Xavier
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
Xavier
@xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
Artist & programmer based in Brussels. Leftist, queer, genderqueer, vegan, BLM, free Palestine, anticapitalist, etc. I speak French and English.

I'm interested in […]

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Dutch railways: "oh no, it has snowed, we can't have a fully functioning schedule now"
Canadian trains: TOOT TOOT
[Video] Original post on greennuclear.online
greennuclear.online
January 11, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 2:19 AM
has anyone made an Emacs/Lisp Machine but with JavaScript? this must exist right? seems obvious
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
If you like Elliott Smith and jazz, you should check out Brad Mehldau's album of Smith covers:
https://bradmehldau.bandcamp.com/album/ride-into-the-sun

#music
January 9, 2026 at 9:18 AM
"don't blame me blame Brett!!" I sing out loud, but it's about Bret Victor
January 8, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/
It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons
Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe
tonsky.me
January 5, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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So… Not being active on Meta anymore: where would be a good place to find likeminded people for a yet-to-be-found-or-started co-housing project in Brussels?
#cohousing #brussels #sustainability #carfree #FossilFuelFree
January 2, 2026 at 4:23 PM
through my job we get various LLM subscriptions, so every now and then I try them out because like everyone else I'm constantly getting gaslit by the world about these things.

my experience remains: it takes more time to fix and improve LLM code than to write it myself directly 🫩
January 2, 2026 at 1:37 PM
Played Time Flies1] with [@mandooks today, highly recommend. You play as a fly that has a bucket list to complete. Reminiscent of Untitled Goose Game, but IMO better executed. Very funny, very cute, at times kinda sad 😄

1]: [https://timeflies.buzz/
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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YOUR CLAM YEAR IN REVIEW
- There are over ten thousand known species of clams and tens of thousands more undescribed. Please do your part and find a few species next year.
- Cultured bivalves alone help remove over 49,000 tons of nitrogen from our waterways every year, along with other […]
Original post on scicomm.xyz
scicomm.xyz
December 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Really liked this video on the great vowel shift that happened in England c. 1350–1600, comparing it to more recent/current vowel shifts. Also, I had never realized how much old English sounded like Dutch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SD60KpJvA
December 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
I'm usually not a fan of microtonal music, but this is exquisite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uZUQqOLyPQ

The mastery that went into writing and performing this blows my mind.
December 17, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Remember to use the 3-2-1 strategy for your fedi presence.

Keep three fedi accounts, across two different ActivityPub implementations, with one off-site instance.
December 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
just lost 2h fixing my laptop that wouldn't boot anymore

I was copying ~100GB of files, and hadn't realised I was close to 100% disk usage

at some point everything started failing

after a reboot, it wouldn't boot anymore, with a bunch of systemd services failing

tried booting from a live USB […]
Original post on sunny.garden
sunny.garden
December 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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@[email protected] with alt text
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I love it how every 6 months when I upgrade NixOS a bunch of things just stop working
December 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I didn't expect to like Dredge, but so far it's actually quite fun. Perhaps a bit slow
December 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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I'm just so tired, really.
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Seems like the internet is having a cloud flare-up again
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
istg I'm gonna fork the Go repo to make "declared and not used" a warning rather than an error
December 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
As a teen I was a big fan of Bioshock. While reading more about the game, I discovered it had been inspired by a book called "Atlas Shrugged", so of course I set out to read it. That's how I learned that "inspired by" does not necessarily mean "endorsing" 😅
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 AM
battlestar galactica, but everyone is a muppet except gaius
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
If you (rightfully) hate Nix's `with`, here's an alternative
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
I relate with this post by Saar Drimer. Unsure I would've become an engineer if I'd felt at 18 how I feel today.

https://saar.substack.com/p/lee-on-comedy-me-on-technology
Lee on comedy, me on technology
About a week ago I exited a profound shower and posted this on LinkedIn:
saar.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM