Eli Perkins

I genuinely don't understand why a distro needs millions of dollars in funding, or why these companies feel the need to participate. Does this distro make these companies money or make them more secure or productive at this order of magnitude? I can't believe that to be true...

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Golly, this website is lovely!

happy to have integrated standard.site into my blog some time ago. cool things happen when you adopt open standards! lemme see your publication 👀

I'm tired of talking to AI. I want to talk to real people. But even when I talk to people, they forward my questions to AI and send me the AI's answer.

Conditional Rendering Over Nil Coalescing Delight your customers by handling these states directly, rather than appeasing the compiler with a fallback value. Felt pretty rant-y writing this one after seeing way too much brittle code with fallback values all over the place.

Tools I Love: Secretive Who knew SSH and Secure Enclaves could be so lovely?

Tools I Love: Secretive Who knew SSH and Secure Enclaves could be so lovely?

imo one of the biggest problems right now both in open and closed work is models yeeting large, unreviewable PRs. breaking that work down into small chunks - something that we were already doing pre-ai - makes that process much more sustainable imo

I feel this so much everyday. I love technology and toys and coding. But things feel a lot less fun, less human, less enjoyable, and less sustainable than ever for me personally.

Woulda been nice to be adding an extra $25 to this for this year, but here’s to upping it by $26 next year 🙌 @edsbs.bsky.social @hollyanderson.bsky.social @newap-georgia.bsky.social

baby’s first app of the day feature 🥹 proud of the team here at @particle.news that made this happen!

I added Bluesky posts to my blog! A fun way to learn more about ATProto and all the lexicon tools.

Plannotator slipped into my most commonly used tools one day and never left.

Check out what we've been up to at @particle.news! Podcast clips on iOS, a new Android app, Particle Plus, and some fun technical deets 👀

I felt spicy this morning, I guess.

How about I todon’t, LinkedIn?

Highly recommend this insightful post from @eliperkins.com reflecting on a year of using Kagi: blog.eliperkins.com/one-year-wit...

Just implemented this on my blog too. Pretty easy to do since the posts are already in Markdown!

Whether or not the Xcode agent is any good (I'm dubious), the fact Xcode itself is exposing first-party MCP tools is great news—trying to get Claude/Codex to do fucking anything right in iOS is agonizing. developer.apple.com/…

"Tools I Love: xcrun simctl io booted recordVideo" A handy lil command line tool to visualize changes in my PRs that I use regularly.

"One Year With Kagi" It's been a year of using not-Google as my default search engine, and I don't think there's any turning back for me. Kagi rocks. 🤘

What 99% of the internet feels like these days

@jdan.me needs more communication notifications. how am I supposed to know who this is coming from?!

Spot on picture of Minneapolis rn daughternumberthree.blogspot.com/2026/01/scar...

"Gardening" I've had this term knocking around in my head for some years, in relation to caring for a codebase. Finally put some words together in a blog to capture how I feel about it.

Another day, another `mise use` that saved my butt. Fewer tools have entered my workflow as quickly as this one did some years back, and I rarely think about the fact that I'm using it 99% of the time.

As called on Miami Spanish radio:

another day, another wtf from Apple developer land: developer.apple.com/forums/threa...

Jerry Neuheisel has the chance to do the funniest thing

Claude Code's terminal UX is impressively tidy. The little animations are so delightful, and thought process is easy to comprehend. The `/`, `#`, and `>` prefixes are natural, with the lil descriptions below making them stick in your brain too. What a delight!

I've been needing to run `sudo killall bluetoothd` once a week since upgrading to Tahoe to fix the stuttering in my AirPods and my mouse movements. 🫠

how I feel every time I watch a Sora video: theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art