What is Hackers' Pub?

my hobby is apparently "make updates to ergonomic setup, then blog about it from Amtrak". another round of that, this time featuring 3d printing! I got my 3d printer a couple of weeks ago, so really jumped off the deep end with the design here.

https://ntietz.com/blog/3d-printing-my-laptop-ergonomic-setup/

What I'm listening to today: "TD_B4", Sun of a Pitch

I imagine like, a cat doing a big yawn and stretchy, but in music form. Lordosis. Seductive illogic, a big spaghetti desk panel of modular synths making big spaghetti sounds. Strange unfolding crystal structures made of FM shines, hum and hiss, drums so soft and erratic they sound like another ambient element instead of beats. My suggestion is you do not "listen" to this instead just try to feel the big stretchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtyKYj5bFkE

I wrote a blog post about why we in the photography space *still* complain about Apple's Aperture going away over a decade later.

It was a *really* good app.

New blog post: A Lament For Aperture, The App We'll Never Get Over Losing

https://ikennd.ac/blog/2026/01/old-man-yells-at-modern-software-design/

RE: https://social.vmbrasseur.com/@vmbrasseur/115922995190919975

Mozilla wants your input. Here's mine:

Mozilla should be doing two things and two things only:

1: Building THE reference implementation web browser, and
2: Being a jugular-snapping attack dog on standards committees.
3: There is no 3.

Mozilla should have NOTHING to do with AI. Nobody wants it. Stop forcing AI into every corner of every project because your VC-brained management have completely lost the plot.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

it's early days - let me know what you think! ... PRs, feature requests and issues are very welcome 🙏

GitHub - danielroe/pangrum: A ...

I started this out of frustration because I couldn't play my favourite game on the plane ... and as it happened, I coded a lot of it on planes it's built with @nuxt.com@bsky.brid.gy v4 - it's been great for checking DX, testing features + finding issues 🚀

🐝 inspired by the nyt spelling bee: find words, hunt the pangram 🌐 6 languages 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇩🇪🇳🇱🇫🇷🇪🇸 📲 works offline (installable as PWA) 🔄 cross-device sync 🏆 share your score it's free, open source + hackable 👉 check it out on pangrum.com

Pangrum - Daily Word Puzzle Ga...

I built a daily word puzzle game! ⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛⬛⬛

#neovim Development News The 0.12 version will improve 'pumblend' behavior. It will not apply special attributes (bold, underline) from the background layer to the foreground layer. PR: - github.com/neovim/neovi...

fix(pum): do not apply some hi...

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Or do you know someone in that situation? Apply for Paul Schenkeveld Travel Grant before February 1st, 2026!

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Foul and Fowl

Foul

ICE continues to terrorize the Twin Cities, particularly Minneapolis. You have probably seen video and heard stories. Another person was shot this last week. DHS is saying he attacked them and then tried to run away so they shot him in the leg. Video and witness evidence is now coming out that reveals the situation may have been completely different—surprise! Don’t believe any story coming from the federal government regarding what is happening here. 

ICE is operating outside the law. They detain U.S. Citizens. ICE detained a 17-year-old kid working his shift at my neighborhood Target. He is a U.S. citizen and had his passport in his pocket, but ICE refused to verify this until 8 miles later when they then dumped him out of their SUV in a Walmart parking lot.

Then there is Garrison Gibson, a legal Liberian immigrant. ICE unlawfully busted down his front door with a battering ram after he refused to leave the house or open the door because ICE did not have a signed judicial warrant. Gibson was home with his wife, daughter and niece.

There are confirmed reports of ICE blocking in the cars of observers and then charging them with obstruction. ICE is also going to protesters’ houses trying to intimidate them and making threats. Then they are using tear gas on peaceful protesters and others who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. One family’s car was tear gassed and their 6-month-old baby who was in the car stopped breathing and had to be rushed to the hospital. Now they have to pay hospital bills and make extensive repairs to their car. A Judge ruled Friday that ICE is not allowed to use tear gas on peaceful protesters. Not sure that will even mean anything.

