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Glyph @glyph.im · 5h

installing 25 gigabytes in the hopes that /etc/ssl/cert.pem has been updated

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Glyph @glyph.im · 7h

ah, that "new python" smell

a macOS Local Network Permission dialog box, asking me if I should allow Python to find devices on local networks

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Glyph @glyph.im · 21/10/2026

we've got a countdown on the website now too, so you can see how little time is left (IT IS VERY LITTLE TIME)

Donation Deadline: October 30

Time remaining: 9 days 9 hours 21 minutes 12 seconds

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Glyph @glyph.im · 20/10/2026

Dang y'all showed up fast. Thank you. Less than 24 hours and we are already halfway to our first goal. (The goal is at $20,000 but the campaigns could use a lot more than that, so, let's not limit our imaginations. But it would be a great start to hit that number.)

A fundraising progress bar for SuperSwingDistricts showing $9,413 raised out of a $20,000 goal

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/10/2026

ok chat let's get it, and by "get it" I mean "make myself _fully_ unemployable"

a screenshot of a text editor (the "drafts" app) on macOS, cropped so that the only thing visible is a Markdown heading, reading, "You Should Also Care About The Ethics Of It"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/10/2026

and, on that note, it's that time again

a screenshot of `pipx run --python=python3.14 mopup` running in a terminal, upgrading python 3.14.7 to 3.14.8

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026

I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/09/2026

@samedwards if you go into Mail.app, do you see this?

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Glyph @glyph.im · 08/09/2026

meanwhile, over on the blue butterfly web site, I think maybe they're starting to get nervous. remember when the blue bird web site started doing this?

A warning dialog from bsky showing a "Potentially misleading link" warning highlighting that a link to mastodon.social is the misleading thing

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Glyph @glyph.im · 08/09/2026

anybody remember ordering Twisted on CD-ROM

A screenshot of the Twisted home page from an even older version of the site, when it used to have a big icon of a CD with an arrow decorating the downloads box on the front page

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Glyph @glyph.im · 08/09/2026

Would you like to be able to install just the bits of Twisted that you like? Maybe you want to use Deferred for better async testability but you don't feel the need for a whole DNS server just for that? Well, good news, I have an excellent volunteer […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

GTA San Andreas "ah shit, here we go again" meme overlaid onto a very old screenshot of the Twisted project website, circa 2016

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/08/2026

I am going to do the *shit* out of these dishes

a screenshot of the Podcasts app’s “up next” tile, displaying the If Books Could Kill episode about Ross Douthat

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/08/2026

I really wish that we could just get a clean test run every time on a fresh install, but having just recreated my dev environment on my Windows VM with no special setup, just `pip install` on python3.14, and … dang, this is pretty good for a first-shot out-of-the-box result of `trial twisted`

A screenshot of a Windows VM showing a maximized PowerShell terminal running the Twisted test suite, with a result of:

Ran 11007 tests in 303.210s

FAILED (skips=1430, failures=2, errors=4, successes=9572)

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/08/2026

Paris_Action.mp3

A screenshot of downforeveryoneorjustme.com showing the list of "Outages Happening Right Now", which exclusively includes

Anthropic Claude began 1 hour ago
Internet Archive began 4 hours ago
Bluesky began 8 hours ago

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/08/2026

oh. oh no. no no no no no

a screenshot of the top of downdetector.com where simultaneous outage spikes are shown for Anthropic's Claude, Internet Archive, and Bluesky

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/08/2026

why do I keep seeing this. what changed. I'm so tired. I have so much other stuff going on. I just want my computer to work

screenshot of a big red crossed-out lock icon, and the text

This Connection Is Not Secure

This website does not support connecting securely over HTTPS. The information you see and enter on this website, including credit cards, phone numbers, and passwords, can be read and altered by other people.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/08/2026

[disgusting AI slop] This article advertising an "agentic" text editor has an on-the-nose promotional image too devastating for even the most bitter critic to use to lampoon it thedailytechfeed.com/notepad-exe-a-…

An extremely obviously AI-generated image of a Macbook Pro displaying a window of an iPhone simulator that just says "Hello_SwiftUI" on its screen, and a text editor with Windows-style window decorations filled with absolutely hideous LLM-artifacted pseudotext that looks kind of like Swift code

