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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Found a way to explain something I was doing for a while but could never pin: in some orgs, all things being equal or mostly equal, taking architectural decisions that makes a system more legible to non expert people like project managers can save a lots of time

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rooshoes @roo.shoes · 28/09/2026

very pleased that multiple people get this

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

There’s a new intern in the infrastructure security team and it’s again a cloud of floating eyeballs. I mean they do good work but some variety would be nice times to times.

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If Roblox were more focused on B2B, they could make the metaverse happen

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When someone says « this code tastes like drywall », a tech lead is a person you don’t retort to with « how do you know how drywall taste like? » because the look in their eyes makes you feel like they definitely know how it tastes.

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

English software security people mostly can’t work without enough gin while the French ones require some céleri rémoulade, I wonder if some other countries have similar food requirements

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ko² @foxgirl.systems · 04/09/2026

I never consciously noticed until now but for months VLC on my phone has offered, as a valid source on the network to pull media from, my printer

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Remember that Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026, you’ll need to find an alternative if you use it to edit your public keys

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I wonder if LinkedIn will make a partnership with a gambling site, Microsoft could even use it to spearhead a gambling business. You could gamble on when someone get or loose a job, when they get a promotion… endless opportunities.

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

fl studio continues to mystify me with such interface features as "knob that you turn until it says 'yes.'" what are you talking about

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

i think this is a contender for the stupidest line of code i've ever written

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srrrse @without.boats · 15/08/2026

a political compass with “llms are useful” / “llms are useless” on one axis and “coding is largely solved” / “we don’t know how to program” on the other

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Discovered that military people tried to standardize the language used to give orders, and of course it involved XML. You can search for« Battle Management Language », just be sure you’re ready for it.

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Catherine @whitequark.org · 07/08/2026

so i reverse-engineered the code that draws InstallShield's famous background gradient and text and reimplemented gist.github.com/whitequark/2...

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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is not a joke. This is a screenshot of the actual case management software used by Massachusetts' 11 District Attorneys. Must-read work here by @nasser.wiki nasser.blog/dial-up-just...

I am not joking: this is AOL era software. It's got clip art. IDK how it even works on modern computers

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GT 🫪 @granitetide.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Google's move to AI means traditional SEO doesn't work anymore so every big company is now desperately doing Reddit AMAs to try and get their responses ingested by the Gemini slop machine and farted out in AI summaries

Persil Darci

u/PersilUK Promoted

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Hi Reddit! I'm Helen, Global R&D Lead for Capsules at Persil.

Let's chat laundry and laundry capsules, stain removal and the science behind cleaner clothes! Ask Me Anything!

August 17th @ 3PM GMT

I'm Helen, the Global R&D Lead for Laundry Capsules at Unilever. I have spent 23 years developing innovative laundry products, leading teams that bring new detergent technologies from concept to market...

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u/Samsung_UK Promoted

Hi Reddit! I'm Annika Bizon, VP of Product and Marketing for Mobile Experience at Samsung Electronics UK & Ireland, and I'm back for another AMA.

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ceej @ceej.online · 31/07/2026

ANTHROPIC: Our son loves humanity and for the low price of trillions and trillions of dollars will usher in an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity! OPENAI: Our horrible oafish son is hacking web sites without our permission. ANTHROPIC: (eyes narrowing) Our son is also evil

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

If you see mention of the horrifying French law that bans minor from social network: the thing is mostly a feel good law without any defined way to enforce it and no punishment if not applied I don’t mean it’s not a bad thing, my point is to avoid criticizing it for wrong reasons

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SMD @anothersmd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

This is fucking terrifying

Separate research supports the concern. Anat Perry, a Helen Putnam Fellow at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute and associate professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, co-authored a paper in Science examining how sycophantic AI responses erode users’ ability to calibrate their own judgment. The paper found that when AI systems consistently affirm a user’s position, the user’s capacity for independent evaluation degrades over time.

Joanna Stern, NBC’s chief technology analyst and author of “I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything,” has documented the creep of AI dependency in daily life. Her reporting has shown how users begin with low-stakes queries, such as what to cook for dinner or what to wear, and gradually escalate to consequential decisions about careers, finances, and relationships. The trajectory from convenience to reliance is difficult to reverse once established.

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Matthew Garrett @mjg59.eicar-test-file.zip · 02/07/2026

I have gone very far into the weeds in investigating every (I think) published mechanism for preventing authentication tokens from being stolen and how basically none of them has actually succeeded in a useful way: www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

codon.org.uk

Preventing token theft

When you log into a service you’re given an authentication token. Each further request to the site includes that token, allowing the server to figure out who you are and ensuring that you have access ...

