Dan Miller

The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...

We've been cooking at @ersc.io "What comes after git" ersc.io/blog/what-co...

one way to think about dev infrastructure is: * smaller scale than typical large systems * distributed systems where some of the event sources are extremely diverse and chaotic (you and me) * required to be extremely rigorous, often due to law * intersects with challenging UX problems

Holy shit my bank added passkey support

spent some time looking at this last week and was very unimpressed. stacked diffs/patch series don't make nearly as much sense with a new commit + merge workflow as they do with an amend + rebase workflow. jj compat is alao dubious. going to stick with spr

It's interesting that a lot of these LLM coding tools lean heavily in to an 8-bit NES aesthetic for the fonts on their website.

very cool article re: rendering diffs pierre.computer/writing/on-r...

TIL the mayors of Seattle and Portland, OR both have the same initials and the same last name

"He's the kind of guy that mostly cares about it looking good and sounding right. Not *being* good and *being* right." Thinking about this a lot these days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y65F...

samantha goldstein’s exhibit, mechanical botanical, is all set up at bubblesort studios and it’s so delightful! explorations in fabric, glass, circuits, and 3d prints here this weekend at 78 gough st, sf from 1-6pm!

Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread

Introducing Figma Sites Take your designs straight to the web. With code and AI coming soon. Source: us youtu.be/BU-yBN799EQ

Wait the Apple Intelligence stuff is still behind a waitlist??

Maybe this is a good time to announce that I also raised a $15M series A, and it will be spent entirely on bots that reply "have you tried jj" on every article about git that appears on hacker news

Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent

It's interesting that in the US _____ dealer always has a negative connotation: Drug dealer Arms dealer Car dealer

I wrote a quick blog post on the Replay blog about our "Cloud Development Environment", a word that is coming in to vogue now but a technique that we have been using for years blog.replay.io/our-cloud-de...

amusing confirmation prompt from obsidian

Welcome to com.java This is com.java Welcome This is com.java Welcome to com.java You can do anything at com.java

What is the state of the art in making git fast for enormous repos that is available to us peons in open source land?

Always cool to see someone try something you made and really get it 🥹 https://youtu.be/puHAiZBdjFw?t=281

I wanna talk to other marginalised/underrepresented folks in tech who are in leadership positions (either by role, responsibilities or simply because you got to) about the shit we have to deal with day after day.
Is there already a community like that out there?

I feel like word problems in math class would've been a lot more realistic if they just started describing random stuff, included *mostly* irrelevant detail, and then never clearly state any sort of question at all.

*Technically* I got paid to write assembly this week. Did I know what I was doing? No. Did it work? Also no.

I guess that their moms figured out a safe way to let the boys have their cage match.

Learning nix is really bringing me back to my early days of learning computers: blindly copy pasting things with no knowledge of how things work, then trying to fill in the blanks when I get an error message.

Twitter now prevents you from seeing post when you're logged out. The first time that it has cloned a Bluesky feature!

It's Friday and you know what that means (it means that it's time to post manuls)

I try to maintain pretty meaningful boundaries when it comes to publicly sharing about my family and my personal life but jesus fucking christ LOOK at the shower curtain in my aunt’s guest bathroom

So while Air Canada fell over and stranded me in YYZ, I decided to do the logical thing with this information. I implemented a TUN device that transits IPv6 packets over AWS S3. Find out more here: https://xeiaso.net/blog/anything-message-queue

The only people left on Twitter that I follow are CEOs and Super Smash Bros. players.

To know me is to know that I have been OBSESSED with this conference for years. It pains me to know this is the last one, but I’m excited to keynote alongside the homie @scott.hanselman.com It’s going to be a phenomenal time and I look forward to sending this baby out with a bang 💥

A successful social media app has two major investments 1. Recommendation algorithms (feeds, ads, etc) 2. Content moderation Bluesky is interesting because the origin story is Jack Dorsey wanting to outsource both of these to “the community” based on his time at Twitter. This was inevitable.

This is super good and everyone working with LLMs should read https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/hard-stuff-nobody-talks-about-llm

This article has been living in my head all week https://betterprogramming.pub/all-software-estimates-are-lies-d5847a080ef9

I sat outside today for actually 30 minutes and my legs got sunburned. 🙄