Bob Ippolito
@bob.ippoli.to
@etrepum on most of the other places
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I am going to become the Sqlite Joker, what the fuck???
September 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
I am going to become the Sqlite Joker, what the fuck???
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One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it
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Walking around the app
You gotta check stuff out
vickiboykis.com
September 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it
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vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...
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Update: A goodly pile of BBS Documentaries have gone out the door at the increased price, with a little less than a couple dozen still in the box. If you want to pay too much for physical media, this is the time.
ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755
ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755
BBS Documentary 20th Anniversary Fundraise Sale
This post has two interesting aspects: It will disappear when it’s finished what it set out to do, and it’s also a fundraising for another fundraiser. This is the 20th anniversary of th…
ascii.textfiles.com
April 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Update: A goodly pile of BBS Documentaries have gone out the door at the increased price, with a little less than a couple dozen still in the box. If you want to pay too much for physical media, this is the time.
ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755
ascii.textfiles.com/archives/5755
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Most successful designer & hater of all time 🐐🏆 @fwmj.bsky.social
Madison Square Garden bans T-shirt designer over 'Ban Dolan' shirt — years after he made it
Frank Miller Jr. says he was stunned to learn he’s barred from all Madison Square Garden venues, years after mocking the Knicks' owner with a satirical shirt.
gothamist.com
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Most successful designer & hater of all time 🐐🏆 @fwmj.bsky.social
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What an achievement:
* All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly
lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...
* All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly
lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...
Irregular status update about reproducible Debian live ISO images
lists.reproducible-builds.org
March 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
What an achievement:
* All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly
lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...
* All official Debian bookworm live images rebuild reproducibly
lists.reproducible-builds.org/pipermail/rb...
What sort of person wants to report something as spam but not also block the sender?
January 20, 2025 at 6:25 AM
What sort of person wants to report something as spam but not also block the sender?
The Ex-Facebook groups are absolutely popping off in response to Meta’s policy changes 🍿 (for the record, these changes are shit)
January 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Ex-Facebook groups are absolutely popping off in response to Meta’s policy changes 🍿 (for the record, these changes are shit)
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My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:17 AM
My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
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I think at this point I'm almost unrecognizable to people that haven't seen me in a few years. Got fit riding bikes, decided to grow some facial hair after crashing a bike in a race a few months ago, and I even bought a tux to wear at the first @missionbit.org gala since I become board chair.
November 22, 2024 at 6:39 AM
I think at this point I'm almost unrecognizable to people that haven't seen me in a few years. Got fit riding bikes, decided to grow some facial hair after crashing a bike in a race a few months ago, and I even bought a tux to wear at the first @missionbit.org gala since I become board chair.
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First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨
Features:
- extremely fast
- extremely compact
- oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more
- gamut mapping + wide gamut support
Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...
Features:
- extremely fast
- extremely compact
- oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more
- gamut mapping + wide gamut support
Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...
August 2, 2024 at 5:42 PM
First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨
Features:
- extremely fast
- extremely compact
- oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more
- gamut mapping + wide gamut support
Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...
Features:
- extremely fast
- extremely compact
- oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more
- gamut mapping + wide gamut support
Repo → github.com/texel-org/co...
