The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

This, completely made my day.

There sure are a lot ”companies” that ”really would like my expertise” and pay me for ”insights into AI”. 🤖 Anyone who’s actually taking anyone up on one of these? Sounds like the more recent version of the email stating you’ve inherited a small fortune, just as long as you input the bank info.

@kitlangton.bsky.social's effect.institute is freaking _insane_. This, this is how you do an interactive course and make it fun. Like, really fun. The level of detail and polish here makes this look deceptively simple. But there is true craftsmanship here. Bravo sir. Bravo.

Alright friends. Does one need a printer at home in 2026?

I can’t get over how fucking brilliant Shōgun is. Hiroyuki Sanada is scary good as always. But the whole cast is… exceptional.

I don’t need a MacBook Neo. I don’t need anything really. But something about it is appealing. It’s calling to me. I was even trying to argue the case with my wife about getting it instead of a used iPad for the kid when she’s older.

Tell me you’re in Sweden without telling me you’re in Sweden.

”We answer this by literally building a computer inside a transformer. We turn arbitrary C code into tokens that the model itself can execute reliably for millions of steps in seconds.” You did what now?

Ah. Glorious. This made my day. I love the internet. And Rust. And esoteric bugs. As long as I don’t get them. Or well, that’s not entirely true. Finding them and solving them is _the best_.

Is it just me or did the Amazon iOS app somehow turn into even more hot garbage? I can’t even tap recommendations.

Okay what the hell how do you even www.youtube.com/watch?v=27Ib...

Hover typing in iOS is already infuriating because it positions itself on top of the UI element that you need in order to send the message. ”Luckily” BlueSky has that button on the top right, so not an issue in that regard, but it hides character count - so I’m guessing right now. Made it.

That feeling when your kid is getting a steadily rising fever on a Sunday evening.

I can’t stop giggling about this. My wife has excellent taste in internet memeage. Perfection. I also desperate want this shirt.

Hey software gang. You know what’s cool and fun? Writing software, learning things, sharing that learning and new ideas with others. How about we don’t judge people for how they decide to do those things and instead just keep being fun, and respectful peers?

Oh my word @crisfduran.bsky.social, look what I found: This just made my day, knowing this lived somewhere. I honestly thought all that work was lost. To the sands of time. 🥹

Read it why don’t you?

Nice. This gives some hope it won’t completely get abandoned.

It is simultaneously hilarious, and deeply saddening to see so many people in technology, mostly American (anecdotal) that are realizing that having regular, long stretches of vacation is actually beneficial to their psychological wellbeing as well as their career long term.

I know it’s a little gimmicky, and a puff-piece, but damn this is cool.

A giant goes to the eternal sleep. Thank you for your contributions!

Hey Anthropic when I paste an URL at a specific place in my text, do not then assume that should end up at the end of the entire text input. Absolutely infuriating.

Listening to Erik Bernhardsson, founder of Modal, simplifying software development into increasingly larger, and longer, nested feedback loops. Then using this as a point to lead us into his rabbit hole exploration of wanting to get the local development loop, but remotely, without compromising.

To who thought of this new UI/UX paradigm of being forced to step through a bunch of questions after downloading an app, or signing up with email, only to when done with clicking through several pages of non-skippable forms, throw a payment modal with a trial in the face of the user: Fuck you.

Hey @steveklabnik.com just noticed the updated website! And with a new suave logo at that, gave me a rama.works vibe - which is a really good thing! Just a kudos!

Read on a blog entry just now: ”… responsible for spawning and reaping children to handle connections and parallel workers, amongst other things.” I mean I get it, in the context of the post of course it makes sense. But uh, it just reads wrong to me.

So uh, is Europe ever going to step up and admit to the fact that a lot of our critical technological infrastructure is more or less contingent on a handful of very large, very American corporations?

I never real my spam/junk mail, it’s just incinerated at a completely arbitrary interval. I wonder how many actual interesting or genuinely useful emails have been lost to the ether.

All I want to do is have indefinite amounts of time to play with my daughter, hang out with my wife, fiddle with electronics, build more computers, program, redesign the kitchen, work out, cook wonderful food, make tremendous coffee - oh and travel andandandandand… Is that really too much to ask?

Taking my time listening to @oxide.computer’s excellent On the Metal podcast and am thoroughly enjoying myself. Currently on the episode with Ken Shrirriff (whom I secretly wish had the nickname ”the sheriff”) and Bryan mentions a video in which Ken mines bitcoin, by hand. Surely a joke I thought.

Oh dear me this is such an absolute treat. @samwho.dev you gorging on this yet? I sure am. 🤓

Well. It’s seems the fairytale is drawing towards an end.

For You-feed is down. I feel empty inside.

“Writing is an intimate transaction between two people, conducted on paper, and it will go well to the extent that it retains its humanity.” — On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: An Informal Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser

After almost 10 years, one of, if not the single most important library for web development has released its next stable version. This made me feel ancient and nostalgic at the same time. Good on you jQuery.

Attempting to wrap my head around me having to think about landing into my 40s by actively working on some emotional reflection, and for lack of a better phrase: ”cognitive reframing”.

This is like aloe vera in my eyeballs and on my brain. @samwho.dev I’m sure you noticed this already but it made me think of you.

Do I need a logic analyzer? Now Do I want one? Yes. Do I want the ”best” one? Yes of course I do. I’m such a guy. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Cannot wait to sink into this and procrastinate anything else I told myself I would get done.

FPGAs sounds like black magic, feels like black magic, and turns out - totally is black magic. 🪄

Preach! If we could kill this pattern and defaulting to using modals to solve contextual UI the world would be a slightly better place, at least in terms of UX.

After 15 years as a working professional - I have finally invested in a proper standup desk. I am very pleased so far. Now I need recommendations for good quality monitor arms, microphone arms, and camera boom arms, preferably in some nice system that allows for adding lighting as well.

-15 Celsius (5 Fahrenheit) this morning. What the hell?

Luke-warm boomer take of 2026: I still don’t particularly like how Tailwind makes my markup look. It feels a bit like inlined styles. There’s also something to be said for beautiful, semantic, handcrafted markup and classnames. But, I am getting gray hairs so am undoubtedly set in my ways.

Back at after the holidays. Nothing has changed, yet somehow everything has. Oh and what was super-ultra prioritized before the end of the year? Surprise, it’s not that urgent.

”Reduced to its essentials, a computer is a synthesis of Boolean algebra and electricity.” – Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold

So uh. Is anyone actually human on LinkedIn anymore? It’s wild reading what constitutes as ”commentary” on there.

One of my wishes for 2026 is for good writing to stop being on Substack. Seriously authors, own your content and run a basic blog somewhere else.

@thdxr.com opencode is really freaking neat! Any plans for a ”native” app? The web UI on mobile leaves a bit to be desired at the moment. Forgive the ignorance if you’re already planning this somewhere 😅. Not sure what happened to github.com/slopus/happy but they had a nice idea going.