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nilix posted 11 Oct 2026 01:40 +0000

learning lua by implementing kuro as micro plugins (listening to my brain that my approach to writing kuro as uxn + 9p was too clever for my own good)

nilix posted 10 Oct 2026 13:51 +0000

was so tired yesterday, didnt get around to my drawtober. today i will catch up and also finish/polish the polycrisis page i haphazardly revealed ><

nilix posted 09 Oct 2026 03:37 +0000

girfriend who spots you when you redye your hair to make sure it looks gay from every angle

nilix posted 08 Oct 2026 16:46 +0000

finishing my read of No Bears, None by @rek and @neauoire as i psych myself up to leave for the west coast in 9 days. its so nice to follow your travels and thought process as you proceed, and the little drawings and info blurbs scattered throughout

nilix posted 08 Oct 2026 00:49 +0000

=w= second half of nwc9 is still pretty challenging, trying to tighten it up and add a couple more tracks i've been thinking about. but it's getting there

nilix posted 07 Oct 2026 13:23 +0000

talked to a friend who has been working with a nonprofit involved with the democratic party

in case there was any doubt, yes they are all braindead alcoholics and so easy to bribe (oracle bribed our probable governor for only 18k)

nilix posted 06 Oct 2026 20:25 +0000

#begPosting #mutualAid

Anything helps, I'm over here every day working my ass off. I started dollctl from scratch earlier this year and it now has all the makings of a production-ready devops platform. I'm on my way to finishing the first chapter of Polycrisis, now averaging 2 pages per week. I live in a van, I don't drink, and I don't eat out, but money is unfortunately still necessary to make shit happen.

https://lightcrystal.systems/support

We now return to your regularly scheduled programming.

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nilix shared 06 Oct 2026 18:58 +0000
original: sstephenson@indieweb.social

➡️ Introducing Brut, the Brutal Router for Unix Tools: https://brut.sh

Brut is a POSIX shell script for building command-line programs composed of many small executables. It is small (~120 lines), but features thorough literate documentation for those of us who still appreciate the value of readable, understandable code.

Programs written with Brut can run entirely from source with no additional dependencies beyond the standard POSIX utilities, which makes them easy to audit and embed.

External Attachment: https://brut.sh/

nilix posted 06 Oct 2026 17:26 +0000

in the process of migrating all lightcrystal services to be specified as code and deployed automagically by dollctl pipelines :D

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 18:46 +0000

ok #dollctl v0.2.1 is released, with sigil and dollcmd also up to date in step

(sigil has basically the same versioning scheme as dollctl but dollcmd has no versioning yet as it doesn't yet have feature parity with sigil)

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 18:23 +0000

ok so out of respect to xtractr there's nothing wrong with their library, i was fucking up my upload because i forgot i used a completely nonstandard way to upload my tarballs. i still am just gonna shell out to tar though cause it reduces my compile time dependencies significantly.

all this to say, i have a private IaC repo triggering pipeline runs which automatically rebuilds and uploads a service ^^

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 17:28 +0000

love it, dropping xtractr means dollctl's _ONLY_ compile time dependency is quartzgun

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 15:29 +0000

yet again, not all implementations are as enlightened as #honk

nilix replied 05 Oct 2026 03:36 +0000
in reply to: https://cafe.nilfm.cc/u/nilix/h/ZTcZW33KwjBpp2HJpv

idk what's special about this archive but GNU tar and p9p tar both handle it fine; guess i'm shelling out to the system tar instead of using this library (golift.io/xtractr) in dollctl to extract service tarballs now...

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 03:34 +0000

zip.NewReader: gzip: invalid header

useless library is useless

nilix shared 05 Oct 2026 03:33 +0000
original: hayley@social.applied-langua.ge

Who should I thank? My so-called "colleagues," who laugh at me behind my back, all the while becoming famous on my work? My worthless graduate students, whose computer skills appear to be limited to downloading bitmaps off of netnews? My parents, who are still waiting for me to quit "fooling around with computers," go to med school, and become a radiologist? My department chairman, a manager who gives one new insight into and sympathy for disgruntled postal workers?
My God, no one could blame me---no one!---if I went off the edge and just lost it completely one day. I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals. I start getting the shakes real bad around 10am, right before my advisor meetings. A 10 oz. Jack 'n Zac helps me get through the meetings without one of my students winding up with his severed head in a bowling-ball bag. They look at me funny; they think I twitch a lot. I'm not twitching. I'm controlling my impulse to snag my 9mm Sig-Sauer out from my day-pack and make a few strong points about the quality of undergraduate education in Amerika.
If I thought anyone cared, if I thought anyone would even be reading this, I'd probably make an effort to keep up appearances until the last possible moment. But no one does, and no one will. So I can pretty much say exactly what I think.
Oh yes, the acknowledgements. I think not. I did it. I did it all, by myself.

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 02:15 +0000

and wow this kid tried to tell me agentic workflows are necessary to build a storefront that can "compete with big corporations"

AI-pilled people are so fucking dumb

nilix posted 05 Oct 2026 02:05 +0000

dogfooding dollctl CICD and dollcmd (the dollctl CLI client) hard rn. almost have a working service deployment from a private IAC repo...

nilix posted 04 Oct 2026 19:02 +0000

i can lock in... i can lock in ><

nilix posted 04 Oct 2026 16:03 +0000

wow i slept in hardcore ><

nilix replied 03 Oct 2026 22:53 +0000
in reply to: https://mastodon.mauve.moe/users/mauve/statuses/117378975555967520

@mauve oh that sounds cool! my drawtober project doesn't have a coherent theme but my tattoos are all in black ink and have spiritual significance. i have symbols on my forearms, a tramp stamp, and a little one on the crux of my collarbone, and i'd like to add something to my thighs and weave it all together with some cybersigilism