Drew DeVault

33 years old and I just wrote my first Perl program

Is this just my experience or has everyone else who has attempted to build a distribution from scratch suffered for ncurses

Important note on the choice to make a list of "weird little guys": calling someone weird is not defamation. Also, as many have pointed out, making them look silly and embarrassing and lame is a big bonus point. And, it makes the scope broad enough to include fascists, bigots, weirdos from all stripes of life.

I spent like two hours today racking my brain for a decent way to build a simple frontend/backend website that would inspire some joy rather than just be digging through slop, and... I just couldn't. Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Elixir, even .NET, it's all just infested with slop. I looked at Rust and the predominant web thing is Actix which is... mostly written by Claude, now. Linux is slop and Linus espouses the now-default view among leaders in FOSS and tech, which is ethics are not up for discussion, so fall in line and keep up with the changing world. The major BSDs are slop. It's all fucking slop, everywhere, too much to fork, software no one can live without. I went to the zoo the other day and walked out of a David Attenborough documentary because the whole fucking thing was AI-generated.

Here it is, now I *do* have a list! Weird little guys of FOSS: https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

✨ new batch of weirdos ✨ I fleshed out some more of DHH's network, adding rails core team member and Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke. Next.js CEO Guillermo Rauch, now added to the list, was recently pictured with war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu. I also found some better sources to make the case for Louis Rossman's inclusion, so he made the cut, too. Spread the word! https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

Otherwise I might just paste the logos of all of these weirdos' corporate sponsors on the weirdo list page

Is anyone interested in whipping up "bubbles.town except FOSS and not slopware" with me? Only looking for people who can actually put in the time.

Is it practical to write Rust without a language server?

I've just finished rolling out one of the longest-awaited features on #SourceHut: navigating around projects on each service. A git repository, for instance, now has links back to the project page it belongs to, plus the related mailing lists and bug trackers, other git/hg repos, and so on. Check it out: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare

Google Play Device Integrity seriously needs to be regulated out of existence

Someone acting all faschy said they didn't care if they were added to "Drew's list", and it made me think... I should make a list. Who should I not forget to put on that list? ❗ Answer in DM only please❗

So, I guess I need to add that in addition to being slop-free, Vim Classic is explicitly antifascist and does not associate with fascists or care for endorsements from them.

Strange things are afoot in Drew's Hare tree https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/hare-dev/%3CDLFZNYDQPQVS.E2SKHWBHAHCH@ddevault.org%3E #harelang

Been cooking something up for a few weeks

@Turre@mementomori.social https://github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md