Peter Merikan

Peter Merikan

@merikan.com

SWE from Sweden. priv/acc | ☕ 🐹🦀 💙 🎯 🌙 In software development, complexity might be admired but simplicity is always rewarded. #java #kotlin #go #flutter #dart #rust #lua https://mastodon.social/@merikan

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So I wrote a blog post the other day. It is about using push-to-talk with local llms to talk to your agent(s). Funny thing is that I am using it quite often for writing "regular" text as well. My fasvorite tool is Sagascript. I have become a dictator 😄 callistaenterprise.se/blogg/teknik...

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❗️ The slopocalypse is real. MITRE published a critical SQLite vulnerability with a CVSS of 10.0 that does not exist. Turns out it was hallucinated by an LLM. SQLite's Richard Hipp says dozens more fake CVEs were filed.

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Passkeys can be stored just like password hashes! I'm proposing an interoperable $webauthn$v=1$… format, and a Go API that uses these passkey records for authentication. I'm looking for feedback before proposing this as crypto/passkey for Go 1.28!

words.filippo.ioOpaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.

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NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

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Proposal: UK and EU require absolute separation of operations for major AI and cloud providers from their US counterparts. US did this on security grounds for TikTok, so UK/EU could use the same justification for Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, X.

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‼️🚨 Yet another Meta fuck-up: its account recovery function allows unauthenticated access to full account PII, including emails and phone numbers, from just a username. We verified the claim. We'll start with footballer Kylian Mbappé, who has a hidden TikTok account.

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I'm going down the ATProto rabbit hole with this PDS self-hosting. Not only can I own my PDS, but I can own: Source control via @tangled.org knot. Container images via atcr.io blob. Login to these sites just works using OAuth against my PDS. This is the internet I love.

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TOML Schema is live: toml-schema.org It is a TOML-native schema language for describing and validating TOML configuration files, using TOML syntax itself. The project started in 2020. Recent work added Java, Go, and Rust reference implementations, CI, and the new website.

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Ratatui just got fancier with this!

Ratatui@ratatui.rs

🧀 ratatui-cheese — Bubbletea-inspired components for Ratatui 💯 Spinners, trees, paginators, inputs, selects, palettes & more ⭐ GitHub: github.com/shashanktoma... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #terminal #ui

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"For 25 years, Google Search was built on a contract. The web provided the content – billions of pages, freely linked, freely crawled. In return, Google sent people back. The link was the unit of exchange. [...] That contract is now broken." @matthiasott.com matthiasott.com/notes/ad-inf...

matthiasott.comAd Infinitum · Matthias OttWeb design engineer, UX designer, teacher, and speaker – helping teams build websites and digital products with a focus on CSS, accessibility, and performance.

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wrkflw is a CLI and TUI tool for testing and running CI jobs locally in your terminal. You can validate GitHub / GitLab CI workflows, run jobs, watch logs, manage secrets, use Docker, Podman runtimes and more. Gokul Santhosh (bahdotsh on GitHub) made wrkflw and is Terminal Tool of the Week! ⭐️

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🌸✨ I just launched my annual Spring Sale! You can save up to 50% on my online courses. (I realize that it's basically summer in most of the northern hemisphere right now 😂. But up here in Canada, the flowers just started blooming! Look at the trees near my office.) Details in thread. 🧵

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‼️🚨 BREAKING: NHS England has confirmed Palantir has access to identifiable UK patient data through a new "admin" role on the Federated Data Platform, the central data-sharing system the US spy-tech firm has run for the NHS since 2023 under a £330M contract.

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I play a drinking game where every time Elon Musk confidently announces that his cars will soon drive by themselves I do a shot. I have been continuously drunk since 2013 and am also drunk right now.

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Heads up! Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised as part of the ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign after attackers abused a GitHub Action in Bitwarden’s CI/CD pipeline. We’ll continue updating our coverage as more details are confirmed. socket.dev/blog/bitward...

socket.devBitwarden CLI Compromised in Ongoing Checkmarx Supply Chain ...Bitwarden CLI 2026.4.0 was compromised in the Checkmarx supply chain campaign after attackers abused a GitHub Action in Bitwarden’s CI/CD pipeline.

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🚨 BREAKING: Vercel has been breached. A threat actor has listed their customers' data, source code, databases, and keys up for sale. Vercel has also publicly disclosed they've identified a security incident involving unauthorized access to their internal systems.

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Woah, this is super useful 😍 🌀 rgx — TUI regex tester with real-time matching 💯 Supports multiple engines (Rust, fancy-regex,PCRE2) with live previews 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/brevity1swos... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #regex #terminal #devtools #programming

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"Gartner predicts that by next year, half of the companies that fired workers for AI are going to hire them back. Also, 9 months ago, Microsoft…proclaimed that 30% of their code was written by AI, and since then, we've seen some of the worst software issues at the company in its history." 1/2