Why can't we just go back to IRC + DIDs + DNS? github.com/chad/freeq

Does anyone else miss Freenode?

"A republic, if you can keep it ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...

TIL how to control iOS with xcrun and ffmpeg 📲 🤓 I had to notice the pattern and tell the machine to do this This as a parable for what's to come: no matter how great our ability to automate becomes, all is lost if we lose curiosity along the way gist.github.com/indexzero/62...

This is everything right now

We must not be afraid to visit on this Court the wisdom borne from what FDR taught to Charles Evan Hughes when he re-ascended to the bench as Chief Justice. The foundation of life in America being decided 6-3 is too damn close ✊ www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

The Republic will endure; but fuck we've got some work to do kids 😳 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

How in the name of cartography can such a rare chance for the Watterman Butterfly to shine go overlooked? For shame Pottery Barn Kids, for shame

It's official 😳 I have once again invented something I had no business inventing – release is imminent 🤞

PROTIP: create a file named !{name} in your gists to workaround the horribad name Github assigns your gists when listing them

TIL Zooko's triangle: when it comes to names for network protocols it's pick two: peer-to-peer (aka truly decentralized), secure, or human-meaningful It makes me wonder what our future will look like when "human-meaningful" includes "AI assisted lookups"

When oligopolistic competition becomes the norm the peril is celebrated 😳 openmdw.ai

released packumeta - a tiny set of utils for dealing with packuments. for now, mostly used to infer a "trust level" from a package version

the underlying force that has shaped my time on earth summed up in a single graph

Buckle up. I think this is where the movie gets really interesting

This is America. On so many levels. Here we come President Comacho

I weep for humanity www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ames expressed the popular security more wisely: "that [an autocracy] is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." Emerson, 1844, quoting Fisher Ames, 1795

"We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try." — Zohran Kwame Mamdani Absolute 🔥 This is right up there with "We choose to [...] do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — John Fitzgerald Kennedy

New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵

invisalgo is the anti-zalgo – the unicode code points the light forward but the truth lurks through the zalgo! slash u two zero zero slash u two zero six hallow be thy prefixes

dear past me: the future is weird we have robot interns now github.com/indexzero/er...

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I am one of the first 5,000 GitHub users, and I am disappoint 15 ago I submitted a change on M$FT Codeplex to the Prism project after using the framework at a large financial institution I was told that contributions were only accepted from M$FT employees. I never went to that website again ⬇️

Thanks to Ken Burns TOL Boston was basically an island during the American Revolution

What a long strange trip it's been 🐢🚀 Excited for what's cooking for 2027 🗽It won't be what's come before — and that's the point

The Onion headlines are real life now, what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The truth is always more interesting than a movie plot. What a fascinating relic of European History to come to light. I can't wait to go see it when it goes on display in Canada! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...

For me, it's been New York or nowhere since Day 1 👶 and it always will be 🗽I always knew the people of New York would not bend the knee ✊ no matter what the fascist Oompa-Loompa-in-Chief lied to the contrary 🤡 and Mamdani's resounding victory backed by historic voter turnout is just the beginning 🇺🇸

> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regexp", now you have two problems It's amazing how even after all that time, the Internet I have known & loved is there. And the most recent comment is the most perfect book end imaginable 🤓 regex.info/blog/2006-09...

I knew speaking at @jsconf.bsky.social 2025 would be hard, because so much of what I had to talk about I learned from Mikeal Rogers – and am still learning even now. The goal of the talk was to tell part of that story, a story about how the web isn't finished, yet 💡 all-docs.talks.charlie.dev

24 years ago I shipped my first piece of software from this building. Reflecting on that now the world and my life were set in motion in those weeks You see, two weeks later a pair of commercial airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center a few blocks away NY Forever 🗽

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

Wait, does this mean that Captain Kirk is never born now?

If humanity survives the next 200 years what we will be capable of is going to be absolutely jaw dropping scitechdaily.com/blood-vessel...

Truly you know it's bad when you think "yes, the lawyers will save us!" www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...

A long but important read. It turns out—unsurprisingly—the algorithms are to blame www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"It is really a passing of the era, not just a man" 💔 I cannot imagine my life had I not met Mikeal Rogers. I've said before that "JSConf changed my life" but behind the scenes there was always Mikeal.

Life is chaos. Be kind 💔

After 20 years of software engineering I am proud to announce I can sort of use awk without StackOverflow

You know.. life is funny.. If you don’t repeat the actions of your own success You won’t be successful You gotta know your own formula, your own ingredients What made you, YOU.. — KRS-One

Scream Cipher xkcd.com/3054

In these times of strife, our anger is a gift ✊ Not a gift for ourselves, but a gift to the future 🚼 "We the people" must stand justly united when the courts and the rule of law are tossed aside ⚖️

Interop 2025 is launched! This is the culmination of months of work to find focus areas that really matter to developers. I’m gonna plan a vacation now 😅 webkit.org/blog/16458/a...

I see your "stupid Watergate" and raise you "stupid thermonuclear war" 💀 fortune.com/2025/02/14/d...

Wow, style-observer is featured very prominently on today’s issue of #JavascriptWeekly! javascriptweekly.com/issues/723 Thanks for the shoutout folks (for Color.js too!), @d12n.me and I are very humbled!

Judge Ho should refuse to dismiss the Adams case and appoint a prosecution team from outside of the corrupt DOJ. There will be no shortage of former federal prosecutors who would accept the case, even on a pro bono basis and the court could allocate CJA or other court funds for all expenses.

✊⚖️No one is above the law ⚖️✊ The US Attorneys of the SDNY are showing the heroism we need from our judiciary today Scotten was already a hero: he received two bronze stars in Iraq. He's also a staunch Conservative who clerked for the Hon John Roberts Wake up, Congress!

🛋️ Relax 📦🐢🚀

fish or zsh?