirely unrelated. Yes, I know one of those radicals is sun and one is moon. I wasted an alarming amount of time entering characters in the dictionary app before figuring it out however
IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off
Link: https://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-ceo-big-tech-ai-capex-data-center-spending-2025-12
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124324
Il web che amo.
Quello dei piccoli blog indipendenti, magari ospitati su qualche VPS dove si offrono anche servizi open source e privacy oriented, istanze del #fediverso, e tanto altro.
Si può parlare di #indieweb?
In ogni caso, impegniamoci per alimentare un WWW più sano.
Per non creare un'accozzaglia di url, mi limiterò a taggare alcuni profili (in ordine sparso), da cui poi ricavare i link:
@stefanoStefano Marinelli 
@lorenzo
@dadodado 
@denial403
@giacomoGiacomo Tesio
Just released! 🚀
🎶 pylast 7.0.0
🎤 A #Python interface to 
@lastfm and Libre.fm
🗑️ Remove `SCROBBLE_SOURCE_*` and `SCROBBLE_MODE_*` constants. Last used in 2017, you probably weren't using them
📻 Add `chosen_by_user` parameter to `scrobble`. Set to false if you don't have "direct" control over the source, like radio or a stream.
🐍 Add support for Python 3.15
📼 Test against recorded API instead of live
🦀 Replace pre-commit with prek
Thanks to 
@scy!
https://github.com/pylast/pylast/releases/tag/7.0.0
#release #LastFM
Just released! 🚀🐍
Python 3.14.1
Waiting for the .1 to upgrade? This one's especially for you!
🥧 Deferred type annotation evaluation!
🥧 T-strings!
🥧 Zstandard!
🥧 Syntax highlighting in the REPL!
🥧 Colour in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs!
🥧 UUID v6-8!
🥧 And much more!
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-14-1-is-now-available/105163
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc
I've got a piece up today at @lukeoneil47.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy's Welcome to Hell World. Check it out: www.welcometohellworld.com/a-coordinate...
A coordinated campaign to driv...
It's Giving Tuesday! Don't forget to check in with your company to see if they use Benevity; a 30-second search for "Ruby Central Inc" could unlock matching funds that go directly toward strengthening Ruby’s open-source foundation and developer community.
A new org in the UK
‘TOGETHER AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT’. Love, hope and unity.
March in London in unity and against the far right on March 28
The thing that transforms large-language-model "AI"¹ from "a bad idea"² to "a fatal idea"² is "self-hosting"²: in other words, the idea the people making the AI can "program"¹ the AI by way of inputs to the AI.
This idea is foundational to the OpenAI approach, and it does not work, but the model tech is good enough at lying³ that in a formal QA setting it appears to work.
https://tenforward.social/@SeanAloysiusOBrien/115651339013408174
¹ Scare quotes
² Regular quotes
³ Yes, an unthinking object can lie. It just can't tell the truth.
ACME Challenge for Persistent DNS TXT Record Validation https://lobste.rs/s/kwbowm #security
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-sheurich-acme-dns-persist-01
100000 TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite https://lobste.rs/s/pelnhp #clojure #databases
https://andersmurphy.com/2025/12/02/100000-tps-over-a-billion-rows-the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-sqlite.html
Web-based markdown editor with no AI https://lobste.rs/s/ymwbkg #show #design
https://kraa.io/about
Darn... psycopg 3.3.1 on the way 😅
Girlguiding has announced that they will no longer be accepting trans girls and non-binary kids who were not AFAB. They have written a lot of nice-sounding words that amount to "we don't want to do this, but our hands are tied." To which I say: bullshit. As a lifelong Girl Scout and a current troop leader, I am extremely disappointed in our sisters in the UK.
As Girl Scouts and Girl Guides, we should be blazing our own trails and always, *always* advocating for girls. That includes all girls and anyone else who identifies with the girl experience. We should not be capitulating to bullies. We especially should be not obeying in advance.
@stiiinStijn van Drongelen i'm just gonna see how it develops and not care which gods i anger
The Junior Hiring Crisis
Link: https://people-work.io/blog/junior-hiring-crisis/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46124063
does anyone else read `to_le_bytes` in their mind as „to le bytes“ (french)?
I have a December gift for you all 🎁
I am finally able to open up a general call for ADVANCE READERS for my book: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SOFTWARE TEAMS (coming 2026). I cannot tell you how much it means to me to share this!
I am able to select a handful of folks to receive a free advance copy, and I would love to ensure this group represents a broad range of perspectives and experiences.
You can indicate your interest here. And you are welcome to share this form:
[アップデート] ネットワーク最適化されたAmazon EC2 C8ineインスタンスが発表されました(プレビュー) #AWSreInvent
https://dev.classmethod.jp/articles/amazon-ec2-c8ine-awsreinvent-preview/
#Holos is progressing nicely. The mobile app now receives all notifications from the Fediverse, follows and unfollows work properly, and you can compose posts. The menu gives access to lists, bookmarks, filters and followed tags. Display settings offer different view modes depending on what you want to browse, all from a single account. Relay server code will be available in a few days. Feel free to bother 
@holos_dev, it's there for testing.
re: all the very special former doge boys who are instituting programming tests across the whole federal government
https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/15/it_hiring_whiteboard/
OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
Link: https://www.theverge.com/news/836212/openai-code-red-chatgpt
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46121870
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Fullmetal Alejandro
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