yeah we’re gonna have to ban prediction markets

Wow. DHH is a real piece of shit.

This is also why I'm not comfortable with proposals to allow Wasm imports that give arbitrary access to JS APIs by default. That's missing the whole point of the sandbox boundary!

People will be like: "Wasm has the same security profile as JS... when I explicitly give it access to a shit ton of JS APIs." Yeah, sure. But if you *don't* give Wasm handles to all that JS, then it has a very different security profile!

How can I get in touch with the Google Antigravity team? Feedback has been broken for weeks, so I can't even submit feedback that feedback is broken? Any Googlers out there know?

my most authoritarian belief is probably that I'm basically fine with passive automated surveillance in public spaces especially wrt to cars. I think the backlash to speed cameras and automated license plate readers is mostly stupid given the clear public safety benefits.

Antigravity's sandboxed security mode is nearly impossible to set up. I hope the team has actually tried this feature on real projects.

Can Andy Beshear demand some kind of proof of life for McConnell? Can he go ahead and appoint an interim senator and force someone to prove that McConnell is actually alive to stop him?

You earn how you’re spoken of in death by what you do in life.

Proud dad moment: My kid has a birthday party today, and didn't tell me till Thursday it was a costume party. 45 minutes at thrift stores, scissors, glue gun, ace bandages, red hair spray, and metallic paint pens and I *nailed* a Vi from Arcane costume. The looked great! 😎

My new programming language, Zena, is getting much closer to being self-hosted! The stdlib tests now run and pass in the self-hosted compiler. Next up: compiling the self-hosted compiler with the self-hosted compiler!

Mmmmmmhmmmmm 👀👀👀👀 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...

npm v12 is now generally available. npm install now makes install scripts, Git, and remote-URL dependencies opt-in by default. We're also retiring npm 2FA-bypass GAT: no account management (early Aug 2026), no direct publishing (~Jan 2027). More info at github.blog/changelog/20...

If you like music, do yourself a favor and see The Psycodelics when they're in town. Holy shit, what a show. They're from Charleston, but you'd be excused if you thought they were from Minneapolis. psycodelics.com

need to start thinking now about a full package of judicial reforms: new justices, new circuits, new district courts, ethics reforms, docket reforms, and transparency reforms.

V8 is so fast at running Wasm, and JS is so hard to bundle into small and fast Wasm, that I'm starting to want a new JS runtime: A V8-based JS + Wasm runtime that only has WASI APIs, WASI component support, and no Node compatibility at all. Both Wasm and JS would run very fast in this.

here’s the reason gentrification discourse is so cursed: housing development is good, and displacement is bad the problem is that many people think development causes displacement, when in reality development prevents displacement. and the word “gentrification” conflates all of the above

Hey @developers.google.com Feedback is broken in Antigravity, and I don't see any other way to provide feedback on the broken feedback. I also don't see an Antigravity account here, but I sure as hell am not going to "join the conversation" on Twitter.

V8 is an engineering marvel

Housing location and type influence 53% of household climate pollution. Suburban residents drive twice as many daily miles as urban ones. Apartments use 41% less energy than a detached home. cayimby.org/blog/the-hou...

speaking of latitude, I feel like this map should be general knowledge.

Wow, Wasmtime 46 has some massive GC improvements over 44! One microbenchmark of mine is 250x faster, and now on par with the same Wasm in V8. My self-hosted compiler benchmarks are ~30% faster, even with my slow string implementations.

🎉 NVIDIA Elements is now open source. After years of work + API hardening, it's stable enough to share. A framework-agnostic design system for AI/ML robotics & autonomous vehicle UIs. Web Components that run in any stack, plus CLI/MCP/Skills/lint tooling. nvidia.github.io/elements/

The most annoying thing about the Michelle Obama discourse was all the meta analysis about respect towards the Obama family. My god. The insult is just a old attack on Black women and Trump doesnt like Black people. Its not complicated and its all tiresome. open.substack.com/pub/darrello...

On a related note: Strings in V8 are flippin' fast!!! Strings in Zena are currently v simple. A hybrid of Go and Swift: One impl class that's a view into a byte array. I wanted static method dispatch instead of a polymorphic hierarchy of impls. That might not be tenable. LLMs like generating `+`

Finding out that Wasm performance is tricky because of the very different tradeoffs that runtimes make. Example: V8 inlines small functions, Wasmtime (Cranelift) doesn't, leading to big diffs in some microbenchmarks.

can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

With the 1st pick of the NBA Draft the Washington Wizards select AJ Dybantsa! The 2026 NBA Draft is LIVE on ABC & ESPN.

In places I moderate I'm just banning people with no notice who post generic job spam. "I'm a fullstack AI blockchain engin..." Nope. Go fuck off now.

Good summary of the regulations that make it nearly impossible to build family-sized apartments. My previous home was a 3br apt, and it was very hard to find. Our building only had them at the corners because of the double-loaded corridor. The courtyard was useless. kevin.burke.dev/kevin/walnut...

Holy shit that was good

I'm seeing Sylvan Esso tonight at pretty much the smallest venue I can imagine then playing at. Easily 20x smaller than I've seen them at before. Like a preschool gym!

In a new programming language that's a little like TypeScript + Swift, how would you like to write the function keyword? - function - func - fun - fn - Something else? Zena already has arrow functions which cover our needs, but I think function declarations will be easier to read in some cases.

There is a certain kind of environmental advocate for whom you can barely scratch their surface and find a very classist eugenicist. Urban dwellers and the disadvantaged are non-entities in their plans. We should be *encouraging* more cities, the per-person impact is dramatically reduced.

They said it couldn't be done. We did it anyway. SSR is available in Web Awesome 3.8. We're calling it experimental, but it won't stay that way for long.

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

I uhhh...did a thing at work today. I updated the old 4.x Astro + Lit integration to better account for when @property() has an attribute string that doesn't match its property. Need to publish it tomorrow and add a better readme, but figured I'd give a sneak peek github.com/shoelace-sty...

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Here is a definitive summary, by a group of Conservative jurists with integrity, of the facts in those 64 cases against our 2020 elections. The cases were a numb, cynical train wreck of falsehoods. Every judge threw them out of every court. Sixty four times. —> lostnotstolen.org

All I ever want out of any Apple event is MainStage for iPad

This situation is why I'm extremely skeptical of the types-as-comments proposal for JavaScript. pyrefly.org/blog/too-man...

WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged "You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her" "I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads

A major batch for Nithya Raman. It’s a near certainty at this point that the general election in the Los Angeles mayoral race will Bass vs. Raman.

This whole rant is based on her misreading "Happy 82nd D-Day Anniversary to ANTIFA!" as "Happy 82nd Anniversary to ANTIFA!" 😬

Threw together a quick Express example of Web Awesome SSR github.com/KonnorRogers... Will be looking to add more soon! Build Awesome will be next I promise, but if you're eager, you can look at the lit plugin by Lit team, as I will be using the same for the example! github.com/lit/lit/tree...

Thank you to the Berkeley Landmarks Preservation Commission for denying Elmwood’s historic district designation. Though the 5-4 vote was a lot closer than it should have been for such an obvious bid to oppose increased housing development in a historically racially exclusive community.

Someone told me once that most AI-powered startups were selling $1 tokens for 90¢, but I guess they were off by two orders of magnitude!

The GitHub Copilot pricing change is *crazy*. You can eat up ~2% of your monthly credits on the Pro+ plan in *1 minute* with Gemini 3.5 Flash with medium reasoning. That's less than an hour per month included in the plan.

The California jungle primary system is fucking stupid.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...