Cast-in-place concrete dividers being installed on Washington St. in #Boston's Chinatown (between Kneeland St. and Stuart St.) as part of the repaving project.

A bit of good news considering how grim things have been recently for #Cycling in the City. I hope this might signal that Mayor Wu's Streets Cabinet are being allowed to do their jobs again.

One set of cast-in-place dividers does not an inflection in the #WuTurn make, but any cause for hope

(via TransitMatters and @bostoncyclistsunion)

#BikeTooter

Well. Got laid off, position terminated this Saturday. I need some time to remake my resume and everything but if anyone is looking for a Front-End engineer with 12yrs of exp in the Bay Area/Remote U.S. Ping me.

#getfedihired

This site wins the internet for the week: https://www.getrandomnumber.org/

RE: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lfgml77nbpvhijgcv6n7phzh/post/3myoelpulq225

ACAB

I'm not sure claiming "everything is on fire" is the correct takeaway here

There is a pile of flammable materials we've been ignoring for decades. It catches on fire sometimes. It caught on fire a lot this week

And the people who put out the fires, for free, put the fire out again

The current plan is to just keep throwing more oily rags on the pile. We could try to help the volunteers, but that costs more than adding oily rags to the pile

Philomena: Some people have been writing PHP for over 20 years. Is that because it's particularly difficult to finish?

Expert: No, software is constantly evolving.

Philomena: So they've been writing the same website for 20 years?

Expert: No, different projects.

Philomena: Have they tried finishing one before starting another?

Expert: That's not how software development works.

Philomena: My mate Paul spent 20 years building a shed. Turned out he was just an alcoholic.

Expert: Right.

Philomena: Is PHP like that?

EDIT: Hey please read the post attached below <3 you're all wonderful and I'm glad this post made so many critters smile

The key's randomart image is:
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I am about to launch a new, super-secure FFA: four factor authentication.

There is only one factor, and it is 4.

This is a good day to mention that static site generators are awesome.

Please join Mike Rapoport and me on November 3, 2026 for a conversation about Mike's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Mike will also share what works and what doesn’t for him and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help him stay engaged for a longer term.

Mike Rapoport is a kernel maintainer focused on memory management — he maintains boot time memory management and several other parts of MM plus kexec and kdump, and is currently knee-deep in kexec handover (KHO) and live update.

Please register:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-mike-rapoport?hsLang=en

Please join Mimi Zohar and me on October 28th, 2026 as we talk about Mimi's experience as a kernel developer and maintainer, taking questions from the attendees. Mimi will also share what works and what doesn’t for her and strategies, interpersonal and technical skills and mindset that help her stay engaged for a longer term.

Mimi Zohar is a member of IBM's Linux on Power Security team and formerly worked in the Cloud and Systems Security Research group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Her areas of expertise include system security and integrity. She is the maintainer of the Linux Integrity subsystem and serves on the Program Committee for the Linux Security Summit (LSS).

Please register:
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/webinars/my-life-as-a-linux-kernel-developer-and-maintainer-with-mimi-zohar?hsLang=en

finally, a private key that current quantum computers can factorize

Why I’m no longer updating this repository - po-ru.com
https://po-ru.com/2026/10/18/why-im-no-longer-updating-this-repository

> When people claim that it’s no longer sustainable to write code by hand, they’re not entirely wrong, but only in the same way that it’s no longer sustainable to sleep in a bed once someone has taken a shit in it.

🤣Poetic. Pure pazak!

Poll, please boost for reach, I’m genuinely interested.

Do you use IRC?

Dear Lazyweb,
Due to dumbasses squatting me, I'm gonna need you to go click "thumbs-up" or "stars" or whatever on this repo so that it bubbles up to the top of the list in search results: https://github.com/xscreensaver-official/xscreensaver

Thank you in advance for this utter fucking waste of everyone's time.
https://jwz.org/b/ylB0

just learnt the french created the word "vroomer" for people who like car centered infrastructure a little too much and i think the english language could benefit from this

Blender is looking for passionate developers to join our team!

Check out new job openings and apply at https://www.blender.org/jobs/

#b3d

First time for everything. Wrote a Doctorate recommendation letter. Then asked the candidate if they would like funding... :-)

Booting Linux with a tiny RISC-V rv32 core: https://github.com/jamieiles/merv

Millicode Enhanced RISC-V takes only 1,310 LUTs on a Spartan 7 FPGA, but can boot full Linux and an OpenEmbedded distro. It's not high performance, but it is compact and offers memory protection.

Millicode runs in F-mode which is more privileged than M but executes normal RISC-V instructions. F-mode implements the software managed TLB, CSR emulation, optional software divide emulation and counter overflows.

my week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2026-October/000170.html

vacation, security, blab, rc3