Justin Fagnani

A reminder, because it is almost that time of year: More children are killed by cars on Halloween than any other day of the year, by far. www.vox.com/future-perfe... If you're a parent, I hope you'll do what you can to keep kids safe. If you're driving on Saturday, PLEASE exercise extra caution.

If a package manager was going to publish more than just the packages themselves on #atproto, but also notifications and metadata, what would you like to see? New versions, security alerts, deprecations? What else? What if a package published Bluesky or Leaflet posts with change summaries?

Making myself angry for no reason at all remembering the American transit planner that went to Amsterdam and was appalled at how little stakeholder engagement they did in favor of actually building shit.

Why so many different materials and setbacks? When did we forget how to build plain but nice row houses?

Question for the #atproto community: In my atproto-based package manager I would like to have every package have its own DID so packages are as portable as user accounts - they can change handle and PDS. Would this put strain on the PLC registry? Would key management be tough? WDYT?

The amazing thing about atproto is that I don't actually need a custom PDS - Zena can just store packages in any standard PDS. The benefit of our own PDS is supporting a massive number of non-human accounts - one per package. A custom PDS can experiment with hooks and app view integrations...

Fuck this guy.

This interactive demo compiles @zena-lang.dev programs at runtime into Wasm components that import constrained network and DOM manipulation capabilities from the browser host. Even the Zena compiler is integrated as a component :D dialog-db.github.io/wasm-compone...

Chris has been testing out Zena with his WASI component model polyfill, and now I have to return the favor and test his polyfill out! This looks amazing! Not enough Wasm runtimes support the component model yet, and this brings them to the future. 🚀

Podcasts should be published on atproto.

Recent California state laws have already exempted new housing in existing cities and suburbs from CEQA, so Prop 45 would only be useful for paving over farmland or building into the wildfire zone in the woods.

I'd say that more suburban sprawl is in fact one of the intended consequences of Prop 45. Vote no!

I take it back bsky.app/profile/invo...

Building an atproto PDS in Zena today, that's going to be the basis of the Zena package manager. Fun times!

me knowing i’m not responsible for any php application right now

If you make HTTPS requests or have other TLS clients and care about MITM attacks, you need to update today. If you run Go: go get go@1.27.3 If you run Homebrew: brew update brew install ca-certificates If you run Linux, maybe stay off the internet for now.

I can't believe that JavaScript libraries for the web still use `process.env.NODE_ENV` and just crash when run without a bundler. Bundlers truly rotted developer brains.

👋🤠 Howdy, fellow Texans! Early voting starts TODAY and goes to Oct 30th. All y'all know there's fixin to be some bullshit this election cycle, so don't wait and schedule time to vote early. Make sure your vote gets counted. Find your polling place: www.votetexas.gov

Revolting against property taxes will hollow out your state and turn it into a retirement community that drives out young people who weren’t lucky enough to buy in because they weren’t born 50 years earlier - signed, a Californian

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

Ready to see Vulfpeck tonight!

Blink: Intent to Extend Experiment: WebAssembly Custom Descriptors

📰 Small project update, since we were so busy that we missed our weekly blog posts: - Last week we moved dev to public GitHub - We made the tests over 4x faster! - Mostly compiler fixes - Memory usage is down by 10x in some cases! - This week is value types, arg explosion, & row polymorphism

How did we skip the step where we made this illegal?

I wholeheartedly agree with this post. The California proposition system is terrible and fatally flawed. We have a legislature for a reason - to legislate! So I vote NO on almost all propositions. It takes a very, very compelling case - usually fixing a previously passed prop - to make me vote yes.

They started on illegal immigrants, expanded it to legal immigrants, now are going after naturalized citizens. If you are not one of those groups, you are just somewhere further down the chain, but they will get to eliminating your rights eventually too.

JPEG XL has arrived on the web, but how does it stack up against AVIF? jakearchibald.com/2026/jpeg-xl...

conflating chatbots with slavery is so insanely disrespectful I don't think I should even make a joke about it

I'm sure the open source projects I'm part of would do better if we were still on Twitter. I don't care.

People also think they can "fight" full-time addiction-optimized content farmers on their own turf with messages of nuance and eating healthy. I think when your missionary work is just swinging at engagement bait it's time to step back, re-evaluate and maybe, just maybe, be honest with yourself.

We need *much* better security models to constrain agents and sanitize LLM inputs and outputs. There needs to be a holistic and comprehensive framework for this. Just putting everything in a VM is not enough.

I have my misgivings about Prop 40 but Prop 42 is clearly much worse, and it’s painfully obvious that Gavin is primarily backing it to do donor maintenance for his DOA presidential campaign.

If the cost of generating and maintaining code is going down, open source projects should double down on community, people, helping their dependencies and upstream teams, building trust that they are good stewards of that piece of the ecosystem. Some are sadly going in the opposite direction.

Hed Rot Pilli Cheppers