We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

Wolf Vollprecht and Andrew Nesbitt are co-organizing the Package Managers devroom at FOSDEM 2026, and the schedule is now live. We have nine talks covering supply chain security, dependency resolution, build reproducibility, and the economics of running package registries.

This might be where the Light Phone III’s screen came from.

🤷🏻‍♀️

via: https://members.specialprojects.jp/tgp#note-1741668792385

A rough binary CD-Text parser written in Rust.

uptime monitoring service

One of the first things I say whenever anyone asks me about running exchanges is that if you have more than about 30 people in the exch…

super simple AO3 template for scrivener When I first started using Scrivener it felt really complex and overwhelming, and all the templates were way more complicated than they needed to be. So, I made…

A neat rallying cry for open access.

Abstract The literature on programming languages contains an abundance of informal claims on the relative expressive power of programming languages, but there is no framework for formalizing such statements nor for deriving interesting consequences. As a first step in this direction, we develop a formal notion of expressiveness and investigate its properties. To validate the theory, we analyze some widely held beliefs about the expressive power of several extensions of functional languages. Based on these results, we believe that our system correctly captures many of the informal ideas on expressiveness, and that it constitutes a foundation for further research in this direction.

Find train journeys with the lowest chance of delays, cancellations and missed transfers.