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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026

People who lack soft skills are going to have a hard time.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Bootstrap 3 looks so good it's actually insane

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's legitimately crazy to me that there are no native, user-friendly applications for viewing and modifying Markdown documents on Linux. I just want to manage some notes, without all the "second brain" or "PKM" stuff attached.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

This could just be me speaking, but I honestly think that as a user of (modern) software, especially for software development, you have to choose blindness to keep your sanity. I don't ever expect my software to fully work and working around many classes of bugs is just an automatic thing for me.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great post. Some classes (file picking, settings/preference saving etc.) get more blindness than others and their mention could help developers avoid these bugs. Not unlike "Falsehoods about ...".

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patak @patak.cat · 28/08/2026

why bother to read what you didn't care to write?

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Is it still traffic if there's always traffic?

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This was such an interesting episode I understood almost nothing

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Friend: Is this Linux? Me: Yeah, unfortunately. Friend: It's kinda ugly...

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Izzy Muerte @izzys.casa · 21/08/2026

erys is an extremely talented software developer btw. Cut its teeth on Quake Engines, learned C++ on the job, worked on the Sin 1 remaster, cares a great deal about code restoration without breaking changes AND on top of all of that is extremely competent with CMake! (and I don't say that lightly!!)

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Linux User: Why is the cup leaking?

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 23/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Science Fiction Writer: The cup is a crystalline super computer and the liquid is hyperintelligent, they want to know why humanity should be allowed to exist, you have 30 minutes to respond and the answer must be danced by a cat

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've been noticing this too. Maybe it's the lack of trust combined with the usual editorialization. You mention the Meta Face ID thing below, and whatever Meta might say, it's difficult to trust their statements as truth since they've lied plenty before. But that's no excuse to mislead in a title

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

for a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? a bunch of twist ties

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 07/08/2026

It’s very clear by now that if LLMs are not improving your software quality it’s either a revealed preference (yours or your org’s) for more volume vs more quality, or a skill issue. The level of testing and review they are enabling in the Go cryptography standard library is amazing.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Disappointing. Their pricing was killer- it costed me only 67 cents to use 50 million tokens Really hope they keep allowing payment by custom dollar amounts instead of forcing subscriptions

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yeah while I personally don't mind a gradient or smooth colors, I rarely see it enhance visibility. But I don't think those elements are the issue, I think its the mindset that prioritizes UI instead of UX.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Not saying it's impossible for good-looking software to be usable, just take a look at KDE Plasma, the best desktop environment on planet earth by an order of magnitude.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Software that "looks worse" is so much easier to use because the high contrast and harsh colors make it so much easier to identify where buttons, panels, and sections both start and end. Interfaces are meant to be used, not looked at.

Photograph of a "Recover files" dialog with old-style UI. Think light-grey buttons with black borders and harsh, dark, shadows.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

The explosion of "unique" TLDs is so crazy to me. Is there a reasonable justification for this? I think that so many of these should get "unassigned", like ".md" and ".google".

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Maybe you read it already but the original Frankenstein was pretty cool

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

$5 because I almost never screwdrivers

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I've been wanting to make replies like that 😆😅

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Wow Hetzner used to be so cheap... Today their lowest plan is $6.50 per month... Still great value, but a $2.50 per month plan would be nice.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I see, I didn't know Zig's comptime is close to dependent types, and the way it does I/O is close to an effects system, but not actually there. Thank you for sharing, the way you describe it, it sounds like a travesty to me

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

That makes a lot of sense, thank you for the contex.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I can understand implementing similar lang features or design patterns when actually writing in the lang, but I think your point is that what's the point if its just so similar and "new lang features" do not cause a paradigm shift in where/how things can be computed, its just for a specific area?

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Would you happen to know of any good write-ups that goes deep into an example of this? Hearing people say this more and more

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Wading through the trenches of prehistoric GitHub and I'm surprised to see so much stuff written in Ruby. This was an era truly before my time...

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Do I see a @github.com Actions fork of StepMania? 👀

Screenshot of GitHub project "actions/itgmania212121".

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Are sponsored posts on MDN a recent thing?! I was looking for web performance resources and MDN had a post, but it ended up being written by (and advertises) DebugBear.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I just saw a CSS framework that describes itself as a "'no build' TailwindCSS"... We've truly come full circle...

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

I miss this era of software... :(

Screenshot of https://ci.testling.com. Has very nice hand-drawn pictures and very cozy old-time feel.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I just checked and there's an info page but I still think it's unacceptable

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

How is a person supposed to read all of stty's settings on Ubuntu 26? `man stty` shows uutils's man page, which is almost empty unlike GNU coreutils'. Certainly not my first issue with this... I think the rollout of uutils is reckless and premature...

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

I wish that I began using @vivaldi.com sooner... It is SO GOOD!

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Using CPAN is so wild. I can't seem to do anything without installing a bunch of random modules: Term::ReadKey, Term::ReadLine::Perl, CPAN::DistnameInfo, and Text::Levenshtein::Damerau::XS!

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

The word ragebaiting is so funny to me because our geneneration had a word for that. It's called trolling

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

@npmjs.bsky.social Am I missing something here? I've used Stratum Authenticator (Android) successfully with PyPi and countless other websites for 2FA.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Does NPM no longer allow for using an authenticator app as a 2FA method??? I just cancelled my existing one to replace it immediately (old phone broke), but now I'm not sure what to do... If there is a short cooldown period, I should know about it.

Screenshot of npmjs.com website showing "security key" as the only 2FA method.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I'm not complaining about Tailscale, but my phone is dead right now so I can't ssh into my own computer. It's unfortunate.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

The first rule of memory safety in C is that you don't talk about memory safety in C.

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I'm looking up `intmax_t` and the first result is a post by the amazing @thephd.dev - I guess it's time to buckle up I'm in for a wild ride!

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Edwin Kofler @hyperupcall.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Am I imagining things or was GitKraken from 10 years ago so much higher quality? I don't remember it being an electron app and having many of those bugs associated with being an electron app. The UI and UX also have a lot of paper cuts.

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