Andrey Petrov

i made a chess-themed puzzle autobattler minigame, anyone wanna try? chessmatic.shazow.net would appreciate feedback about what's fun/notfun, still tweaking the puzzles and mechanics

When we use the wrong abstractions, complexity accumulates to route around the problem.

Me: "I can't do that with my mouth because I'm not a bird" @tracyosborn.com: "... yet!" Let this be a reminder to everyone: We're still so early, your bird era could still be ahead of you!

trying to come up with a name for my vm manager for sandbox workflows, how bad is virtopus? 🐙

Vibecoding is not the future, it is a commoditization of the past. The future of software engineering is building robust bug-free software, in a world where the cost of each bug is dramatically higher than before. The "lean Ethereum" megaproject is an example of what this looks like.

Are you a wifitui user? I want to improve how we render "(5 APs)", what do you think of these ideas? Currently leaning on: 📡·5 github.com/shazow/wifit...

@boscolo.co @goat.navy One more angle (to address spammy PDS's): What about a labeler which verifies the account has committed/burned a small bond onchain?

did:cow: Another idea to billionaire-proof ATProto IDs, also "art of using a blockchain without using a blockchain". Blockchain-managed wrapper ID, no tx to create, points to a did:plc/did:web but you can move it if something goes wrong. Got carried away and made a resolver and front-end cow.watch

Has anyone here submitted a package to Debian before? How'd that go?

🛜 wifitui v0.11.0 is released! Do you dream of managing your wifi in a terminal? Now is your time. Made for Linux, but has experimental macOS support! Please open an issue if it can be improved. :) It even has a non-interactive mode for your beloved scripts/molts. github.com/shazow/wifit...

If you're curious why a prediction market might not pay out conditions of death: It's to avoid the creation of assassination markets.

There's only a few ways to deal with attacks on permissionless networks: 1. Increase the cost to the attacker 2. Reduce the cost to the defender 3. Reduce the value to the attacker

Today, @bsky.app + @atprotocol.dev devs can plug into XMTP to give users what they've been asking for: quantum-encrypted, secure group chats that scale to millions. With our XMTPID identity model, it's finally here. 1/5

I see people debating whether an AI agent will ever "try to escape a container" but that is the wrong concern. The agent will be tricked into installing a malware dependency designed to escape the container. Even with CVEs patched many months ago, at scale, enough people will be impacted.

Annual urllib3 report is out! Illia is taking over as lead maintainer, facilitated our first professional security audit, and we continue to raise funding for work on HTTP/2. Gentle reminder to ask your employer to help fund urllib3 work if you rely on Python. :) volochii.dev/blog/urllib3...

Blindly accepting PRs without the prompt is like blindly implementing features users ask for without understanding their underlying needs. Users usually ask for less pain and more pleasure. It's the maintainer's job to dig deeper, read between the lines, and find the cause/utility behind the ask.

❌ Social Network ❌ Social Media ✔️ Social Venue it's time we change our vocabulary, our words have become encumbered with business models when we really want to talk about a place that we visit for the people--a social venue.

wifitui v0.10.0 is out (fast friendly featureful wifi tui for linux): - added support for displaying multiple access points - improved experimental macOS support (thanks @jimst.bsky.social) - better key handling (hjkl), and more! github.com/shazow/wifit...

github.com/shazow/wifit... is a single-binary user-friendly TUI alternative for network-manager wifi selectors that desktop environments usually have

are there any ongoing discussions around adopting did:ethr (or a new smart contract-based DID primitive) as a decentralized alternative to did:plc? seems like a great fit

has anyone experimented with making a browser-embedded PDS + signing key? for semi-ephemeral ATProto clients

PSA for the open source maintainers in the house: Big undesirable drive-by haphazard PRs are not new. Maybe AI is making them more common, but IMO the correct way to handle them rests on whether we're willing to maintain this code or not, regardless if it's written by vibes or meat. Eg from 2018:

is there a vaguely standard lexicon for making chat rooms on atproto? a small part of me wants to make ssh-chat 2.0 but with atproto as a federating backend

My very awesome and amazing guide on how to host a PDS on NixOS isabelroses.com/blog/nix-pds...

TUI for managing bluetooth on Linux github.com/pythops/blue...

solved my laptop being cold in the morning in a dumb way

wifitui (fast featureful friendly wifi terminal UI for linux) now has community maintained packages on Arch AUR and Slackware! Anyone wanna maintain Debian/Nixpkgs? 👉👈 github.com/shazow/wifit...

Today's attempt at definitions: Federated is where power structures can accumulate on a single provider and disadvantage others. Decentralized is where the power structure is democratized/collectively owned and can't be concentrated to disadvantage others.

This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow.net and I made a bet about whether "six", the Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025: sethmlarson.dev/winning-a-be...

Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"

Do you use wifi on linux? Wanna try a new wifi TUI I've been working on? (Trying to improve on nmtui and impala) github.com/shazow/wifitui

+1000 hope this gets more attention, subcommunities is the way forward, one global feed (even with varying moderation and timeline algorithms) can't replace everything.

They say there is no free lunch, but what they don't tell you is that there is also no paid lunch. The whole concept of lunch is a lie.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Nix, is in fact, NixOS, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Nix plus OS. Nix is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning operating system made useful by the kernel, systemd, …

anyone use an alternative bluesky client exclusively? which one? anything you miss from the official client?

keep/delete? wrote it as a joke, but not sure how i feel about it. seems more honest than just acknowledging usage of ai in a codebase, but it all seems very silly.

arewedecentralizedyet.online is a great reminder that the word "decentralization" is useless without talking about what kinds of power participants have over each other. I wrote a post about this, analyzing very specific failure modes and what kinds of powers open social protocols have:

robots.txt was the original claude․md

Anyone out there with a YT channel with over 100K subscribers in a tech niche? I'm working on the @microconf.com YouTube strategy (www.youtube.com/@microconf) and would love to have someone to run quick questions on strategy by. Consultant recommendations welcome too!