Notices by Andrew Kelley (andrewrk@mastodon.social), page 2

@jpmens they really, really, want us to stop programming for free, and start paying rent https://andrewkelley.me/post/renting-is-for-suckers.html

10 years 🥳

everyone tryna trick me into paying like $20/month for programming

NICE TRY!

programming is free, suckas

I don't get it, where's the rest of the 197 MiB of executable size of clang coming from?

we got a 14M zig compiler here that:

has x86, aarch64, wasm, sparc, riscv64, C, llvm backends

compiles zig and C code

fetches from git, http, TLS protocols

decompresses zstd, flate, xz tarballs, zip files

performs code formatting, reduce, objcopy, win32 resource compilation

links macho, elf, wasm, coff

cross-compiles to linux (any glibc version), macos, windows, freebsd, netbsd

Feels like most of what I do as software project lead is say, "wrong mountain. don't climb that one." over and over again

@lanodan if it's not perfect it's surprisingly bad

"surprisingly good" software does not exist when you demand perfection

this is art

duolingo is for unserious people

I just reclaimed about 700 MiB of working memory by switching to Ghostty from Konsole. Convenient that it ships with NixOS stable now!

Thanks to Alex Rønne Petersen, ziglang.org now has automated FreeBSD builds available on the download page (including master branch).

more details: https://ziglang.org/devlog/2025/#2025-05-20

"it's like copying code from stack overflow" is not the rock solid defense you think it is

@linus it tickles me that I can see the bitrate of the music I'm listening to based on the read rate of the music player app

and since it's FLAC encoded, when it gets to silence at the end of a track it goes down to 0, and then comes back when the music picks back up in complexity 😀

@linus ooh here we go, you can see the bitrate dip between tracks

you know how when you're a kid, you can't really make permanent mistakes? if you do it's kinda your parents fault, you know? until you become a teenager and then you start doing things like driving a car, having sex, saying yes or no to drugs, and all the sudden your choices are permanent for your entire life

I feel like humanity itself has entered its teenage years.

video related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY

Sometimes, people are alright.

@lritter I have made it to runtime

helps that I'm using a programming language that doesn't offload half its language implementation into the linker 😏

🤡

bunch of bot accounts on @Codeberg are trolling projects, posting LLM generated issues based on the readme, ridiculing the projects

not cool

examples:

https://codeberg.org/elatedplacing9?tab=activity

https://codeberg.org/correctmane417?tab=activity

https://codeberg.org/precociousbooming519?tab=activity

all of these UI elements have to do with the current issue that the user is looking at, except one.

they *really* want to shove this shit down people's throats.