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Once every 6 months companies should have a 'improve your setup day'. I would use it fix all the little things annoying me in neovim but not enough to spend 30 minutes on to figure out how I can fix :S
January 23, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The promise and dream of the internet we had in the 2000's is mostly dead, but if there's one counter-example it's #Wikipedia . Can't think of a bigger internet success, Thank you for everything!

https://wikipedia25.org/
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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Building a digital fortress before I'm priced out
January 12, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I have the pink one and I wish it didn't suck as much. Definitely would buy a modern ARM one!
January 9, 2026 at 12:58 AM
For most sequences of bytes, compression does not work.
January 8, 2026 at 6:28 AM
naming all kinds of stuff in AWS has to be the most annoying thing. How do people deal. Is the answer terraform or cloudformation?
January 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I thought avatar 2 might be a brain-off watch but it may end up being a hate watch instead lol. It looks terrible and soo cringe. How did this do well?
January 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
It's beginning to look a lot like covid. Joy to everyone 🎵
January 1, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I wonder why OSs need to go all the way to the BIOS/UEFI whenever they need a reboot for updates. Could they not free all memory and re-load their own kernel? Or is that simply too hard
December 29, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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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.
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I love that raspberry pis somewhow still have the IBM DOS VGA font starting up. How does that happen?
December 22, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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PSA: Our roadmap for 2026:
December 16, 2025 at 10:22 AM
If you have a throwaway script and you need to host it at some public https:// endpoint with minimal effort, what do y'all grasp for these days?
December 10, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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“You shouldn’t care if JavaScript builtins are modified, just let things break when someone does dumb things!”

enter react2shell.com
React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182)
react2shell.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
In a year or two Next.js will have the same reputation WordPress had in the 2010s
December 6, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Is variable shadowing ever desirable?
December 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Hey all,

The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships.

Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits.

You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.
Fellowship
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Picked up a $10 dell thin client, hoping it can be my Windows 3.11 or at most Windows 98 happy place.

Hoping that removing the CMOS battery clears the bios password!
December 3, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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November 29, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The top licenses published on #npm .

Number #2 is interesting because it's not really a well-known one, but it's the default choice when running `npm init`, so it likely represents all the people that just pressed enter without having an opinion. [1/2]
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
'format' not being in the base json spec has to be the most annoying thing about json schema
November 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Gold
One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...
github.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Any startups/companies looking for a good TypeScript + JS developer?

I have someone in the US, remote, has a strong GitHub portfolio + OSS contributions. Let me know!
November 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Introducing Phased Package Installations blog.vlt.sh/blog/vlt-build
Introducing Phased Package Installations
When you run vlt install, packages are downloaded and extracted to node_modules, but no lifecycle scripts execute.
blog.vlt.sh
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 PM