Gentoo Linux Plans Migration from GitHub Over ‘Attempts to Force Copilot Usage for Our Repositories’
Gentoo Linux posted its 2025 project retrospective this week. Some interesting details:
Mostly because of the continuous attempts to force Copilot usage for our repositories, Gentoo currently considers and plans the migration of our repository mirrors and pull request contrib … ⌘ Read more
Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL, & More While Pulling In Just $12k USD
The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors… ⌘ Read more
Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026
The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026… ⌘ Read more
That small sliver of time where a QNX desktop was a real thing we did
Bradford Morgan White has published an excellent retrospective of QNX, the realtime microkernel operating system focused on embedded use cases. The final paragraph made me sad, though. QNX is a fascinating operating system. It was extremely well designed from the start, and while it has been rewritten, the core ideas that allowed it survive for 45 years persist to this day. While I am sad that … ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2024 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/29/review-2024.html #retrospective #newyear
On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2023 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2023/12/31/review-2023.html #retrospective #newyear
How we work: inclusive retrospectives for the GitHub Accessibility leadership team
Learn about tools and processes the GitHub Accessibility leadership team uses for retrospectives that fully engage every team member. ⌘ Read more
On my blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2022 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2022/12/25/review-2022.html #retrospective #newyear
in retrospect, i do remember expecting some message about “yes, you passed the test, you were actually living in a lie”, but i think that died when nobody gave me a bad grade for taking too long to become vegetarian. maybe veganism…
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@movq would it be possible to trim the subject to, say, 100 or 140 characters? Just the subject.
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If
Subjectcontains the full twt, then you can skim over conversations just by reading those lines in mutt’s index pager
Yes, I do the same, true.
So I decided: Okay, let’s have mutt do it.
And Mutt does it well. I agree it was/is a good idea.
The subject lines are already “compressed”
I noticed, yes.
I am not sure why I asked to begin with; in retrospect, in was a silly request. Perhaps the OCD in me got triggered while viewing rich headers, on a specific twt, when I saw the huge subject line that is, otherwise, always hidden.
Anyway, don’t mind me, move along. 😂
On the blog: 🔭 Looking Back on 2020 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/12/27/year.html #retrospective #newyear
It absolutely shocked me when, in a documentary about their history, Kurt refered to Information Society as ‘disco’, but in retrospect it makes perfect sense: the early 80s was right next to the late 70s, literally.
A Retrospective on PAIP http://www.norvig.com/Lisp-retro.html
Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html
The BeOS file system, an OS geek retrospective | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/the-beos-filesystem/