David JM Emmett

Picard ethics tip: The fact that a conflict has many sides does not imply that every side has merit.

6% that's not a Radler! I'll have a few Radlers on a summer afternoon as they're lower-alcohol than regular beer :)

That photo must've been from over a decade ago! (Sorry)

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

They… tell you about them, by batting them and missing.

This is what cats are for!

Why is it this hard to ask people to leave other people alone to get on with their business? The evidence so far implies that their "changed Labour Party" appears to be a change in the wrong direction, pandering to hate rather than hope.

I believe it's a military thing: "to change the world, start off by making your bed"

"You stunk my battleshit"

~30psi I imagine

If you want a hand making random buildings I’ll help

Given that I’ve seen nothing else, it is _the look_ of your game :)

Good thing there’s not an integration test to _really_ test for that IRL - though there’s probably a FUSE adapter to make a fake filesystem with dummied files somewhere

Tried on Ubuntu? ;)

A 1337 curl author <p>For quite some time now, I celebrate and welcome every new commit author in the <a href="https://curl.se/">curl project</a> in the public. Recently, that means I send out a <em>toot</em> on Mastodon saying <em>Welcome so and so as curl commit author number XYZ</em> and a link to their initial curl work. (<a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/113905239820654452">example 1</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/@bagder/113860916167440684">example 2</a>).</p> <p>This messaging is not done automatically. GitHub helps out by specifically mentioning in a PR when it is done by a first-timer to the repository, and I have a convenient local script that tells me how many authors we have so far, and then I type up the message myself and send it. (Sometimes I miss one, which I regret.)</p> <p>This process takes me about seven point five seconds per case of manual labor. Writing an automated script to do this correctly, triggered for the right persons, would take the equivalent of many years of new authors.</p> <p>For the last few months, people have more and more noticed and replied mentions about the fact that we were approaching commit author number 1337. Lots of people have said things in the style of “I should learn to program soon so that I can become number 1337”.</p> <p>The number <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet">1337</a>, is of course just a number. I find it amusing and charming that it seems to have this almost magic aura and attraction to so many people in our community.</p> <p>Today, commit author 1337 was finally announced, only three years since we announced <a data-id="17464" data-type="post" href="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/01/30/1000-commit-authors/">author 1000</a>. There are no permanent records or anything of this fact other than this blog post. Further, there is a risk that we have a duplicate or two somewhere in there so that a recount at a later time will end up differently.</p> <p>Commit author 1337 became Michael Schuster who wrote <a href="https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16044">this pull request</a>, which fixed a minor build issue in the mbedTLS backend code. Thanks!</p> <p>337 new authors over the last three years equals roughly two new commit authors per week on average. Pretty good. We have room for many more!</p> <p>A relevant statistic in this context is also that 65% of all commit authors only ever authored a single commit.</p> <div class="wp-block-image"> <figure class="aligncenter size-full wp-lightbox-container" data-wp-context='{"imageId":"6799dfe0a50d1"}' data-wp-interactive="core/image"><img alt="" class="wp-image-26435" data-wp-class--hide="state.isContentHidden" data-wp-class--show="state.isContentVisible" data-wp-init="callbacks.setButtonStyles" data-wp-on-async--click="actions.showLightbox" data-wp-on-async--load="callbacks.setButtonStyles" data-wp-on-async-window--resize="callbacks.setButtonStyles" decoding="async" height="1258" src="https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Screenshot-2025-01-29-at-08-57-13-curl-Project-status-dashboard.png" width="2235"/><button aria-haspopup="dialog" aria-label="Enlarge image" class="lightbox-trigger" data-wp-init="callbacks.initTriggerButton" data-wp-on-async--click="actions.showLightbox" data-wp-style--right="state.imageButtonRight" data-wp-style--top="state.imageButtonTop" type="button"> <svg fill="none" height="12" viewbox="0 0 12 12" width="12" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"> <path d="M2 0a2 2 0 0 0-2 2v2h1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 1 .5-.5h2V0H2Zm2 10.5H2a.5.5 0 0 1-.5-.5V8H0v2a2 2 0 0 0 2 2h2v-1.5ZM8 12v-1.5h2a.5.5 0 0 0 .5-.5V8H12v2a2 2 0 0 1-2 2H8Zm2-12a2 2 0 0 1 2 2v2h-1.5V2a.5.5 0 0 0-.5-.5H8V0h2Z" fill="#fff"></path> </svg> </button><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Number of commit authors in curl over time</figcaption></figure></div> <p>Now, let’s go for author two thousand next…</p>

A 1337 #curl author

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/01/29/a-1337-curl-author/

I bet it bloody exists…

And yet we interview each other as though we can only make one dish with a specific set of ingredients…

There’ll be a mad rush to be committer 1337 :)

The spambots are out in force today on BlueSky :/

Dear media, please stop using the word “hacker” to mean a miscreant. It makes you look amateur.

What about Darwin? (Separate to MacOS)

Are you writing any automated tests at all for your game codebases? ;)

Another term for technical debt I suppose

I’m guessing the 2024 equivalents inform China & sends notifications to your mobile devices (in addition to being a beepy beep)

Who thought it was a good idea to make everything in a kitchen beep these days? Oven: beep when turned on, beep when up to temperature, beep when turned off. Washing machine: beep at every possible opportunity. Fridge: beep you’ve been staring too long.

You know what they say: no buses for ages, then four come along at once!

I’ve been using Threads since Twitter was bought out, but it’s full of SPAM bots. Mastadon is too decentralised and you can’t find anything, so let’s see if Bluesky is any better.