: “Signing in just got easier!”, the website threatened

: The ecstasy of triumph / The agony of defeat

: Bluesky has such a nice web experience (“even” on mobile), responding instantly and …

: For readability Defenders of short lines in source code have won the day when it comes to defaults from automatic …

: Are there any positive effects of a system full of demons which you can ward off with an incantation …

: I am made to understand that it is stylistically incorrect to underline hyperlinks, but, with …

: Which side does the rendering again? So-called “server-side rendering” is actually “server-side serializing, network …

: In the cloud, you must pay the piper, who, one must always remember, charges more than you’d …

: Last night at Lazarus

: Finally, the web is taking cues from the best UX in the world (PBX phone trees) (to be clear you …

: I miss Twitter bots. Wish fediverse hosting was easier… not sure I care to be manually …

: I cannot abide the hideous portmanteau “transpile”, sewn together as it is from two …

: There’s nothing important left unsaid because it’s too hard to write online. Nothing …

: Nominitive determinism, OpenAI edition Enjoying the alternatives to human intelligence brought to us by the Alt Man

: The reason it’s hard to draw a line in the sand to determine the line for “true” …

: I wish my podcast player did automatic text transcription - even a bad LLM would be okay, and even …

: shiftwidth=3 Like everyone, I have my own code formatting opinions. Whenever the urge to share them gets too …

: Made a mezcal old fashioned (mezcal, orange bitters, Agave syrup) again, but added a pinch of salt …

: Stuff like this makes me want to make my own game. Something cool about not sending a link but …

: Recently reminded of the Trent Reznor Prize For Tricky Embedding, for which nominations continue …

: Accepting comments via access.log I am somewhat dissatisfied with the comments server on my main website, and have been hunting for …

: I learned in the reflector.show episodes about the Young Thug trial that a televangelist in the 80s …

: The secret `brew install` algorithm How to install programs with homebrew: Type brew search PROGRAM and wait for it to show results …

: I see how one might believe that “the purpose of a system is what it does”, and I see …

: TIL that “lorem ipsum” is the corruption of pain itself. Lorem ipsum is typically a …

: Coordinated Lunar Time In April, the White House released a memo on a standard for lunar time (PDF). I hope it is not too …

: Quoting, Raymond Chen Via The Old New Thing A colleague told a story of how he once broke the entire Office division’s …

: Food tracking Perhaps a weird way to put it, but it’s accurate to say that I’ve been enjoying tracking …

: If you see something strange, say something strange

: Just beat my move goal while sitting at a restaurant eating spicy food

: Something else I noticed after updating to Sonoma: although I’ve tried many times in the past …

: Realized since having a baby why YouTube face is so annoying: it’s an exaggerated face we make …

: Let’s Kerberos Cool thought experiment Whenever I think about Kerberos I think about the …

: I’m not trying to make everyone mad, but I gotta say, an Alpine Linux that used systemd for …

: Claws: sharpened Chitin: waxed Splines: reticulated Glands: excreting 👹

: Patterns

: My favorite math scratchpad app Soulver is available on iPhone again - way nicer than a spreadsheet …

: I really wish they would like, put a murderous dictator in charge of HDMI (and all) versioning. if …

: Quoting Ryan Tomayko on how many levels of headers you really need in your documents: Remember that …

: Operating system feature wish: userspace programmable files I frequently find myself wishing for the ability to really treat the filesystem as an API. Imagine a …

: UGC privatization could improve AI models An off the cuff idea: AI training on public data is driving privatization of user-generated content …

: Browsers need better account primitives Michał Sapka notes that PhpBB is a good way to create a small community. I’d like this to be …

: I am seeing more and more bad hyphenation recently, this is just so sad :(

: Copiloting LLMs building GUIs Hypothesis: LLMs will enable developers like me to build apps that require a serviceable but not …

: Homelab aesthetic quotes from computers are bad And I think that’s how I became the person I am today: I want computer networks to operate in …

: A router-enforced EULA for IoT devices A recent shower thought: consumer routers could enforce good IoT manufacturer behavior by placing …

: Ironic to use social sanctions (“climate incinerating”, etc) against cryptocurrency …

: Qubes + Whonix is one of the best ways to make sure you don’t leak your identity on Tor but I …

: Musing on AI tools Regarding AI prose suggestions like this, it seems to me that there’s a big divide between …

: Blue skies, Sierra Ferrel, chickenshit bingo. Thanks Luck.

: This would have been my dream laptop until my 2019 onset of RSI :( I miss working out of coffee …

: TIL: Narrow banking Fascinating history that feels very relevant today: there was recently a bank startup called TNB …

: PLS DO NOT TAKE

: Imagine browsers offering synced window.localStorage, with an in-browser UI for whether you’re …

: Circa 2000 or so, my family went on vacation to South Carolina to visit my grandparents. Here I am …

: Experimenting with a micro.blog account. Goals: keep posts on my own domain… … but …

: Test post, pls ignore