I have laryngitis, so my voice is effectively gone. And frustrating as it is to not be able to speak, I'm beginning to appreciate the kind of accessibility options we now have. There's texting, of course, but I've started making phone calls using Apple's Live Speech.

The more change descriptions focus on the purpose and intent (the "why") of the code, the more helpful they are during both review and future code archaeology. Code comments are a great place for the nitty-gritty (the "how"). #coding #development #tips #til

"Trust Me: The False Prophet" on #Netflix was incredible. A huge level beyond most of the shows like this, put together by a woman who recently, painstakingly earned the trust of a self-proclaimed "prophet" (pedo) in order to gather enough evidence to help law enforcement put him away. Recommended.

Microsoft’s retiring their legacy Teams Webhook support at the end of April. If, like us, you need to migrate to their new offering, we’ve written a guide:

Code review get discussed as a way to improve code quality. It is, but it's also about helping developers better learn and grow from each other. What #TIL, skill, technique, or gotcha did you first learn from a code review? #development #developers

🤖 Review Bot 4.1 is now out! Review Bot adds on-prem automated code review to Review Board. This release features: ✅ Updates for Cargo, cppcheck, Go, RuboCop ✅ New control over review e-mails ✅ Enhanced infrastructure diagnostics ✅ Installation fixes www.reviewboard.org/news/2026/04...

Too many developers are still stuck in the 1960s. We want to bring them into the 1970s and beyond. Today, we're announcing Punch Card Review, featuring Column Commenting, Drop Detection, Coffee Stain Detection, support for common USB punch card readers, and more. Contact us to learn more.

#Meta is just flooding us with web crawls and completely ignoring robots.txt.

We're live! Come join us! Q&A welcome :)

Going live in just 30 minutes with Justin Khan at twitch.tv/chipx86 #Twitch #games #gamedev #Atari

Our server just got taken down by a significant amount of traffic. What was notable is that it was all going through CloudFront -- and our server is not behind CloudFront. Someone else set that up and scanned through it. The X-Forwarded-For headers were available. It was Meta.

I’ll be on #Twitch tomorrow with Justin Khan from #Atari / Night Dive. He’s the producer of System Shock Remake. We’ll be discussing the #gamedev industry, development practices, sharing stories, and whatever else we come up with. Starting around 3PM PST at twitch.tv/chipx86. Follow to be notified

Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Threads... I find I don't post often anymore because it's just so dang time-consuming to engage everywhere. Are other people using any tools to post across their personal accounts? I'm not interested in scheduling/analytics.

Review Board 7.0.5 is now ready to install! Featuring: > Installer support for more Linux distributions > Linking repositories with the new Bitbucket API tokens > Improved syntax highlighting > Bug fixes and hardened security deps www.reviewboard.org/news/2026/03... #releases #development

Good #Lego set. Small neighborhood square with small neighborhood problems. #ducks

I have just released some patches for the NES game Deadly Towers to make the experience a little more palatable, One just speeds up transitions and stops repeated music tracks restarting, the other adds no knockback and iframes on room entry. Enjoy! #NES #DeadlyTowers github.com/refractionpc...

Going live in 10 minutes (3PM PST) on Twitch with Justin Khan from #Atari/Night Dive. We'll be talking #gaming, #gamedev, retro games, modding, and who knows what else. twitch.tv/chipx86

Decided it was time to build a new mechanical watch. I was careful to watch my steps, tick each box. Thought I messed up for a second, but in the end I had to hand it to myself… it wound up looking pretty good!

Did a little coloring while watching @hungrygoriya.bsky.social's stream last night showcasing SNES Maps volume 2 by @retrogamebooks.com. The coloring book is a lot of fun 🙂 Takes me back to childhood.

So happy to land #Jujutsu support in RBTools. This will work with existing #Git repositories in Review Board, giving users a choice as to how they want to get their work done locally.

Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵

After about 2 weeks of mostly being in bed with no energy thanks to #COVID, I finally had my first negative test. Feeling so much better than I did two days ago. Back to getting the next major version of @reviewboard.org ready to release.

Finally got COVID, after so many years of avoiding it.

TeleSUR, #Venezuela live TV (English): famelack.com/ve/ZmbVMIEhv...

Ah good. I should give that a try then.

Some of us speak of putting 64GB of RAM in a machine for cheap, but others will have no memory of this.

