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hi, I'm amos! 🍃 they/them 🫐 open-source witch & maker of snappy videos and articles at @bearcove.eu ✨ be kind, be curious

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yup!
January 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I'm gonna need more context
January 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
gonna put unsynn, lz4_flex and blake3 in it. I /love/ going crate shopping. such a pleasure. it only take a couple high-quality ingredients to get a tasty result.
January 18, 2026 at 5:06 PM
today's design problem:
if we let third-party binaries supply schemas, that means we need to exec them to dump their schema which is a security issue, so we need to design a consent flow... => NO WE DON'T we can just SCAN THE BINARY for a marker and exfiltrate the schemas without risking anything 😎
January 18, 2026 at 5:03 PM
(this is NOT about facet lol, it's about the smallest silliest projects I stg there's always someone to ask "yes but what if we DIDN'T have nice things? what then.")
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 PM
"i'm just saying, ice cream wrappers are industry standard, if your solution isn't gonna be sticky and half-torn.... I'd just hate to see effort being divided between the two approaches, you know?"
January 18, 2026 at 4:10 PM
sometimes the rust community is really like "mhh a pair of sunglasses huh. and how does this compare to this ice cream wrapper I found on the ground?"
January 18, 2026 at 4:07 PM
"no spaces are allowed in the card number"

fuck you—how about instead of making your sweng applicants balance a red-black tree on a whiteboard you make sure they know about trimming whitespace
January 18, 2026 at 10:53 AM
😲
January 17, 2026 at 4:32 PM
reread my post closely
January 17, 2026 at 3:44 PM
> ed
> LSP support
uh-huh
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
I found _two_ kate users today
January 17, 2026 at 2:12 PM
You have a code editor. It's not Zed/Neovim/VSCode/TextMate. Yet it supports syntax highlighting or LSP or plug-ins in some way.

What is it?
January 17, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Reposted by amos
@zed.dev v219.4 got released and includes the initialization_options autocomplete in stable!
January 16, 2026 at 4:45 PM
ohhhhh THAT’S what accelerationists are up to
"you can't put the genie back in the bottle" skill issue. just make three wishes. done
January 16, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Zach why
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I was and I feel great!
January 16, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Not so secretly it seems
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Reposted by amos
Introducing `steve`: a CLI for driving macOS apps.

Like playwright for browsers it's drivable by code agents. Tell them to "manually test using steve".

github.com/mikker/steve
January 16, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Didn't C++ get modules? That solved everything, right? I'm only half snarking, the other half of me is hoping that it's actually true.
January 16, 2026 at 10:29 AM
> CMake was created in 2000 in response to the need [...]

LIES. slander. fallacy!
January 16, 2026 at 5:13 AM
ahh, CMake, the best of what 1973 had to offer I'm sure
January 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Reposted by amos
January 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
always a good day when something gets 480x faster
January 15, 2026 at 10:44 PM