People want to learn about Meshtastic! We had a big turnout for NoVALUG’s April meeting, and we were rewarded with a great presentation. Thank you Lenley Ngo! (https://louisianamesh.org/)

The IETF Now Has an Open Source Team

The IESG, the steering group for the IETF, has created an IETF Open Source team. This gives open source communities an avenue to schedule sessions and create IETF mailing lists.

“Rough consensus and running code” has long been the unofficial motto of the IETF. While “running code” has traditionally referred to implementation experience, today a significant portion of that code is developed and maintained in open source communities. This reflects a deep-seated recognition that the Internet’s stability relies on the vital relationship between open source software and standardized protocols.

Having a little going away with an old boss and came up with the phrase:

"Changing jobs is just 'same fire, different dumpster.'"

How do i get a trademark on this.

LLMs seem to be confused by reverse dns domains and IP hierarchy.

I have hit peak 2026: using an AI agent to write specification files for other AI agents.

Happy Easter! With my Lenten YouTube fast over, I see that #opencode content has gone from “not much” to “discovered by tech influencers”.

Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

On plane #3 to home from IETF 125. I am exhausted. Shenzhen was nice. It is a clean, friendly city and very affordable.

IETF 125 in Shenzhen

I had an interesting conversation during the IETF hackathon with people getting heavily into coding with AI. To get AI to work for serious projects, they need to write down a lot of assumptions and other information, the observation being that they are now documenting things they should have written down for their junior engineers but didn't... but now that the AI needs this information, they are doing it.

Which, from an economic standpoint, is totally backwards assuming that a junior engineer costs a lot more than an AI.

Schools shouldn't be training centers for proprietary software.
https://www.korte.co/gyon
#Education #opensource

Adventures in Meshtastic

I’ve always wanted to play around with LoRa and Meshtastic to see what it can do. Thanks to a little prodding by @emacdona I bought a pair of cheap, Heltec kits.

I seriously have no idea what I am doing here, but managed to futz my way through flashing one of the devices. I let it run over night and woke up to 128 nodes discovered. Pretty interesting.

If you think that that orchestrated AIs creating Pull Requests is a problem, wait until they start trying to be LinkedIn influencers.

Phillip Hallam-Baker has defined the term "Superficial Intelligence" (SI), which better describes the artificial intelligence we are currently experiencing.

https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/HuQyJJHCF0y9Lrr543WQah63MQs/

I maintain pypandoc — 14M downloads/month, used by Adobe, Google, Microsoft, Apple, OpenAI and many more.

I just overhauled my sponsorship pages. If you or your company depend on open source infrastructure (you do), here's how to help keep it maintained:

💛 https://github.com/sponsors/JessicaTegner

Open source has a free-rider problem. You can be part of the solution.

#OpenSource #Python #FOSS #FundOpenSource

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

Apparently I was not supposed to eat all the Girl Scout cookies. Some of these house rules are downright complicated.

I am noticing bot accounts hitting GitHub repos and approving (not merging, but approving) PRs. The GitHub docs on how to stop non-collaborators from doing this are difficult to understand. So far I have resorted to old-fashioned branch protection. Has anybody with a divining rod figured out the #github permissions to specifically address this issue?

Rust implementation of Mistral's Voxtral Mini 4B Realtime runs in your browser (github.com/trevors)

https://github.com/TrevorS/voxtral-mini-realtime-rs

#rustlang #programming #browser