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Wait why didn't anyone tell me about vim macros

Parsing JSON in go is such a minefield. Oh you wanted numbers other than float64? Better remember to UseNumber or you might get a runtime error!

This week’s high‑profile outages made headlines, but the 2025 Uptime Institute Outage Analysis shows a different picture: overall data center outage frequency and severity keep declining even as the need for infrastructure explodes.

When a shiny new bit of tech is released I like to find the version that IBM built a decade ago as reference material - what limitations did it have? How did it evolve?

Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:

I came across this architecture diagram from OpenNext and ... This just seems wildly over complicated as a means to serve some HTML and JS

@render.com just announced $80M in new funding[1] - we're doing some outstandingly cool things in what has been a very stagnant area. If you're starting something new, give us a try, I think you'll like it [1] render.com/blog/series-c

A new year to some 1735689600 to others

So dark mode in Google Calendar is great and all, but how did these borders make it to production???

Pretty happy with day 1, nim was a pleasant surprise! github.com/cal-smith/ao... #AdventOfCode

I know! I'll use nix to manage my #AdventOfCode dependencies! *several hours of confusion pass* Well, I can finally compile, so that's nice

Nothing like spending hours debugging network issues only to have it be a bad config on your local machine

I've been reworking our react-router set up for the last few weeks, and I really wish there was a clean way to type route loaders

Me hammering a stack of papers to the door of 1 Hacker Way: GraphQL sucks and here's 95 reasons why

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One moment you think you have it together, and then you buy a new vacuum cleaner

The annual spider eviction is complete, and their winter residence has been constructed

The app should rename to Nightsky when dark mode is active

Ergonomic chairs make you question the nature of comfort Normal chairs provide the definition

Witnessing someone use the Apple Vision Pro in public feels like an appropriate way to end this trip

Using a hook as a controller and providing a nice API to manage the internal state is such an awesome pattern

Ah yes, exactly what I needed for my infestation of extraordinarily long worms

Microsoft: every binary will be supported for eternity, we have covered edge cases not yet seen in this reality Also Microsoft: your Xbox will forget the time and date if it's unplugged

code's haunted

Baffled by how awful the Google APIs and surrounding documentation are

More #aurora

AURORA BOREALIS

AST to AST transforms are probably my favorite thing right now

deno compile is fantastic, just throw a (cross compiled!) binary on a server and run it

Staging environments are often a false sense of security - really you now need two rollout plans, and still have to derisk the production deployment

So, for fun, I rewrote bufo.zone in Go. It more than halved my memory usage, and the P99 response times dropped by 175ms (200 - 25)

It's only tech debt if dealing with it is never prioritized

I've been writing some plain old JS for a side project, and it's _fine_, but I really miss how easy data and event handling can be with react/vue/etc

Reading the docs for bluesky, it strikes me how much we're moving back to a heavy client model

Hot Take Driven Development - only the takes with the most chili pepper emojis are implemented