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systemctl-tui feature: canned descriptions for popular systemd units, because "Run anacron jobs" means nothing unless you already know anacron
After ~10 back and forths with Sol, a pretty good GTK+Rust systemd GUI. Like, I think most distros could ship this and it would be a big improvement on the CLI-for-everything status quo. Maybe the Year of the Linux Desktop isn't so far off after all
Plus a big investment in testing. Containerized test suite that exercises several different distros and systemd versions; good example of the "tests that you otherwise wouldn’t have written because they are too tedious" thing from crespo.business/posts/not-cu...
New systemctl-tui version. Remote support, extensive mouse+clipboard support, more info about services, status filters, and a bunch of bugfixes github.com/rgwood/syste...
That’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time. For a while he was running a (pretty good!) German restaurant here in Vancouver. (and hooooo boy that movie 😬)
good post by Jamie Brandon (but I repeat myself) www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/im-n...
One gets the impression that Google doesn't actually *want* people using their MCP servers
this is very good, I encounter a lot of people who have not figured this out yet www.seangoedecke.com/build-agents...
Yes, a million times this point by @simonwillison.net The term “coding agent” is really misleading in that it focuses on the process not the outcome simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/...
Unprompted, my mom started talking about how Google is not very smart so she's probably going to switch to Claude for her genealogy hobby
taking a look at my large blocklist and there are fewer anime avatars than expected. I regret the error
Is this new? Claude web UI is showing an artifact in line instead of in the side panel. Nice UX but a little buggy
basically I think there is a category of things that work like car dashboards (always on, see high level info at a glance) and I want more of them in my life; iStat Menus is the best digital version of this I've found
little CO2 monitor that lasts a year on battery has been an excellent purchase; wondering what else I should buy/build to better quantify the world around me. real-time visibility into electricity use might be interesting
I get Google alerts for my name (unusual spelling) and man, Gen Z British Reilly Wood is going down a very different path
Jan 2025: @simonwillison.net mentions that Gemini and Amazon are profitable on inference (presumably at API pricing). Seems important to distinguish between inference and training when talking about the economics of AI www.latent.space/p/2024-simonw
This is good and the bit about the borrow checker tracks; I think "first, here's how the borrow checker works!" tutorials do more harm than good blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/r...
"12.6 % of all users block at least one other user. Of these, the average user blocks 2 other users" I'm at nearly 10,000 😅