Seattle man still makes web apps the old fashioned way

🚅 Trains are cool as hell. You're telling me I can • Sit in a comfy seat • Stand & stretch when I want • Walk around • Read a book/play video games • Use Wi-Fi • Get something to eat or drink • Meet new people • Go as fast or faster than a car AND I don't have to drive or park? Sold.

simply, more OSS projects should DO THIS. OSS is a long playing game, if not forever. but we are people behind those projects, and we need good rest and balance to keep things sustainable. I am super happy to see this move and looking forward to see how it could change how OSS works for all of us.

I'm in this picture and I don't like it. I've regularly got hundreds of tabs open. What I really need is a way to organize the information and bookmarks just ain't it.

So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh

Trump didn't go to the Super Bowl? Seahawks have the chance to do the funniest thing and not go to the White House.

Loved that halftime show. 🇵🇷🎶🏈

what you want is an MCP. oh wait have you tried installing a skill? no you don't have an agents,md file. actually what you want is a plugin. have you tried agent orchestration? you have gotta try hooks.

Generating code was never the goal. The goal was to solve problems. I tried my best to avoid writing code by leveraging existing solutions or reframing the problem. Writing code was always a last resort and a liability. If I was going to write code, then I was going to do it right.

It's wild to me that agentic coding with things like Claude or Copilot CLIs is what it took for people to finally start investing in tmux.

I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.

This writing by @stuffwithstuff.com puts to words the feelings I've wrestled with for a while with respect to generative AI. It highlights the tension between its use at work and in my personal life. It's hard to deny its utility in the former and I crave meaning in the latter that it can't give.

I was going to ask y'all to donate to @signal.org but I had to do it first. Now that I have, please consider learning about Signal, and why privacy is important, even when you don't have anything to hide, then consider donating to help Signal continue their work. signal.org/donate

Code is liability. AI allows us to create tremendous amounts of liability very quickly

ICE is here which means it's time to show y'all the good list. Block and move on.

ah! PSA: chrono is soft-retired

Here’s one of my top rules for applications—native, web, you name it—: Do. not. intercept. normal OS-level application shortcuts. Don’t do it! Today’s example: a web app that has overridden ⌘[ to toggle the navigation sidebar. Folks, no: that is for “navigate back”! Hijacking it is terrible!

Never in my entire life have I pasted text, seen that it pasted it with formatting and been happy with the result.

Me every year. 🦀

For this year's blog post I wrote about a weird bug with datetimes and internationalization. tuckersiemens.com/posts/applic...

To end the year, a new major version of #rustlang reqwest, v0.13.0 is out! 🚀 - This brings rustls by default, replacing native-tls. 🦀 - Some feature and method cleanup. - But easy to upgrade for most everyone. seanmonstar.com/blog/reqwest...

Anyone know someone at @1password.bsky.social who could help explain why having their Firefox extension enabled breaks syntax highlighting on my blog? Best I can tell is it might be the inclusion of prism.js leaking. 🤔

FWIW, fs-err now supports File::set_times and File::set_modified.

evergreen

Man, Codeberg feels like pre-AI GitHub. So refreshing to use. 😌

Enjoying the For You feed? Give it a like ♡ to help more people discover it: bsky.app/profile/did:... The more people use it -> the more feedback we get -> the better we can make it for you.

Just finished reading Ken Liu's "Mono no aware". Helluva short story.

Maudit looks cool as hell. I'm enjoying Zola at the moment, but I might have to give this a shot at some point. 👀

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

and yet, with ~some variation, THEY ARE ALL THE SAME MAP. the same SPECIFIC map a map of the ~entire planet collaborating on a desire for technical and social excellence... except for America and its imperial extent, choosing to be worse.

I just want the person at GitHub who made Codespaces generate names like "nightmarish-casket" and "supernatural-spooky-monster" that I see them and greatly appreciate their antics. Happy Halloween! 👻🎃

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it. Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go. bsky.app/profile/eva....

it is more important to read books you actually enjoy reading than books that are Literature

#rustlang PSA: you probably don't want #[allow(dead_code)], you probably want #[expect(unused)]

big fan of the r#<ident> syntax in rust i should use it more

why does the largest yaml file simply not eat all of the smaller yaml files

Plane Wi-Fi is stupid impressive these days. Downloading the .NET SDK in under 2 minutes while 37K feet up and moving at 538mph feels like magic.

The crates.​io team was notified of two malicious crates (with similar names as legitimate crates) which were actively searching file contents for Etherum private keys, Solana private keys, and arbitrary byte arrays for exfiltration. See the blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/24/c...

When constructing tuple structs, you can use curly braces with integer keys. These are identical: let x = MyType(1, “hello”, true) let x = MyType{1: “hello”, 0:1, 2:true};

happy Hackers (1995) day to all who celebrate

Man, whoever did the download/update UI for dnf5 really nailed it. Simple, clean, informative. Very slick.

I went to #RustConf this year. I enjoyed it. But now that it's had a few days to settle this feels pretty real to me. Hope the organizers reflect on that a bit.

Had a great time at #RustConf2025! 🦀 Already looking forward to returning to Montréal for RustConf 2026 next year. ✌️

Today's the day! 🦀 Just picked up my badge and I'm really looking forward to all the talks tomorrow!

A practical introduction to parsing (in #rustlang) jhwlr.io/intro-to-par...

Tab groups + vertical tabs + expand side bar on hover + full screen in @firefox.com is sick. 😎👍 I don't need the AI tab group naming though (like, at all). 😩👎

tfw you're writing longer and longer specs, repeating yourself to eliminate any global context, using formal words to avoid ambiguity, and finding the right tokens that appear in the training set to get the desired output if it's programming it's programming with mittens on

I hate the term “code smell.” If you can’t articulate the actual material problem with what you’re complaining about why should I listen to you

computers were better when they went beep boop and had blinkenlights