Sign in

Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger

@abovevacant.bsky.social
146 followers 821 following 46 posts

Programmer; likes debuggers, emulators, runtimes; works on tools for (embedded) vision+imaging pipelines; contractor for systems-level stuff; optimism is the belief that we can do (a lot) better. github.com/supervacuus

PostsRepliesMedia
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Data centres in the Netherlands used 4.6% of all electricity in 2024, and transmission system operator TenneT expects this to double or triple to 10-15% by 2030! That means that the next 6-11 TWh/year of renewables that will be completed, will go straight to the growth of data centres.
Front page of newspaper Trouw, with headline "Three quarter of datacentres is completely untransparent on energy and water use"
57446
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Dbug @dbug.defence-force.org · 28/09/2026
Funny, each time I see this image I have the same "Oh, I did not remember we sent a version to Microids to see if they were interested in publishing our game back then"😅
171
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 28/09/2026
These are what the clouds on Jupiter look up close. The small patches of white are cloud tops, soaring above the main, colourful cloud layer. Image from NASA's Juno spacecraft during its 38th close approach to Jupiter on 29 November 2021, processed by Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill.bsky.social)
A complex, swirling pattern of lighter and darker clouds. One large system, angled to the upper left in this scene, is a tawny brown colour and is elongate. Another, more circular storm system is at lower centre, and is a grey–greenish colour. The background swirls are various shades of grey to blue; small, white features dot the scene.
18894177
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Robin Hawkes @robhawkes.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I've added onshore transmission wires and cables to my energy map ⚡
2122
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Tom Vulpes @vulpeslabs.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In a Nick Drake sort of mood. I built this instrument using a spoke-mini, bamboo canes and little metal leaf decorations.
1102
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Carlos Rodríguez - Pardo @carlosrodriguezp.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
⚠️I made a daily game about p-hacking. Every day: one absurd headline, one synthetic dataset, and the real toolbox: outcome switching, subgrouping, outlier removal... You will reach p < 0.05. The game guarantees it. That's the problem. Hope you like it! phackle.carlosrodriguezpardo.es
phackle.carlosrodriguezpardo.es
P-hackle — the daily p-hacking game
A daily game about how easily data analysis finds what it wants: fork your way to p < 0.05, then face what it cost.
055
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
👻Notorischer User dieser Plattform🎃 @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
We should be outraged not only about Ceuta and the cynical reactions of European governments, but even more so in the face of the tens of thousands who have died in the Mediterranean, most of them without a trace. AI #Slop, however, only serves those who want to make their suffering invisible 4/
117932
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
oh yeah. that's the stuff
bad book scan: structure and dynamics of sociocultural systems

