Old man yells at Internet on Ross A. Baker (English)

Khlav Kalash Emacs continues to fill out, with configurations for tree-sitter, eglot, and more.

If you tried Khlav Kalash Emacs and its lack of packages left an awful taste in your mouth, try washing it away with Crab Juice Emacs.

I don’t stick forks in electric sockets.

Light day on the Emacs config today.

I start most Emacs configs with better-defaults.

I spent most of today’s adventure time continuing to learn vc.

I was caught off guard by a #DecemberAdventure in March.

Spun off Khlav Kalash Emacs with a Nix app to run it.

Khlav Kalash Emacs is a standalone Emacs package.

My grandfather was a kind man.

With everyone adding markdown files these days, I propose CLOD.md, a place where collaborators can share geological trivia or composting tips. https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/clod.md/src/branch/main/CLOD.md

I just saw a truck with two pairs of truck nutz.

Copyleft is simple: share with others as others shared with you.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitsuhiko/116177282859842761 I think society is better off when we share, and I consider the GPL to run against that spirit by restricting what can be done with it. … Content licensed under the Creative Commons attribution-noncom…

Codeberg and GitHub each have their share of incidents, but one tends to get grace from its users, and the other derision.

I rarely remember dreams.

Does it bother you that your coreutils human-readable units default to base 1024 while your Emacs modeline is in base 1000?

“Dedicated Followed of Fashion” (The Kinks, 1966) is a song about software engineering.

I am competitive, I am a programmer, and I am disgusted by the phrase “competitive programming.”

96th Street Nickel Plate Bridge is finally open!

RE: https://radikal.social/@henry/116143876277203506 When I said I enjoy glue work, this is not the end state I had in mind.

Wishing my fellow Hoosiers a relieving Adjournment Sine Die today.

It’s Google Summer of Code season!

I get a lot of free credit monitoring offers from data breaches, but a university that I have no relationship with just leaked an address I haven’t lived at in 25 years.

@tpolecat Can I borrow your “macros are bad” sign?

Person behind us tonight at the symphony grumbled through the opening piece by Chen that it “wasn’t Beethoven,” then snored through the last two movements of the Beethoven.

Because open source is global, we can’t introduce ourselves by walking into the room and splatting out a wet fart.

Inspired by tonight’s Homebrew Website Club, set up Miniflux on NixOS as an RSS reader.

Scored this sweet neck piece at a Mardi Gras party in a church basement.

Thanksgiving Mardi Gras Casimir Pulaski Day Easter Sunday

Riffing on a new flake parts project, Le Grille.

I wish I could share the ISO’s performance of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony as a timeline cleanse.

Friday night open source, 2021: work on libraries with thousands of downloads that serve millions of users Friday night open source, 2026: helping an OpenBSD user get past my scraper defenses to read my mediocre website, wondering if we’re the last two hu…

Tech is making me cranky lately.

“Engineering was never about the code, it’s about the outcomes” is like “basketball was never about the rebounds, it’s about the outcomes”.

[Drives a hot dog-shaped car through the window.]

The F8s Manifesto F8s is how we move our profession beyond software engineering.

To those in the Scala community who blamed me and called me selfish when I couldn’t join its Discords without personally invasive verification: lol, and furthermore, lmao.

Job hunting sucks.

People keep saying “the things you learn now won’t be useful in six months” and “you’re falling behind.”

My new motto is RIIR, RIOC.¹ ¹ - Rewrite It In Rust, Rewrite It On Codeberg.

It’s -3°F outside, furnace is out, and no appointments until Monday.

Since Claude respects AGENTS.md about as well as it respects most else, it receives dedicated instructions. https://codeberg.org/rossabaker/no-agents.md/src/commit/main/CLAUDE.md

Chapter Three is about the fundamental data types and control flow structures of Rust.

Spent entirely too long tracing a waybar quirk down to the fact my canonical time zone identifier has three components.

This pianist memorized Rachmaninov’s entire third concerto, and I can’t even remember where I parked.

Norris Adams Smythe Patrick

My wife bought this sweatshirt on a campus visit in 1996.

I had forgotten how nice it feels to break my window manager and be stuck in a tty.

George John Paul Ringo