2025's Music In Review (1 mins read).
What music was I listening to in 2025?
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#music.
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Break | What Is Software Engineering?
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #52.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...
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Fallthrough | Stack Trace 2025
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We decided to do our own wrap up for the year. We've called it Stack Trace, and we pulled a bunch of stats from the first year of Fallthrough. In this episode, Kris, Matt, and Dylan talk through th...
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Break | We Need New Fundamentals
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Welcome back to Break, a Fallthrough aftershow! In this episode, the panel continues their conversation from Fallthrough #51.Enjoying the aftershow? Let us know on social media! If you prefer to wa...
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Better Things Are Possible (@internethippo.bsky.social)
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Tane Piper ⁂ (@tanepiper@tane.codes)
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matty stratton (@matty.wtf)
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CW: self-harm/suicide topic This is my semicolon tattoo. I’ve been sober from self-harm/ideation/attempts for about 8 years now. It’s been a hard road but I’m still here. And I’m glad you are too.
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Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez@mastodon.social)
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Evergreen post: surprise, surprise, my decision to use git submodules came back to bite me
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#git.
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qdot (@buttplug.engineer)
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the kids, they know how to name libraries. https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1q0maft/introduction_ffmpreg_a_complete_rewrite_of_ffmpeg/
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Fallthrough | Worse Is Better
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There's a famous joke essay called Worse Is Better, which compares the New Jersey and the MIT ideologies. In this episode, Kris and Matt discuss these two different ideologies and how they show up ...
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Seva (@seva.bsky.social)
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Jan 1: this is the year of new Me Jan 12: [eating shredded cheese directly from the bag] new years resolutions are a bourgeois construct for disciplining bodies into productive units for capital
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Frank Sonderborg (@FSonder@mastodon.ie)
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I had a Tesco delivery this afternoon, the driver said, " I've got a couple of substitutions for you, here's your rosemary and haddock". I said, "this is neither the thyme or the plaice".
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Joe (@joenash@hachyderm.io)
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Please don’t go to enormous indoor events when you’re incredibly ill with a flu-like thing. Not even in a mask. Fuck sake.
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2025's Site In Review (7 mins read).
How did my site perform in 2025?
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#www.jvt.me.
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tyler supreme (@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social)
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day one in mamdani’s new york
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#shitpost
#politics.
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Liz Eden (@summerbeth@mastodon.me.uk)
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Many happy returns to everyone who has, for security purposes, given 1st January as their birthday when registering for online services.
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Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)
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Someone asked me what the plan for the blog was, and tbh there’s not much of a plan at this point. I just have a lot of pent up thoughts and feelings about package management that I kind of expected other people to write about over the past few years and no-one did… so I’m just brain dumping.
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Week Notes 25#52 (2 mins read).
What happened in the week of 2025-12-22?
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#week-notes.
Fairly well, yes! I did end up losing lvm2 in the process of 11 ➡️ 12, but managed to reinstall it and then things were otherwise working
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Cup o' Go | See you next year
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Podcast: Within Reason with Hank GreenPodcast: Within Reason with VsaucePodcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume IFavorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. 🙏 Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging ⚡May 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance...
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I've blown the dust off my NAS and am upgrading it from Debian 10 (Buster) to Debian 13 (Trixie) using only an LLM (GPT-4.1 via GitHub Copilot) to help me - AMA!
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Breaking Change v42.0.1 - Scott Werner: Ignore all previous instructions
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🔥Hotfix🔥 is back with a new guest! Scott Werner is the CEO of Sublayer, helps organize the Artificial Ruby meetup in NYC, and is the author of the extremely…
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rob pike (@robpike.io)
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
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#ai
#llm
#spam.
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= remember { Rob Whitaker } (@RobW@iosdev.space)
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Happy Winterval. I hope you’re all enjoying your war on Christmas.
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Matthew Sanabria (@matthewsanabria.dev)
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Blue isn't my color but it arrived just in time to showcase my nerd status to my family for Christmas.
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#arch-linux.
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The history of servers, the cloud, and what’s next – with Oxide
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Bryan Cantrill explains how decades of server and cloud evolution shaped modern infrastructure and what today’s engineers should learn from it.
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Andrew Nesbitt (@andrewnez@mastodon.social)
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We spent thirty years building tools to keep humans from falling into dependency hell, only to build a machine that jumps into the pit voluntarily.
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"Tig Notaro" on Where Everybody Knows Your Name
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<p>As a cancer survivor, comedian Tig Notaro has explored her own mortality in acclaimed releases such as “Live” and “Boyish Girl Interrupted.” Now she’s a producer of an Apple TV documentary called “Come See me in The Good Light” that examines the final days of a close friend, the poet Andrea Gibson. Tig talks to Ted Danson about how this unique project came about, the changes it’s inspired in her own life, and much more. </p><p> </p><p>Like watching your podcasts? Visit <a href="http://youtube.com/teamcoco">http://youtube.com/teamcoco</a> to see full episodes. </p> <p>Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See <a href="http://pcm.adswizz.com">pcm.adswizz.com</a> for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.</p>
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Beyond the Code: How we're shipping faster with Claude Code and Git Worktrees by The Debrief by incident.io
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We’re running a short mini-series on The Debrief podcast called Beyond the code, where we interview our engineers about what it’s really like to build at incident.io.In this episode, Product Engineer Rory B. and CTO Pete discuss how we’re using Claude Code and Git Worktrees to allow engineers to build multiple features in parallel. You can read more on our blog.
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Open Source Security: Daniel Thompson answers: Does the CRA apply to Santa?
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Josh welcomes back Daniel Thompson explore the rather silly question of whether Santa Claus needs to be compliant with the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). This episode was intended to be silly, but it ended up being an incredibly interesting conversation. Daniel explained a great deal about how the CRA works and how it could apply to Santa Claus. The TL;DR is even if he's giving out free stuff, the CRA almost certainly applies. Daniel also fills us in on his book (you can email Josh to enter into a drawing for a copy), and his work on web browsers for the CRA. It's an incredibly informative discussion. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at
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Charlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)
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It's December 23rd! Have a Merry Christmas Adam everybody! (Always comes before Christmas Eve and is generally unsatisfying.)
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Neil Macy (@neilgmacy@mastodon.social)
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Saw an advert for a Trainline AI assistant thing, with a disclaimer at the bottom saying it’s AI, so might not actually be right. Why is it okay for AI to be unreliable? Why are we collectively so accepting of the idea?
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[Revised] You Don’t Need to Spend $100/mo on Claude Code: Your Guide to Local Coding Models
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What you need to know about local model tooling and the steps for setting one up yourself
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#llm.