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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 29/09/2026

Can I gush about an app for a minute? I have to do some light video editing every now and then, but not often enough to learn the complex UIs of non-linear video editors, or to find just the right ffmpeg call. But @adhami's app Footage is just perfectly scoped. It does just the things I need […]

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 28/09/2026

I love working somewhere where you can suggest doing something good and people don't immediately look at you like you're naïve and don't know how the world works.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 24/09/2026

As my brother's a comedian, I'm somewhat used to see him show up on TV or go viral or something. But for some reason one of the coolest places seeing him show up was in one of the clues of my daily crossword.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 23/09/2026

Fun milestone: the first time a friend complained about a Firefox issue to me, and I was able to fix it for them 🙂

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 18/09/2026

@plwt Love Signal, it mostly strikes just the right balance to get as much privacy as possible in the hands of as many people as possible. And they've survived a leadership change without sacrificing their values, which gives hope for the future.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 15/08/2026

Someone posted their first two minutes of using the Temu app on here, and I've had multiple robe times now thef I wanted to show it to people. Anybody can help me find it?

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 12/08/2026

"What LLM model is best" must be some of the most boring discourse in tech in a long time. It's not just people lobbing unverifiable anecdotes at each other, but even the anecdotes are outdated in months.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 29/07/2026

Dutch people don't take nearly enough advantage of our excellent infrastructure for roller skating.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 27/06/2026

My timeline is full of people asking about the goose egg memes, but the memes in question are few and far between, and I'm sad about that.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 16/06/2026

I now officially have contributed code to Firefox with the release of version 152! It was just a minor change, but after over four years of working at Mozilla, I'm still happy to have finally achieved that milestone.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 12/06/2026

RE: mamot.fr/@pascalchevrel/11673321824… > Mozilla is still a place where a motivated contributor can find a corner of the project, do meaningful work, and have a real impact — without needing to be a browser engineer or a Mozilla insider.

mamot.fr

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 25/05/2026

On the one hand, I'm frustrated that I've put it off for so long. On the othet hand, I'm reminded why I put it off for so long.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 25/05/2026

I would've gone to bed on time, if it weren't for the multi-hour exercise that is booking a train trip to Sweden, even with an Interrail pass 😭

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 20/05/2026

How long until Google offers an API to sell your products directly from the Google Search/AI UI? Free at first; later for a mere 30% cut, of course.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 17/05/2026

I just crossed Germany by train and suffered no delays, AMA.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 11/05/2026

It's a bit hard to see because it's still a small percentage, but as far as I can see, the share of Linux use among Firefox users is growing steadily: data.firefox.com/dashboard/hardware… #Linux #Firefox

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 06/05/2026

1. Take a funny event. 2. Describe the event in a limerick. 3. It is now even funnier.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 23/04/2026

For me, I switched from Git to Jujutsu. The funny thing is: I was very comfortable with Git, and even wrote a visual tutorial on it for people who were familiar with it already. agripongit.vincenttunru.com Still, Jujutsu's neat, though it's hard to describe exactly why. There are just a […]

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 23/04/2026

What's the most exciting software engineering thing you recently spent time learning... That isn't AI?

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 14/04/2026

Just sitting in the middle of Amsterdam listening to the general soundscape, and I'm reminded that cities aren't noisy, cars ar— actually, at max 30 km/h and mostly electric, the couple of cars here aren't too bad. #Urbanism

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 13/04/2026

And if any conference organisers are reading this: please let people self-identify as being open to talking to new people! I don't mind walking up to existing conversations too much, except if I'm potentially intruding into an existing in-group, like colleagues or friends visiting together.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 13/04/2026

Anyone going to Smashing Conf Amsterdam this week: I'm going too, and I'm going solo, so if anyone's up for meeting new people, hit me up! #SmashingConf #SmashingConfAMS

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 08/04/2026

I thought I'd learned quite a bit about accessible interfaces over the years, but @darice just demonstrated the many ways in which we're failing people with hearing impairments. One can only hope that the Gen Z/Millennial dislike of phone calls will help improve things somewhat.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 07/04/2026

@xeiaso.net Every time I feel like now I've *really* seen all variations of the trolley problem meme, another hilarious version graces my eyes.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 02/04/2026

