Not a great week to have your computers connected to the internet.

It took 17 hours to get home to West Ireland from a work event in Nice, lol

Published a big update to my #Emacs envrc.el package, of particular interest to folks using #direnv with #nix or #guix: it now has carefully designed (but optional) support for asynchronous loading of environments, so Emacs doesn't need to block when your project's shell environment takes a while to reload.
https://github.com/purcell/envrc/pull/130

My brain refuses to read LLM-generated text. I'm seeing agent-written snippets (particularly PR comments) that are just absolute word soup. I demand proof of life.

Mastodon tip that I saw someone post recently: you can use the search term "in:library" to specifically search among your own posts, likes and bookmarks.

It's not just words — it's meanings. Here's the thing:

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@divyaranjan/117104660983147041

Emacs is gaining some great new graphic display capabilities thanks to some awesome work here: 👇

On Monday evening I went to bed early and was woken in the early hours by unfamiliar annoyed cat noises from downstairs, and that was when I learned from my wife that we had taken in an additional cat – a friendly local stray who showed up injured – bringing us to ten (10!) cats in the house. Clearly impressed by this figure, I woke up just enough to say, "you crazy bastard, you did it!"

Bonus Cat was repaired at the vet the next day, neutered for good measure, and stayed with us a couple of nights to convalesce. He has now been released, minus what the SPCA woman calls his "trouble-puffs".

The saga continues. I wrote much of this thread while waiting for my wife in town, where she nearly picked up another stray. 😅

For weeks now this growing brood has been steadfastly resisting domestication, and exhausting my wife. The kittens' mum is permanently sour-faced, probably quite justifiably from having her growth stunted by pregnancy at an early age -- we think this was not even her first litter.

The mum has visited the vet and been sterilised, and the kittens were also pronounced healthy, though that vet trip ended up with my wife on a course of antibiotics, and one of the kittens being renamed to "Biter".

Some of the kittens are already being lined up with new owners. So that should mean fewer cats in the house, right? Well...

Dear reader, we officially have three cats. My wife additionally took on five foster kittens and their mum recently. A #caturday thread... 🧵

What brought us abruptly to nine cats in the house was my wife assisting the local SPCA lady in a rescue after the kittens were spotted on a nearby rural road. It took a day or so to trap the whole family. With the shelters full, and 20+ cats already lodged at the lady's own house, my wife volunteered to put the six cats up.

This was widely considered a mistake, albeit a cute one...

RE: https://discuss.systems/@logosity/117072731220611031

Good rant!

Software engineering in 2026

The leader of the Transcontinental Race has now cycled around 1570km (almost 1000 miles) since Sunday evening (2d 15h), with less than 6 hours spent off the bike. He's now on the ferry from Malmö to - I believe - Świnoujście in Poland. 🤯 #tcrno12

The Tour de France is cool, but the big endurance cycling event of the year just started today in Norway. The fastest riders in the self-supported Transcontinental Race are expected to arrive in Greece in about 10 days time after about 4000km (2500 miles) of solo riding. #tcrno12 https://www.lostdot.cc/race/tcrno12

The most reliable spell checker is when someone reacts to your toot and you immediately see your typo staring right back at you

Literally the only indication that the current page is an "Issue" in Linear is that `/issue/` is in the URL. I am not even joking. Every life-force-sapping grey page looks the same and there's no navigation or hierarchy, and also the search is bad.

Do you remember when clickable things and interactive controls on the web had a design that distinguished them from plain text? Outright angry at Linear today, which is an issue tracker with pretty charts but no visible buttons to close an issue. Turns out you click on a plain status label and it magically turns into a dropdown. I expect you're supposed to tell an agent to figure it out. No highly esteemed deed of design is commemorated here.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@tarsius/116857447830546754

#Emacs fans! Check out this write-up from Jonas of some long-awaited changes we're rolling out on MELPA. He has done lots of complex work to push this complex over the line recently. 🙌

I know I've never been brainwashed because it's still dirty in there

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
-Krishnamurti
#TimelessWisdomFor2026