the devops community rediscovering the value of raw nvme drives is pretty funny. so sticking a network in between your I/O comes with a cost? who knew

The 80s got magic vs bird - we get elon vs sama 🫠🫠🫠🫠

hospitals in sponsored listings on google 🫠🫠🫠🫠

using a well architected rsc app over plane wifi proves its efficacy. it's absurd how much faster and leaner it loads compared to your average SPA

my newsletter honeypot is working great 👍

ten year old mostly hand-written codebase vs. 6 month old agentic-coded codebase

manual eslint rules is actually a really interesting way to enforce code smell, especially in the age of AI. for example, banning use of manual `new Date` across the app and colocating it to specific helpers makes life a lot easier.

get your node apps upgraded

Pouring one out for the legend

the struggle of building indie, non-invasive software is that when you strive to capture a modicum of value you are offending people who expect unreasonable value for little cost. but by capturing some value you are not being extracting, you are only creating a sustainable situation.

RE: tailwind shouldn’t be a business

when prediction markets begin offering derivatives, it’ll make Wall Street look like Mr. Rogers 🫠🫠🫠

alexanderson.leaflet.pub/3mbriacvrj22... @ralexanderson.com I don't know of anyone suggesting that RSC data fetching is "universally" better, just that it gives you the optionality to _pick_ which style of data fetching you want to use and where.

@ricky.fm I know there's a suspense throttle of 300ms (FALLBACK_THROTTLE_MS) but is there a minimum block time of suspense (e.g. block the loading state until this data is ready for X ms? only show loading state if data is not ready in ~500ms). also do async siblings render/load in parallel?

has anyone built a react virtualizer that works alongside the new activity api? does it make any sense to combine the two? cc: @brian.blue

nodejs.org/en/blog/vuln... so we're all flying by naked. I'm empathetic to the maintainers who have to fix this and keep it under wraps, but have heard zero rumblings about this tbh.

everyone: rust so fast me build first rust app: compiling for six minutes

python is evil and I don't understand why anyone uses it

the plan: tell everyone you're releasing work created entirely by AI but actually painstakingly create every single frame by hand

after incredible pain and trial, I now have my thermostat wirelessly connected to my private mesh vpn so I can control it from anywhere in the world – but without any third party companies or clouds in the middle. woo

I’m deeply curious what people’s perceptions of nyc are outside of those who live here. I feel like it’s wildly different. Been here 12 years, it’s pretty amazing.

I stupidly flashed the wrong firmware to my router and bricked it. But there's an incredible tool that lets you bypass the firmware via ethernet and upload a new firmware. pretty rippin'

everyone is judgemental until rent is due

bitnami rug pulling the entire k8s ecosystem isn't talked about enough. it's one thing to shift to a new model, it's another to just dunk all existing images out of existence.

@tailscale.com please let me migrate off google as my identity provider. it's a legacy choice from when you only supported them. now I'm stuck with google. please, pretty please.

that feeling when you sprint and make your international layover >>>>

I formally apologize to the world for my devilish little smile

Are you guys writing quantum AI code?

HMMMM, I wonder what web technology solves all three of these problems? @react.dev

honestly would be hilarious to create a server only rsc framework. I think that would genuinely get some people converted. then they'd add htmx and find it wonderful. and eventually, they'd rub up against the client component wall and realize "oh right this is why the holistic solution exists"

people don't realize how amazing the world is like you can go almost anywhere on the planet and get cigarettes alcohol and jazz for < 20 quid

You guys hear about U2’s lawyer? He works pro Bono

hacker news–discuss javascript-based rendering without totally going off the rails–challenge

Satire that is lost on its audience is indistinguishable from ignorance 🫠🫠🫠

people love to dump on react but django just finally got template partials, which is still a huge step below full componentization. jsx really is the best templating language out there

that feeling when a creative vision comes together >>>>

that feeling when all your dependencies are up to date >>>>

that feeling when you're outbid on an ebay item you don't need anymore >>>>

I published a new piece on @danabra.mov's sidetrail: "vacuuming the cloud" - autonomy, privacy, and 'the cloud' sidetrail.app/@saewitz.com... this will likely turn into a blog post, but this was a good way to think through my thoughts in a less formal manner.

i just walked "check out sidetrail" by @danabra.mov sidetrail.app/@danabra.mov... this is really fascinating. it might take place for me as blog "drafts" - I have a lot of scattered thoughts that I'd like to turn into blogs, but haven't found the right medium for before crystalizing them.

throwing some energy out into the universe, would enjoy being on a few more podcasts. if you want to chat about how I built an indie and bootstrapped business for the last ten years, the landscape of web development, building software for counterstrike, or any number of things, please reach out!

@bcantrill.bsky.social I don't know who is in charge of design over at oxide, but it may be my favorite brand identity. Perfect blend of technical and modernism. Perfect color balance (subtle and low saturation). I hope you don't mind me being shamelessly "inspired" by it.

it's never been easier to expend less effort and get more return on your time - which is in some ways beautiful, and in many ways terribly sad. in the short term, it means a lot of people creating false value. long term, who knows "if you wanna get a big thing in life, you gotta make a big effort"

ai scraping bots have discovered my well of URLs on my website and are going ham, scraping literally worthless content (every user/match page). these are uncouth bots, using a wealth of hacked IOT devices around the world so they're hard to block. it's not a ddos - it's much, much dumber.

you can see cfEdge timings now on cloudflare requests, fascinating

reading http access logs is like reading individual mortgages in a MBS/CDO

these people have never rock climbed

my robot vacuum is now running tailscale and pihole (really adguard home) why not 🤷‍♂️