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Saturday November 7th, 2026

Port 0 Dan Lyke / comment 0

Fascinating: The Port That Does Not Exist

Port 0 is the port you are not supposed to use, so nobody looks there. So we put an IRC network on it. Then I got curious whether anyone else had, and scanned all of IPv4 for port 0. Turns out we weren't alone, and some of our neighbours really shouldn't be there.

The Great Highway’s neighbors flipped Dan Lyke / comment 0

SF Standard: The Great Highway’s neighbors flipped and saved the park they once hated.

As Marc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social noted:

I hope political leaders in #Berkeley and everywhere else read and take the lesson from this story, which is repeated *all* *the* *time* for changes that remove car infrastructure: people hate those changes in theory and love them in practice!

Friday November 6th, 2026

Running the profiler see 600 ms spent Dan Lyke / comment 1

Running the profiler, see 600 ms spent in `[NSISO8601DateFormatter dateFromString:…]`

The thing is, I don’t know how to create an NSDate object any faster...

precipisatan Dan Lyke / comment 0

A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party

Me: Hail Satan

Friend: Huh?

Me: Snow Satan

Friend: WTF?

Me: Rain Satan

Friend: What are you babbling on about you loon.

Me: I'm hoping for some precipisatan.


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