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podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/0in… And officially listed now

"east is west, actually" twitch.tv/olivtheowl/cli…

@heysaber you alive big boss?

~2 years ago I became convinced that meticulously checking every heap allocation for failure would lead to robust GUI applications that don't fall apart under resource pressure. Fast-forward to today, we have made the SerenityOS codebase significantly uglier and less pleasant to work on as a direct result of pursuing this goal. At the same time, the sought-after robustness remains a hypothetical mirage. It's time to admit I was wrong about this. Not because it's impossible, but because it's costing us way more than it's giving us. On reflection, I believe the main mistake here was adopting the meticulous checks wholesale across the entire operating system. It should have instead been limited to specific, critical services and libraries. Adopting new patterns is easy. Admitting that you adopted the wrong pattern and reversing course is harder. However, I now believe we need to walk backwards a bit to make GUI programming on SerenityOS fun again. 🤓🐞

@the_aiju IIRC plan 9 grep doesn't even use malloc

plan 9 code be like: can’t have double-free/use-after-free issues if you never call free 😎

the C preprocessor and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

@LambdaCalculus7 LOL

MNT Reform keyboard OLED text scroller finally working! IWP9 involved a lot of reform tinkering and OLED toying cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/97…

Oops busted link: bsdtv-player.secdn.net/theatre/c726dd…

IWP9 ahoy! Now in Waterloo - been great seeing the other 9 folks so far :) IWP9 will be streaming on bsdtv-player.secdn.net/theatre… with questions taken over #plan9 on irc.libera.chat starting ~10am Toronto time

Finding out that Python 3.11 adds default endianness arguments for int .to_bytes() and int.from_bytes()

people who care more about binary size than runtime dependencies: weird flex but ok

@Sughammer heard you like goblins and grots! (there's also a rat) #minipainting

@BlueSpaceCanary jesus fucking christ

wash your hands before handling someone's minis

I'm going to make a bunch of mildly silly but naïve code that works everywhere, and when it fails, it won't fail with incomprehensible "the eunuchs of the high church are displeased with your code for reasons that you are too dumb to understand".

Whoever thought 'a was a good way to label lifetimes is a very, very bad individual.