Flutterby™! (short)
Tuesday April 28th, 2026
<br> handling.
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After years and years of tolerating it, I finally fixed an issue with how the Flutterby
formatter handles <br> tags. Actually, not so much how it handles it as with how
modern browsers handle </br> tags.
Anyway, in the process I willy-nilly changed the doctype. Holler if you see anything
stupid, or if I regressed utf-8 handling again, or something.
Monday April 27th, 2026
PocketOS, Railway DB, and Claude: kaboom
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Kinda thinking LLM coding is like playing with live grenades. I mean, sure, you're bored,
they're something to juggle, and hot damn, did you see that behind the back under the leg
combo, why are you backing away, this is really cool?
Anyway, Tom's Hardware:
Claude-powered AI coding agent deletes entire company database in 9 seconds backups
zapped, after Cursor tool powered by Anthropic's Claude goes rogue
Via Peter
@peter@thepit.social who observes:
That thread also has the original Twitter
thread.
Also, if an LLM does nuke your data, please, for the love of all that's holy, do not ask
the plausible sentence generator why it deleted your data. It does not "know". It doesn't
matter how frustrated and angry you are. It just exposes that you are suffering from
epistemia (mentioned
previously).
Extremely simple little music player
Dan Lyke /
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Extremely simple little music player display, in Rust. MacBook Pro M2. The egui library is costing me 8.22ms per update (measured over 1k updates).
I'm offended by how inefficient this is. Is there a Rust GUI library that's actually practical, or that does minimal repaint/refreshes?
a shed is insufficient
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NowWeAreAllTom
@tom@labyrinth.social
please join me in condemning the appalling bloodshed. we need a much more secure
and refrigerated solution for the storage of blood. a shed is insufficient
That could have been a child
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Fox 35: VIDEO: Truck runs over 250K Lamborghini in parking
lot
By way of ReindeR Rustema
@rrustema020@mastodon.nl
@notjustbikes about SUVs that are too dangerous.
In Orlando a lady in a huge monster truck drove her machine on top of a
Lamborghini sports car in the parking lot of Crunch Fitness. Because she
couldn't see the car.
Not fake, confirmed by journalists.
https://www.nu.nl/325970/video...peperdure-lamborghini-in-vs.html
Another angle: https://youtu.be/mR1ojA5tlSs?si=zT_HHZ
Writing in C
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Wolf SSL: Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software. Lots
of good stuff in here, including:
Side-channel resistance is difficult in any language.
What is true: as abstractions obscure execution behavior, side-channel
properties become harder to reason about and harder to verify at scale. Rust
provides tools to mitigate thisbut using them extensively means abandoning
most safety abstractions, bringing the problem space back toward C.
The issue is not impossibilityits verifiability without abstraction collapse.
An Economy of Empathy
Dan Lyke /
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Mario Munoz has put the text of his Sunday morning talk at North Bay Python online. I'm
waiting for the recording to experience it again, but it was exactly the Sunday morning
angry sermon I needed: https://pythonbynight.com/talks/empathy
Via his Fediverse post
Byte Magazine at Archive.org
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Not replaced by AI...
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Jeff Baker
@jwbee.bsky.social
AI has already taken my software job, not in the sense that I don't have one,
but in the sense that I now hate the job and most of the other people.
The laser pointer does not own
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"The laser pointer does not own you." - @baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
#NBPy
Technology only helps if your
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"Technology only helps if your successor understands it." - Philip James
#NBPy
Technology is here to serve
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"Technology is here to serve people, not the other way around." - Philip James
Not a "to serve man" reference.
#NBPy
If you believe that the best part of a
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If you believe that the best part of a conference is the hallway track, this year's North Bay Python feels like that. The conversations and presentations feel like the sort of thought provoking topics I want from a conference.
#NBPy
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Last modified: Thu Mar 15 12:48:17 PST 2001