Cooper
@cooperx86.bsky.social
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GitHub user #118, programming, LLMs, 3D printing, and piano
https://peterc.org/
A bit sad that 3I/ATLAS didn't turn out to be an alien spaceship.
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Music recs are boring, but OK: WOLF ALICE. They remind me of Fleetwood Mac. All their songs are so different.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsf...
It's refreshing how many bands this decade are heavily influenced by the 70s-90s and not continuing with the milquetoast bullshit that ruled the 2010s.
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Wolf Alice - White Horses (The Clearing Tour Video)
YouTube video by WolfAliceVEVO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKsf2SVE_vU
8 days ago
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Got ruby.wasm down to 4,223 kB over the wire *including* the stdlib! 20MB+ is more typically seen in similar builds, but there's a ton of stuff that can't even be used in the browser including a huge needless C library. More to follow..
13 days ago
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Been putting off moving off asdf to mise for managing Ruby versions for months. I shouldn't have. It took two minutes to migrate and it Just Worksโข.
14 days ago
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UNIX commands are riddled with hundreds of command line options. Yet no quick way to list make targets, e.g. `make --list` or something ๐คช
14 days ago
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A power-pop song from the 80s that goes hard and totally slaps that I'd guess 99% of you haven't heard before:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXi-...
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Guilty - Andrew Gold
YouTube video by Andrew Gold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXi-PHbp-FE
15 days ago
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My new copy editing tool is more fun to play with than to actually use properly.
15 days ago
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Suffered a huge wave of botnet signups from an IP range that geolocates and has RIPE and ASN data pointing to the US, yet BGP routes to Moldova. Oh, I couldn't POSSIBLY speculate what nation state might actually be behind that ๐
16 days ago
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I love Raycast's emoji chooser but sometimes it makes me laugh at how it ranks the results.
16 days ago
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Postgres folks! Today's Postgres Weekly is a particular banger:
postgresweekly.com/issues/634
Someone's made an awesome forum-like interface for pgsql-hackers; a cute metadata hack; who built Postgres; a recently fixed Postgres bug from 1999; and, well a lot more.
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Postgres Weekly Issue 634: February 4, 2026
https://postgresweekly.com/issues/634
17 days ago
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"Your password is required to enable Touch ID" when I come back to my Mac after five minutes. So why have Touch ID then! ๐คฃ
18 days ago
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A nifty way to look through Google Fonts based on ๐๐๐๐๐ that I made:
sweetfont.com
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Sweetfont โ The sweetest way to find Google Fonts
Explore Google Fonts by personality, vibe, and style using interactive controls. Find your perfect typeface.
https://sweetfont.com/
18 days ago
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I gave Kimi K2.5 a photo of me and asked it for the honest truth. It said I probably work in "a technical field where personality is viewed as a liability" ๐คฃ
23 days ago
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Well that's one way to promote your open source project to developer newsletters.
30 days ago
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Just shut down my final Heroku app. End of a 16 year (or thereabouts) run for me! Heroku solved deployment for a generation of developers, then sorta became something we drifted away from despite continuing to work pretty well (and this app was solid as a rock for years).
about 1 month ago
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I have an old, generic Gmail address I only use for my Google login and for some deliverability testing. It gets LOTS of misaddressed email and is on Trump's mailing list somehow. I check in from time to time to enjoy his team's increasingly unhinged copy:
about 1 month ago
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Like Michael McDonald / Doobie Brothers? This new remix slaps:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtYS...
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The Doobie Brothers - What A Fool Believes (Party Pupils Remix)
YouTube video by Party Pupils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtYSs-HrxDg
about 2 months ago
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RIP Chris Rea. Not his most famous track but easily the most touching:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tf...
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Chris Rea - Tell Me There's a Heaven (HD)
YouTube video by Music High Power Land
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5tf-6TKQQY
2 months ago
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Went to see my daughter who's appearing in pantomime (Wizard of Oz!) this year and they started the show playing the entirety of ELO's Eldorado Overture! It works so well as a dramatic opening track and won me over right away. Then I realised the connection.. Dorothy's on the album cover!
2 months ago
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I estimate the average British driver wastes 5% of their memory on where numerous potholes are and the best way to approach and avoid them.
2 months ago
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JavaScript is now thirty years old.
3 months ago
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I wonder if the Chancellor will dare say this again ๐
3 months ago
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If you include tokens/secrets in unlisted 'private' GitHub Gists, they will now be reported and revoked:
github.blog/changelog/20...
(You shouldn't use unlisted Gists to store secrets, but I bet many people do.)
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Secrets in unlisted GitHub gists are reported to secret scanning partners - GitHub Changelog
Starting today, GitHub will report any publicly leaked secrets found in unlisted GitHub gists to the respective secret scanning partner. GitHub gists can be listed (denoted with a public label)โฆ
https://github.blog/changelog/2025-11-25-secrets-in-unlisted-github-gists-are-now-reported-to-secret-scanning-partners/
3 months ago
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3 months ago
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"binfluencer" is one of my favorite modern words. It's the person in your neighborhood who puts the right bin out first so you can just copy them instead of remembering which one it's meant to be.
3 months ago
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Found this book on Internet Archive and might borrow it as I'm intrigued. Thoughts
@terencecgannon.com
? ๐
3 months ago
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I can be "down with the kids" and enjoy generation alpha slang with the best of them, but the term "pfp" is a level of degeneracy I refuse to stoop to, no cap.
4 months ago
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If you're in the email space and use a tool called Litmus, check your bill because they just 5x-ed the price of their main plan from $99->$500/mo, mentioning this only in an email that looks like all their usual fluffy marketing/content mails. Scumbag move.