on the bottom, half-rounded like the earth, "ENVIRONMENT." above it, infrastructure, then structure, then superstructure. feedback looks connect these 3 boxes. and from the environment up points an arrow that reads intensification, bureaucratization, and rationalization
081
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 03/08/2026
I need to write a blog post with the abstract: "why your wire protocol shouldn't just be a 'Request' enum going one way and a 'Response' enum going the other way" It *works*, and I *still* see people doing this with postcard, often. I gave a talk about this 2y ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtBF...
youtube.com
Postcard: An Unreasonably Effective Tool for Machine to Machine Communication - James Munns
YouTube video by RustNL
5322
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Nikita Lisitsa @lisyarus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Environmental storytelling
2181
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Johannes Schmidt @joaoestrangeiro.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Interessiert, wie sich die österreichischen Emissionen im aktuellen Jahr entwickeln? Oder die Neuanmeldungen von Elektroautos? Wieviel Strom wir verbrauchen oder wieviel PV Strom gerade wert ist? Wir launchen dashboards.boku.ac.at Klickt einmal rein! 1/2
23916
Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger @abovevacant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Yes! state propagation is not state management! State propagation is to state management what an event bus is to a transactional database. They are not even close. Essential reading, even though it saddens me that we still have to talk about this in 2026 when considering web frontend discourse.
111
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Bernhard Weidinger @bweidin.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
As we learned today, the 🇦🇹 Supreme Court has ruled that the Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) must retract its claim that the @doew.at – an institution that, in addition to historical research and documentation, systematically monitors the Austrian far right – is a "pseudo-scientific institution". 🧵 1/5
210332
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Manuel 'HonkHase' Atug @honkhase.de · 10/07/2026
der Nachrichtendienst-Gesetze ist das BSI zukünftig verpflichtet, alle Lücken mit dem BND zu teilen und die nutzen diese dann aktiv aus: "Bis eine 0-Day-Schwachstelle nach Veröffentlichung bei den Herstellern durch das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik..."
1265
Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger @abovevacant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Racket is still one of the few programming environments where macro expansion feels like a principled substrate rather than implementation residue. Not syntax tricks. Names with meanings, phases, binding structure, language composition, and tools that understand the result. The post is from 2013!
051
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
John C. Baez @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Mark Ham wowed the world with this picture. But then someone wowed me even more by pointing out that the moon always has the same phase when it's in a rainbow! (1/2)
A closeup of a rainbow with the Moon in it.  The Moon is not full, it is gibbous.   This photo was taken by Mark Ham.   In this photo you can work out exactly where the sun is—behind him over his left shoulder—from both the position of the rainbow and from the phase of the moon.
91006329
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 06/07/2026
New blog post: "Conviviality in computational science" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2026/0... "Conviviality matters for science ... if you want to derive knowledge from your work, you need to know exactly what you are doing, and that includes a detailed understanding of your tools." 🧪 #metascience
blog.khinsen.net
Konrad Hinsen's blog
34416
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Corey S. Powell @coreyspowell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Amazing flyby: Japan's Hayabusa2 just made a high-precision flyby of previously unexplored asteroid Torifune. The probe was traveling at 3 miles per second, and skimmed just about half a mile from the asteroid! First images coming in now. 🧪🔭 www.jaxa.jp/press/2026/0...
Asteroid Trifune as seen by the Telephoto Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T) on the Hayabusa2 probe.
1018144
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
the psychology of computer programming gerald weinberg 1971
412633
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If you think the free market does not auto regulate well, you should be worried that few gets all the GPUs and the rest struggles. If you think the free market works great, you should be worried that uneven GPU access make it impossible to auto-regulate. You should be worried.
5343
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
ESO @eso.org · 09/06/2026
Taken in March 2008 at Paranal, this image captures the full stock of major astronomical bodies that pass between Earth and its host star: Mercury, Venus and the Moon. Read more: www.eso.org/public/images/potw1025a 🔭 #flashback  📷 ESO/Y. Beletsky
A twilight sky with the silhouette of an observatory dome. A crescent Moon is visible near the horizon, while two bright planets stars shine in the sky above.
06115
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Rune Skovbo Johansen @runevision.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
For some musings on *why* mountains get first blue and then paler with distance, I wrote a blog post about that last year after having observed mountain views in Japan: blog.runevision.com/2025/06/note... Now my game can finally match my reference photos better. :)
blog.runevision.com
Notes on atmospheric perspective and distant mountains
I don't know if it's because I come from a supremely flat country, or in spite of it, but I love terrain with elevation differences. Seeing ...
