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Latest Twilight build of Zen now has "Space Navigation" - autoroute tabs to a space based on URL (i.e. all bandcamp.com links to the Music space) - last remaining Arc feature I was missing. Altho, it doesn't work when popping a quick view link into a full tab.
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⚠️ Security release pre-alert: The Node.js project will release new versions of the 26.x, 24.x, 22.x releases lines on or shortly after, Wednesday, June 17, 2026 in order to address one or more security issues, the highest severity is HIGH. Details: nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi…
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I made a personal black hole that makes you take breaks 🕳️ A shader for Ghostty that spawns a small black hole in your terminal - it drifts around, gravitationally lensing your text. The longer you work without stopping, the bigger it gets, until it's basically demanding you go touch grass Take a break and it quietly shrinks away
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I swear I may need to declare metal bankruptcy if these tornadoes don't let up! Moar metal the riff lord aka @KMANRIFFSMetal
TORNADO OF SOULS: ⚛️ 🌪️⚛️ 2026 Edition #23, the nocturnes... #FFFJun12 fires in the distance at 8am 🇦🇺OZ time ⚛️ Metal will flow every 8 minutes until we reach 48 dumps of Lava!⚛️ Tell the world! Have Riffs...Have Metal!⚛️ #TornadoofSouls #Lava #Edition23 #FFFJun12 #KMäN
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Marty still doesn't know it's his baby does he? #ShortlandStreet
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Food poisoning in 5..... you think? #ShortlandStreet
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Wait, I didn't think they were actually opening a burger joint IN the hospital!?! #ShortlandStreet
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One of my personal favorite features announced at WWDC will I suspect be a sleeper hit: container machines, allowing your Mac to run a lightweight, persistent Linux environment with your home directory and repos automatically mounted: github.com/apple/container/b…
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PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 adds ON CONFLICT DO SELECT. Insert a row. If it already exists, return it. Atomic get-or-create, finally. 👇 #PostgreSQL #SQL
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Let me guess, Mr Marketting is actually a lynch plant... didn't he only turn up AFTER all this shitstorm started? #ShortlandStreet
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Come on Villi - even YOU can't let that behaviour slide! #ShortlandStreet
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A DEVELOPER FOUND SEVEN WAYS TO TAKE DOWN A PRODUCTION DATABASE THAT ALL LOOK EXACTLY LIKE NORMAL, INNOCENT CODE AND ALMOST EVERY TEAM IS SHIPPING AT LEAST ONE OF THEM RIGHT NOW 17 minutes from Josh Berkus, one of the people who actually maintains PostgreSQL, walking through the quiet mistakes that turn a healthy database into a 3am outage. -> The moment it lands, you realize none of these are exotic attacks. They're ordinary-looking decisions -- a query that locks a table, a connection that never closes, a setting no one ever questioned -- that work perfectly until the day they don't, and then they take everything down with them. The scary part isn't that the database breaks. It's how normal the code looks right up until it does. A query that runs in 5ms on your laptop and 5 minutes on prod. A migration that silently locks the whole table. A connection pool that runs dry the moment real traffic shows up. Every one of them passed review. Writing SQL that runs was never the hard part -> writing SQL that survives production is. And now that an AI agent is generating and firing queries at your real database faster than anyone can read them, every one of those seven landmines is one autocomplete away -- and the only person who can stop it is the one who already knows where they're buried. Your database doesn't go down because someone attacked it. It goes down because something that looked completely normal finally caught up with it. Save and Watch it today. You'll see the next outage coming before it lands ↓
A DEVELOPER PROVED THE REGEX YOU'VE WRITTEN A THOUSAND TIMES IS SECRETLY A COMPILER AND THAT ALMOST NO ONE WHO USES THEM HAS ANY IDEA WHAT ACTUALLY RUNS 36 minutes from Paul Wankadia, the engineer behind a regex engine that compiles your pattern straight down to raw machine code -- walking through what really happens between the slashes. -> The moment it clicks, regex stops being magic punctuation you paste from Stack Overflow and becomes what it actually is: a tiny machine. Your pattern gets turned into a state machine, and that machine is what runs against every character of your text. That one idea explains everything you never understood. Why one regex returns instantly and a nearly identical one hangs your whole server. Why some patterns are safe and others are a denial-of-service waiting to happen. It was never random -- it's whether the machine underneath is built well or badly. Writing a regex was never the skill -> reading one is. And now that an AI agent hands you dense, clever patterns you'd never write yourself, the person who can see the machine underneath is the one who catches the one that takes down production at 3am. Everyone copies regex and prays. This is the talk that ends the praying. Save it. The next time a pattern "Just works," you'll actually know why ↓
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Dragged myself out into the cold wet eve to hit tonights @BALTTWNZ gig at Auckland's Mothership. Feeling a bit naked sans cameras but it's a night just for enjoyment.
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TORNADO OF SOULS: ⚛️ 🌪️⚛️ 2026 Edition #22, cranial devastation.... #FFFJun5 guilt trips at 8am 🇦🇺OZ time ⚛️ Metal will flow every 8 minutes until we reach 45 dumps of Lava!⚛️ Tell the world! Have Riffs...Have Metal!⚛️ #TornadoofSouls #Lava #Edition22 #FFFJun5 #KMäN
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Whoevers responsible? Excuse me Crane - I think YOU were responsible there... #ShortlandStreet
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Another project moving from zig to rust due to it's unstable nature (and a mixture of potential burnout on a fairly young project) - github.com/BarutSRB/Hiro/dis… OmniWM is/was one of the best tiling window managers for macOS despite a few quirks (mostly apples fault).
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Gah, getting ready for tonight Fear Factory shoot, only - I seem to misplaced my main/longer lens, 2 rooms, how the #(*&(*@ do I lose a lens in TWO ROOMS.
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Rsync developer started using claude :)
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Opus 4.8 is insane, nothing will be the same after this model 💀
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