Adam Simpson

Screenshot of a shell session that shows a node session calling the parseInt function on a string comprised of ASCII digit 2 followed by the 4 keycap emoji which looks like a rounded button with '4' etched on it. The result of parsing is 24. $ node Welcome to Node.js v23.11.0. Type "help" for more information. > parseInt('24️⃣ ') 24 >

atoi, never change.

In loving memory of Dave Täht 04/01/2025We’re devastated to report that Dave Täht has passed away.Dave was an amazing man, helping the world with FQ-CoDel and CAKE, fighting bufferbloat and trying to make the world a bett…

Dave Täht has died https://libreqos.io/2025/04/01/in-loving-memory-of-dave/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550098)

How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? dustycloud.org/blog/how-dec...

A technical deep-dive, since people have been asking me for my thoughts. I'll expand a bit on some of the key points here in a thread. 🧵

The implementation is super clean leveraging Go embeds github.com/junegunn/fzf...

If your fzf shell key binds stopped working check if your system pulled a new version which changes (for the better imo) how to configure completions.

github.com/junegunn/fzf...

The beginning of advent of code: so much hope.

Reality is: I’ll lose interest between 1 to 4 problems and be done until next year.

this is such a good debugging story ("Rust std fs slower than Python!? No, it's hardware!”) xuanwo.io/2023/04-rust...

Ugh, that’s a bummer 😞. Haven’t used niv and morph so maybe my use-cases are too basic.

I’m that guy who has refused to adopt flakes. With those removed, the tooling is stable and boring 🤷‍♂️

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some notes on nix flakes jvns.ca/blog/2023/11...

New models and developer products announced at DevDay GPT-4 Turbo with 128K context and lower prices, the new Assistants API, GPT-4 Turbo with Vision, DALL·E 3 API, and more.

New OpenAI features: openai.com/blog/new-mod...

Great changes/features but the phrasing around "Reproducible outputs" cracks me up:

> The new `seed` parameter enables reproducible outputs by making the model return consistent completions most of the time.

Goodbye, Node.js Buffer — It's time to move from Buffer to Uint8Array

sindresorhus.com/blog/goodbye...