@polyglotamus.io - Jan Vladimir Mostert

21 Aug 2026 04:53 +0000

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17 Aug 2026 17:38 +0000

skibidi toilet is just modern dadaism

15 Aug 2026 14:36 +0000

null as NodeFilter? --> Unchecked cast null.unsafeCast --> 👍 Usually any problem in KotlinJs can be fixed with asDynamic ... looks under the hood of unsafeCast ... inline fun Any?.unsafeCast(): T = this.asDynamic() 😂

03 May 2026 10:56 +0000

Found an old email that somehow got snoozed till the year 3000

29 Mar 2026 11:26 +0000

I never understood why this is a feature that's being marketed? Does anyone actually use their laptop this way?

21 Mar 2026 16:13 +0000

when I used to do PC repairs as a student, every PC had a different BIOS key so I had to do something similar + try the delete key if that didn't work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

26 Feb 2026 19:16 +0000

Multi-Field Value Classes, yes please! https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/blob/main/proposals/KEEP-0454-better-immutability-value-classes-MFVC.md

17 Jan 2026 11:47 +0000

I thought the whole RAM prices thing was a meme; the same 128GB of RAM that cost me less than €500 now sells for over €2000 a year later 😱 Good thing I don't need more RAM!

04 Jan 2026 09:25 +0000

I've translated a JavaScript library to KotlinJs so I can get rid of the external dependency on npm. The project has an ISC + MIT license: is it good enough to have the licenses copied and pasted into the .kt files and reference the original project in the README? This is for a non-OS project

04 Jan 2026 09:07 +0000

It's been snowing for two days and several more days of snow predicted. Usually it snows for a day and then it just melts away. This was Saturday morning, got my first cycling on snow / ice experience.

03 Jan 2026 17:41 +0000

Building a Kotlin compiler plugin is magic when it works, but getting it there is such a tedious process.

08 Dec 2025 17:33 +0000

Happy to see a new Linux phone! [contains quote post or other embedded content]

20 Oct 2025 09:55 +0000

Poisoning attacks require a near-constant number of documents regardless of model size. In our experimental setup with models up to 13B parameters, just 250 malicious documents were sufficient to successfully backdoor models. https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

23 Sep 2025 18:26 +0000

"we have updated our Terms & Conditions" ... log into account, generate a proxy email service@myproxydomain, change email to service@myproxydomain, turn off email forwarding ... bliss

13 Sep 2025 13:49 +0000

B-tree skip scans, UUIDv7, and AsyncIO are some of my favorite new features coming to Postgres18 https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/get-excited-about-postgres-18

01 Sep 2025 17:51 +0000

Woohoo!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eeQGRQ-dXc [contains quote post or other embedded content]

24 Aug 2025 12:15 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlflyw7X2I