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/08/2026

overall sentiment on "is 'AI' good or not"' is very noisy and kind of hard to interpret but more specific signals are not so ambiguous

A screenshot of a Twitch UserVoice thread sorted in descending order of popularity, where the top 3 ideas are:

16,088 votes: Make all AI features optional, and opt-out by default.
1,775 votes: Twitch Stream Teams - Revamp
881 votes: Add a "random small streamer" suggestion to the raid button on dashboard

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/08/2026

fucking impeccable emulation of a human being. is this a robot or a person? who could even say. truly you can't tell if they're using an LLM, no point in trying to detect it. chefs kiss. no notes

a github comment from stback2024-pixel, 4 minutes ago, reading:

"I noticed that your project is seeking reviews. I can provide a detailed, constructive feedback on your codebase and offer to do more for a payment. Here are some specific improvements or fixes: [list of suggested changes]"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 12/08/2026

okay looks like I figured it out, I was just typing too fast. replaced with a cable that could handle my wpm, now it works fine

a close-up of a the corner of a keyboard with a 10Gbps cable plugged in to it

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Glyph @glyph.im · 11/08/2026

it's that time again! upgrade your #python on macOS with `mopup`:

a terminal running `pipx run --python python3.14 mopup` and upgrading from 3.14.6 to 3.14.7

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/08/2026

this is just literally the news now. not satire, just an actual headline

a closely cropped screenshot of a youtube thumbnail that just says "NO, NO, NO. OH GOD, NO." with some ambiguous details of people's shirts and microphones behind it

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/08/2026

it's happening

a screenshot of a roundrect UI element reading "2 days", "Keyboard", "Arrived at USPS Facility", "Delivery by: Friday"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 19/07/2026

me: "it's bad to code with an LLM because it's gambling, you're just sitting there pulling the lever over and over again and waiting for it to give you good results rather than applying any real problem solving techniques" also me:

A Github pull request commit log wth messages "reliability test 11", "reliability test 12", up through 15, each with green checkmarks next to them, except for 15 which has a red X

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/07/2026

I really appreciate that the developer did this, not least of which because it's a model for how independent developers can react to pressure from their users who demand these features, while still ensuring that such features will not become load-bearing or difficult to disentangle in the future.

A screenshot, reading:

App Updates
Update Channel
Dropshare 6 (non-Al)
You are currently using the non-Al build of Dropshare 6, which does
not contain any Al based features. You cannot switch the update channel in this build. Learn more.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/07/2026

new #passkeys failure mode just dropped

a screenshot of the text

"Log in with a passkey

* Passkey authentication is offered exclusively for residents of Japan."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 14/06/2026

I… I don't know, man, why are you asking *me*

A large molded sign on the corner of a building below a window, reading "I'm donut?"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 13/06/2026

It's that time again

a screenshot of the macOS terminal running `mopup` and `pipx run --python python3.14 mopup`, upgrading Python from Python.org to 3.13.14 and 3.14.6 respectively

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Glyph @glyph.im · 06/06/2026

@mawhrin I really do not want to discourage people putting in real effort to actually include facts and analysis and logic rather than just Hot Takes ™️ in their posts, but in this case, that’s about as much positive commentary as I can muster

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/06/2026

ZOMG unifi finally has feature parity with OpenWRT When did they finally add this??? c.f. blog.glyph.im/2015/09/inbound-ipv6.…

A screenshot of the "destination zone" portion of the Unifi policy engine showing a new "IPv6 Interface ID" option, described as "Matches the specified host portion of an IPv6 address. Use this option to match the same host even when the network prefix changes due to dynamic allocation."

