Peter Bhat Harkins ✔️
@push.cx
Programmer by day, programmer by night.
Blog: https://push.cx Bootstrapping: https://recheck.dev
I run https://lobste.rs and stream office hours Mon+Thu: https://push.cx/stream
For people migrating, I was @pushcx on Twitter. I use he/him.
Blog: https://push.cx Bootstrapping: https://recheck.dev
I run https://lobste.rs and stream office hours Mon+Thu: https://push.cx/stream
For people migrating, I was @pushcx on Twitter. I use he/him.
The distinction between high and low culture is a scam created to sell less low culture.
November 6, 2025 at 1:45 AM
The distinction between high and low culture is a scam created to sell less low culture.
The cat has canceled this morning's Lobsters office hours stream by jumping up and spilling my cup of coffee over basically everything on my desk, including a bunch of important paperwork. I'm going to be cleaning all morning and am not in a great mood to present. Perp attached. Will do PRs ~lunch.
October 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The cat has canceled this morning's Lobsters office hours stream by jumping up and spilling my cup of coffee over basically everything on my desk, including a bunch of important paperwork. I'm going to be cleaning all morning and am not in a great mood to present. Perp attached. Will do PRs ~lunch.
A spammer promoting an AI coding tool spammed my repo. I reported the spam to GitHub. They kept the spam and, after hiding him for a couple weeks, restored the spammer. I can't resolve the problem because I can't ban the spammer. So now every page has this irritating banner forever. GitHub, wtf?
September 14, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A spammer promoting an AI coding tool spammed my repo. I reported the spam to GitHub. They kept the spam and, after hiding him for a couple weeks, restored the spammer. I can't resolve the problem because I can't ban the spammer. So now every page has this irritating banner forever. GitHub, wtf?
Welp, google search no longer respects minus for excluding words. A friend couldn't repro so this is an A/B test or some odd behavior in response to my preceding queries.
August 27, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Welp, google search no longer respects minus for excluding words. A friend couldn't repro so this is an A/B test or some odd behavior in response to my preceding queries.
Heck, we haven't even settled our argument over what to call it.
(Photo is Quinn Slack, speaking at HeavyBit DevGuild. I sent him an invite. Photo by @mikejulian.com.)
(Photo is Quinn Slack, speaking at HeavyBit DevGuild. I sent him an invite. Photo by @mikejulian.com.)
August 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Heck, we haven't even settled our argument over what to call it.
(Photo is Quinn Slack, speaking at HeavyBit DevGuild. I sent him an invite. Photo by @mikejulian.com.)
(Photo is Quinn Slack, speaking at HeavyBit DevGuild. I sent him an invite. Photo by @mikejulian.com.)
Periodic reminder that if you generate random alphanumeric codes, you probably want to avoid generating naughty words by leaving out the vowels.
July 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Periodic reminder that if you generate random alphanumeric codes, you probably want to avoid generating naughty words by leaving out the vowels.
July 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM
No stream today, unfortunately. The ISP wants to repeat the process where they'll send a tech out tomorrow to confirm that it's fine when the line is dry. :|
July 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
No stream today, unfortunately. The ISP wants to repeat the process where they'll send a tech out tomorrow to confirm that it's fine when the line is dry. :|
Ah, thought I was focusing like on mastodon, didn't mean to crop. Here's the full thing with the same hash on both lines, or you can just see it at github.com/lobsters/lob...
May 31, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Ah, thought I was focusing like on mastodon, didn't mean to crop. Here's the full thing with the same hash on both lines, or you can just see it at github.com/lobsters/lob...
GitHub PRs and issues have gotten pretty janky the last ~7 months but attributing my commit to a rando who's never interacted with the repo is getting into "you had one job" territory.
May 31, 2025 at 5:19 AM
GitHub PRs and issues have gotten pretty janky the last ~7 months but attributing my commit to a rando who's never interacted with the repo is getting into "you had one job" territory.
May 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Ah, bitshifting. First image is the failure where even the difference is a pain in the ass to spot. Second image is the bug. Super obvious fix right.
For funsies I am porting a Golang function to Lua... which means going from 0-based arrays to 1-based. It's fine, I have lots of hair to pull out.
For funsies I am porting a Golang function to Lua... which means going from 0-based arrays to 1-based. It's fine, I have lots of hair to pull out.
