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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 11/11/2025

Windows 7 traffic on my site has dramatically increased over the past 3 months. This was widely reported in the news, and frequently attributed as a statscounter glitch. But I don't use statscounter, and my Windows 7 traffic is still increasing. Why? A thread;

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 10/05/2025

As I correctly predicted, fare evasion increased. The MBTA says that “a loss of $30m threatens a lifeline,” and that “every dollar is important to us.” If that really was so, you wouldn’t have spent $1b to lose an additional $30m each year forever. Free the fucking T. boehs.org/node/free-th...

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 10/03/2025

There’s something oddly pleasing about alligator cables and nobody is talking about it

A collection of multi-colored alligator clips attached to wires, arranged in a tangled manner.

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 20/02/2025

This oddly terrifying Strava GPS Heatmap at 0,0

6 outer rings. In the bottom right and top left there is a teardrop shape made out of lines. To the right there is a single line extended onward forever. To the top right, there are many extending in various directions. Around the figure, faint outlines can be seen

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 16/01/2025

I’ve just released the first version of Maculate for iOS. If you couldn’t tell from the name, Mac support came first. Maculate is a native frontend for Qalculate. It’s a different sort of calculator, purpose built for more practical calculations. apps.apple.com/us/app/macul...

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 16/01/2025

You know you’re in deep when

An screenshot of an outdated windows os. Four notepad windows are open, displaying python code. In the bottom right corner, there’s a webcam, with a man who looks like a mad scientist

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 15/01/2025

womp womp silly #mbta overestimated the revenue from their fares in 2023 by $100 million (474.3 vs 376.4) MBTA 'barely treading water', faces $700 million dollar deficit for 2026, has 11 billion in unfunded projects. The shiny new $935 million fare modernization program steams ahead.

A graph showing a covid resurgence to around 20% of revenue via fares, based on projections

A graph showing a covid resurgence to around only 16% of revenue via fares.

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 14/01/2025

Gen Z will see this and go hell yeah

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 05/01/2025

Some Wikipedia editor really wrote all this out

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 04/01/2025

MY NAME IS GONE FROM MY WEBSITE it is the cache's fault i swear I MISS MY NAME PLEASE CLOUDFLARE GIVE ME MY NAME BACK

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 09/12/2024

A mussel has been donated to the library fishtank:

A google form to pick a name. Options are:

- Arnold Schwarzenegger
- Seashell Silverstein
- Anabolic Steroid
- Megatron
- Galvanized Square Steel
- Chowder
- Frank Ocean
- Gluteus Maximus
- Intel Core 19-14900k
- Grape
- BMW Individual M760Li xDrive Model V12 Excellence
- Muss L.
- Aristotle
- Mussel McMussel-Face

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 02/12/2024

Oy sorry last thing I’ll send, this insane “fact check” from the New York Times. Why the hell do they feel the need to correct him on the one thing he’s right about

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 01/12/2024

I think we should stop measuring javascript bundle sizes in bytes. instead, we should do it in grams. like 'my website is 5 kilograms of code' So like, print out the code in times new roman, double spaced, 12pt font, and then measure the weight on the paper. like how they do it at twit.

twitter employee holds stack of papers. the code has been printed in colour on them.

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 30/11/2024

Sorry, what I'm saying (and I could be wrong), is that the built `libqalculate.a` is *assuming* that GMP and MPFR will be provided dynamically even when I change to `pkgs.pkgsStatic.xxx` in github.com/toastclub/ma... But to answer your question, its inside of `Qalculate`

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 29/11/2024

I sure wish you were around! I think its believable that the manual signing isn't needed, but as I'm sure you know XCode error messages can be very misleading. I'll try removing the signing bit, at one point the errors seemed to suggest that it was needed. (at. video is ex. of misleading error) 1/?

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 29/11/2024

Its fully open source over here: github.com/toastclub/maculate [github.com/toastclub/maculate] You would not believe the amount of suffering involved in getting C++ libraries working inside of XCode. For your enjoyment, I've attached a couple images.

A series of conversations with ChatGPT about codesigning and sandboxes and dylibs and stuff. In the middle, I ask if I'm smart

A whole page of search history on this matter

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Evan Boehs @boehs.org · 29/11/2024

I just wanted to share that I've made my very own #macOS app... a... calculator! It uses Qalculate behind the scenes. It can't graph or do currency conversions yet, nor is there an iOS version (yet), but what it can do is pretty slick. apps.apple.com/us/app/macul...

A calculator, calculating the newtons of attraction between earth and mars, converting mb/s to bytes per hour, inferring that ohms * amps = volts, doing math with time, finding the greatest common divisor of two formulas in terms of x, expanding an equation, factorizing an equation, propagating uncertainty, solving for x, converting to binary, converting to roman numerals, differentiating, integrating (shows warning about division by zero)

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