Ross A. Baker
@rossabaker.com
Never daunted.
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Ross A. Baker
@rossabaker.com
· Dec 2
December Adventure, 2025: Day 1
The first step is a new repository. I’m open to collaboration, so this will be hosted on Codeberg. It is named KBBL after the radio station on The Simpsons.
> No sports, no rock, no information; for mindless chatter, we’re your station!
I like sports, rock, and information, but I also like the early seasons of the Simpsons.
Tonight was just a basic Nix and Cargo skeleton. It’s a long month.
rossabaker.com
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
My wife bought this sweatshirt on a campus visit in 1996. She doesn't care about football. It was just cold.
I met her the next year. I kept the shirt. I'd bring it out after IU's infrequent and modest victories, and she would make fun of it and me […]
[Original post on social.rossabaker.com]
I met her the next year. I kept the shirt. I'd bring it out after IU's infrequent and modest victories, and she would make fun of it and me […]
[Original post on social.rossabaker.com]
January 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM
My wife bought this sweatshirt on a campus visit in 1996. She doesn't care about football. It was just cold.
I met her the next year. I kept the shirt. I'd bring it out after IU's infrequent and modest victories, and she would make fun of it and me […]
[Original post on social.rossabaker.com]
I met her the next year. I kept the shirt. I'd bring it out after IU's infrequent and modest victories, and she would make fun of it and me […]
[Original post on social.rossabaker.com]
I had forgotten how nice it feels to break my window manager and be stuck in a tty. I should get back to doing this more often.
January 17, 2026 at 8:14 PM
I had forgotten how nice it feels to break my window manager and be stuck in a tty. I should get back to doing this more often.
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
I tried out @ross's "kbbl-cli" webmention tool (https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl#headline-2) and it works great! It retrieves the webmention endpoint URL from the target and uses that to send the mention.
Note that since there are multiple crates in the repo, you'll have to install it like […]
Note that since there are multiple crates in the repo, you'll have to install it like […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 14, 2026 at 10:19 PM
I tried out @ross's "kbbl-cli" webmention tool (https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl#headline-2) and it works great! It retrieves the webmention endpoint URL from the target and uses that to send the mention.
Note that since there are multiple crates in the repo, you'll have to install it like […]
Note that since there are multiple crates in the repo, you'll have to install it like […]
I regret to report that I'm back to customizing my fonts. This one's an opinionated derivation of Iosevka's take on IBM Plex. And it has its own site.
https://cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com/
#fonts #iosevka #ibmplex
https://cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com/
#fonts #iosevka #ibmplex
Cromulent Fonts
cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com
January 6, 2026 at 6:52 AM
I regret to report that I'm back to customizing my fonts. This one's an opinionated derivation of Iosevka's take on IBM Plex. And it has its own site.
https://cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com/
#fonts #iosevka #ibmplex
https://cromulent-fonts.rossabaker.com/
#fonts #iosevka #ibmplex
Had too much time to contemplate last night while taking down Christmas decorations, so I jumped on the Top4 bandwagon. Follow the tag for more unsubstantiated hot takes.
https://rossabaker.com/tags/top4/
#top4
https://rossabaker.com/tags/top4/
#top4
Top 4 Christmas Songs
1. “River” — Joni Mitchell
2. “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” — Tom Waits
3. “Christmastime Is Here (Instrumental)” — Vince Guaraldi Trio
4. “Must Be Santa” — Bob Dylan
rossabaker.com
January 4, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Had too much time to contemplate last night while taking down Christmas decorations, so I jumped on the Top4 bandwagon. Follow the tag for more unsubstantiated hot takes.
https://rossabaker.com/tags/top4/
#top4
https://rossabaker.com/tags/top4/
#top4
Went to a trivia night where one of the answers was Bolivia, and nobody appreciated my Wu-Tang quote. I hope the culture improves in 2026.
January 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Went to a trivia night where one of the answers was Bolivia, and nobody appreciated my Wu-Tang quote. I hope the culture improves in 2026.
Mi sitio web en español ahora atrae spam de SEO. ¡Los alemanes se están quedando atrás!
December 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Mi sitio web en español ahora atrae spam de SEO. ¡Los alemanes se están quedando atrás!
Apologies for adding to the year-in-review din, but the ancient birdsite tradition of listing the languages we worked in that year was a favorite, made better now that I can to comment on each. I had some fun in 2025.
https://rossabaker.com/blog/code-2025/
Please join the hashtag and add your […]
https://rossabaker.com/blog/code-2025/
Please join the hashtag and add your […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
December 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Apologies for adding to the year-in-review din, but the ancient birdsite tradition of listing the languages we worked in that year was a favorite, made better now that I can to comment on each. I had some fun in 2025.
https://rossabaker.com/blog/code-2025/
Please join the hashtag and add your […]
https://rossabaker.com/blog/code-2025/
Please join the hashtag and add your […]
Looking for non-EU citizens who chose the EUPL. It has many of the properties I'm looking for, and self-declares itself a global license, but I'm not sure. Am I being sensibly cautious or American exceptionalist?
#licensing #eupl
#licensing #eupl
December 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Looking for non-EU citizens who chose the EUPL. It has many of the properties I'm looking for, and self-declares itself a global license, but I'm not sure. Am I being sensibly cautious or American exceptionalist?
#licensing #eupl
#licensing #eupl
Microsoft's "north star" for porting C and C++ to Rust with AI is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." If that engineer has no other responsibilities, that is about 0.6 lines per second to review... or not. May what is to come reflect on Microsoft and not Rust.
#microsoft #ai
#microsoft #ai
December 24, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Microsoft's "north star" for porting C and C++ to Rust with AI is "1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code." If that engineer has no other responsibilities, that is about 0.6 lines per second to review... or not. May what is to come reflect on Microsoft and not Rust.
