The vast majority of my day job for the last _checks calendar_ 4 weeks has been reviewing TypeScript to make sure it’s doing the same thing as the Go code it’s ported from. 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. Chat, I am fucking dead. But! I only have ~1,000 more lines to do (out of ~65,000 total). Soon.

Playing squash for the first time this weekend. Squash is easy, right?

Emotional rollercoaster.

Productivity doesn't matter if you're working on the wrong thing.

I have been in Kubernetes porting hell for over a month and my brain is crying out to do something _visual_. There’s only so long a person can compare TypeScript and Go code day in day out. Soon, brain. Soon…

The current projects in the works in the ngrok content team are all dope af. Genuinely the most excited I’ve been in my career.

Bought the only plug I could find in the UK that monitors power usage and exposes it as Prometheus metrics. Metrics endpoint isn’t enabled by default so had to flash new firmware. Got increasingly annoyed because the plug randomly turned itself off a few mins after turning it on.

_record scratch_ Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I ended up in this situation.

I haven't yet made plans for speaking at conferences this fall – limited time and writing another talk kind of felt too much... Now that the CSS Day talk is ready, I really think the CSS DOOM chapter would work really well as a standalone talk. Hit me up in my DMs – love to talk about CSS DOOM

I did SRE/backend dev for 13 years and then transitioned into marketing and I can confirm: it is hard in ways I do not like.

Alright this is an annoyingly fun idea eyeball.rory.codes

This looks fun - a messaging app that delivers your message by virtual bird, showing the location as it "flies"…

Why do LLMs always make either B or C in a multiple choice the correct answer. Go on, try it. Maybe it's picked this up from humans doing a similar thing. Has anyone studied this?

Just solved global warming by booking to have air con installed at home next week. Guaranteed nothing higher than 21C for the rest of time now.

Does the atmosphere have any examples yet of a somewhat popular app going defunct and another app picking up the old app’s data and continuing with it? I always see this touted as an example of the benefits of atproto but I don’t know of any concrete examples.

Phenomenally impressed with exe.dev so far. Moved a few of my sites over to it. It’s definitely early, some bumps and blips here and there, but I completely see the vision. Not sponsored but I do have invites for a free month if you wanna try it. Don’t think I get anything for you using them.

I really want a thermal camera. I have no need for one, just think it’ll be interesting. Sadly it looks like the cheapest ones that are worth buying are £150 or so, which is a bit outside of my “buy it to use once a year at most” budget. Am I missing anything?

Youngest has discovered we’ve had a bread cannon in the house his entire life and no one told him. He’s found the button on the toaster.

Cool, not just me then.

Amazing what you can do with a grid of a few million coloured squares and some electricity.

Playing with light. (which means I’m mostly playing with shadows. 🙃) CSS Only. Live demo on @codepen.io: codepen.io/editor/amit_...

Just randomly remembered Meta bought Moltbook. What an industry.

Folks 35+: do you remember who taught you each subject in high school? Roughly what percent can you remember?

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

What about a straight line that bends when the circles get closer and stretches when they get farther. It's surely not possible using pure CSS, right? Right!? 👀 css-tip.com/bending-line/ Probably my new favorite demo, powered by the modern features. CSS is awesome! 😍

I built a very slow pixel display and hauled it to my local meetup last night. Finished my talk with 3 pixels to spare! More about the ridiculous project: benholmen.com/blog/kilopixel-season-1/

I wish for just one (1) company to have the guts to announce layoffs using the word “layoffs” in the title of the announcement post.

Forgot how much I hate UI that requires me to hover things. Lots of help text is gated behind hovering some info icon. It’s very high effort to do this with voice control.

Nodding so hard I have given myself whiplash. Absolutely agree with every single word.

Watch out! Chrome has a huge bug with <input type="number"> which causes values to change unexpectedly. It's fixed in Chrome 150, but that won't land until the end of June.

Ben Seidman is an absurdly talented man. I rewatch this video a few times a year. He’s funny, he can explain things clearly, and he’s a master of his craft. Generational entertainer. youtu.be/Vk__KOrsIMM?...

I've been doing Linux for a long time. This is the first time I heard of Martian Packets I know what they are, I just didn't know they were called that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian...

@grok is this true

Going back to a more voice-heavy workflow to help my arm pain, new dilemma since the last time I relied on my voice to navigate my laptop: I have switched from Arc and VSCode to Zed and Zen. Zed and Zen sound fairly similar. Similar enough that they get misrecognised. 🫠

Damn, maybe these frameworks are onto something.

TIL you can make it so that a client connecting with a specific SSH key can only run a single, specified command when connecting. Am using this to make sure when I’m backing up stuff from my VPSs with rsync, the key can only do rsync. man.openbsd.org/sshd#command...

@mooreds.com u ok hun

Just finished the book for the 2nd time. As good, if not better, than the first reading.

Swearing around kids is fine. Allowing kids to swear is fine. The problem is intent.

Hi Kuwait, I’m dad.

My arm pain has flared up and the last time this happened I was looking to see what else I could do to reduce the load on my mousing arm. I came across the Svalboard and really want to try one but £900 is outside of my “try it and see what happens” range. Don’t suppose any of you are selling one?

Given how prevalent screenshotting is on mobile devices it surprises me there’s no dedicated button for it. It’s usually some combination.

The hidden arrow in the FedEx logo is design perfection. Paris Tennis School: Tiens ma bière.

It’s fun seeing people riff on the --dangerously-skip-permissions flag, and reminds me that binaries at Google would do this to the extreme with flag names like --i-am-enabling-this-dangerous-functionality-and-understand-i-will-be-on-my-own-when-it-goes-wrong.

Project Hail Mary good film. Amaze amaze. Sam re-read book now.

The website to book every single kids play session is terrible. Gotta be a business in there somewhere.

I reckon there are enough ways to mispronounce Kubernetes that Stewart Lee could do a routine around it.

The kubelet does a lot of stuff, holy shit.

These things are more encouraging than people think, especially today. Let folks you if you like their work 💯

Y’all give me life. 🫶