Thomas Lockney

I have little desire to ever organize another tech event but if I did... it would be the one where "succeeding as a creative weirdo in tech" was basically the overarching theme.

One of the things I'm going to miss most from @deno.land is their Jupyter kernel. I use it all the time for exploring TypeScript libraries, automations, etc. I found myself wondering what Claude would do if I pointed it at this problem. The result is cdp-kernel: github.com/tlockney/cdp....

I get and even share some of the concerns I'm seeing expressed. And yet, I think this is a great outcome for what remains of the Deno team and am very excited about what's to come as celld and workerd collide.

Love seeing more of these classic, important patterns getting codified like this as durable execution and workflows become a more widespread primitive of platform architectures.

Been saying this for a couple years now to anyone who would listen. Unfortunately that audience was pretty small. lol

sharing this again. let's celebrate some victories, people. Botswana is at the forefront of Africa overcoming a colonial legacy, moving to acceptance of people in all their glory. trans rights are enshrined in the constitution, both main political parties are onside. fuck yeah botswana!

Can confirm: Amanda is truly among the most rad.

Had my first MRI today. Everyone warned me about the noise. All I could think about was how much I wanted to record it. Guess that probably helped. Well, that, the valium, and keeping my eyes closed tight the whole time (I sometimes get hit by intense claustrophobia).

Ya think?

An IEEE conference has published a plagiarised version of a paper I wrote with @seph.bsky.social. I already reported it to the conference chairs and the IEEE Ethics Reporting Line 3 months ago, and nothing happened. Original: arxiv.org/abs/2409.14252 Plagiarised: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/113...

WTAF 😡

If you live in red state & are an honorable person, PLEASE call your rep in Congress NOW. Urge them to remove the president 3 republicans in Congress could make this happen. tr__p threatened to destroy a civilization, including civilians. That is a war crime, that is evil 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

"I'm disabled and don't need that assistive tool so you don't, either. You just want to cheat / lie / be lazy." - ancient internalized ableism proverb

Do yourself a favor: donate blood, if you're healthy. Feels good to do a simple thing that actually helps someone😊

@missamarakay.bsky.social making great use of dev.to - What Should I do and Learn in 2026 is a really positive conversation. Loved the advice on joining a book club or circle, maybe even meeting an author you love who lives locally.

Deno 2.7.8 is here! - P-521 elliptic curve crypto (sign, verify, ECDH) - SIMD-accelerated base64 encode/decode via simdutf - file: and link: dependencies in package.json now supported - OTel console exporter + HTTP span attributes on metrics - 30+ Node compat fixes github.com/denoland/den...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Presented without comment. youtu.be/TQJikeuFETU

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

Don't ever take this site or anything it publishes seriously. It is actively looking to hire people who hate Starfleet Academy to write about it. As of 8 pm on 10.3.2026, this is live on LinkedIn. Ask me again why I think the anti-SFA sentiment is manufactured. #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

There are a lot of Bad People out there, but Sam Altman might be the scariest

For the love of all things holy i am begging you please stop bringing the worst fucking takes imaginable from twitter and posting them here for clout.

Reminder that Paramount Skydance needs approval from Trump's minions to buy Warner Bros. Yesterday, its subsidiary CBS banned Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with TX Democrat James Talarico. Larry Ellison is sucking up to Trump by turning his media empire into MAGA propaganda.

This is monstrous. ICE can't be reformed, it must be dismantled and its thugs prosecuted for their crimes against humanity.

This mid-afternoon Alex Pretti vigil at the Portland VA was not heavily promoted. But the crowd probably stretches a quarter mile or more. Americans are galvanized and grieving.

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

It's sickening that folks who don't have a pot to piss in are the only ones that can save us from all of this. The powerful, rich and politically influential will continue to remain silent in their comfy castles on the hill. Nobody is coming to help us.

The Economist coverage is grim but this is exactly how it should be reported. economist.com/united-state...

Thrilled to announce chapter 09 of the Rust Lambda book. In this one, we cover all things observability. If you're struggling to really understand your serverless applications, this one's the one for you. @loige.co 👀 #serverless #rust #rustlang rust-lambda.com

Love this.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

Are we at that point yet where the leaders of the remaining civilized countries finally step in and take away the keys? Please?

Trump’s America, you get executed for disrespecting ICE, Fed Chairs get threatened with criminal indictments if they don’t lower interest rates, and our closest allies for decades are threatened with invasion. We are in a dark place, a place some of us very much expected.

Hey, CBP isn't allowed to do any of the stuff it's doing in Minneapolis even within the confines of its extremely ridiculous "100 miles from any border" jurisdiction. It's 300 miles from Canada and 160 miles to Lake Superior. They're breaking the law standing around, let alone beating up protesters.

If you're in the SF bay area I hope to see you there The Unseen Internet with Shira Chess This panel include[s] several people interviewed for the book: Paco Nathan Mark Pesce R.U. Sirius Erik Davis Friday, January 9, 2026 7:00 PM at Alembic in Berkeley www.berkeleyalembic.org/events

Mike turning out to be a Butthole Surfers fan was not on my bingo card.

Today in The December Comfort Watches: This is Spinal Tap. Because it's one of the funniest movies of all time, and I think Rob Reiner would want us to remember to feel joy, even, and especially, when surrounded by sadness. whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/15/t...

These are the sorts of people who should be permanently shunned from civil society. Let it be known we have no place for you and they have to live with that shame all of their days...

Was off social media all day, only just heard the news. Predictably, The Harder They Come was my introduction. You Can Get It If You Really Want has itself so deeply embedded in my memories it will just pop in my head at the slightest nudge. Such a magical voice and timeless songs. RIP Jimmy.

Hmmm…what USAID wasn’t bad for America…what if getting rid of it only hurt us and everyone else? What if the richest man in the world being responsible for ending aid to the poorest people in the world will go down as one of the most bizarre and disgusting acts of the 21st century?

Hi, it's me again. I'm reposting this today because a whole lot of people who saw this yesterday told me they appreciated it. Know this: I believe in you. If you need permission to have some quiet space for yourself, here it is. <3

Latest rabbit hole I've gone down: having Claude Code help me clean up and fine tune my Home Assistant configuration. Got through the basics and now it's moved into the "let's see what we can come up with next!" phase.

Things that not every product needs: - push notifications - chat - a perky AI assistant Jus’ sayin