amos

today, on SDR podcast:

not should you, but can you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7WStG28oJc

fucked that you need ego to do things imho

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🤦 to log into github's docker registry, you need a "classic" API token. But when you check "write:packages" it enables a bunch of other permissions. You can't uncheck those. But you can use a special URL.

Screams "we have a security team with no agency" imho […]

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is this my fault? yes! almost everything is, as is custom for busy people

I'm back on chrome for the stupidest reason: macOS 26 beta's safari is mostly busted (if you use it for like half a day)

babe wake up it's another sdr episode about cursed things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRZPrRlY3Co

what if OFCOM's age verification stuff, which is driving everyone to learn about VPNs, accidentally kills YouTube, whose creators rely on sponsored segments from VPN companies, which might end up not really needing advertisement anymore? that would be something

has anyone been using macOS 26 Tahoe daily? is it okay-ish?

rip nsfw on itch, they kept it going as long as they possibly could afaict — https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content

GitHub - redbadger/facet-generate: Reflect types annotated with #[Facet] into Java, Swift, and TypeScript. Reflect types annotated with #[Facet] into Java, Swift, and TypeScript. - redbadger/facet-generate

✨ neat!

https://github.com/redbadger/facet-generate

a zillion copies of: considering introducing lifetime 'shape here: 'shape

I think it's trying to tell me something

269 build errors in facet-core

send thoughts (keep prayers)

https://github.com/facet-rs/facet/issues/854

const TypeId::of is being stabilized 🎉 (look for it in stable in like... 14 weeks?)

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/144133#issuecomment-3109191685

I'm on sick leave till august 4 — I won't be responding on GitHub or social or anywhere probably.

is there anything like callgrind on macOS? also, has anyone touched those tools in the past decade or so?

I've been going through a rough patch the past couple months — fiddling with meds, trying to find something that works, and mostly failing for now. it's hard to get out of bed in the morning right now, let alone perform at my usual level. it might get better, not sure when.

anyway, that video could've been clearer for sure. I was confused myself for the most part when making it — at least I'm glad I have that documented for when it inevitably becomes relevant again.

there's only so many videos I can make about "rust good" before I bore myself to death btw — I'm gonna keep making videos about using rust to build X & Y but I'm not gonna chase whatever YT analytics tell me to chase

last video (about color) is gathering more negative feedback than any before and is losing me subscribers, which is probably a sign to increase the thing

All color is best-effort I do not come to you with answers today, but rather some observations and a lot of questions. The weird glitch Recently I was editing some video and I noticed this: A screenshot of the video, there...

as usual, article version is available right now to patrons silver & above :) https://fasterthanli.me/articles/all-color-is-best-effort

new video dropping tonight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzCbdsVVnKI

(it's about color)

you find yourself playing video games with a clever 9yo — what's your selection? local coop/gamepad maybe? (steam)

GitHub - simonask/facet-v8: Experimental Facet/V8 integration, marshalling/unmarshalling data between JavaScript and Rust Experimental Facet/V8 integration, marshalling/unmarshalling data between JavaScript and Rust - simonask/facet-v8

https://github.com/simonask/facet-v8 👀

GitHub - jrmuizel/binary-size-profiler Contribute to jrmuizel/binary-size-profiler development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you want to look more in-depth at binary sizes, this is a cool profiler that leverages samply: https://github.com/jrmuizel/binary-size-profiler

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Yey Toward Wizard is out: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3372980/Tower_Wizard/

I've seen my share of stupid HiDPI bugs, but a game refusing to run in anything higher than 1360x768 because my 4K TV is at 275% DPI scaling, /on Windows/, that, I hadn't seen before.

I want whatever the guy who decided HTML comments should starts with "<!--" was on. Incredible choice, A!--

It did bring me to a place where I understand enough about the problem and what NOT to do, and being pissed enough that I have enough energy to soldier on through a rewrite, so. That's good! I guess LLMs make it easier to be emotionally detach from throwaway code (which you need to do anyway).

I'll say though, I've been cleaning up a big LLM-generated mess these past few days and it does not spark joy.

The mess is of my own making though, the lesson here is more "don't try to work anyway when burned out". No amount of getting Claude 4 Opus & Gemini 2.5 Pro preview to chat fixes this.

Whenever I notice LLMs being "not great" at Rust, it's because they're trying to write, JS or Go, but in Rust. Which is.. the same reason why a lot of humans are having a bad time with Rust 🙃 — writing types first, then stub functions, then tests, then implementation, that's a happier way.