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tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
February 26, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
February 26, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
![tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
This crypto skeptic I've heard of once said "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
A project called tea.xyz promised people they could "get rewards for [their] open-source contributions", complete with a flashy website describing how it would "enhance the sustainability of open-source software". So far, it's achieved the exact opposite. Promising to reward open source contributors with crypto tokens, the project asked users to verify their access to open source projects by merging in a YAML file containing their crypto wallet address. This kicked off a flood of pull requests to prominent, often non-crypto-related open source projects by people who had never contributed to the project (or, often, any open source project), but who wished to merge in a file describing them as a "code owner".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreifvlhhljzleeftjriozwgfwjpjhjf5lwqv5qxlxiefdc4d7k7jthu@jpeg)
![Particularly impacted by this project was the open source blogging platform Ghost, which was used as an example in the demo video released by tea.xyz, and which received several PRs of this kind. A somewhat flummoxed maintainer of the repository replied to one PR: "[I]n practice the TEA project is not helping to support the Ghost project, but is instead causing a rush of self-serving PRs to be submitted to cash-in on other people's work. ... This why people hate on crypto." A maintainer of another unrelated open source project called "ghost" also reported receiving an influx of spam PRs. This is not the first time crypto has generated massive Github spam, although another recent incident was (blessedly) mostly limited to open-source crypto projects and didn't waste the time of non-crypto-related projects as this one has.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ugyl6syayvsrvu5w4uxtlkz4/bafkreidyawvaxye75ujzfgro65zvcpslcfwhtrigy7jxilcnun7o6qicju@jpeg)
February 27, 2024 at 2:49 PM
tea.xyz causes a flood of spam pull requests to open source projects
February 26, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
February 26, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=teaxyz-spam
Apparently LG HU80KA projectors get a fatal blue screen of death even if you don’t use them very much… but you can find replacement “lg chassis assembly” boards for ~$20 (discontinued EBT65116402) or ~$510 (replacement EBT66594301). The $20 board worked! Probably should order a backup 😬
December 23, 2023 at 5:13 AM
Apparently LG HU80KA projectors get a fatal blue screen of death even if you don’t use them very much… but you can find replacement “lg chassis assembly” boards for ~$20 (discontinued EBT65116402) or ~$510 (replacement EBT66594301). The $20 board worked! Probably should order a backup 😬
Seems like the floodgates are starting to open, just got a bluesky invite in the mail and a few new followers to block
November 13, 2023 at 3:08 AM
Seems like the floodgates are starting to open, just got a bluesky invite in the mail and a few new followers to block
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Just phenomenal how quickly the streaming service suits went from “go live under a bridge writers, AI can do your jobs!” to “sooooo we tried to write a script with ChatGPT ourselves and, um, yes we swear we won’t do it again please give us the humans back”
The WGA has “established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:”
www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign...
September 27, 2023 at 12:42 AM
Just phenomenal how quickly the streaming service suits went from “go live under a bridge writers, AI can do your jobs!” to “sooooo we tried to write a script with ChatGPT ourselves and, um, yes we swear we won’t do it again please give us the humans back”
My brain whenever the Ed25519 signature scheme shows up
September 1, 2023 at 11:55 PM
My brain whenever the Ed25519 signature scheme shows up
Buying cycling kit is probably the closest I'll get to experiencing the joys of shopping for women's clothing. Does this jersey fit loose in M or tight in XL? Why don't most bibs come with pockets?
August 30, 2023 at 9:44 PM
Buying cycling kit is probably the closest I'll get to experiencing the joys of shopping for women's clothing. Does this jersey fit loose in M or tight in XL? Why don't most bibs come with pockets?
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RIP to the sentence “Here, let me Google that for you,” the single most useful clapback of the 00s and 10s, killed by Google becoming absolutely useless for discovering any correct information whatsoever
August 28, 2023 at 7:12 PM
RIP to the sentence “Here, let me Google that for you,” the single most useful clapback of the 00s and 10s, killed by Google becoming absolutely useless for discovering any correct information whatsoever
Shout out to Instagram for having an option to "stop getting these emails for 60 days" when some clown is trying to jack your account and spamming password reset emails.
August 26, 2023 at 6:11 PM
Shout out to Instagram for having an option to "stop getting these emails for 60 days" when some clown is trying to jack your account and spamming password reset emails.
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dr octagon sighs, turns off the lamp, and leaves the red telephone behind in the darkness as he walks out the door. no one has called 1-800-PP5-1-DOO-DOO in years
July 23, 2023 at 6:53 PM
dr octagon sighs, turns off the lamp, and leaves the red telephone behind in the darkness as he walks out the door. no one has called 1-800-PP5-1-DOO-DOO in years
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The Black community on BlueSky is owed an apology. We all see this. I sincerely hope it comes.
July 15, 2023 at 5:42 PM
The Black community on BlueSky is owed an apology. We all see this. I sincerely hope it comes.