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

I regret to report that I’m back to customizing my fonts.

Had too much time to contemplate last night while taking down Christmas decorations, so I jumped on the Top4 bandwagon.

“River” — Joni Mitchell “Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis” — Tom Waits “Christmastime Is Here (Instrumental)” — Vince Guaraldi Trio “Must Be Santa” — Bob Dylan

Went to a trivia night where one of the answers was Bolivia, and nobody appreciated my Wu-Tang quote.

What little code I wrote today went into Skinner.

Decided that IndieAuth implementation will be useful as a standalone crate.

Apologies for adding to the year-in-review din, but the ancient birdsite tradition of listing the languages we worked in that year was a favorite, made better now that I can to comment on each.

A review of the languages I used in 2025, and a lookahead to 2026.

No code today, but a thoughtful presentation from my colleague David Gustch on wiring together Rust apps.

Chapter Two introduces a wide range of Rust constructs to build something a little more substantial than Hello, World.

Friday’s adventure was so meek, I neglected to commit adding clang to my devshell.

Looking for non-EU citizens who chose the EUPL.

Another modest day of adventuring due to holiday travels.

Microsoft’s “north star” for porting C and C++ to Rust with AI is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.”

Our December Adventurer once again finds himself threatened by holiday obligations back in meatspace.

Was flipping through the radio dial like an old man, and stumbled onto a revival of WNAP, “The Buzzard.”

Thinking about licensing again.

Thought more about the state machine.

Giant steps forward today.

Finally a day without auth.

Look at me, getting the Christmas lights up before the solstice.

Only light refactoring today while waiting out an orchestra practice.

Slow day today.

I know several Scala developers taking an interest in Rust right now.

duetexpertd is taking over 100% of my CPU.

Contrasts the initial Rust experience for a seasoned Scala developer.

No indieauth-metadata parsing today, but major progress today on auth.

The auth side quest continues.

Lots of code today.

A December Adventure of cross-country skiing beats a December Adventure of computing, when the weather permits.

I attempted to implement IndieLogin today.

The commits are mundane as can be: I updated the lockfiles for Nix and Cargo.

Moved fast yesterday, so today was a day of refactoring.

Massive progress today: I accepted my first Webmention in production.

When the LLM is good enough for your customer service but not good enough for your sentiment analysis: Screenshot of conversation via text message.

More contemplation than code today.

Began implementing a Webmention receiver today.

This was a day of refactoring.

It varies by latitude, but up here around 40°N, today is the earliest sunset of the year.

Lean day today.

What do we think about Releases on Forgejo / Codeberg as opposed to a CHANGELOG?

All send tests are passing, and kbbl-1.0 is released.

I’m just going to start posting my entire site-lisp directory next to CLAUDE.md and we’re going to see who blinks first.

Continued to improve the webmention endpoint discovery, which involves parsing the body.

I did not anticipate spending part of this evening admiring Berkshire Hathaway’s web design, but here we are.

Lighter day today, because it was Homebrew Website Club day.

It is better to give than to receive.

I have begun my 2025 December Adventure.

The first step is a new repository.

I made modest edits to a few photos with my phone’s “magic eraser”.