All of you who are stressing about Mutt/NeoMutt dropping off precipitously in the graphs, that's because at some point it stopped advertising itself in the headers. Here's another graph where I excluded patches (and thus git-send-email/quilt/most of b4) -- and included clients that don't identify themselves via User-Agent or X-Mailer headers. You will notice the direct relationship between the "Mutt" bar shrinking and the "unknown" bar expanding starting with 2020. It's safe to say that most of the "unknown" in recent years is Mutt/NeoMutt clients.

Lastly, 25 years of nerdiest mail clients ON ERF.

This one shows just people responding, deliberately not patch submissions (because Greg's and Sasha's stable patchbombs just dwarf everyone).

So, these are the people who are hitting "Reply All", and it's not even the full picture, because it only includes the LKML.

OH NO, I NERDED.

As of May-June, fully 25% of all patches posted to the LKML are sent with b4.

Yikes. :)

No, I don't want to "convert to table". No, I don't want "smart chips". Stop shoiving things down my throat that I don't want. I am happy with plain old boring cells and formulas.

I no longer recommend Migadu.

Kernel Recipes 2026 registration will open on June 19. We will start publishing the conference schedule in coming days.

Stay tuned! #kr2026

Those of you who have never had a visual migraine, it looks like an oscillating rainbow arc or irregular circle that starts small and then spreads outwards through your field of vision. It takes about 15-20 minutes to pass but may have multiple cycles. There are no good medical explanations of causes, triggers, or treatment (last I checked). Mostly, it's "lie down and wait for it to pass" kind of event.

Have you ever had a visual migraine?

Visual migraines are the #1 thing that makes me think we live in a simulation. "Here's a rainbow interference pattern in your visual field that looks like analog reception problems. No big. It'll pass."

"For the people saying things like “I’m a PhD from xyz uni and I’m telling your LLMs are just stochastic tools that make everything up and the world will fall apart if you use them”, I’m here to tell you that you are out of date. The world of software engineering has changed dramatically in the last few months."
https://medium.com/@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0

Thank you for voicing that, Tridge. Yes, I do a 100% agree that, as an industry, we're painting ourselves into a weird/dangerous corner where we're starting to depend on proprietary providers that produce code we don't have the bandwidth to fully own and understand. And yeah, pretty sure that $99 that I pay for a personal subscription is really more like $2000+ in real costs and is clearly not sustainable long-term. And yeah, all the other criticism for a technofascist utopia we're building around ourselves worries me greatly, too (but we've been doing that since long before LLMs).

However, anyone who claims that LLMs are not useful or produce universally bad results is just plain wrong, or are using dinky models. I've gone from yelling at junk produced by LLMs to going "yeah, okay, that's not bad." Sonnet is still crap, don't use it for anything serious. Anything you can produce on a local model running on your GPU is going to be unusable for anything serious beyond answering "how is babby formed" kinds of questions.

But let's move on from the "lolslop" kind of commentary. It's dumb.

Looks like I'll be coming back to this fall's edition of Kernel Recipes to talk about b4's review and bug-tracking features.

Last time I attended was in 2016, so apparently it's a once-a-decade sort of thing. ;)

Me: *stressed, goes to a web app to check something real quick*
App: (opens a pop-up blocking all clicks and keypresses) Have you tried our new and completely irrelevant feature? Click here to watch the video.

Europe's major capital city is under ballistic missile assault, 1559 days after the first bombs fell. Think you can live through 1559 days of constant shelling?

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Life with bluefin a month later -- I really kinda hated brew, so I'm basically now doing everything in a distrobox f44 container.

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