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Fredrik Mellström

@traal.se
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Software developer. I'm into Python, Unix, and Apple and Google products, TV and books, and sometimes hiking. I'm not always here; see: wheretofind.me/@traal

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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 08/08/2026
TIL: To my amazement, GNU awk (gawk) gained CSV support in 5.3.0, Nov 2023. You just use the `--csv`/`-k` flag now! 🤩 www.gnu.org/software/gaw... AWK was one of the first Unix languages I learned well, back in the 1990's. I love that they're still launching major improvements to the language!
gnu.org
Comma Separated Fields (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
Comma Separated Fields (The GNU Awk User’s Guide)
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Anthony Shaw @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I couldn’t work out how to renew my IDA license so I’m using Excel formulas as a disassembler.
Excel disassembly
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 01/05/2026
IBM computer manual from 1979:
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 25/04/2026
This is an interesting observation about a difference in vocabulary between English and the rest of Europe. The same association between debt and guilt also exists in Swedish. Food for thought! 🤔 lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/23/eq...
lucumr.pocoo.org
Equity for Europeans
Equity combines legal fairness, ownership, and upside in one everyday concept.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Branding needs work on this nail salon in Paris.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 14/04/2026
This is like what YouTube was made for. I haven’t smiled this much in a long time. youtu.be/AkNqCJeeC48
youtu.be
This Weird Tandem Bike is WAY BETTER Than You Think
YouTube video by Berm Peak
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Alt18F @alt18f.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
"[The administration's characterization of Direct File] has it completely backwards. It is a calculation that only makes sense if you do not value the time and money of citizens, but regard the government doing anything to help the public as a burden."
donmoynihan.substack.com
What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 10/04/2026
due to recent events I have to reiterate that blip.net is amazing witchcraft
blip.net
Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 09/04/2026
These uv Python skills for coding agents look promising. From @mathspp.com mathspp.com/blog/uv-skills
mathspp.com
uv skills for coding agents
This article shares two skills you can add to your coding agents so they use uv workflows.
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Casey Liss @liss.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Hey thanks, App Store! Americans, Callsheet is your App of the Day! ☺️
apps.apple.com
Get Movie and TV Info in an Instant - App Store
Filled with fun details that film and TV buffs will appreciate (and a handy option to hide spoilers),… Learn more tips and how-tos on the App Store.
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 04/04/2026
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Ricky Mondello @rmondello.com · 01/04/2026
“Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.” is now load-bearing for me.
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guards declares war on Silicon Valley. thenextweb.com/news/iran-ir...
thenextweb.com
Iran's IRGC names 18 US tech firms including Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia as military targets
Iran's Revolutionary Guards declared 18 US tech companies 'legitimate targets,' alleging their AI and cloud platforms enabled assassinations of senior Iranian commanders.
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 29/03/2026
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Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 25/03/2026
A voice of reason. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...
mariozechner.at
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 24/03/2026
Skynet… In the sky! 😳 What could possibly go wrong?
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 19/03/2026
I heard on @marketplace.org yesterday that there's a red yarn shortage, and I have a conspiracy theory about that.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 20/01/2026
This is the best explanation I’ve seen about how coffee cherries are processed. Amazing stuff! youtu.be/iMxBtUi-IbA
youtu.be
The difference between washed and natural coffee EXPLAINED
YouTube video by Roaster Kat
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 14/12/2025
MKBHD shares some behind the scenes and productivity tidbits. Great interview as always by Myke. ☺️
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 30/09/2025
I highly recommend this documentary about PFAS chemicals by Veritasium. It’s kind of a depressing subject, but the documentary itself is very well made and exciting. youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
youtu.be
How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet
YouTube video by Veritasium
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.
yahoo.com
Let’s be clear about what happened to Jimmy Kimmel
Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet.
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Xe @xeiaso.net · 08/07/2025
Oh no it's a SAN failure. hostux.social/@fsfstatus/1...
hostux.social
FSF Out of Band Updates (@fsfstatus@hostux.social)
Most services are still down. Staff is researching what appear they may be hardware issues related to clustered SAN storage. We will update further once staff-members are onsite at the data-center.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 07/07/2025
Probably my most listened music album ever — ”Talisman” by Björn Lynne. Just love to have it on random repeat while I work. 😊 youtube.com/playlist?lis...
youtube.com
Talisman - YouTube
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Trey Hunner @trey.io · 07/07/2025
uv, just, direnv, a tip from a 16 year old post from Brandon Rhodes, and other #Python workflow tips. It's definitely worth the 40 minute runtime.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 11/06/2025
27:35 phrase of the moment: ”Mystery Ribbon of Glyphs” youtube.com/watch?v=Pt3q...
youtube.com
WWDC INTERVIEW: Craig & Joz on Why Siri's Not Ready, AI Vision and iPadOS Shocker!