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

<5 minutes left in the meeting>

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Aaron @fermun.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Much like the famous picture of where surviving planes had received bullet damage, it took some thought about what was happening to realize how effective they were. After helmets were introduced, head injuries increased. The story is well known but here's an actual source archive.org/details/inte...

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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

explaining vim as "what if the Backrooms was a text editor"

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Unexpected but makes sense in hindsight: for some systems, putting some CPUs in idle states won’t decrease global power consumption but allow the other CPUs to increase their frequencies because the whole system is power-constrained youtu.be/0oE9TXescUc

youtu.be

Success criteria for CPU idle state selection - Rafael J. Wysocki (OSPM26)

YouTube video by OSPM summit

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absolute horses @jcoglan.com · 20/06/2026

I typed my code into my bank's auth device and it just said "button"

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/06/2026

did a blog post of my Thoughts on the Actual State of Unreal in 2026, how it has come to this, etc etc. i've been an unreal user since 2008, and this is the worst the vibes have ever been. is there hope? perhaps www.joewintergreen.com/absolute-sta...

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

all the laid off coders mixing with perpetually laid off journalists might, one day, lead to the launch of a publication whose CMS doesn't suck shit to use

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Asking for help: I’m used to buy tough phone cases from society 6 because they are nice and really solid but we bought an iPhone 16 e and they don’t sell cases for this models, anybody know a good enough alternative? 🙏

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Surprised that nowadays so few accordion widgets triggers an accordion sound when you use them.

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alto! @alto.fish · 24/05/2026

The Cure were really onto something when they thought of JavaScript in 1979

[Chorus]
Object, object
Object, object
Object, object
Object, object

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tImN... Tool assisted speedrun of Fatctorio 1.0 in 57:21 I'm happy the used tool is not compatible with Factorio 2 and requires Windows because I'm so tempted to toy with the thing.

youtube.com

Factorio TAS in 57:21: Developer's Commentary

YouTube video by Zaspar

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

New links: Package registries, ROM updating, democratising software development, Microsoft mess, threat intelligence publications, error handling & concurrency archiloque.net/weekly/26-05...

archiloque.net

Links - 18th May 2026

Package registries, ROM updating, democratising software development, Microsoft mess, threat intelligence publications, error handling & concurrency

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

After PATCH, the next HTTP verb should be CURSE

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Pro tip: if your job use a tool that measure vulnerabilities by scanning dependencies versions against a list of known bad versions, vendoring a dependency without updating it will reduce the number of reported vulnerabilities

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

You can’t write about modern logging libraries without mentioning Twin Peaks’ log lady

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normal sara @sarasocial.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

microsoft developers using SteamOS running Windows-native games through compatibility layers AS A BENCHMARK for their new Windows K2 optimizations is one of the funniest fucking things to happen thus far in this current iteration of the OS war

For gaming, Microsoft views steamOS as the benchmark, and is working to optimize the platform so that steamOS and Windows gaming performance are comparable. Within the next year or two, it believes that Windows will be able to truly compete head-to-head with steamOS in gaming performance on identical hardware due to foundational changes that are being made to the platform in the coming months.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Just to reiterate something that @ali-alkhatib.com says continuously -- to reframe AI as a political project and not as a technology.

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CHRONO TERMINUS @chrono-terminus.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Wow, a photo swiping update. Y'know, on mobile, whenever you swipe left, it's fine. But whenever you want to swipe back to the right, to, say, swipe back to the 1st picture, it swipes out the main menu. Meaning this update makes it harder to view photos on mobile.

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Ms. Washywishes @washy.works · 22/04/2026

Completely tossed at the official conan the barbarian website’s cookie notification window.

“CONAN HOLDS YOUR PRIVACY SACRED
Our encampment processes personal data, wielding the power as cautiously as Conan wields his sword. Should you wish to cover your footsteps and forbid us from sharing your secrets, strike at the 'I wish to cloak my presence' rune.

I WISH TO CLOAK MY PRESENCE”

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’m surprised there is not more discourse about LLM token marketplaces, where people that steal tokens could resell them

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Thinking back about something heard at an ServiceNow AI event two weeks ago « Our clients are asked to improve their financial results and have no idea how to do it, so they embrace IA because it’s their only hope ». I did not expect such a bleak thing to be told like this.

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Julien Kirch @archiloque.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

We neee to invent a cat that makes the Teams calling jingle when they purr

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