Meanwhile Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General, has issued an alert regarding DHS digital surveillance and how to protect your privacy. The state, Minneapolis, and St Paul are suing the Federal government citing constitutional violations of the first and tenth amendments. And the Department of Justice has launched investigations of Governor Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey on the grounds that they are impeding operations of the federal government. However, Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who murdered Renee Good, is not being investigated or charged with anything by the federal government.

But Minnesotans will not be silenced. If anything there are more and more people out on the streets and providing mutual aid. Monday night James and I did a virtual ICE Watch training from States at the Core via Defend612. There were 1,700 people on the call. They continue to offer trainings every few days. They made it a point to say that what is happening has nothing to do with immigration. Immigration is the excuse the Trump administration is using to intimidate and militarize cities in order to consolidate authoritarian power. I have not gone out on neighborhood patrol–it’s a bit challenging to do by bicycle in winter–but I carry a whistle with me whenever I leave the house and keep a lookout for ICE so I can make reports to my rapid response group.

People here are standing up against heavily armed and sometimes poorly trained agents. They are fighting back with video documentation, whistles, car horns, peaceful protest that includes marching in the streets singing, and ok, sometimes throwing snowballs. People are also pouring water on streets and sidewalks where ICE is gathering making some real ice. There are lots of videos and photos going around of ICE agents slipping and falling.

We are now getting an arctic blast, it is that time of the year here. Temperatures are going sub-zero F / -17C. I saw someone report today that they were at Duluth Trading Company behind a couple men who were spending $5,000 on cold weather gear.

Apparently, defense tactics are working because The New Republic is reporting that the Department of Homeland Security is having trouble finding agents willing to come to Minneapolis. There are currently 3,000 agents in the state, mainly centered in the Twin Cities. Now Trump is threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. There are 1,500 active-duty military troops on standby in Alaska ready to invade my state. It is a great irony that the President is interested in protecting protesters in Iran while suppressing protests in his own country.

I have a friend who is Vietnamese and a U.S. citizen who is worried she will be stopped by ICE. I have another friend who is a citizen and immigrant from Brazil who is also terrified.

If you are wondering what you can do to support Minnesota, advocate with your electeds to stop funding ICE and to stand up against the Trump administration. If you are looking to make a monetary donation to help support the immigrant community here, some good groups are Isaiah, Neighborhood House, Minnesota Immigrant Rights Committee, and ACLU Minnesota. Stand With Minnesota has additional lists of places who are supporting people with rental assistance, food, diapers, and other supplies.

As if all that isn’t enough, Jake Lang, white supremacist and pardoned January 6th insurrectionist, came to Minneapolis yesterday and held a rally downtown outside city hall. There were more counterprotestors than there were people at the rally. He was sprayed with silly string, but things got a bit out of control when people began pelting him with snowballs and water balloons. Lang is now claiming on social media that he was “lynched” and stabbed. He did not go to any hospital afterwards and photos show him leaving the rally with scrapes and bruises but no apparent stab wounds.

Fowl

I think I have mentioned here a few months ago after Mrs. Dashwood, the last of the original Dashwood chicken flock, died, that James and I had decided we are not going to welcome any additional chickens to our dwindling—now 2 chickens—flock. I’ve been feeling a little sad about that because I enjoy sharing my life with chickens, but we decided since we don’t keep them for their eggs, the growing expense of taking care of them just wasn’t worth it.

Then two weeks ago I got an email from Eggplant, the place we bought the Dashwoods and the Nuggets, letting me know that chick orders are now open. I clicked, just to look at the pictures. Honest! But gosh darn, if those birds aren’t adorable and beautiful. I started thinking maybe…and floated the idea to James.

He frowned but said he would think about it.

A week later I checked in with him on his thoughts and he said he was fine with it but not all that interested. I said we both had to actually want them. He said he’d think about it some more.

Early in the week I checked in again and he said he was a go! Friday I placed our order for two chicks, a speckled Sussex (James’s choice) and a pearl onyx (my choice). They will be The Witches. James has already named the Sussex Nanny Ogg after one of the witches in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books. I have named the pearl onyx Baba Yaga who lives in a chicken-legged hut. We will be welcoming the baby chicks on April 3rd.

