Chris Taylor

prefer analogue CDs, the sound is much warmer

images that spring to mind unbidden, part 1007: "more hydrogen atoms"

Today in "decisions in kerning"

JJCon Livestream! www.youtube.com/live/DFjbAsW...

I am the very model of a modern day typographer A font take on the tune “Modern Major General” by Gilbert & Sullivan #typography #fonts #graphicdesign

I left Google and joined East River Source Control almost two months ago. Our redesigned website is now up, including a blog post about me joining: ersc.io/blog/martin-....

jj 0.44.0 is out! github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... jj is a Git-compatible version control system that is both simple and powerful. Below are some highlights of today's release ⬇️

i'm hearing reports that every Flock camera has 64 GB of DDR5 in it…

There now follows a party election broadcast by the Count Binface Party, And if I do say so myself, it's a banger. #VoteBinface #Clacton

New blog post: Jujutsu tutorial I wrote the tutorial I wish I had. neugierig.org/software/blo...

OK everybody...still working out some kinks but... A new daily game, with boards written and edited by John Green. hankgreen.com/smush

I *really* hope this works

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

Schön war’s auf der #Sternfahrt2026

What would happen if we stuck a stick to the butt of a chicken 🐔? The surprising answer - we turn it back into a dinosaur 🦖, sort of. It reverts their locomotion to something similar to a dinosaur . 🧪 Link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?reqmod=%27b%27&id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088458​

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QMl... is a masterpiece

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The DUNC... I mean DUNE Font Generator is live now! Showcase your hype for Dune Part Three with custom graphics that faithfully recreate the Dune logo style.

Happy 39th anniversary to an astronomical revolution: the light from the explosion of Supernova 1987A reaching Earth! Here's what I wrote about JWST observations of this event. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/truly-weir... 🔭 🧪

The Go Checksum Database guarantees that every single Go build uses the same source for a given module version. However, GitHub might not show you that code. pkg.geomys.dev displays the canonical source of a Go module, and it comes with browser extensions to replace pkg.go.dev source links.

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

Pre-orders are now open for the PicoIDE. All retro PC owners should at least consider this, as it could be a massive upgrade to many existing systems: retrorgb.com/picoide-pre-...

i just vibecoded something absolutely horrifying but i am so excited by it. holy shit. LDAP but #ATProto 👀

actually that editing syntax predates computers by more than a century: it's traditional copyeditor markup!

Workload identity federation allows infrastructure and CI/CD systems to authenticate themselves inside your Tailscale tailnet, using your trusted identity provider—no secrets or keys needed. Blog: tailscale.com/blog/workloa... Webinar (1pm EDT today!): tailscale.com/events-webin...

All of the videos from the first #jj-vcs conference are out! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

frohen tag der offenen grenzen euch allen

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"

A practical introduction to parsing (in #rustlang) jhwlr.io/intro-to-par...

Das #Mobilitätsgesetz sieht eindeutig sichere Radwege an Hauptstraßen vor. Das gilt nach wie vor. Es wird nur ignoriert. Die große Reportage aus dem Bezirk #Tempelhof #Schöneberg in unserer neuen #radzeit 👉 "Wo zwischen Himmel und Hölle nur eine Kreuzung liegt" berlin.adfc.de/artikel/wo-z...

I saw this poster on eBay. It was way too expensive. Then I realized which shuttle it was. I did some digging and IBM HQ immediately recalled and destroyed them. Guess they missed one. Whatever, it was my birthday a few days ago. $350 later and this is on the way to my apartment.

This is really good, and in particular, I would never use Go's encoding/xml for anything security-sensitive. blog.trailofbits.com/2025/06/17/u...

awww its little memory usage brontosauruses

Hey ☁️ #cloudnative ☁️friends!! ✨ big news from Apple today ✨ Want a native way to build Linux containers on Apple hardware? Now you can ✅ — check out the new open source #containerization framework: 👏 github.com/apple/contai... 👏 github.com/apple/contai... Fun fact: it’s written in @swift.org 🙌

Zur AfD-Hochstufung durch den VS: Es gibt viel Unsinn und Strohmänner in der Debatte. Mal die üblichen Punkte: 👇