Kevin Menard

I don’t know what’s up with the trend of command terminals auto-copying text when you highlight it, but then clearing the clipboard when you use the “copy” hotkey, but it is incredibly frustrating. It breaks decades of clipboard interaction in two critical ways. This didn’t need “innovation”.

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I'm not loving the trend of using emoji to kick off every bullet point in a release log. It's a wall of text with distracting, bright colored pictograms that are very vaguely related. And they really don't help any more than textual category headers.

It's just a proof of concept, but this is how I wish Rust extensions for Ruby were written: github.com/tenderworks/...

C interpreters underlie many of our most widely used language implementations -- but they're slow. Wouldn't it be great if we could turn them into JIT compiling VMs? This video shows what happens when we do just that to the normal Lua VM (first) and "yklua" (Lua w/JIT, second).

If you believe a .env file with passwords and/or API keys isn’t a configuration file with secrets in it, I don’t think you’re being honest with yourself.

In London 2009, Gary Numan made a surprise appearance with NIN to play Numan's "Metal" & "Cars." I filmed it in one unbroken shot from the middle of the stage with a handheld DSLR. Here's the full video, savor the Dudes Rock energy of two legends doing a big mutual respect ("Cars" starts at 6:38):

It’s nice that we’re able to craft new TruffleRuby releases on our own schedule again. We’ll be shipping bug fixes faster going forward.

This is a huge release for TruffleRuby. It’s our first under our new org. If you’ve been hesitant about contributing because of the CLA, please note that we no longer have one. We can also release more frequently so please report bugs or open PRs.

I’ve got a friend in Massachusetts who is suspected of a financial cybercrime and has been brought in multiple times to chat with a detective. Based on the technical details it sounds specious to me. Does anyone know of a law firm or legal resource specializing in cybercrime that can help?

It blows my mind seeing devs making well into 6 figures writing crappy commits because "git is hard". We shouldn't tolerate it any more than we would crappy tests. Commits are a useful work product and a bare minimum for collaborating with others (as well as future you). Dump git if it's that bad.

Cloudflare is ruining the Internet. It’s absurd how much of my life is wasted proving I’m not a bot because I use iCloud Private Relay. God forbid I want a modicum of privacy that isn’t routed through their own privileged VPN. I can’t believe we gave the whole web experience to Cloudflare & Google.

I despise so-called "opinionated formatters". While I consistency in formatting, most of these formatters will apply conditional rules that break consistency. And there are far more important attributes to me than consistency, such as legibility and comprehension. Alas, I must say goodbye to nixfmt.

Vibe coding is the great equalizer. Now all code I look at can be as difficult to comprehend as optimized Perl, regardless of language.

Yet another example of why auto-upgrading to the latest version of every library in the name of security is a farce developers created because “convenience” often isn’t a winning argument. Ideally you’d vet every upgrad. Sadly, that’s inext to impossible in JS land. www.koi.security/blog/postmar...

Arguing against self-hosting because a SaaS company will handle security better vastly misunderstands how little security is a concern for an MVP. It’s rarely addressed while a startup seeks product market fit. The engineers slinging code have no security background. And LLMs aren’t going to fix it.

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Ticketmaster is killing it with these recommendations.

I shut Mogoterra down in 2009 and at that time the company was better known as Mogotest. I very much doubt there were 35 searches for it on LinkedIn this week.

It’s really quite sad how quickly we went from fretting over 50 - 100ms in front-end code to letting React and Cloudflare add seconds to page load. And then for the hell of it we decided to trash privacy because Cloudflare made blocking any VPN other than theirs a one-click process.

I hope LLMs can one day automate the generation of useful changelogs and allow us to destroy the scourge of Conventional Commits.

It's rather annoying that Ubiquiti skips right over 5 Gbps. I appreciate 10 Gbps over copper is doable now, but it's not power efficient and I'm somewhat concerned it'll burn down my house. Running fibre throughout and replacing all my switches for SFP+ will be ungodly expensive.

Issues like this are why I loathe "stale" issues: github.com/linuxserver/... It's not resolved, despite messaging to that effect. Community members were trying to help each other out, but that conversation is now shut down. And for what? So a project can juice its issue close rate?

It’s a little sad to me that I haven’t written anything with ExtJS in a decade and no UI component framework has come out since that’s competitive. I’ve seen 17,000 different ways to render tabs but hardly any toolkits include a Tree component. And nothing comes close to ExtJS’s Grid component.

@stuffwithstuff.com I’m going through “Crafting Interpreters” again with a book club at work. One thing I’ve noticed is the Java code would be a lot easier to manage with newer Java functionality like pattern matching switches and records for data classes, should you ever do a 2nd edition.

