Roxy Light

Hey @1password.bsky.social, longtime customer here: stop giving your money to fascists.

Wrote a little #golang blog post about a trick for reducing repetition in error-handling: www.zombiezen.com/blog/2026/07...

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

On the last day of Pride Month, happy Trans Pride, now and forever and ever and ever, Amen.

Somebody's tailnet is going to be named rainbow-pride.ts.net github.com/tailscale/ta...

I'm gonna start a cinema club where our goal is to watch Christopher Nolan films in formats that would piss him off

Happy Pride month! ☺️

apppl: a pen plotter programming language? (here running @robpike.io's ivy)

Wow. The latest episode of The Backdrop is about Jon Favreau's career and the state of the film industry — especially as it pertains to Disney and generative imagery. It hits hard. Really recommend. youtu.be/IlJ4UrpXJ9U (Disclaimer: I support Second Wind on Patreon.)

The OG Red vs Blue

Tiny caged amongus...

software engineering is about two things: - when to use sqlite - when to use postgres

Finally back to zb development again. I've got a design I'm happy with for remote caching, and now I'm slowly rewriting the build backend to support it.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... The Starless Expanse bundle is now available! Explore the worlds of Riven and Outer Wilds in this monumental bundle. We're humbled to be bundled with one of the games that inspired a generation of game developers. store.steampowered.com/bundle/72377...

Oh hey, I just realized with Go's generics, there's a new nice way of creating a type that is a pointer to a fixed set of types: go.dev/play/p/bvV3e...

xml is kiki json is bouba

Happy Trans Day of Visibility ❤️🏳️‍⚧️❤️

have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you.

Over eight million Americans took to the streets today, which makes No Kings 3 the biggest single day of protest in the history of our country. #NoKings

Gift link: www.theverge.com/report/90181...

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

Fun fact: when I was first prototyping Wire, I called it "goose" as a pun on Guice. I don't have access to the original doc, but I believe this is the photo I included in my first writeup. Here it is: the goose/Wire goose.

SQLite PSA sqlite.org/releaselog/3... sqlite.org/wal.html#wal...

Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it yet, is one of the best games of all time. It's a fun space exploration game with a timeloop twist, and 90% of all game progress happens in your head, as you learn things about the universe and your situation. Absolutely play it if you haven't yet.

I am beginning to suspect there is more to life than filling out customer satisfaction surveys.

25 years of All Your Base! deathgenerator.com#zerowing

Played Chants of Sennaar over the weekend. Fun little game! Loved the art, puzzles were fun, and a neat little story about connecting people.

“Go 1.26 is released” by Carlos Amedee, on behalf of the Go team — https://go.dev/blog/go1.26 #golang

$ jj describe -m "Hello, world!"

I was going to ask y'all to donate to @signal.org but I had to do it first. Now that I have, please consider learning about Signal, and why privacy is important, even when you don't have anything to hide, then consider donating to help Signal continue their work. signal.org/donate

I'm finishing my first week working at ngrok today. I'm excited to be looking at new challenges in dev tooling.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

Making smol games in Godot has been a happy place for me for the last couple years. It's really easy to bang something out, try out an idea, play with things. I'm glad making interactive art has gotten so much more accessible.

My GopherCon lightning talk on the Lua interpreter I built for zb is now up! #golang youtu.be/BVLgLZ6_ZHo

This has been a really cool year for mystery/puzzle games. I liked Blue Prince, Seance of Blake Manor, and Type Help. All of them nail their atmosphere perfectly.

I've been trying out Jujutsu for developing zb the last couple weeks. I'm impressed at how robust it is and how well it improves my workflow of lots of small, focused commits.

I applaud the PSF for standing firmly on principles.

co-signed. a robot might be able to type rote code faster than me, but *typing speed* is not the limiting factor in my effectiveness as a software engineer, and never has been. *understanding* the code (and the pre-existing human and computational systems it interacts with) is the hard part.

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...