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rob pike

@robpike.io

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Long career as a dilettante at Bell Labs Research and Google, mostly building weird stuff no one uses, but occasionally getting it right, such as with UTF-8 and Go.

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rob pike @robpike.io · Jan 19

In 1922 Alfred Stieglitz made a series of photographs of cloudy skies, calling them Equivalents because they matched an emotion or mood he was feeling.

This is my Equivalent for today.

A broken button with an helpful sign, a metaphor for my mood.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 1h

Oh, of course. LCD screen.

rob pike @robpike.io · 4h

Is that a 65? Mine (again, the first purchase) was a 55.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 1d

I exaggerate to clarify.

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Dr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 1d

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 1d

Administrators at Indiana University baselessly fired the student media director and ordered the student paper to cease its print edition, so it'd sure be a shame if this excellent digital front page were to be widely shared today

issuu.com/idsnews/docs...

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rob pike @robpike.io · 1d

Probably a lawsuit behind that.

rob pike @robpike.io · 1d

There is a deep and often unremarked irony that the computing industry, in a decades-long industry-wide push to make everything easy, has made everything much harder.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 8d

To implement robust mitigations across Geomys, I did a survey of open source project compromises in 2024/2025.

Three root causes dominate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers. All three can be systematically avoided.

words.filippo.io/compromise-s...

A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises

Project compromises have common root causes we can mitigate: phishing, control handoff, and unsafe GitHub Actions triggers.

words.filippo.io

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Excited to announce that we are advertising the Professor Harry Messel Research Fellowship. A 3 year position open to women in any area of #Physics or #Astronomy at the University of Sydney @sydney.edu.au

Deadline: 16th November

⚛️ 🔭 ☄️

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...

Professor Harry Messel Research Fellow (Woman only) (PHYSICS)

Full time / Part-time 3 years fixed term, located on the Camperdown Campus at the School of Physics Exciting opportunity to undertake independent research and contribute to the advancement of physics ...

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 6d

Reading Thiel, Yarvin, Peterson et al. makes you realise what passes for intellectual iconoclasm these days is all absolute bollocks. Why anyone gives any of these people the time of day let alone credibility is baffling.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 9d

Congratulations to the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, László Krasznahorkai, who looks just like someone should look if they have won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

(And no, I had never heard of him. Congratulations nonetheless.)

Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 9d

There are two types of people: people who've never heard of László Krasznahorkai and people who pretend to have heard of László Krasznahorkai.

FT Weekend @ftweekend.com · 9d

The Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, known for his postmodern, dystopian novels, is the winner of the 2025 Nobel Prize for literature: on.ft.com/43dn191

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Joshua Shapiro @josh.shapiro.foo · 9d

I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything by AI. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed with AI, or buy anything sold or processed with AI, or process anything sold, bought, or processed by AI, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed by AI.

Nancy Parmalee @nparmalee.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t want to generate or receive an email, document, manuscript, PowerPoint deck, post it note, grocery list, novel, film, or hit list that has been generated with AI.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9d

I write because I love writing. I love writing even when I'm struggling with a writing problem that is killing me. Finding a way through that problem is both intensely rewarding and also helps me become a better writer. There is no reason for me to ever outsource that.

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renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 10d

current state of bub

drawing of a 3 headed, (at least 3 heads) creature with one arm showing.

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Anne Bertucio @annebdh.bsky.social · 11d

Want to work on open source full time? The @roost.tools engineering team is starting to hatch! Come build OSS tools making a difference in Trust & Safety.

This is a fully remote role, though some schedule overlap with North American time zones is expected.

www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

ROOST.tools hiring Staff Software Engineer in United States | LinkedIn

Posted 8:52:18 PM. About ROOSTROOST is a community effort to build scalable and resilient safety infrastructure for…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.

www.linkedin.com

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renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 12d

this is one of the most beautiful things i've ever seen from my friend charles a brilliant genius

Charles Lister @charleslister.bsky.social · 13d

@reneefrench.bsky.social a bubs warframe inspired cross fanart piece from one of Renee Frenchs OC. @warframe.bsky.social
@warframe.com

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renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 13d

quickie of Buddy

drawing of a budgie with incorrect proportions and a blank stare

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

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Eric Brandom @ebrandom.bsky.social · 15d

Thinking not for the first time about how the Clash song Spanish Bombs is closer chronologically to the Spanish Civil War than we now are to the song.

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renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 16d

waiting room drawing

graphite drawing of a chair with knees and skin folds

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 18d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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verdverm @verdverm.com · 26d

I swear using @cuelang.org is like having superpowers

Just CUE-ified the lexicon for permissioned spaces, so much easier to have consistency and readability. The JSON form is generated into the expected directory.

github.com/blebbit/atpr...

#atdev #atprotodev @atproto.com

atproto/lexicons/com/atproto/space/flexicon at main · blebbit/atproto

Social networking technology created by Bluesky (with Blebbit patches) - blebbit/atproto

github.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18d

before and after hegseth's directive

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

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renee french @reneefrench.bsky.social · 18d

tuesday

grahite and watercolor drawing of a tired fleshy thing

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rob pike @robpike.io · 21d

Also fruit bats are really cute.

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rob pike @robpike.io · 21d

I'd take the critters in Australia over a brown recluse any day. Also I've encountered countless poisonous snakes (rattlers) all over North America but never in Australia.

Anecdotal, yes, but the fuss about poisonous creatures in Australia is greatly overblown. The world is full of scary things.

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