I've asked Claude to implement a Rust port of JS library given source code in another directory: there's already one such implementation in OSS, mine. Result? AI blatantly plagiarised my OSS code, including parts that were not present in source it was pointed to port.

I wonder what the stats would look like if Firefox started reporting "Wayland" in its user agent... Mine's just going to around lying to everyone that there's X11 here

Do all electronics hobbyists have a "let's try to pass DC through a 3.5mm audio jack, that will surely not be a problem" phase or was I uniquely foolish?

So uh, we wanted to test some things, so we found the longest NPM package name. This is it. Th...anks, random person 14 years ago. @npmx.dev salutes you.

it legit rules that the best bluesky feed is run on some guy's computer and he also plays games on that same computer

@standard.site It might be worth calling attention to the lexicon updates loosening up the constraints: tangled.org/standard.sit... My tooling has been rejecting a bunch of posts that are now considered valid.

Today I'm excited to announce @sequoia.pub: a CLI for self-hosted blogs to publish @standard.site lexicons to the ATmosphere sequoia.pub/blog/introdu...

tangled.org/tangled.org/... opine!

I didn’t realise until recently that many (most?) VPS providers don’t care about inbound traffic and let you have as much as you like. So consuming the AT firehose for little projects can be surprisingly affordable #atproto

No way, this is great. Slightly strange not getting punched in the ear in the middle of 10012.MID but it works

Deleting Signal now that I know it's compromised. Find me on WINCHAT.EXE

New toy for @standard.site enjoyers - a little search engine for all posts: standard-search.octet-stream.net It indexes (in priority order) "textContent", "content" if it can make sense of it, or the text of the linked HTML page. At this moment it's still working through the verification backlog.

an easy way to remember the difference between ssh -L and ssh -R is to try both until it works

I wrote up some of the fun I had figuring out how to use serde with types that borrow from their serialised format octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0... #rustlang

The unnerving thing about having a good offline backup system for your personal PC is that a "private git repo" is just one where you never push to any remotes after committing

Justin repurposed a stack of old-school Linksys routers and built a working Kubernetes cluster. Necessary? No. Extra dope? Yes.

Hah, a blog post I wrote about the fediverse in 2018 wound up as one of the sources for an academic paper: sitios.iztacala.unam.mx/redesenred/w...

*adds self_cell crate to project* why yes I have spent 3 hours so far on a problem that couldn't have existed if I just used go in the first place

It occurs to me that since everything is encrypted between Tailscale nodes, it would be more resource-efficient to use telnet than ssh for interactive shells

Yeah, that’s pretty amazing

I think this recent ThinkPad is the first computer I've had where suspend works more reliably under Linux than Windows

The nice thing about stable distros is it's harder to get nerd-sniped into making minor improvements to your day-to-day software. (a) you won't get it for a year (b) your libs are probably too old to build upstream anyway

I just published "tapped", a #rustlang library which wraps "tap" in an idiomatic API for consuming firehose and backfill records from the ATProto network: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

In case anyone wanted to know, about 12-60 Mbps over the last few minutes if you want to consume the firehose.

I'm glad I'm not on LinkedIn any more so I can't see everybody's 3 tips for maximising polecat potential

Blog: Difficulty enabling Apple's MIE octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

The name “JPEG XL” implies the existence of other next-generation file formats such as: • Big PDF • MP3 Pro Max • SVG Deluxe • 7Zip 7Furious • DOCX-treme • GIF Supreme

I do enjoy the "number of minutes to read" calculation for the blog entries on toki.la

Days since changing the base branch on a GH PR did something weird: 0️⃣

Is anyone experimenting with community/discussion forums on ATProto? Surely somebody’s having a crack at it

The "bskyPostRef" field in site.standard.document has crystallised something that always bugged me about ActivityPub but I never quite put my finger on it. Mastodon, Lemmy and PeerTube all create posts. From masto I can view the profile of a PeerTube channel, subscribe, and videos show in my feed.

I wrote up some notes on validating standard.site websites, the trickiness of handling <link> tags, some of the work @filippo.abyssdomain.expert's been doing, and the edge cases we've been finding: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

everyone who automates less than me is an idiot, and everyone who automates more than me is a maniac

@brookie.blog If that's you checking stuff, I fixed the stuff on my side now 👍

Say what you will about inflammatory blog posts (and I have) the developer experience for fly.io is outstanding. At least for my simpleton purposes.

I put together a little validator for checking verification and lexicon conformance for @standard.site implementations. Let me know if it says something daft and I'll fix it: site-validator.fly.dev

Anyone who wants to entirely avoid software made by LLMs is inevitably going to end up retrocomputing. That’s totally okay but it would save everyone a bunch of hassle and anguish if they skipped straight to that.

The MUD I played on as a kid seems to have been down for about 14 years and I'm a bit disappointed in myself for not noticing earlier

@standard.site If I have three publications on one domain is there any sensible way to verify all of them? Could the .well-known response be a list?

If I published a Rust crate with clearly-marked functions that deliberately invoke memory corruption to test hardware countermeasures, I wonder if it would end up on a RUSTSEC advisory 🤔

I haven't paid attention to Esperanto for years but it's neat that the UK (World Congress) will be coming out to Melbourne next year uea.org/aktuale/komu...

This blog is (now) on ATProto octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

@standard.site Sorry if a foolish question - if I wanted to AT-ify an existing HTML blog that isn't designed for consumption via an appview, what would be best way to use the content fields? Leave them empty? Jam HTML in there and hope that's useful? Or is this just not what the lexicon is for?

I have removed all usage of the "obsolete" <tt> from my website. Nobody will notice, of course, but maybe one day my blog will star in some hall of fame for websites that are pedantic about <kbd> and <code> semantics.

I think my wife just coined the term “vowslop”

I blogged about the state of iOS arm64e support in Rust and my successful but super-dodgy attempt to get a Rust staticlib to link using a custom toolchain. Including Rust in an Xcode project with Pointer Authentication (arm64e) octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

Always a good day when Xcode's configuring environment variables that aren't indexed yet by either Google or DDG

Tensions running oddly high on the Wikipedia page for Jingle Bells

Does anyone have any reccs for print journals or magazines for developers/computer nerds that require a bit less brain than, say, hacker zines? For when you want to touch grass but not too much