Nicolás Alvarez
@nicolas17.xyz
Award-winning Git repository surgeon. Currently hacking and documenting Apple stuff for fun and no profit. Argentina 🇦🇷
But also I have never seen an editor use <blink> and it would be funny to see it.
November 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
But also I have never seen an editor use <blink> and it would be funny to see it.
I was mainly thinking "use expect instead" (if it forced me to "handle the error properly" every time I agree it would be very annoying). But yeah even then, there's always exceptions...
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
I was mainly thinking "use expect instead" (if it forced me to "handle the error properly" every time I agree it would be very annoying). But yeah even then, there's always exceptions...
Fun fact, Apple CarPlay has explicit support for non-touchscreens.
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Fun fact, Apple CarPlay has explicit support for non-touchscreens.
I wonder if there's some IDE theme to make uses of unwrap use blinking text, geocities-style...
November 19, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I wonder if there's some IDE theme to make uses of unwrap use blinking text, geocities-style...
The only one I saw so far blaming Rust for the outage was the fucking Lunduke Journal.
November 19, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The only one I saw so far blaming Rust for the outage was the fucking Lunduke Journal.
Some English speaking friends went "oh no why" when seeing this
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Some English speaking friends went "oh no why" when seeing this
Spanish has different words for chlorine and chloride; however,
November 19, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Spanish has different words for chlorine and chloride; however,
They're all license violations.
November 18, 2025 at 10:33 PM
They're all license violations.
You took down Cloudflare didn't you? Oh wait that's not where your new job is 🙃
November 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
You took down Cloudflare didn't you? Oh wait that's not where your new job is 🙃
"If your GPU is Apple M1 then clearly you're on a Mac running macOS, if your user agent says otherwise then clearly you're spoofing your user agent to do evil stuff" -- PayPal probably 🤦♂️
November 18, 2025 at 6:35 AM
"If your GPU is Apple M1 then clearly you're on a Mac running macOS, if your user agent says otherwise then clearly you're spoofing your user agent to do evil stuff" -- PayPal probably 🤦♂️
I saw *so* many posts like "I knew her from X but apparently she worked on Y too?? omg"
November 18, 2025 at 6:16 AM
I saw *so* many posts like "I knew her from X but apparently she worked on Y too?? omg"
Does it also work if your user-agent pretends to be macOS?
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Does it also work if your user-agent pretends to be macOS?
Archival progress
burgerbecky-com done
contrabandgames-com inaccessible
deadreckoningstudios-com done
jaquays-com done
logicware-com done
myreflectioncomic-com done
oldeskuul-com inaccessible
sailorranko-com done
If you know of other websites pls let me know.
burgerbecky-com done
contrabandgames-com inaccessible
deadreckoningstudios-com done
jaquays-com done
logicware-com done
myreflectioncomic-com done
oldeskuul-com inaccessible
sailorranko-com done
If you know of other websites pls let me know.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Archival progress
burgerbecky-com done
contrabandgames-com inaccessible
deadreckoningstudios-com done
jaquays-com done
logicware-com done
myreflectioncomic-com done
oldeskuul-com inaccessible
sailorranko-com done
If you know of other websites pls let me know.
burgerbecky-com done
contrabandgames-com inaccessible
deadreckoningstudios-com done
jaquays-com done
logicware-com done
myreflectioncomic-com done
oldeskuul-com inaccessible
sailorranko-com done
If you know of other websites pls let me know.
I think that can't be done per-post unfortunately.
November 18, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I think that can't be done per-post unfortunately.
It seems her self-hosted websites are already falling apart (expired certs etc). Archiveteam is getting them preserved into Wayback Machine now.
November 18, 2025 at 1:21 AM
It seems her self-hosted websites are already falling apart (expired certs etc). Archiveteam is getting them preserved into Wayback Machine now.
The not-fun part 10y ago was the repo conversion tool taking 3 hours to go through the whole history of the SVN repo, then you'd look at the resulting git history and see that you missed a branch in the converter config and have to wait 3 hours again...
November 17, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The not-fun part 10y ago was the repo conversion tool taking 3 hours to go through the whole history of the SVN repo, then you'd look at the resulting git history and see that you missed a branch in the converter config and have to wait 3 hours again...
I did a lot of the SVN-to-Git migration of the main KDE repositories, 10+ years ago (omg I'm old).
The hard part with translations is not converting the repos, but rewriting the infrastructure scripts to use git instead. The pile of bash and perl that runs daily to extract UI strings from code...
The hard part with translations is not converting the repos, but rewriting the infrastructure scripts to use git instead. The pile of bash and perl that runs daily to extract UI strings from code...
November 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
I did a lot of the SVN-to-Git migration of the main KDE repositories, 10+ years ago (omg I'm old).
The hard part with translations is not converting the repos, but rewriting the infrastructure scripts to use git instead. The pile of bash and perl that runs daily to extract UI strings from code...
The hard part with translations is not converting the repos, but rewriting the infrastructure scripts to use git instead. The pile of bash and perl that runs daily to extract UI strings from code...
KDE is still not done getting rid of their SVN repository (moving translations to git is work in progress).
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
KDE is still not done getting rid of their SVN repository (moving translations to git is work in progress).
They should do it again with AI help 🙃 bsky.app/profile/keit...
AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
They should do it again with AI help 🙃 bsky.app/profile/keit...