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daniel:// stenberg://Mar 3

and now I'm about to drop all uses of "just"... https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20793

docs: stop using the word 'just' by bagder · Pull Request #20793 · curl/curl

It is almost never a good word and almost always a filler that should be avoided.

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slp Mar 3

daniel:// stenberg://Mar 2

a detail you probably didn't know: nowhere in any #curl documentation do we use the word "very". It is a banned word enforced by a CI check. This rule encourages us to rewrite and instead use more appropriate words. Makes us write better English.

slp Mar 2

Today I learned Mar 1

TIL of Ian Waterman, who was unable to move or even sit up after a rare infection destroyed his sixth sense (proprioception). While he could still compel his muscles to contract, he lost the ability to coordinate his movements, only relearning to move after years of training to use his body.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29510103/
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1ri6qj9/til_of_ian_waterman_who_was_unable_to_move_or/

slp Jan 23

Olof Hellman Jan 22

Years ago I did a talk at Seattle Xcoders regarding variable naming and Noun Piles. After years of procrastination, here's a cleaned up version of that "Silly Lightning Talk" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVFqSuQtZ4

Silly Lightning Talk

YouTube

slp Nov 17

Belghast Nov 16

Mostly posting here so I will have a place to link it to a friend...

slp Oct 10

Jean Boussier Oct 9

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted.

https://byroot.github.io/opensource/ruby/2025/10/09/dear-rubyists.html

Dear Rubyists: Shopify Isn’t Your Enemy

I’ve been meaning to write a post about my perspective on Open Source and corporate entities. I already got the rough outline of it; however, I’m suffering from writer’s block, but more importantly, the whole post is a praise of how Shopify engages with Open Source communities. Hence, given the current climate, I don’t think I could publish it without addressing the elephant in the room first anyway.

byroot’s blog

slp Oct 7