Signal is now warning that it could exit Canada over Bill C-22. The government has called Signal, Apple, Meta, US Congress, and cybersecurity experts all wrong. But this isn't a bluff. Canadians will lose access to secure services if the bill passes as is.

This is like a crypto nerd layer cake of fun. Trail of Bits beat Google's quantum algorithm but actually they didn't, they just broke the zero knowledge proof of efficiency, and actually Google's algorithm is efficient, which they can now prove because they fixed the verifier of said proof. 🤯

ed25519.. www.vmunix.com/posts/ed2551...

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

If you've ever wanted to "slugify" ugly filenames so they're easy to work with from the shell, I've got the tool for you: github.com/vmunix/slugr $ slugr "App Installer (x64) v2.1.0.tar.gz" app-installer-x64-v2.1.0.tar.gz Rust/syscalls, no shell escapes. 280 test suite. Feedback welcome!

I think about this Hunter Thompson quote a lot these days, "The world is not mad, as I thought, but sane in the cheapest kind of way." from a letter to Daryl Murphy, 1962

I’ve hoped for a spiritual successor to HyperCard (composable, shareable, remixable) for decades. The decentralized infrastructure behind Web Tiles is complex by comparison, but if an authoring layer that makes it all click instantly, the way HyperCard did, is possible? It would be so cool. :)

Have been working with some C++23 coroutine code lately, which has been.. fun? Humbling? Scary? Yes. Pretty quickly ran into a class of bug that is described as a "MVC", but not the MVC you're thinking of! Most Vexing Capture. Field notes here: www.vmunix.com/posts/vexing...

I'm trying doom emacs. I'm not hating it. I don't know what this means.

💥 I did a drawing that breaks down Transformers in AI Spent a good amount of time on this one, breaking down concepts in a way that someone new to the subject could come away with basic high-level understanding. I hope it's useful!

"Razzmatazzing.." 😎 #claudecode

Did my first code review / refactor using superpowers by @s.ly tonight. By far, FAR, the best out of the box experience with a claude code plugin. Amazing, thank you sir!

my husband put on nirvana and my children instinctively invented moshing from first principles

I used Claude Code to reverse-engineer the Claude macOS Electron app and had Cowork dig around in its own environment - now I've got a good idea of how the sandbox works It's an Ubuntu VM using Apple's Virtualization framework, details here: gist.github.com/simonw/35732...

Top 6 internet "omgs" of my life in chrono order: 1. first time on a BB (i'm in finland?!) 2. first html page (hyperlinks!) 3. first google (how is it so fast?!) 4. iphone (everything) 5. first smart contract (world computer!) 6. first claude code session (wtaf?!)

The future is unevenly distributed.

Sometimes we like to drop a surprise on Lush...

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Amazing progress! Clearly accelerating, too. I never thought I'd leave a vim editor, but I now frequent Helix and Zed and it's been both fun and productive!

I've seen this passed around a bunch and skimmed it and nodded in agreement (because obviously the new mac OS interface design is bad), but I didn't actually sit down and read the whole thing until just now. God, it's just brutal. tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-i...

Last year I wrote about how strange it is that Apple rates Grok as appropriate for kids 12+ in the App Store. I checked this morning in the wake of Grok's CSAM/nudification scandals and can report that ... Apple now rates Grok as appropriate for kids 13+.

May I recommend the ACM Conference on the history of Personal Workstations. 1986. Every talk was taped. Easily the best thing I've watched in.. hell, maybe ever? www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

AI image generation is becoming scary good. It's only going to get better. I'm increasingly certain we need strong cryptographic image provenance. Including at the hardware level. And we should start digitally authenticating and signing real photos that make up the historical record.

I always appreciate @simonwillison.net writeups on his adventures with LLMs, so as I explored a curiosity of my own (where do LLM generated DSP algos come from, exactly?) I kept notes. Delightfully, "same as everyone, a 1998 usenet post", but also more than that. www.vmunix.com/posts/anatom...

Took @joanwestenberg.com's advice of "Build something that will never scale, never be monetized, never attract users" to heart and built myself a VST plugin that let's me write DSP audio effects in Glicol and apply them to an instrument in real-time in Ableton. www.vmunix.com/posts/glicol...

Apple will ship 250M iPhones in 2025. One year. The scale of the smartphone business is still staggering to me. my.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?c...

TL;DR even web search results are a black box with an LLM. For reasonable reasons, which I cover, but still always surprising and interesting to learn a little bit more about how something works. www.vmunix.com/posts/claude...

I installed @netnewswire.com after a 10+ year hiatus and it somehow had all my old feeds. Almost all were still active. Incredible. Excellent writing across them all, without exception. Even more incredible. I'm 3hrs into reading sites I haven't regularly read in a decade and it's glorious.

i chose to start my thanksgiving day the way my forefathers intended: by making this video, for some reason try my product 🥺

"I stand by my analysis. I am not claiming Nvidia is Enron. It is clearly Cisco" --Michael Burry While I dislike the slop & bombardment of 'AI all the things', I do increasingly lean on LLMs daily and it's been incredibly useful and fun. But Burry is almost certainly correct re: Nvidia..

The latest @theverge.com Installer newsletter is just jam packed with links to awesome stuff. cyberspace.online, Fisher space pen, the new N64 hardware, the crazy skydiver photo.. there goes my weekend in the best possible way!

@thebenedictevans.bsky.social is right, the “risk factors” section in the CoreWeave S1 is epic. More broadly, just interesting to see another example of a crypto hedge fund pivoting to AI and finding an even bigger gold mine. DeepSeek, CoreWeave, I wonder how many more? www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.” security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

Clever idea (administer a personality disorder test on each AI model), and well presented. Interesting to think about this vs which model I “prefer”. www.personalitybenchmark.ai

"The brain parasite is trying to get you to breathe in its spores." Incredible piece of writing. Very much appreciated the perspective as someone who was there for early dhh but simply haven't paid attention to ruby and it's "famous people" for the last 15 years.

Most amusing about this is blinkist isn't even actually reading, it's listening to summarised versions of books.

How much tracking signal is leaking from your house? Well, here's what DNS blocked from our wifi *in one evening*. Of note, we have browser ad-blockers. I'm the only @1password.bsky.social user, that's a lot of calls home.. 😳

Not sure I’ll blog more but it was super fun to build my own static site generator and move off Ghost (who I like supporting but are really a newsletter product). Cliché nerd side quest ✅. www.vmunix.com/posts/welcome

One of the most consistent themes in computing across my time in the industry is Microsoft’s complete and total lack of taste. It’s at the point where I admire it, expect it. Latest of course is I updated the kid’s Windows PC and the nested / cascading co-pilot UI is nothing short of remarkable.

The DVD (1996) is now as old as the original 8-inch floppy disk (1967) was when the DVD came out.

PSA: The central lore of the Dune novels was a holy war against AI. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." "Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

it’s very smart of the Dodgers to keep running the Shohei Ohtani home run play

This is a clever prompt injection attack. White on white text on a screenshot which Perplexity’s Comet doesn’t protect against as it does with text.

I used Claude Code to make a few different static site generated blogs as a way of getting a quick sense of frameworks, systems, etc, and as part of that it made a few sample posts about unix tips, git tips, etc, and tbh they're pretty damned good posts. ship it? lol

Have decided that I will refer to any vehicle I own exclusively as a "motorcar" from this point forward.

I need to come up with something other than Ghost to host my simple blog / public journal. Don’t mind giving the Ghost folks money, but it’s really a substack alternative and newsletter isn’t really my goal. So many rabbit holes already, have been trying to avoid this one for years now.. 😄

Good timing!