Don MacKinnon

Great discussion in this episode, worth a listen for any software engineer looking to improve the clarity of their code

Sad to see Deno get acquired only to get shut down. Having both Bun and Deno out there as competition to Node led to a lot of improvements in the ecosystem, or a least different thinking about the problem space. On a side note, celld looks very interesting and I need to spend some time with it

Did anyone expect anything less from Meta? arstechnica.com/security/202...

Do you use Apple containers? Added some instructions on how to run Searchcraft Core via Apple containers as an alternative to Docker. www.searchcraft.io/download

A Thursday catch-up from Maintainable: Matija Šošić on boring software, abstractions, Wasp, and why AI doesn’t make good frameworks obsolete. maintainable.fm/episodes/mat...

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

Unsurprising that it’s shoddy and unethical karlbode.com/metas-latest...

Meta settling out of court for a slap on the wrist fine and “usage limits”. Maybe get rid of the addictive dark patterns in your apps?

Professor Jason Arday's former students want to "gather everything good about Jason Arday, in the words of the people who were there" to make their contribution to the public record about him (rather than to debate events + controversies of recent months) leilacancode.github.io/everythinggo...

GitHub Actions database actionaut.dev

Deep dive into how data compression works under the hood and how that ties into AI corecursive.com/the-hutter-p...

It’s Thursday and GH actions is down again

Building a VS Code plugin? You might find this useful codicons.dev

Large searchable archive of NASA images. Bunch of great Apollo era photos up through shots taken recently by the Mars rovers. nasa-images.net

Searchcraft now has a Rust client! Fully typed async API, composable query builder, typed errors you can match on, keys wrapped in secrecy. rustls default, MSRV 1.75, Apache-2.0. Full engine 0.11 coverage. docs.rs/searchcraft

The folks at @wasp.sh did a write-up on the Searchcraft customer dashboard. We proudly chose Wasp early on because we prioritize being able to ship quickly. As a developer tool company we value the developer experience and Wasp checked the boxes. wasp.sh/blog/2026/07...

Github changed their hamburger menu to pancakes

npm is now scanning packages for malware at publish time before they become available for consumption

TIL about the fetchpriority attribute. Looks like it got wide adoption near the end of 2024. Slept on this one for too long! developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

My son and I are heading to Portland OR tomorrow for his class registration for uni. I’ve joked with him about going back to school to be his roommate ala Rodney Dangerfield. Of course I wouldn’t but I am somewhat jealous on top of being very excited for him.

We're at 4844 responses for this year's State of CSS survey, so I just need 157 more participants to be able to say the survey got "over 5000" responses! I'm closing the survey tomorrow so this is your last chance to learn about all the latest CSS features! survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

For a long time I worked on websites for some of the larger publishing brands. Everyone who worked on the websites got their name featured in the magazine mastheads for the print editions. It was a good era, kind of sad that tradition disappeared.

Does anyone else get annoyed that streaming services by default skip show/movie credits? I want to see who worked on things.

I haven't tried StyleX yet (have used styled-components a ton) but not being able to target based on parent selectors kind of seems like a deal breaker. www.skovhus.dev/blog/moving-...

RIP Meta engineering culture newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-met...

This update from Wasp is huge. In case you didn't know, we explicitly chose Wasp when building out our customer dashboard for Searchcraft because we needed to build a full-stack TS application fast. We needed to know that our packages and tooling would work well together from day 1.

Software isn't solved youtu.be/zfYsSFY4l18?...

Well this is huge blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joi...

Just released a fresh update for Searchcraft core! Biggest features folks will likely care about are support for minimum_number_should_match in queries and JSON field type support in schema. It's up on Docker Hub hub.docker.com/r/searchcraf...

Not a good way to start June. Stay safe out there www.aikido.dev/blog/red-hat...

The peril of laziness lost. I agree with a lot of this observation. Machines have no impetus to optimize. They are tools to be utilized with care bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t... #programming

the bun is now rusty, I repeat, the bun has been rusted: github.com/oven-sh/bun/...

temporary ain't -- ancient tech proverb

If you are using TanStack NPM packages you’ll want to check them socket.dev/blog/tanstac...

Having spent over a decade working in the magazine publishing business before watching it shrink to a much smaller version of itself I often think about the management mistakes publishers made along the way. Quality has always been what mattered www.honest-broker.com/p/the-death-...

Node 26! Temporal API support is finally here. LTS arrives in October nodejs.org/en/blog/rele...

I don’t think this is a surprise to anyone reflex.dev/blog/compute...

Apparently Remix 3 is no longer a React framework, the team built their own component model. Best of luck y'all, I dunno if we need another component framework but I am glad to see more alternatives to Next.

If you're leaving GitHub, we'd be very happy to chat! We work remotely, pay top-end of European salaries and are hell bent on building the best code forge ever. We're hiring for one intermediate/senior role right now: jobs.tangled.org/software-eng.... Go, Firecracker, distributed systems.

Are you worried about the future of Bun? wwj.dev/posts/i-am-w...

May want to read those skill files before just running them www.theregister.com/2026/04/29/3...

@brittanyellich.com I know its not your team but could be an opportune time to have the search folks at @github.com do an exploration spike with Searchcraft once the GH search platform is restored. Our indexing time is much faster than Elasticsearch

Big release with #Searchcraft Core 0.10.0. New search summary endpoint that provides AI summaries for queries. You can bring your own model, we support many providers and you can even run locally via llama.cpp/ollama. As with all our AI features, these are opt-in docs.searchcraft.io/api/search-s...

Ghostty is leaving GitHub mitchellh.com/writing/ghos...

Technical debt. Legacy code. The human side of software maintenance. Day 2 ops. @robbyonrails.com's @maintainable.fm podcast is for anyone who cares about these topics. From a while ago, I like: maintainable.fm/episodes/don... with @donmackinnon.dev on simplicity. maintainable.fm #podcast #tech

One of my favorite shows is For All Mankind. Mostly because it shows what humanity could be doing if it focused on science and exploration rather than destruction.

This is pretty sick, near instant security scanner. Written in Rust. Fast enough to run in every save or commit instead of in CI github.com/PwnKit-Labs/...

I didn’t make an account here to talk to bots I’m here to converse with humans. The spammy bot replies are super annoying, I will 100% block and report if you are coming at me with that garbage.

My talk from #Atmosphereconf is available to watch! There has been so much energy around groups/communities on ATProto and I'm SO excited to see how things transform in this space!! youtu.be/GVOywon3X-Q?...

If you updated Axios to 1.14.1 be aware that it was compromised. github.com/axios/axios/...