Mastodawn

The Slow System Crash of Society

/LOGS/BLOG_POST Posted by Eric |May 13, 2026 There was a time when people actually knew how to do things. Fix things. Build things. Endure things. Gen X grew up in the analog static between two worlds. One foot outside riding bikes until the streetlights came on, the other sitting in front of a beige Packard Bell listening to a 56k modem scream like it was dying in a steel trap. We learned patience because everything took forever. Games took twenty minutes to load. Internet pages appeared […]

https://ericfoltin.com/2026/05/13/the-slow-system-crash-of-society/

No Boilerplate 1d ago

`bacon clippy` basically taught me Rust.

I would not have the job that I do today without the work of the excellent @dystroy, who ALSO built #broot #dysk, #lazy-regex and a bunch of other Rust tools!

The crazy thing? Despite this, he's currently looking for a job or freelance work - imagine having him on your team!

If you're not hiring, you can support him directly, like I've just done, right here:
https://github.com/sponsors/Canop

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Data Science 2d ago

Its good to have many tests in your R package, but it can be a pain to debug some failing tests when it happens. {lazytest} for the rescue: only rerun the failing tests, until they pass: https://lazytest.cynkra.com/ #RStats #testthat #lazy

Runs Only Failed Tests

A companion package to the testthat package that saves development time by helping you rerun only the tests that have failed during the last run.

Denys Séguret 2d ago

Here's a strange situation:

thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.

Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.

If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀

https://dystroy.org

dystroy

dystroy - Rust consulting

Klaus Frank 4d ago

I have no pizza dough left anymore and I do not want to make a new one. But I do want to eat another pizza 😫

How do we solve that problem?

#pizza #lazy #ADHD

Diotima 5d ago

Between life changes and other stuffs, I fell behind in writing. But the section I was drafting is finally done and sent to test readers ha ha.

#writing #lazy

FLOSSbOxIN May 6

Sitting inside office.
I see people talking.
I see couple of them working on some code.
Person 1: I need the context to run this.
Person 2: History shows password in plain text (not cleartext)...
Person 1: Safest way?
Person 2: Go to that path and type #copilot there. It will do your task.
Person 1 & 2 together: ENJOY!!!

#sloppy #aislop #toolazytobebusy #lazy #bots #developer

Timo Apr 28

@mercury mercury-playground.cc now uses lazy-loading for the samples, which greatly improves the loading time of the website (pretty much instant now), and only the samples that you use in the code get loaded once they are played.

https://mercury-playground.cc/#c2V0IHRlbXBvIDkzCgpuZXcgbG9vcCBhbWVuIHRpbWUoMS8xNikgbmFtZShicmtidCkKICAgIHNldCBicmtidCBzaGFwZSgxMDApIHBhbiggcmFuZG9tRigxNiAtMSAxKSApIAogICAgc2V0IGJya2J0IG9mZnNldCggcGFsaW4oc3ByZWFkRig4KSkgKSB0aW1lZGl2KFsxIDEgMl0pCiAgICAKbmV3IHNhbXBsZSBraWNrXzgwOF9kaXN0IHRpbWUoMy84KSBnYWluKDEuMykKbmV3IHNhbXBsZSBzbmFyZV85MDkgdGltZSgxLzIgMS80KQ%3D%3D

If you wanna force loading all the samples anyways, run: `set samples default`

#mercurylivecoding #livecoding #lazy