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The British Airways position on various border disputes
My spouse and I are on vacation in Japan, spending half our time seeing the sights and the other half working remotely and enjoying the experience of living in a different place for a while. To get here, we flew on British Airways from London to Tokyo, and I entertained myself on the long flight by browsing the interactive flight map on the back of my neighbor’s seat and trying to figure out how the poor developer who implemented this map solved the thorny problems that displaying a world map implies.
I began my survey by poking through the whole interface...
2025-05-05
On Sunday, 2025-05-11 there will be scheduled maintenance of the suckless servers. It's estimated this will take about 2 hours from about 10:00 to 12:00 UTC.
The mailinglist, website and source-code repositories will have some downtime.
Update: the maintenance was finished at 2025-05-11 13:00 UTC. There was a small issue with storage space, hence the 1h delay for fixing it.
Resistance from the tech sector
As of late, most of us have been reading the news with a sense of anxious trepidation. At least, those of us who read from a position of relative comfort and privilege. Many more read the news with fear. Some of us are already no longer in a position to read the news at all, having become the unfortunate subjects of the news. Fascism is on the rise worldwide and in the United States the news is particularly alarming. The time has arrived to act.
The enemy wants you to be overwhelmed and depressed, to feel like the situation is out...
A Firefox addon for putting prices into perspective
I had a fun idea for a small project this weekend, and so I quickly put it together over the couple of days. The result is Price Perspective.
Humor me: have you ever bought something, considered the price, and wondered how that price would look to someone else? Someone in the developing world, or a billionaire, or just your friend in Australia? In other words, can we develop an intuition for purchasing power?
The Price Perspective add-on answers these questions. Let’s consider an example: my income is sufficient to buy myself a delivery pizza for dinner without a second thought. How much...
Using linkhut to signal-boost my bookmarks
Notice: linkhut has started to use generative AI tools upstream. Consequently, I have withdrawn my endorsement of the project.
It must have been at least a year ago that I first noticed linkhut, and its flagship instance at ln.ht, appear on SourceHut, where it immediately caught my attention for its good taste in inspirations. Once upon a time, I had a Pinboard account, which is a similar concept, but I never used it for anything in the end. When I saw linkhut I had a similar experience: I signed up and played with it for a few minutes before moving on.
I’ve...
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
This blog post is expressing personal experiences and opinions and doesn’t reflect any official policies of SourceHut.
Over the past few months, instead of working on our priorities at SourceHut, I have spent anywhere from 20-100% of my time in any given week mitigating hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers at scale. This isn’t the first time SourceHut has been at the wrong end of some malicious bullshit or paid someone else’s externalized costs – every couple of years someone invents a new way of ruining my day.
Four years ago, we decided to require payment to use our CI services because it was being...