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Still hooked on BLUE. Hacked all day yesterday and today converting Dezyne's (https://dezyne.org) build system. Opened six issues, and two pull requests, one already merged.
It's not perfect *just* yet, in fact, some issues are show-stoppers for BLUE to replace Autotools for Dezyne, which has a pretty "interesting" build system.
I would very much recommend to anyone who has a soft-spot for build-systems and/or Guile to take a look.
However, the experience of hacking a build system in Guile is amazing! And I'm certain the show-stoppers will be resolved some time soon.
https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue
cc: 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@regtur 
@civodulLudovic Courtès
@nlnet
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general mental exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/
@simonSimon Willison Thanks for sharing - will TAL. Read the first couple of paragraphs and this passage: “we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day,” reminded me of
"I have no reason to believe that gains in understandability (or on factors affecting productivity) would change that. We're just gonna get more software, moving faster, doing more things, always bordering on running out of breath.”
from https://ferd.ca/the-law-of-stretched-cognitive-systems.html
We don't deserve computers.
THE CHAT PROTOCOL OF THE FUTURE
In Kopenhagen gibt es die Vorschrift, dass alle wichtigen Radwege bei Schneefall bis spätestens 08:00 Uhr morgens geräumt sein müssen, damit die Menschen sicher mit dem Fahrrad zur Arbeit fahren können. So sieht dass dann aus❤️😀
THE CHAT PROTOCOL OF THE FUTURE
From watchdogs to mouthpieces: Washington Post and the wreckage of legacy media
Link: https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/bezos-washington-post-trump-6950317-Feb2026/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948340
Got a question for everyone in my wider circle (everyone who can see this, basically). If I wanted to work on a discord-style chat system, but doing so meant redirecting all my time away from other open-source projects (including Sharkey) for at least a year, should I go for it?
Cat update:
3rd cat date went well! We spoke with the cats some more, one of the kitties even let me pet her a little bit, and the woman who socializes the colony cats even gave me her old recurve bow for free, since we were talking olympics and I mentioned that I do back yard archery for fun. Odd thing to give a near total stranger but, to be fair, we have been coming to this humane society weekly for 3 weeks now and talking to the socializer woman every time.
We have a video call tomorrow so we can show the head of adoption that we have installed a storm door to keep the cats from bolting and added childproof straps to the cabinets to keep them from getting lost in the cabinetry, but she said that with the photos we have shown her that it's mostly a formality at this point.
Cats are going to the vet next week on Monday or Tuesday for a final checkup and to get some more vaccines. We are being told that, unless something catastrophic happens on the call tomorrow, we will be able to pick the cats up straight from the vet.
IT'S HAPPENING!!! WE ARE GETTING KITTIES!
🛰️🔐 Secure communications, when it matters most
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Information Is Beautiful
Link: https://informationisbeautiful.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46877291
Another point on the Team Cassandra scorecard.
This is abjectly terrifying. Medical devices have life-altering consequences. They *cannot* be permitted to fail like this. Nor can the makers, or the users, be absolved of responsibility by a labeling of so-called "AI".
Pretend I know nothing about home design/home improvement (because I don't).
I want to wallpaper one of my office walls. Is there a specific brand of wallpaper I should look at?
For chronic pain reasons, I'll hire someone who knows what they're doing to actually put it up.
I’m waiting for the NYT Opinion piece about how “scanning your ID for websites is good actually” by Jeffrey NotAFedsman
Converting AC Irrigation Valves To DC Operation
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/09/converting-ac-irrigation-valves-to-dc-operation/
I’m waiting for the NYT Opinion piece about how “scanning your ID for websites is good actually” by Jeffrey NotAFedsman
Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:
Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949401
The Traffic Mimes of Bogotá
Link: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/traffic-mimes-of-colombia
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46895089
fragments: the consequences of absolute skepticism, cognitive debt with AI, will AI remove fun of programming, the future of source code, how to survive AI contributions to open source, explaining transformers to 12/62-year-olds
$ systemctl list-timers | cat
で見えました。端末幅見るのやめてくれい
Sammelbestellung?
