Pavel Repin
@paxan.net
I am writing computer programs at the undisclosed bee's knees, and previously at Amazon Lightsail (part of AWS EC2), Upworthy, AWS CloudFront and Route53, Cozi, aQuantive, etc. My posts are just my opinions, and should be accorded zero gravitas.
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My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
Are we stuck with the same Desktop UX forever? | Ubuntu Summit 25.10
YouTube video by Canonical Ubuntu
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about:
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead
2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns
3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
Judge orders administration to submit plans for return of migrants deported to El Salvador prison under AEA
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to submit plans to return or provide hearings for the migrants who were sent to El Salvador's CECOT mega-prison in March.
abcnews.go.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
President Trump and his administration aren't above the law of the land.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
This is a victory for our clients and due process.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
Bari’s complaint was “there’s nothing new here” and while that’s untrue it’s also irrelevant
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
“we intentionally sent people to be tortured in a hellhole and bragged about it and The Hague is too good for everyone involved” is a story that simply cannot be told enough
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Exactly this: the administration’s concentration camps should be a howling, daily outrage, a scandal of historic proportions.
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For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead
(via WSJ)
December 7, 2025 at 2:03 AM
For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.
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Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
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“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
November 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM
“How can we make it so that all human beings have enough?”
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
Superhuman intelligence: well the people who have way too much need to give something up
Techbros: no no no CHANGE THE ALGORITHM
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New blog post: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds: www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve...
I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds
Introducing Source Spotter, a Go Checksum Database auditor and Go toolchain reproducer
www.agwa.name
October 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM
New blog post: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds: www.agwa.name/blog/post/ve...
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BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit has restored the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. The appeals court voted to rehear the case and vacate an earlier extreme ruling that let him seize Oregon’s troops.
Ninth Circuit Restores Block on Trump’s Portland Guard Deployment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:46 AM
BREAKING: The Ninth Circuit has restored the block on Trump’s National Guard deployment in Portland. The appeals court voted to rehear the case and vacate an earlier extreme ruling that let him seize Oregon’s troops.
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The dream of safe C/C++ code is here.
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
github.com/pizlonator/f...
You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
github.com/pizlonator/f...
You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org
Release Fil-C Linux/x86_64 version 0.673 · pizlonator/fil-c
The biggest change in this release is support for the /opt/fil distribution, which allows you to install Fil-C and a collection of useful programs compiled with Fil-C in /opt/fil.
Other changes inc...
github.com
October 18, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The dream of safe C/C++ code is here.
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
github.com/pizlonator/f...
You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org
I have been following this development, and I am in awe at how much has been achieved, now available as a package:
github.com/pizlonator/f...
You can get drunk on the details here: fil-c.org
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A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
Digital Threat Modeling Under Authoritarianism - Schneier on Security
Today’s world requires us to make complex and nuanced decisions about our digital security. Evaluating when to use a secure messaging app like Signal or WhatsApp, which passwords to store on your smar...
www.schneier.com
September 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
A good post by Bruce Schneier: digital threat modeling under authoritarianism www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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🚨New Preprint: We develop a novel task that probes counterfactual thinking without using counterfactual language, and that teases apart genuine counterfactual thinking from related forms of thinking. Using this task, we find that the ability for counterfactual thinking emerges around 5 years of age.
October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨New Preprint: We develop a novel task that probes counterfactual thinking without using counterfactual language, and that teases apart genuine counterfactual thinking from related forms of thinking. Using this task, we find that the ability for counterfactual thinking emerges around 5 years of age.
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A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
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Spent a couple evenings reverse engineering how Gerrit auth works, concluded it's OAuth2, started building a proxy to replace the long-lived ~/.gitcookies file...
Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.
Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.
GitHub - hickford/git-credential-oauth: A Git credential helper that securely authenticates to GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket using OAuth.
A Git credential helper that securely authenticates to GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket using OAuth. - hickford/git-credential-oauth
github.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Spent a couple evenings reverse engineering how Gerrit auth works, concluded it's OAuth2, started building a proxy to replace the long-lived ~/.gitcookies file...
Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.
Then found github.com/hickford/git... which works beautifully out of the box. Oh well.
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When Tramell Tillman wins an Emmy
a man with a lanyard around his neck is running in a room with purple lights
Alt: Mr. Milchick dances
media.tenor.com
September 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
When Tramell Tillman wins an Emmy
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We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.
September 8, 2025 at 2:20 AM
We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.
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It’s a party at Lumen Field!
September 1, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It’s a party at Lumen Field!
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RV (something like Python's UV, but for #Ruby) looks pretty cool andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...
I liked using UV with Python and I'm guessing the experience with RV would be similar as well. It's a bit said that all such tools have to be rewritten in #Rust (or similar), but nothing's perfect.
I liked using UV with Python and I'm guessing the experience with RV would be similar as well. It's a bit said that all such tools have to be rewritten in #Rust (or similar), but nothing's perfect.
rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool
For the last ten years or so of working on Bundler, I’ve had a wish rattling around: I want a better dependency manager. It doesn’t just manage your gems, it manages your ruby versions, too. It doesn’...
andre.arko.net
August 28, 2025 at 6:07 AM
RV (something like Python's UV, but for #Ruby) looks pretty cool andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...
I liked using UV with Python and I'm guessing the experience with RV would be similar as well. It's a bit said that all such tools have to be rewritten in #Rust (or similar), but nothing's perfect.
I liked using UV with Python and I'm guessing the experience with RV would be similar as well. It's a bit said that all such tools have to be rewritten in #Rust (or similar), but nothing's perfect.
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Not just art. Talking. Writing. Editing. Designing. Coding. Thinking.
Doing well at anything takes years of practice. Ceding that to a machine defeats the whole purpose of taking pleasure from one's chosen path in life.
Doing well at anything takes years of practice. Ceding that to a machine defeats the whole purpose of taking pleasure from one's chosen path in life.
just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!
August 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Not just art. Talking. Writing. Editing. Designing. Coding. Thinking.
Doing well at anything takes years of practice. Ceding that to a machine defeats the whole purpose of taking pleasure from one's chosen path in life.
Doing well at anything takes years of practice. Ceding that to a machine defeats the whole purpose of taking pleasure from one's chosen path in life.
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The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’
The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’
After IceBlock’s launch in April, Kristi Noem attacked developer Joshua Aaron and his wife was fired from the DoJ. The attention has only led to more raids being reported
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Ice alert app founder sparking fury in Trump officials: ‘Pam Bondi said I better watch out? Please.’