Michael Schubert

An ongoing list of instructions for myself.

Surround, by Hiroshi Yoshimura 6 track album

A holiday sountracked by Hiroshi Yoshimura’s precision harmonics and righteous calm circa 1986.

…and here it is in digital form: the Senet/Guardian collab with all the best board-game recommendations.

Go proposal: Goroutine metrics Export goroutine-related metrics from the Go runtime.

Accepted! Go 1.26 will introduce per-state goroutine metrics: running, waiting, in syscalls, etc.

Developers can use them to catch problems early without needing full traces.

antonz.org/accepted/gor...

Where Do the Children Play? On the need for a world without us

"Where Do the Children Play?" – unpublishablepapers.substack.com/p/where-do-t... (by @eselster.bsky.social)

Here are the 2024/2025 supply chain compromises I found.

XZ Utils
Shai-Hulud
Nx S1ingularity
npm debug/chalk/color
polyfill[.]io
MavenGate
eslint-config-prettier
[@]solana/web3.js
rustfoundation[.]dev
React Native ARIA & gluestack-ui
lottie-player
rand-user-agent

Am I missing any?

JSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2 Reviewing the key changes in json/v2.

I'm working on an interactive Go 1.25 tour, but there are so many changes in json/v2 that I decided to cover them in a separate blog post.

Plenty of interactive examples ahead!

antonz.org/go-json-v2

Offline PKI using 3 YubiKeys and an ARM single board computer. With a touch of Nix.

vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2025...

"some knights live to grow old and some fight with honor, but rarely both"

I should learn to watch a fireplace the way I watch television or stare at my telephone. Everything else is unnecessary elaboration.

Looking Back At 2024 AT Protocol Development | Bluesky In May 2024, we published a 2024 Protocol Roadmap, and we want to give an end-of-year update. We will follow up soon with a forward-looking roadmap for 2025.

2024 was a big year for atproto!

We've got an update looking back at progress that has been made, and some protocol work in progress. Will have a 2025 roadmap to share soon.

2024 in Reuters Pictures Editors at Reuters present a curated selection of some of their top photos of the year from around the globe.

"2024 in Reuters Pictures" – www.reuters.com/investigates...

Well, it's been 2/3 of a year since the xz attack.
Is software safer now?
Serious question.
What improvements have we made?

Movies directed by Andrey Tarkovsky - YouTube

"Movies directed by Andrey Tarkovsky" – www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...