When we use the wrong abstractions, complexity accumulates to route around the problem.

Me: "I can't do that with my mouth because I'm not a bird" @tracyosborn.com: "... yet!" Let this be a reminder to everyone: We're still so early, your bird era could still be ahead of you!

trying to come up with a name for my vm manager for sandbox workflows, how bad is virtopus? 🐙

Vibecoding is not the future, it is a commoditization of the past. The future of software engineering is building robust bug-free software, in a world where the cost of each bug is dramatically higher than before. The "lean Ethereum" megaproject is an example of what this looks like.

Are you a wifitui user? I want to improve how we render "(5 APs)", what do you think of these ideas? Currently leaning on: 📡·5 github.com/shazow/wifit...

How open source projects leak the top of the funnel: Anyone who worked at a tech company with a license policy (any company that builds software) has muscle memory to look for a few popular licenses. 1. Click project link 2. Glance at license 3. Not a license you use all the time? Close link

The only useful distinction between slop or not is whether we're committing to maintain the thing. If it's disposable and going to rot in a few weeks, then it's slop (whether written by meat or otherwise). If it's reviewed and someone commits to owning it, then it's fine. bsky.app/profile/shaz...

Andrey Petrov@shazow.net · 9mo ago

PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new. Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat. Eg from 2018:

@boscolo.co @goat.navy One more angle (to address spammy PDS's): What about a labeler which verifies the account has committed/burned a small bond onchain?

did:cow: Another idea to billionaire-proof ATProto IDs, also "art of using a blockchain without using a blockchain". Blockchain-managed wrapper ID, no tx to create, points to a did:plc/did:web but you can move it if something goes wrong. Got carried away and made a resolver and front-end cow.watch

Edmund Edgar@goat.navy · last yr.

Wrote up an idea to improve the DID:PLC system to protect us from the inevitable corporate enshittification phase when the centralized server stops serving mirrors for a bit then starts screwing us over. It's kind of "art of using a blockchain without using a blockchain" github.com/edmundedgar/...

Has anyone here submitted a package to Debian before? How'd that go?

🛜 wifitui v0.11.0 is released! Do you dream of managing your wifi in a terminal? Now is your time. Made for Linux, but has experimental macOS support! Please open an issue if it can be improved. :) It even has a non-interactive mode for your beloved scripts/molts. github.com/shazow/wifit...

If you're curious why a prediction market might not pay out conditions of death: It's to avoid the creation of assassination markets.

There's only a few ways to deal with attacks on permissionless networks: 1. Increase the cost to the attacker 2. Reduce the cost to the defender 3. Reduce the value to the attacker

Today, @bsky.app + @atprotocol.dev devs can plug into XMTP to give users what they've been asking for: quantum-encrypted, secure group chats that scale to millions. With our XMTPID identity model, it's finally here. 1/5

AI just told me I'm in a simulation, how's your day going?

I see people debating whether an AI agent will ever "try to escape a container" but that is the wrong concern. The agent will be tricked into installing a malware dependency designed to escape the container. Even with CVEs patched many months ago, at scale, enough people will be impacted.

Annual urllib3 report is out! Illia is taking over as lead maintainer, facilitated our first professional security audit, and we continue to raise funding for work on HTTP/2. Gentle reminder to ask your employer to help fund urllib3 work if you rely on Python. :) volochii.dev/blog/urllib3...

Blindly accepting PRs without the prompt is like blindly implementing features users ask for without understanding their underlying needs. Users usually ask for less pain and more pleasure. It's the maintainer's job to dig deeper, read between the lines, and find the cause/utility behind the ask.

Armin Ronacher@mitsuhiko.at · 7mo ago

Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...

❌ Social Network ❌ Social Media ✔️ Social Venue it's time we change our vocabulary, our words have become encumbered with business models when we really want to talk about a place that we visit for the people--a social venue.

wifitui v0.10.0 is out (fast friendly featureful wifi tui for linux): - added support for displaying multiple access points - improved experimental macOS support (thanks @jimst.bsky.social) - better key handling (hjkl), and more! github.com/shazow/wifit...

github.com/shazow/wifit... is a single-binary user-friendly TUI alternative for network-manager wifi selectors that desktop environments usually have

GitHub - shazow/wifitui: Fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI. 🛜✨

Fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI. 🛜✨. Contribute to shazow/wifitui development by creating an account on GitHub.

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are there any ongoing discussions around adopting did:ethr (or a new smart contract-based DID primitive) as a decentralized alternative to did:plc? seems like a great fit

hmm, wifitui got added to homebrew, but darwin/macOS backend support is an entirely vibecoded slop demo i made for my apple friends to be able to see what i'm working on, it barely works. would love for someone with a macOS device to help maintain the darwin backend... 👉👈 github.com/shazow/wifit...

wifitui/wifi/darwin/darwin.go at main · shazow/wifitui

Fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI. 🛜✨. Contribute to shazow/wifitui development by creating an account on GitHub.

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has anyone experimented with making a browser-embedded PDS + signing key? for semi-ephemeral ATProto clients

PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new. Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat. Eg from 2018:

is there a vaguely standard lexicon for making chat rooms on atproto? a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend

My very awesome and amazing guide on how to host a PDS on NixOS isabelroses.com/blog/nix-pds...

A NixOS PDS Hosting Guide

How to host your own personal data server using NixOS

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TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux github.com/pythops/blue...

GitHub - pythops/bluetui: 🛜 TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux

🛜 TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux. Contribute to pythops/bluetui development by creating an account on GitHub.

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solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way

@piss.beauty/heater

CPUs can make a little heat, as a treat

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wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈 github.com/shazow/wifit...