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Robin Burchell

@rburchell.bsky.social

Organiser of pixels and herder of cats. Formerly Australian, now nationality-confused. All posts are my own opinion, no refunds for bad quality shitposting. #Linux and #Qt lover, #Golang hacker, reluctant #C++ user.

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404?

18.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FUD is what one throws around when you don’t have any better arguments to use I guess.

08.02.2026 00:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - rburchell/multibuild: A tool to make cross compilation and releasing Go binaries a little simpler. A tool to make cross compilation and releasing Go binaries a little simpler. - rburchell/multibuild

multibuild v0.0.2 is out.

New feature: output formats: github.com/rburchell/mu...

So if you want to distribute tar.gz or zip, as well as, or instead of your #Golang binaries, that's now easily possible:

//go:multibuild:format=raw,zip,tar.gz

27.01.2026 10:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Seems nobody properly solved "I want SMTP in CI or testing, but not a real one, because I want to directly grab the email to see if everything worked, and I just want it simple and run inside of the job" (or at least I didn't find it).

If you have the same problem: github.com/aardsoft/deb...

22.01.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

[master 0fae0d8b] pkg/irc: who cares?
6 files changed, 970 deletions(-)

RIP to some of the first #Golang I ever wrote. I don't think I've used it since 2021, and. the last *serious* use was probably 2014.

14.01.2026 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aiming high I see

13.01.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Aiming high I see

13.01.2026 19:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
feat: Add output formats by rburchell Β· Pull Request #16 Β· rburchell/multibuild Remaining work: Add tests for validateFormatString Add integration tests for format= Error handling during archiving is presently nonexistent FIXME: archive naming case under Windows FIXME: r...

Hm, one of the few times I've noticed a missing piece in the #Golang stdlib: compress/bzip2 only has a decoder, no encoder. That's frustrating.

I wanted it for output formats for multibuild: github.com/rburchell/mu...

Seems it's quite an old issue:
github.com/golang/go/is...

13.01.2026 19:01 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speaking of GitHub, I'm amazed that the new code search shipped the way it is. Sure, it's nice that it's better at finding things, but that's pratically pretty useless when it doesn't work on most repos because they haven't been indexed.

Why not just fall back to (some equivalent of) "git grep"?

12.01.2026 16:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, unfortunate and weird that.

12.01.2026 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It blows my mind that #Github Actions doesn't have an officially supported action for creating releases.

Yes, I'm aware community actions for that exist, but I don't want to take unnecessary supply chain security risks.

12.01.2026 11:20 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

And yes, I know that there are other options. But this one's mine.

08.01.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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GitHub - rburchell/multibuild: A tool to make cross compilation and releasing Go binaries a little simpler. A tool to make cross compilation and releasing Go binaries a little simpler. - rburchell/multibuild

I finally cracked the other day. Yet another small Go binary that I needed to test on a few different machines with different GOOS/GOARCH.

Meet multibuild: github.com/rburchell/mu...

It's a simple way to make cross compilation of Go binaries easier. One command to build for many platforms.

08.01.2026 18:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I found it got pretty karmic. Season one ended really well.

02.08.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Suddenly I hear the sound of a million GPUs crying out in fear

18.07.2025 10:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Good times

16.06.2025 18:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A custom QPaintDevice might help at a guess.. though PDF can have text embedded as paths, so maybe not.

16.04.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Or another way to put it: the answer lies outside the graph, no?

Cost of living is rising, wages are stagnating.

So while they may pay proportionally less tax than their income band did a decade ago - that won’t help much overall if the cost of living has significant risen over the same timeframe?

31.03.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Compute Blade: Your rack-mountable ARM cluster Feature-rich enterprise-level Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 carrier board by Uptime Lab for large companies or home labs.

I notice there’s a comment with some sort of update at least:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/upt...

31.03.2025 03:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Monkeys paw curls: FrP?

20.03.2025 15:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think someone already beat you to that (RIP, fn)

13.03.2025 04:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Decent quality, at least? I started getting some proper sleep recently and even though there’s less of it, it feels fucking amazing.

Hope you get your zzzs anyway.

12.03.2025 16:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

much obliged; you may proceed about your business

05.03.2025 19:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

cat tax required

05.03.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

What is that, an upload for ants? 🐜

05.03.2025 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s revolting.

05.03.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Beautiful Disaster (Live)
YouTube video by Kelly Clarkson - Topic Beautiful Disaster (Live)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4vQ...

04.03.2025 21:59 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, such an approach would lead to stockpiling, but it also allows time for domestic production to ramp up, and everyone else's supply chains to adapt to that..

04.03.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

... and they also give a (long!) lead time to allow for shock resistance, which hopefully helps avert catastrophic price rises and the economic devastation that entails (both to consumers and employers).

04.03.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The difference compared to the US is that they're picking a specific thing to slap tariffs on (rather than being a shotgun approach) ...

04.03.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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