Koopa ๐ŸŒธ

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dumb cat / online feline

interested in systems programming, reverse engineering, and web services

i also like cute pokรฉmon, cool transit, and loud music

adults only, please

pronounsshe/her
sitehttps://koopa.sh
iconhttps://twitter.com/noerbmu/status/1577746890275405831
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is sound and a lot of the crashes we see are from users with bad memory or similarly flaky hardware. Here's a few numbers to give you an idea of how large the problem is. ๐Ÿงต 1/5
the elon musk dunking lives in my head rent free because i keep going to myself "masterful gambit, sirs" every time i fuck up
via Discord

Yesterday I wondered aloud why RSS readers look like email clients.

@brentsimmons replied. Turns out he borrowed that layout for NetNewsWire in 2002 โ€” and twenty years later, he's asking why no one's tried something different.

That conversation became an essay. I built a visual version (with an ASCII fallback).

https://www.terrygodier.com/phantom-obligation

#rss

Phantom Obligation

Why RSS readers look like email clients, and what that's doing to us.

Terry Godier
do you guys think if i mute enough liberals on bsky then my feed will be usable
big fan of how most online political accounts are either progressives libbing out or leftists vagueposting and then being too conceited to elaborate

using excel to graph a chart with multiple lines is kind of like pleasing with a toddler to stop pissing and shitting everywhere (and then it keeps doing it anyways)

or, perhaps more accurately, like desparately negotiating with a hostage-taker

sigh
threw together an article about today's debug: https://gist.github.com/CodingKoopa/0b8f7d2e157fd726a6c369b1a18fe9e4
SDL Wayland Debug

SDL Wayland Debug. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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