Neil

Please stop flooding our projects with AI slop to furnish your CV. neilalexander.dev/2026/06/30/f...

I believe it is important to use the term "identity verification" instead of "age verification". Every conversation about age verification is really about identity verification.

Service providers underestimate my stubbornness when it comes to age verification. No, I won't send you a scan of my ID. No, you can't scan my face through my webcam. What I will do happily is stop using your service instead.

As pained as I am to side with Farage, this is an extremely dangerous precedent. The UK Government would rather brand anyone who opposes the Online Safety Act as a predator than actually admit that the legislation is deeply and fundamentally flawed.

This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...

Surreal seeing what Twitter/X has become. It's now nothing more than people making absurd claims followed by endless replies like "@grok is this true", "@grok explain", "@grok what's this post about". Basically an unchecked human-scale experiment of whether AI will fight disinformation or worsen it.

As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000. Have a great day!

If anything highlights the sheer toxicity of the Hacker News crowd, it's a new Apple operating system announcement. Every year, commenters shit from a great height on each and every change under this delusional but predictable belief that talking something down enough makes them look smart.

Also the addition of Wi-Fi Aware to iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 was without fanfare but is extremely welcome either way, finally making it possible to build peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between iPhones/iPads and devices from different manufacturers. An enabler of true edge computing anywhere you are.

It’s extremely rare for me to install a beta operating system, but in the case of iPadOS 26, I had to try it out. The windowing and multitasking changes are a huge step up and, except for usual early beta bugs, it works pretty well. This is much closer to what the iPad should have been all along.

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

🥳 Go 1.24.0 is released! 📰 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24 📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0 #golang

Hell is the “For You” tab on Twitter/X

One of the best feelings is rediscovering old songs & albums that I used to love and finding they have been remastered into Dolby Atmos. *chef's kiss*

A very happy and prosperous 2025 to you all!

12 Million users already! We just passed 11 yesterday 👀

Team triple digit!

In case you're thinking about trying out Threads, it turns out that if you change your mind, you can't just delete your Threads account. You have to delete your entire Instagram with it. It is a literal trap.

i find it hilarious that this is the offending image that caused Vietnam to ban the Barbie movie over the “Nine Dash Line”

For all of the flaws it has, it's also nice to use IRC more again. Small networks with small-internet vibes!

Over the weekend, I made my first contributions to a Rust project — a super-promising IRC client called Halloy!

New Twitter marketing slogan.

Today is sponsored by lemon iced tea because it's unbearably warm in my home office and Carly Rae Jepsen just because she's a ✨ star ✨, end of list

WHEN did it become JUNE?!

Yesterday morning, two baby birds fledged from the box in the garden. Delighted to have been a successful bird dad!

Pro at the mini-golf ⛳️

Update: There are baby great tits shouting from within the bird box! 🪺

#Eurovision

Managed to fix the water pressure to my garden tap and now I feel like I can take on the world!

Hey everyone! Want to let you know we’re not all going to be on bsky.social forever. We’ve been making progress towards federation, and will start off with a sandbox environment to prioritize safety and stability as we move towards distributing out control over the ecosystem.

I have no idea what a berduck is and at this point I am too afraid to ask

If there’s one thing that can reliably upset me on any given day, it’s Apple’s total inability to make iCloud Safari bookmark syncing work reliably, or indeed at all

📢 iOS users! The app update with blocking has finally passed review! It should be available now

https://tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life describes battery life work we're doing at @tailscale.com. It's been a fun few months going beyond just Darwin spelunking to also hack on the Go standard library and explore different aggregation and visualization options.