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Bill Nottingham
@notting.bsky.social
Doing product @ Sonar. Formerly Tidelift, Ansible, Red Hat. Not usually posting about that sort of thing, though. Blog (mostly NC Courage at this point): https://splat.cc/

Also @[email protected]. He/him
I'm not sure there's a better example of how staying on X pickles your brain than the state of Wayland discourse.
November 26, 2025 at 6:01 PM
One of these years the Canes will finally do the right thing and schedule Whalers Night against Vancouver.
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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This PR is like the perfect distillation of LLM-assisted hubris. Dev who has never written a compiler or even studied the DWARF spec vibe codes out 13k LOC of "support" in OCaml with a bunch of shallow test cases, and doesn't think he needs to understand his own PR because "Claude understands it!"
One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.
DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml
DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...
github.com
November 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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i beg to differ
November 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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this week's newsletter is titled "aren't you tired of feeling insane all the time?" and I think it speaks for itself

it is also free to read

youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/arent-you-...
November 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
I feel bad for our league but this is tremendous content.
DC Power of the Gainbridge Super League have extended an offer for free agent Trinity Rodman that the NWSL can't currently match due to the salary cap.

Jessica Berman: "We want Trinity in the NWSL and we will fight for her."

w/ @tombogert.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
Trinity Rodman receives contract from Super League team larger than what NWSL can match: Sources
Berman said she the league wants Rodman in the NWSL and that it will 'fight' for her.
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Don't worry, Jessica Berman is ready with life lessons learned that will help. After all, Scalia joined in RBG's goals, right?

(from @tamerra-griffin.bsky.social's excellent profile at the Athletic)

www.nytimes.com/athletic/682...
November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Great list by @838carlisle.bsky.social of players to watch in the tournament (and I’m about to head out to see Dudley and Hudson in person). Also love the Vailana Tu’ua praise, she has been maybe my favorite freshman to watch this season.
11 goal fiends in college woso that you need to know
if you like watching the ball go into the net then these are the people you need to follow
btvc.beehiiv.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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if she actually gave a shit about protecting women in sports she would’ve been loudly speaking about her own coaches but that’s not what it’s about.
An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.

But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Thanks to a $5 million settlement with the NY, DC and IL OAG, the NWSL is required to report their investigations.

The semi-annual report and its exhibits give us a teensy bit of transparency into the NWSL’s process.

With @dianamoskovitz.bsky.social for Defector!

defector.com/nwsl-43-comp...
The NWSL Received 43 Complaints In 2024, And Five In The First Half Of This Year, Public Records Show | Defector
When the National Women’s Soccer League settled with three separate attorneys general earlier this year—following investigations by all three into the league’s years of failure to prevent or adequatel...
defector.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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In and around 2023, Roy and Rianne Schestowitz were subject to a horrific campaign of online abuse. Unfortunately they blamed me for it, and in turn wrote and published an astonishing array of articles making false accusations against me. Last year, I sued them in the high court in London.
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
- contains GNOMEs
- a number are daemons
- some passed-down practices say to go to great length to avoid them
- if you summon one by name you can use it
are the fae

open source
Turning into my father one "the problem is no one reads enough books these days" grumble at a time
November 20, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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Maestro. Magician. Manaka Matsukubo. 🪄

Your 2025 Midfielder of the Year.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
You can just call anything "security" nowadays.
November 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
A 0-0 draw sends Mak Lind's BK Häcken to the Europa Cup quarters.

Häcken's season is now done until February, in case you were wondering when something may or may not happen.
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
In case any local North Carolina NWSL fans find themselves wanting to check out Inter vs BK Häcken for some reason...

www.inter.it/it/inter-tv/...
Women's Europa Cup | Inter vs Häcken LIVE | Inter.it
Dal KONAMI Football Centre, la diretta di Inter-BK Häcken FF: le nerazzurre ospitano la formazione svedese nel ritorno degli ottavi di finale della UEFA Women’s Europa Cup
www.inter.it
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 PM
disappointed that this wasn't named "Semper UBI Sub UBI"
November 19, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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"We’re sinking into a quicksand of tiny, dumb administrative tasks. It is the most tedious quicksand imaginable. Tasks once accomplished with a quick phone call now require logging into a new website, which requires remembering yet another password." -- great piece
November 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
congrats and/or condolences
November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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🫡
November 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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In Raleigh...
November 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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“The son of the recently fired USMNT manager is one of the more important players on the team even after his dad’s contentious firing”
November 19, 2025 at 12:41 AM