It’s nice to have something good to look forward to.

I’m behind on comments and blog visiting—been kind of distracted! But I am endeavoring to catch up over the next days.

Enjoy this Woody Guthrie song to send you on your way: All You Fascists Bound to Lose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

#BabaYaga #Chickens #fascism #Immigration #mutualAid #NannyOgg #protests #tearGas #WoodyGuthrie

Stupid project for day off: What if I replaced our static "run at speed" command in @buttplug.io with the ability to use an equation that's parsed by evalexpr.

https://crates.io/crates/evalexpr

I mean it's just letting users enter equations as untrusted input strings to control things in your butt

What could possibly go wrong

이게 3번째인지 4번째인지... 여튼 AI라고 합니다... 키에누 리브스가 좋은 일 많이 하지만 저런 급식소 사진은 안 찍었다고....

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a6qvfkbrohedqy3dt6k5mdv6/post/3mcrrtdtn6c2p

Idee für das #cccamp27
Wenn das Gelände einen Gleisanschluss hätte.... Ein Kurswagen aus Wien, ein Kurswagen aus der Schweiz... Man muss nicht mehr auspacken, man wohnt einfach weiter im Schlafabteil.

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A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth

Link: https://bitchat.free/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46675853

I have a particular thing I've been thinking about which is how go/no go tasks are exhausting to our executive control.

It is common in tech to make disparaging remarks about how software isn't factory work, implying factory work isn't "thinking." But factory work actually demands a lot of our cognition.

Studies on factory workers have suggested the need to constantly exert executive control is one reason that people working in factories face a lot of burnout. Not just physical exhaustion.

Might be bit unfair to count like this, but @tangled.org@bsky.brid.gyTangled core repo just reached 1000th PR tangled.org/tangled.org/...

appview: remove `db.GetReactio...

260119 동물권행동 카라 대표 전진경 사퇴촉구 9차 시민 집회.
중간에 있는 저 코기가 두리번거리다가 눈 마주침 (이따 사무실에 쉬러 올라갔을 때는 무슨 고양이처럼 콧등으로 스윽 손을 긁더니 쓰다듬으라는 듯이 등 돌리며 털썩 주저 앉음… 이럴수가​​복복복복)

……그리고 귀여운 이야기 사이에서 당사자 발언·연대 발언 등은 여전히 결기와 쓸쓸함과 응원과 애타는 요청을 담고 있었는데요. 오늘 들은 이야기 중에… 노무현재단 안에서 상사의 부당대우에 맞서싸우다 퇴사하신 분의 발언과, 학교 급식 담당으로 일하다가 불공정한 관행(11개월 계약, 본인 허락 없는 대리 서명 등등;; )과 싸운 끝에 민주노총 상근 활동가가 되신 분의 발언이 기억에 남네요.

ATPROTO READ-ALONG ON STREAM THIS WEDNESDAY! 11AM PST! This time we'll be reading @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gydan's A Social Filesystem. Drop other links here of things we should read through! RSVP:

ATPROTO READ-ALONG!

Idee für das #cccamp27
Wenn das Gelände einen Gleisanschluss hätte.... Ein Kurswagen aus Wien, ein Kurswagen aus der Schweiz... Man muss nicht mehr auspacken, man wohnt einfach weiter im Schlafabteil.

ATPROTO READ-ALONG ON STREAM THIS WEDNESDAY! 11AM PST! This time we'll be reading @danabra.mov@bsky.brid.gydan's A Social Filesystem. Drop other links here of things we should read through! RSVP:

ATPROTO READ-ALONG!

Finally got #Podman with macvlan and DHCP working. I was hitting this bug in netavark 1.17.0: https://github.com/containers/netavark/issues/1368

1.17.1 fixes it, but #NixOS 25.11 still ships 1.17.0. Luckily, it’s easy on NixOS to simply overlay netavark with the version from nixpkgs-unstable while keeping the rest on 25.11.

