Luca Casonato 🏳️‍🌈

20 July

So some of you may know that I am a huge train nerd. So it's only fitting that today I start my new job at @railway.com. Not to run trains (I'm no good at that), but to help build the cloud platform of the future! Choo choo! 🎉 🚄 🎉 🚄 🎉

blog.cloudflare.comDeno is joining CloudflareThe Deno team is joining Cloudflare to radically simplify self-hosting Workers and Durable Objects, so developers can use the same primitives in more places.

It’s sad to see Deno being discontinued. However, I think it’s not all terrible. Deno pushed server side JS forward for everyone - Node copied many the standout features Deno had at launch in 2020, bringing them to the masses. Fetch, web sockets, web crypto, direct TypeScript execution, and more. 🫡

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Cloudflare

@cloudflare.social

We're making the Cloudflare developer platform the best place to run JavaScript, anywhere. Big step toward that today: the Deno team is joining us to build what’s next. https://cfl.re/4rXMBKy

I worked on this! Try it out and let us know what you think. Railway o11y is going to get so many more goodies this quarter!

Railway@railway.com

It's a bad day to be a slow (or broken) request 🔍 Tracing is now in preview. You or your agent can follow any request end to end, pinpoint what's slow or failing, and fix it Opt in, then set it up from the Traces tab railway.com/account/feature-flags

US governemnt: launches official government chatbot on america.gov Trump: will now have to call his own chatbot a liar because it says the truth

To fellow railway nerds: I am told there is an overhead wire break somewhere between Rheine and Amersfoort. However, neither DB or NS have it in their map of track issues, so I can’t tell where. Does anyone know where the break actually is? Is it in Germany or the Netherlands?

Found it! Just past Rheine, a piece of farm equipment broke the overhead wire 😭

playtupo.comTupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twistA simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.

#Tupo - Sep 25th 2026 (Tricky) ⏱️ Solved in 15:03 🔍 0 checks 💡 0 hints 🎯 38 moves (38 minimum) 💯 A perfect game! Play at playtupo.com

playtupo.comTupo · A daily sudoku-style logic puzzle with a twistA simple logic puzzle of numbers and colors. One new puzzle every day, starting easy and getting harder through the week.

21 Sept

#Tupo - Sep 21st 2026 (Easy) ⏱️ Solved in 5:43 🔍 0 checks · 💡 3 hints Play at playtupo.com

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snek

@snek.dev

1 Sept

bit of an update, it's been a few months now since I parted ways with Deno, and I'm starting to actively look for jobs again! I'm pretty good with big systems, compilers, and embedded. especially if rust or elixir are involved :)

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European Rail Passengers Union

@erpu.eu

28 Aug

You can now become an official member! erpu.eu/en/become-a-... For only €12 a year you will have a direct say in the future of ERPU. We will, of course, continue to work on behalf of all passengers but, we hope you will formally join us so that we can be an even stronger voice for passengers.

erpu.euBecome a member of ERPU

docs.railway.comTemplate Kickbacks | Railway DocsEarn revenue from your templates through Railway's kickback program.

12 Aug

Did you know that when you create a template on @railway.com, we'll give you a kickback of up to 25% of the revenue from the projects deployed from that template? You can get it paid out as real money directly to your bank account. Cool way to get funding for self-hosted open source projects! :)

7 Aug

Today we got our living room Steam Machine! I was going to use Firefox on it, but unfortunately I was unable to sign in to my Google account because Firefox still doesn't support cross-device authentication for passkeys on Linux. Had to download Chrome :( bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...

7 Aug

This is the single biggest reason why I am unable to use Firefox everywhere. With Chrome I can bootstrap my password manager on a new device by scanning a QR code for a passkey. On Firefox I have to manually type a random 32 char string from my phone. That adds so much friction that I just don't.

railway.comChangelog #0301 — Railway plugin for ChatGPT, dev.new preview, new observability panelsUpdates and improvements to Railway

1 Aug

Blame me for all the new o11y stuff!

Railway@railway.com

Memory updated: user ships on Railway Changelog #0301 • Railway plugin for ChatGPT/Codex • dev.new in preview • 6 new Observability panels • Fixes and improvements railway.com/changelog/2026-07-31-railway-plugin-for-chatgpt

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natemoore on elm street 👻

@natemoo.re

Replying to @lcas.dev

Just switched over some of my projects to @railway.com and it is so so good. Smoothest DX in the infra space!

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Mykal Machon

@mykalmachon.com

Replying to @lcas.dev

+1 it's very good! Not just saying that cause I work there as well, have been using @railway.com for fun since 2021 and for serious work since 2023. my elevator pitch is that It's progressive disclosure for infrastructure

So for those new to @railway.com: deploy basically anything in just a couple of seconds. Think a personal atproto PDS with persistent storage, a @tangled.org knot, or even a vibe coded (or meticulously hand written) site with postgres and a bucket. But really anything fits into a Docker container!

railway.comDeploy Bluesky PDS | RailwayDeploy Bluesky PDS to the cloud for free with Railway, the all-in-one intelligent cloud provider. Bluesky PDS (Personal Data Server)

Here is a nice template if you want to spin up your own PDS for example: railway.com/deploy/xBNJ1u

I'll continue my contributions to WHATWG, TC39, and WinterTC, and I still have great plans for Fresh - so keep an eye out for that also ;-)

github.comLocalized time formatting without JavaScript · Issue #12591 · whatwg/htmlWhat problem are you trying to solve? Server side rendered (or statically rendered) HTML does not know what the user’s timezone is. This means you can not server render absolute time correctly. To ...

16 July

Starting a new thing on Monday 👀

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Brian Kardell

@bkardell.com

17 June

WHATWG Stage 1! bsky.app/profile/mari...

