After years of internalizing that JS proxies are suuuper slow, I was surprised to find that in Chrome, they seem faster for running function side effects than simply wrapping a function: jsbenchmark.com#eyJjYXNlcyI6...

just gotta get my vr working so i can finish that game

it's finally happening

Getting ready to start tutoring a friend's young teen in cryptography, made this kumavis.github.io/mental-poker/

"New Far Side comics" was definitely not on my bingo card for this week. They're not bad! www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Mysterious downlink signals from SpaceX’s classified Starshield satellites in a frequency band reserved for uplinks — raising concerns over spectrum rules and possible interference with other satellites. 🧵⬇️ www.npr.org/2025/10/17/n...

My "butt" is a metaphorical construct. It is an I/O port. The plug would be a data interface, not a physical object.

reworked this labeler - ingests posts from jetstream - pays attention to replies to my posts - calls out to gemma via LMStudio API - determines if the reply is bad faith - labels the reply as bad faith if it is

nixOS good

I made a tool that lets you find the treasure in your computer. It's called Windows Explorer 2 torcado.itch.io/windows-explorer-2

I did a quick writeup comparing CapnWeb and Ocapn gist.github.com/kumavis/f5fd...

State of JavaScript 2025 survey survey.devographics.com/survey/state...

Rhizomatic compound, the first Decadence video game is now live on steam to wishlist! We are excited to share with you this unique interactive comics experience. WISHLIST ON STEAM NOW!!

China's home-designed megawatt-scale commercial buoyant airborne turbine, the S1500, has successfully completed its maiden flight in northwest China's Hami after passing tests including full desert assembly and continuous high-wind deployment and retrieval.

capnweb: wrote a rough draft PR for adding third-party handoff github.com/cloudflare/c...

@kentonvarda.com writing a rough draft of third-party handoff for capnweb based on my experience writing an OCapN js implementation. Pretty much done but I'm totally dizzy figuring out how to properly wrap my gift hook in a PayloadStubHook (?) 😵💫

Protein synthesis 🧪 as interpretive dance (1971, fifteen minutes, converted from 16mm to YouTube). The soundtrack is the "Protein Jive Sutra." youtu.be/3GfWZy6SSAg

Honestly serious: JUST DON'T UPDATE PACKAGES RIGHT NOW. It is unclear to me yet, but this is looking pretty wide spread. Better be safe than sorry, just go touch some grass.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

These good old digital sanguine trees ;) #trees #digital #design #sanguine #drawing

I'm very excited to play Sword of the Sea from @giantsquidstudios.com next week 🐬 #SwordoftheSea @mattnava.bsky.social

🎤✨ Excited to give an introduction to local-first software at the (virtual) DWeb Meetup next week! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

Made some Magic: The Gathering cards

I bought my ticket already and will be there! Figuring out which of my colleagues at @inkandswitch.com might join us, and maybe a little community hacking alongside.

Caterpillar waking up halfway through metamorphosis: I'm goo. Shit. Shit. Calm down. Go back to sleep. I'm really straight-up goo right now. Fuck

We're convening in the mountains of Bavaria to tackle the hardest frontiers of AI — from chips to co-existence. Apply here to join: blueyard.medium.com/climbing-har...

Ed25519 on by default in Chrome, completing the set of the three major engines. target is 137, so hits Chrome stable May 20th ish: chromiumdash.appspot.com/schedule then do 2yrs of feature detection before assuming everyone has it (that's what *true* web scale looks like 😅)

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

I'll amend that: The problem is not and never has been that "AI" is out of step with human values; it's that the values with which "AI" is in step are a) extremely human, and also, in very large part, both b) woefully under-examined, and c) terrible.

@penelope.hailey.at sorry for the direct question, but are you open source?

Another round of (old) stylized trees. #digital #drawing #stylized #design #trees

Trump had promised to focus on rounding up immigrants with criminal records during his 2024 election campaign. Government data shows that actual ICE arrests skew heavily towards immigrants without criminal convictions. www.ft.com/content/bba4...

About Interpolation 補間について kyndinfo.notion.site/About-Interp... #p5js #math #physics #code #art #design

Replit agent deletes prod DB, lies about it x.com/jasonlk/stat...

The Cristal Baschet. Glass, metal and water.

The cart for Salamander on Famicom (Life Force on NES) If I had this as a kid I would have thought it was the coolest thing ever.

Here's an early peek at a web game I've been prototyping with React Three Fiber and #atproto. Going for Animal Crossing meets Death Stranding, basically an atproto strand-type game. Right now, you can add friends from Bluesky and sync their positions and created structures into your game world.

Learning that Zach Barth is back making games again as @coincidence.games is the best news I've heard in months. His games have long been a love and inspiration as a dev.

i don't have nearly the reach to be trying this but i'll ask anyway what new atproto project has made you say "wow" recently?

Gonna take this opportunity to bust a bit of a myth about the mobile phone network during 7/7. The wider London phone network never went down. The Security Services, TfL and the Met Police all wanted it up. But it DID go down briefly in the Square Mile. Due to a C&C issue nobody had spotted. /1

Whoa. That's a sprite, an elusive, high-altitude electrical discharge from a thundercloud photographed by NASA astronaut Nichole Ayers from the ISS earlier today. With reported sightings going back more than a century, this phenomenon was first photographed in 1989.

Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) — the competition to predict protein structure that helped fuel AlphaFold — will run out of funding from the NIH and UC Davis in a few weeks.

MAN WHAT THE FUCK

it's called ATPay btw

Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

It's "Make a Terrible Comic Day," and cousin, I sure tried

Hello, Bluesky, I'm Finn and this is my plugin Droplets 💧 #musicproduction #generativeart #audiovisual #vst #vstplugin #generativemusic #musictech #midi

here's how the flow works. (minus writing + showing the new record at the end) you can complete it in 20-30 seconds