Notes on 2026W06

Sir Ian McKellan was on Colbert this week. His soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More (a role he debuted in the 60s; it had never been peformed publicly) is incredible and highly relevant to today, despite being 400 years old. Skip ahead to 20:15 or so to see just the soliloquy.

Bye Canada, I’m Going Back Where I Came From about the difficult state many immigrants to Canada find themselves in.

I spent a little time fiddling with Makefiles over the last few weeks. I wrote a BSD Makefile to set up my dotfiles. I’ve written before about Makefiles and the differences between GNU and BSD make.

C Isn’t a Programming Language Anymore explaining the mess that is ABI compatibility and why every programming language eventually boils down to C.

Maple Mono is a friendly, rounded, monospace font. Thanks to James for pointing it out.

California has a new website called DROP to help residents remove their personal data from data brokers.

How Axolotls Took Over the World in the Guardian.

Incidentally, the word “axolotl” is from Nahuatl and its pronunciation is closer to “ah-sho-LOT-l” than how we tend to say it in English. I’ve been practicing saying it that way.