Ricardo Signes :sickos:

Programming, empathy, good drinks, and bad movies. Director @ Fastmail.

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2026-06-09 15:05:02 UTC

Immediately after I installed mouse management software…
https://cdn.masto.host/socialsemioticsystems/media_attachments/files/116/720/762/787/777/092/original/1e1f58d1f08bd863.png

2026-03-15 20:55:08 UTC

I don't want to add Powerline fonts, I want the required glyphs added to Unicode please and thank you.

2026-02-06 19:48:18 UTC

Sure AI slop is bad, but can we talk about four space indents?

2026-01-28 18:57:37 UTC

syslog.h is an interface that should've been replaced a long time ago.

2026-01-14 17:29:26 UTC

I continue to find it frustrating that Contacts (especially Apple, but also others) don't let me supply a date of death — in part so that "compose an email" stops suggesting this person, and so that my calendar doesn't show "wish them a happy birthday!"

2025-11-26 20:14:45 UTC

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I am reminded of https://www.perl.com/pub/2000/12/advocacy.html/

2025-11-25 16:18:42 UTC

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"An illustration of an astronaut and astropenguin floating through a tunnel. She is surrounded by the git history of people who never learned to rebase."

2025-10-01 15:56:10 UTC

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https://metacpan.org/dist/HTTP-Throwable/source/lib/HTTP/Throwable/Role/Status/ImATeapot.pm

2025-08-29 18:40:44 UTC

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Even in Moose, it's not great. But it made more sense when Moose was new, and experimental features didn't exist and "use vX" didn't do much etc.

2025-08-29 14:41:53 UTC

"I'll turn strict and warnings on for you when you import functions from me" was a mistake. #perl

2025-07-18 11:51:22 UTC

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if the train stops suddenly, people in forward facing seats fall out. People in rear facing seats stay safely seated. Rear facing seats appeal to people with a crippling fear of falling from their seats, who represent a powerful lobby.

2025-03-18 07:40:42 UTC

Why is GitHub so obsessed with helping people accidentally create complex merges?

2025-03-07 16:19:43 UTC

I still chuckle when I remember that IMAP4rev2 updates the protocol to allow for 64-bit message sizes. In case gigabyte-sized messages weren't enough…

2025-02-25 22:20:41 UTC

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I had both of those for the first time last year! So good! (Not sure I’d put them together but you do you!) what kind of sauce is that? I was offered chocolate or vanilla or applesauce and too applesauce.

2024-12-24 20:38:25 UTC

It’s that time again!
https://cdn.masto.host/socialsemioticsystems/media_attachments/files/113/709/724/510/757/645/original/bc783109a5877432.jpeg

2024-11-28 13:05:36 UTC

When I was around 12, I was visiting my grandparents in Germany, and my grandfather asked me to explain when to use "oldest" and when to use "eldest". I couldn't. I still can't. It haunts me.

2024-09-22 16:01:49 UTC

"Why toxic leaders get promoted”
https://www.threads.net/@hiten/post/DAJMxcopQka/

2024-06-28 18:51:28 UTC

The Slack API documentation on BlockKit has all the clarity of autogenerated documentation, and all the accuracy of human-written documentation.