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Drew
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I write free and open source software for fun and for a living.
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Hare 0.26.0 Released

- Loop values and for..else
- #DragonflyBSD support
- Explicit syntax for ignoring errors when needed
- Replacing @offset with fields named _ for padding structs
- Support for explicitly uninitialized variables

harelang.org/blog/2026-02...

#HareLang
Hare 0.26.0 released
harelang.org
February 13, 2026 at 1:11 PM
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My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse
February 11, 2026 at 8:20 PM
I heard some noise being made about people fleeing #Discord over the new age verification requirements. Personally, I doubt this is going to be what kills Discord, it's too entrenched in people's lives.
February 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Cooking something up for #sourcehut
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
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you could simply leave the “Jewish” part out of this

it is a choice and it is a bad one and I would really, truly prefer that people ostensibly on my side of the political spectrum not make it
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
February 11, 2026 at 5:42 AM
calebhearth.com/dont-get-dis...
Caleb Thompson: Don't get distracted
Don't Get Distracted
I’m going to tell you about how I took a job building software to kill people. But don’t get distracted by that; I didn’t know at the time.
calebhearth.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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The fourth book is live! It includes the Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable studies.
I'm really happy with the result. You can get a copy here amazon.com/dp/B0GLP3Q8HB
February 8, 2026 at 9:42 AM
The cults of TDD and GenAI
drewdevault.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I've renamed my shell project from rc => xc and started doing a bit of clean-up work to inch it towards a release:

git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/xc

Started daily driving it again and it's really quite pleasant!
~sircmpwn/xc - A simple shell - sourcehut git
git.sr.ht
January 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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"Not enough attention is paid to the fact that part of #Ubuntu's monetization strategy is to withhold security updates to non-paying users"

#canonical #linux #ubuntuserver #ubuntults #ubuntu #sysadmin

Source: floss.social/@mort/115950...
January 24, 2026 at 1:10 PM
#harelang community meetup at #FOSDEM this year!

fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
FOSDEM 2026 - Hare community meetup
fosdem.org
January 22, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Apparently new releases of xfce4 work on Sway, just run xfce4-session and it seems to be almost entirely functional
January 21, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Decided to try this out again after reading this article:

overreacted.io/a-social-fil...

Reminds me of some of the design ideas I have around distributed operating systems. Really neat stuff.
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 21, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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At this year's FOSS Backstage, join Drew DeVault to explore how the Hare programming language community evolved from a small group of hackers to a thriving, collaborative community with an effective model of participatory governance.

Learn more: 26.foss-backstage.de...
January 13, 2026 at 12:12 PM