Paul Hoffman

@livetapes @mrcompletely Goddammit, I thought you meant they were playing together and that could have been the most mind-blowing combo of all time.

OpenSSL is a 5 million USD revenue/year company with more than ten full-time employees.

Makers of some the Open Source world's worst documentation. For an API that is enormous, quite weird and full of hidden magic that is not what you would expect.

@briankrebs Same for squirrels and lemon trees.

@jef @rollovereasy Is it a place to display significant buttered corks? Or is that a British euphemism I don't understand?

@nileane @marcoarment Guilty as charged, and now chagrined. He absolutely didn't need to do his.

@glyph "You need these things, but you won't know that because I've hidden it in the tooling" seems weird for me to say, but maybe I'm being too Reely Old Skool here.

Asking for an opinion from all my #python friends. The non-work Python project I'm developing has a few places where I need to find the most recent text above the current position that matches a #regex. I can either:

- Require the non-standard regex module (https://pypi.org/project/regex/) […]

David Pogue In time for Apple’s 50th anniversary, “CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent David Pogue tells the iconic company’s entire life story: how it was born, nearly died, was born again under Steve Jobs, and became, under CEO Tim Cook, one of the most valuable companies in the world.

This looks like it will be awesome: "Apple: The First 50 Years"
https://www.applefirst50.com

@miek Heavily used, though. But I feel (or, more accurately, have in the ugly past felt) your pain.

If you didn't get enough Dead this last weekend:

https://www.sfzc.org/calendar/events/online/dharma-and-dead-lyrical-discussion-grateful-dead-online-89

(Not mentioned in the biography at the bottom of the page: before becoming a monk at Tassajara, Kokyo was a tour rat. He comes to this talk […]

@jef Don’t tell me this town ain’t got no heart

Dear Universe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He08FTJXzYs

I would just like to stay stuck today; can I stay stuck today?
Can I just this once say "fuck today" and let me stay stuck today?

fucking tradeoffs #dns #golang

vibe coding was meant to be pejorative

I feel like the responsible thing for a company shutting down a link shortener to do is to donate the mapping between short URL and original URL to an organisation like @internetarchive such that broken links can be replaced in archival data

@jef I can’t make it,but please tell all the folks that phoffman says hi.

I guess this train is deadheading

The startup disk selection screen in macOS 26 Tahoe beta 4. One disk is selected and one is not, but it's REALLY hard to tell which is which at a glance.

Is there some kind of contest within Apple to see how little contrast can be used while still *technically* indicating a selection? One of these disks is selected, believe it or not!

@jtk I see no one reading newest to oldest.

Prediction: if Bezos buys Condé Nast for his wife, the New Yorker will have to curb its left leaning writing, it will lose half its readership, and he won’t care.

@annaf There’s some weird shit in the dusty corners of Unicode: https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf

@jef ... noting the massive differences between the human in the photo and the one in your avatar...

Musk made a Nazi salute and programmed his bot to spew antisemitic conspiracy theories, but of course these two things occur in complete isolation from each other and it would be unfair to draw conclusions about a person based on the things he does and says.

You MUST listen to RFC 2119 Comments

https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/ is funnier than any April 1 RFC from the past many years.

I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.

@bagder Please say more or link to the description of the other mistakes!

I'm creating a Python package, and I need to be able to read a plain text file holding some configuration. Python's `import` can only read modules, and I absolutely don't want to have the text I need as a quoted string in the module because the configuration has escapes in it; I want the user to […]

Asking for a friend: If a US person wants to open an account with someone who requires you to not be a US person, is there a writeup of an easy and probably-reliable route to do so? This is more than "use a VPN to look like you are in a different country", but not as much as "here is how you can […]

ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.

So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?

The answer is: you.