Brian Follas @SenexDev

@MatthewBerman A way to spend all your tokens faster and give your money to OpenAI, Anthropic and friends.

Great video! youtube.com/watch?v=Qxft3E…

"You're asking me how a watch works... for now, let's just keep an eye on the time." It's a great line because it's not really about watches. On the surface, she's asking for a detailed explanation of something really complex. His response is essentially: "The explanation is complicated, and understanding every mechanism isn't necessary right now. Focus on the outcome, not the internals." The watch metaphor works because everyone understands the difference between: - Knowing what time it is. - Knowing how a watch actually works. Most people can use a watch perfectly well without understanding gears, escapements, balance wheels, or quartz crystals. For young people, apprentices, junior engineers, new managers, or anyone entering a new field, there's a deeper lesson: - Expertise comes in layers When you're new, you often want the entire mental model immediately. You ask: - Why are we doing it this way? - What does every part do? - What are all the dependencies? - What happens under every possible condition? Those are good questions. But sometimes the answer would require six months of background knowledge to make sense. It's great to be curious, as long as sometimes you're willing to accept that the answer is "I can't explain it all to you right now." An experienced person may effectively be saying: "You're asking a valid question, but you're asking it several chapters before the book has introduced the necessary concepts." That can be hard when you're young and driven!

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The XLibre team just sent out a press release celebrating their one year anniversary of forking from Xorg. Among the list of accomplishments and new features… quote really stood out at me: “XLibre is the most actively developed community-maintained X11 display server.” As wild as that is, for a project which is only one year old, it appears to be true. When looking at development and releases, it’s clear that XLibre is more actively developed than Xorg. By a mile.

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One man. One lab. One language. He built the foundation of EVERYTHING. You've used his code every single day of your life ~ and never knew his name. 🤯 Meet Dennis Ritchie 🇺🇸 > American computer scientist. Born 1941 in New York. > Studied physics at Harvard, then joined Bell Labs in 1967. > Early 1970s: created the C programming language. > Co-built the Unix operating system with Ken Thompson. > Rewrote Unix in C ~ proving an OS didn't need assembly. > That one decision shaped the next 50 years of computing. > Today Unix and its descendants run Linux, macOS, iOS, and Android. > Your phone, laptop, car, and bank are all built on his work. > C still powers the kernels running the entire internet. 🚀 > Nearly every major language since borrowed from C ~ C++, Java, Python, JS, Go. > Co-wrote the book that taught the world "Hello, world." > Won the Turing Award. Stayed humble, quiet, and out of the spotlight. > Never got rich. Never chased fame. Just built the substrate of it all. He died in October 2011 ~ days after Steve Jobs. The world mourned Jobs. Almost no one noticed the man whose code Jobs's entire empire ran on. Most engineers want to be seen. He built the things you can't see. The original GOAT. 🐐

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I recall this was the reason why Windows NT 4.0 was the most stable and polished release - force to use it since some alpha stage also as development platform. Sources: - archive.seattletimes.com/archive/199410… - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_yo… 1/x

Ivon Huang @Ivon852

5 days ago

I really hope the FreeBSD Foundation’s Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project (LSU), which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, can improve the situation for desktop users. But first, we need to drag all the core #FreeBSD developers back and

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I really hope the FreeBSD Foundation’s Laptop Support and Usability Improvements Project (LSU), which has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in investment, can improve the situation for desktop users. But first, we need to drag all the core #FreeBSD developers back and force them to use FreeBSD as their main desktop OS, so they can truly feel the pain. Everyone gets a ThinkPad. No more remote development from MacBooks. Same do the Linux desktop developers use Linux laptops. I heard OpenBSD developers actually use their own system as a desktop OS, and that’s how they manage to keep the quality high.

YES YES YES!

vermaden @vermaden

3 weeks ago

As #FreeBSD plans to include 'One Button KDE Install' thingy in 15.2-RELEASE they should choose SonicDE KDE fork and SonicDE KDE Plasma Login Manager fork instead of official ones as they properly support X11 environments.

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FreeBSD OSS is posix, uncomplicated, and very supported with virtual OSS capability moved into base, some extensions for specific needs now in ports. freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journ…

As FreeBSD PKGBASE moves faster then its documentation - some light on these: - *.pkgnew - *.pkgsave - .pkgtemp.* #freebsd #PKGBASE vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/05/10/fre…

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Sometimes the best medicine is a song that reminds us we’re not alone. The Band performing “The Weight” at The Last Waltz (1978) is pure soul — warm, powerful, and deeply human. A beautiful reminder that we all carry something heavy, but together, the load always feels lighter. Music like this doesn’t just entertain… it heals. ❤️

A LIFE HACK Be Generous and Kind. Do it with modesty. God will notice, and rewards will come.

Jordan Peterson has the best responses to these demoralizing forces and liar who attack masculinity, and men. Besides listening to Peterson and watching the small video I attached, I urge young me to read his books, and never ever give up. Read about great brave men too. Finally about women, and culture, I strongly suggest they save money and travel to Latin America, or Asia where men are still appreciated.

My son called from college just to say he loves me. He never does that, I booked a flight without telling him a world. His roommate opened the dorm door and froze when he saw me standing there, I pushed pass him and saw.....

First time logging into a Windows machine in 10+ years. Just verifying hardware on a new box before wiping it for FreeBSD. I immediately received a "Welcome to Microsoft Cashback" email. I didn't sign up for anything. I logged into my machine. Reminded me why the wipe was the plan all along.

really cool to see @ThePrimeagen react to our Andrew Kelley / Zig interview live and say the Zig’s no-AI policy finally makes sense to him after hearing Andrew explain it. as the showrunner for this episode couldn't be happier to see this reaction!

QEMU accelerated with bhyve vmm (Virtual Machine Monitor) on FreeBSD - Ongoing Work by Mario Zio #FreeBSD #Virtualization forums.freebsd.org/threads/booted…