It needn't be a totally impossible problem we assign him. I'd be happy if his dad could remove the Python global interpreter lock or reverse some cell-phone wifi chipsets.

"Oh, I don't know how json-ld works, I'm just implementing it from the spec", I said

Construction equipment and even orange cones in the street in front of the Internet Archive.

I think this post is a hoax, @Richard Fontana probably broke into @Bradley M. Kuhn's account as a parody.

Funny joke, Fontana! But you're not fooling anyone.

Mrs Manners says to click it 12 times in this situation.

I'd vote @bkuhn for president!

Whether or not you like systemd (I am mostly positive, have some mixed feelings, explained below, but am mostly uninformed enough to just trust others' decisions), nobody is doing a better job of making systemd look good than the anti-systemd crowd right now.

I trust the Debian process, and systemd looks good for a lot of things. I actually do share some worries others have, but not too strongly (I wonder: what will Guix do if applications become more systemd dependent... will the project give up on GNU dmd as an init system? And also, will this make it hard for "container'ed" applications a-la docker harder? (Answer seems to be yes)). But I will also fully say: I just don't know enough. And again, having watched the Debian process from here, for Debian, I couldn't be more sure that the process went well. And I would love to convert my init scripts over to systemd's init system, that stuff looks a lot nicer.

Nonetheless, I'm nervous to express any of the above... it's hard to not look like I'm not some kind of anti-systemd person. And given that the anti-systemd crowd seems to be about as poisonous as (and even seems to share actual overlap with) "gamergate" type poisonous people... well... who wants to be associated with those jerks?

And whether or not concerns I have are founded/unfounded, I hope systemd and friends continue to improve... it certainly seems like valuable software in most respects.

BTW, I couldn't care less about the "unix philosophy"... my favorite programs seem to be Emacs, Firefox/Iceweasel, Blender, which are all attacked for violating the Unix philosophy, and all work great, maybe even because of it.

I'm following Carrot Quinn's trail blog this summer as she hikes the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. I highly recommend it. It's the best trail journal I can remember.

http://carrotquinn.com/

I read trail blogs and diaries for descriptions like these:

I don’t see another soul all day. By the time I reach the snow-filled valley beneath Pinchot pass, I feel like the most alone person on earth. I am a tiny, solitary speck in all this wilderness. The snow is soft in the afternoon sun and I posthole my way over the surface of the earth, my legs sinking into the snow, the crusty top layer scratching and cutting my calves. I’m headed in the direction of what I think is the trail, feeling more alone than I’ve felt in ages.

Climbing bright granite staircases in the syrupy yellow sun to lakes so clear, deep and untouched that you can hardly believe your eyes. Pine-covered ridges looking out over lush, secret canyons where the only sounds are the mule’s ears opening and the water trickling through the grass.

And for the vicarious thrills..

I don’t know if it’s because I’m so pumped or because it’s almost too dark to see, but I don’t feel sketched out at all as I crawl, hand over hand, up the crumbling face of the mountain. The weight of my pack pushes me into the dirt and rock and I feel held there, safe.

There is, of course, no trail going down the mountain. There are instead immense, steep snowfields, slopes of tumbled boulders, and rushing water. Normally I’d be able to look down the slope and try and guess where to go- but it’s full dark now, and I can only see what’s in front of my headlamp. [...] There is loose scree, running water, more snow. I look at what’s in front of my headlamp and I work my way downward.

But also for the slices of life..

Twig builds a morning fire. Twig makes a fire every morning and every evening- he also carries an external frame pack, which he wears without a shirt, and has a mullet. I like to pretend that Twig is LARP-ing 1970′s National Geographic, and that he has to stay in character.

I'm at the library, and sitting across the table is Oliver Charles. He's got academic papers about all things functional programming, category theory (and bitcoin!?) scattered all over, and I'm idly leafing through them.

Except it's 2014, so what I'm really doing here (at the meatspace library with a kid reading guiness word records across from me) is git clone https://github.com/ocharles/papers; git annex get, while saying hi to ocharles in #haskell on IRC.