tfw there's a project that your PhD heavily depends on and you're contributing to but then you see some sussy PRs so you reach out to the lead dev and set up a meeting about the project's AI policy where he tells you that it's just a tool and you shouldn't look at the obviously slop WIP PRs and instead of a policy he adds an AGENTS.md that instructs agents not to use commit trailers so you can't even ask Asta to add it to the Kompromat and well shit I guess now you spend some time on forking the two repos you need and ripping out the assisted commits and after vagueposting about it you're lowkey announcing that these forks exist but you're not advertising it too much since it's not packaged anywhere and you don't want to do all that and you don't know if you'll keep maintaining them after you finish your PhD next year but hey you already fixed some bugs and maybe just maybe you can also fix all the whitespace crimes in the codebase

Wouldn't that be something

Pro tip: if you want to change the strings on your mandolin for the first time, do not start at midnight, *especially* if you don't know that once you remove all the strings the bridge comes off. It's smaller than a guitar, but the bastard still has 8 strings

You'd think that having "This file is generated by dune, edit dune-project instead" at the top of the opam file would lead to people editing dune-project instead. You'd be wrong

The commit message: "Merge ... from new-syntax"
The commit contents: actually a squash, changes syntax (expected), reorders some predicates' arguments, general breaking changes refactoring

What a world

Fucking *GNU LilyPond* now has an AGENTS.md and .agents/skills. And assisted commits don't have any markers AFAICT. What are we doing? This is software for musicians! Whatever, I hope the last release without it (from summer 2024) is clean

> REBASE-i 242/288

I'm tired boss

It's a very nice second-hand '99 Epiphone Sheraton II made in Korea, but I already have an ES-335-like

I'm fighting the urge to buy another guitar, be proud of me

I know that the campus reopening is important information, but do I really need to receive *5* copies of the email? AFAICT those come from me being
- a student at the university
- an employee of the university
- a person associated with the campus
- a person associated with a faculty with offices on the campus
- a member of a team with offices on the campus

Surely at least the last two are redundant?

Both the service and app are pretty trivial. The only purpose is to store a piece of text on the server. It's supposed to streamline the process of copying some text on my phone and sending it to myself via an IM/email.
Sure, there are "universal clipboard" solutions or notes apps, and even the IM flow is fine, but all those either depend on an external service (and I have a perfectly fine homelab just sitting here), or are vibecoded pieces of shit that I don't want to touch, let alone run. It's also not quite a file storage system: the piece of text is not supposed to have a name, and if I open the site and don't immediately see the text I want then what's the point.
So I wrote the thing! The server [1] is like 20loc + an HTML form, and the app [2] is just a text field and a button, which can be prepopulated by sharing text to the app (the only reason for the app's existence is the Firefox doesn't support PWAs to act as share targets). But I'm happy that I wrote this. Turns out you can just do things, and write tiny programs for raising you QoL just a tiny bit, using your brain.

[1] https://codeberg.org/VojtechStep/textcell
[2] https://codeberg.org/VojtechStep/muscadet-portal

I did the "I want to replace the lightbulb so I'm fixing the shelf so ... so I'm fixing my car" thing: on Monday I wanted to look at VPN providers to find a replacement for Mullvad. So far I have a tiny web service in OCaml, my Emacs set up to write Android apps, and the Android app to communicate with the service. I still haven't looked at a single VPN provider.

Anyway, at last I have a Forgejo actions runner set up on my NixOS homelab. I think the best part is that the container in which workflows run is just 94 kB, and it's essentially all administrative overhead: the filesystem itself is just a bunch of symlinks to /nix/store, *which isn't there*. I'm mounting the host's nix directory, which means automatic caching for derivations across runs, and it's even potentially warmed up on projects for which I use the homelab as a remote build farm. This took some finagling to get right, so I might write a blog post about the setup

I just wasted most of my evening debugging my server's nftables, which I was trying to set up to not ever send container traffic to my tailnet. Turns out I misread the required packet mark 0x80000 as 0x800000. I should really look into network namespaces, and just stuff Tailscale and the relevant services in one of those (is that how it works?)

Guy who's only ever listened to one newgrass artist: It's giving Molly Tuttle

Can't believe I've been sleeping on Nickel Creek this whole time

Fun fact: 30% of the playing comfort you feel after applying Fast-fret comes from your strings now smelling like Fast-fret

It's just one little constraint bro, what could it cost?

I discovered you can overload predicates based on their inputs' types in elpi, it's so over for you

Last year I got some ink that I really liked (the Violet Bee by Octopus Fluids), but it didn't work well with my Faber-Castell Ambition pen — either the ink was too thick or the nib too fine or idk, but I could never get it to flow properly, and it would dry out in the tip within hours.

Now my parents got me a new fountain pen for my birthday, the TWSBI Diamond 580ALR (Fine), and it works *so much better* (see picture). Now I just need to look for excuses to write in pen.

I think my mom has secret zoomer friends. She recently started reacting to messages with a "🤡" emoji, and today she hit me with one of these: 🗿