Julien Kirch
@archiloque.bsky.social
Coder & geek. He/him. Code, architecture & 🐱 gifs https://archiloque.net
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in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.
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...wh-what
what the fuck do you mean
what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called
THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE
www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...
what the fuck do you mean
what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called
THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE
www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...
February 9, 2026 at 9:05 PM
...wh-what
what the fuck do you mean
what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called
THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE
www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...
what the fuck do you mean
what the fuck do you mean there's a Sandoval/Department of Energy report on a device called
THE TEENY TINY TACNUKE
www.osti.gov/opennet/serv...
Someone should make a SourceForge logo mixed with the GitHub one, for the very old people like me that have a déjà-vu feeling
February 11, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Someone should make a SourceForge logo mixed with the GitHub one, for the very old people like me that have a déjà-vu feeling
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Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"
Status dashboard:
Status dashboard:
February 9, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Leadership: "AI is so good it writes almost all our code"
Status dashboard:
Status dashboard:
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today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 AM
today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
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"This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" 🎯
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
February 7, 2026 at 5:24 PM
"This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder" 🎯
Since Microsoft Publisher always want to open my ssh public key files, I wonder if you could create a key that is also a valid Publisher file
February 5, 2026 at 3:41 PM
Since Microsoft Publisher always want to open my ssh public key files, I wonder if you could create a key that is also a valid Publisher file
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I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
February 4, 2026 at 9:36 AM
I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.
In all EU, mandatory fire drills include the emergency escape of virtual meeting rooms. All corporate tooling like MS Teams or Zoom provide the required features for administrators so they can schedule the drills and audit who didn’t left the meetings on time.
February 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
In all EU, mandatory fire drills include the emergency escape of virtual meeting rooms. All corporate tooling like MS Teams or Zoom provide the required features for administrators so they can schedule the drills and audit who didn’t left the meetings on time.
There are custom screens models for medical practitioners, the only difference is their very large borders so people can put all the sticky notes filled with passwords they need to make things work
February 3, 2026 at 5:02 PM
There are custom screens models for medical practitioners, the only difference is their very large borders so people can put all the sticky notes filled with passwords they need to make things work
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The scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...
This incredibly weird 'astrological CPU scheduler' uses the signs of the zodiac and 'accurate geocentric planetary positions' to decide processor tasking
Why? For funsies, of course.
www.pcgamer.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:48 PM
The scx_horoscope scheduler for Linux uses astrology to optimize scheduling decisions
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/thi...
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Anonymous 360 degrees feedbacks are excellent opportunities to introduce your coworkers to the Italian brainrot thing
January 26, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Anonymous 360 degrees feedbacks are excellent opportunities to introduce your coworkers to the Italian brainrot thing
Does anyone know when the Roblox B2B business thing will be out of beta?
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Does anyone know when the Roblox B2B business thing will be out of beta?
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"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 AM
"... Intel Corporation, a partially state-owned enterprise with extensive links to the United States Republican Party and its armed wing, Department of War..."
« We store things in a git repo » can have bad side effects but using git as a sync protocol can provide interesting features, like here to fetch emails for high-volume mailing lists. I wonder if alternate backends could solve some of the downsides.
lwn.net/Articles/105...
lwn.net/Articles/105...
Ryabitsev: Tracking kernel development with korgalore
Konstantin Ryabitsev has put up a blog post about korgalore, a tool he has written to circumven [...]
lwn.net
January 22, 2026 at 6:42 AM
« We store things in a git repo » can have bad side effects but using git as a sync protocol can provide interesting features, like here to fetch emails for high-volume mailing lists. I wonder if alternate backends could solve some of the downsides.
lwn.net/Articles/105...
lwn.net/Articles/105...
I remember when internet users where mostly butterflies and we used LAMP to lure them to our sites
January 22, 2026 at 6:13 AM
I remember when internet users where mostly butterflies and we used LAMP to lure them to our sites
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"we use salesforce's chat application to manage our community" a real thing people say
January 21, 2026 at 2:51 PM
"we use salesforce's chat application to manage our community" a real thing people say
New links: package manager using git, handmade Graphviz, Pico GPU, PDS, control structures in programming languages, ASCII rendering
archiloque.net/weekly/26-01...
archiloque.net/weekly/26-01...
Links - 18th January 2026
Package manager using git, handmade Graphviz, Pico GPU, PDS, control structures in programming languages, ASCII rendering
archiloque.net
January 18, 2026 at 4:47 PM
New links: package manager using git, handmade Graphviz, Pico GPU, PDS, control structures in programming languages, ASCII rendering
archiloque.net/weekly/26-01...
archiloque.net/weekly/26-01...
Sharknado but it’s made of security audits
January 16, 2026 at 5:54 PM
Sharknado but it’s made of security audits
Timezones are the DNS of time
January 15, 2026 at 7:42 PM
Timezones are the DNS of time
Very funny in restrospect that agile was initially a tax avoidance scheme, then some people missed this part and tried to apply it for real
January 14, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Very funny in restrospect that agile was initially a tax avoidance scheme, then some people missed this part and tried to apply it for real