#microsoft #ai
#microsoft #ai
Was flipping through the radio dial like an old man, and stumbled onto a revival of WNAP, "The Buzzard." When I moved here, that was the corporate classic rock station. Now it's commercial-free oldies station, but commercial-free, with DJs. Nice to find stations like this still exist.
#indiana […]
#indiana […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Was flipping through the radio dial like an old man, and stumbled onto a revival of WNAP, "The Buzzard." When I moved here, that was the corporate classic rock station. Now it's commercial-free oldies station, but commercial-free, with DJs. Nice to find stations like this still exist.
#indiana […]
#indiana […]
Thinking about licensing again. I'm torn between the MPL and EUPL. I'm mostly after an MPL that closes the SaaS loophole: use my crates and jars where you like, but if you improve my work, share alike. This sounds like the EUPL, except I can't so easily tell, less explain to a skittish corporate […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Thinking about licensing again. I'm torn between the MPL and EUPL. I'm mostly after an MPL that closes the SaaS loophole: use my crates and jars where you like, but if you improve my work, share alike. This sounds like the EUPL, except I can't so easily tell, less explain to a skittish corporate […]
Erinnert sich noch jemand an ein Poster mit einem New Kid on the Block vor der Berliner Mauer? Darauf stand: „Ich bin hübsch, du bist hübsch, er ist hübsch…“? Mein Deutschkurs an einer amerikanischen Schule hatte so eins, ungefähr 1993.
December 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Erinnert sich noch jemand an ein Poster mit einem New Kid on the Block vor der Berliner Mauer? Darauf stand: „Ich bin hübsch, du bist hübsch, er ist hübsch…“? Mein Deutschkurs an einer amerikanischen Schule hatte so eins, ungefähr 1993.
Look at me, getting the Christmas lights up before the solstice.
December 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Look at me, getting the Christmas lights up before the solstice.
I know several Scala developers taking an interest in Rust right now. I'm starting over my reading of The Rust Programming Language and blogging reactions from the perspective of a Scala developer. Hope this helps people on a similar path to mine:
- Series […]
- Series […]
Original post on social.rossabaker.com
social.rossabaker.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
I know several Scala developers taking an interest in Rust right now. I'm starting over my reading of The Rust Programming Language and blogging reactions from the perspective of a Scala developer. Hope this helps people on a similar path to mine:
- Series […]
- Series […]
duetexpertd is taking over 100% of my CPU. It is apparently a process for syncing to iCloud. It can't be turned off. I don't even have an Apple account.
Free software is the freedom to paddle when you're up shit creek, and the paddle isn't available on the Mac.
#macos
Free software is the freedom to paddle when you're up shit creek, and the paddle isn't available on the Mac.
#macos
December 18, 2025 at 4:44 PM
duetexpertd is taking over 100% of my CPU. It is apparently a process for syncing to iCloud. It can't be turned off. I don't even have an Apple account.
Free software is the freedom to paddle when you're up shit creek, and the paddle isn't available on the Mac.
#macos
Free software is the freedom to paddle when you're up shit creek, and the paddle isn't available on the Mac.
#macos
When the LLM is good enough for your customer service but not good enough for your sentiment analysis:
December 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
When the LLM is good enough for your customer service but not good enough for your sentiment analysis:
It varies by latitude, but up here around 40°N, today is the earliest sunset of the year. Better news than the solstice, if you like to be outdoors after work.
December 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
It varies by latitude, but up here around 40°N, today is the earliest sunset of the year. Better news than the solstice, if you like to be outdoors after work.
Ich dachte, heute Abend wäre Krampusnacht. Ich habe sie verpasst!
December 6, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Ich dachte, heute Abend wäre Krampusnacht. Ich habe sie verpasst!
I'm just going to start posting my entire site-lisp directory next to CLAUDE.md and we're going to see who blinks first.
December 6, 2025 at 12:21 AM
I'm just going to start posting my entire site-lisp directory next to CLAUDE.md and we're going to see who blinks first.
I did not anticipate spending part of this evening admiring Berkshire Hathaway's web design, but here we are. Thanks, @tantek.com!
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
berkshirehathaway.com
www.berkshirehathaway.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I did not anticipate spending part of this evening admiring Berkshire Hathaway's web design, but here we are. Thanks, @tantek.com!
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
December Adventure, 2025: Day 1
The first step is a new repository. I’m open to collaboration, so this will be hosted on Codeberg. It is named KBBL after the radio station on The Simpsons.
> No sports, no rock, no information; for mindless chatter, we’re your station!
I like sports, rock, and information, but I also like the early seasons of the Simpsons.
Tonight was just a basic Nix and Cargo skeleton. It’s a long month.
rossabaker.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I have begun my 2025 December Adventure. KBBL will be an implementation of Webmention in Rust. Tonight was just the repo setup. Follow along:
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
- https://rossabaker.com/series/december-adventure-2025/
- https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/kbbl
#decemberadventure #webmention
Tried to document Iocaine on the IndieWeb wiki, but I can't log in because IndieLogin is flagged by Iocaine for being a fake Firefox and thus served a garbage response instead of the links that power the login. Oops.
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
Set a user-agent · Issue #135 · aaronpk/indielogin.com
indielogin.com is pretending to be a Firefox browser when it fetches my website during login. This fails because it is detected as a bot, but it doesn't provide any distinguishing user-agent string...
github.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Tried to document Iocaine on the IndieWeb wiki, but I can't log in because IndieLogin is flagged by Iocaine for being a fake Firefox and thus served a garbage response instead of the links that power the login. Oops.
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
https://github.com/aaronpk/indielogin.com/issues/135
#iocaine #indieweb
Reposted by Ross A. Baker
December 1, 2025 at 3:47 AM