Look, I’m going to need everyone to stop showering ASAP. I’m not being mean, but ChatGPT is thirsty and it needs your water to cool its brain. Also, put on a sweater and turn the heat off, the servers are sweating and my AI girlfriend can’t handle the humidity. We need more cooling in the data center :P /s

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has claimed that local tribal fighters attacked al-Shaddadi prison, freeing ISIL detainees after the US-led International Coalition did not respond to requests for support.

#Syria
#ISIL

Mister Donut × GODIVA 🍩​​

Stupid project for day off: What if I replaced our static "run at speed" command in @buttplug.io with the ability to use an equation that's parsed by evalexpr.

https://crates.io/crates/evalexpr

I mean it's just letting users enter equations as untrusted input strings to control things in your butt

What could possibly go wrong

Just the Browser claims to tame the bloat without forking

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/just_the_browser/

Strips the slop and snoopery from Chrome, Edge, and Firefox

<- by me on @theregister

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

Look, I’m going to need everyone to stop showering ASAP. I’m not being mean, but ChatGPT is thirsty and it needs your water to cool its brain. Also, put on a sweater and turn the heat off, the servers are sweating and my AI girlfriend can’t handle the humidity. We need more cooling in the data center :P /s

Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.] (1963)

Link: https://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46683205

Fix Your Robots.txt or Your Site Disappears from Google

Link: https://www.alanwsmith.com/en/37/wa/jz/s1/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681454

寝落ちしたー……​​

Breaking news. Fashion designer Valentino dies at the age of 93
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2026/01/19/fashion-designer-valentino?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Culture @culture-euronewsCulture

it's early days - let me know what you think! ... PRs, feature requests and issues are very welcome 🙏 github.com/danielroe/p...

GitHub - danielroe/pangrum: A ...

I started this out of frustration because I couldn't play my favourite game on the plane ... and as it happened, I coded a lot of it on planes it's built with @nuxt.com@bsky.brid.gy v4 - it's been great for checking DX, testing features + finding issues 🚀

$1 billion contribution secures permanent seat on Trump's 'Board of Peace'
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/1-billion-contribution-secures-permanent-seat-on-trumps-board-of-peace?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into World @world-PBSNewsHourWorld

I’ve just finished writing a watchdog driver for the MediaTek MT7622 SoC (used on boards like Banana Pi R64) for FreeBSD!

This driver implements the watchdog support so that systems based on MT7622 can reliably use the watchdog subsystem to monitor and recover from hangs or lockups — a core part of making embedded platforms stable under FreeBSD.

The MT7622 is the ARM networking SoC on the R64 board with 5× Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi/Bluetooth and more. Getting low-level hardware support like this working is a big step toward usable FreeBSD support on this hardware.

🔥 Want to help test it?
If you’re running FreeBSD on MT7622-based boards (like Banana Pi R64) — please give the new watchdog driver a spin and share feedback, bugs or test results!

I installed Linux on your mom.

it's early days - let me know what you think! ... PRs, feature requests and issues are very welcome 🙏 github.com/danielroe/p...

GitHub - danielroe/pangrum: A ...

I started this out of frustration because I couldn't play my favourite game on the plane ... and as it happened, I coded a lot of it on planes it's built with @nuxt.com@bsky.brid.gy v4 - it's been great for checking DX, testing features + finding issues 🚀

Unraveling (May 2025)

#Photography #Landscape #Nature #Outdoors #Nikon #CaptureOne #Affinity #Dehancer

A post of mine about the use of vim many decades ago

On it's opening page Bram Molenaar urges everyone to do a donation to Children who are less fortunate, financially, in the State of Uganda

#Vim #VimMasterRace #Bram #Molenaar #programming #technology #Amiga #Linux #Uganda #OpenSource

https://dev.to/radio_azureus/vim-the-beginning-hab

Flux and Solder Paster Dispenser Looks Good While Doing It

https://hackaday.com/2026/01/19/flux-and-solder-paster-dispenser-looks-good-while-doing-it/

If You like @firefox now you have a chance to show @mozilla how much you DO NOT WANT the AI in the browser :)

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

What came first: the CNAME or the A record?

Link: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-record-order-dns-standards/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681611