While talking to a potential contractor today:

him: I really like vue but I can't find enough paid work
me: we can use vue for this project

Updated 80 bins/crons to use RunKit (my new ruby scripting gem). Astra did a fine job with the conversion and testing, but also did a bunch of extracurricular "cleanups" and "refactors" which I had to carefully back out. Over eager

Languages that are essentially LLM-only for me. I can read, but not write:

1. rust
2. jq
3. bash/zsh (esp completions)

Languages that are still fun to write - golang, ruby, ts

Today's projects are `httpdisk-go`, a port of the http caching rubygem. Mostly done. Will be used by `serpazon`, an amazon cli that wraps serp_api amazon stuff. I need this for several projects now...

As an engineer I strive constantly to build fast apps that people love. Meanwhile, most of the internet consists of pages that take 5 or 10 seconds to load, hidden behind a morass of buggy login pages.

openrouter bought for $7B, but has one of the worst login flows I've seen in many years (1) no login button (2) hit signup, login button is below the fold (3) black popup on black background hides tiny icons (like google login). what were they thinking?

When i was at vrbo, I spent weeks re-doing login/signup flow in the iOS app. This stuff matters.

Those of you switching to Omarchy, how do you replace iMessage? Tempted but my family is reliant @dhh

I have a bettertouchtool hotkey shift-cmd-D to mute Google Meet. Flaky. Tried Alfred. Flaky. Had Claude write a custom Swift app to do it - works perfectly every time, and easy to use. "send a key to any macos window"
gist.github.com/gurgeous/1e0eb…

Wait, what is this? These are hugely underpriced, maybe nobody knows about atom auction? atom.com/domain-auction…

Those of you who keep emailing me asking for $2-5k ai domains should buy these

We need a ruby successor language for the llm era, built with dev happiness in mind but can compile to native and has gradual typing. Machines are fast enough now, transpiling also an option. Pretty please. Don't make me build it

Been working on this for a while... Finally published ansi.md yesterday - somewhere between a brain dump, custom toolset, think piece and hacker toy. Pretty much everything I know about ansi color in the terminal and building modern cli apps.

oh, @mitchellh there is some good stuff re:ghostty in here. including some references to the always salty commentary in terminfo.src

@jdxcode your old blog post is mentioned in here too...

Where are the bespoke languages in the LLM era? I want a new scripting language with the joy of ruby, the predictability of typescript, and the native compilation of zig/go/rust. Where can I find it?

Still enjoying mise dotfiles, a few feature requests for @jdxcode:

1. `add` should use ~ for HOME
2. `add` should exclude mode = "symlink" if possible (that is the default)
3. `add` dir should exclude trailing slash
4. `add` should alphabetize file list in config
5. `add` should also apply by default (symlink)
6. `apply` dir shouldn't require -f

THANKS JDX we love it

For the past few days I have been working on a cli arg lib for @yukihiro_matz 's spinel AOT ruby compiler. So far I have filed 41 github issues. These are actual spinel bugs found while writing real code in idiomatic fashion Matz fixes them as fast as I file

Using mise bootstrap on both linux and macos now, thanks @jdxcode. I deleted so much bespoke garbage from my own scripts

The workspaces thing is clever and I want it in ghostty. shift left/right to switch tabs, shift up/down to switch workspaces. Let me name them, give 'em a color, etc.

Tried cmux, the ghostty wrapper with workspaces for those of us who use many terminals. Pretty interesting. Found it too buggy so turned it off, but promising. Example bugs - ate my cpu, signin seemed busted, overwrote my config after I spent an hour tweaking...