When things look gnarly they pull out root.

And careful with those unix systems. Every time someone compiles Minix, Andrew Tanenbaum shaves a raccoon’s ass.

Pretty well. I did have to create an “old-nixpkgs” variable for some of my packages (deadbeef is currently broken in 25.11 and warsow was removed). Rebuilt my configs on my work laptop, gaming desktop, and 1 of my servers without a hitch. Will wait on my DB server until my next offsite backup just in case…

How’d your 25.11 channel migration go, fellow Nix-enjoyer?

Gary Bernhardt’s old talks are a classic. Wish there were more people still doing humorous introspection in the programming landscape like this.

I don’t see a problem. The broken escalator is still stairs.

The Screen Savers for your education: https://youtu.be/CJh-QhhzTKo

If you liked that, you’ll like his “Wat” talk. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

The feeling you get when searching your codebase for references to your “uid” variable but this cheeky boy keeps popping up.

Not sure I understand the point of mcfly. zsh and fish have this functionality built in, where pressing Up with a command partially typed will give auto-completions to that partial match.

Log in*

I prefer the term slot machine coding because you keep thinking you almost have a jackpot but there’s one lemon in there so you get that rush to keep pulling the lever and expecting different results.

Nah, this guy is clearly riled up about lifetimes.

For brotli compression, first check if nginx/angie has the correct modules (brotli and brotli_static) (nginx -V). If not, you can install it like so: https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx/brotli-static

Then create your brotli bomb by modifying the original author’s fish command: fish zip_bomb.fish | brotli --best > bomb.html.br

UB must be Undefined Behavior.

These microservices are fun to look at, but the legacy side actually gets the job done.

Took me a minute. And for good measure… ;

the future of complex web apps*

I can see in-browser games and containerized desktop application benefiting from wasm, but simple ecommerce sites without all the fluff can be just as performant with SSR or a multi-page application. For instance several years ago I built the frontend and middleware for the Hart Tools and Ryobi Tools websites using Nuxt for SSR and Algolia for the search. Images are the majority of CPU and network load and the websites are snappy as a result. Even this tech stack is overkill for what the websites need to do but my point is for general use case this or a similar tech stack won’t benefit from introducing wasm.

Since he’s touching the keyboard with unwashed hands it’s probably best he didn’t wipe.