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Technologist focused on empowering diverse consensual cooperation. Main gig is https://z.cash
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A status update for the #Zcash Trailing Finality Layer project: We've published v0.1.0 of the book which links to a hackmd for the Crosslink construction, an Ebb-and-Flow hybrid PoW/PoS protocol. forum.zcashcommunity.com/t/the-traili...

submitted 482 days ago • 0 comments

LLM feature request: automate git commit message generation. Or: given a proposed git commit message, automate the code diff. ;-)

submitted 490 days ago • 0 comments

Today's UX gripe is brought to you by Chrome™! Bookmarks in a menu, bookmarks in a manager widget, bookmarks in a panel on new tabs (which has a drop-down menu for overflow bookmarks), bookmarks in a sidebar! Make up your mind! (Each context displays/interacts w/ them differently, for extra fun.)

submitted 496 days ago • 0 comments

One of my favorite Infosec UX Antipatterns: you click on what appears to be a link, only to be taken to a dialog/interstitial page warning you it's on a different website. Like… um… have you heard of the world wide web? It allows hyperlinked content across any site. It's pretty sweet, try it.

submitted 496 days ago • 0 comments

I caught wind there's a US Executive Order or some other dino-boomer busybody "rule" that restricts access to data that was processed with too many floating point operations. If anyone has links or download instructions for such illegal data, please share so I know what data to avoid downloading…

submitted 497 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, since I can link to AT Protocol (e.g. bsky.app) threads so that anyone on the web can read them, it is definitely way better than Twitter.

submitted 497 days ago • 1 comment

My sketch comedy idea: take all the UX papercuts that bug me, and for each make an analogous scene were some characters represent users and some represent the UX.

submitted 497 days ago • 1 comment

How can I share a URL so that people can publicly read AT Proto posts/threads (with no account, signup, etc…)?

submitted 497 days ago • 1 comment

New ChatGPT unlock: I was asking multiple questions like "does `git commit --amend` run the `pre-commit` hook?" Then I just tried: "Why doesn't this work?" and pasted a terminal paste where I cat relevant configs/scripts, ls, cmds. It listed multiple diagnoses. The first one resolved the issue!

submitted 497 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone written a wrapper for `rustc` which inserts `ChatGPT` project-specific advice for each error?

submitted 502 days ago • 0 comments

Github used to have a widget for "processing" events of interest, which showed them in a list, and when you viewed an item (e.g. an issue page) it would insert a widget with next/previous, "mark as seen". Did they remove that? It was incredibly helpful for me to track my state.

submitted 504 days ago • 0 comments

Hm, to publish on crates.io I must use github OAuth therefore I must grant crates.io the ability to read all "private" repositories on Github for every organization of which I'm a member? I can think of no reason crates.io needs to read any github state other than the "is a legit user" bit.

submitted 508 days ago • 1 comment

It's high time for a Brazil-like dystopian comedy where people's full time occupation is just solving increasingly absurd and baroque CATPCHAs.

submitted 508 days ago • 1 comment

A fun operational engineering practice: whenever writing a delay/poll loop (e.g. `while cmd; do sleep $X; date --iso=s; done`) pick a randomish prime number for `X`. Why? The idea is to avoid different processes from synchronizing incidentally to help balance load, avoid spurious correlations, …

submitted 509 days ago • 0 comments

I'd love to see a UX movement take over design of apps to support my particular needs/usage. One feature of my usage is desktop-per-task: I have separate desktops dedicated to specific tasks, so that all the contents there are contextually coherent.

submitted 510 days ago • 1 comment

I'll be ready for a neural link just as soon as I can install sovereign open-web-trained me-aligned FLOSS AI on a deterministically built FLOSS software stack on silicon I've self-fabricated in my personal mobile fablab from scavenged and recycled electronics junkyards.

submitted 511 days ago • 0 comments

Can we start civilization over without any homoglyphs like O vs 0? kthxbai

submitted 553 days ago • 1 comment

The twitter diaspora plus the emergence of a multitude of social networks is like when people at a party segregate from the big center to the nooks and crannies in smaller groups, ie when the party gets good. So now I feel less frustrated and more enthusiastic about fragmentation. ;-)

submitted 559 days ago • 0 comments