What I want out of Twitter-a-likes is interesting technical discussion, slice-of-life stuff, experts from domains I don’t follow closely talking with their peers, and yeah, some news and experiencing it together Bluesky lately… is not that. I feel more and more disconnected from the Discourse here

This is good, and I wish I had had someone earlier in my career explain things like this www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...

Tecate but pronounced like Hecate

PLEASE someone make an modern EV Honda Element and release it in North America. I will line up to buy it I miss my Toaster 😢

@aparker.io Is there any existing work / discussion on shrinking the bundle size of @opentelemetry/api? bundlephobia.com/package/@ope...

The ~ AI skepticism ~ camp, so overcome with zealotry and in-group/out-group signaling risks becoming a fully anti-intellectual movement hostile to fact, new information, and any nuance that challenges whatever telephone game version of the truth they heard from the last viral post

I've been trying the same to make progress on a side project to mixed results. For things that play well with the existing architecture (extend this, add new method there, emulate this other implementation in a new class) this works pretty well. Changes that you can review in a few minutes.

Today I have learned many things about how not to do SQL migrations

Wait, is this just Orleans? 🤔

yo if you need low profile switches I just swapped the choco browns on my voyager with some of these (lowprokb.ca/collections/...) and its night and day. huge rec

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

The new video generation models are scary, and I already have so much fear about how bad our information environment is today. This feels like throwing gasoline on a fire. I do not understand the excitement I'm seeing. It makes me feel sick just thinking about it

This is exactly it — these tycoons are all just performing for each other, an absolutely broken-brained way to run a business. Bad for workers, bad for customers, but also *bad for making money*! And all just validates my rejection of their recruiter's outreach for a senior role at Vercel.

I needed to read an uploaded zip file from a Cloudflare worker, but didn't want to bring in a big dependency. ~20 minutes with Claude, and I have a < 200 line dependency-free implementation: github.com/jmorrell/clo...

Ripped connectrpc out of my side project in favor of simple jsonrpc + shared typescript definition between server and client github.com/fgnass/typed... connectrpc was solid, but too heavy for my needs. "Typescript as service schema" works surprisingly well!

This might sound silly from someone who builds clusters for a living, but you should *absolutely* confine your system to a single computer if you can manage it.

Idle speculation: Cloud providers often push you into elastic scaling based around the pitch of "only pay for what you use" and "why should you pay for the resources needed for peak usage when that is rare?"

Not a novel observation but every once in a while I'm struck by the level of investment in LLMs and wonder where we would be if there were similar investment in climate solutions We are so bad at allocating resources

“Distributed Systems are more overkill than ever.” “In my experience, a lot of senior engineers don’t seem to realize how much faster and cheaper hardware has become” Co-signed. It feels like so much of tech is stuck in 2015, and I’m not entirely sure why

This has been driving me a bit crazy, so this morning's project was seeing if I can use Claude to implement momentum-based scrolling with a trackball for macOS

If you're from an under-represented background in tech and are interested in building with any of this but need guidance, my DMs are open

If you're a dev looking for a job, it can be hard to get anyone's attention who has hiring power. Your resume gets lost in the noise. Open source can be a good side channel, but that doesn't mean "build whatever and put it on github". It has to be relevant to someone with hiring authority.

Another Cloudflare-thingy that I'm excited to use is the new dynamic worker loader: developers.cloudflare.com/workers/runt... Normally executing unsafe code submitted by the user requires a lot of work to make safe, but giving them a whole v8 runtime where you can filter the network calls? Dope

I already have 165 hours in Hades 2 Early Access, but I’m still excited to play 1.0 😄

On the plus side, there are now a bunch of projects that I know I don't have to pay any attention to

A number of prominent tech people seem really emboldened to publicly embrace white nationalist rhetoric lately, and I so very hope that they’re the ones misreading the room 😬

I know it's old hat at this point, but if you had gone to me 15 years ago and told me that these were photos from a phone I would simply not have believed you www.lux.camera/iphone-17-pr...

It's early, but I'm excited about direction that the Cloudflare Data Platform is taking. Trying to set up similar pipelines on other clouds would typically be $$$ and take tons of expertise. Managing kafka and multiple services for ingestion, compaction, etc blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-d...

Being able to send email was probably my biggest missing feature from the Cloudflare platform. So excited to see this beta! blog.cloudflare.com/email-service/

Damn, that's a lot of funding. I cautiously optimistic about Mojo as a language and an alternative to CUDA will be a welcome change if they can manage it www.modular.com/blog/modular...

I keep thinking about this

Oct 14 Firefox 144 will ship JS-powered view transitions with `startViewTransition`. 🎉 Of course, this is only the first step because we're all waiting for cross-document view transitions, too, but I'm still very happy about view transitions being on their way to work everywhere.

This story is worth a read, but it's so frustrating to see, since I know virtually everyone quoted in it (and the author) and ... there were *lots* of people warning of these coming dangers. Andreessen became a baby about his feelings long before taking offense to the slight from the Biden admin.

the bone farmer, revisited | patreon.com/lubchansky

I'm looking forward to playing with this new RPC system 👀 (though I think the name needs work)

One more quick post: jeremymorrell.dev/sketches/clo... If you're hitting "FOREIGN KEY constraint failed" with Cloudflare SQLite you likely need "PRAGMA defer_foreign_keys = on"

we have gone from a world in which we were told not to cite wikipedia because it was unreliable to a world where wikipedia might be the only reliable source left on the internet and we all owe a lot to the pedantic nerds who got us there

The same reason that designers show rough mockups to clients. Seeing something too concrete can lock down the exploration space and give the impression of something being farther along than it is.

New sketch on my blog. Keeping track of Durable Object SQL schemas with the @cloudflare/actors library across migrations is a little confusing, but you can easily dump the current schema with a little scripting jeremymorrell.dev/sketches/doc...

I am only slightly joking that we should offer a visa and startup capital to any Mexican restaurateur willing to move here

If I could design a compute platform from scratch today I think I'd explore vertical-scaling only, but make it really easy to adopt cell-based architecture with geographically distributed cells. SQLite is your storage layer.

I'm starting to think that having a handful of billionaires own basically everything might not be the healthiest thing for a democracy you guys

I’ve never had a canoli, but I feel this way about macarons

oaxacans went tf off when they invented that cheese

It’s starting to feel real! Shipping a v1 is so hard!

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

I'm having some of my writing edited by a real professional editor, and omg is this both educational and humbling 🫣

I feel like I've gotten pretty good at "Keep Calm and Carry On" but, man, things this week are wearing me down in a way that I thought I'd become numb to

Hankyoreh now has an official English translation of this editorial: english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

To do this with the (upcoming) interest invoker API, it's 1 line of code: .parent:has(:interest-source) button { interest-show-delay: 0s; } You have your default delay. Then, you update the interest delay when an element inside of the parent has interest (i.e. hover). codepen.io/una/pen/LEpw...