Today was a good day, I think, for knitting together. Lolly the cat makes eye contact with the camera as she sits in Marty's lap. Marty is focused on hanging stitches on his knitting machine. Marty …

Sometimes I wish I had fewer ideas. Execution of an idea is way more important than the quantity of ideas you have; and as someone who struggles with executive function, I get sad when I look at my unmerged branches on my blog.

The best blog post left unpublished doesn't help anyone. Well, maybe it helps the author clarify their ideas. Execution is (almost) the whole game. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Yes, I know the cliché that bloggers are always blogging about blogging! I like semantics. It tickles that part of my delicious meaty brain that longs for structure. Semantics are good for computers and humans. Computers can easily understand the structure of the data, humans can use tools like screen-readers to extract the data they're interested in. In HTML, there are three main ways to …

How to go from starting things to finishing things.

Imagine living in the grid owned by Elon musk

Real men eat balls? 🤨

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How we learned to stop worrying and love writeable root filesystems.

New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoint & …

The key thought is that for upcoming events, it really helps if there's a calendar feed. You can subscribe and see events in your local calendar app. I started looking around the #hugo community, and people have built out ways of doing that: https://www.jvt.me/posts/2019/05/22/ical-events-hugo/

Top HN comment on my post “How Dependabot Actually Works”: “I consider reflecting on how dependabot works a bit of a waste.” 😂

Looking into the https://forgefed.org spec this evening and there’s nothing about packages or dependencies yet. Imagine if repositories and forges could announce to the maintainers of packages that they just started using their package, and then be able to subscribe to maintainers announcements of new releases, security advisories and calls for help. They don’t even do that in centralised forges very well at the moment!

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing @renovatebot.com 👍 [contains quote post or other embedded content]

As you can tell from our faces, open source is very serious and Kubernetes is the most serious project of them all. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

imagine telling yourself on january 6, 2021 that five years from now things would be so much worse

Kubernetes WIG Docs first meeting of 2026!!! cc: The Right Honorable @natali.rip

i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on

not to go all identity politics but I think it’s also because the victims are women [contains quote post or other embedded content]