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Light and Shadow at Nine Elms London Underground station

Light & Shadow

I love the secret feature at Nine Elms London Underground station that reveals itself during a sunny day.

If you arrive at the perfect moment, the roundel logo is beautifully projected onto the floor.

So I took Dancer Andreya with me to interact with the scene.

I just got my tickets to @rustforgeconf.com, @kawaiicon.bsky.social, and @kiwipycon.nz!

I can't wait to see all my old and new friends, and learn some cool shit!

It won't just be Colbert. The Daily Show is next.

Colbert was the the highest rated late night show host. The message is: Emmy's, ratings, and name recognition won't save you. You criticize the oligarchs and this administration, your show is done.

The Rust Forge conference logo

Do you use Rust or are you Rust-curious? Do you like in New Zealand or nearby, or would like to visit? If so, the Rust Forge 2025 conference is for you!

The speaker line-up is epic, and there's generous discounts for students and those self-funding the ticket.

www.rustforgeconf.com/register

⚙️🦀🥝 What's Rust Forge Conf 2025? I'm glad you asked!

p.s. Engagement really helps. Replies, likes and/or share to receive a discount code via DM.

The schedule for NZ's first #rustlang conference, Rust Forge, is super exciting. I'm psyched to be going! rustforgeconf.com

The superpower of the American university system has been its ability to attract the world's best students and researchers.

Heaven knows, its success is not because of the US public education system.

Exclude foreign talent, and the US research ecosystem will crumble.

I don't see what all the fuss is about. All US businesses have to do is build a few tens of thousands of factories and then hire and train 10 million specialised workers who'll be willing to work for $3 an hour.

Should take 6 weeks, tops. 3 if they use ChatGPT.

Indeed. Google has the browser ecosystem very much in its grip.

@yury.molodtsov.me I saw your recent blog post about the sorry state of web browsers - it’s an accurate assessment IMHO.

A few glimmers of hope…

Orion has some nice UI ideas and is super fast: kagi.com/orion/

Ladybird is an independent open source effort (years away though): ladybird.org

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA head Chris Krebs is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable.

1/3

Distant rain became not-so-distant rain 💧😄

Awesome photo!

That is one hell of a ratio.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado.

11,000 people showed up.

Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

cmd/compile: slow escape analysis in large package in the typescript compiler · Issue #72815 · golang/go Go version go version go1.24.1 linux/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: AR='ar' CC='gcc' CGO_CFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_CPPFLAGS='' CGO_CXXFLAGS='-O2 -g' CGO_ENABLED='1' CGO_FFLAGS='-O2 -g' ...

@thepudds.bsky.social is my hero

So far, up to 15x faster escape analysis for the Go compiler when compiling the TS checker package.

End to end that's an 8x faster compiler of the checker package for us, bringing it down from 50 seconds to 6 seconds.

github.com/golang/go/is...

Mostly NixOS and a little Universal Blue for all personal laptops and servers.

I think the frequency, regularity and brazenness of the corruption has normalised it, and numbed everyone to stories about it.

They’re a better use of screen space on wider monitors and let you see a lot more of each tab’s title so you can actually find the tab you want without clicking or ctrl-tabbing around.

TIL, in #vim (or #neovim) you can indent the current line *while in insert mode* with Ctrl-T and dedent it with Ctrl-D.

I've used Vim for decades and have always switched to Normal mode and used << and >>. This is so much better!

:help ins-special-keys is full of gems. #VimTip

OH: Newton and Leibniz were both integral to calculus. It's hard to differentiate between them.

A reminder for these times.

When I was young, my dad was super into tabletop military simulator games (“Avalon Hill games” in the parlance of the time). He is a student of history and of systems and one of the things he impressed upon me based on these experiences was that the way you win these games — and the way you […]

If you want to hurt Elon, arrange some “traffic jams” around key Tesla and Space-X facilities which make it impossible for anything to get in or out. That’ll hurt after a few days.

Five days apart.

Bringing back incandescent lightbulbs? Big time old guy energy. A policy that smells like dead skin and nursing home disinfectant.

OH: Isn’t it a thing that if you punch a butterfly a tornado appears?

I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.