1121
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 20/05/2026
Phonopolis is out NOW on Steam, GOG, and Epic Games Store 📣 We hope you have fun playing with the cardboard city! All links here 👇 amanita-design.net/games/phonop...
221041358
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Chris Coyier @chriscoyier.net · 19/05/2026
"Like if shadcn and Open Props had a baby." open-props-ui.netlify.app/html/
open-props-ui.netlify.app
Open Props UI
3336
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Kati Schneeberger @katischneeberger.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Wichtig ist deshalb die Unterscheidung zwischen Kritik und Delegitimierung. Kritik fragt nach Reform und Verbesserung. Delegitimierung erklärt Institutionen pauschal für wertlos, feindlich oder grundsätzlich verräterisch.  6/
131
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
On this dreary Monday, if you think the world has gone completely mad, let me remind you that you are completely right. Seeing it written down might be somewhat liberating: berthub.eu/articles/pos...
berthub.eu
The Impossible Things We Have to Believe - Bert Hubert
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-ho...
11913
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Jesse Alama @jessealama.net · 30/04/2026
I'm happy to announce Thales, a TypeScript compiler and JS engine in Lean. Thales compiles a subset of TypeScript to Lean via a shallow embedding. Thales is a bridge for TS programmers into Lean's program verification toolset. Check out github.com/jessealama/t... to get started.
github.com
74712
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Determinate Systems @determinate.systems · 08/05/2026
Determinate Nix now uploads anonymized crash reports to @sentry.io. We're excited to take this next logical step toward improving DetNix's stability as proactively as possible. determinate.systems/blog/sentry
determinate.systems
Sentry crash reports for Determinate Nix
Determinate Nix now uploads crash reports to Sentry, enabling Determinate Systems to catch and fix bugs long before they reach your critical systems.
021
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Brad Fitzpatrick @bradfitz.com · 27/04/2026
... also now: Tailscale running on UEFI on AWS EC2. No kernel. No OS. (Tamago) Had to port AWS ENA drivers to Go (from FreeBSD, DPDK, Amazon spec) Also fun: it's using UEFI variables as its ipn.StateStore, so you can reboot the instance and it's still logged in. This was a PITA even with AI.
stack trace showing ENA (Nitro network driver) goroutines alongside Tailscale tsnet ones
2819
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Marco @mcognetta.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Today I launched blunder.clinic, a realistic daily #chess puzzle app! Short 🧵
blunder.clinic
blunder.clinic
realistic daily chess puzzles, dont blunder
85819
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Nick Stevens @nick-stevens.com · 01/03/2026
An old pne, models and render by me, processing by @grahamtg.bsky.social
Colliers Moon landing craft.
2112
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Victoria Rose Richards @aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Combining knitting with my aerial embroidery... I knitted a base, which was then attached and sewn over to create a wild meadow 🌱🌼 the first of hopefully a series of landscape experiments using this method! I wanted to create more variety than my usual cotton bases. Zoom in to see the flowers :)
A small embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial view landscape. The landscape depicts a wild meadows surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool.An embroidered wild meadow surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool and dotted with embroidered flowers.An embroidered wild meadow surrounded by trees - the main central base is knitted from green wool and dotted with embroidered flowers.
11539146
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
amos @fasterthanli.me · 09/02/2026
Landing one of my most ambitious PRs to date — switching vixen's VFS RPC from TCP to SHM. I was in suspense the whole time that the macOS sandbox would get in the way and... nope! Works fine 😌 (This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard) github.com/bearcove/vix...
github.com
macOS VFS: switch mount handshake to SHM sid rendezvous by fasterthanlime · Pull Request #109 · bearcove/vixen
Summary switch macOS VFS mount handshake from stream setup to SHM sid rendezvous wire VFS extension and mount helper to bootstrap SHM via App Group control socket add detailed mount/bootstrap diag...
0322
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Every word of this article is a delight. There are some great anecdotes about working for real tip lines. yarnspinner.dev/blog/hint-li...
yarnspinner.dev
We Pitched a Museum a 1993 Game Hint Line (And They Actually Said Yes) | Yarn Spinner
Early 2025, ACMI, the Australian museum of screen culture, put out a call for comissions for Game Worlds. They wanted to commission microgames from Australian developers, and the brief was deliberatel...
04415
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Bert Hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @berthubert.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
US issues sanctions / visa bans on several EU (former) officials. Amazing stuff, check out the language used. But by all means let us run our governments & vital services on US cloud providers! (let us NOT, to be clear). www.state.gov/releases/off...
state.gov
Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State
The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....
36351
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
European Space Agency @esa.int · 17/12/2025
Galileo 14th launch successful! 🛰️ On 17 December at 05:01 GMT/06:01 CET), Galileo satellites 33-34 were launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on an Ariane 6 rocket. 🔗 esa.int/Applications/Satellite_navigation/Galileo_s_first_Ariane_6_launch_strengthens_European_resilience
