It's called two factor authentication because there are two factors and they're both two.

Something about the reversing and re-implementing of the M-Vave FM1 makes me sad. It's neat that people can add their own features, but it's a shame that within the space of a week there are 85 solipsistic vibe-coded implementations instead of a smaller number of considered collaborative efforts.

I fear that this is where open source is going: instead of living documents on which people work together, it's just raw materials to pipe into your own slop extruder.

"Not every billionaire is a policy failure," argues an opinion piece in the FT.

Comrades, we're winning the argument. They've conceded the broad principle and are reduced to haggling over details.

https://www.ft.com/content/2c8c610b-83f3-4cab-b409-bab69f4c2207

I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my gems' repositories and added a link to a blog post explaining why: https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository

Completed the Guardian prize cryptic crossword before breakfast, an auspicious start to the weekend.

I absolutely love this Wikipedia info box which seems to assume that the only barrier to reading cuneiform, a notoriously complex script that hasn't been used for nearly two millennia is … font support.

This just seems like gleeful destruction of whole fields of endeavour, like children pulling the wings off butterflies, and I wonder how long it will be before more people start to consider the merits of hanging these LLM lads upside-down from lampposts.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1008726/openai-mathematics-solutions-chaos

All our houses are built on sand now
https://po-ru.com/2026/10/07/all-our-houses-are-built-on-sand-now
On how everything is slop, even when it isn't slop.
#blog

I know they say that gender is a spectrum, but ...

Time to get some cards made up: "I will not speak to you while you are wearing a surveillance device" and a list (Apple watch, nonce goggles, etc.)

@tansy Hello! I enjoyed the book launch last night.

oh no, someone has posted this to the orange site

It doesn’t matter whether “Matz is nice”
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/29/it-doesnt-matter-whether-matz-is-nice
#ruby #blog

Oh hey, my talk is up! https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2026-48-1-whats-in-a-number-plate #EMFCamp

Week 289: To EMF, the hard way
https://po-ru.com/2026/07/22/week-289-to-emf-the-hard-way
#EMFCamp #bikepacking #weeknotes #blog

Even I, a non-football-enjoyer, have found something to delight me in this World Cup: the Schadenfreude of seeing the US bomb out even after Trump and Johnny Baby conspired to tip the scales to their advantage by overturning a red card.

Every time I am obliged, with deep regret, shame, and loathing, to engage with Bootstrap*, I have to ask, how is this philosophically any different from Geocities-era website styling?

They had `<font face="Comic Sans MS" size="4" color="green">`

Bootstrap has stuff like `style="bs-font-comic-sans bs-size-4 bs-color-green"`

Ghastly.

* "The most popular HTML, CSS, and JS library in the world" in the same way that chlamydia is the most popular STI in the world.

Spend £20 on an old camera lens, clean it with special equipment and loving care. Spend £200 on a pair of glasses, wipe them on any old piece of clothing.

Friend just lost their job, right after buying a new house, and because they're on a visa they have 90 days to find another job or get deported.

If anyone has any leads on software product/partner/customer management jobs in London, please send them my way.

#FediHire #GetFediHired

Welp, looks like I won't be going to @emf because my reflexes are once again too slow to select one ticket and click buy before they all sold out. Enjoy it, folk with gamer reflexes. #emfcamp