Thomas Karpiniec

The main advantage of native GitHub stacks is the satisfaction obtainable when you merge 35 of them in one click

OH “every day is friday when you control the instruction pointer”

"It's an integrated computer network and I will not have it aboard this ship"

The perfect website doesn't exi- owlsintowels.org

Blog: Stumbling over a cheat/exploit in Armagetron Advanced octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-1...

Blog: A slop inbox for open source projects octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-1...

Blog: Tuning web search in Open WebUI octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-1...

Hands up everyone who's had to put "play video game" on their daily task tracker to make sure they actually check out for a while

I've just published netwatcher v0.8.0 with a long list of bugfixes #rustlang

If I called it a "CLI harness around a world model" I wonder if I could get investment funding for my MUD

There’s a bonkers bug in iOS Calendar where recurring events spontaneously email no-op updates to invitees. It’s driving my contacts nuts, going to have to switch to Outlook

Dwarf Fortress bug and/or the hit country song of summer 2026

In community orchestra news, our current conductor is using words like "shred" and "chopped" to describe musical expression and I'm having to translate for my desk partner

not to be confused with quesadilla

I have the HaLow dongles up and running. The good news is that iPhones can both supply power and get bridged ethernet connectivity over a single USB connection. The bad news is that Android appears to lack the required driver. More notes: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

re: "how is vibed shit more secure to run than random github repo": bsky.app/profile/fast... agents will leave vulns in by mistake/omission, not malice randos on github, in this climate, however... different story. yes the game has changed 🤷 adapt.

Turn off phone without taking a screenshot challenge (impossible)

Exciting HaLow delivery today - very interested to see what these can do

Some notes on using OpenCode and DS4 for local inference with Xcode Coding Assistant: octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

If @tangled.org had set up as tngled.org most of Bluesky would be like “yeah my code’s on tingled, check it out”

It's disappointing how little development the iOS/Android Bluetooth APIs get. Androids can emit periodic advertisements but not receive them. iOS can receive extended advertisements but not emit them, and doesn't offer Coded PHY at all. These have been around for years now.

Seeing a lot of discourse about the Sydney Games Festival. Wait until they see my plan for the New Sydney Games Festival, held at the pub, in Hobart.

need to start using the dutch word for "party animal"

Very much enjoying justif - a great new lib for text rendering on the web. github.com/lyallcooper/...

me: "who the hell is playing alarm bells through my macbook speakers..." *runs `printf "\a"`* me: "mhh no that sounds different..." *hears 4x 440Hz beeps at 1s interval* me: "THERE IT IS AGAIN WHAT THE F—" the agent working on my NLE: "hey so I've solved the AV sync issue" me: "oooohhhh neat"

Blog: I noticed the Matrix Rust SDK using some pretty wild techniques on Android to avoid the developer having to provide JNI context. I'm… not quite prepared to use them but it's pretty impressive.

TIL the mesh networking support in the XO-1 laptops was designed specially so it could still forward packets for other devices even while the laptop (at least the main CPU) was fully suspended. Super cool.

Blog: I'm getting excited about WiFi HaLow mesh networks and a bit meh about MeshCore octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

Now if qwen3.6 autonomously hacks someone you have a problem because the computer it hacked can probably run the model too

It's going to be an interesting day the first time a cloud inference provider gets hacked and malware tool calls get sent to all the clients

Having fun and learning Polish with some local models. (Not pictured: Siri voice speaking the tutor lines)

Blog: Getting ready for local inference

🦀 first basic prototype for the diff viewer on crates.io seems to work as planned 😍 and the regular code viewer is now publicly released :) #rustlang

Old Mac owners 🤝 Recent Mac owners "it's worth more than when it was new!"

I’ve been playing with an open source tool that’s coded with heavy AI assistance (dirge) and it’s an interesting dynamic. Usually if I found a bug I’d try to make a PR. Here it’s better if I just write a good issue and the maintainer can quickly generate a fix in exactly the way that suits them.

Blog: No more Standard Search for standard.site octet-stream.net/b/scb/2026-0...

netwatcher 0.7.1 is out, adding BSD support (crates.io/crates/netwa...). The obvious platform gap now is Redox OS. I've looked into it and I believe all the primitives are there. I just need to build a convincing integration test.

90s kids

Over the years I’ve seen various links to blog posts by @dbushell.com and shamefully it was only today I realised the domain is a name and not a grumpy linux blog

i get a sick thrill every time i write code that handles something like a UUID collision or a 64-bit counter overflow gracefully. sure, it'll never happen, but when it does, it won't be *my* code that breaks

#standard.site appview tip: save a lot of time catching up from a jetstream gap by skipping repos where documents exist but to your knowledge they have all failed verification. The odds that a verified one appeared in the meantime are negligible and this skips 98% of repos.

Turns out that operating a search engine offers an endless supply of tinkering, especially when Bluesky suddenly goes and encourages everybody to add to the dataset. Hoping to stay mostly ahead of people doing Weird Stuff, but atproto offers many exciting ways to do Weird Stuff so we will see.

v1.122 is rolling out today, featuring a better way to discover and share articles, blog posts and newsletters across the Atmosphere via new, dynamic Standard.site link cards. 🧵

The 70s disco is strong in this one youtu.be/TEDAKLTIwOE?...