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> 9007199254740991 unreleased commits on series/0.25 since v1.0.0-M38 The next GitHub outage is going to be me clicking the "generate release notes" button. Sorry in advance.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 5h

@KrissyKat My wife and I met our first night in one of Ashton's decades old, "temporary" two-floor buildings. Before moving in, we had to sign a waiver that promised we wouldn't lick the lead-painted walls. I miss it.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 8h

The new hygienist is pretty cool.

A dog's snout getting petted by the hand of someone in a dental chair wearing a bib.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 8h

Dentist: Are you feeling numb? Me: For the last decade or so. I guess she meant my mouth, specifically.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17h

Conventional commits aren't reliable for semver automation, don't result in good release notes, and carry a faint stench of agent. Write your commit summaries for people.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 29/09/2026

I called a brazenly offside forward a scrutinee at soccer practice tonight, marking the word's first use outside the Scala compiler.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 27/09/2026

My thoughts tonight are with the casual concertgoer who saw Beethoven on the program, bought tickets, and got Stravinsky in the second half. Both were fabulous. #IndySymphony

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 24/09/2026

There should be a name for a run where you suddenly regain your former pace, and realize the struggles over the last several weeks were not the irreversible decline into old age, but just a summer that was too damn humid. It is chilly and gray and I feel alive again.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 21/09/2026

I wasn't sure whether to say "platitudinal" or "platitudinous" or if I made both up. They're both in Merriam-Webster, along with my new favorite adverb, "platitudinously."

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 19/09/2026

@oscarmlage My mistake was using Forgejo's feature to run that on a timer, and not something more aggressive to prune as it reaches a certain size.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 19/09/2026

@oscarmlage Scrapers slammed the archive endpoint and generated huge tarballs locally. Most of the things that do that abusively get intercepted by Iocaine, and a daily cron job cleans up the rest. Something broke through and filled my disk before the maintenance job could run.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 19/09/2026

My Forgejo instance is down for a rethink. I have once again lost the upper hand in the anti-scraper arms race and lost 180GB of disk space while I slept. It wasn't even an adequate sleep. Remember when open source was a communal act of learning instead of a stubborn act of defiance?

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17/09/2026

@brian I had the same disappointment a couple weeks ago. Try lower humidity next week, and I bet we'll have a bit more success.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17/09/2026

The locality domain pursuit has hit a most unfortunate snag. > You will need to register as a legal organization or should already have an organization. > > Unfortunately, we do not have a policy yet set in place for these domain to be registered for personal use. > > We may revisit the […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 16/09/2026

I heard back on the locality domain. They will do it if I send a notarized letter on my organization's official letterhead. I'm not an organization, but I can dust off LaTeX to make a letterhead to behold, and I know a notary public. The quest continues.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 16/09/2026

Deleted a couple cantankerous posts in favor of positive action: I have archived three http4s repositories and will archive 7 more in 30 days unless someone else steps forward. This is a direct consequence of AI security advisories. The surface area will continue to contract until […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 15/09/2026

"Deathslop" should have instead been a music genre I ignore.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 12/09/2026

[Indianapolis HVAC recommendations?] @DazeEnd That's who we've been with for years. To their credit, I get quick service. To their discredit, I need it often.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 12/09/2026

[Indianapolis HVAC recommendations?] My air conditioner survived multiple heat waves this summer, but failed between two, less than 48 hours after a maintenance tuneup. Had a similar experience with the furnace. Who has an HVAC company in #Indianapolis that they like?

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 10/09/2026

Trying to register a fourth-level "locality" .us domain. I see no evidence Indianapolis has had one since 2007, but we've got 900,000 people, and I think at least one of us ought to have a website. Stay tuned. #Indianapolis #Indiana #IndieWeb

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 08/09/2026

There's a fork late in the morning walk path, and I let my coonhound decide whether we go left or right. Sometimes she gets confused and gets her leash wrapped around a tree. This morning she confidently plowed forward and stuck her nose in a pile of poo. This ritual helps prepare me for another […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 08/09/2026

@KrissyKat I used to pass the time on the drive to my grandparents' marking off license plates in the table of contents of my road atlas. I wish I could tell that kid in the backseat he'd someday see a Bahamas plate in the parking lot at Menards.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 07/09/2026

Up until 2am the night before Labor Day preparing security releases and barbecue. Those who pointed their Slop-o-Matic 2000™ at me will receive credit in the CVEs but are ineligible for my smoked salmon.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 06/09/2026

@stephenjudkins.bsky.social This puts into perspective that time we dynamited a beached whale.

