I’m a practitioner of what I like to call “software engineer driven development”. It’s where one or more software engineers write code instead of using LLMs to write code.

Everybody with “minors DNI” in your profile, read this: https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/interact-with-minors Or listen to the video version: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H5_w3TuRDsc And then take it out of your profile. It’s respectability politics. It’s not going to protect you from bigoted accusations. And most importantly it’s carrying on Maggie Thatcher’s legacy by disconnecting the youth from their ancestors.

$ man cut

Me when I visit my hometown

So I tried to urgently verify my Mastodon account by entering a credit card. (Google Translate says that "да мне похуй" is Russian for "I don't give a shit")

Here's a little HOWTO on running the Transmission BitTorrent daemon on OpenBSD, using mostly things that are in the base installation. It took me a while to figure out how to get relayd to direct different HTTP requests to different servers based on the URL path.
https://mallory.computer/posts/2025/07/04/transmission-openbsd-wireguard-pf.html

#OpenBSD

"This is all very powerful, of course, and should be used only in moderation to make the world a better place."

~ the Perl manual

Shout out to @ryanc for writing up a GDPR request you can send to HMRC in the UK: https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/112864718187317748

Cis people, if you would like to help trans people suffering right now in the UK or the US, you can help change things by refusing to submit to the gender system.

When you're filling out a form, refuse to answer any questions about gender/sex (yes, even medical forms!). Send a GDPR notice to the government ordering them to delete your gender from their records. Never enter a gendered bathroom or changing room, and complain if there aren't any/enough non-gendered spaces available. Join us.

C programmers: Have you considered that variable names are there to help other programmers understand what your code is doing? What's ni? What the fuck is b? Come on.

What's the most important factor to consider when buying new genitals?

Getting together a random selection of 100 trans and cis people and asking the prime minister to sort them into two bathrooms. But it’s a trap! They descend upon him and weld permanent cat ears to his head. The next day the papers are awash with unsubstantiated claims printed as fact about a litter box in 10 Downing Street. (The rumors are true)

I am officially an EUPL hater now.

“or has expressed by any other means his willingness to license under the EUPL.”

Men will literally pretend that “he” is gender neutral before they’ll use “they”.

Hello! You don't know me but I'm good friends with your dog.

I'm trying to port #HareLang to #NetBSD, but I'm a bit stuck. Can anybody offer some help? https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare-dev/%3C9926c486-b1d4-456c-b479-5f3a91446387@fastmail.com%3E#%3C61d323f3-6c69-4c21-8a43-c730532e51dc@fastmail.com%3E

Rust has rustaceans, Go has gophers. What are users of #HareLang called?

Anybody who thinks racism is bad but transphobia is fine is not anti-racist. They agree with the racists, and merely disagree about who should be wearing the boot and whose neck it should be on.