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New comment by notnmeyer in "A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway"

notnmeyer — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:39:45 +0000

the people writing it are doing it for themselves probably. i wouldn’t expect it to survive a code review. the necessity of using esoteric bash features or syntax is a pretty good smell that you should be using something else imo.

different strokes of course.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts"

notnmeyer — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 16:41:42 +0000

echo “read @AGENTS.md” > CLAUDE.md

New comment by notnmeyer in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

notnmeyer — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:27:10 +0000

this is hilarious and i might try it.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Steam Machine launches today"

notnmeyer — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:55:51 +0000

yeah, so this was exactly my scenario. i have an xbox and ps5, but bought a steamdeck about 6 months ago to play indie and windows games... its been utterly amazing. i dont care about specs, or graphics, or framerates (within reason). playing on steam still feels like it did when i was young.

maybe im misunderstanding, but you exactly like the person that a steam machine is for.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Steam Machine launches today"

notnmeyer — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:33:45 +0000

anyone talking about hw performance is not the intended market. if you have a gaming pc, like building systems, etc, you are not the intended market.

this is for folks who want steam games in their living room and dont want to build their own system.

New comment by notnmeyer in "MCP is dead?"

notnmeyer — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:19:06 +0000

because being confidently incorrect is a thing?

New comment by notnmeyer in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

notnmeyer — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:22:21 +0000

i mean, then you say it like that…

New comment by notnmeyer in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

notnmeyer — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:01:36 +0000

haha, this is so much better

New comment by notnmeyer in "Myths about /dev/urandom (2014)"

notnmeyer — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:51:17 +0000

glad i’m not the only one. i’m more or less baffled reading that.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

notnmeyer — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:27:47 +0000

the fact that this could easily pass as real says a lot about the state of things.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

notnmeyer — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:48:50 +0000

i hope i’m wrong, but probably as long as gabe does.

New comment by notnmeyer in "The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

notnmeyer — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:12:54 +0000

i think discovery is the real thing all these “back in my day…” blog posts are about. they want the quirk delivered to them, but they’re fallen out of the zeitgeist and conclude that the old days are completely gone.

New comment by notnmeyer in "The best is over: The fun has been optimized out of the Internet"

notnmeyer — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:10:31 +0000

i don’t think it has to be like this. make dumb or silly stuff, share it.

it feels like the folks who lament about the good ole days grew up, got a corporate job, and forgot how to have fun.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

notnmeyer — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:06:09 +0000

prs not being visible because search is down, various ui elements not loading, pushes failing, merges failing, gha runs that fail with random errors or take forever to schedule

i literally do not recall the last day that passed without someone on my team noticing that some portion of gh was degraded.

New comment by notnmeyer in "Mise-En-Place"

notnmeyer — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:07:46 +0000

i think mise does too much. the deeper you go into its features the more rough edges you’ll find. i predominantly use nix on macos for managing app-level tool and package deps, but mise does a better job for this when you’re a part of a team (and can’t be overly prescriptive).

mise tasks gets gross pretty fast in my experience.

New comment by notnmeyer in "CSS is DOOMed"

notnmeyer — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:34:26 +0000

at this point i’m more interested in what _can’t_ run doom.

New comment by notnmeyer in "GNU Pies – Program Invocation and Execution Supervisor"

notnmeyer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:57:15 +0000

> The name Pies (pronounced "p-yes")

oh come on

New comment by notnmeyer in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

notnmeyer — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:42:07 +0000

i’d love for this to be required by law. i’m probably not thinking of some great reason why that might be a bad idea, but it seems like an effective way to reduce e-waste.

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 01:19:25 +0000

different strokes dude

New comment by notnmeyer in "C100 Developer Terminal"

notnmeyer — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:58:37 +0000

a framework desktop and omarchy is conceptually 98% of what the c100 purports to be.