Jesse Donat 🗽☮️
@donatstudios.com
Keyboard collector. Minneapolis based software developer. PHP/Go/TS
Libertas abristle 🗽☮️
https://donatstudios.com
Libertas abristle 🗽☮️
https://donatstudios.com
Arguing with IT is like yelling at a dog.
They understand you are angry, but are mentally incapable of understanding why.
They understand you are angry, but are mentally incapable of understanding why.
January 22, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Arguing with IT is like yelling at a dog.
They understand you are angry, but are mentally incapable of understanding why.
They understand you are angry, but are mentally incapable of understanding why.
Stupid SFP+ to RJ45 modules.
Added one to my switch and suddenly everything's overheating and nothing can establish a 10gb link...
10gb networking has been so fussy.
Added one to my switch and suddenly everything's overheating and nothing can establish a 10gb link...
10gb networking has been so fussy.
January 20, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Stupid SFP+ to RJ45 modules.
Added one to my switch and suddenly everything's overheating and nothing can establish a 10gb link...
10gb networking has been so fussy.
Added one to my switch and suddenly everything's overheating and nothing can establish a 10gb link...
10gb networking has been so fussy.
I got a very legitimate sounding request to my contact form looking for a consultant for a Go WASM app.
I'd love to help you out, but you filled in your email address as [email protected]
I'd love to help you out, but you filled in your email address as [email protected]
January 2, 2026 at 1:48 AM
I got a very legitimate sounding request to my contact form looking for a consultant for a Go WASM app.
I'd love to help you out, but you filled in your email address as [email protected]
I'd love to help you out, but you filled in your email address as [email protected]
I had a nightmare I was back with the company I worked for 20 years ago.
They still had not figured out version control. Nothing was Unicode and I was dealing with codepages and mojibake.
I was a junior again and no one would listen to me about using modern practices.
Glad it was just a dream.
They still had not figured out version control. Nothing was Unicode and I was dealing with codepages and mojibake.
I was a junior again and no one would listen to me about using modern practices.
Glad it was just a dream.
December 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I had a nightmare I was back with the company I worked for 20 years ago.
They still had not figured out version control. Nothing was Unicode and I was dealing with codepages and mojibake.
I was a junior again and no one would listen to me about using modern practices.
Glad it was just a dream.
They still had not figured out version control. Nothing was Unicode and I was dealing with codepages and mojibake.
I was a junior again and no one would listen to me about using modern practices.
Glad it was just a dream.
The internet is in such a strange state. Social media completely died for me.
On X, nobody sees my posts. I have 500+ followers, posts routinely get single digit views.
BlueSky nobody sees my posts because I have 19 followers.
Facebook is just slop, why bother.
I'm back on Tumblr and loving it 🤷
On X, nobody sees my posts. I have 500+ followers, posts routinely get single digit views.
BlueSky nobody sees my posts because I have 19 followers.
Facebook is just slop, why bother.
I'm back on Tumblr and loving it 🤷
December 29, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The internet is in such a strange state. Social media completely died for me.
On X, nobody sees my posts. I have 500+ followers, posts routinely get single digit views.
BlueSky nobody sees my posts because I have 19 followers.
Facebook is just slop, why bother.
I'm back on Tumblr and loving it 🤷
On X, nobody sees my posts. I have 500+ followers, posts routinely get single digit views.
BlueSky nobody sees my posts because I have 19 followers.
Facebook is just slop, why bother.
I'm back on Tumblr and loving it 🤷
I'm terrible at recognizing people but great at recognizing sets and filming locations reused across movies...
So I've got whatever that is...
So I've got whatever that is...
December 29, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I'm terrible at recognizing people but great at recognizing sets and filming locations reused across movies...
So I've got whatever that is...
So I've got whatever that is...
I asked GitHub Copilot to update a READMEon a Unicod text splitting library I maintain. The README contains Korean and Japanese examples.
Copilot repeatedly failed to apply its edits, complained about "smart quotes" and proceeded to write a python script to apply its own edits...
Copilot repeatedly failed to apply its edits, complained about "smart quotes" and proceeded to write a python script to apply its own edits...
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
I asked GitHub Copilot to update a READMEon a Unicod text splitting library I maintain. The README contains Korean and Japanese examples.
Copilot repeatedly failed to apply its edits, complained about "smart quotes" and proceeded to write a python script to apply its own edits...
Copilot repeatedly failed to apply its edits, complained about "smart quotes" and proceeded to write a python script to apply its own edits...
I don't know what on earth I'm going to do with this but I'm pleased as punch that it works.
