Tree time again!

Important parenting lesson learned: diapers are extremely ineffective if they're not actually on the baby.

@rk Bravo, Texans, and thank you.

@cliffle Yeah, I relished a similar opportunity as well: https://honk.bewilderbeest.net/u/zev/h/c3f4WTFPs1Qh3b2Z35

@trevorflowers I have the same problem with my Framework, and patched my screenlocker to return to sleep automatically if it sits idle for a given duration, which has basically solved the problem for me.

Unfortunately the maintainer refused the patch (https://github.com/i3/i3lock/pull/378) so I'm stuck carrying it locally forever I guess? Sigh.

@cliffle Reading that last sentence up through "C-style" I was totally expecting digraphs or trigraphs; "names" took me quite by surprise.

@rk Our pub trivia usually lets one team (third place? last place? can't remember) pick a special category for the next week; one time when my team ended up in that position I half-seriously lobbied for IEEE-754, but didn't follow through, alas.

@mathew @rk

Upon execution, the binary will call real script interpreter (systemwide, bundled or embeded), and fork a child process to pipe script code to the interpreter to execute.

Ah, but that seems like cheating. My bashc hack generates equivalent C code that calls fork, execve, etc. directly itself; /bin/bash doesn't enter the picture at runtime and the source code isn't present in the executable.

@rk A while back I started toying with implementing the inverse: https://codeberg.org/zevweiss/bashc

I didn't take it terribly far, but getting to the point of being able to bootstrap a shell-to-native-code compiler was fun:

$ cat compiler.sh
./bash --compile /dev/stdout /dev/stdin | gcc -xc - -xnone libbashc.o
$ ./bash compiler.sh < compiler.sh
$ mv a.out shtoelf
$ echo '/bin/echo hello world' | ./shtoelf
$ ./a.out
hello world

And on a related note, recent & ongoing experiences are really bringing into sharp relief the difference between good tests and voluminous tests.

@benjojo I've got my tweaks here, which is based on 1.5.2. The last-tedu-master branch in that repo has the latest from the last fetch I did from Ted's repo, dated 2025-10-17.

@mxshift @nasamuffin @arj

rebase merge -> straightedge,
squash merge -> crushing beer can on forehead?

@rk @brooke wait, is that...not what it is?

@vaurora @brianbilston with a relevant poem: https://mastodon.online/@brianbilston/117211862792354239

@koos I mean, some mics sure...ever held an SM58 in your hand though? There's a reason for it having a reputation as a dual-purpose microphone/hammer.