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Xavier
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Artist & programmer based in Brussels. Leftist, queer, genderqueer, vegan, BLM, free Palestine, anticapitalist, etc. I speak French and English.

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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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[flowchart] What OS should you use? do you hate yourself? yes: windows, linux, macos no: burn your computer
January 11, 2026 at 2:19 AM
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
has anyone made an Emacs/Lisp Machine but with JavaScript? this must exist right? seems obvious
January 10, 2026 at 12:04 PM
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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
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"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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bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.
venn diagram. circles labeled "Angled lines" and "Different angled lines", they are filled with patterns of slightly different angled lines. the intersecting area is labeled Moire pattern and indeed has a moire pattern in it.
January 2, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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martijnk.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy
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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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/
A pixel art drawing of a guitar against a wall, with a fly in the air next to it. The drawing is in 1-bit black and white.
December 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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dantheclamman.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
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
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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
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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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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
A vertical aspect ratio cover for a "Spotify Wrapped" style thing, with Google's branding: Here's your Incognito Mode Rewind! Let's take a look at whet[sic] got up to when you thought no one was watching! (an incognito mode icon is placed in the corner)
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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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
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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.
A screenshot of the Calibre release changelog. It reads: New features - Allow asking AI questions about any book in your calibre library. Right click the "View" button and choose "Discuss selected book(s) with AI" - AI: Allow asking Al what book to read next by right clicking on a book and using the "Similar books” menu - AI: Add a new backend for "LM Studio" which allows running various Al models locally
December 6, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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Seems like the internet is having a cloud flare-up again
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
battlestar galactica, but everyone is a muppet except gaius
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
If you (rightfully) hate Nix's `with`, here's an alternative
Nix code: using = pkgs: builtins.map (key: if builtins.typeOf key == "string" then builtins.getAttr key pkgs else key); # Used like: buildInputs = using pkgs [ "cargo" "rustc" some-custom-script ];
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
xavier.sunny.garden.ap.brid.gy
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