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Cory Doctorow, uncharacteristically humorous (rather than just sarcastic).
Also, as an American, I support his proposal.
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-13-not-sorry-mere-billions-40dd2b261390

from my link log —
Updating the Golang memory model.
https://research.swtch.com/gomm
saved 2021-07-13 https://dotat.at/:/AWX11.html

When your form has a validation failure, you should show the submitted data prefilled in the form.
NOT erase the big textarea of information I just provided you that I didn't save to the clipboard before posting, assuming your web developers are competent.
Only unprofessional morons make sites that bad...
#WebDev

Traits in #PHP are a limited purpose tool, but they do have a purpose.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/beyond-abstract

Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Dans cet épisode, Ricardo et Sophie racontent leurs vécus et échangent des souvenirs sur la réalité d'une enfance endoctrinée au sein d'une "communauté bouddhiste" cachant de véritables monstres.
https://chardonsbleus.org/podcast-une-

2021 Podcast : Une enfance sous emprise
Ricardo et Sophie ont aujourd’hui, en 2021, une quarantaine d’années. Ils ont grandi en Belgique, dans le Sud de la France puis au Portugal. Ils ne sont pas ...

Jetzt wartet Sabalenka - Potapova wirft ehemalige US-Open-Siegerin raus #News #Nachrichten

from my link log —
Zig in 30 minutes.
https://gist.github.com/ityonemo/769532c2017ed9143f3571e5ac104e50
saved 2021-01-03 https://

Zig in 30 minutes
Zig in 30 minutes. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

"Please provide the information in the following bulleted list, in the big textarea below."
Bro, do you even know how forms work?
#WebDev

In the fall of 2021, after a remote year, I was teaching in person wearing a mask close to 100% of the time. A few weeks into one intro course, where the students didn’t already know me, I lowered my mask for a moment and there were audible gasps from the class. They’d never seen the lower half of my face!
“What did you •think• was going to be down there?!” I quipped. (Maybe they were picturing tentacles, like an Ood?)
But the gasp was genuine: after hours of looking at my masked face, they still had no idea what my •unmasked• face looks like.
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Anzahl der registrierten #Balkonkraftwerke in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Der aktuelle Höchststand liegt bei 1211359 registrierten Anlagen.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der

Senate unanimously approves installing Jan. 6, 2021 plaque (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/08/congress/senate-unanimous-approves-jan-6-plaque-law-enforcement-00717799
http://www.memeorandum.com/260108/p138#a260108p138

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -

On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021)
Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity

In a damning report, the OEP has found that seven of the 10 targets set in the Environment Act 2021 have little likelihood of being met by 2030, which is the deadline set in law.
The three remaining targets: clean air, reducing the harmful impact of environmental hazards, and improving the beauty of nature – are only partly on track.
Government’s wildlife targets will be missed in England, watchdog says | Environment | The Guardian

While the current administration, largely responsible for the insurrection attempt on 6 January 2021, has memory-holed the government’s public archive, NPR maintains its own:
https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Also there’s currently a Democratic-led unofficial hearing discussing Jan 6:

Jan. 6, 2021: A visual archive of the Capitol attack
NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

I never posted another "garage door fix" post after this one because we ended up getting a new garage door opener when the old one started failing even more and was beyond repair and also my partner was fed up with my hacks.
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2021/02/15/garag…

Garage Fix (Again 2!)
Fix it again, there...

I was just listening to "Strong Songs", one of my favorite podcasts, but it was re-airing an episode of "Aria Code", a podcast I haven't heard before, about single opera arias.
This half hour episode from 2021 is looking at Nessum Dorma, intersecting it tightly with vignettes by an ICU doctor describing moments from the first year of the pandemic. It's very much worth a listen - uplifting, emotional, hopeful. Vincero!

Puccini's Turandot: Hope Never Sleeps | Aria Code | WNYC Studios
“Nessun Dorma” has long been opera’s crossover hit. But in the last year, it’s become something more -- an anthem of hope.

from my link log —
Avoiding fallback and cold paths.
https://timkellogg.me/blog/2021/01/29/cold-paths
saved 2023-11-03 https://…

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

In the last, guttering hours of the year, it’s tradition to look back on the last 12 months’ #TTRPG activity and reflect. You can read last year’s summary at https://dice.camp/@davej/113747664699824381…

Weiterhin eines der tollsten politischen Plakate der letzten Jahre überhaupt: "Solidarität ist Zukunft 1. Mai 2021". Design Katja Schwalenberg (https://www.schichten-ordnen.de/). Chatgpt: "der DGB wollte Solidarität als gesellschaftliche Kraft hervorheben und Künstler:innen unterstützen (das Pl…

My 2018 Nissan Leaf has had no maintenance needed in 7 years (besides the usual tire rotation, brake check, etc).
Love it so much we bought a 2024 as well. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115691608937085271

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yacv (Yet Another Compiler Visualizer): LL and LR parser animations.
https://github.com/ashutoshbsathe/yacv
saved 2021-03-08 https://

GitHub - ashutoshbsathe/yacv: Yet Another Compiler Visualizer
Yet Another Compiler Visualizer. Contribute to ashutoshbsathe/yacv development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
Edward Luper’s 36 Views of the BT Tower.
https://www.spoon-tamago.com/2021/08/05/edward-luper-36-views-bt-tower/
saved 2021-08-08 <…

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 08.01.2026.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

I thought Arthur Andersen folded after #Enron? Wonder why they still have a /16, among which is a server impersonating a bunch of #Amazon hosts...

from my link log —
Rust's SemVer snares: sizedness and size.
https://jack.wrenn.fyi/blog/semver-snares-size/
saved 2021-01-08 https://

from my link log —
libtree: ldd as a tree saying why a library is found or not.
https://github.com/haampie/libtree
saved 2021-12-01 https://dotat.at/…

GitHub - haampie/libtree: ldd as a tree
ldd as a tree. Contribute to haampie/libtree development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A bestiary of mathematical functions for systems designers.
https://brunodias.dev/2021/03/19/functions-for-system-designers.html
saved 2021-03-19

Anzahl der Inbetriebnahmen von Balkonkraftwerken pro Jahr in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

from my link log —
malloc() vs mmap(MAP_SHARED) in multithreaded programs.
https://carun.github.io/2021/08/13/system-cpu-usage-and-glibc.html
saved 2021-08-19

from my link log —
The Dunning-Kruger effect probably is real.
https://drbenvincent.medium.com/the-dunning-kruger-effect-probably-is-real-9c778ffd9d1b
saved 2021-02-04

Kumulativer Zubau von #Balkonsolarleistung in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 03.12.2025.
Die summierte Leistung aller offiziell registrierten #Steckersolaranlagen beträgt b…

from my link log —
How to handle secrets on the command line.
https://smallstep.com/blog/command-line-secrets/
saved 2021-06-13 https://

How to Handle Secrets on the Command Line
How to keep secret credentials safe on the command line.

Good Morning #Canada
I've been a bachelor since Thursday as my wife is in Toronto helping my daughter with her latest chemo session. She's back late Monday when life, for me, returns to normal. According to #StatsCan, being married at our age (late 60s) is the most prevalent relationship. But Canadians in younger age brackets are more likely these days to be living common-law and getting married later in life, if at all. Canada has one of the highest rates of common-law relationships worldwide and the highest in the G7. Between 1981 and 2021, common-law couples increased 447% while the number of married couples grew by only 26%. Common-law unions are most prevalent in Nunavut (52%), Quebec (43%), and the Northwest Territories (36%). It's no surprise that more than half of Canadians believe that marriage is not necessary, and even less surprising that this opinion is stronger with young men versus young women.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Relationship
https://madeinca.ca/marriage-statistics-canada/

from my link log —
Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform.
https://blog.lidskialf.net/2021/02/08/turning-an-old-kindle-into-a-eink-development-platform/
saved 2021-02-09

Turning an old Amazon Kindle into a eink development platform
I fancied getting an eink screen to use for future projects. I bought a wee one with a raspberry pi “hat” attached. However, I realised later that I could maybe just re-purpose an old A…

from my link log —
The rise and fall of the OLAP cube.
https://www.holistics.io/blog/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-olap-cube/
saved 2021-07-05

The Rise and Fall of the OLAP Cube
A definitive history of the rise of the OLAP cube, how it's affected our industry, and what comes after.

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Index 1,600,000,000 keys with finite state automata and Rust.
https://blog.burntsushi.net/transducers/
saved 2021-08-21 https://