It’s time to part with some more computer books. A couple of these I’ve had since high school. I have digital copies of the Manning books, which is nice, but outside of using them for reference I vastly prefer the tactile experience of a real book. They’re much easier on my eyes, too.

Nine Inch Nails “The Hand That Feeds” single, March 2005 …20 years ago. Art direction / design by me. Created with damaged scanner glitching techniques, and hand-drawn digital pixel linework. More info in alt text.

It's really hard to get excited about a UI component library that doesn't supply a Tree component. I don't need the 275th unique iteration on what tabs should look like. I need to fill the gap the browser isn't handling.

Claude Code could cost up to $10 an hour and needs your source cod; companies are paying up. But, if you need a tool that costs $100/year and saves you hours per week, that goes into purchase review Hell. They’ll tell you to spend hours setting up an unaudited, slower OSS “alternative.” Fun stuff.

@backblaze.bsky.social I received an email saying my password isn't secure enough. It's a 32 character randomly generated password with a mixture of case, digits, and special characters. And it's only used with a service-specific email address for Backblaze. What's not secure? Was there a breach?

I appreciate the ways Slack/Discord are better than IRC. But, c'mon, it's been over a decade. Why do I need to swap workspaces all day long just to read a message from the one or two channels I care about? Switching channels across servers in IRC is instantaneous. It's massively more productive.

I can't believe we still don't have a standard tree widget for web apps. Every native GUI toolkit provides one, but web browsers insist on every dev inventing it and doing so poorly. It's weird that SenchaJS still has the best components even if they appear a bit dated.

I let my YouTube Premium subscription lapse and now I’m conflicted on reactivating it. I like not having any ads when watching educational content, but the ads have been unexpectedly beneficial: I’ve found I spend way less time in the YouTube app because the ads are unbearable.

It’s kinda sad, but also rather predictable, what’s happening with Bambu Labs’s 3D printers. I appreciate they made 3D printing more accessible to the masses and forced other manufacturers to up their game. But if you chose a convenient appliance over an open platform, this is the risk you took.

@fox0x01.bsky.social Is there any store that sells a DRM-free PDF copy of your book? I purchased on Wiley before realizing I would be stuck in their walled garden. I bought a paperback copy to read, but like having an indexable digital copy for quick reference.

We got a follow-up email saying there wasn’t a credible threat, but man getting emails like this is exhausting. Since it was devoid of any details, you get to pick which tragedy you think they’re referring to. Shootings aren’t something we constantly think about, but it’s always in the background.

Ok I know nobody cares about this but me, but GOD I care: 1. I have just downloaded your app. 2. You want me to make an account. I don’t want to make an account! 3. When I enter my email, you inform me that I already have an account! This seems like a good thing, but I know it means only pain. 1/2

It was kinda surreal to somehow stumble across a thread on HN where Chris was commenting, almost two years to the day after his passing. It was linked from a post today so I didn’t notice the date. I started reading the comment without the name and thought: “wow this sounds like Chris”. And it was.

I don’t understand how people can watch TV with motion blur on. I suppose you get conditioned to it, but I find it can make me nauseous. Alas, most hotels won’t allow you to change this setting.

Rubyists, have you ever wanted more features from SQLite? I'm excited to announce the `sqlean` ruby gem! github.com/flavorjones/... packaging precompiled extensions from antonz.org/sqlean/ for things like unicode, hashing, regexps, time, fuzzy strings, math, and even CSV support! #ruby #sqlite

I really dislike stalebot. I go to great lengths to debug issues & create simple reproductions. I've blown entire weekends this way. I don't have any real expectations other than my issue won't be dismissed out of hand, which is what stalebot does. And to what end? To juice some meaningless stats?

I’ve been running a Ryzen AM4 system for several years. I love being able to upgrade the CPU without needing a new motherboard and RAM. But, I’m going to make the switch to AM5 and hope for similar longevity. This is a workstation build. Does anyone have an ATX 3.1 PSU they like? Should I go 3.0?

FreeCAD 1.0.0 is now available. I’ve been testing dev builds and reporting issues. The core developers have been incredibly responsive and fixed all issues I’ve encountered. 1.0.0 is a massive improvement over the last stable release. You should give it a shot: blog.freecad.org/2024/11/19/f...

While there’s a stigma about giving cash as a gift, gift cards need to go. It sucks teaching a kid to save up their money for something only to discover when they met the goal that the gift card funds have been stolen. Stores don’t particularly care to prevent the problem or provide restitution.

Apropos of everything, here's NIN playing Bowie's "I'm Afraid of Americans" in Toronto 15 years ago, filmed by me from on stage in a single shot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-d2...