My eldest is obsessed with Luxo Jr, the Pixar lamp. Keeps watching the short films and giggling the whole time. My wife found a 3D model of it, we printed it, and my eldest hasn’t stopped playing with it all day 🥲 I promise I thought I selected white filament. My eldest doesn’t seem to care.

Amen brother. I get this a lot, too. “How do you make your animations?” HTML, CSS, JS. The web already has everything you need to make the most beautiful and engaging content in the world. No batteries needed.

In the last month or so, my eldest (7yo, autistic) has come on a lot in his language skills, enough for us to have coherent back and forth conversations. He answers yes/no to questions and we can be confident he understood us, first time ever. It’s a different universe.

My eldest recently learned the words “piggyback” and “squat.” I’m in hell but my ass is going to look great.

I can’t describe the feeling I get when I watch someone interact with something I’ve built and it makes them smile. Outweighs 1000 mean comments from sweaty nerds on the internet.

About to become the favourite uncle.

shoutout to @samwho.dev for consistently making scary concepts super friendly and understandable <3 had to read up on bloom filters for a project and of course sam has written about them!

I’m not well versed or interested in politics. I know this upsets some people but sadly between work and caring for 2 special needs kids I simply don’t have much energy. However, every time I see Zack Polanski being interviewed on TV I am deeply impressed by him.

You should really talk to nolen about this. Coolest shit I’ve seen in ages.

Sharing a little bit of behind-the-scenes from the post I'm working on. Because I have lots of webernetes clusters running in the tab, I wanted a way to debug their state so I've given them all this on-hover debugging UI that's only active during development. Lets me do anything to the cluster!

In two weeks, @brittanyellich.com and I are running a workshop called "Putting Yourself Out There" for women and underrepresented genders in tech, here in Portland! It comes with a free ticket to Chain React. YOU SHOULD COME. ti.to/chainreact/c...

I really wish GitHub would email me or something when I have pending comments on a PR for more than a few hours. Just found a whole trove of comments I left 3 weeks ago and didn’t realise I’d not submitted the review.

The Full Stack premieres this Thursday at 12pm PT on @codetv.dev’s YouTube channel — join to watch these teams of builders compete to create real products over the course of 6 episodes hosted by @kelseyhightower.com and presented by @awscloud.bsky.social

Chatting with an AI in the back of a Hot Topic in 2008: “That’s the subtle distinction that a lot of people miss, but it’s key. This isn’t a scene—it’s an arms race.”

Started playing Divinity: Original Sin 2 after Baldur’s Gate 3 became my favourite game of all time by a wide margin. How do Larian create the most beautiful soundtracks for their game? The music in this game is fantastic from the very start.

A Kubernetes control plane but all of the controllers are replaced by prompts describing what the controller should do.

This pricing change should particularly impact smaller deployments like homelabs, making it a lot cheaper to use custom domains and ngrok Traffic Policy actions on endpoints that only get trickles of traffic throughout the day. Any questions, reach out! Will do my best to get you an answer.

i want to do a little ✨ ama about atproto ✨ in this thread. no question is too simple if you’ve been curious about atproto but don’t know much (anything?) about it, ask any question and i’ll try to explain it in my own words. (+ would love to hear from friends who aren’t very active on bsky)

My all-time favourite tennis stat is that 50% of Roger Federer is 'er'. Respect to whoever first came up with that.

Had another one today. Probably the most stressful hour of my life in years. Story time. We’d booked to take our youngest to an autism-friendly screening of Toy Story 5. As my wife was leaving the house with him, our eldest said he wanted to go. We know this is about bad idea but you can’t say no.

Never seen a rainbow inside of a cloud before.

Hey @simonbuckmaster.net, it’s still there! content.api.nebula.tv/simon/

I can’t believe I have been taken in by the YouTube thumbnail game. I need a shower.

Been using CalDigit USB-C hubs for years and the power supply on my TS4 has died. Customer service was patronising and won’t replace it. You’d think paying £350 a go they wouldn’t cheap out on stuff like this but there you go. Any recommendations for alternatives?

Some choice passages from the Count Binface Wikipedia page.

The app our kids’ school use to give us updates doesn’t do push notifications, so in my week off I sniffed the app traffic and figured out the API (surprisingly nice for how shite the app is) and made myself a lil’ cron job that checks for updates and uses pushover.net to send us updates. It works 😁

I remember when USB-C was first being introduced in consumer devices, one of the big new selling points was the ability to charge devices from other devices. Do you ever actually do this?

