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@lgm@post.lurk.org Is there any room remaining in the schedule when I might be able to organize a BoF session?

I did a deep dive on transforming between different flavors of regular expressions, and understood enough that now my little side project is experiencing Big Bang levels of scope creep.

I still think if you win the Masters a second time in a row they should give you green slacks.

Glad to see that democracy is doing well in Hungary. #FreeMars

Fun fact; a few years ago I went to a talk by David Macaulay and during the Q&A somebody asked him what his method was for ensuring he maintained the right scaling & perspective of his book "Rome Antics" and his answer was "Oh, I didn't have a method; I just freehanded it."

Seeing a lot of "most realistic space-travel movies" lists on the feeds in the past couple of weeks, for obvious reasons.

More than one has put Apollo 13 in the top spot (which I have some slight quibbles with, regarding stuff they changed for melodramatic effects).

More glaring, however, is that I haven't seen any of them mention The Right Stuff (at all), which just goes to show you that ... I suppose, GenZ listicle authors don't know anything. And/or the LLMs they use to do their work don't.

The first day or two after dist-upgrading your desktop Linux machine is like waking up to find that all of your family has been replaced uncannily similar — but still noticeable — lookalikes.

"All happy software projects are alike. Each unhappy software project uses Sphinx."

— Tolstoy, 2026.

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion ... well, maybe not that. But somebody making a stroke font for Mayan hieroglyphics in a web app, yes.

RE: @scottjenson@social.coop

Huh; I didn't realize it was possible to *not know* that Mastodon is and has always been an echo chamber.

The person in front of me on the bus right now has opened up the window in order to vape continuously, which can't even be done without halfway standing up and leaning over. Plus, they don't even have the common decency to use one of those nonsense cupcake-flavored vape modules; it's just Day Old Cheap Cigarette 1.0.

Does anybody know if there are laws about physically tossing strangers out of windows while on moving vehicles? Asking for a friend.

I really need to pick up a used video card — not even a high-end one — but thanks to You Know, The Whole Industry, that seems to require bankruptcy.
#goodjobsiliconvalley

Anyway if you're sitting on a spare Intel one in the United Kingdom or States, I guess let me know or something.

I still wish literally any conference would let me propose a "composite" talk in the CFP tool, wherein I submit four lightning talks — not all to be done consecutively, mind you — rather than a single full-length one.

The most interesting stuff I tackle just fits better into five minutes. And most full-session conference talks really only have five minutes' worth of content in them anyway.

Most conferences need to lean harder into lightning talks anyway: more participation, less fatigue, etc.

Quick; somebody call the kid in the hat

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/31/nx-s1-5766986/thieves-steal-paintings-renoir-cezanne-matisse-italy

Introducing Willis's Law of Presentations:

If the first word in the title of a presentation is "Towards" then it is a bad presentation.

One of the worst things you can do with your software #documentation is supply only a single example of an acceptable YAML configuration.

Sure, the philosophical root issue is that YAML is so completely broken that it's impossible to extrapolate from any given example to any other even-slightly-different-in-any-way content and guess whether or not it's valid, which is the fault of YAML's creators. But you're entirely to blame for choosing to use it in your project.

Real question; likely only for people who've lived in Germany for a substantial period of time:

How "big" / popular of a cultural phenomenon was Max Headroom, back at the time (1980s–1990s)?

I kinda get the sense that it was a large thing, or at least larger than it was in other non-UK/US countries, based on the fact that there seem to be a lot of German-language books & memorabilia out there, which I don't see in other languages....

But perhaps that just represents the size of the market.