Marina Aísa@marinaaisa.com

That was fast 💨🤩 @lcas.dev has already submitted a new HTML proposal for Localized time formatting without JavaScript 👇 github.com/whatwg/html/... Couple of previous proposals related to this topic: - github.com/whatwg/html/... - github.com/whatwg/html/...

17 June

What's this, a new HTML proposal? Built-in localized time formatting in HTML! github.com/whatwg/html/...

14 June

In Spain time works differently.

14 June

I must add, this was not an isolated case. I saw no two screens in the station that had the same time. NTP is hard it seems!

jonworth.euHow to make the rail ticketing aspects of the European Commission's Passenger Package more workableIn my earlier piece, I argued that the European Commission's Passenger Package is both radical and unworkable when it comes to the rail aspects of it, and explained how the Commission ended up there. ...

13 May

This is a great summary!

Jon Worth@jonworth.eu

Earlier I explained how the European Commission's proposals on rail ticketing are both radical and, in their current form, unworkable Now I have started to work out what Parliament and Council would have to do to make things more workable from here #PassengerPackage jonworth.eu/how-to-make-...

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European Rail Passengers Union

@erpu.eu

13 May

We are working on a detailed summary of what the EU's proposal contains and what that means for passengers. But, here is the short version: The commission has good intentions but their plan falls woefully short. Making rights contingent on how and where you bought your tickets is not good enough.

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/end Have you had experiences like this with other European operators? I'd love to hear them. I am also happy to help you if you are still waiting on money back. Sueing train companies in Europe is fun and easy! Just email me. I'll also be at epf.eu Conference on June 5th/6th 2026 to chat :)

Update on @nicr.dev's and my lawsuit against NMBS 🚆 In an overwhelming victory, the judge ruled today that NMBS illegally denied our reimbursement claim, and must reimburse us in full + cover full procedural costs. The court followed our reasoning completely, and dismissed all points NMBS made. 🎉

I sued three different European rail companies today, in two separate cases. One case is for violations of my rail passenger rights in case of disruption, and the other one for overcharging me on a trip (and then refusing to refund me what they overcharged me). Fun times ahead 😌

They also said that this is my fault, because if only I had gone to the station in Maastricht, I would have surely gotten help. This is after I wrote (and they clearly didn't read), that I did go to the station, where I was scolded out for trying to take a train while striking, which is why I called

They also tried to say that because I was physically in the Netherlands, anything that any NMBS staff tells me while there is not legally binding because the train runs under an NS safety license between Maastricht and Eijsden.

This is additionally absurd because between those two stations, only NMBS conductors are aboard the train. For anyone who will ever get fined between these stations by an NMBS conductor, just tell them that their head of legal said they have no legal basis while physically in the Netherlands :)

The judge followed my legal reasoning to the tee, and dismissed all points NMBS made. NMBS spent significant legal resources in an attempt to mislead the court with false statements about the law, me, and their train operations. Shame on them.

Some highlights: NMBS made the totally absurd claim that this train, in Arriva livery, staffed by Arriva drivers between Aachen and Maastricht, is exclusively operated by NS and NMBS, and Arriva is not involved in operations or ticket sales at all. This is just plain wrong.

- I called them to ask whether I could organize my own alternative, because they hadn't not going to organize anything. - They agreed to this, and gave me the URL to the page to submit the claim. - We researched the cheapest alternative, which in this case was a 120 EUR taxi (train via DE was 130).

- I submitted a claim the same day to get my taxi reimbursed. - They denied the claim (and we went back and forth a bit). - We sued them. - NMBS kept denying everything. - 6 months later, the judge saw right thru their lies and ruled in our favor, awarding us full compensation + court costs.

The details of the case were as follows: - We booked a train from Maastricht (NL) to Liege (BE) on 27 february 2025 (12.20 EUR). - This train was cancelled because NMBS didn't pay they employees enough, so they went on strike (good!) - NMBS did not proactively offer an alternative for re-routing.

1 Apr

I never thought I’d say this, but I may have made too many chocolate chip cookies 🍪

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William Perron

@wperron.bsky.social

Yesterday was my last day at Deno. I'm sad to leave but I'm proud of everything the team and I were able to build. I'm glad I had the opportunity to work with some of the most talented people I've met. I wish them all the best! I'm actively looking for my next challenge, my DMs are open!

John is an absolutely incredible UX design expert. If you are looking for someone who can come up with, implement, and test your UX flows, you should hire him.

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Jake Archibald

@jakearchibald.com

Snap him up

Phil Hawksworth@philhawksworth.dev

Yesterday was my last day at Deno. From today, I'll be cheering the talented team on from outside the org. This also means that I'm now considering my next move in the DX/DevRel/Technical marketing space.

Personal update: I resigned from Deno two weeks ago. Yesterday was my last day at Deno. Working on Deno, Deno Deploy, JSR, and Fresh with my world class colleagues has been an absolute honor. I wish everyone who I have worked with at Deno the absolute best - continue building groundbreaking things!

15 Mar

Anything but fix the lifetimes. Great job Claude.

docs.bsky.appPDS Entryway | BlueskyBluesky runs many PDSs. Each PDS runs as a completely separate service in the network with its own identity. They federate with the rest of the network in the exact same manner that a non-Bluesky PDS ...

11 Mar

Is the Bluesky entryway service described in this docs page open source? docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... I can't find the source code :(

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Rob Palmer

@robpalmer.bsky.social

11 Mar

ECMAScript EXTRA-SPECIAL excitement 😉 🚨🚨🚨 IT'S ABOUT TIME! 🚨🚨🚨 Congrats to @ptomato.name on advancing Temporal to Stage 4 at @tc39.es today 🎉 Temporal is the replacement for the JavaScript Date API 👍

Jason Williams@jason-williams.co.uk

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...