I keep noticing on the AI discourse is the focus on productivity. I need to get writing a post on this specifically, because on this topic, ever since a RustFest 2019 talk, I have been radicalised on this. Why must we get faster? Why do we keep burning ourselves out and for what exactly?

Spicy take: LLMs are the 21st century's version of smoking vs non-smoking debate.

Cat.

Yeeting facet AND kdl from my config crate for my pico firmware, embracing toml_edit and just doing my parsing and output manually. Run from it, dread it, toml arrives all the same. (1/2)

Hmm. After immersing myself in bsky and looking at mastodon, I am pretty convinced that this form of social media is bad for any topic needing nuance. Too polarising and quickly spirals into purity testing. Bring back forums. Gods, I miss the 00's and early 10's...

Hell yeah! My #tui app for monitoring lightning detection data from my Pico W board is working nicely. Working with #bevy for the ECS/app structure and #ratatui for the rendering has been pretty nice. Still a lot more features to implement.

I had a thought. Does a markov chain count as tainted genAI? It's like a proto LLM, though several orders of magnitude less computationally expensive to run. Does that mean my anti AI scraper tool tangled.org/sachy.dev/na... is tainted? Purity tests/discourse can be very funny/weird/strange...

Hmm, ratatui tables kinda... are not great. Anyone got better suggestions om how to do nice tabular layouts with #ratatui? Maybe I am missing something from the docs (also, I am now tainted from using tainted code)

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

After seeing "that list", what i will say is, I know I can't avoid all vibecoded stuff, but frankly, if I had to choose between vibecoded and non-vibecoded software, i will pick the latter. I prefer my bugs to be artisinally crafted. My computer must be ruined by human hands only.

Remember folks, in times where your views are against authoritarian governments or the hierarchical status quo, anything you say in anger and frustration will be used to violently suppress you. So instead of speaking, organise and act. "Beware the fury of a patient man."

Success! Yak shave complete. I can now discover my lightning detector on the network via mDNS Service Discovery. Now onto other things...

Filling my feed with comf and nice things to distract me from the shitty state of the world. Meanwhile, I gotta test out my continued mDNS yak shaving. If all goes well, I might just spend time creating my own full DNS crate...

Update: mDNS shenanigans continues. I think I broke a dns-protocol crate with a valid DNS response. Whoops~

So, which one will happen first? The AI bubble popping or WWIII? Place your bets!

Time for looking at bad screen is over. Time for looking at good screen has begun.

apparently some LLMs have trouble believing that the current year is 2026 and same tbh

OMG. I found a bot posting panels of one of my fav manga's (Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou), and now my feed is full of panels. Yesssss, I need more comfy

I pronounce mDNS as madness, because writing my own parser and no-std service was a descent into madness.

AAAAA, noooooo, I don't want to yak shave more mDNS code. Please can people write stuff that does not directly depend on tokio or do weird shit like spawn threads in the background, waaaaaaa...

Finally back home, and now I can test my lightning detector with my redone pico w code: tangled.org/sachy.dev/pi... Embassy makes #embedded programming so... fun & cozy! Things just work.

MFW I woke up to the world on fire (again)

Deciding to signal boost a blog post I wrote regarding my non-use of coding assistants. Likely will get buried anyway due to current events, but fuck it: sachy.dev/blog/rejecti... #fuckai

Wow, 2026 is off to a... strong start. I had no expectations and yet it manages to surprise me. Good luck, y'all. Let's try to survive until 2027.

Dear contributors to projects I work on, If you are programming with LLMs under the assumption that they will fill in the gaps in your own abilities, I can assure you that they will not. I prefer to not spend my time reviewing code you submit that you do not understand. Thank you, Jeremy

New year's resolution: Make space in my office for a 3D Printer. There are more resolutions, but this one is the most likely to succeed (i am addicted to new personal projects (help))

⚠️ we are having issues with adding new users to the default knot. if you are a new user and notice that no knots are available to create repos, just sit tight for a bit while we iron out these issues!

Me going through #rustlang UI stuff: * Too barebones * Too opinionated * Too complicated * Ahh, another dead project * Ahh, another OS specific thing * Too web-dev * Too Electron-like ... fuck it, back to CLI... unless... ratatui.rs #tui 👀maybe I should just give this TUI thing a try.

Not sure if enby or autism, but never feeling like I can relate my lived experience with either men or women, always feeling a bit awkward or at odds when making friends.

Ferris-tan #rustlang

Waking up to a new year. Happy 2026, folks!

Winter: Aaaa I hate being cold, this fucking sucks. Summer: Aaaa I hate being hot, this fucking sucks. Can't the weather just be normal all year round?

That conflicted feeling of looking forward to the AI bubble popping, but also not looking forward to potentially losing your job and having so many people go through economic hardship because of it.

My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves. www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

I'm a firm believer that this liminal period between the holidays and New Year's is how we're supposed to live. It's peak existence. May the word "efficiency" die in 2026 and all its horrible relatives "innovating" to solve the perceived problems of rest, joy, creativity, and humanity.

Nothing cozier than a kitty sleeping next to a wood burner in the winter. #cat #cozy #catsofbluesky

Working on my embedded project (lightning detector), but currently can't test it because I am away from home. Aaaaa... tangled.org/sachy.dev/pi...

The wait is over! 📢 We are excited to announce the NEW version of Ratatui! 👨‍🍳🐁 🦀 A Rust library for cooking up TUIs (@ratatui.rs) 🧀 Highlights: ratatui.rs/highlights/v... ➡️ Our new website: ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/ratatui/rata... #rustlang #tui #ratatui #library #terminal #commandline

Explain your username: Bsky & current handle: Long time ago, I had a character named "Sekhmet" on an MMO, but when I did a server transfer, that name wasn't available. Sachmet wasn't available either, but making it more ~cutesy~ with Sachymetsu was. It has stuck ever since.

I have my own tarpit guarding my blog from abusive crawlers, but I also use embracethered.com/blog/ascii-s... to hide prompt injection attacks in my posts, to add additional poison to my content with the intent to discourage using my stuff for AI training. I recommend folks do the same.

Heavy is the (paper) crown. #caturday