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remote work is really about oscillating between "too many meetings" and "I miss seeing people" until you die
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remote work is really about oscillating between "too many meetings" and "I miss seeing people" until you die
pro tip: anytime someone messages you on work chat with "hi", just respond with "hi, how's your day going?", intentionally delaying the point of the conversation and forcing them into pointless small talk
Attached: 1 image Oh! This is new and cool. #Firefox for Android now automatically offers to search the Wayback Machine if it can't find the original page. Easily the best browser on Android.

(isbn:9780356517742)News for the week of October 26, 2026: Nuxt DevTools V4 is bigger and badder than ever, it's JS engine season with Yavashark and Boomkat, and TypeScript stays #1 on GitHub as more than 40% of pull requests now start with an agent. From the community: a SOML parser in TS types, a TypeScript to...

trans men are men (yes, this is a subtoot)
Just deployed https://proxy.ecosyste.ms/ A free, open-source package registry proxy supporting 25 package managers and distributions. No accounts or API keys required. Built on https://github.com/git-pkgs/proxy Still early days, with more features on the way including cooldowns. Feedback welcome!
I thought to myself woah, that sounds more than @ecosystems, double checked, nope, ecosyste.ms serves 2TB every day 😬 [contains quote post or other embedded content]
This is fucking ridiculous. My https://openbenches.org/ website is serving over two TERABYTES of bandwidth per month! That's up from 1.5TB the previous month. While I'd love to believe that's all people fascinated by benches, I think it's more likely to be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
Scott, Wes, and CJ broadcast live from a fancy news-style set at GitHub Universe in San Francisco, covering the Syntax meetup swag, hacking the Pimoroni badges, and the keynote's explosive growth numbers, infrastructure rebuild, and Copilot announcements.

🗺️ Accepted proposal: add maps.Grow 🇪🇪 IVXV online voting systemReddit thread 🐧 Protecting against CVE-2026-98432 🌩️ Lightning roundagent-manager tinygo 0.44.0 released

Episode 14 of AI Frontiers with Mark Imbriaco. Industry experts run down all the AI news for engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are…

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Make Racists Afraid Again
It's finally over! https://github.blog/changelog/2026-11-02-pull_request_target-blocked-by-default-december-2/
Especially proud of my description of a Now page
Attached: 1 image Spent a bit of time over the weekend tidying up my website a bit, playing with fonts and structure. Working with the web is fun, its nice not having to wait for app compile times every time I make a change https://neilmacy.co.uk

Maya Jama breaks down that shocking 'Celebrity Traitors' finale, how she feels about King Kenny's betrayal, "intense" roundtables and more.

Good shout to also mention bisectable! BRB updating my commit-style skill
Recently a security hole in a certain open source Java library resulted in a worldwide emergency kerfuffle as, say, 40% of the possibly hund...
For the 93rd year in a row or something like that I didn’t check the math, Tycho has released his sunrise set from Burning Man. I am not a Burning Man person bu
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Pick hardware and a model, and feel the real speed of a local LLM before you buy. Simulates tokens/sec and time-to-first-token from verified benchmarks for GPUs, Macs, and more.

Elliot Page as Neo for Halloween
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Trying to figure out how to dress as an unpatched "remote, zero click, unauthenticated" (that has only been demonstrated exploitable under lab conditions) Linux kernel vulnerability for Halloween. 🎃 #InfoSec #CVE #Linux #OpenSource #RCE
Halloween candy quality control report for 2026: Peanut m&ms. Still good. As expected Reeses Peanut butter cups: taste very weird. Some Hints of previous flavor. Was my old favorite. Not anymore. Butterfingers: still good. Dry, flakey. Hints of “chocolate” #halloween #candy
The UK is unironically one of the stupidest places on this earth lol [contains quote post or other embedded content]
I’d like to thank Binance for teaching a load of crypto bros why banking regulations that make it possible to reverse fraudulent transactions exist.
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Star Trek Online’s Galaxy line up for Sir Patrick Stewart has absolutely ended me this morning 😭
Valuable lesson this week that outside of package management, another place that the computing ecosystem needs a cooldown window is the tool-addons space. Browser and developer-environment extensions carry the same risks and need the same mitigations.
I love it when people leave solutions in long-open GitHub issues. Thanks *checks notes* me from two years ago! https://github.com/pop-os/pop/issues/2186#issuecomment-2584654152
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“Darmok” gets a lot of shit now for being an unrealistic portrayal of how language would develop, but it’s really an accidental parable about becoming too online and forgetting how to communicate with people who haven’t memorized 12,000+ posts
Learned an ASL sign for “open source” today at @github.com Universe by watching the interpreter at the main stage. yay!
Maybe @github.com turn off auto-complete here?
Attached: 1 image An Anthropic engineering manager argues coding interviews are poor predictors of engineering impact, which I strongly agree with. His advice to junior engineers? Work where the company makes money, challenge established assumptions, and build prototypes instead of waiting for permission. That’s been good advice for decades. AI just makes execution cheaper. https://felixrieseberg.com/hunger-beats-tenure-advice-for-junior-engineers/

Craig Kerstiens returns to talk about the ever-expanding world of Postgres: a deliberately boring core, a thriving extension ecosystem, and pg_lake bringing DuckDB and Iceberg into the mix. We dig into the pain of ETL, what Craig is watching in Postgres 19, the impact of AI on open source maintainers, and why the datab...
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