the 'autoread' option in Nvim 0.13 is now driven by OS "file watcher" events: github.com/neovim/neovim/pul… feedback is appreciated!

accurate 😁

We build upon the shoulders of giants! In this case I want to thank two giants in particular: - @willmcgugan for #Textual - the library that rendered the interface including the amazing in termainal image display - @mitchellh for Ghostty the seriously amazing terminal emulator it's running in. I'm super pleased with the way my #tui @plex music player came out! github.com/feoh/plexbar

One shots are nonsense when the corpus is well documented. Try that again, but you can’t use the word Minecraft. x.com/shanselman/status/2019…

Greetings denizens of #tech #twitter! (Yes, I still call it Twitter. I'm an old man, I get to call things by the old names. It's my right! :) @mitsuhiko was kind enough to grant me the perms to colonize the #twitter channel on irc.libera.net! IRC you say? The 90s called and wants its chat system back? Sure, but consider: - No large corporate rug pulls - No slop So come talk tech with me. Look forward to seeing you there!

I have built a #TUI / command line #muslc player client for #Plex called Plexbar! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Feedback, bugs, etc welcome on the project's repo. github.com/feoh/plexbar

Woot! My #atari8 bit 800XL emulator written in #python is actually becoming performant enough to use interactively! Still feels like typing through a 1200 baud modem, but if you're old enough, you'll remember that actually wasn't all *that* bad :) Next up: Using it to teach myself more about the various architectures of the chips like ANTIC, GTIA and POKEY in this thoroughly amazing machine! github.com/feoh/pyatari

I really believed a whole generation of developers, who only know open source from npm and pypi, miss how open source actually used to work. When Debian or a Linux distribution ships a dependency they take responsibility of it. If there is a security issue and it’s not fixed by the developer upstream, they fix it for their users. Debian and others basically vendor every thing they distribute. They honor the license and they maintain patches. Most of the stuff that you get from your Linux distribution is basically a (small) fork. The same is true for Apple, Microsoft and others. The open source software they ship, they carry that responsibility. That doesn’t mean that security fixes are not upstreamed, but Apple or Debian or anyone else won’t jump in Twitter to shame a developer into compliance with their ways. They are not dependent on the health of a packaging infrastructure. They own their software including all the things it depends on. I want that thinking back. Because it fundamentally makes people feel more responsibility and it shares the burden of issues. It also does not put so much focus and attention on the one overworked developer who just happened to have too much of the world depend on their library. Remember: they carry a responsibility they never signed up to and they never got compensated for.

each issue of process pamphlets is a project from start to finish processpamphlets.com love this idea ! reminds me of a talk I give where I walk students through a project from the initial email to finish

I'll admit I joined the pig pile when I first saw the bug report. This is an object lesson. The internet is an outrage amplification machine. Don't give in to the temptation.

This is awesome. github.com/Microsoft/coreuti…

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO: Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5. This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations. Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months. Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%. The rules built to protect passive investors: 1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived. 2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15. 3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5. All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

I feel like sharing this again. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/9/4/99…

"Java setup has come such a long way!" 1. Install some packages 2. vim.pack.add{ 'github.com/mfussenegger/nvim…' } 3. Update jdtls config to use java-debug 4. vim.lsp.enable('jdtls') old.reddit.com/r/neovim/comm…

Hate to admit this because I want to support tech journalism, but I paid $60 for a year of @verge and every single time I've read it it's been a waste of my time. Not that the content is BAD. It's not. It's just - way too focused towards other folks that aren't me :) I suspect I'm too much of a tech nerd for this particular publication :)

Heads up: we're hiring members of the technical staff at Earendil again. If you're interested mail join@earendil.com

10 years ago, i built myself my own reddit web reader called ledit. used to access r/programming.json directly, worked fine. then they blocked hetzner. moved it to my home ip on a spare mac mini. now they blocked raw requests without auth cookies. so i had pi write a proxy that uses apple script to spawn chrome every 30 minutes to refresh the cookies, extract them from the chrome profile, and use them to request the JSON. i will continue to win this fight.

We are living in wild times :) I just asked my @PidevCoding backed by GPT 5.5 to deploy the Django RSS reader app I just had it build to a Docker container in an Ubuntu 26.04 VM on my Proxmox server, and it's handling the entire process soup to nuts. This stuff is *wild magic*!

brilliant

Want to use @SpeechifyAI with @mozilla @firefox? I wrote an unofficial Speechify extension for Firefox. It's been blessed as an "unlisted" app (meaning in their store) but you can install it from the releases page of the project. You'll need a Speechify API key to use it, but that's super easy. Instructions in the README Works great!