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Yes, I know the cliché that bloggers are always blogging about blogging! I like semantics. It tickles that part of my delicious meaty brain that longs for structure. Semantics are good for computers and humans. Computers can easily understand the structure of the data, humans can use tools like screen-readers to extract the data they're interested in. In HTML, there are three main ways to …

How to go from starting things to finishing things.

Imagine living in the grid owned by Elon musk

Real men eat balls? 🤨

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How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.

New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint & …

The key thought is that for upcoming events, it really helps if there's a calendar feed. You can subscribe and see events in your local calendar app. I started looking around the #hugo community, and people have built out ways of doing that: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/05/22/ical-events-hugo/

Top HN comment on my post “How Dependabot Actually Works”: “I consider reflecting on how dependabot works a bit of a waste.” 😂

Looking into the https://forgefed.org spec this evening and there’s nothing about packages or dependencies yet. Imagine if repositories and forges could announce to the maintainers of packages that they just started using their package, and then be able to subscribe to maintainers announcements of new releases, security advisories and calls for help. They don’t even do that in centralised forges very well at the moment!

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing @renovatebot.com 👍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

As you can tell from our faces, open source is very serious and Kubernetes is the most serious project of them all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Kubernetes WIG Docs first meeting of 2026!!! cc: The Right Honorable @natali.rip

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women [contains quote post or other embedded content]

In Go, go.mod acts as both manifest and lockfile. There is never a reason to look at go.sum.

The first year in review post since 2019. Happy new year!

I think you've created a brat

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And they *like* it, because fundamentally Linux users are into pain

I think a big chunk of the "linux is hard" sentiment stems from the fact that most linux users do weird things with their computers. basically this:

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My last "year in review" post I wrote was in 2019. I have been considering writing one for 2025 but as a "glass half-empty" person it is so hard.

Attached: 1 image There are less CVEs so far in 2026 than there were in 2023-2025 The logical conclusion is we solved security after all these years!!!

Attached: 1 image As if there weren’t already enough ethical considerations to using ChatGPT. 🤦🏾‍♂️ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-exec-becomes-top-trump-230342268.html

The year AI SRE arrived. 1,152 PRs, a team that grew from 3 to 18, and the hardest I've ever worked. From betting on tooling in January to shipping a product that makes customers say "how did you figure that out?" by December.

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The power button is obviously the clit (all computers are girls)

Few things have more profoundly impacted my sense of British identity than finding out that Werther’s Originals are German

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I don't want self-driving cars. I don't want humanoid robots. I don’t want AI in every app I use. I want clean water. I want a stable climate. I want a habitable planet.

“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood….we fear the visibility …

Love this for us

I reached out to the author of this viral Reddit post thinking there might be a story in it. He sent me an employee badge that Gemini flagged as being AI-generated and supporting documents that I suspect were also generated by AI. Be careful out there folks! https://www.reddit.com/r/confession/comments/1q1mzej/im_a_developer_for_a_major_food_delivery_app_the/

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CW: self-harm/suicide topic This is my semicolon tattoo. I’ve been sober from self-harm/ideation/attempts for about 8 years now. It’s been a hard road but I’m still here. And I’m glad you are too.

Evergreen post: surprise, surprise, my decision to use git submodules came back to bite me

the kids, they know how to name libraries. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0maft/introduction_ffmpreg_a_complete_rewrite_of_ffmpeg/

I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".

Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.

Cookin'.

Someone asked me what the plan for the blog was, and tbh there’s not much of a plan at this point. I just have a lot of pent up thoughts and feelings about package management that I kind of expected other people to write about over the past few years and no-one did… so I’m just brain dumping.

Happy Winterval. I hope you’re all enjoying your war on Christmas.

Blue isn't my color but it arrived just in time to showcase my nerd status to my family for Christmas.