YouTube video by Tom’s Guide
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Peter W🤓 @wang.social · 11/06/2025
www.reddit.com/r/space/s/g1...
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Federico Viticci @viticci.macstories.net · 09/06/2025
uhm, my mind is blown I got…everything I wanted from iPadOS? www.macstories.net/stories/not-...
macstories.net
Not an iPad Pro Review: Why iPadOS Still Doesn’t Get the Basics Right
Let me cut to the chase: sadly, I don’t have a new iPad Pro to review today on MacStories. I was able to try one in London last week, and, as I wrote, I came away impressed with the hardware. However,...
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Charlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 13/05/2025
Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 08/03/2025
About half the speed of Qualcomm on average, but with much lower worst-case performance in challenging locations with lots of devices and lower reception. Acceptable on the whole, without any showstoppers. A good first attempt!
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 05/03/2025
The Kremlin’s administrative center for North America has really been screwing things up these past few days. 🙄
AI generated image of the White House looking like the Kremlin, with Russian flags.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/02/2025
RNA xkcd.com/3056
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 06/02/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL... Don’t believe him.
youtube.com
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 18/01/2025
Post from March 2023.
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MacStories @macstories.net · 10/01/2025
There's no place on the Internet for the kind of policies Meta implemented this week. MacStories want no part of it, so we’ve left Threads and Instagram. Details on our site: www.macstories.net/stories/macs...
macstories.net
MacStories Won’t Stand for Meta’s Dehumanizing and Harmful Moderation Policies
Just over two years ago, MacStories left Twitter behind. We left when Elon Musk began dismantling the company’s trust and safety infrastructure, allowing hateful speech and harassment on the platform....
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 26/12/2024
Fish Shell rewritten from C++ to Rust... First beta release is out. Pretty amazing work! 😊 fishshell.com/blog/fish-4b/
fishshell.com
fish-shell 4.0b1, now in Rust
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 25/12/2024
Tell an AI to manufacture pocket clips, without sufficient restrictions, and you get the end of the world. It will try to consume the planet and everything on it to reach its objective. An apocalypse of pocket clips.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 05/12/2024
This is interesting, but I see no acknowledgement of the fact that both ChatGPT / Bing and Gemini perform web searches and summarize the search results. ChatGPT even provides citations of the sources. It cuts through much SEO crap too. I’ve heard it’s great for finding good product reviews.
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 27/11/2024
Remembering "Automan" (1983), one of my favourite TV series as a child. youtu.be/6cTJVm805J0
youtu.be
The Origin Story Of Automan: TV’s Forgotten Digital Superhero
YouTube video by DoubleReelTV
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Fredrik Mellström @traal.se · 26/11/2024
My top podcasts 2024. I obviously listen to a lot of ATP and Relay. 😊 atp.fm www.relay.fm
My personal listening statistics for 2024
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Relay @relay.fm · 25/11/2024
Looking for our hosts? Check out this Starter Pack! go.bsky.app/CYCW6jY
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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · 25/11/2024
Please do not put your #Python code _inside_ of your virtual environments. Consider virtual environments: - Disposable - Not relocatable - Contents managed by Python and package installers See the bullet point list at docs.python.org/3/library/ve... if you need official docs backing this up.
docs.python.org
venv — Creation of virtual environments
Source code: Lib/venv/ The venv module supports creating lightweight “virtual environments”, each with their own independent set of Python packages installed in their site directories. A virtual en...
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Michael Kennedy @mkennedy.codes · 20/11/2024
Everyone who just joined and is looking for Python people to connect with, I made a "starter pack" with many of the fun accounts. Add them to your followers list, #python: go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g
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Brett Cannon @snarky.ca · 21/11/2024
There's now enough people from Python here that I have picked up my tradition of calling people out to justify why something related to Python -- and especially packaging -- "sucks" when no reason is given.
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