Nice morning at Thistle Day Highland Games heavyathlete.com/game/5748/

If you haven't been keeping up, Go 1.21 reduced overhead from ~10% to ~1%. 1.22 overhauled the format to improve reliability and add information. 1.25 has a built in trace flight recorder. And we have an active proposal (go.dev/issue/62627) for a trace parsing package to enable arbitrary tooling.

The ATProto vs. ActivityPub argument sounds like bickering over tabs vs. spaces or IPv4 vs IPv6. Just enjoy what you enjoy and build with a humane purpose. #Decentralized

Ugh I want more #SoloLeveling on @crunchyroll.com. The 2 seasons wasn't enough!

Go's execution tracer is a woefully underutilized tool. It contains tons of information about what is happening at any given moment that you won't get with a profile. In addition to showing flight recording capabilities, this post provides a nice example of how to use tracing to diagnose a problem.

Just wrapped recording on a super fun ATProto focused podcast with the @limeleaf.coop folks -- @jluther.net @blainsmith.com @mubashariqbal.com were on call, who make @blueskydirectory.com and are also a worker owned tech co-op.

You are a software engineer. Don't become a prompt refiner. antonz.org/write-code

Who's making #Tumblr on #ATProto?

Just stood up yarr on my personal VM for my feed reader. It works great so far and has good mobile support. github.com/nkanaev/yarr #RSS #SelfHosting

You can build the most gorgeous video game on the planet that runs on all platforms, but if folks cannot sign in because your backend is falling over then it does not matter what your game looks like. You focused too much on the wrong thing.

I have a neat little proof-of-concept web service that speaks the S3 API in order to sync full directories to it and then allow for provisioning a TLS cert per bucket using a vanilla Caddy server config. #GoLang #S3 #StaticHosting

How fast is go? simulating millions of particles on a smart tv dgerrells.com/blog/how-fas... #GoLang #Performance #WebSockets

Go adds Valgrind support go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/674077 #GoLang #Valgrind #MemoryManagement #PerformanceTesting

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

Something I've been noodling with us fitness geeks. FitLang: A human-readable markup language for defining workout programs and training sessions. fitlanguage.org #Fitness #Lifting #LanguageDesign

I signed up for my son's middle school Popcorn Wednesday to be a popcorn distributor. This will be a lot of fun to get more involved in my kids school during the day and connect to the community that matters most to me. #Parenting #Community

A better future for JavaScript that won't happen drewdevault.com/2025/09/17/2... #JavaScript #DependencyManagement #SoftwareEngineering #Security

*39 million* people on @bsky.app!

I’ve added OAuth login support to Tap, my little Fountain editor on #ATProto learning project. No more app passwords! 🎉 tapapp.lol

Hi folks, it’s survey time! We’d love to learn more about how you use Go and what could be improved. Share your feedback via our annual developer survey at google.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... It should take 10 - 20 minutes to complete, and will be open through September 30. Thank you! #golang

Got a helpful page in my email for harebyexample.org this morning. I always appreciate folks that take time to help out this way and it is what makes open source the most enjoyable projects to work on for me. lists.sr.ht/~blainsmith/... #HareLang #OpenSource #FOSS

reset the clock! github.com/valor-softwa...

You can see any Surf feed that has been published to Bluesky and can access them via the Bluesky API. Check out the Bluesky directory to see these. blueskydirectory.com/feeds/all?q=...

Thanks to all of our readers! We appreciate you.

Does anyone know of an ethical US-based hosting company that's not trying to shove AI down customers' throats or whose days are numbered because they drank the VC money juice?

The problem with every post-Millennial generation is they got to go straight to high speed internet. Of course you'll get computer madness that way. Make them start with those old screeching modems and work their way up

AI Coding blainsmith.com/articles/ai-... #AI #LLM #SoftwareEngineering #Coding #Programming

Astrophysics Source Code Library ascl.net #Astrophysics #OSS #OpenSource

Native ACME Support Comes to NGINX letsencrypt.org/2025/09/11/n... #TLS #ACME #NGINX #LetsEncrypt

`<details>` hands down.

Some big news from us today 🥰 We are officially a Certified B Corp! 🎉 ⁠ In 2014, Libro.fm was founded to empower readers to support their indie with audiobooks. As a Social Purpose Corporation and 100% employee-owned company, we’ve always made decisions that benefit this mission. (1/3)

A new experimental Go API for JSON go.dev/blog/jsonv2-... #GoLang #JSON

I have a pretty rough implementation of a queuing and matchmaking service that lets you load/unload strategy logic for each in an isolated sandbox. The service itself is in Go, but the strategy sandboxes are JavaScript VMs that require specific functions to exist. #GoLang #JavaScript #Matchmaking

So another version of a camera that makes phone calls came out? Why?

🚀 Launching QuickDID: Fast, open source handle resolution for ATProtocol! Available now as public infrastructure at quickdid.smokesignal.tools - a drop-in alternative to Bluesky's resolver with intelligent caching. #ATProtocol #OpenSource

Big fan of Canada, really good stuff up there. Also a big fan of taking time away from computers. Anyways, back to work.

It is really neat to see all of the apps and experiments coming out of using #ATProto, but I still ask myself what the real benefit is with some of them. Seems to me that some can clearly exist without it and they don't need any "social" aspect to them, especially custom lexicons.

Just occurred to me that I've been running a local Slack, I know I know, group for 10 years. We're finally getting back to hanging out in person since we're all older now, have families/kids, and other responsibilities. agnostechvalley.com #Meetup #TechMeetup

The Story of Creative Technology www.abortretry.fail/p/the-story-... #SoundBlaster #RetroComputing

"We don't have to pay a CEO billions of dollars. We can offer riders a better deal.." Minsun Ji on how we can offer better pay for our drivers! #denvercolorado #rideshare #workerowned

I need to add Chief Damage Control Officer to my resume and charge $500/hr to companies swimming in AI slop tech debt. #AI #LLM #TechDebt #DamageControl

I just realized I've had blainsmith.com registered for 15 years.

Efficient Dynamic Rank Aggregation "[T]his is the first fast, near linear time rank aggregation algorithm in the dynamic setting, having both a theoretical approximation guarantee, and excellent practical performance..." arxiv.org/abs/2509.02885 #DataStructures #RankAggregation #Algorithms

🚀 Can't contain my excitement about If This Then AT anymore! What started as a hack-day project at the ATProto NYC Community Hack Day has evolved into something pretty wild. Imagine IFTTT but native to the AT Protocol ecosystem, running on real-time Jetstream events. Here's a sneak peak 🔍

Wrote about ATProtocol, SMTP, and Chris's blog post about AT-SMS.

🐕 Go 1.25.1 and 1.24.7 are released! 🔏 Security: Includes a security fix for net/http (CVE-2025-47910). 🗣 Announcement: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/PtW9VW21NPs/m/DJhMQ-m5AQAJ 📦 Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.1 #golang

My 11 y/o son might have to go to his 2nd day of school on a lower dose of his mental health meds since Wegmans waited until the day before his supply ran out to text me the meds were out of stock. I requested a refill 1.5 weeks ago! #Rx #MentalHealth #Autism #Parenthood