I've been trying out Jujutsu for developing zb the last couple weeks. I'm impressed at how robust it is and how well it improves my workflow of lots of small, focused commits.

I applaud the PSF for standing firmly on principles.

co-signed. a robot might be able to type rote code faster than me, but *typing speed* is not the limiting factor in my effectiveness as a software engineer, and never has been. *understanding* the code (and the pre-existing human and computational systems it interacts with) is the hard part.

What character permanently altered your brain chemistry?

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...

I have been alerted that some of you do not know about this key piece of Internet lore. Please educate yourself immediately. 27bslash6.com/overdue.html

Oh my god, just watched Kpop Demon Hunters with Zooey and the kiddo and that had NO business being as good as it was.

the best part about gophercon was that nobody said "golang"

I'm giving a lightning talk at #GopherCon this afternoon about building a Lua interpreter in Go. If you're here, come see the lightning talks at 1:40p.

I'm so excited to be giving a lightning talk at #Gophercon! Come see me talk way too fast about programming language nerdery. www.gophercon.com/agenda/sessi...

Do 👏 not 👏 send 👏 me 👏 AI generated 👏 pull 👏 requests

I finished reading "The AI Con" by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna. Very accessible and well-researched. I think everyone should give it a read. 👍

I switched from Spotify back to a directory of local music files today. I've had it on my to-do list for a year, but I finally had some spare time to restore from my old hard drives and purchase any albums I missed from Bandcamp. I'm thrilled to be back to owning music. Offline always. 🎵

is this really the world you want your children to live in, and your children’s children,

New blog post! This time, going into the fun, juicy technical details of the Lua interpreter I wrote in #golang for zb, my new build tool. www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06...

We really don't know what software we're running any more. Nor what hardware, to be honest.

Rolling the ladder up behind us https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

I'm very excited to announce that my open source build tool — zb — is available in public beta. 🎉 Announcement blog post: www.zombiezen.com/blog/2025/06...

Reblogging because 30 seconds of clickity-clacking on a keyboard could save MILLIONS of lives. How could you not want to be a part of that?

A hearty +1 to everything said here. Ian brings a kindness and a joy to every engineering endeavor he works on.

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

We won’t disappear just because you change a website.

The #golang encoding/json/v2 proposal is live! Huge props to Joe Tsai for the hundreds of hours he poured into this project. github.com/golang/go/is...

The new Wallace and Gromit is cute.

You've probably been hearing the term "gender-affirming care" lately, but do you know what it actually means? We break it down here: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-g...

Truly the worst change brought forth by generative AI (/s) is that "Select All" in Android's text editing pop-up menu has been replaced by "Write with AI" and so now "Select All" is three taps, one of which is a long tap

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

I have decided to develop zb, my experiment in user-friendly reproducible builds, into a full-fledged build tool! See the blog post: www.zombiezen.com/blog/2024/09...

Can every company and service get away with running on a single server for their entire stack? No, but there are more companies and services that should be running on a single server instead of wasting time and money cosplaying Google's engineering team.

The #Riven remake is so good!!

I'm going to be at #NixCon today and tomorrow as part of SCALE. Come talk with me if you're around!

New blog post: Introducing pql

New blog post: Bundling Scripts with #nix. I walk through packaging a shell script and how Nix can help you, even for simple programs.

Finally got an invite code, only to find my handle had already been squatted. Sigh. I'm much more active on Mastodon, go follow me there: inuh.net/@light