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Ben Zanin @gnomon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Every time I choose to upgrade emacs - and it IS a choice, I'd be well served by the project still even if I ran a version literally years behind current - it runs faster, requires less memory, comes with better documentation, includes thoughtfully designed features *which I get to learn about […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 02/09/2026

I've been up late the last three nights triaging security advisories. I received eight more in the last hour. I don't review standard PRs anymore, and now functionality is going to start getting cut. github.com/http4s/http4s/discussion… The most sure way to secure something is to […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

@bodil I have a family plan on 1Password, and a Proton subscription from just before that got gross. It may be about time to migrate back to post-it notes.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

Mentioned a former job with a large team in Dublin, which I shall henceforth refer to as working at the Craicer Barrel.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

The assertion here is that a license can be changed by removing contributions whose git blame on HEAD points to a non-consenting author. Ridiculous. You could launder an entire file with typo fixes and whitespace by that standard. The maintainer then replaces the reverted code with a […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

@benjamineskola I didn't write the hard part of that one, but I was happy to rescue it from Stack Overflow!

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

Since enabling `completion-eager-update` in Emacs 31, I've been mercilessly dinged during non-strict completions. Try this: ``` (define-advice minibuffer-completion-help (:around (orig-fn &rest args) suppress-ding) "Silence the bell during minibuffer completions that may not be strict." […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 31/08/2026

I built a reputation for patiently in nurturing new contributors in open source, back when new contributors tended to be interested in the project. I can swing my banhammer today, but a few dozen other projects will merge their slop, they'll get their GitHub greenies, and there'll be a new […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 30/08/2026

I'm at the art museum tonight, and guess what's playing once it gets dark.

Big screen at at amphitheatre. There are trees behind the screen. It is dusk, with orange peaking behind the trees and below the clouds.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 28/08/2026

A colleague wondered if he is safer from phishing attacks by not updating his LinkedIn for a few years. I think he just invented the resume cooldown period.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 27/08/2026

I remember `scalaz.\/`, which was in many ways nicer than `Either`. My first contribution to Cats was the short-lived `cats.data.Xor`. It didn't survive to 1.0, because having multiple representations of a foundational type was worse than standardizing on the lesser. Here we go again […]

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 26/08/2026

A key difference between me now and me 25 years ago is that now I'm compiling Emacs at 6:30am because I'm up early instead of compiling Emacs at 6:30am because I'm up late.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 24/08/2026

If the IndieWeb is punk, writing a manifesto with Claude is Good Charlotte.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 23/08/2026

Always check the water bucket for guppy fry before watering the house plants.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 21/08/2026

Bruce Springsteen's "Radio Nowhere" from 2007 is about the alienating experience of software development in 2026.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17/08/2026

@cks Does this sequence help? The first to reactivate the region (if you haven't moved), and the second to turn it back into a rectangle: C-x C-x ;; exchange-point-and-mark C-x SPC ;; rectangle-mark-mode

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17/08/2026

GitHub appears to be entering its uptime window for the day. Cancel your meetings and push while the pushin's good.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 17/08/2026

Reading about wildfires around the globe while the local river crests at historic levels.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 15/08/2026

As the weather guy for a soccer league in Indiana, I've been missing the balloons we used to launch over the Great Plains. It's not just the weather that's getting worse: it's also our ability to forecast it.

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`git blame`, or as they say in france, `g'accuse`

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 09/08/2026

@stephenjudkins.bsky.social The lieutenant governor posted again and I'm ashamed of the part that says "Indiana?"

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 08/08/2026

For HTML Day 2026: a tasting menu, assembling as wide an array of HTML elements as practical into a single page. Intended as a test bed for your base CSS rules. tasting-menu.rossabaker.com #HtmlDay #Html #IndieWeb

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 06/08/2026

The school's new bus app has animated raindrops falling onto the map. What it does not have is the location of the bus. Also, it is not raining.

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Ross A. Baker @rossabaker.com · 06/08/2026

I was the guitarist of a band called the Damn Pigeons in high school. We had no songs, talent, or transportation to even all meet together at once. But our first album would have been called "Don't Shit on my Sidewalk" and it would have been fucking rad.

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