![a wall of lines of 26 lines of code that have slightly different magic numbers, all like: str[7] = Base32.ALPHABET[((id[4] & 15) << 1) | ((id[5] & 128) >> 7)]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eodtpr3gmvggrlwtsf3d27au/bafkreifvu6z4zy44cgskprcxppavvd5xnncqdgdzah23mzi2c2tplzxv7u@jpeg)
May 15, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Ah, bitshifting. First image is the failure where even the difference is a pain in the ass to spot. Second image is the bug. Super obvious fix right.
For funsies I am porting a Golang function to Lua... which means going from 0-based arrays to 1-based. It's fine, I have lots of hair to pull out.
For funsies I am porting a Golang function to Lua... which means going from 0-based arrays to 1-based. It's fine, I have lots of hair to pull out.
Sure! The behavior is odder than I realized, even scrolling didn’t always close it.
May 13, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Sure! The behavior is odder than I realized, even scrolling didn’t always close it.
Once a week Slack sends me a notification to look at one same particular channel because “your team has been talking”. No one has talked in any channel on that server for 4+ years.
May 13, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Once a week Slack sends me a notification to look at one same particular channel because “your team has been talking”. No one has talked in any channel on that server for 4+ years.
The Chicago Department of Transportation surveyed residents about planning and reproduced the one map of Chicago. image.citynews.chicago.gov/lib/fe301171...
May 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
The Chicago Department of Transportation surveyed residents about planning and reproduced the one map of Chicago. image.citynews.chicago.gov/lib/fe301171...
The big visual change is that comment folders and upvoters moved into one column. This cleans up an inconsistency, saves horizontal space, and just looks nicer.
Overall elements are more consistently positioned and spaced, often by a pixel or two, making pages easier to scan and read.
Overall elements are more consistently positioned and spaced, often by a pixel or two, making pages easier to scan and read.
April 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
The big visual change is that comment folders and upvoters moved into one column. This cleans up an inconsistency, saves horizontal space, and just looks nicer.
Overall elements are more consistently positioned and spaced, often by a pixel or two, making pages easier to scan and read.
Overall elements are more consistently positioned and spaced, often by a pixel or two, making pages easier to scan and read.
Hit a good checkpoint on the merged story UI refresh, so I shipped it. Nicer header and now threads are split up by which link they're responding to. I have 4,159 top-level threads to check are sorted right... I guess that's next stream!
Details: github.com/lobsters/lob...
Details: github.com/lobsters/lob...
April 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Hit a good checkpoint on the merged story UI refresh, so I shipped it. Nicer header and now threads are split up by which link they're responding to. I have 4,159 top-level threads to check are sorted right... I guess that's next stream!
Details: github.com/lobsters/lob...
Details: github.com/lobsters/lob...
Microsoft allowed me to opt-out from having my data used for LLM training. And also opts me back in after a few tenths of a second, so I can be allowed to opt out again and again.
April 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Microsoft allowed me to opt-out from having my data used for LLM training. And also opts me back in after a few tenths of a second, so I can be allowed to opt out again and again.
How 'bout today, huh? Rex Manning day.
April 8, 2025 at 5:26 PM
How 'bout today, huh? Rex Manning day.
Here's the law, Section 4 (6): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/4
The UK regulator Ofcom reiterates it unambiguously, saying "It doesn’t matter where you or your business is based." https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/guide-for-services/
The UK regulator Ofcom reiterates it unambiguously, saying "It doesn’t matter where you or your business is based." https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/guide-for-services/
February 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Here's the law, Section 4 (6): https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/50/section/4
The UK regulator Ofcom reiterates it unambiguously, saying "It doesn’t matter where you or your business is based." https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/guide-for-services/
The UK regulator Ofcom reiterates it unambiguously, saying "It doesn’t matter where you or your business is based." https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/guide-for-services/
The "cabinet" collects lots of small things. Here's the WIP, showing four ways that Lobsters renders story headings. (Stream now in 30 min.)
February 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The "cabinet" collects lots of small things. Here's the WIP, showing four ways that Lobsters renders story headings. (Stream now in 30 min.)
I ran winetricks to fix a broken wine setup and was puzzled to see my own username in a URL. Then remembered: in 2015 I mirrored the windows corefonts bc sourceforge broke the URLs (end of https://push.cx/installing-you-need-a-budget-ynab-on-arch-linux). Now winetricks uses my mirror. :) (bug #2142)
February 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I ran winetricks to fix a broken wine setup and was puzzled to see my own username in a URL. Then remembered: in 2015 I mirrored the windows corefonts bc sourceforge broke the URLs (end of https://push.cx/installing-you-need-a-budget-ynab-on-arch-linux). Now winetricks uses my mirror. :) (bug #2142)