Day 5 without Zyrtec: woke up to my hands feeling like they were on fire and my lower lip looking like it got fillers. I wish I knew how to explain to someone that you can feel the welts and histamine coming. It’s like a dozen tiny spicy prickles.

I know I’m three weeks late to the BASTTIE debut, but I’m genuinely happy to see the concept youtu.be/pOKHcz1TM3M I’m also really curious from era to era how they will evolve the outfits & styles

Discovering the nightmare known as "stop taking Zyrtrec"

Our charity incentive “PlateUp! but Jakob must also wear a hotdog hat” is November 14! You all helped make this happen when you came together to support SAfG a few months ago. Let’s celebrate the one way we know how. 🌭 November 14, 2p PST 5p EST twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

For those who are curious when the stream is live this week. Wed @ 10a is coworking Thurs & Fri @ 2p is code streams We’ll be live testing PVTCH, working through code policy tools for the startup, & more.

Kept true to my word and pushed PVTCH out the door Friday. Saturday on ohaiDrifty, we learned things were less okie than dokie, so we spent Saturday bug fixing. Just as anyone in software would have predicted. By Wednesday’s stream we’ll have our translator bot running against production.

The year is 2013: - password managers worked - you could get most TV content from one or two streaming services - you could paste links into chats and previews would actually unfurl correctly - google results contained actual search results

Another day, another pile of discord spam

I would be terrible at CloverPit

The 1:30am moment when you realize offering a 3x "bonus" for your !spin command was also 3x-ing the payout return turning a 72% return into statistical nightmare.

It was three hours. But, I’ll probably finish this weekend so we can have translation support by Wednesday’s coworking stream

I got carried away with the translator bot, but only so we can get PVTCH out the door on the Friday stream. I'm also digging into the OAuth flow. I'd like an id-only / no email scope so we can secure the endpoints without ever touching an email. But that's a tomorrow-me problem

welcome to linux, please pick your starter distro: - difficult linux - racism linux - backdoored linux - bloat linux - slop linux

Segment by grapheme… Oh my God, we can stop writing workarounds for “half an emoji”

I have some choice words for whatever marketer thought sending their slop as calendar invites was a clever way to circumvent spam filters.

There might have been secret gaming streams on 🦝 ohaiDrifty. We may have raided over to @foxwithtacos.bsky.social on Saturday and @redfoxheritage.bsky.social on Sunday. There may be more in the future. But if I told you when, they wouldn’t be very secret, now would they? :)

The progress bar is done; it was small enough we could make some early technical decisions and learn Cloudflare Workers. Today, we’re going to start on a bot that auto-translates twitch chat using m2m, with the goal of making stream chats more accessible. 2p PDT | 5p EDT twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

This is just a reminder to my friends. Never “RSVP” to a protest. You just show up. And leave your phone off unless you absolutely need it.

On stream, we run a bot that translates to & from English in order to make our stream more accessible to devs who don’t have English as a primary language. But that bot is going away. :/ After we finish the progress bar work for PVTCH, I think this is a problem worth solving.

This week’s stream schedule. I want to continue working on PVTCH: Privacy-first Twitch tools, while we get our next round of developer interviews done. There’s tech week and GitHub universe events happening, so I’ll see ya around SF.

Nothing good ever comes from the Discover feed

If anyone was curious, yes, this is now in my collection

@dollarpbr.gay at a crate sale today and this gem popped up

TIL OBS thinks foo.html#one and foo.html#two are two different web pages, causing a full page reload when its source changes. I also learned rapidly changing the browser source in OBS will eat all your frames. It looks like the Chrome frame is completely relaunched on a property change. Cool.

Today we’re working on privacy-first Twitch tools. I don’t think you should have to do an OAuth dance just to have an overlay. Bots like @firebot.app @streamer.bot and @mixitupapp.bsky.social already know your stream’s “state”. We just want beautiful widgets. 2p PDT twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

The birthday is behind us (no more jumpscares please), and it’s time to build some neat things! On Wednesday, we’re coworking On Thursday, meet PVTCH On Friday, we’re talking startup metrics twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

Had a fun time at the South Bay Systems meetup last night. Thanks @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting! @codedrift.social gave a great talk on WebAssembly: what it is (and isn't), how it connects to WASI, and promising projects. He cuts through a lot of the hype vs. reality. Recording coming soon.

