bondolo (@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy)

@five-eights.com Oct 7, 2026, 9:06 PMReposted by @bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine!

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 8:11 PM

Who's deciding what's right and good these days? I have questions about my opinions.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 7, 2026, 5:25 PM

@ianbetteridge I would have also accepted "Well, fuck those guys."

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 6, 2026, 9:36 PM

Ah, I love that after more than 50 years of filesystems allowing spaces in file names the shell languages still have problems with quoting. IMHO, mandatory quoting as a type signifier for path components so that spaces, globbing and whatever else don't confuse the shell is the only reasonable […]

@ds90210.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 9:35 PMReposted by @bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Garak: If you wouldn’t trust their advice then don’t trust their criticism

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 5, 2026, 8:26 PM

A computing platform is not mature until teenagers have built an unauthorized free emulator for it.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Oct 3, 2026, 1:55 AM

It might just be at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass but the ratio of full brimmed hats to caps is now nearly equal. Hats are on the ascendancy!

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 30, 2026, 11:56 PM

More fucking rounded controls in #Firefox 157. UGH!

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 5:42 PM

Well #Homebrew has quickly become completely unusable on Intel #MacOS. Now I have the pain of uninstalling it. Don't waste any further time on this.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 28, 2026, 1:02 AM

Chocolatier has always seemed like a military role to me. Just once I want to hear "They're breaking through our lines, deploy the chocolatiers!"

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 20, 2026, 9:41 PM

Why is the mechanical design of household appliances so unbelievably bad? Every appliance I own seems unfit for purpose; from a clothes dryer that has impossible to clean lint trap to my refrigerator that has a dust pre-filter that is supposed to be cleaned every three months behind a difficult […]

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 17, 2026, 7:23 PM

Many people who have opinions don't deserve them.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 15, 2026, 5:01 AM

I love a book that sends my mind wandering; even when I have reread the same section a couple of times to get through it without being led astray by musings. Is the opposite of boredom; rather an excess of ideas, a surfeit of imagery, or a bounty of allusion that does it. More like synaesthesia […]

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 12, 2026, 2:12 AM

Where will you be when the tokens run out?

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 9, 2026, 2:34 PM

I think I am done with MacOS #Homebrew. While I appreciate their efforts, and have done my part over the years contributing to/updating packages, the project has always seemed out of sync with what I wanted from a package system. A history of annoying changes and decisions, and now the early […]

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 8, 2026, 12:10 AM

My grease trap runneth over.

Photo of a beautifully cooked porchetta on a spit

@electricarchaeo.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 6, 2026, 12:48 PMReposted by @bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

the Adder political cartoon in the globe and mail: apple 1984 vs 2026

left panel, a rendering of the famous 1984 apple commercial, where the woman smashes big brother. right panel, apple ceo licks trump’s boot. at the bottom, a newspaper headline about apple complying with the onomastic vandalism perpetrated against lake ontario.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 6, 2026, 3:35 AM

You can't escape your own conventionality.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 4, 2026, 3:15 PM

For reasons inexplicable to me it is #bandcampFriday and for the first time since 2020 I don't have any albums in my wishlist.

So instead I am going through my collection and clicking on each artist to see what they have released lately.

@bondolo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Sep 3, 2026, 4:35 PM

One of my fundamental evaluations for a "good" build tool is this: The source contains a tool that is built and then used to transform ~100 source files to another form as part of the build for inclusion in the final result. The ease with which the tool allows this; or can't do proper "needs […]