December 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
I don't know what on earth I'm going to do with this but I'm pleased as punch that it works.
Reposted by Jesse Donat 🗽☮️
Ask your boyfriend how often he thinks about Times New Roman.
December 10, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Ask your boyfriend how often he thinks about Times New Roman.
As an early adopter of git I'm not overtly enthusiastic about jj.
That said, I LOVE being able to commit unresolved merge conflicts.
I have seen so many regressions make their way to production because a junior handled a merge wrong.
Being able to let someone else resolve a conflict is amazing.
That said, I LOVE being able to commit unresolved merge conflicts.
I have seen so many regressions make their way to production because a junior handled a merge wrong.
Being able to let someone else resolve a conflict is amazing.
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
As an early adopter of git I'm not overtly enthusiastic about jj.
That said, I LOVE being able to commit unresolved merge conflicts.
I have seen so many regressions make their way to production because a junior handled a merge wrong.
Being able to let someone else resolve a conflict is amazing.
That said, I LOVE being able to commit unresolved merge conflicts.
I have seen so many regressions make their way to production because a junior handled a merge wrong.
Being able to let someone else resolve a conflict is amazing.
Poking around the new TypeScript-Go package, everything is modified 1985-10-26T03:15:00Z
Is there some significance to that timestamp I don't know about?
Is there some significance to that timestamp I don't know about?
December 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Poking around the new TypeScript-Go package, everything is modified 1985-10-26T03:15:00Z
Is there some significance to that timestamp I don't know about?
Is there some significance to that timestamp I don't know about?
I was up last night, couldn't sleep.
Started trying to install… macOS Ventura… on my Linux laptop via QEMU. It was taking forever. I woke up to a very broken install of Sonoma
I don't know what happened in the interim while I was asleep, and I'm very curious
Started trying to install… macOS Ventura… on my Linux laptop via QEMU. It was taking forever. I woke up to a very broken install of Sonoma
I don't know what happened in the interim while I was asleep, and I'm very curious
December 3, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I was up last night, couldn't sleep.
Started trying to install… macOS Ventura… on my Linux laptop via QEMU. It was taking forever. I woke up to a very broken install of Sonoma
I don't know what happened in the interim while I was asleep, and I'm very curious
Started trying to install… macOS Ventura… on my Linux laptop via QEMU. It was taking forever. I woke up to a very broken install of Sonoma
I don't know what happened in the interim while I was asleep, and I'm very curious
Some device in my house has seemingly gone rogue and is just hijacking everything's Bluetooth.
I was trying to set up an N64 Blueretro, both the base and the controller kept connecting to.. something. Not each other.
I was trying to set up an N64 Blueretro, both the base and the controller kept connecting to.. something. Not each other.
November 29, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Some device in my house has seemingly gone rogue and is just hijacking everything's Bluetooth.
I was trying to set up an N64 Blueretro, both the base and the controller kept connecting to.. something. Not each other.
I was trying to set up an N64 Blueretro, both the base and the controller kept connecting to.. something. Not each other.
My M1 Macbook Pro seems unable or unwilling to update past 15.4.1…
I just want 15.7 so I can run the latest Xcode
I just want 15.7 so I can run the latest Xcode
October 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
My M1 Macbook Pro seems unable or unwilling to update past 15.4.1…
I just want 15.7 so I can run the latest Xcode
I just want 15.7 so I can run the latest Xcode
Unpopular opinion: Holmes & Watson (2018) was actually… pretty good.
I think people just expected wall-to-wall comedy and instead got a period piece that happened to have some mild slapstick mixed in.
Pull the comedy out completely, and it'd be a decent serious Sherlock Holmes movie.
I think people just expected wall-to-wall comedy and instead got a period piece that happened to have some mild slapstick mixed in.
Pull the comedy out completely, and it'd be a decent serious Sherlock Holmes movie.
October 24, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Unpopular opinion: Holmes & Watson (2018) was actually… pretty good.
I think people just expected wall-to-wall comedy and instead got a period piece that happened to have some mild slapstick mixed in.
Pull the comedy out completely, and it'd be a decent serious Sherlock Holmes movie.
I think people just expected wall-to-wall comedy and instead got a period piece that happened to have some mild slapstick mixed in.
Pull the comedy out completely, and it'd be a decent serious Sherlock Holmes movie.
AWS's status feeds are sharing the same GUIDs across services for this outage.
Let me repeat that. The same GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDs
Everything has the GUID "https://status.aws.amazon.com/#multipleservices-us-east-1_1760944260_0"
This completely confused our internal service status tracker.
