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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 22/06/2026

I’ll probably continue bouncing between Gleam, Zig and Odin (gonna take this project much further before doing much more with Zig or Odin though). Posting on bsky… maybe :) I’m bad about using these social apps in general haha

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/02/2026

defer in Zig is the most underrated feature in systems programming Readable cleanup > clever destructors

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 19/02/2026

This is a very different side of you 😂

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/11/2025

... and yet, I fish by Canadian Softball is a wild ride.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/11/2025

Been using jj for a week now for personal projects and I think im finally figuring out a workflow that I like enough to start using it for the day job as well. Feels good.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/11/2025

I think Im technically a Zig folk and my only gripe about Rust is that it didnt click for me soon enough. I love the Rust folks and I feel like they've done a ton for setting expectations around how a programming community should be.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/10/2025

The MCP server for this is gonna be wild

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/10/2025

Ah gotcha. I could imagine usecases for a stove but a toilet? Forgot to flush and now you’re too far away to go back? Toilet mobile app time!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 21/10/2025

What does your toilet do that requires a connection to the Internet?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 14/10/2025

Quick response verifies my theory ❤️ Now that I have your attention though, I just want to say that I appreciate the perspectives you share on Fallthrough! You’re an excellent addition to the panel imo.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 13/10/2025

Flutter is a fantastic platform, but it needs better stewardship than Google imo. Flutter web still feels like alpha software

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 13/10/2025

@steveklabnik.com fallthough claims you’re chronically online, is that true?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 12/10/2025

Jokes aside, this type of stuff drives me crazy too. No one understands one’s feelings better than oneself.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 12/10/2025

You feel entitled to how you feel.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 12/10/2025

It’s difficult because it doesn’t seem like a great differentiator for companies, but I’d much rather visit stores and restaurants that don’t make me do this type of junk just to reserve a table

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 12/10/2025

You have to join Outback Steakhouse’s mailing list just to join the waitlist for a table if you do it online.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/10/2025

The onion or not, the Ruben is one of my favorite sandwiches

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/10/2025

Fun little thing with the new Reader/Writer interfaces in Zig. Streaming the contents of a Reader into a Writer while omitting the line that starts with a value (`self.value`). Feels clean to me, but I'm ready to be humbled. is there a better way?

$An image of zig code with the following syntax: pub fn deleteBookmark( self: Bookmark, writer: *std.Io.Writer, reader: std. Io. Reader, ) while (!std.mem.eqlu8, reader.peek(self.value.len), self.value)) reader. streamDelimiter(writer, "\n"); reader streamRemaining (writer); }$

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 08/10/2025

This is my Zig trick of the week. Doing this in your main or root.zig will make sure that when you run zig build test, all of your tests will run (some exceptions apply -- tests inside of a struct for example). zig build test not running all tests drove me crazy. Here's my fix.

An image of code in the Zig programming language. The file assumes to be a main.zig or root.zig with the key element being a test block at the bottom of the file who's only line of code is std.testing.refAllDecls(@This());

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/10/2025

I've been exploring Microzig lately and... tbh, the documentation is a little lacking. Have you built anything cool with Microzig? I'd love to help catalog your blogposts/videos/tutorials/etc! Lemme know!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/10/2025

You can do it cheaper than $18/month too if you’re just getting started.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/10/2025

Damn, that’s more than a 185! (And way better than anything I bowl). Nice job!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 05/10/2025

What state are you in, John?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 04/10/2025

He’s experiencing appeasing the borrow checker for the first time.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 01/10/2025

Syntax does a monthly potluck. I wouldn’t do them too much more often than that, but I definitely thinking rotating those in could be a nice change of pace :) Good luck with your PHP 😄

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 30/09/2025

@fallthrough.fm latest episode is one of my favorite. Really nice chat with Kris and Matt about a ton of relevant topics. I agree with the Gophercon sentiment. It felt off this year and that was a bummer.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 20/09/2025

Whoa that is interesting. I don’t see a way for us to model requirements about a buffer’s size at comptime though so it seems like you’re correct. I guess zstd throw an assertion error is useful, but really only in debug mode. Have you filed an issue yet?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 16/09/2025

Would you mind sharing a repo or keeping me updated on progress? I learn best from examples and feel that @proto is really something special so I’d like to build for it, too.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 16/09/2025

To this day I’ve still never written an orm either. Hibernate is such an overcomplicated piece of software. Enterprise Java at its finest

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 13/09/2025

From tamer ideas such as chemtrails to wild ideas such as birds not being real, I find the things people believe to be fascinating haha

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 11/09/2025

Weirdly enough, I took a similar one the other day

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 11/09/2025

Shoeyyyy! I am already tired of typing this. 😆

Zig code using the new pattern for writing to standard out. Involves creating a buffer, creating. stdout writer, and grabbing the interface from the writer to get a handle to stdout.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 10/09/2025

Both audio streams will play at the same time. I’m sure there’s a usecase for that, but I do wish that behavior was configurable

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 10/09/2025

So my airpods "seamlessly" switched between devices (which means they didnt do it seamlessly and were a pain in the ass) but my Sony XM5s can connect to multiple devices at the same time. Stop music on one device, start music on the next and it works perfectly.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 10/09/2025

When I first started programming, I wanted to build an ORM to learn more about how they work and to have built an ORM (of course). I started looking at how Hibernate works because I was mostly writing Java and Holy Cow, I am shocked none of my peers stopped me and suggested literally any alternative

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 30/08/2025

“What if they have JS disabled?” JS is the least of your problems. I’m out here trying to figure out how to disable HTML when I visit your site

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 29/08/2025

That worked! Thank you! This sounds like a really cool project and I’m looking forward to seeing more as you build it out!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 28/08/2025

I had an awesome time at Gophercon and am so grateful to the new connections made! Thank you all; I’ll see ya’ next time!

“Welcome Gophers” sign. The sign itself is an illustration of Gophers in New York doing stereotypical New York things. For example, a Gophers is driving a taxi, there is a billboard for the Broadway play “Wicked” but the characters have been replaced with Gophers.

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 28/08/2025

That sounds fascinating! Is it open source?

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 28/08/2025

Have you built something on @atproto.com ? I wanna know what you’ve built!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 27/08/2025

Great work! Cybersecurity is more prevalent now than ever!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 27/08/2025

It’s Gophercon time! If you’re at the conference and see me, please stop me and say hello! I’d love to catch up!

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 17/08/2025

Hey, thanks for sharing this and I’m glad you enjoyed me sharing a bit about F# !

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Brad Cypert @bradcypert.com · 09/08/2025

I had the delightful opportunity to talk with Loris Cro (VP of Community, Zig Software Foundation) about Zig’s upcoming reintroduction of Async into the language. I was a bit skeptical of the implementation, but my conversation with Loris left me very excited! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9wW...

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The Zig Async IO Interview with Loris Cro, VP Community at Zig Software Foundation

YouTube video by Code With Cypert

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