@Thain @matuzo @knowler so jealous! I’ll check out Gummo. Wormrot played in LA but I’m pretty sure it was the same night I saw Fleshwater and Chat Pile in Hollywood. I saw Nails a couple weeks ago in a small auditorium (it was their first time playing locally in 13 years) https://youtu.be/FJU1TFGMv2A
@Drwave I was so sorry to hear about Ralph Eggleston’s passing. My brother-in-law went to high school with him, so I would always look for his name in Pixar credits and “art of” books.
What keeps some #programminglanguages relevant for decades while others fade away? 💻 🤔
In Part 1 of this Andrew Oram series, explore the different paths of C, C++, C#, #JavaScript, #Java, #Rust, #PHP, #COBOL, #FORTRAN, #BASIC, #Perl, and others 👇
You can now take the paper-based #LinuxEssentials 2.0 beta exam from Linux Professional Institute (LPI) at #FrOSCon ‘26, Aug. 15-16, in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
I tend to write everything in Obsidian, but I've built my own CRUD CMS so I'll post from anywhere. When I do post from my phone it's more often status updates or noting a concert while I'm at the venue.
🕷️ A new spider species discovered in the Ecuadorian Amazon disguises itself as a zombie fungus — the first known case of a spider mimicking a deadly parasite.
When herpetologist Alexander Bentley poked what looked like a Gibellula fungus-covered spider corpse in the rainforest, the "corpse" moved. It turned out to be Taczanowskia waska, a spider that deliberately grows tendril-like tubercles from its abdomen to look like it has already been killed by the fungus. It even sits motionless on leaf undersides, exactly where infected spiders are found.
The disguise likely serves two purposes: predators avoid what seems like a fungus-ridden corpse, and prey do not recognize the spider as a threat. Taczanowskia spiders are webless — they use enlarged claws to ambush victims, hiding in plain sight behind a fungal costume.
The discovery was published in Zootaxa in February 2026 and started with a cell phone photo uploaded to iNaturalist.
I’ve been working on cross-platform mobile apps so much recently, had a funny moment while improving some things in Sunlit where I thought, “But how is this going to look on Android…” It’s not! iOS-only Swift app.
