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• Post #4428975

  It’s #BandcampFriday! Recommend something by an artist I’ve not heard of, and I promise to buy at least one of the recommendations. #music

• Post #4035890

  How hard could it be to add support for #GeminiProtocol to #curl?

• Post #4021882

  An open source project just fixed a bug that I reported 14 years ago. Surprisingly for such an old bug, the bug fix is still useful to me! https://github.com/pjcj/Devel--Cover/pull/602 Thanks @pjcj@mastodon.cloud! #perl #CodeCoverage

• Post #3962378

  Re earlier toot ... just like with #BSD, new releases of #perl are BORING. They just work. Absolutely disgusting levels of backward compatibility. Shouldn't be allowed.

• Post #3726115

  Disgusted, as usual, about how #BSD just isn't *fun*. I have upgraded two #FreeBSD VMs' OSes this evening and ... it just worked. I didn't have to swear at anything, or read the source code, or knit my own boot loader from twigs. The BSDs really should learn some lessons from other more funnerer OSes.

• Post #2559998

  @losttourist @aroundthehills I have some sympathy with this. Perhaps we can compromise and start tagging pictures of terrible haircuts with #SuperBowl to annoy both the gridiron fans and the ornithologists.

• Post #2474771

  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@jjacobsson/116543366457044906 This should be encouraged.

• Post #2474770

  Noooooo!!!!!!! #9front is down!!!!!! I hope this means that the head 9front honcho is doing the yearly on-stage presentation about shiny new things we'll be able to buy later today!

• Post #2474769

  Well fuck, I've started getting junk mail advertising life insurance, will writing, and funeral plans. #OldAge

• Post #1837455

  Go home #Github, you're drunk #WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry #ElectricFish #Egyptian #Hieroglyphs

• Post #1837454

  I've been playing with #Github #Copilot as more than just fancy tab-completion in my editor. This will annoy many people. I agree with most of them on most things. I agree that people responsible for the production of code should think carefully about the code. They should value #readability, #maintainability, #testability etc. I agree that some ways of using #AI for coding are just terrible practice. I just don't think that all AI use is inherently evil. https://dev.to/drhyde/g...

• Post #1837453

  I wish #bash supported programmable globbing like what it does with #TabCompletion.

• Post #1837451

  So my earlier #VagueToot about #bash #globbing ... I want to be able to specify something like "all the directories which don't contain a file called wibble.yml". #extglob can find files that don't match a `!(pattern)`, but I want to match the absence of such files in a directory. eg, if foo/bar, baz/bar and barf/ exist I want to be able to `ls -ld [magic goes here]` to get info about directory barf/ only. Yes, I know other ways of doing this. I want to do it u...

• Post #1837445

  Re prev toots, hypothetically, if I were to write a library called libextextglob that would grovel over an array of strings (like, say, #argv) and do horrible things to it if it sees globby characters that the shell didn't expand, would you think it was ... (updated to allow multiple choices, because the best crimes are in B♭ minor) #shell #unix #programming #bash

• Post #1837444

  After my recent playing around with #Copilot, I thought I'd take a look at my Github billing report to see how much I'd used. I have, this month, used US$5.80 worth of Copilot ... and US$870 of actions. Most of those computrons got burned when #Dependabot pushed branches and then when it created pull requests so that it could whine at me about point releases of stuff like #CrossPlatformActions (https://github.com/cross-platform-actions/action). 1/n

• Post #1837443

  And after a heroic evening of saving the polar bears and poor people, time to go to bed, with the latest podcast from the #LatinMassSociety!

• Post #1837442

  It’s #BandCampFriday! Recommend something by a musician based in Africa or Asia I’ve not heard of. I promise I’ll buy at least one recommendation that meets those criteria. #music

• Post #1525054

  I got a #SunMicrosystems type 6 #keyboard a few days ago. When it arrived it was in good shape but somehow while sitting in my pile of keyboards one of the hinged feet has just disappeared and I can't find it. Alas! Alack! Woe is me! Don't suppose anyone has one that they can spare from a broken device do they? Or know where I can buy a replacement? #Sun #WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry

• Post #1473466

  Today in Dave Gets Things From Unusual Places ... Tamil Pulp Fiction, from @blaft. I look forward to reading it! #Blaft #India #Tamil #Pulp #PulpFiction #Books #Bookstodon #WorldAltTextChampionshipEntry

• Post #1117994

  The theme for today's @postcrossing stamps is "AAAAARRRRGGGGHHHHH TOO FAST SOMEONE MAKE IT STOP!!!!!!" #postcrossing #philately #stamps #cinderella #CinderellaStamps #hashtag

• Post #1117991

  Outgoing today on @postcrossing ... she said she's into art and the paranormal. So: "Wayland's Smithy", by Anna Dillon. Supposedly, if you leave your horse and a coin outside the smithy overnight, the god will shoe it for you. A cunning ruse, making up a story like that when no-one has horses anymore to test it. Perhaps I should see if the god has kept up with the times and will change the tyres on a bicycle for me. #WaylandsSmithy #art #WorldAltTextChampionshi...

• Post #1020130

  I commend this #podcast episode to the house: https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2026/03/31/freebsd-with-john-baldwin/ #FreeBSD #CHERI #CheriBSD

• Post #1020129

  After having to embarrass myself earlier by asking one of our robot overlords to help me drive ed(1) I have ordered a copy of @mwl's #EdMastery book. Yes, the one he released as an #AprilFool. Have now read the #ebook version and ... it contains just what I needed and what CoPilot helped me with. I therefore recommend that you all buy it. @ed1conf

• Post #1020128

  I have a load of #git repositories, all of which contain broadly the same YAML files to control #Github workflows for CI. I would like to consolidate them so that the vast majority of their contents which is shared in common is stored in one place. Obviously I could write some code to do this and have it rebuild those files and commit changes to each of the repos, but that is ... inelegant. 1/n

• Post #1020127

  WHY DO COMPUTERS HATE ME?!?!?!? I just spent a pleasant evening fixing a stupid edge case in my code regarding phone numbers in Northern Ireland and in San Marino (see toots a few weeks back for details). So that I can thoroughly test my fix I need to rebuild everything with the latest version of all the data. And now I have an #IPv6 problem. Or maybe a #DNS problem. Or maybe just a My Network problem, who knows. GRARGH!!!!! #telecoms #perl #networking #hate

• Post #1020125

  Today in Dave Hates Software ... #tailscale! Which I normally like! But today, on #OpenBSD, it shat all over /etc/resolv.conf and left the system in a weird state where host(1) could resolve hostnames to IPs using #DNS, but nothing else could. No, I don't understand that either. Anyway, I recommend tailscale regardless.

• Post #845821

  Oh #Duolingo. You need to try harder. Be both! #German

• Post #845820

  When #BillyJoel sang "Here you are in the ninth, two men out and three men on" he was singing about an exhausted sex-worker on her ninth trick of the night and it's a gang-bang - right? #music

• Post #689059

  Today is #PiDay only if you are a proper wally. 14/3 is a truly awful approximation.

• Post #531602

  Stayed up too late digging in to a maze of twisty #Cmacros to see if I could implement a 20 year old missing feature that was "planned for #perl 5.12". Today is a two pints of #coffee day.