Despite many attempts I’ve not been able to photograph another great blue heron in almost a year at this same lake. Didn’t know how lucky I was at the time. Such majestic water birds

Upgrading Linux laptop at 33000 feet, and it is a big one 6.19 to 7.0 😀 what a time to be alive

#ubuntu 26.04 server on hyper-V with 12GB memory allocated runs out of memory about 10 minutes while idle. Not sure why yet.

Zig's async model is one of the most elegant designs I've ever seen. Most languages bake async right into the runtime. JS has an event loop. Go has a built-in scheduler. Zig splits it out. The new I/O model is a pluggable. It allows you to express async primitives, like an async function, and then pick the execution model. So e.g. if you want multi-threaded, you just plug it in. Or you want an event loop, you can plug that in too. Async primitives are just values (Futures) and the execution model is pluggable (Io). So good!

Apple should add a developer sandbox to MacOS. Doing modern development using pip, nix, brew, etc puts devs at increased risk to supply chain attacks risking their appleID related data and devices. The only safe alternative seems to set up new devices with a local only account.

the agony of getting a non alpine musl project to build on alpine linux :-)

AI enabled cameras are now identifying specific feline transgressions within the household. They even identified the specific cat: 🤣

This is a nice hat tip to #ziglang ; while I was working on a #rust-lang project in a container on alpine/musl, I asked #claude.ai to also build binaries for fedora/glibc linux and it quickly `reasoned` that cargo-zigbuild is the cleanest way of achieving this. Despite cargo/rust having multi-target support, the rust way requires a bunch of toolchain installations, zig however comes with all of those batteries included and it worked great.

Red eye flight ending

Bypassing Kernel32.dll for Fun and Nonprofit ziglang.org/devlog/2026/#202…

Another Waymo sighting in Minneapolis

TiL that #omarchy Linux doesn't come with bc installed which I guess surprises me given that it has so much pre-installed software (easily remedied but still surprising):😀

Still some open water on Minnehaha Creek in Minneapolis and the mallards are taking advantage of it as usual

stress testing after updating some hardware ; -j 32 build of stable/15 #FreeBSD in a VM hosted on #smartos

Saw a Waymo in Minneapolis on Sunday

TIL : Micro Center Powerspec pre-built PCs have "custom BIOS". I found this out when I tried to update my Gigabyte Z890 board. Not a huge deal, the Micro Center communities forum has decent info to help one and I just had to use the q-flash method to replace my BIOS with the gigabyte version.

I while ago I botched a #FreeBSD current/15 era build which resulted in me accidentally removing various crypto, libmd and other libraries that ssh, curl etc depend upon. The system would boot multi-user with networking but sshd was non-functional among other tools. I am glad that both fetch and pkg-static exist because I was able to recover these systems using fetch to pull a new up-to-date source tree of 15/stable locally, re-do my buildworld/installworld and then bootstrap the package system by using pkg-static bootstrap -f .

Thanks for bringing awareness to some of the issues with d-bus. Glad @vaxryy is on it.

Thin ice established for the season.