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Simple tools, fewer abstractions—inviting everyone to tinker & build. What’s worth building? For me: empathy and reworking our urban environments for humans. https://ndyg.ca 🌌 Milky Way, ☀️Solar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Ontario, Toronto ❄️
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This is rowdy 🔥

a new http-nu release: v0.4.0 http-nu allows you to create HTTP services using @nushell.bsky.social scripts v0.4.0 Highlights: - a `.static` built-in command for static serving + - TLS support github.com/cablehead/ht...

LLMs That Don't Gaslight You A new language model uses diffusion instead of next-token prediction. That means the text it can back out of a hallucination before it commits. This is a big win for areas like law & contracts, where global consistency is valued timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02...

This is my all-time favorite demoscene production. You need to watch from the beginning, the introduction is important.

Strong opinion of the day: Cursor and other similar tools totally break the right interaction with the LLM for coding, that is mostly talking, so that you can shape the solution, and only at the end writing code (either you or the LLM). Cursor and similar tools are "code first": an anti pattern.

Progress report for Dropserver and a look ahead to where I plan on focusing my efforts in 2025: olivierforget.net/blog/2025/dr... #selfhosting

Signals 2.0 is crazy: quoting @ryansolid.bsky.social "we have non-nullable, waterfall-ist, safely consistent async, that's self healing ... are you guys still complaining about createEffect?"

Want to use federal data? The U.S. government used to have a prominent link to sign up for API access; that link has been removed, but the form to get it remains operative. You may wish to sign up now, on the premise you might not be able to later. api.data.gov/signup/

I wrote about some dark forests of the internet which is a riff on @vgr.bsky.social cozy web, but also on @craigmod.com musings on email and comments and @laurel.bsky.social PBS of the internet idea productidentity.co/p/inside-the...

Psst. I made a thing. Tired of the vote split in Ontario and all of Canada? Let’s change that. Announcing www.smartvoting.ca! A one stop tool for you too see your riding and who to vote for to make it not Conservative anymore. Updated daily! Follow us at @smartvoting.ca as well.

SPECIAL ISSUE ANNOUNCEMENT Doug Ford called a snap election, so we're publishing an issue about his seven-year reign, out free in print in two weeks. We need $5,000 to make it happen. Chip in by: - E-transfer info[at]thegrindmag[dot]ca - Credit card: buy.stripe.com/6oE02D00TgZ4...

This write up from @fjallrs.bsky.social for its 2.6 release is stunning fjall-rs.github.io/post/fjall-2...

s1: The $6 R1 Competitor? This isn't a R1 replication, it's a brilliant breakthrough in data reduction, and just plain dumb engineering ingenuity. I considered not writing this up, but I don't think it's obvious why it's so important. Enjoy! timkellogg.me/blog/2025/02...

Please Toronto next. PLEASE.

I've a new project**! `http-nu`: it let's you create a HTTP service using Nushell scripts. @nushell.bsky.social and HTTP are a great match $req { {method: "GET" path: "/} => { ... github.com/cablehead/ht... ** made possible by the amazing community of Nushell contributors

genuinely concerning

TIL: curl is an awesome smtp client!

This is very much the thread "Stacks" is pulling on: stacks.cross.stream -- super interesting work from dxos

TIL: Tauri supports many webviews in a single window: github.com/tauri-apps/t...

Liked @simonwillison.net's post on running a link blog: simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/... Been wanting this on my garden for a while – a place to post links & commentary that aren't big enough for a whole note or essay So I made a new type of thing called “smidgeons” – maggieappleton.com/smidgeons

The neat thing about these is that, unlike a link blog, smidgeons support posting text with no link at all - great for sharing a paragraph-length thought or idea (as seen on social media) without needing to inflate it into a full blog entry I need these for my own site!

Let's go Toronto! We can be next! We can lead and prove @brenttoderian.bsky.social wrong (in the best possible way) _if you drive, pay your fair share_

My co-working buddy @ CSI Annex

Decided to start one of these, inspired by @simonwillison.net. til.samwho.dev

Announcing cross-stream 0.2.0⚡ Highlights: - $env persists from the config script and between handler for tokens/state - @nushell.bsky.social modules support in handlers - New built-in: `.get` - More! Full release notes: github.com/cablehead/xs...

2024 was the first year we started working on Gitwallet. It’s been a year full of listening, learning, and experimentation. We shipped a TON of product and helped hundreds of developers set up shop on their path to independence. Thank you to everyone who made it possible.

Fun fact: Jan. 1, 2025 is the exact date of the events in ZARDOZ.

Lordy

I won't have time to participate this year, but this will be super fun! 🥹, looking forward to the posts at least 🤩

diataxis.fr - Diátaxis solves problems related to documentation content (what to write), style (how to write it) and architecture (how to organise it).

Yesh, crates.io updated! My 2024 @atuin.sh wrapped Noting: since about Feb' 2024 more than half of my shell usage is now in @nushell.bsky.social It's still on my todos to configure my Nushell history to use atuin 😅 20% commands failed!? Well, they say: you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

A final present from the Nushell core team and community for the year!