Jed Davis ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ

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Picard management tip: The line must be drawn somewhere. It might as well be here.

There are two wolves inside me.

Wolf #1: *frantically checking arithmetic, erasing pencil marks, measuring*

Wolf #2: Does it really matter if the word โ€œfascistโ€ is a quarter inch off center?

Wolf #1: If we can't do things right then the terrorists have won.

Wolf #2: Uhhhโ€ฆ

Wolf #1: Also we will not profane our dead parents' drafting ruler with bad numbers.

Wolf #2: Sigh. (Goes to post on social media.)

anyway, setting up a new video card on a Sun machine is super easy and total jumperless! all you have to do is burn a new EPROM and solder some wires, then update your NVRAM config, and presumably some OS shenanigans, maybe recompiling a kernel or something lol.
so someone pointed out that the two crossed out names on the TurboGX card, CURTIS and CHRIS M, left Sun to found Nvidia!
Credit where due, PG&E got the power back in ~3ยฝ hours, and even managed to text me when they did (unlike the big outage last December).
Unfortunately, as you probably already know, PG&E
The curse of the cursor โ€“ Unsung

A blog about software craft and quality

Firefox & Gtk Emoji picker โ€“ Martin Stransky's Blog
https://mastransky.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/firefox-gtk-emoji-picker/
Firefox & Gtk Emoji picker

After nearly three years of development (it takes time to make up oneโ€™s mind) Firefox for Linux users can now enjoy seamless emoji insertion using the native GTK emoji chooser. This long-requโ€ฆ

Martin Stransky's Blog
I suspect I am going to get a lot of use out of this new sticker design.
โ€œCompiling happy_eyeballs_glue v0.1.0โ€, a perfectly normal status message,