wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 25/09/2026cin cin 🥂 (granted, this was two weeks ago but i'm no longer in 🇮🇹) 011
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 23/09/2026in the mean time, this postcss polyfill lets one use it today: github.com/csstools/pos... (open-props also ships a set of them) 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 17/09/2026leuk gerelateerd weetje: de nederlandstalige en franstalige naam van de belgische stad rijsel / lille zien er nogal verschillend uit en lijken daardoor ongerelateerd, maar in beide talen is de naam een verbastering van ‘op/bij het eiland’ 160
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/09/2026what's better than one bling-bling church organ? another bling-bling organ opposite to it! 💖 i'm imagining virtuoso improv battles taking place here 😎 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 13/09/2026🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸😮 accidentally noticed this cheerful detail. thank you, dear sculptor from times long past 🙃 001
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 05/09/2026my ‘seat’, a few days ago. best bed in the train obviously, though not really my best night's sleep ever… understatement of the year 🙃 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social 👋🏼 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 31/08/2026snarky puppy concert last night, great musicianship as always #🎶 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 30/08/2026snarky puppy 🎶 concert tonight! arrived in groningen, found a piano 🎹 in the hotel, played ‘drift’. tonight's version will certainly not be solo piano though 🙃 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 24/08/2026‘her daughter, claude, was made of less stern stuff’ 'twas true in the mediæval age, and it's still true in the age of lying plagiarism machines 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 22/08/2026if you care mostly about file system access, bwrap can restrict an agent to a project dir, with some additional read-only mounts for having all your tools (e.g. python installs) available as usual. very low friction in practice. my wrapper for complex bwrap cmdlines: github.com/wbolster/dot... 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 04/08/2026but hiphop also used tr808 drum machines sold cheaply in pawn shops 🙃 (and not sold cheaply at all these days 💸) 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 04/08/2026ehm, to be clear, the correct phrasing is ‘it really ties the room together’ 010
Reposted by wouter bolsterleeBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Technology is cool, too bad they made it evil 344743899
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 31/07/2026the year is 2026. copying a file over the network makes the cpu spike and the mouse cursor stutter. this only happens on my macbook (linux win are fine). turns out that apple apparently doesn't do hardware offloading for the very common ethernet chip in my high end startech thunderbolt dock. 🤐 160
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 30/07/2026i agree. but the map on the left is also lacking, and copy-pasting a quick web search for ‘africa map’ would still show incompetence. stylistic shape simplifications are fine, but where are the gambia, djibouti, lesotho, eswatini, south sudan? (and various small surrounding islands but ok) 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/07/2026kom op zeg, hoor je jezelf praten? slapper dan slap dit. 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/07/2026daar had doctorow recent een prikkelend essay over pluralistic.net/2026/07/08/w... 020
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/07/2026🤩 ooh i like that shiny flycheck-annotate-mode. however it subtly breaks next-line (extra stop before continuing), and completely breaks navigation using evil-next-visual-line (can't move past the error at all! likely b/c point can not be past eol in evil-mode). bug or something broken at my side? 100
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 19/07/2026sleep is but one factor. there's also salience, tolerance, etc. attention capture with goodies such as ‘free’ upgrades/resets as long as you engage is a dark pattern designed to get people hooked. not here to argue with you, but maybe sleep on it for a bit 🙃 see e.g. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 19/07/2026👋🏼 just an internet rando who stumbled upon your blog, thought exactly the same, clicked the 🦋 link to see if others told you this… turns out yes. seems you trigger on the word ‘gambling’, but have you considered it's ‘addiction’ that should worry you? (cynical take: this is intentionally engineered) 100