It’s good seeing restaurants begin to computerize. I really think it’s the future. #commodore #bakedpotatoes

My report today has information relevant to anyone in California.

If we're gonna get a watercooled iPhone, the least they could do is stick one of these on the back. Actually, hold on. I have a case idea.

Wrote a long one today. Can you tell I tried very hard to be professional, despite circumstances?

#Python Tip: pprint.saferepr() can be used to help compare string representations of dictionaries in unit tests. Useful when asserting debug logs containing dictionary data. chipx86.blog/2025/08/26/u... #blog #til

We've long supported putting any kind of file in Review Board, and are working to greatly expand the types of files we can render and diff for you — including in the diff viewer! Support for reviewing Office documents natively is coming very soon.

With #GitHub moving into the CoreAI division at #Microsoft, are you sticking around or planning a move? Most all-in-one products don't focus on code review like we do. If you're planning a move, plan to give Review Board a try. www.geekwire.com/2025/github-...

#TIL that #vim has a built-in debugger, where you can set breakpoints, get backtraces, and more for your vim configuration and plugins. Using this to figure out why a random plain Python string in a file I'm not even opening is breaking my tabstop width.

I had a few things to say in today’s update, due to recent news updates and some comments I’ve received. Let the backlash commence.

I need to figure out the elliptical curve points on a series of ephemeral ECDSA private keys I used in unit test data so I don't have to regenerate the payloads. Anyone have a 5000-qubit quantum computer I can borrow?

If()-based conditional styling is coming to #CSS, but you can already do this today with CSS Variables. We use it to more easily support light mode, dark mode, high-contrast mode, and component states. Here's how it works. chipx86.blog/2025/08/08/w... #webdev #blog

The rumors are true. #Jujutsu support is coming to @reviewboard.org. lobste.rs/s/foh4ch/juj...

A nice little release that brings some requested #SAML improvements. Review Board does NOT charge a SSO Tax, because security is too important for that. We've been a bit quiet lately as we've worked toward the next major Review Board release, which we're starting to wrap up now.

“New software releases will only take me an hour or two,” I lie to myself every time.

Been working on a new feature for @ReviewBoard extension developers. TemplateHooks today let extensions inject arbitrary HTML into parts of the page, but now we're making this more flexible via a new Page State Injectors feature, as part of our Djblets for Django project.

Livestream of the town nearest where the 8.8 #earthquake occurred, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, #Russia. Faces West into the Bay. webcams.windy.com/webcams/stre...

😷 Saturday, July 26, 2025 COVID report for Butte County, CA bc19.live A couple updates: 1. Wastewater data for Butte County remains in High to Very High levels. 2. The dashboard now includes wastewater data: bc19.live I'll go over both.

Moved my BlueSky handle to my domain (@chipx86.com). I can confirm BlueSky reserves the old .bsky.app handle, (during registration, it claims my old handle is free, but then it later tells me it's reserved). Good :D Old handle doesn't redirect though, which means all old links are busted. Bad D:

As COVID begins to trend up once again in California and in Butte County, I'll be resuming my COVID reporting at: Twitter/X: x.com/bc19live Facebook: www.facebook.com/bc19.live Mastodon: mastodon.online/@bc19live

How much do you know about #Python functions, their signatures, and their typing? Do you know how unbound vs. bound methods differ and how to tell them apart? Do you know how unbound methods become bound methods? Do you know how to type-annotate all this? chipx86.blog/2025/07/12/a... #blog #til

Happy 20th birthday Django! I'm celebrating by publishing an annotated version of the talk I gave about Django's Origins ten years ago at Django's 10th birthday party in Lawrence, Kansas simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/13/...

How much do you know about #Python functions, their signatures, and their typing? Do you know how unbound vs. bound methods differ and how to tell them apart? Do you know how unbound methods become bound methods? Do you know how to type-annotate all this? chipx86.blog/2025/07/12/a... #blog #til

I'm starting to feel self-conscious about using em dashes ("—") in text. Been using them for years — I like them! — but now people associate them with AI. Going to start using em-dashed-commas instead —, I think that'll stand out as human more. Wrong —, but human.

I've always had a ton of respect for @simonwillison.net's blog (read it! simonwillison.net) and his TIL blog. Been wanting to get back into writing and blogging. Spent time cleaning up my blog, working on some new posts. Here's today's: chipx86.blog/2025/06/29/t... #Python #blog #til