Tom: “Pastéis mode is a /dev/null tribute to Portuguese custard pa…”

Tom @tom7h

Pastéis mode is a /dev/null tribute to Portuguese custard pastries, or pastéis de nata. Fernando Andrade (@fernandofreamunde) brought them to the team during the livestream, so the pastel emoji and mode commemorate that. In practice: enable it in Settings, then Profile, and you get 10 pastéis a day (reset at 00:00 UTC) to give to other people's commits. They don't notify anyone or affect Trending, and you can't award your own commit. https://github.com/dev-null-sh/dev-null.sh/pull/286

11:51 PM · Oct 23, 2026commit 731d5be

Garrett W.@garrettw7h

Ah, so it's like Reddit awards but without costing money. Nice!

Garrett W.@garrettw7h

Whoa, I see that turning it on means all occurrences of that word get replaced with the emoji. Might not always be wanted.

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