Just accidentally typed "the mountain gouts" in spotify, and I think this is a missed opportunity for a cover band name
Justin Beckwith
@justinbeckwith.bsky.social
Professional engineering leader, amateur strongman, horrendous accordion novice. Breaking things @OpenAI.
"that's the desktop of someone that has a waifu body pillow" - sibling burns among my teen kids are tragically brutal
Death of the IDE? How Agent orchestration may be replacing the editor as the center of developer work. open.substack.com/pub/addyo/p/... ✍️ my latest write-up
Death of the IDE?
How Agent orchestration is replacing the editor as the center of developer work
open.substack.com
I have never seen platform reliability take a nose dive in quite the same way as GitHub recently. Practically every day I'm dealing with an outage on actions, webhooks, PRs, etc. Some products seem untouchable in terms of competition until they aren't.
Open-Sourcing ModelAudit: Security Scanner for ML Model Files www.promptfoo.dev/blog/open-so...
Open-Sourcing ModelAudit: Security Scanner for ML Model Files | Promptfoo
Promptfoo ModelAudit scans 42+ ML model formats for unsafe loading behaviors, known CVEs, and suspicious artifacts. Now MIT-licensed and open source.
promptfoo.dev
This is heartbreaking and cruel. I'm not going to pretend Scouting America has been perfect, but they really started to turn the page the last few years with better training and policies. Please stop using my kids as political pawns.
NPR@npr.org · 8mo agoAfter threatening to sever ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced a 6-month reprieve n.pr/401RaWY
If you are working with the Trump administration you are anti-queer and should be shunned. www.erininthemorning.com/p/secdef-heg...
SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated
The policy is the latest in a trend of organizations capitulating to Trump over transgender people.
erininthemorning.com
I just got a cold fusion stack trace from my local airport and this makes me unreasonably happy
Hello friends - I'm hiring for a few roles at promptfoo. If you like open source and AI - lets chat! - Founding Developer Advocate: www.promptfoo.dev/careers/?ash... - Staff Full stack engineer: jobs.ashbyhq.com/promptfoo/5f... - Senior Full stack engineer: www.promptfoo.dev/careers/?ash...
Careers at Promptfoo | Promptfoo
Shape the future of LLM Security
promptfoo.dev
Claude telling me "baby, it will all be ok in the morning"
I know it's not for everyone, but gosh I miss using Discord as my day to day communication tool for work. My kingdom for `@silent` in slack.
ok so... I'm writing a book. It's called JavaScript In Depth (www.manning.com/books/javasc...) ... the first four chapters are available by Manning. This has been a difficult project and will continue to be so. The reason is that it isn't a How To book that focuses only on how to use the langauge
JavaScript in Depth - James M. Snell
Explore the inner workings of the world’s most popular programming language and enjoy the power and control that comes only from deep knowledge! In JavaScript in Depth, JavaScript and Node legend Jame...
manning.com
Okay folks, it's time: I'm hiring! Looking for 5(!) developer relations engineers across the world! Our company is remote-first but this role involves in-person appearances at events so although you don't need to work in a specific office we are focusing our search in specific metro areas:
Developer Relations Engineer
San Francisco, CA
job-boards.greenhouse.io
The difference in time between now and I can has cheezburger Is the same between I can has Cheezburger and the Berlin Wall falling
Got a free "broken" tabletop arcade cabinet. Took some doing, but Mr 16 and I got it working again! Now onto retropie. If anyone has tips on gpio and old arcade controls I'm all ears.
Hello friends, the new release of linkinator is out! github.com/JustinBeckwi... This one has native support for scanning JSON-LD, for those SEO enjoyers out there.
GitHub - JustinBeckwith/linkinator: Broken link checker that crawls websites and validates links. Find broken links, dead links, and invalid URLs in websites, documentation, and local files. Perfect f...
Broken link checker that crawls websites and validates links. Find broken links, dead links, and invalid URLs in websites, documentation, and local files. Perfect for SEO audits and CI/CD. - Justin...
github.com
"✦ I've hit a wall. The test is still red, and I'm out of ideas." - I appreciate the honestly gemini
It's interesting that Gemini CLI defaults to use the WebFetch tool for URLs instead of the GitHub MCP. That's the kind of thing I sort of expect the agent to figure out for me?
The "cats that look like ron perlman" subreddit is a delightful slice of what's wholesome and good on the Internet. www.reddit.com/r/CTLLRP/
Cats That Look Like Ron Perlman
Cats That Look Like Ron Perlman.
reddit.com
I haven't used Windows for development in a minute (ok, decade). So far I'm surprised that most of the tools I want to use are available! Outside of the new terminal app, winget and oh-my-posh, are there other Windows-specific tools I should be looking into?
I made a thing - using Linkinator with MCP to scan and remediate broken links with Claude: jbeckwith.com/blog/2025/11...
Teaching Claude to be a Link Detective with linkinator-mcp | Justin Beckwith
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) lets you give AI assistants superpowers. I built linkinator-mcp to teach Claude Code how to scan websites for broken links interactively. Spoiler alert: it turns out A...
jbeckwith.com
