Basil Crow

OK, so which one of you token-rich people is going to LLM-translate TeX from WEB to Rust?

Ever tried to figure out why a Linux process is hung? You probably cobbled together output from GDB, lsof, and /proc, each with its own interface, its own flags, and its own quirks. And if all you have is a core dump? Good luck. Solaris solved this decades ago with its "ptools": pstack, pfiles, ptree, and others. They have one consistent interface for inspecting live processes and core dumps alike. It's one of those things that, once you've used it, is hard to live without. So I've been building ptools for Linux: a collection of Linux process inspection utilities modeled after the Solaris originals. Written in Rust, available on crates.io, fully open source (Apache 2.0), and ready to meet your production debugging needs today: - pstack: Thread stack traces for live processes and core dumps, with optional DWARF source locations - pfiles: Every open file descriptor with paths, offsets, socket details, and flags - ptree: Process trees for the whole system or a single process - penv: The *current* environment of a running process, not just a snapshot from startup. No other Linux CLI tool does this. - pargs, pauxv, pcred, psig, plgrp, plimit, prun, pstop, ptime, pwait, and more Postmortem debugging support is a first-class feature. Most tools work seamlessly with Ubuntu/Debian Apport .crash files or systemd-coredump core dumps on RHEL/Fedora/SUSE, making postmortem debugging feel as natural as inspecting a live process. We've even upstreamed changes to Ubuntu Apport to enable postmortem analysis of open file descriptors. ptools will be shipping in Fedora 44 next month. But why wait? github.com/basil/ptools

@MyFonts Thank you! I have successfully purchased it and now have the complete font family. This ticket can be closed.

@bcrow We are pleased to inform you that Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Bold and Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Bold Italic are now available on MyFonts. You can check the font styles using the link below: myfonts.com/collections/tr…

@MyFonts On myfonts.com/collections/tr… I see Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Roman Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Italic but I do not see Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Bold or Trump Mediaeval LT Pro Bold Italic

@MyFonts @MyFonts How is this going?

@bcrow We apologize for the inconvenience. We have escalated this to our concerned team they will look into this.

ptools v0.2.5 is out! 🚀 github.com/basil/ptools/r… New: Major pfiles upgrades for socket/file introspection (TCP state, peer process info, IPv6, and more), plus new psig for process signal actions, and updated manual pages. ptools is a collection of Linux utilities written in Rust for inspecting process state, inspired by the original Solaris/illumos tools.

@AshuSinghIN Jenkins, as more teams migrate to GitHub Actions for its seamless integration and scalability. It's not vanishing overnight, but its dominance is fading.

The bold and italic styles are available in the Pro Cyrillic release, but not the Pro release. However, the Pro Cyrillic release doesn’t contain Roman or Italic styles. All the glyphs are available in one release or another, but the problem is the release structure itself is illogical: no single release contains the entire Latin alphabet in all weights. This is illogical. Please escalate this to someone in Linotype who has visibility into the releases.

Thank you for getting back to us. While Linotype is part of the Monotype library, individual font families and the styles included in a collection are based on the original type design and release history. In the case of Trump Mediaeval LT Pro, only the Roman and Italic styles are currently available in the Pro set. If Bold and Bold Italic are not listed, it means those specific styles were not produced as part of this release.

@MyFonts This is a Linotype font, so your company is the designer.

@bcrow Hi Basil, thank you for reaching out to us. Font availability, Pricings, design, layout and discounts are set by the designer, so we cannot commit anything.

The Python 3 documentation for priority queues has a fun Theory section: docs.python.org/3/library/heap… Turns out it was written about 25 years ago by François Pinard @python.org/message/K5LWQOZPM536AIJRT4JS6JWB4WNWSIOI/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mail.python.org/archives/list/… Don’t miss the fun anecdote about tape sorting in the 1960s retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/2499…

@Nil053 Congrats!

LEGACY CEMENTED

“the indignities of trying to monetize open source infrastructure on a VC timeline”

@Nil053 Don’t impress your interviewer with memorized problems – memorize concepts that impress your interviewer.

"we do not study ants to perfect industrial society; we perfect industrial society so that we may study ants" x.com/eternalism_4ev…

Chiasmus: a rhetorical trick where you say a thing and then say it in reverse. "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country." - JFK "You stood up for America; now America must stand up for you" - Obama "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate" - JFK When I learn a technique, I try to find applications. In casual conversation, it comes across as fake-deep in an over-the-top way: "Did you change jobs, or did the jobs change you?" or "You want to be the next Steve Jobs, but would Steve Jobs want to be the previous you?" In fiction (my new hobby), I think it'd be fun to write a pretentious character whose "thing" is always dropping chiasmi. I even slipped one into a story I'm writing: "To Aster, Idris was only protecting the people of the island; to Edel, the people needed protection from him."

Sun Microsystems might be dead, but I still treasure its leadership principles.

Don’t allow your sparkling prose – heaven forbid – to be mistaken for AI slop! Follow Robert Bringhurst’s advice about dashes: “The em dash is the nineteenth-century stand­ard, still pre­scribed by many edit­or­ial style books, but the em dash is too long for use with the best text faces. Like the over­sized space between sen­tences, it belongs to the pad­ded and cor­seted aes­thetic of Vic­torian typography. Use spaced en dashes – rather than em dashes or hyphens – to set off phrases.”

The inventor of the term “vibe coding” is writing his code by hand because agentic coding tools are “net unhelpful” and his repository is “too far off the data distribution.”

Many companies moving away from open source these days theregister.com/2025/10/09/int…

I just published my Manual of Me: a concise guide for teammates on working with me effectively. Covers why-first mindset (explain reasoning & I’ll move mountains), written/transparent communication (w/ exceptions), asking for help (problem-first), efficient PR reviews, & more. Past/future collaborators, check it out: github.com/basil/basil/bl…

2025 job market summarized in one picture

@jamespearce jenkins.io/blog/2023/10/2…

Has anyone ever tried to implement an open source project “quality score” based on maintenance, adoption, community support etc?