Let me repeat that. The same GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDs
Everything has the GUID "https://status.aws.amazon.com/#multipleservices-us-east-1_1760944260_0"
This completely confused our internal service status tracker.
October 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
AWS's status feeds are sharing the same GUIDs across services for this outage.
Let me repeat that. The same GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDs
Everything has the GUID "https://status.aws.amazon.com/#multipleservices-us-east-1_1760944260_0"
This completely confused our internal service status tracker.
Let me repeat that. The same GLOBALLY UNIQUE IDs
Everything has the GUID "https://status.aws.amazon.com/#multipleservices-us-east-1_1760944260_0"
This completely confused our internal service status tracker.
Is anyone actually using tab groups in desktop Chrome?
They seem like the epitome of the kind of thing people beg for and then don't actually use once they get them because the UX is awkward and requires thought on the end users part.
They seem like the epitome of the kind of thing people beg for and then don't actually use once they get them because the UX is awkward and requires thought on the end users part.
October 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Is anyone actually using tab groups in desktop Chrome?
They seem like the epitome of the kind of thing people beg for and then don't actually use once they get them because the UX is awkward and requires thought on the end users part.
They seem like the epitome of the kind of thing people beg for and then don't actually use once they get them because the UX is awkward and requires thought on the end users part.
I wrote a small rant about an interesting quirk of the #php PSR-16 spec and its relation to the provided interfaces.
donatstudios.com/psr16-iterab...
donatstudios.com/psr16-iterab...
Fully Implementing PSR-16 Simple Cache is Less Than Simple
A small but interesting quirk in the PSR-16 “Simple Cache” spec — why correctly implementing getMultiple, setMultiple, and deleteMultiple isn’t as simple as it looks, and how contravariance and PHP’s ...
donatstudios.com
October 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I wrote a small rant about an interesting quirk of the #php PSR-16 spec and its relation to the provided interfaces.
donatstudios.com/psr16-iterab...
donatstudios.com/psr16-iterab...
I wish `go install` would just default to @Iatest
I go through this every… single… time…
I go through this every… single… time…
October 10, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I wish `go install` would just default to @Iatest
I go through this every… single… time…
I go through this every… single… time…
So… I made a meme.
I think I'm the only person who thinks this is funny.
I think I'm the only person who thinks this is funny.
October 10, 2025 at 5:46 PM
So… I made a meme.
I think I'm the only person who thinks this is funny.
I think I'm the only person who thinks this is funny.
I hate to say it but I'm kind of bored with NIN / Trent Reznor soundtracks.
I've listened through the Tron: Ares soundtrack a couple times and it just does literally nothing for me
I've listened through the Tron: Ares soundtrack a couple times and it just does literally nothing for me
October 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I hate to say it but I'm kind of bored with NIN / Trent Reznor soundtracks.
I've listened through the Tron: Ares soundtrack a couple times and it just does literally nothing for me
I've listened through the Tron: Ares soundtrack a couple times and it just does literally nothing for me
I find commit messages adhering to strict syntaxes annoying.
Commit messages should be by humans for humans, and an expression of your humanity.
Commit messages should be by humans for humans, and an expression of your humanity.
October 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I find commit messages adhering to strict syntaxes annoying.
Commit messages should be by humans for humans, and an expression of your humanity.
Commit messages should be by humans for humans, and an expression of your humanity.
Don't patronize me, Google.
October 3, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Don't patronize me, Google.
I'm over here digging my way through some Go logs, and I noticed something I can't unsee…
YYYY/MM/DD … what the heck kind of date format is that?
ISO everything is YYYY-MM-DD
YYYY/MM/DD … what the heck kind of date format is that?
ISO everything is YYYY-MM-DD
October 2, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I'm over here digging my way through some Go logs, and I noticed something I can't unsee…
YYYY/MM/DD … what the heck kind of date format is that?
ISO everything is YYYY-MM-DD
YYYY/MM/DD … what the heck kind of date format is that?
ISO everything is YYYY-MM-DD
Why is this a thing in GHFM and CommonMark…
WHY does this not just create two <ul>'s?!
I run into this all the time and it's so very frustrating
WHY does this not just create two <ul>'s?!
I run into this all the time and it's so very frustrating
October 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Why is this a thing in GHFM and CommonMark…
WHY does this not just create two <ul>'s?!
I run into this all the time and it's so very frustrating
WHY does this not just create two <ul>'s?!
I run into this all the time and it's so very frustrating