Joshua M. Clulow

@jmc@unix.house
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Queer. ADHD. Engineer. UNIX person. Australian-American. Member of illumos core team. Building a new machine at Oxide Computer Company!
bloghttps://sysmgr.org/blog/
githubhttps://github.com/jclulow
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I’m so tired

of this country.

At university I dated an American lad who was studying in England. Staying at his place once, I went to make a cup of tea in the morning but couldn't find his kettle. He gave me a demonstration of how he made tea in the microwave. Dumped.
IKEA knows it's customer base well 
Golang is unusual because in most languages the type system tells you when you made a mistake, but in Golang the type system tells you when Rob Pike made a mistake.

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

Alchemy is only ever going to get better and it is improving every year.

Soon Alchemy will make goldminers obsolete.

it's 2025 and this is still the funniest security meme.

They're putting blue food coloring in everything.

A short story

https://blog.foxtrotluna.social/theyre-putting-blue-food-coloring-in-everything/

I'd scream if I had any energy left...
You don't have to put on the red light.