Robin Leroy

@eggrobin
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๐’‰ญโ€‹๐’„ฟ๐’ˆพโ€‹๐’€€๐’€Š๐’€โ€‹๐’Šญโ€‹๐’พ๐’ŽŒโ€‹๐’‰ˆ๐’๐’Œ‘๐’Œ
An egg drowning in a sea of papers
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ไธ€้ข—ๅœจ่ฎบๆ–‡ๆตทไธญ็š„่›‹
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Robin LeroyJan 27
Eve Jan 27
happy Large boulder the size of a small boulder day to all who celebrate
Robin LeroyOct 8
Robert McNeesOct 8

Astronomer Ejnar Hertzsprung was born #OTD in 1873.

Emoji Hertzsprung-Russell diagram:

๐Ÿ”ต ๐ŸŸฆ ๐ŸŸฅ
๐Ÿ”ต ๐ŸŸง
โšช๏ธ ๐ŸŸจ
โšช๏ธ
๐ŸŸก๐ŸŸก
โšฌ โšฌ ๐ŸŸ ๐ŸŸ 
โšฌ โšฌ โšฌ ๐Ÿ”ด
โšฌ ๐Ÿ”ด
โšซ๏ธ

Robin LeroyOct 8
Show threadGlyphOct 7
the biggest problem we *already have* in open source right now, which we have oversimplified into the term "supply chain security", is the lack of understanding that putting a dependency in your project's dependency set (package.json, pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, cargo.toml, etc) is not just "downloading some code", it is *establishing an ongoing trust relationship with a set of human beings*. this fact is *way* too obscured in all the tools we use.
Robin LeroyAug 29, 2025
5225225Aug 23, 2025

the mathml <mrow> element sends me every fucking time i see it

kitty cat in my math???

<mrow> - MathML | MDN

The <mrow> MathML element is used to group sub-expressions, which usually contain one or more operators with their respective operands (such as <mi> and <mn>). This element renders as a horizontal row containing its arguments.

MDN Web Docs
Robin LeroyAug 3, 2025
Show threaddukAug 3, 2025
@DocBohn @vitaut related: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/55353

"memory safety theather" is a fantastic name for this anti-pattern
Warn when memory safety theater is detected ยท Issue #55353 ยท llvm/llvm-project

I occasionally see people write code like strncpy(dst, src, strlen(src) + 1);. Presumably, someone told the author at some point that strcpy was dangerous and to use strncpy instead for safety, but...

GitHub
Robin LeroyJun 19, 2025
Show threadEmil JJun 16, 2025
@0xabad1dea the problem with latex jokes is that you have to say them twice so that the references make sense
Robin LeroyApr 28, 2025
Unicode Watch ๏ฟฝ๐Ÿ”Apr 28, 2025
L2/25-085: UTC #183 Minutes
๐Ÿ”— https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2025/25085.htm
UTC 183 Minutes

Robin LeroyMar 6, 2025
raptop (๐’€ฏ ๐’„ท ๐’„ˆ๐’€ญ๐’‡)Mar 5, 2025
OH: Capderou points out that what is interesting about these [ะผะพะปะฝะธั] orbits is not that they are lightning-fast at their perigee, but that they are very slow at their apogee. So perhaps they should have been called ะฃะปะธั‚ะบะฐโ€ฆ
Robin LeroyMar 1, 2025
Denis Moyogo JacqueryeMar 1, 2025
U+237C โผ in H. Berthold AG (1950). Berthold-Zeichenprobe, Probe Nr. 360 E. page 7, described as "Azimut, Richtungswinkel". #angzarr
Robin LeroyFeb 18, 2025
Tim ๐ŸŽฎJan 10, 2025

Have you had that "Upcoming price change for your Microsoft 365 subscription" email yet? They want to charge you an extra 50%ish for AI features, and they do *not* make it easy to find the way to turn it off. It took me minutes of searching - this is a particularly evil dark pattern.

"Switch plan" just lets you pick between annual and monthly billing. You want "Turn off recurring billing" and then "Current subscription without AI".

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