If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritelyinst.bsky.social We have the skills and underlying tech, but we need resources to fund it. Feel free to reach out.

My friend @kriskowal.com just released Yay! In his words, it's "more than JSON, less than YAML, and better for it" – and exactly what I'm looking for. kriskowal.com/yay

An abomination has escaped the lab. kriskowal.com/yay

@nicr.dev I bet you didn’t know that you made a vim plugin for a data format I made up a few minutes ago. *scrolling* Me: Hey, I know that guy!

Every American needs to watch this:

There’s an old story about how Alex got to be CTO of Gordia Dot Com, way back. There was a standing offer like, “Whomsoever unravels this slop shall be CTO of Gordia”, and he just came in and hacked it up. Alex was pretty great. Great metaphor, too: Gordian Code.

Saw this on Mastodon, never don't repost.

From the Foresight Institute, “We're excited to support Kris Kowal and Mark S. Miller with a grant to make AI-written code safer!

In other ocaps for delegation arguments, from Kurt Boberg @semgrep.com semgrep.dev/blog/2026/se...

I can make predictions too, Yegge, and *I* can do them in short form. 1. Some developers are going to use excess capacity to increase rigor instead of clown towning. 2. There’s going to be a run on the .town TLD.

I am a pedantry enjoyer. Someone misspelled sieve. Maybe.

I swear these guys only read one book.

Really wishing that somebody would hire my company (@igalia.com) to standardize/implement support for import maps in web workers. I already have a draft spec PR ready and there is interest from the community, which company wants to be the hero funding pushing it forward? :)

Leonard looked at that decision and simply said, "No." He told them, "This show is about diversity and working together in concert. The two people who most represent that diversity are Nichelle Nichols and George Takei, and if they can't be a part of this, then I'm not interested either."

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." ― Frank Herbert, Dune cassidoo.co/post/good-br...

I only cite primary sources like Wikipedia.

The increasingly common habit of screenshotting the AI summary of a Google search and presenting it as evidence must be nipped in the bud immediately. That is nothing. That is not anything, it is not a thing.

I am going to be looking for a browser vendor interested in partnering with us on the Endo project toward *safely* empowering AI agents using an object capability model and CapTP (nominally OCapN). I’ll have a prototype of an “ocap browser” by the end of this month to demonstrate what I mean.

I am very fortunate to not have any known allergies except for the words “simple” and “efficient”. They lull the reader into a false sense of universal agreement about what they mean. Every believes their own interpretation and that there can be no other. Then they talk past each other.

🧵 I got tapped to answer a question about module system design if you decided to make a new one. I would, in fact, borrow a lot from the design of Go, to the extent it applies to your runtime.

"I wish I could do magic.' "If you have no magic," said the witch, "it's because you've used it all." "I've never done magic." "There's one spell most can do instinctively - turn back time. It only works once, it's so big it burns up all your magic." "I've never! If I could, I..." "Would have?"

A (new!) graduated tutorial on message passing with Endo docs.endojs.org/documents/me...

My friend, Josh Corbin, is a titan. Here, he has deigned to show you all how he plays every single word game online, every day, with his ever-evolving solver automation. tubefree.org/w/sGEKV8yQwb...

Typically, I read & enjoy McSweeney's for the sharp jokey critique of our modern world. Festive gourds, fonts that have personality & big opinions Rarely does McSweeney's cut to the absolute goddamn truth in a non-humorist way. As the mom of a neurodivergent kid, I stand with Anaïs. Come with us.

Capabilities (ocaps) Are the Only Way to Secure Agent Delegation niyikiza.com/posts/capabi...

When the adrenaline and delusions wear off, actually reviewing everything an LLM writes, and when necessary, rewriting it in your own words, will eventually prove to be the force-multiplier inherent to the tool, not vibing out millions of inscrutable junk that sometimes even works.

Yup also dutch. Yesterday = Gisteren. Day before yesterday = Eergisteren. Today = Vandaag. Tomorrow = Morgen Overmorrow = Overmorgen

One thing leads to another and now I’m going to start socializing the resurrection of “ereyesterday”, the day before the prior day.

What a useful word, worthy of resurrection. I pledge to use "overmorrow" in appropriate contexts.

If you added “find” to the list of commands you’ll let your LLM execute automatically while wearing your face, you need to read the manual for “find” more carefully, or just figure out how to undo that perhaps-too-hasty expedient.

Introducing a Kni Playground, where you can play, share, and make interactive stories in a side-by-side editor that replays your script as you make changes. Uses gists for sharing. kni.kriskowal.com

A long while back, I made a language for choose-your-own-adventure scripts. You can now generate a stand-alone web page from a script with little more than: npx kni my-script.kni --html my-webpage.html --html-background-color skyblue github.com/borkshop/kni...

For the record, I've never used Midjourney or ChatGPT or any other LLM or art-mangling AI. I gave up on Google and use DuckDuckGo with the AI functions and images turned off under the Manage AI setting. I use spellcheck in Word because my spelling sucks and I visit the Merriam-Webster website a lot.

You might be thinking, "CPSC, does a dry Christmas tree really burn that much faster than a well-watered tree?" Friend, let's find out together by watching this PSA.

I learned how to spell† by retyping words until the red squiggles of the spell-checker disappeared. Other techniques did not work for me. I hope that, if I were to use an LLM the same way, there might be a positive net outcome. †better but never completely

Damn cartoon made me cry.

Breaking news! There will be a vote on the Affordable Care Act subsidies in the House. Four Republicans broke rank and signed the discharge petition forcing a vote. What does this mean? 1/

If he can't do the work, it's time we tell McClintock to go. If you want a representative who shows up and delivers for our rural communities, join Team Kate. Your support makes a difference! Thank you! - Donate: secure.actblue.com/donate/kate-... - Volunteer: www.katesills.com/volunteer 6/

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

How to organize React components in your application, as illustrated in The Cell, 2000. The protagonist notes that the word “organ” in “organize” implies encapsulation at the boundary of organs, not this abomination.

Your intellectual fly is open bcantrill.dtrace.org/2025/12/05/y...

I, too, enjoy embedding V8 where it doesn't belong...

Get started with Endo: use HardenedJS to compartmentalize packages or whole node_modules applications. Bundle plugins and run them in compartments. Pass messages between networked object capabilities. docs.endojs.org/documents/ge...

For this #GivingTuesday I'm going to make the (biased) argument for why you might consider donating to @spritelyinst.bsky.social, especially if you care about a healthier future for the internet! spritely.institute/donate/ Here's a little thread explaining more... 🧵

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there