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So it's a meme where there's two people in a bus. They're sitting opposite sides. One of them is looking at rocks because they're driving up the mountain. And he looks very sad and disturbed. And he's thinking "tailor-made software is a commodity now". And then there's the other guy sitting opposite who's looking at a beautiful landscape with the sun kissing the mountains. And a little river nestled amongst the peaks. And he's thinking: "tailor-made software is a commodity now".

god damn it shopify has the caching discipline of a seagull

I'm becoming borderline fluent at shopify and I hate it

Oh, cool. PowerShell has built-in support for malware by allowing you to send scripts already base64-encoded.

Has anyone here written a TCP proxy in PowerShell per chance?

Is there a Linux system without Python nowadays?

@glyph sounds like story time, I'm listening

I have seen the GitHub thread about it where someone goes I HAVE MATHS ON MY SIDE and the response is THE TIME FOR MATHS HAS COME AND GONE and/or YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE and that explains a lot but I'm STILL GONNA BE MAD ABOUT IT

y'all out there really acting like it's normal that if you put a small box in a bigger box, when you open the bigger box, the small box has DISSOLVED and only its contents are there?

nuh-huh.

null is thenable, cool

@carey

TIL that

async function h() { return Promise.resolve(456); }

and

function h() { return Promise.resolve(456); }

are semantically equivalent in JS and I am LOSING MY GODDAMN MIND

WHY WOULD YOU DO SUCH A THING

the 'Merge without waiting for requirements to be met (bypass rules)' checkbox is wider than the entire UI.

someone at github is on day 131 of "making this checkbox wider until the outages stop"

"...not to rag, but"
"no no, please do"

"so our company specializes in semantic search"
"what does /that/ mean?"
"exactly! you're hired!"

looking forward to eddy's new video: "Being a serial killer is super addictive"

"I started to develop an emotional attachment with my victims. Even though this was supposed to be a simple affair: capture, kill, dispose — it was starting to become something deeper for me. Something spiritual."

eddy burback loves making videos like "I drove to the forest, threw myself down a hole, and was stuck for 9 days. what this means about society? you be the judge"

Kind of a lazy joke, I know

Haskell Curry's mom: "But my son /did/ apply himself"
Haskell Curry's teacher: "Yes, but only partially"

TIL about Schönfinkelisation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying

Solving Package Management via Hypergraph Dependency Resolution Package managers are everywhere, with seemingly every language and operating system implementing their own solution. The lack of interoperability between these systems means that multi-lingual projects are unable to express precise dependencies across language ecosystems, and external system and hardware dependencies are typically implicit and unversioned. We define HyperRes, a formal system for describing versioned dependency resolution using a hypergraph that is expressive enough to model many ecosystems and solve dependency constraints across them. We define translations from dozens of existing package managers to HyperRes and comprehensively demonstrate that dependency resolution can work across ecosystems that are currently distinct. This does not require users to shift their choice of package managers; instead, HyperRes allows for the translation of packaging metadata between ecosystems, and for solving to be precisely specialised to a particular deployment environment.

links btw:

HyperRes: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10803
Max-SMT: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.13737
A recent overview: https://nesbitt.io/2026/02/06/dependency-resolution-methods.html

no but what's the point of research if it doesn't solve the maximal version of the problem immediately and optimally? mh? what is academia even FOR (/s)

bro "curl | sh" is a way simpler cross-ecosystem unification 🤐

HyperRes paper: "we have unified all package managers"
*looks closer*
HyperRes paper: "(ok we skipped Cargo 'features')"
*looks even closer*
HyperRes paper: "(you can model them as synthetic packages)"
*looks sideways*
HyperRes paper: "(...which kinda sucks)"

> So two dependency graphs that are logically equivalent but list deps in a different order could theoretically get different resolution

What. What!

Yet another instance of "the tool I'm making would be so much easier to make, had I access to the tool I'm.. making", that one's NOT a drinking game, think of my health.

You know, it would be super convenient if you could get a report of the test failures of your tree sitter corpus as an HTML file. You could even have syntax highlighting, perhaps using something like tree sit–Never mind.

stop the presses!!! ghostty 1.3.0 has search! (and a ton of other cool things)

https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0

My "absolutely no PRs from anyone exposed to microplastics" policy is raising a lot of questions answered, quite frankly, by the policy itself

@vbfox what's the alternative?

I am NOT making a Rust replacement, but — if you could fix one* thing about Rust syntax/semantics/etc. what would you fix?

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