Jeff Bell
@jeffbell408.bsky.social
Bikes, tech, sometimes Stardew Valley
Reverse stigmata. The kind that appear on the back of your hand.
January 24, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Reverse stigmata. The kind that appear on the back of your hand.
Welcome to ground sub-zero.
January 23, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Welcome to ground sub-zero.
He’s got Betty Windsor hands.
January 22, 2026 at 3:08 PM
He’s got Betty Windsor hands.
Reverse stigmata appear on the back of the hands.
January 22, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Reverse stigmata appear on the back of the hands.
To speed things up there is a rotating set of builds, each stacked on the changes already running. If one fails the ones stacked on it are cancelled.
There is a special flag for add-to-tip that makes the pipeline run as single issue with guarantee that you are on the very newest change.
There is a special flag for add-to-tip that makes the pipeline run as single issue with guarantee that you are on the very newest change.
January 22, 2026 at 3:37 AM
To speed things up there is a rotating set of builds, each stacked on the changes already running. If one fails the ones stacked on it are cancelled.
There is a special flag for add-to-tip that makes the pipeline run as single issue with guarantee that you are on the very newest change.
There is a special flag for add-to-tip that makes the pipeline run as single issue with guarantee that you are on the very newest change.
When the offender is found a rollback is inserted.
January 22, 2026 at 3:31 AM
When the offender is found a rollback is inserted.
To handle this they do batching. A bunch of commits are grouped together to do a build and test.
If the batch fails it does a binary search to find the merge that broke it. This is automatic.
If the batch fails it does a binary search to find the merge that broke it. This is automatic.
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 AM
To handle this they do batching. A bunch of commits are grouped together to do a build and test.
If the batch fails it does a binary search to find the merge that broke it. This is automatic.
If the batch fails it does a binary search to find the merge that broke it. This is automatic.
I was thinking of the merge pipeline at Google. They get about 100,000 pushes a week from humans. That's a merge every ten seconds and probably more during daytime. There is even more traffic from scripts.
The state of being caught up to the latest is pretty fleeting.
The state of being caught up to the latest is pretty fleeting.
January 22, 2026 at 3:27 AM
I was thinking of the merge pipeline at Google. They get about 100,000 pushes a week from humans. That's a merge every ten seconds and probably more during daytime. There is even more traffic from scripts.
The state of being caught up to the latest is pretty fleeting.
The state of being caught up to the latest is pretty fleeting.
He said the same thing about the east wing.
January 21, 2026 at 4:28 PM
He said the same thing about the east wing.
When there’s tens of thousands checking in continuously nearly every build is slightly out of date. Most of the time it doesn’t matter but when it does the build system needs to pull out the breaking change and start rolling again automatically.
January 21, 2026 at 10:08 AM
When there’s tens of thousands checking in continuously nearly every build is slightly out of date. Most of the time it doesn’t matter but when it does the build system needs to pull out the breaking change and start rolling again automatically.
A build result but not from the very tip. Usually it’s okay to be synced with a recent tip.
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 AM
A build result but not from the very tip. Usually it’s okay to be synced with a recent tip.
So we are ruled by the median Florida voter.
January 20, 2026 at 8:45 PM
So we are ruled by the median Florida voter.
Isn’t it still 45 minutes to sunset?
January 20, 2026 at 12:16 AM
Isn’t it still 45 minutes to sunset?
The ones with the guns and the masks are paid. And agitating.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 PM
The ones with the guns and the masks are paid. And agitating.
Starting a war seems like a legitimate reason to not get a peace prize.
January 19, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Starting a war seems like a legitimate reason to not get a peace prize.
They have 45 days to delete i, right?
January 17, 2026 at 4:35 AM
They have 45 days to delete i, right?
CCPA gives the company 45 days to delete it unless a government agency tells them to keep it longer.
January 17, 2026 at 4:34 AM
CCPA gives the company 45 days to delete it unless a government agency tells them to keep it longer.
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January 15, 2026 at 11:02 PM
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He does place somewhere on the Declaring Bankruptcy rankings with four.
January 15, 2026 at 3:12 AM
He does place somewhere on the Declaring Bankruptcy rankings with four.
We'll be catching a game at Highest Bidder Stadium
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
We'll be catching a game at Highest Bidder Stadium
That’s a name I haven’t heard since the 90s…..clicks….
Oh, different Thinking Machines.
Oh, different Thinking Machines.
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 AM
That’s a name I haven’t heard since the 90s…..clicks….
Oh, different Thinking Machines.
Oh, different Thinking Machines.
The computer hardware engineers would cut down on latency by speculatively starting pregnancies and canceling the ones that are not needed.
January 13, 2026 at 11:51 PM
The computer hardware engineers would cut down on latency by speculatively starting pregnancies and canceling the ones that are not needed.