Tomasz always taking it a step further Stachewicz

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Yesterday evening Piotr Szotkowski, also known as Chastell, has passed away. Friend, partner, great engineer, wonderful person.

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ChatGPT Deep Research + word2md + Obsidian, or Perplexity export-to-markdown + Obsidian are pretty good kick-starts to researching any topic one one's own.

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Awesome opensource got released a few days ago: Copyparty, a self-hosted portable file server that runs on everything and with any browser. Check out the video with announcement:

This is an important question to ask. When mandatory ID verification is proposed, some of the first questions should be about how that data is going to be maintained, protected, and destroyed.

White floofy Great Pyrenees puppy with huge brown eyes and very boopable brown nose sits on sidewalk next to green grass and smiles at you

This floofy white Great Pyrenees puppy lies on a brick patio with a bright green lawn and trees in the background. He looks a little sad. Tell him he’s a good boy

When the news is overwhelming, it can be helpful to have an emotional support puppy. Today, we thought you might need two.

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"bloodshed" has left early access recently. it's a combination of vampire survivors (most mechanics, including autoshoot) with a retro fps (aiming, dodging). climate and aesthetics are very close to "blood". hits a combo of dopamine releases i never knew could be combined.

200ms is the fixed response time (so basically a sleep(200ms)) from the application they used for testing: "subbed out our locally running “dyno” for a Puma server with a built-in 200ms lag on the /fixed endpoint."

Legends artwork of female Dragonborn wearing the iconic iron helmet and holding a sword and dagger.

Your timeline has been blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays

She is very rare and only appears one Wednesday a year, RT and share so others can be blessed by the Transgender Dragonborn of Wednesdays

200ms is acceptable for a medium-complexity web application that fetches some non-trivial data from a large database, schedules some background jobs and renders a template

it's a weird interaction of new router and recent puma versions handling of connections: www.heroku.com/blog/pumas-r...

Heroku will have a bigger PR issue on their hands late next week, as they will forcibly move their largest clients to their new Router 2.0 which is not only undercommunicated but simply not working well (think p90 growing from 300ms to 6000ms) for larger apps.

Migrating from Twilio's Authy -- because it refuses to run on my Onyx Boox Note Air 3C, despite the system being unrooted and secure -- to Bitwarden Authenticator and I already love the latter. Syncing the 2FA keys in Bitwarden Vault is *chef's kiss*.
(FIDO migration alongside)

Privatisation is always the same.
Service reduces, investment becomes minimal… profit increases.

No one wins apart from shareholders.

Successful privatisation in the UK:

… … … *tumbleweed*

Unsuccessful:

❌ Water
❌ Energy
❌ Rail (service, tracks)
❌ Post

GitHub managed to make the files changed tab slower than it was before. This is astoundingly bad. 6 seconds to load the top of the page. 10 seconds to register hovering over a link. If you switch away to another tab and switch back, you need to wait about 2 seconds for it to render again. 🧵

Socialism is what they called public power.

Socialism is what they called social security. 
 
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
 
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.

—Harry Truman, 1952

nothing has reinforced my belief that NYC did the right thing like seeing just how upset all the worst people in the world are over it

I did not realize that the AT Proto dev community has already created alternatives to every platform I use for my community.

I'm going to create this thread to explain what each one does and what it replaces. Why should you care?

No ads. No corporate owner. Open source. Free, no strings attached.

thanks! mine is mostly in polish, I treat it as my Facebook "backup and canonical source".

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My new laptop has an integrated GPU and a 2800x1800 screen, a combination which makes running new games sound impossible. But thanks to Gamescope's integer scaling and this iGPU being pretty decent (HX370), I got Oblivion Remastered look decent (no blur) and run at 35+ fps.

salesforce status is way better in communicating what happened and how they're remediating: status.salesforce.com/generalmessa...

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Heroku's outage now lasts over an entire work day and their communication on the matter is bad. Even their status page had an outage and there's no details on what's happening beyond "Engineers are continuing to investigate an issue accessing Heroku services.".

a lot of internet is down, including heroku dashboard+api which prevents my team from shipping (but at least the app itself works)

Almost every job I've left has been entirely because of this. Find a place where you're valued, and once that stops being true find another.

This blog is SO good at pointing out what should have been obvious about AI for coding (Copilot and others)

These tools are good for re-creating whatever they’ve been trained on.

They are not what will create the next, better generation of frameworks, libraries, technologies.

i dream of transparent bluesky-mastodon integration (the user handle namespaces seem to be non-conflicting) but for now this is a step in right direction!

...so just like every non-senior developer, yes.

as for subsidies and dumping, many developers are happy with qwen and phi models running on their own hardware.

Apple May Face Criminal Charges for Allegedly Lying to a Federal Judge A US judge says Apple deliberately chose not to comply with an order requiring it to loosen App Store rules—then tried to cover up its disobedience.

A US judge says Apple “willfully chose not to comply” with a court order to loosen its app store restrictions—then tried to cover up its disobedience.

James Bond movies never show the part where the supervillain collects government subsidies to build his death tech.

but *it is* highly usable in my work as senior software developer 🤷🏻‍♂️

My tips on giving technical talks I've been giving talks at meetups and conferences for a few years now. I started off after the encouragement of my friends giving their own talk and looking so cool doing it! It's taken a while but I ...

This is excellent advice from @averagemarcus.bsky.social marcusnoble.co.uk/2025-04-30-m...

I'd add that during Q&A try to repeat the questions. Audience members don't always have a mic so repeating will help everyone, it makes sure you understand the Q, and buys you time to think of an answer