Austin Lehman
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Austin Lehman
@cupofcode.bsky.social
Dad, software developer, knife enthusiast, tinkerer, maker of things.
Crypto isn’t useful for what it was created for and little else, AI is a big joke and 99% hype. Can we get away from these wastes of time/money/energy/environment and get back to the regular work of solving business problems and incremental improvement.
November 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
The Fastmail Desktop App is here!

For macOS, Windows, and Linux — with full offline support, native notifications, and default email integration.

Goodbye browser tabs 👋
Hello focused productivity 💪

🔗 Learn more:
www.fastmail.com/blog/desktop...

#Fastmail #EmailMadeBetter #DesktopApp
Introducing the Fastmail desktop app
Fastmail now has native apps for Mac, Windows & Linux.
www.fastmail.com
October 15, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Beta version of browser Javascript alternative Aussom-Script is now available to try. It’s an interpreted OOP language that is used to program in the browser. #aussom #aussomscript #programming #programminglanguages

open.substack.com/pub/austinle...
Aussom-Script, Browser JS Alternative
Aussom-Script is a new interpreted OOP for the Browser. If you're looking for a Javascript alternative this may be for you.
open.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. CALL YOUR STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL, YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSPEOPLE. ASK THE ACLU TO FORM A CLASS ACTION SUIT.
February 3, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
Call them want they really are: HACKERS

This "DOGE engineers" thing is bullshit!

They are boy hackers! Plain and simple

This is 2016 Cambridge Analytics bullshit on steroids
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Finally 👏🏻 Enough is enough! Thank you.
February 4, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.
The FDA calls for at-a-glance nutrition labels on the front of packaged foods
The FDA wants front-of-package nutrition labels required on packaged foods. The labels would tell consumers if the product has Low, Medium or High levels of saturated fat, sodium and added sugar.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
Time for my annual repost of this banger by Australian artist Denis Lushch.

Ever-more relevant with each new horrible year.
January 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
Like 98% compute/bandwidth is bare metal.

The cloud is great for small projects (costs are low) and highly profitable projects (costs matter less).

But it fails projects that need to scale as efficiently as possible.

Moving Bluesky to bare metal reduced costs by 10-100x and saved many millions.
January 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Reposted by Austin Lehman
If you are not sure what is happening in your Apache Maven build, then run the following command to find out:

mvn buildplan:list-phase

You will get a nice list of plugins/goals and in which phase they are running.
November 21, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Basic was my first programming language, I think I was about 10 when I started with it on our family 386. ❤️

computerhistory.org/blog/in-memo...
In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024
CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
computerhistory.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Me listening to Baroque tinkering on my programming language for the next 4 years.
November 15, 2024 at 3:50 AM
@brandonepicmiller.bsky.social randomly got a code today. 👾
November 28, 2023 at 5:32 AM