Lars Jansen

Long uptime used to be bragging rights, screenshots and all. On a Linux server, it can also mean a stack of kernel fixes were installed but never loaded because nobody rebooted. `uname -r` tells you what you're actually running.

HackerTube has 6,454 videos across 150 topics from Hacker News recommendations going back to 2007. Karpathy had Claude extract them from old comments. It shows a frame from halfway through each video instead of the creator's thumbnail. Nice way to escape shocked face clickbait😆

I think the @x algorithm is in a permanent state of existential crisis😆 10 followers a day then 700 followers… wtf.

Norton AntiVirus 2003, with a stethoscope on the label and a note that the CD can be used as an emergency boot disk. Rescue media used to be a physical thing you hoped you wouldn't need, and hoped you'd kept.

Scott Hanselman has wrapped Windows Sandbox so an agent gets a brand-new Windows 11 machine, installs your app, clicks through it, keeps the screenshots and crash logs, and then the whole machine is thrown away. Plenty of agent setups still run on the same laptop that has your SSH keys and browser logins on it. Where does yours get to install things?

In PHP 7, 0 == "abc" was true. Compare a number with a string that isn't numeric and PHP turned the string into a number first, so "abc" became 0. PHP 8 compares them as strings instead, so it's false. Old code that leaned on that quirk didn't throw an error after the upgrade. It just started giving different answers. === would have saved everyone the bother.

I’m looking to #connect with more people on @X sharing their love of: 💪 PC building 💪 Home labs 💪 Web development 💪 Rpi's, Arduinos, ESP32's etc 💪 Internet marketing 💪 3d printing 💪 Hobby electronics and engineering 💪 Building with AI What ya got going on folks?

Another beauty from the basement:) A ripped Quake 3 disc from 2001, with the CD key written on it twice. This is what a backup looked like before Steam, and before anyone trusted a hard drive to keep a game forever😅

Pieter Levels has been showing Claude Code designing furniture, then handing over a bill of materials so you can order the pieces. In software, a bad output fails a test. In furniture, it fails when you sit on it🤣

That French €0.055/GB content tax lasted five days. Adopted 11 to 10 with 35 MPs in the room, then wiped when the Assembly rejected the budget's revenue section 458 to 0. Anyone who hosts or CDNs traffic into France can stop modelling that bill for now. The Senate gets the government's original text, which never included it.

You've just inherited a client's domain. Nobody knows the registrar login, the DNS is hosted by a third company, and the MX records point at a mail host nobody remembers paying for. What do you check before you touch the nameservers?

Look what I found in the basement:) The proper Windows 98 kit: the Getting Started book, the boot floppy, and the Second Edition disc "for PCs without Windows." The floppy says to turn the computer off, put the disk in drive A, then turn it back on and hope the CD-ROM drivers loaded😆 What's the first operating system you installed from physical media?

Asahi Linux is moving all its repositories from MIT to GPLv2 or later. They say that in some cases, in-development code was lifted from their personal forks and published without credit, or rewritten with an LLM to hide where it came from. Their AI contribution ban gets called silly, but the stated reason is legal. Clean-room reverse engineering depends on knowing how the knowledge was obtained, and with an agent you often can't say.

A simple test for any smart device: if the manufacturer switched its servers off tomorrow, would it still do its main job? Which device in your house would fail first?

OMG! Go away for a couple days and now I have X replies anxiety again🤷‍♂️ It's a serious fault but I CAN NOT stand replies to my posts that I haven't at least "Liked" or better yet replied to. I'll catch up again if it kills me💪 Any of you guys have this problem?

I'm looking for more people on X who build things around a full time job. Not necessarily startups. Could be a research project, a weird hardware project, a little SaaS, or something you're teaching yourself. I'm particularly interested in people who only get a few hours a week to work on their ideas. What are you building?

I've been wanting to move my own website off WP and back to plain PHP. Writing the templates doesn't worry me. It's all the little things WordPress already handles that I'll have to replace or rethink. Funny how going back to a simpler stack can become quite a complicated job 😂

Adding email to a web app sounds like a ten minute job. Then you start worrying about bounced messages, rate limits, retries, duplicate notifications, delivery failures and whether the message arrived at all. I spend way more time dealing with email plumbing than I should

Ever had a Linux terminal seem to freeze after hitting Ctrl+S? That can be old XON/XOFF flow control. Ctrl+Q starts it again. If yours still does it and you don't want it, stty -ixon switches the feature off A bit of teletype history still lurking in modern terminals:)