Tom Ballinger

@ballingt.com

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Me: Doctor I have this new disease, please go fetch me a cure for it Doctor: You have the common cold; it's been known since antiquity Me: You've had 5,000 years to fix this?? Please raise this to the top of your backlog! PING?? Hello? Paging again in year 2026! Still getting colds here!!

Little solitaire game you played on Steam 5 years ago, at the time: By popular demand, we added Klondike! Its latest updates today: Play the new MECHAZAR x ED SHEERAN CROSSOVER mode to unlock CORRUPTED SPADEBOMBS in our megascale Co-op PvP tie-in with FRUIT ROLL-UPS and Mr Beast, Tuesday only!

After reading this I gave exe.dev a shot and the combination of cheap VMs, the HTTPS proxy with passkey auth and link sharing, and the built-in LLM agent is... incredible. Like, I know how to use each of these things individually, but combining them feels like when I first learned to script things.

Just in time software

I didn’t plan to write software in the grocery store last night. I was tired and hungry, kids in tow. My long shopping list sat in a text message. I wished I could check items off as I found them.…

commaok.xyz

I am looking for a full-time job. Being independent in open source for 3.5+ years has been wonderful. I've gotten done most of the high-level goals I wanted to, and miss having people & structure around me. If you know of a role for a staff-level TypeScript+web developer, let me know! 🙂

I’m taking a class where we’re learning to make synths. This will be a MIDI controller that we will use to control VCV Rack. It keeps the goblins out my brains.

Some okay soldering work. Little metal peaks coming out of a green PCB.A round PCB with 16 switches four sliders and four knobs. Size of a clock.A postcard describing the Teensy 4.1 pins.The back of the green clock shaped PCB with yellow wires but they’re a little loose and sloppy so it looks organic. Like a root system.

“[Wasm 3.0] has much better support for compiling high-level programming languages. Enabled by this, we have seen various new languages popping up to target Wasm, such as Java, OCaml, Scala, Kotlin, Scheme, or Dart, all of which use the new GC feature.” webassembly.org/news/2025-09...

Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly

WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...

webassembly.org

If y’all promise not to ask me for docs or blog posts maybe I’ll explain a bit about why creating a cache API for suspense is so hard

Any podcasts or streams want to invite me on to talk about React transitions, suspense, and optimistic?