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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

my next video script is done but at what price

1 hour, 9 minutes and 58 seconds Speaking Time according to iA Writer

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

ai bro in front of squared paper leering at a the latest ai hot slop github url the mr beast face du jour?

two video thumbnails doing what the post says

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@glyph the output is almost cute; one could think it's a scrappy open source project and not a trillion dollar company talking to me

Console output:

❯ sudo systemextensionsctl uninstall W5W395V82Y com.nordvpn.macos.Shield
Password:
At this time, this tool cannot be used if System Integrity Protection is enabled.
This limitation will be removed in the near future.
Please remember to re-enable System Integrity Protection!

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@karmalakas it's not “free free”; it's a perk from my bank account. if web scraping is their main business, I understand this peak dumb email much better. do you have any sources for that?

an email with the subject “Why you should never turn off your VPN” with the body being dumber than the subject line

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly update builds failed due to intersphinx 😬)

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

love reading email They used to sign it as “agent on behalf of X” but I guess the reply ratio sucked. Is there a Pangram for GitHub with FOSS subsidy?

Pangram classifying an email I got as 100% slop.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Coming back from an e-bike tour, I wonder how many people bounced off bicycles not because it’s too much effort, but because modern saddles are so incredibly uncomfortable to a normie and the default answer by cyclists is “git gud” while bad-mouthing saddles […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A modern bicycle saddle. Narrow and hard.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

no slop, just Negroni on the beach I don’t want back

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

God everyone told me I’m too late to go to Albania, but it’s still SO much fun and unspoiled. Today while walking the Berati castle I walked off main routes and got intercepted by a grandma who dragged me into her beautiful house and force-fed me cake and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me drinking Turkish coffee from a tiny cup with a huge clothes peg in the background.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

github working really hard on getting rid of all the pesky nines

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and Richard’s learnings I know on what team I want to be and whose software I want to use www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_qzqY1bb7I

a slide from Richard Hipp’s “Reliability Lessons From SQLite” talk enumerating:

What Richard Has Learned

• Testability must be a design objective
• 100% MC/DC testing works
• sizeof(tests_cases) >= 10*sizeof(code)
• Approx 10-20% of code used only for testing
• Clear, concise documentation
• Expect to spend most of your time testing
• Good version control - situational awareness

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

This is a pretty good summary of how I think about static types myself. "Types allow moving obligations around." is also a great practical distillation. Reminds me of epiphanies around error handling and transaction management. Asking yourself "whose […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

screenshot of a slide saying:

Key Idea 3

Pick the simplest representation that allows writing
panic(“this shouldn’t happen”)
as little as possible.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

wow, got one of these on archive.ph linked from www.mgaudet.ca/blog/2024/12/30/memo… has anybody figured out how that's possible?

fake verification dialogue that makes you run a `curl | bash`

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

tfw your friends ( @ambv) take killer photos of you and then share them with you as memes

Photo of me, PelleK and David Seddon at EP 2026, over my laptop with a meme text:

Now watch, I told the slop PR troll to go fuck himself

Let’s see if he does

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2026

find yourself a sworn enemy that goes above and beyond 🖤

Me and judy2k who made me an offer enemiship bracelet saying “Hyneck [sic] sucks”

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2026

@bitprophet no jury will convict us if we give @treyhunner a wedgie the next time we see him

map with a point that is too close to borders

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2026

me walking around Copenhagen minding my own business

A storefront in Copenhagen with a huge FICK sign

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

Looks like fear-mongering ain’t a viable long-term marketing strategy

The Claude app with Fable 5 marked as unavailable

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

WhatsApp for macOS had a broken reaction icon for several releases now and I wonder how much slop is piled on itself so they can't fix such an obvious visual glitch

screenshot from macOS WhatsApp with the outer circle being too big and the inner icon misaligned in the lower left

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

cursed TIL of the day: posix_spawn is a fork() and exec() in a trenchcoat lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1076018/e741…

from the posix_span man page at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html:

fork() step
Since glibc 2.24, the posix_spawn() function commences by calling
clone(2) with CLONE_VM and CLONE_VFORK flags. Older
implementations use fork(2), or possibly vfork(2) [...]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/05/2026

Everything comes to an end; even #PyConUS I hope my next year will be marked by more active participation given the utter madness my past 12 months were. But I’m grateful I get to see my US friends at least once per year despite _gesticulates at everything_ […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026

How to ruin the lives of a whole room in one slide. #PyConUS

Arie Bovenberg’s slide demonstrating keming

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

peeking over @simon’s shoulder shows exactly what you’d expect to see

Simon working on his computer with a bike-riding pelican front and center

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/05/2026

can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

big tech org charts by Manu Cornet

https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

i would have a lot more sympathy for this graph if 99% of github's blog posts weren't boosting the very thing that causes it

three graphs showing exponential growth in pull requests, commits, and new repos per month

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

@chrisjrn Amarone, but stronger! It’s a desert wine based on a wine that’s already lowkey a dessert wine

A bottle of Recioto della Valpolicella 2011

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

I knew everything is bigger in Texas, but I didn’t expect to be served a five-shot flat white. Pretty sure that classifies as a weapon in some states. “This should get you thru the day.” #jetLag

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

*me working for a year on a stupid docker video*

Hayao Miyazaki saying “I want to make a film that won’t shame me.”

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2026

Watching crime happening in real time

Emails apparently from from Ali Abdaal. Three of them urging me to click a link to get free tokens, one urging me to delete an email urging me to click a link.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

wish there was a "fuck this guy and never allow them to report anything again” option (c.f. blog.yossarian.net/2022/12/28/ReDoS…)

dismissal of a ReDoS “vulnerability” saying “ReDoS reports are only DoS against maintainers”

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