Someone posted @mitchellh.com’s excellent description of his AI journey, and with the release of Codex for Mac (and Codex 5.3), I started following in his footsteps… Right now at step 2: please not the *excruciating* part 😂 but somehow starting to see some success! mitchellh.com/writing/my-a...

WAIT! @npmx.dev has built-in *gorgeous* API documentation from types? 🤯 npmx.dev/package-docs...

The state of JS 2025 is out. In the “Other Tools / Libraries” section, 4 of the top 10 entries are date/time manipulation libraries… Can’t wait for the Temporal API to become baseline standard…. 2025.stateofjs.com/en-US/other-...

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

255 days streak on Duolingo… sharing only because it’s 8 bits and I don’t think I’ll ever make it to 16!

Seriously, Japan??? 🤣😂 (See ALT if you don’t grok katakana)

Amazing tool by @steipete.me github.com/steipete/gog...

✂️ Knip for Editors & Agents Couldn't be more excited and proud to introduce the brand new VS Code Extension and MCP Server. For humans and coding agents alike, Knip will help keep your codebases tidy. → Read the blog post:

I’m Not a Robot, a game about solving CAPTCHAs, is out now! good luck :) > neal.fun/not-a-robot/

After years of wanting a 3D printer, I finally got my hands on a (used) Bambu Lab X1 Carbon today. The 7-year-old and I printed a simple articulated gingerbread man, and the look on his face when he held his new toy was priceless.

Definitely a plus… But that needs to go alongside proper coverage collection and analysis, as there are always a few edge cases that end up needing some manual work… That’s why I wrote COV8: www.npmjs.com/package/@plu... It also runs standalone! 🤩

Dreaded this weekend for A LONG time: NPM removed classic tokens and here I am spending my Friday night moving all our open projects to the new OIDC trusted publishing thingy… 🤷

For all Star Wars fans, from the Japan archives, circa 47 years ago… youtu.be/aGm_X6viE0A?...

I truly hate when websites serve me German content because my IP geolocates me in Berlin 🇩🇪… There is a f***ing “accept-language” header in each and every one of my browser’s HTTP requests, and nowhere in there it says “DE”! How hard is it to honor it???

I have put together a (long overdue!) draft RFD on using LLMs at @oxide.computer, but I know that there is a ton more to be said on the topic; thoughts and experiences welcome! rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

... and here I am, 27 years after Java Servlets, Apache JServ and Tomcat, once again thinking about HTTP frameworks! Feels like going back to the beginning of time! www.apacheweek.com/features/apa... archive.apachecon.com/2000/US/html...

I wrote my first program around 45 years ago on a VIC20: it was a little thing to archive my mum's cooking recipes. Here I am 45 years later, drawing architectural diagrams and database tables to run our kitchen in Ettlingen, producing thousands and thousands of meals per day... 🍱❤️

Not even a month after the whole AWS US-EAST-1 fiasco, and now the whole @cloudflare.social global network is down?

Dude got caught in a lie....

Today is my son’s 7th birthday party in Berlin… The kids are German, American, Scottish, Indian, Japanese, South African, Zimbabwean, Dutch, Mexican, Polish, English, Kazakh and Estonian (or mix thereof). 🖕the AfD

Just deployed my first Lambda function on Node 24.x… Oh, the excitement!

Christmas is coming… and right after that there’s my birthday…

For the first time in EVER the Bluetooth stack on my Mac collapsed hard requiring a full reboot… Ventura is truly a gift that keeps on giving…

One of the biggest annoyances of Liquid Glass on macOS is still *NOT* fixed in 26.1...

Yearly donation to Wikipedia ✅ Please, do the same, great folks working there!

DynamoDB on us-east-1 goes down… the world stands still… All of Microsoft cloud goes down… Barely a blip on the radar…

Beyond being broken beyond belief (don’t get me started) iOS 26 is a nightmare for folks like me with presbyopia (read, we’re old as fuck and can’t see close shit no more)… If I want a chance to read my notifications, I can’t have a colorful/bright background anymore: I truly hope this helps!

Just think how many hits does the AWS health status page is having at the moment… Mind boggling numbers 😅

After Japan earlier today, Europe is waking up to see some major outage at Twilio… And that’s bringing with it MAJOR disruptions with 2-factor authentication (I mean, your TOTP tokens won’t work). Already saw it on at least 3 different websites! Don’t roll your own auth, they said 😭

On day you’ll need to share the full gossip here @duncan.dev 😭

"He should be up there with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs and all the rest of them, one of the great figures of the history of computing" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

FUCK! The day I turn off the cameras on the car (low battery) is the day when the whole right side gets keyed 🔑

Today I stand with Norway 🇳🇴 Oslo FTW 🙌

Reading this brought back memories of Schindler’s List: the parallels with the scene where the Krakow ghetto is liquidated are striking.

Ah yes that’s what was missing from open plan offices: more people talking all the time

With supply-chain attacks on NPM rising, we disabled all install scripts (preinstall, postinstall, etc.) across our projects. That broke builds for native modules, especially libpq, which we rely on heavily. Our fix: pre-build libpq for Linux (x86_64 + arm64) and macOS, then publish it to NPM.

I was today years old when I noticed that GitHub Actions take roughly 20% longer in the afternoon (when America is awake) than in the morning (when Yankees are asleep)…

Dear Apple… Who thought that having a gigantic “stop” button (as big as and so annoyingly close to the “snooze” one) in your new iOS 26 release, as opposed to the tiny, far-away one of iOS 18, was a great idea? Yours truly, Pier “woke up one hour late” Fumagalli

Jan 29 means I’ve been around the sun one more time… This year it marks my 50th run-around, and by chance it coincides with Chinese new year’s… Beware of the snake 🐍

Today, democracy dies in darkness. And I can't but wonder what kind of world my 5 y/o will face when he grows up.

I dragged the kid to the Computerspielemuseum here in Berlin today, and reconnected with my first love, from 43 years ago (almost to the day, it was my Christmas present)… I have to admit, I got a bit emotional!

Just because of some “external influence”, I made a small donation to Wokepedia… Yes, I spelled it right, apparently 😏 I hope you’ll do the same!

The Hotel de la Paix has a special place in my heart… I spent there few weeks, in the mid-80s, while visiting Togo with my family. So many wonderful memories, I hope it gets somehow saved…

Breakfast time was spent over “why is it so hot in Egypt and so cold in Berlin”… And we’re 15 minutes late for kindergarten! I gotta learn more about that “god” stuff, could come handy 😝

Fridays are "update days" (basically, cronned update of all dependencies, and a global rebuild of world at juit.com). This week we hit the big cycle with @typescriptlang.org 5.7, and found a nasty little bug around the fact that typed arrays are now generic...

Hey @shanecurcuru.bsky.social, @rbowen.bsky.social, @swallez.com, @tcurdt.bsky.social … How do we get the ASF to post over here as well???

This! And on Node remember to use “--stack-trace-limit=1000” (or whatever number you need there) when your traces go too deep!

Reminder to self: Typescript compilation seems slow? Look at TSC tracing here: github.com/microsoft/Ty... It's an easy: tsc --generateTrace ./tsc-trace npx '@typescript/analyze-trace' ./tsc-trace And it works also with "vue-tsc" for @vuejs.org @typescriptlang.org #performance #tsc #typescript

Yay!!! And also nay because I now have to spend the next few days upgrading everything 😂