Ariane 6 launching from Guiana Space Centre.
515726
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Ah ben tiens on avait pas encore déterré suffisamment de trucs chelous www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
108420
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Andrea Barisani @andreabarisani.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I am switching to ASCII art for CV/portfolio depiction. It's so relaxing and rewarding going in this direction. andrea.bio
2161
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 17/09/2025
Oh hey, STMicro publishing drivers in Rust in the open: github.com/STMicroelect...
github.com
GitHub - STMicroelectronics/st-mems-rust-drivers: Platform-independent drivers for STMicroelectronics MEMS motion and environmental sensors, based on Rust Programming Language
Platform-independent drivers for STMicroelectronics MEMS motion and environmental sensors, based on Rust Programming Language - STMicroelectronics/st-mems-rust-drivers
24610
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 27/08/2025
it's back to school season and I'm doing a sale on my book "building git", a deep dive into a ton of programming topics through the lens of rebuilding a tool you use every day visit shop.jcoglan.com/building-git/ and use voucher code BGSEPT2025 to get 50% off
shop.jcoglan.com
'Building Git' by James Coglan
A deep dive into the internals of the Git version control system and the computer science behind it
24919
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Timmons Roberts @timmonsroberts.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
nytimes.com
Law Firm Pressures Brown University to Erase Research on Anti-Wind Groups
2044202140
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Florent Moncomble @fmoncomble.tract-linguistes.org · 20/08/2025
When you struggle to find the equivalent of a word or phrase in another language, do you sometimes find yourself opening Wikipedia, searching for it then navigating to the "languages" section to get its title in the other language? Well, I do, and I got tired of it, hence: #linguistics #xl8 #xl9n
corpustools.prendrelangue.fr
WikiXl8
Look up Wikipedia pages across languages
810542
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Sad, angry, there really aren't words www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...
scientificamerican.com
Say Goodbye to Juno, NASA’s Groundbreaking Mission to Jupiter
The Juno spacecraft has rewritten the story on Jupiter, the solar system’s undisputed heavyweight
152
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Wenting @wenting.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Have you ever heard about a type of screen called the *liquid powder display*? I didn't until I saw one of those on sale: (Item title says: Brand new Japan imported screen with original packaging and tray, new old stock, no datasheet available, price is 2 CNY each, or about 0.3 USD)
26015
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
no, software is getting aggressively worse and affordances that have always been there have been silently disappearing overnight bc most of our software isn’t versioned any more
1020454
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
_______________________________ @filipamv.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
i’ve argued we should version UIs but we don’t because we’re cowards and hate humans okayfail.com/garden/uis-s...
okayfail.com
UIs Should Be Versioned, Just Like We Version APIs
2218
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Amy Hoy @amyhoy.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
this is a good argument. and the thing is, we used to version UIs, because we used to only do packaged releases. even for web-based software. continuous deployment is anti-user evil. it’s ok for fixing bugs and security issues only.
2347
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 11/07/2025
RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology
techcrunch.com
RealSense spins out of Intel to scale its stereoscopic imaging technology | TechCrunch
RealSense is building vision tech that helps machines like robots and drones navigate and respond to a 3D world.
0132
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Catherine @whitequark.org · 09/07/2025
one of the pipewire maintainers added a way to extract cursor position via gstreamer! gitlab.freedesktop.org/arun/pipewir...
gitlab.freedesktop.org
Making sure you're not a bot!
1172
Reposted by Mischan Toosarani-Hausberger
Catherine @whitequark.org · 28/06/2025
are you a platform/embedded developer? do you need to interact with hardware in a semi-custom manner? would you like to suffer a lot less doing it? if so, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer might be for you. the code below is all you need to build a custom testbench:
async def main():
    assembly = HardwareAssembly()
    assembly.use_voltage({"A": 3.3, "B": 3.3})
    spi_rom_iface = Memory25xInterface(logger, assembly,
        cs="A0", sck="A1", io="A2:5")
    uart_iface = UARTInterface(logger, assembly,
        rx="B0", tx="B1")
    gpio_iface = GPIOInterface(logger, assembly,
        pins="B2")

    async with assembly:
        await spi_rom_iface.qspi.clock.set_frequency(1_000_000)
        await uart_iface.set_baud(115200)

        # Pretend to program the Flash.
        # (Actual production code would likely use `.erase_program(...)` here.)
        await gpio_iface.output(0, True)
        mfg_id, dev_id = await spi_rom_iface.read_manufacturer_long_device_id()
        print(f"flash ID: {mfg_id:02x},{dev_id:04x}")
        data = await spi_rom_iface.fast_read(0x1000, 0x10)
        print(f"program memory: {data.hex()}")

        # Talk to the SoC.
        await gpio_iface.output(0, False)
        await asyncio.sleep(10e-3)
        await uart_iface.write(b"INIT?")
        reply = await uart_iface.read(2)
        print(reply.hex()) # b"OK"
310417