Glow in The Dark Dinosaur Skeleton Hat
https://www.amazon.com/ZBH1985-Dinosaur-Skeleton-Adults-Luminous/dp/B0G43L2N3H
PSA if you have to build a system that keeps lists of people you trust/untrust, for the love of god, read a history book and don’t call the untrust-action “denounce”. jfc.
digging through my phone for a picture and found this
家の湯沸しポンプを制御するcron jobどこだったっけって探したらぜんぜん見つからなくてどきどきしたんだけどsystemd timerに居たね←
지금 세바시 브랜딩 관련 강연을 보고 있는데, 확실히 브랜드에 네이밍과 내러티브가 중요하구나. '책상빼기'를 저렇게 포장하네?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6vh7oc7uaxcmavtxgcbzup/post/3megbtryg4k2z
DB는 정말 뭐가 문제일까
내 기차... 45분 늦는댜 나 우러
Maybe unpopular opinion:
If your websites has urls like https://somedomain.com/subcategory/subtopic/subpost/article
Then you should also provide a url alias like
https://somedomain.com/post-title that redirects to the actual article.
I don't need vague tinyurl-like shortener. I want to know the url is legitimate content from you.
I want short and memorable url I can share with other people. It doesn't need to be super short, but short enough and meaningful enough.
KT 보상으로 디플 봐야지 ㅡㅡ 간만에 독타후 정주행이나 할까
Roko's basilisk comes true but only lasts a year at most due to planned obsolescence
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
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Trans Youth Suicides Skyrocket...
FYI these days, I'm mostly on Bluesky and only post on this account periodically. but the good news is that you can follow me there via this Bluesky/Fediverse bridge (just click this link & follow me): https://mastodon.social/@juliaserano.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
...and if you want to receive alerts whenever I release a new essay, video, book, or music, the best way is to follow me on Patreon (either for free, or you can support me there for as little as $1/month): https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
지금 세바시 브랜딩 관련 강연을 보고 있는데, 확실히 브랜드에 네이밍과 내러티브가 중요하구나. '책상빼기'를 저렇게 포장하네?
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:bu6vh7oc7uaxcmavtxgcbzup/post/3megbtryg4k2z
FYI these days, I'm mostly on Bluesky and only post on this account periodically. but the good news is that you can follow me there via this Bluesky/Fediverse bridge (just click this link & follow me): https://mastodon.social/@juliaserano.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
...and if you want to receive alerts whenever I release a new essay, video, book, or music, the best way is to follow me on Patreon (either for free, or you can support me there for as little as $1/month): https://www.patreon.com/juliaserano
Meine Familie war in Deutschland um mich und meine Schwiegerfamilie zu besuchen, meine Eltern dachten irgendwie die Geschenke sind so wenig, dass sie Flu-Virus aus Korea mitbringen mussten. Ende der Reise waren alle tot krank. Musste einige Reiseplan weggewischt werden. Nun sind sie wieder im Flugzeug nach Korea, ich warte auf meinen Zug... einbisschen traurig aber ab morgen fängt wieder mein Alltag an! Das freut mich auch irgendwie...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was an act of joyful resistance
“This was more than a stand against the ugly actions of ICE and Trump’s racism. It was a cultural celebration of community that decentered colonialism and U.S. imperialism.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.
https://cultmtl.com/2026/02/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-was-an-act-of-joyful-resistance/
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116042282732957348
the vision:
リクオ・オフィス (@Rikuo_office) on X
大切なのは正気を保つこと。
目を凝らすこと。
いい兆しを見逃さないように。 https://x.com/i/status/2020711665541816579
dammit i corrected the gendering everywhere but one spot, you get the joke though
日焼け水着キャロル清書
XV合わせするなら三つ編み短いんだけど、なんかやっぱバランスとりやすい長いので描きなおした。
ちょっと寝かして様子みよう
I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.
"It is difficult to get a person to understand something, when his fundraise depends on their not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
📰 New Base library version is out! This one has some big features:
* New `Threads` ability for structured concurrency
* Adds a `Ptr` type so Unison can exchange pointers with C
* Load a dynamic foreign library by name
https://share.unison-lang.org/@unison/base/releases/7.14.0?utm_source=mastodon
집에... 보..내....줘......
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