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writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music and other stuff
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seo dorks, is this good, i don't think it's good

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

now using a combination of octo, diffview, and lazygit for my git workflow. it's pretty decent. might replace lazygit with neogit soon.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"[Self-driving cars] may actually make the climate situation worse." I agree. Consider: 🔹 Huge increase in total driving 🔹 More gridlock, leading to slower transit 🔹 AV software/hardware requires tons of energy 🔹 Inducement to live in bigger homes (w/ bigger carbon footprints) on the urban edge

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

if you're reading one of my bluesky posts (bloops) and it seems dated, plz check the archived tag, i've just imported a bunch of tweets and a lot of them are actually from 2017 or 2018 instead of now

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

every day i learn something new and bad about typescript

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

this is a wild javascript project - it 'flattens' a string's internal representation which can be a decent performance bump, and the code is… github.com/davidmarkcle...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

i read cyberlibertarianism by david golumbia (2/5) - fairly long review macwright.com/2025/02/23/c...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

#uspol in good political times, i like obsessing over bike lanes and pedestrian safety in bad political times, you've gotta focus on bigger problems, but it's always interesting that the far-right evil always opposes bike lanes and pedestrian safety, when you oppose bike lanes you're ridin with maga

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

In case you were looking to backup your kindle books (since Amazon is removing the option to download them on the 26th), this script works quite well in minimizing the click-pain of downloading them individually: gist.github.com/spf13/1fee1e...

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

certain books, mostly lengthy philosophical political books with snappy titles that are super dense and honestly kinda sloppy, all their goodreads reviews are like "an urgent message, very important book, everyone must read" and i'm like 80% sure that these people didn't read it

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

in hindsight i should have been more publicly skeptical of 'edge functions' and 'serverless'

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

a reasonable new rule is: if you have a book which has a title that's some new word that you're trying to promote, you can use the title of the book a maximum of 10 times in the whole book, that's the limit

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

You should definitely never download and remove DRM from your Kindle books, that would be highly unethical. So definitely never do what's described in this guide. Outrageous! www.reddit.com/r/Calibre/co...

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

this is going to be a big adjustment to how i use ebooks. maybe i'll have to use rakuten kobo? www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

i'm now reviewing a lot of pull requests every day. anyone have a slick #neovim setup for this? already using lazygit and tried octo but haven't figured out how to get it nice yet

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

sorry but like, this isn't right? iso 8601 is a spec for text representations of datetime. it doesn't have an epoch and certainly not one that is 1850. 85 cobol does have dates stored from an epoch, but it's either 1601 or 1582

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

i need to buy a sewing machine.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

cycfi research has been a very good blog to be subscribed to for years, every couple months some wild new futuristic idea for how to build a guitar www.cycfi.com/2025/02/thor...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

new adrian holovaty album alert adrianholovaty.bandcamp.com/album/layer-...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

released a first version of indiepixel with a cli. it's a pixel-art-generating graphics library modeled after the pixlet module from tidbyt, but in python github.com/tmcw/indiepi...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

submitted 18 days ago • 84 comments

my gedcom parser is fixed and modernized, after a long period of suffering under commonjs/esm/typescript/horrors. github.com/tmcw/gedcom

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment