Peter Tripp

YouTube video by Jon ACME's Music Channel Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego (1991 TV Edit)

For folks spending their days talking with the magical AI black boxes: what's your favorite way to end your turn and tell the LLM to get to work?
- Make it so
- Go go gadget
- Do it Rockapella!
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It’s 2025, yet it’s impossible to attach a personal note/comment to music on Spotify.

45 years since the post-it note came on the market and how is it still peak technology in the game of “why the fuck did I save this?”

“Robert Moses built 255 playgrounds in New York City in the 1930s. He built 1 playground in Harlem.” Oof

YouTube video by rebecca Rebecca Black - Friday

“Tomorrow is Saturday and Sunday comes afterwards.”
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Motherfucking Capybara

But how else would we know that today, July 10, was Capybara Day if Microsoft didn’t force an icon into the search box of 500million Windows 11 users?

For the last 10+ years you can’t discover how shutdown windows with the keyboard — Microsoft just hides it in the “win-x” Power User Menu that you have to just know exists in order use.

All it took to shutdown Windows 3.x was “alt, f, x, enter. Windows 95: “win, u, home, enter”; Windows XP: “win, u, u” and since Windows 8 “win+x, u, u”.

You know what you can’t do in 2025 A.D.? Type “shutdown” in the Windows start menu to shutdown — that searches bing. Because of course it does.

I've been listening to the audiobook of The Power Broker and so far it's excellent. 15hrs in, 51hrs to go.

Peter Tripp on X: "There's a relatively well-crafted spear phishing campaign floating around to compromise X accounts. It exploits an X API security issue and stale previews of link preview cards to make things look almost legit. It all starts with a DM..." / X There's a relatively well-crafted spear phishing campaign floating around to compromise X accounts. It exploits an X API security issue and stale previews of link preview cards to make things look almost legit. It all starts with a DM...

11 Days later. Multiple reports. The malicious "Google Calendar" app has not been pulled and Cloudflare is still hosting the scammer's redirects. Full thread:
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Twitter, where clicking a "calendar.google.com" link can lead "Google Calendar" getting complete access to your account.

Voiceover: In fact, it was not a "calendar.google.com" link nor was it a "Google Calendar" app.

X X

Bypass the FT paywall via twitter. x.com/carinzissis/...

How smuggled US fuel funds Mexico’s cartels Sophisticated criminal networks are illegally importing huge volumes of fuel — and piling pressure on Mexico’s president

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Chart of Mexican geographic regions as boxes, arranged such that each is a mini-chart showing the proportion of fuel consumption sourced from the black market.

I love one off data visualizations. I used to collect these when I worked at Chartio.

Whomever is operating nomit.dev / getnom.dev (jerica@getnom.dev) sending AI slop emails to @zed.dev's open source contributors -- get fucked.

If you won't put your name behind a project, maybe realize what you're doing isn't a "growth hack" it's something to ashamed of. Do. Better.

Maybe blameless post-mortems were a mistake.

These are stunning.
I would love prints on my wall.

Ferris the crab temporary tattoo

I’m in Utrecht Netherlands for Rust week, come by the Zed booth and say hi!

It depends on the lifecycle of the app, consequences of crashing and the ability of the team to ship quick fixes. A Spellcheck REST API crashing when receiving invalid UTF-8 is fine — MSWord doing the same thing and taking months to ship a patch is catastrophic.

“No Feigning Surprise” is something think about all the time. Such a better way to be.
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New security question: what was your first IPv4 address?

You’ll never guess and I’ll never forget.

Just overpay for an OWC thunderbolt enclosure ($400 for 4bays; $749 for 8), hook it up to a mac mini and move on with your life. I’m using a 10year old one with ZFS and couldn’t be happier.

Oxide and Friends Oxide hosts a weekly Discord show where we discuss a wide range of topics: computer history, startups, Oxide hardware bringup, and other topics du jour. These are the recordings in podcast form. Join ...

Plenty of hardware/EE/manufacturing content on Oxide and Friends
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GitHub - notpeter/env-home: There's no place like $HOME (rust crate) There's no place like $HOME (rust crate). Contribute to notpeter/env-home development by creating an account on GitHub.

The env_home crate is truly barebones:
Check $HOME on unix, $USERPROFILE on windows and otherwise return None. Unlike `std::env::home_dir` and other fancy crate which add a libc/WinAPI dependency for fallback use, env_home just checks the environment, that's it.
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ACP: env::home_dir replacement · Issue #372 · rust-lang/libs-team Proposal Add new API: std::env::user_home_dir returning Option<PathBuf>. This is a replacement for the deprecated std::env::home_dir, providing a platform agnostic method for identifying the user's...

Here's my ACP. As part of that process I also published my first rust crate (env_home) a trivial implementation of my proposal.
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My first rust ACP (API Change Proposal) was closed -- with the best possible outcome. 🏡 🎉 I was proposing a new API to replace the broken on windows and long-deprecated env::home_dir. But instead the Windows implementation was fixed and env::home_dir will be officially undeprecated in Rust 1.87.0!

Yep. If you have a GitHub Copilot subscription you can use Github Copilot Chat as an provider for the Zed Assistant (assistant panel, inline assistant, terminal assistant) with any of the supported models. Zed also supports Copilot for inline completions if that’s your jam.

Burnout Legends, Me and My Katamari and Sid Meier’s Pirates! were my favorites.

It was really fun to chat with Mitchell about GhosTTY and nurturing sustainable open source communities on GitHub!

Revert FPS counter by mrnugget · Pull Request #17485 · zed-industries/zed UPDATE: Response so far seems to be that this fixes the performance issues on Intel MacBooks. So we&#39;re going to go ahead and merge it. This reverts the FPS counter added in 1175391 (#16422) bec...

There previously was one, but it caused severe battery drain on Intel Macbooks so we reverted it. 😕
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