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 15/07/2026all good so far, but then… i'm not doing anything weird (i believe 😅) 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 14/07/2026well, the good news is that today i uncoded various trivial ‘from_svcs()’ classmethod alternate constructors all over the place, and replaced each with a single ‘autowire()’ call… almost completely red diff, just as i like it 🙃 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/07/2026🔡🤓 underappreciated letter post: ‘eng’ ŋ, capital Ŋ, #unicode U+014A U+014B, short for ‘ng’, very compact and readable once you get the haŋ of it! (only for the ‘ng’ sound, e.g. not for pan·gram) bonus fun: dot above to shorten ‘‐ing’ to ŋ̇, e.g. talkŋ̇, beŋ̇ #lingsky en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eng_(le... 110
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/07/2026‘talk is cheap, show me the code’ was a proxy: it implied that an idea was conceptually thought through, proven to be technically feasible, had a clear relation to existing architecture, etc. now that (clanking out) code is ‘cheap’, that's still true, but apparently easy to forget. *yells at cloud* 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 01/07/2026well yeah okay cool @eurovision.tv but don't forget to kick israel out first otherwise i still won't watch #eurovision 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 29/06/2026ah wow someone actually built it: the ‘#ai → 💩’ enshittifier browser extensionenshittifier.wells.eeEnshittifier — replace AI with 💩The web is drowning in AI. We replace it with 💩. In your browser. In your fonts. 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 25/06/2026rustedpy/result (a library with a Result type for #python) is no more. it was an interesting experiment, but ultimately unsuccessful. rip 🪦 as a (former) co-maintainer, i've just closed all issues and pull requests, and archived the repo: github.com/rustedpy/res...github.comProject Status: UNMAINTAINED · Issue #201 · rustedpy/resultHi everyone, I've been meaning to write this for a long time. As can be noticed from the queue of PRs and unanswered issues, this project is no longer receiving the attention and maintenance it nee... 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 17/06/2026technische glitch ergens in de tool die statistiekjes verzamelt gok ik. dit adres: nl.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml... … is een interne naam voor de pagina met een duidelijker adres: nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederland 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 17/06/2026this needs settling, so here goes: 📣 ‘zee stud’ is the the correct way to pronounce zstd (zstandard) ❌️ zed standard (boring, too long) ❌️ zee standard (same, but with a german accent) ❌️ zed es tee dee (a std?! yuck) ❌️ zee es tee dee (worse, a german-sounding disease) ✅️zee stud (short, easy)en.wikipedia.orgzstd - Wikipedia 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 12/06/2026👀 ah yes that would be useful! *click* subscribe to ticket 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 10/06/2026is #unicode numerology a thing? i believe i may be on to something: ☔ + 1 = ☕ (U+2614 UMBRELLA WITH RAIN DROPS + 1 = U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE) 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 09/06/2026tending dotfiles is essentially gardening for nerds 🏡 🤓 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 09/06/2026ja maar HOE dan? tegen verkeer in, parkeerstrook, paaltjes, fietspad, dan pas bosjes en hek? 🤯 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/06/2026let's see how many minutes it takes until @npmx.dev starts showing useful info about the new allowScripts field 🙃️ 140
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 08/06/2026woohoo, good news for #javascript #security: it seems like npm will make install scripts opt-in! rfc got merged just now: github.com/npm/rfcs/blo...github.com 130
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 03/06/2026😫 computer says no today: browser has wrong fonts, no text in terminal, emacs segfaults… with a fonts related stack trace. 💡 culprit seems fontconfig: gitlab.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/f... requires running `fc-cache -fv`. btw i use #archlinux so maybe i am just among the first to suffer?😬 010
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 24/05/2026oh, bigme kende ik nog niet. het internet lijkt toch iets enthousiaster over onyx boox op het eerste gezicht 000
wouter bolsterlee @wbolster.nl · 20/05/2026jia tanstack really? can't believe i am the first one to make this terrible joke. well, here you have it.🥁 ba dum tish #javascript #security 020
Reposted by wouter bolsterleeBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/04/2026It really is just a compliment machine, made by and for guys who weren't getting compliments anymore. 454724293