Staff Software Engineer at Genio. Ex @Brandwatch, ex JLR. Forever curious and hungry for knowledge on all things tech.
Coventry, England
Joined November 2011
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Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
TIL about this bootstrapping scene for the first time. It's wild.
They are building a tower of languages, starting with a 256-byte hand-written binary, for building a complete Linux system.
Love how Guix is attempting to thwart the trusting trust attack:
"The goal is to start from a minimal, easily inspectable binary (which should be readable as source)"
"Guix bootstraps by using MesCC—the small C compiler that comes with Mes—to build TinyCC, which is used to build GCC 2.95.0, which then builds GCC 4.7.4."
This iPhone Duo got me checking app updates daily to see when they add support for it. Feels like a daily Christmas
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
More UI innovation from Marius Eriksen. I don't understand it at all, I love it!
mutable.org/manifold
That's not quite true, I understand it, but it's galaxy brain stuff. It feels kind of like Mycroftiv ANTS (Plan 9).
Marius Eriksen evolved Acme into something that can support more "modern" (anti)features!
Finally I can use LLMs in Acme (well, Apex). There is still hope for a bright future.
mutable.org/apex/
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
readme: fix typo
Co-Authored-By: GNU nano 9.0 (UTF-8, EDITOR and VISUAL, guidestripe=72) <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Ghostty 1.3.1 (Metal renderer) <ghostty@localhost>
Co-Authored-By: zsh 5.9 (arm64-apple-darwin26.0) <zsh@localhost>
Co-Authored-By: Git 2.56.0 (Homebrew) <git@localhost>
Co-Authored-By: Secretive (SSH_AUTH_SOCK) <secretive@localhost>
Co-Authored-By: macOS Text Input (U.S. layout) <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Apple Internal Keyboard (built-in) <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: APFS (sealed system volume, 4096-byte blocks) <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: MacBook Pro (Mac17,6, MGED4B/A, Apple M5 Max, 18 CPU cores, 36 GB RAM, macOS 27.0.1 build 26A434) <[email protected]>
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
Huge drop in Google searches for various health disinformation topics following the Ukrainian strikes on Russian data centers.
It makes you wonder how much of the “turbo cancer, ivermectin” nonsense is really fueled by Russian bots, & how many Americans they’ve killed…
Spent ages figuring out why split DNS wasn't working through @Tailscale, only to learn it doesn't drop a route when the device goes offline. One device advertises a /24, another a /16. Shut down the /24 one and its route still wins because it's more specific, so it all times out.
I’ve been in @CompleteSkeptic's beta for @typesafeai, and I've written a browser extension for it that supports Chrome, Safari, and Firefox on both mobile and desktop.
Here's a quick demo. I also have a blog post in the replies with my thoughts and general experience with Jev!
Came to mind how weird it is that we suddenly ask if things run doom again instead of crysis so I made this meme which is based on google trends plus a tiny bit of artistic touch to add waves.
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
a good reminder that just because someone states their opinion with intense conviction, does not make it fact. they can come back a year later and state the absolute opposite view with the same conviction.
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
Acadia is out today! Bringing the benefits of @elmlang to SQLite and PostgreSQL:
- Friendly error messages
- Custom types for precise column data
- Simple module system for easy reuse
Check it out! acadia.engineering/blog/reth…
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
recommended reading.
blog.senko.net/code-was-neve…
Tymscar 🧮 retweeted
I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers.
As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can.
I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine?
You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?