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

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

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.

Cooking something up for #sourcehut

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

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Caleb Thompson: Don't get distracted

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

The cults of TDD and GenAI

drewdevault.com/2026/01/29/2...

#blog #genai #llms

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!

"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...

#harelang community meetup at #FOSDEM this year!

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Apparently new releases of xfce4 work on Sway, just run xfce4-session and it seems to be almost entirely functional

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.

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.

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