4 months ago
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Thriller is the obvious choice, but this is my go-to music video involving Halloween costumes, and the song has good life advice to boot:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4N...
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When Youโre Ugly - Louis Cole
YouTube video by louiscolemusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS4NxiURhEw
4 months ago
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Do I still have my first mouse mat from 36 years ago? Yes! (I'm now a full-time trackpad user, though.)
5 months ago
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Tell me it's not just me. I ask CarPlay or Alexa: "Play $SONG by $ARTIST". For many songs it then replies: "Playing $SONG live, dubstep acapella remix by $ARTIST". If I just say the name of a song, always play the original!
5 months ago
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There's an AirBnB in Scotland where instead of relaxing, you get to run a real-life bookshop for one or two weeks during your stay:
www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/7908227
.. I kinda wanna do this!
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Rental unit in Wigtown ยท โ 4.94 ยท 1 bedroom ยท 2 beds ยท 1 bathroom
The Open Book - a bookshop holiday!
https://www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/7908227
5 months ago
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What the heck are these kids learning in school nowadays that requires a 76TB NAS? ๐
6 months ago
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"The Pitt" is one of the best TV shows I've seen in years. I only just discovered it as Virgin had it on the flight, but it's not available in the UK at all (unless you sail the ๐ดโโ ๏ธ). I love me a good medical show, but talk about turning it up to 11.
6 months ago
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reposted by
Cooper
JP Camara
7 months ago
I've been reading Ruby Weekly since - let me check my inbox - *SPITS OUT WATER* - 2013?!? And that was already the 126th edition ๐ฑ
@cooperx86.bsky.social
you are a machine!! It's always been one of my top Ruby resources, so it's extra fun to be included in it!
rubyweekly.com/issues/762
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I was tired of LLM clients having context, "chats", etc. Often I just want to fire off a quick prompt and get a quick response. So I built this for me, but you can use it too:
peterc.org/zerocontext/
.. all client-side, you can save the HTML and use it locally if you like. Uses OpenRouter.
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quick zero context llm
https://peterc.org/zerocontext/
7 months ago
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The meaning of this post is quite guessable if you check out the
www.avibagla.com/blueskydicti...
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The Bluesky Dictionary
Can Bluesky say every word in the English language? Well this is your chance to find out.
https://www.avibagla.com/blueskydictionary/
7 months ago
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I dunno what they're up to, but this British made computer is kinda neat looking, as is the weird Linux variant they're building for it:
caligra.com
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Caligra is a new computer company.
The Linuxยฎ-powered computer designed to accelerate your work.
https://caligra.com/
7 months ago
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BTW, if you need to message me, go to my homepage
peterc.org
and email me. Bluesky doesn't allow DMs anymore and I'm not submitting my personal info to them ๐
7 months ago
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Thundercat is the modern day Michael McDonald. Any time he turns up on a song, he instantly elevates it far beyond it'd be on its own.
7 months ago
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Discovered it's "weird" to use your last name in takeout situations, but I always have. First name is too personal for something like that IMO, it just feels inappropriate to me.
7 months ago
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I remember when 10+GB hard drives first came out and I was like.. nah, I can't trust that, that's just way too much data in one place. Meanwhile, Seagate's newest drive is 30TB, some 3000 bigger ๐
7 months ago
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Amazon S3 Vectors is interesting but it feels like they couldn't be bothered to launch a new AWS service with a new name, and awkwardly shoehorned a concept into a place it doesn't quite belong?
aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in...
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Introducing Amazon S3 Vectors: First cloud storage with native vector support at scale (preview) | Amazon Web Services
Amazon S3 Vectors is a new cloud object store that provides native support for storing and querying vectors at massive scale, offering up to 90% cost reduction compared to conventional approaches whil...
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/introducing-amazon-s3-vectors-first-cloud-storage-with-native-vector-support-at-scale/
7 months ago
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This is the best decade for popular music since the 90s.
7 months ago
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I was looking at this map of the world 105 million years ago (with present land overlaid) and noticed all the oil producing regions of the world were shallow seas then (light blue). That's no coincidence, but I'd never seen it before and I never listened in science class ๐
7 months ago
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The past few days I've noticed many (but not all) Web pages are taking longer to begin rendering โ just a second or so. Then I remembered Cloudflare has turned on that anti-AI crawling stuff. Just making a note in case it turns out to be a story and not my imagination.
8 months ago
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reposted by
Cooper
Claire Giordano โจ
8 months ago
๐๏ธ New
#TalkingPostgres
#podcast
episode! Peter Cooper joined to talk about 12 years of Postgres Weeklyโwith QBASIC Usenet fanzines, the BBC big tent, lots of
#PostgreSQL
, weekly newsletters for 460K devs, & 1 very cheesy story ๐ง ๐ง
talkingpostgres.com/episodes/12-...
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youtu.be/F1eWSAVKxdY?...
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@justinjackson.ca
Links in
justinjackson.ca/ai-coding
are pointing to ConvertKit preview links
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Changed my mind: AI is actually good for coding
I've been skeptical of AI development tools. Not because I'm anti-progress, but because the demos often feel over-hyped. Too many 'AI will replace developers' takes, too many one-shot coding videos th...
https://justinjackson.ca/ai-coding
8 months ago
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Many people seem to be bothered by demographic change, but I think I have more in common with modern day Brits of different ethnicities and religions than I would with my great-great-great grandparents. It's surely a personal thing, but zeitgeist seems more important than heritage to me.
9 months ago
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Watching a driving school dashcam video and I'd love to know how a full self-driving system would tackle this situation. Improperly placed roadworks sign. The driver in question followed the sign (stricti iuris) and nearly had a head-on collision.
10 months ago
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