Notes

https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/115621938437966225

https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

"I did not write a single line of code but carefully shepherded AI over the course of several days"

"Beats me. AI decided to do so and I didn't question it."

Why are people like this?

what if instead of www over http, internet sites were git repositories and every day your browser fetched updates to each one and navigated them offline and as a bonus you had archives of your favorite internet sites that you could search with grep

it could be called ggg: the Global Git Gossamer™

"Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License"

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source

Loose wires sink ships

https://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/NR20251118.aspx

The kerning on that Tr pair is really bothering me

"We're (now) moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls"

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/OpenBSDToFreeBSDMove

Just as I suspected, it was all Rust's fault

https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/

according to my wife

the overhead announcement at the grocery store just advertised a URL that ended in "dot html"

i'm now imagining their webmaster uploading a static html file to their ftp site with WS_FTP

do i tell them

remember freshmeat\.net?

https://web.archive.org/web/20040610010324/http://freshmeat.net/

Macintosh Plus Mini

I imagine ACH transfers being made by prospectors with covered wagons couriering bags of gold nuggets back and forth between banks like out of Oregon Trail

Aside from "ACH transfer initiated, funds will arrive in 2-3 days"