Smaller git worktrees with copy-on-write: commaok.xyz/post/git-cow...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QMl... is a masterpiece

I was just accused of ”having proletarian tastes in my Odyssey translations” and wait what is even going on here.

Just as horrible as you would expect: LLMs attempt to synthesize music using Python. Blog: commaok.xyz/ai/bella-ciao/ Listen: bella-ciao.exe.xyz

My brain reads "heredoc" as "heretic", every time.

WOTD: mulct www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/m...

WOTD: horripilation www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/h...

Having to RTFM for a tool I just built for myself is such a weird experience.

Rapid updates are a software supply chain threat vector. Use cooling off periods. Also, Mythos can go from vuln to working exploit in hours for trivial money and effort. Better patch fast. The call is coming from inside AND outside the house. This is fine.

Etymology TIL: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebrack... sequel = seq+uel prequel = pre+quel The q moved!

2026: the year when every software engineer becomes Jobu Tupaki

exe.dev's CLI and API are one and the same, as it should be. blog.exe.dev/apis-for-the...

Code is cheap. Insights are not.

Word of the day: diegesis en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diegesis

Today's realization: I do very little direct editing of files any more. That means the main feature I care about is speed: get in, edit/read, get out. Switched from VSCode to Zed. Immediately and obviously better.

Eyeball twice, cut once.

Chatting with the cashier, who just moved to Marin from rural Louisiana. His take: “Everyone here is super healthy, on the outside.“

You are more than the worst thing you have ever done: true in life but not in miniature golf.

If you don't sit to pee, how do you check bsky?

That Slack message could have been an emoji reaction.

A hill I will die on: My webcam stays off for meetings. commaok.xyz/post/audio-o...

Sartre was close: Hell is anonymous people.

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

My favorites of the books I read in 2025, alphabetical by author, commentary in thread: - @alisonbechdel.bsky.social: Spent - @nickharkaway.com: Sleeper Beach - Per Petterson: Out Stealing Horses - Charles Reznikoff: Holocaust - P.G. Wodehouse: Life at Blandings

What we are working on right now: blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev We all need more virtual machines. We keep building software to work around the fact that VM infrastructure is clunky. Let's have good VM infrastructure instead.

@nickharkaway.com I’m sure everyone is sending you this but just in case, you might enjoy pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

The floodwaters left a ring on the outside of the bathtub. - Spencer Holst

8yo: What is puff daddy? 11yo: It’s a rapper. 8yo: Ooh, for what kind of candy? 11yo: No, a rapper is one of those annoying people who says things really fast.

Anyone have a friend at NYT Games? commaok.xyz/post/connect...

Child with chalk…or just SMTP?

If were Kondoizing the internet, McMaster-Carr would be one of the dozen or so websites left.

My 8yo: “We’re making a movie! Do you want a ticket?” Me: “Sure.” Hands me this and waltzes off giggling…

How it started: Error: Process completed with exit code 1. How it's going: Error: Process completed with exit code 1. sigh

Our Calvin and Hobbes books are being loved back into looseleaf. Pages turn up everywhere.

How many years until an American teenager meets someone British and is like “whoah you have an AI assistant accent“?

I love small town parades. More people marching than watching. And fun either way.

When I get into my car, I want my phone call to automatically switch from my AirPods to the car speakerphone, even if I'm still wearing the AirPods. ...said nobody ever.

New blog post: Security through intentional redundancy commaok.xyz/post/securit...

@nickharkaway.com another thing I’ve been wondering about Titans: languages evolve rapidly. Shouldn’t the older ones sound hopelessly archaic? And be befuddled by generations of accumulated unlearned slang? (And that’s not even to mention norms and mores.)

Co-worker nicknames new vibe-coding agent Shelley. I get the poet reference...but miss the "shell" joke. But also: Ozymandias is about vibe coding if it's about anything.

github.com/josharian/vi... Converts a video into an ANSI "text" file that you can `cat` to your terminal to play that video (very pixelated). Demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0Q...

“I keep my car in airplane mode” means something much less exciting in 2025 than I would have imagined two decades ago.

Terminal.app is the IE6 of TUIs.

Our cat has been leaving notes around the house for us asking for wet food, new catnip plants, etc. This one reads (with spelling fixed for clarity): “if you will not let me destroy the cat carrier, let me destroy the car. or destroy the vet. -apples”

Thanks @commaok.xyz for hosting @michael.express and I to talk about a fun bug in Go’s new Green Tea GC and the tools we used to investigate. sigpod.dev/6

I just watched a nine minute video about a vacuum cleaner product launch and I would do it again. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve6J...

Internet Roadtrip is my favorite thing on the internet right now—it’s basically Twitch Plays Google Street View. They started in Boston, spent several weeks on a quest to cross the Canadian border, and are now exploring New Brunswick. neal.fun/internet-roa...

New short blog post: Backoff-with-retry can be much simpler. commaok.xyz/post/simple-... Also, maybe peek at commaok.xyz/post/blog-sc....