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@lorenmorris There's a little-known letter from Chaucer that records his tasting flavor-blasted doritos > [...] mye mouthe wys accosted with sych violence by thee triangle I was laid out upon mye bed f'r three nyghts avvash in a dread sweat that did not abate until my humors weir set aright

I’m in a lisp interpreter committing macro crimes Although upon reflection maybe this experience is why people write lisp in the first place

@tautologer Please tweet loudly about this when you discover where those lil guys are being dumped because I could use some build machines

can i buy one of these for cheap please

Musk’s competing adaptation of The Odyssey by Grok Imagine™️ is okay but when the laugh track kicks in after Musk delivers “Honey badger don’t care!!!” while looking directly at the camera it’s a little distracting

Okay I figured this out and wrote a with-* context helper for my test harness. Lisp macros stay winning

How in the damn am I supposed to write reliable tests in emacs that ensure window behaviors, this is frustratingly opaque

@egregius313 I’m very tempted to see what using autolith is like after @LukasHozda started talking about it

It really highlights part of how Emacs making certain things trivial leads to different community dynamics. In a “normal” editor if something breaks you need to either fork the editor or extension. But Emacs and Vim have historically made it easy enough to just patch it yourself without upstreaming I’m seeing this become increasingly common with “normal” software as GenAI is changing what is easy/difficult to build @pidotdev is probably the piece of modern software that’s closest to the “if you want to change it you can” that I’m used to with Emacs

I love the emacs advice-add function so much I feel like I should write a blog post about it

@egregius313 I should probably search my init.el for every advice-add that I use to fix upstream package bugs, I’m just too lazy to submit patches when I can continue moving after 10 minutes of monkey patching

@leothrix Advice and hooks are two of the greatest things about Emacs Lisp. While I understand the reasons for other systems not having an equivalent, they’re just so useful

@stylewarning Conditional upon @lisperati appearing in a literal alien costume

when are they gonna make a common lisp documentary

I’m not falling for a garbage collected language. That’s clearly a design for someone with a fetish for doing submissive domestic chores like taking out the trash. I refuse to participate in that kind of perversion

@mycoliza Their barbaric third party dependency / Our noble library

> parsing a URL shouldn’t require a third party dependency > use this third party dependency to do it

How does one distinguish normal, everyday Taco Bell-induced explosive diarrhea from the tainted lettuce kind of explosive diarrhea

Who are the booth babes going to be at the next nixcon? I’d volunteer but I’m an old chopped unc now and there’s a run in my thigh-high Rust socks

@HSVSphere I never did use Tailscale because I didn’t like the idea of a third party being any part of it and frankly root access using -i for login via home-rolled ssh will probably continue to keep me off it forever

@leothrix I knew shit like this would happen. It's 500kloc, and it's in go, so they call cli's rather than using proper glibc/nscd APIs. Scope overreach + go slop.

Software is challenging and they deserve credit for being transparent but holy balls, man #ts-2026-009" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tailscale.com/security-bulle…

@grhmc I assume the press conference tonight will be about how the 2020 election was stolen but who knowwwwws

@leothrix ??

Only a little while longer before I hear about the latest ways the most powerful individual in my country has been unfairly treated

I miss the heady days when he was blowing his political capital on immoral but ultimately amusing grifts like shitcoins

@egregius313 It's worth it. There are so many papercuts with make that you can leave behind and so many better patterns you can leverage when you aren't fighting against the design

@leothrix I’ve been debating whether or not investing in learning just(1) was worth it, and now I’m considering it even more

Kind of a nice pattern I discovered with a Justfile that lets you write script text directly with an interpreter you can shebang-execute

On my second trip to Minnesota to meet my wife’s family, her grandfather led me and another son-in-law into a room with about 20 firearms laid out on display and told both of us to pick which we wanted in order to protect our homes

<eastern european accent> this boolean could have been a predicate