Kaze Emanuar is one of my favourite creators on YouTube at the moment. Every video they post is an instant watch. Deep dives into how the N64 works and ways old games could have been improved. This one covers why cartridges don’t deserve the bad rep they got. youtu.be/kBTfo5xXH1c?...

Listened to the episode of Designer Notes with Zach Barth (Zachtronics games: TIS-100, Shenzen I/O) on the recommendation of @itseieio.bsky.social and it’s so lovely and refreshing to hear someone be honest that they didn’t know what they were doing, they were just trying stuff that seemed fun.

One of my favourite uses for LLMs is a daily cron job that scours news sites I care about and surfaces only good news. Scientific progress, people doing good to each other, public sector wins, stuff like that. Another is a weekly job that looks for autism-friendly weekend activities for the kids 🥰

In general, people are very understanding and helpful when we’re out with our kids. Today stands out as particularly good, though. We took our kids to this science exploration center they enjoy, and while we were walking in we walked past some tradesmen installing AC on a building…

I have a very niche request for you all: I am looking to find someone with knowledge of the Soviet space program who is also a Russian speaker to consult on Able Artemis to make sure that the Soviets are as well researched as the US. It will be paid, email [email protected] if interested.

A “copy as image” button in the share menu on Bluesky posts would go so hard.

This is so freaking cool (video isn’t members only anymore)

Today’s NYT “mini” crossword was utterly bizarre.

Seeing this month's "who is hiring" post on HN, I had a fun idea to visualize the data points over the years as I expected them to be a nice visualization of the current market in tech. Earlier this year was the first month ever in which less people posted jobs than wanted to be hired 🫠

Spent today playing with circuits! I cannot stress to you how little I know about this stuff, but it was so much fun to set up a dead simple circuit (power source, 1k resistor, LED) and poke at it. Spent most of my time doing different multimeter readings. Findings were…

“House Of Flying Daggers: The Director’s Cut” Well that’s hardly surprising, is it? Accident waiting to happen, mate.

Braved the HN comment section for the post I released today and it was… really positive?

Wordle 1,837 X/6* ⬛🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 🟩🟩⬛⬛🟩 Fuck off.

I promise this is my last post this week sharing work stuff but we’ve condensed a bunch of new stuff @ngrok.com can do into a 6 and a half minute video! This is for the folks that know how to run `ngrok http 8080` but haven’t ventured further into the product than that. 🫶 youtu.be/trXqyNXJa1k?...

Inviting controversy with this take, which is outside of my comfort zone, but I do stand by it. You can generate good quality code with LLMs, it “just” requires a tonne of human oversight and automated guard rails. Got a week off then I’ll be building my first proper post with webernetes. Stoked.

My office wall now shows live traffic from the @netlify.com edge network. I wrote about how I built this. 🔗 eduardoboucas.com/posts/2026-0...

Got an issue where a custom emoji from a font file isn't working in Firefox on MacOS, but we're not even seeing the normal OS emoji as fallback. Any ideas?

Nice example of one of the many reasons we wanted to send our kids to a special school: My eldest is in a phase of refusing to wear his school uniform. My wife and I have both been kicked in the face trying to push on it a bit. He wants to wear football kits instead. His school are fine with this.

Learning about electricity like: > Charge is measured in Coulomb’s (C) Okay sounds like someone’s name, fine. > Capacitance is measured in Farads (F) Weird. *looks it up* oh it’s Faraday, okay. > Inductance is measured in henries (H) Alright now you’re just fucking with me.

I’ve said a bunch of negative stuff about the difficulty of parenting recently so here’s a positive one. My eldest has gotten really good at identifying animals, and at bed time what he likes to do is take my phone, then my wife sends him animal emojis and he finds them by searching their name. 🥰

This looks cool as heck. makerspet.com/blog/buildin...

Spent the weekend losing my mind over a massive performance problem in my next post, only happened on Safari and only happened if I scrolled more than 743 pixels down the page (binary searched it with the profiler). Turns out we have an SVG with a bunch of complex filter at the top of the page. 🫠

Annoyingly due to ways the bedtime routine has organically evolved over the last year or so, I now take my youngest up at 7:30pm and I’m not back downstairs after our eldest is down until gone 10pm. Finish work, eat, put the kids down, bed, repeat. Soul crushing shit, man.