Emma Waeaves

my shoulder is sore :(

writing good shell interfaces is really hard actually

The complexity that exists between actual hardware, operating systems, and compilers is kinda fascinating. There's a quine hiding somewhere in there...

I denormalized the build system today and it made it substantially shorter and easier to understand, and actually counterintuitively reduced the amount of redundant code? It's ~1000 lines rn, including the beginnings of a multicall binary system that makes it easy to build single applets at a time:3

Wait, is it possible to make a shell using only shell scripting? I guess it'd be pretty painful because you'd also need to implement every program you use in the shell too, for it to really count..

I have such mixed feelings about lobste.rs. on one hand, cool tech stuff sometimes! On another hand, way too much low-effort slop recently. Also a general ambivalence towards (read: support of) everything AI and a suppression of criticism towards it.

Nix is my worst nightmare. It's like if you took everything I hate the most and made that the *only* thing there was (unrelatedly to the previous vaguing)

my website (y1.nz) exploded bc I stopped paying hetzner bc idfc. I will be putting up a very terse replacement and probably generally being more private on the internet, in light of the way the internet is going 🕊️

The little thread of old non-shell command-line programs like "mail" & "ftp" & "ed" is really interesting to me. It's a window into a different world. I have mixed feelings about them: they're opaque, and larger than they need to be. But they're also snappy and user-respecting in a way nothing ev->

I tried to use NetBSD and failed to use NetBSD. The installer used a compiled binary program, which was failing out because my screen was too short & of course the man pages were not accessible, and I don't remember what combination of calls one must use with wsconsctl and wsfontload to change the->

JESUS CHRIST gitlab is so fucking bad now Trying to get a git server hosted in a way that wasn't *complete* ass was like the whole point of my journey into low-level shit......... I've come a very long way and holy FUCK do I hate gitlab now. When I had seen it before, I had blamed myself for not->

, certain buttons that open a tab menu onscreen, others that navigate to their own whole separate page of menus, with their own buttons with their own submenus.... Holy Fucking Shit. Also pushing to their https URL was literally giving 500 errors so I had to find (among the aforementioned nested->

JESUS CHRIST gitlab is so fucking bad now Trying to get a git server hosted in a way that wasn't *complete* ass was like the whole point of my journey into low-level shit......... I've come a very long way and holy FUCK do I hate gitlab now. When I had seen it before, I had blamed myself for not->