I'm contributing code to Firefox, and I can just use Temporal. It's amazing.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 24/03/2026

Help, I've forgotten how to Git. JJ is nice though. #Jujutsu

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 23/03/2026

So this is interesting/ominous. Next.js has added tools aimed specifically at making it easier for LLM coding agents to work with the framework. They state: > it points toward a future where agents can debug and optimize apps with the same visibility as a developer. However, it's starting to […]

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 10/03/2026

Today in Naming Things is Hard: Two new organisations, otherwise unrelated, but both in an area of interest to me. There's the @modal Collective (modal.cx), and there's the Modal Foundation (www.modalfoundation.org). Clearly modal things are à la mode.

modal.cx

Modal Collective

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 05/03/2026

This is probably still one of my spiciest engineering takes: vincenttunru.com/100-percent-covera… Surprisingly, I've had most pushback from people considering this *too lax*. For some reason, people really want to see the "true" coverage numbers, as if those are meaningful.

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If you measure test coverage, aim for 100%

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 04/03/2026

I still haven't quite internalised that, in English, an X is pronounced like a Z when it's the first letter of a word.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 04/03/2026

Fun fact: I spent years contributing to Xubuntu before learning how it was pronounced.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 09/02/2026

Karaoke is a great example of how a lack of privacy influences people's behaviour. It's way more fun when everyone feels free to make a fool of themselves, but try doing that with a camera trained on you.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 26/01/2026

I spent the day working at the library, and though I already knew, I'm feeling it even stronger now: what an amazing place. I'm glad they still exist.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 21/01/2026

Most of the time, I'm actually fairly happy with the state of the frontend ecosystem. These are not such times.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 15/01/2026

Guys, guys, hear me about. What if... Micro$lop. Too much?

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 14/01/2026

Look at this poor man literally *begging* us to stop using the term slop. Keep using it, that'll teach him!

Excerpt from Satya Nadella's blog post, highlighting his only mention of the term "slop", saying: "We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication".

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 14/01/2026

Remember when we consistently spelled it Micro$oft? Not only was that ruthless humiliation incredibly clever, but as we all know, it eventually brought us the year of the Linux Desktop. Now if we just stick with Microslop a little longer, then I'm sure Satya Nadella will course correct any day now.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 11/01/2026

I love that you can be a gatekeeping grumpy old man about memes now. What a time to be alive.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 11/01/2026

I love that Rickrolling is still a thing. They don't make memes like that anymore.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 03/01/2026

The boiling frog metaphor may or may not be an urban legend, but I'm pretty sure the boiling Vincent metaphor is 100% true. In fact, I'd gradually turn up the water to boiling temperature myself if only my shower would cooperate.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 08/12/2025

Dear GitHub, I understand that this is a challenge, but could you at least show me, like, 5 or 10 files at a time? Just the prospect of pressing "Next file" hundreds of times is daunting already, let alone properly reviewing them.

Screenshot of a warning: "Due to the large number of changes in this pull request, only one file is being shown at a time."

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 04/12/2025

Has anyone figured out how to run Home Manager on Fedora Silverblue yet? I've been unsuccessful so far and would appreciate some pointers. #Fedora #Silverblue #HomeManager #Nix #NixOS

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 17/11/2025

I kinda wish someone printed these as stickers for people to stick onto oversized SUVs as a guerilla campaign. @fuckcars @citylife #SafeStreets #Urbanism #VisionZero

AI-generated picture of a taped body outline as seen on crime scenes, except it's on the front of an SUV. It's the size of a small child.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 11/11/2025

Sure the headings might consist of images with purple-on-purple text with an empty alt attribute, but luckily the AI made sure to make this website accessible by shoving this menu in there. (Of course, it's not actually marked up as a menu. And the browser's […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Screenshot of a dropdown labelled "Accessibility", containing entries to change the font size, reduce animations, switch to dark mode, and increase contrast.

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 06/11/2025

21st century life skill: Whenever you feel outraged, ask yourself: "am I just being used as fuel for the engagement machine?"

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Vincent Tunru @bsky.vincenttunru.com · 03/11/2025

Everyone keeps arguing about how to pronounce GIF, but you know what? You're all wrong. Here's how the Dutch pronounce it. (This is not a joke — this is actually how we pronounce it.)

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