Meta’s offer to continue to serve me sponsored posts and stuff I dont’t follow, without ads for 6 EUR is hilarious.

This talk is scary on so many levels! youtu.be/8pbz5y7_WkM?...

When testing firewall changes and you don't dare turn off your VPN, using the GCP Cloud Shell is pretty nice. Gives you a fresh VPS from the browser where you can test if ports are open or not. #protip I like to use Netcat: `nc -v example.com 443`

I'm happy to announce that I now have more follows on Bluesky than I had on my old Tech Twitter account! 🎉 When I stopped using it, my 200 followers on Bluesky were showing more engagement than my 1200 follows there. The future of the atproto network is looking bright. Thanks for having me!

What an awesome project! hackaday.com/2026/02/01/a...

Open my work-laptop and check GitHub notifications. - One PR review request; that's not bad! - 750k line changes over ~70 files Yeah, I'm going back to bed! Wake me when the slop-apocalypse is over.

5 jobs I've had - VHS rental clerk (best teenage job ever) - IKEA office furniture sales person - Software Tester - Systems Administrator - Software Developer

If you're sick of DBeaver, phpMyAdmin and the likes and you want a slick database tool. Check out Seaquel! seaquel.app It's open source, cross-platform and looks pretty slick!

These coding agents are just like real developers - "I'll update this entity module" - "Looks like the server is crashing" - "It's crashing because of X, but we didn't touch that... so we'll leave it" - "All done. QA's problem now! ✅"

#Godot 4.6 is out, and all about your flow! This release puts you and your workflow first with a new theme, flexible docks, and dozens of UX improvements. And Jolt Physics by default, revamped IK, better reflections, and more. Less wrestling with UI. More making games. godotengine.org/releases/4.6

If there's an issue on #GitHub that you very much would like to get solved Then please, up-vote it, and subscribe. DO NOT add "Yes, please111!" comments to the thread. It's just noise for the maintainers and the poeple you're agreeing with.

Qwen released a new Apache 2.0 licensed text-to-speech model, with full voice cloning abilities, and it's really effective - my notes from trying it out here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/22/...

I wonder if it's possible to create an #atproto share-plugin for iOS and Android that can do what Skyreader is doing. - Log in with PDS - Share on any Lexicon you choose (e.g. Bluesky, Smokesignal, Frontpage, etc) That would be pretty awesome, I think.

formats over apps

Playing around with OpenCode agents on my GPU and the Qwen3 models with Ollama. - qwen3-coder:30b is quite capable - context-size is important, and the default context is way too low - 100% GPU is fast, mixed-mode not so much Compared to Opencode w. Claude Max at work; this is slow, but functional

interesting - I did not realise half of this bylinesnetwork.substack.com/p/decline-wh...

Go to personalsit.es Hit the “go to a random site link” Enjoy

Got a solid 20m usage out of Opencode and my new Claude Max subscription yesterday. This morning: "This credential is only authorized for use with Claude Code and cannot be used for other API requests." Now, I don't want to go back to Claude Code, or have anything to do with Anthropic

I love web-pages with tiny awesome details. Like Massive Monster who have this monster on their page. It follows your mouse around and reacts to you clicking on it.

I've been observing a disturbing pattern. Instead of people coming with a problem, they now paste a wall of text from ChatGPT and ask me what I think of the proposed solution. That's like handing me a half-finished puzzle without the box-cover and ask me to finish.

(comic) Break all the rules

If there's one thing I don't miss from my infrastructure days, then it's writing firewall rules. - It's so EASY to lock yourself out when messing with this stuff - The syntax is weird and brittle - The server room is in the cloud - and soon SPACE!

Remember that slippery slope you were warned about? reclaimthenet.org/uk-expands-o...

Well this is remarkable. 😮 Someone built a 3D voxel engine using plain ol’ DOM nodes, no canvas/webgl. And it’s surprisingly performant, since it culls any faces that aren’t currently visible. Repo: github.com/LayoutitStud... There’s even a nifty lil’ editor!

Nobody will visit your web-page if it takes more than a few seconds to load the first render. But, apparently it's OK to wait 20 seconds while a native app shows a splash screen. What are these apps even doing for all this time?

Recommend a good #RSS platform to replace Feedly? Must-have - PWA or good iOS app - No vendor lock-in Pluses: - Self-hosted (as an option) - Open-source - User controlled filters

as a teacher who did this with HS Seniors in Dallas, I learned 2 things: 1, this needs to be a unit every single year, K-12, across disciiplines, because it's that difficult to teach well and, 2, kids actually like spotting fakes and really get into this if you give them the skills to do so

@feedly.com 500 error in app and the hosting has been unstable recently. Your status page is all green

I need this in my life. At least for the next few weeks hackaday.com/2026/01/08/e...

Engramma is quickly becoming the Design Tokens management tool I've been trying (and stop/starting) to create over the last 3/4 years. Seriously great open-source work here from @trysound.io Website: app.engramma.dev GitHub: github.com/TrySound/eng... 🙏🖤

It's the "npm update" time of year again. For some reason, it's never the packages you expect, that give you problems. The trade-off of having a huge ecosystem of libraries to develop faster. For better, or worse.

The only thing smart about Smart-TVs is the return-of-investment for those who produce them. - The price you pay for "owning" one - Sponsorships (brand buttons, etc) - Ads - User Tracking

My biggest beef with doing web-development in Go (#golang) is that static type checking stops as soon as I start writing HTML templates. Has anyone experimented with a language server for the "html/template" package?

The Kenney Game Assets All-in-1 Launcher has been updated with new functionality! The software is free for everyone who already owns the All-in-1 #gameassets bundle. See changelog: kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-...

After weeks of vacation, the real question is: “Do I remember my work password?”

If the Pebble had NFC payments I’d be buying one right now! This is the one feature I didn’t buy my Apple watch for. But, I can’t live without it

Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network. Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...

In the age of automation, it's ridiculous how Facebook refuses to allow users to post to their own timeline via API. I even tried creating a "page", but got stuck on verifying "my business". Oh well, fudge it. If you've had any luck with them via n8n, I'd appreciate a tip or two.

I've been giving my homepage a bit more love during my vacation. That involved adding some "marketing" automations and metrics. Google's percentage of my traffic is surprisingly low. But, a big shoutout to powrss.com! It's so awesome to see that RSS isn't dead. It's alive, and kicking!

Automated blog post sharing using n8n: summary, data storage, and auto-posting on Bluesky and LinkedIn, with improved image and deployment setup.

MariaDB/MySQL tips: show slave/master status, users, permissions, change password, setup replica, check version and connection status.

Generate social preview images programmatically using Takumi, a Rust-powered tool supporting JSX, Tailwind, and Astro SSR for fast, customizable open-graph visuals.

Mise simplifies dev setups by managing runtimes, env vars, tasks, Docker, and GitHub Actions for consistent project environments.

I wrote about installing PWA on Linux way back in 2020 and it's still receiving traffic, although Chrome has changed a lot. So, it's now updated! andri.dk/blog/2020/10...

My Ubuntu Summit talk is up! Where I talk about: 1. How Desktop UX is effectively dead 2. Why I hate the term UX/UI with the heat of 1000 suns 3. How OSS can actually innovate in #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fZT...

Finally decided to stop hitting myself by re-inventing the cloud on my server and installed Dokploy. It's essentially a frontend for docker-compose; but it works quite well: - Supabase ✅ - n8n ✅ - Build & deploy my pet-projects via Git-hooks ✅