Zucc is terrible, but he’s also at this point a known terrible. People just work around his democracy hating engine. This place though, it’s an unknown amount of terrible. And every 8-10 months, the bluesky CEO likes to remind us this place can be terrible too.

Not me trying to think through the logistics for how we’d do a trashcan lightstick…

Reminder: No stream today because I'm giving a talk for South Bay Systems at the Yugabyte campus. I'm gonna be yapping about WebAssembly and some practical use cases. And I suppose some impractical ones too. See you Friday for our @firebot.app button building, FNAF, and birthday stream!

We didn't get much traction on Taskless Cloud as a SaaS product, but it will always be available as a BYODB open source project. Hilariously, we used the marketing assets to test various ad platforms for intent to buy vs brand awareness and may have accidentally discovered the post-AI secret sauce.

Quick update on @bias.is. The MySQL db broke a few nights ago. =\ So... I did what any engineer does when the code finally breaks. I migrated to newer stuff! Soridata has a set of CSV data we can use. It's nowhere near as elegant, but it *is* more resilient because to bias.is, it's just JSON now.

It's coworking time on theCodeDrift. It's also raccoon appreciation day, so come say hi to your favorite code loving trash panda. twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

This week, we’ve got coworking, a day off for the WebAssembly talk, and a birthday celebration stream. I’ll share more of the birthday stream below, but the goal was to keep some code for the code stream. It is “theCodeDrift” after all…

There’s still some space available for this event at Yugabyte office. Let’s learn some practical WebAssembly! 6P Thursday YugabyteDB, Sunnyvale Luma link to rsvp ⬇️

Lies. FoxWithTacos has never taken a sword to me (yet) for hyping her up pre-stream

With AI, I feel like we pulled a rabbit out of a hat, and then pretended like we created a rabbit reproduction factory

Streams this week were a lot of fun. On Wednesday, we finished our presentation, Thursday we did a dry run of our WebAssembly talk, and today we started on the channel’s premium currency system. Thanks MayaRainer for bringing your community over during our talk, and hello to all the new friends!

Important stuff. Half of being able to try alternatives on bluesky is knowing you can come back if it didn’t work out.

The neat thing about this place, you can use whatever “feed” you want. I’ve been trying out this For You blend, and it’s a great mix of friends and new content based on the stuff you’re liking on Bluesky bsky.app/profile/did:...

I have zoxide installed, and I legitimately forget to use it. I just am not saving enough time in my cd ../../../../ when pnpm link and other tools still require the headspace for path and directory structures

Do not cite the Paul Graham essays to me, I was building startups when they were written. (and the advice is 99% empty aphorisms and anecdotes)

Just wanted to share a quick note. SAfG has received the $1600+ from our charity stream. "It was a wonderful surprise and we are very grateful." The funds will deliver after school STEM programs for up to 875 girls in underserved communities across 24 schools in the 25-26 academic year. Y'all rock

Post up a non-selfie that matches your energy

Just wanted to share a quick note. SAfG has received the $1600+ from our charity stream. "It was a wonderful surprise and we are very grateful." The funds will deliver after school STEM programs for up to 875 girls in underserved communities across 24 schools in the 25-26 academic year. Y'all rock

The South Bay Systems talk series is back on Oct 2nd. @codedrift.social will talk about the history and novel use cases of WebAssembly. Perfect timing too: Wasm 3.0 just released, and it is turning 10 this year. Huge thanks to @yugabytedb.bsky.social for hosting! Register here: luma.com/p3mibf27

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

“…we identified that Claude was needlessly appending 2025 to the tool’s query parameter, biasing search results and degrading performance” I’m shocked it wasn’t also auto-appending site:reddit.com to improve its relevance

The best part about a walk through Powell’s (or any bookstore really) is the realization no one person has all the answers, but collectively we might

The coolest thing about this place is you can just *go ask the guy* Seriously. He welcomes you asking genuine questions and wants you to want a better *sky