Peter van der Zee

Today is my first day at @socket.dev ! 😱 Perfectly aligns with what I want. Stoked to get started 🧐

Eeew. Programmers have now entered the world of "it's not an exact science, but it probably works, most of the time" like biology like doctors working on the human body. This is not how programming was supposed to work! This is not what I signed up for! But I'm kinda hooked to it now. Eew.

The aggressiveness of Android Auto is absurd. Unable to disable, unable to prevent, forces bluetooth and wifi. Also forces audio takeover. What the fuck is this virus.

Milestone! Reached 1200 in rapid. That only took me ... eh, too long.

TIL interface Node { v: number; next: $inst_Node | null; } interface Class_Node { new (a: number): Node; }

"npm's July fix has already been bypassed" If you're calling out malware that exists in a package but doesn't use postinstall as "Dependency installation security measure already defeated" then just quit now. Please. such fud, much wow.

ngl, I'm not sure I would have been able to do this in 9s. They gave up when I made this move. I mean, don't get me wrong. I _know_ how to do it. But in under 9s time pressure? Oof. Also turns out I kinda stole this game. Or at least, had made enough mistakes to deserve losing. Def. felt behind.

Why don't openai/anthropic etc create an actual airgapped local network for their CTF training? Strikes me as not too hard to gate all egress. Anything not covered can be caught by a set of monkeys (->AIs), ask the requesting AI for what it was, and create a mock service to simulate it. Easy peasy?

claude 5.5 is great but the security fences are super annoying. i know when working on a deobufscation tool you're kind of just asking for it but come on :/ it's not even a hard block (retry and it's fine) but it's very frustrated to my workflows

VCRDD; vibed code-review driven development Vibe some code, then spend the same amount of time as you otherwise would reviewing the 5k loc resulting PR.

oops. flew too close to the sun, working on preval and tenko perf at the same time.

Works or B0rks? ``` console.log(-5n); console.log(+5n); ```

I always knew that moving Tenko to a flat buffer tape AST approach would improve perf. I just could never be bothered. Now I just let Claude do it and low and behond; it's indeed faster. Gotta love it.

wait, what do you mean, i'm not afraid of blazes ... no no not me...

props to logitech's logi keyboard and mouse. it's actually amazing how little power draw they have. my wireless logi keyboard gets ~15h usage a day throughout the year. it has two or three aa/a batteries that I replace less than once a year. mouse needs a charge less than once a month. really good

Well. At least pypi gave it a run for its money. It got so stuck on account registration. Ultimately got through, of course. Some interesting lessons for pypi and fastly here (and other vendors). www.anthropic.com/research/ali... Transcript: raw.githubusercontent.com/anthropics/m...

typoof bug === "booleon"

Isn't a "malicious browser extension" a pleonasm anyways? 🙄

Remember when we used to ask for code to be documented with comments.

Sometimes you just gotta count your blessings... Oof.

Works or B0rks? ``` Number = { prototype: { x: 1 } }; console.log( (5).x ); console.log( new Number(5).x ); ``` sorrynotsorry

Works or B0rks? ``` Number.prototype.x = 1; Number.prototype = {x: 2}; console.log( (5).x ) ``` Fun stories about Array way back notwithstanding

Ok, spill it. Who lobotomized opus. This is a safe space, we just wanna know.

What github needs, if they're not going to do a "AI" mode for PRs like they have draft, is a simple "collapse up to this point" marker so all AI review conversation noise can be hidden when you're ready for human review. Honestly, them not having an AI review state at this point is bonkers though.

Works or B0rks? ``` function f(){ console.log(this); } const x = {f} // Direct f(); // undefined // Indirect (0, x.f)() // undefined // Optional chain x?.f() // x // Ok, now you! x.f?.() // ? x?.f?.() // ? const y = {g: function(){ return f; }} y?.g()() // ? y?.g()?.() // ? ``` (strict mode!)

Achievement unlocked. I usually forget to even look at them before I forget where I even was. Of course heavily buried in sand so I just TNT'd my way to the chest, destroying the chest in the blast, and so immediately half of it disappears. But oh well.

Eyyyy it works on the actual ereader. Not great but also... Well this is like a few hours of Claude doing stuff mostly on its own and me giving it feature creep. It's extremely low effort on my side and it works. Not so sure about KOreader though holy moly what a complex app.

Works or B0rks? ``` const x = 1; x ||= 2; console.log(x); ```

Next challenge: trying to connect a keyboard to an old Kindle paperwhite ereader to become an ewriter for the kids. The problem is no bluetooth and PW's usb can't power a keyboard. Usb keyboard usually don't run on batteries. Maybe (old) usb bluetooth dongle?

I would works or b0rks this bug but not even sure how to frame it without giving it away Basically I had been transforming `const [a, b] = c` as `const tmp = [...c]; const a = tmp[0]; const b = tmp[1];` and it's broken because the spread will _drain_ an iterator, where the assignment just takes two

Do think I'll need to switch to something like opencode soon. Colleagues have been raving about gpt sol, deepseek, and Kimi. Plus Gemini got a price cut too. Shouldn't allow myself to get vendor locked in on the Claude CLI (or its web code env). Wonder if opencode has an alt to the old TUI now...

Got my power draw down from 45 to 16 watts. Combination of an unused GPU device and some polling devices and installing and configuring tlp. Sweet. Super valuable. Of course, did I actually learn anything here? Not much. So I care? lolnope.

Why didn't I realize before that I can now just have Claude tweak my Linux setup? Fix minor bugs or inconveniences. And improve the power draw of the laptop. Super useful

Schiphol passport check queue. Somebody fucked up good.

AI does make it easy to work with obfuscation without worrying about visual confusion. I just copy paste and it gets it. Doesn't matter that it's garble

Must ... refrain... from logging in... during holiday... one more day. Good luck to anyone in/affected 🫂

"The data shows that many engineers spend in the range of hundreds of dollars a month to a few thousand dollars in tokens," um, wait. they call that tokenmaxxing at microsoft? wow, like they weren't even trying. lol slashdot.org/story/26/08/...