Flutterby™! (short)

Saturday January 10th, 2026

How do you stop a rhinoceros from charging? Dan Lyke / comment 0

BlueSky video of a muntjac and an Indian rhino playing in the snow at Poland's Wroclaw zoo

same video on Reddit.

Combining learning Rust and Dan Lyke / comment 0

Combining learning Rust and understanding LLMs, I prompted Gemini's CLI to create a little utility I want. This is my first attempt to do real work with it, and more than before I really understand the comparisons between LLM and cocaine that people are making.

And I'm not actually learning Rust...

Today I learned that Cocoa's Dan Lyke / comment 0

Today I learned that Cocoa's -layoutSubtreeIfNeeded only does the work if the NSView is attached, which means that rather than calculating where to put the frame before adding the subview, you have to add the subview somewhere off-screen, layout, and then move it where you want it.

Friday January 9th, 2026

For no reason in particular Dan Lyke / comment 0

For No Reason in Particular Here's a Bunch of Games Where You Kill Nazis - Hard Drive

That is the most ominous sounding Dan Lyke / comment 0

That is the most ominous sounding fortune cookie I've gotten in a long time!

Holy crap I milled a dowel out of Dan Lyke / comment 1

Holy crap. I milled a dowel out of purple heart for a friend doing some guitar stuff, and dropped it in the mail December 8.

It just arrived in Grass Valley yesterday.


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