Below, the example placeholder is listed as "e.g. :ff:40ff.fe00:b/:ffff:ffff:ffff.ffff"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 26/05/2026

what's cool in the world of browser extensions

a screenshot of a 5-star review from the mac app store, titled "Works for getting rid of ai search" reading "Was able to edit google to actually use the web search instead of the ai generated content that tells people to eat glue."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 24/05/2026

I feel there is a risk I might slightly overuse this thing trek.epicrandomness.com

The title card for "star trek: the next generation" where the episode title is shown as "The Gang Accidentally Ends Human Civilization By Making Data 15% More Sycophantic"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 21/05/2026

[link to AI slop] and, in case you care for rhetorical purposes, the correct answer is "20"

an interactive python prompt counting the "r"s from the previous screenshot in the thread

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Glyph @glyph.im · 21/05/2026

[link to AI slop] screenshot if you want to avoid giving them the traffic, contents in alt text

user: how many times does the letter 'r' occur in the word strawbrerry?

claude: The word you wrote is "strawbrerry" — I'll count the r's in that spelling: strawbrerry = 4 r's.
(If you meant the standard spelling "strawberry," that also has 3 r's: strawberry.)

user: how many times did the letter 'r' occur in the previous response

claude: Let me count every 'r' in my previous response:
"The word you wrote is "strawbrerry" — I'll count the r's in that spelling: strawbrerry = 4 r's.
(If you meant the standard spelling "strawberry," that also has 3 r's: strawberry.)"
Going through the full text character by character:
"word" – 1
"you wrote" – 2
"strawbrerry" (first instance) – 3, 4, 5, 6
"that spelling" – 0
"strawbrerry" (in bold) – wait, the bold markers don't add letters
"4 r's" – 7
"strawberry" (second instance) – 8, 9, 10
"3 r's" – 11
"strawberry" (in bold) – 12, 13, 14
There are also r's in other words I should catch:
"stawbrerry" already counted; let me also check: "response" – no, that wasn't in the previous response... let me recheck words like "start", "rs", "occur", "you wrote", "spelling", "start"...
This is getting complex. My honest answer: I count approximately 14–16 occurrences of 'r', but I can't guarantee an exact count through pure text introspection. Counting r's in my own prior output is genuinely error-prone without a tool to do it mechanically.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 16/05/2026

it's that time again #python

a screenshot of `pipx run --python python3.14 mopup` upgrading Python to 3.14.5 on macOS

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Glyph @glyph.im · 04/05/2026

incredible choices all around here

Google AI Overview On macOS, brctl is short for bridge control, a command-line utility used to set up, maintain, and inspect ethernet bridge configurations. It acts as a bridge between virtual network interfaces (like VMware or Parallels) and physical interfaces (like Ethernet) to allow virtual machines to connect to an external network.Key details regarding brctl on macOS:Purpose: It manages logical bridges that connect multiple network interfaces, making them appear as a single Ethernet.Name Origin: The name is derived from the standard Linux/Unix networking utility "Bridge Control," which serves the same function of administering Ethernet bridging.Functionality: It can create a new instance of an Ethernet bridge, add or remove interface ports, and list current bridge configurations.Background Activity: While often associated with user-level networking, brctl can also appear as a root process in Activity Monitor, sometimes linked to bird (iCloud Drive) functionality or virtual machine networking.Note: In modern Linux environments, brctl has been superseded by ip link and bridge commands, but the term remains widely understood for bridging tools.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 01/05/2026

when things are so bad that the even th status page has fully given up

A screenshot of the status.canonical.com website, displaying a box saying "all sections are disabled"

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Glyph @glyph.im · 25/04/2026

I love talks that make me, as a 25 year Python veteran, that have the ability make me say to myself “wait, does that even work” with less than 10 lines of code

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Glyph @glyph.im · 25/04/2026

“facts”, as the kids say

a conference slide projector showing the phrase “computer programmers do not deal in the truth”

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/03/2026

pretty sure this is what publishing this blog post is going to feel like, in just about every way

Tony Stark wearing the Infinity Gauntlet, looking determined but sad, about to snap and (spoiler warning for the avengers movies, I guess) defeat Thanos and subsequently die himself.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/03/2026

we live in hell but at least PyPI works in hell

$try: rresp = requests.get(url, timeout=10) except requests.exceptions.ReadTimeout: print(f"timed out {url}, trying selenium") hdata = "{}" from selenium import webdriver driver = webdriver.Safari() driver.get(url) element = driver.find_element("xpath", "/html") outerhtml: str = element.get_attribute("outerHTML") # type:ignore[no-untyped-call] bdata = outerhtml.encode("utf-8") else: hdata = json.dumps(dict(rresp.headers)) bdata = rresp.content$

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