Given how Facebook aggressively guard their assets (i.e. their users’ contents and relationships), I imagine keeping this working would be a constant game of cat and mouse.

People have reported regressions with post-3.4.1 versions of rsync. If it’s a coincidence, then it’s one hell of one.

in Haskell or Rust?

Has this been audited? It’s easy to claim that something is secure, but there have been products that made such claims and were trivially exploitable.

Will his next game include a bone saw as a weapon, in honour of his employer’s owner?

“bringing you the hottest hits from the 80s, 90s and beyond…”

Eat shit, Nintendo

If you ever visited Japan and have an old Suica/Pasmo card lying around, I wonder if there’s a way of transferring money to it and using it for online payments.

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software

Sometimes filesystem developer syndrome removes a wife, sometimes it adds one

AI can never fail, it can only be failed

Was reversecentaur.io taken or something?

Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.

Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.

Though excellent work!

I can vouch for Mythic Beasts

Surely when number goes up far enough, it magically gains sentience and godlike powers

We need to fork Firefox and fund enough developers to make it viable as a standalone project that’s not just a laggy, disenshittified version of Firefox. It has been done with LibreOffice and CoMaps, so theoretically it is possible.

Peans is a dessert.

Nowadays, creating fonts is easier than ever, with widely available tools. Creating good fonts that don’t look like hot garbage and don’t make your eyes hurt after reading a paragraph is somewhat harder, though type designers graduate from courses every year. There are lots of small independent foundries selling fonts around the world, and consultancies that will design fonts on commission for brands. If Monotype are going to play the private-equity extortion game, they’ll soon find game companies commissioning fonts they then own outright from designers, or even hiring a few type designers with the usual intake of 3D graphics/texture/animation artists.

Government blogs and podcast-style data feeds