cool job at a very special computer company - write TypeScript and Rust - everyone makes $235k - fully remote - everything is open source

Are you trying to hire in Austin TX, or remotely? Austin Systems is looking for a sponsor for tonight! $250 will buy pizza for a bunch of hungry engineers, and I'll speak about your company for 5 minutes, highlighting any open jobs you have, linking our mailing list to your careers page, etc.

I have a blog post about this! recursion.wtf/posts/llms_a...

LLMs are pretty useful if you're making a new programming language, or a parser for human-readable text. It keeps finding plausible uses of the language, that you'd kinda expect if you just absorbed the general cultural zeitgeist on the internet. It finds edge cases that we really should support.

austinsystems.org meets tonight! We've got a lot of audio hardware + software talk, and one on Cloudflare (unrelated to the Big Incident yesterday but I'm sure there'll be a lot of shop talk about it haha)

Lunch. Took two minutes to make (slice the tofu, throw a sauce on it, chop some onions)

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Make something wildly popular, and other people will get angry because your thing is too good, too popular, it's actually centralizing the internet.

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

Everybody please shut the hell up and listen: there's a 20th anniversary edition of Confessions on a Dance Floor, and it mixes all the songs together into one non-stop mix. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

They're calling it a very impressive MRI. The Big Beautiful Brain Tumor, folks.

One Tweetle Beetle Battle After Another

School lunches. Broccoli, chicken, rice, mandarin.

Just released cargo-nextest 0.9.113, with support for a long-requested feature that I realized I needed all of a sudden: debugger support! Run individual tests under gdb, lldb, WinDbg, or Visual Studio Code via CodeLLDB! This preserves all the environment setup done by nextest.

This weekend, I turned 34. blog.adamchalmers.com/i-am-34/

"dual consciousness" is when you haven't announced a feature yet, but you're constantly tweeting about work on it, and all the PRs are in a public repo, but you definitely haven't announced anything

I'd love to read an account from someone with hundreds of indirect reports -- e.g. a VP/senior director/CTO etc -- about kind of problems they're solving and what kind of work they're doing. I'm sure it's very difficult and important but, as an IC, I just have no frame of reference to understand it.

Several people have told me they like my Facebook, or my tweets, or my posts, or blog. But today, a friend told me he liked my Goodreads. He said I have eclectic taste and he wanted detailed recommendations of books. We spent 15 mins standing at my bookshelf, chatting about books. A+ compliment.

I really like what they’re doing here. Keyword arguments have many advantages over positional ones, but have the big disadvantage of verbosity. Here the editor auto inserts keyword arguments when one performs direct manipulation so manually typing the keywords is seldom required.

big deal. I've also been to a Rust meetup.

One reason I believe that AI/ML is not purely a bubble is that I regularly see Waymos driving through my neighbourhood, and they just work. I've seen 3 in the last 10 minutes.

the Big Beautiful Blasphemy

she's a 6 but on the Kinsey Scale

Turns out that, in a language with keyword arguments, it's important that your LSP autocompletes the parameter labels (not just the variables you're assigning to the arguments). But now it's fixed! It'll be in the next KCL LSP (and Zoo Design Studio) release github.com/KittyCAD/mod...

Stealth tech startup affiliated with a Pentecostal megachurch using their recordings of holy glossolalia to train an LLM that speaks the language of angels, as derived from a sea of ecstatic parishioners speaking in tongues. They're YC funded, as part of their 'forbidden experiments' class of '26

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

Once again my political enemies are smearing me by presenting evidence of my crimes

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

Alright, I think I'm done with the Voyager. I love the idea, and I got up to a happy 60wpm on it. But I think I'm never going to be able to hit my typical 120wpm on its weird layout. I think I'm going to stick with my Neo Ergo, a much more traditional layout.

Don’t miss the docs for how this works (linked in the PR)—by reimplementing format string internals as a small binary protocol. The docs are extremely clear and easy to follow and have fantastic ASCII art box diagrams. Really, really cool.

man it feels so good to watch your wife walk in, holding the baby, stressed because there's only an hour until bedtime, and see her face when she sees you've set the table, made dinner, and already poured her a glass of wine.

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

the newly released Epstein emails are getting coverage on Fox News 👀

When you tell the ringleader of the pedophile conspiracy that, fine, you’ll see him but you don’t want to run into Donald Trump …

Lunch

Austin Systems meets again next week! We've got two talks lined up (audio programming, which fascinates me, and Cloudflare Network Connect, where companies directly connect their private infra to Cloudflare). Come along! Details at austinsystems.org

This is the blog post I wish I'd read before starting the KCL parser. I think someday we'll rewrite the parser to use this approach. KCL parser has to be more error-tolerant, and I think this would help a lot. If you're keen on parsers or PLs, read this tutorial!

A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.

yep! github.com/helix-editor...

pretty sure a recent pull request just added this feature to helix! probably wil be in the coming release (1-2 months?) iirc

rare W from trump

Do any of you switch between light/dark mode regularly? My terminal can support switching different themes based on light/dark mode, which is great. But my in-terminal text editor doesn't, nor do any of my other terminal tools (e.g. fancy git diff viewers)

I'm only partway through @jyn.dev's excellent blog post, and I love it so much that I insist you all read it. jyn.dev/the-terminal...

Moving a couple of atproto themed blog posts from my old blog to the much more appropriate atproto home for them. Ever wanted to selfhost a PDS at home? This might be the post to help you host a PDS via Cloudflare Tunnels

"You're telling me that once I'm a systems engineer, I'll know when to allocate and free memory?" "No, Neo. When you're a systems engineer, you won't have to."

Today's a public holiday, and I spent most of the day doing all the life admin, paperwork and emails that I'd been putting off for weeks because I was either busy with work or childcare. Now I have a quiet day alone to do it, no distractions. Phew.

yyyeesssss march 20 yyyeeessssss

Austin Systems meets again next week! We've got two talks lined up (audio programming, which fascinates me, and Cloudflare Network Connect, where companies directly connect their private infra to Cloudflare). Come along! Details at austinsystems.org