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The Indiana Jones of Web Archeology

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Rob Palmer @robpalmer.bsky.social · 13h
ECMAScript excitement 😉 Congrats to @nicr.dev on advancing `export defer` to Stage 2.7 at @tc39.es today 🎉 It is a performance feature that permits lazy evaluation of re-exported bindings. It is useful for reducing the cost of partially-used barrel files 👍
export defer { y } from "mod1";
export defer { z } from "mod2";
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 25/09/2026
Even living in Manhattan for decades, I never expected that one day, for absolutely no good reason, ECTO-1 will be parked on the street It must be spooky season 👻 And I ain't afraid of no ghost
ETCO-1 in NYC
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Rude1 Haunted Badness. ⁂ @rude1.blacksky.team · 23/09/2026
> The Mozilla Foundation isn't holding back its disdain for Big Tech leaders. > Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do. AT Protocol and the broader open social web is one of the ways we take back power from Big Tech. (If you see me out in these New York City streets, let me know.)
Photo of Elon musk on blue paper.
"Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place"Photo of Rudy on orange paper.
"Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots.""Wannabe kings don't rule the internet. We do."
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 23/09/2026
🪾 If a tree falls in the forest, & no one is around to hear it: does it make a sound? 🧮 If a mathematical problem is solved with certainty, & no one gains a deeper understanding: was it truly solved? 🧵 How Alan Turing got to Turing machines is why it matters www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/s...
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Mathematics Isn’t Just a Game to Let A.I. Solve. History Shows Why. (Gift Article)
In our field of applied mathematics, the long, human process of trial and error — not just the solutions themselves — is often what has led to progress.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 16/09/2026
TFW @theonion.com headlines become reality www.cnn.com/2026/09/15/p...
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Kash Patel defends removing bestiality as automatic disqualifier for FBI applicants | CNN Politics
FBI Director Kash Patel’s decision to remove bestiality as an automatic disqualifier for FBI job applicants drew bipartisan disbelief Tuesday after he said the change was intended to protect trafficki...
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 16/09/2026
GIFs became a defining part of the early web, including the ubiquitous “under construction” signs that marked unfinished pages. 🖥️ JD Shadel looks at what these fleeting images can teach us about preserving digital culture. 📚 Read for free or purchase in print: archive.org/details/vani... 🧵
Quote tile with a light grey background and black text. Headline reads: "What can an old GIF teach us about preserving digital culture?" Quote below reads: "As with a lot of things on the web, GIFs were everywhere until the moment they weren't." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Quote tile with a teal background and black text. Quote reads: "Early GIFs off GeoCities websites are really only accessible thanks to the work of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and the GifCities search engine." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Quote tile with an orange background and black text. Quote reads: "This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don't save it, even if it seems like it's everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear." Attributed to JD Shadel, Writer & Editorial Director. Vanishing Culture logo in the corner.Book cover titled “Vanishing Culture” on a teal background. Pixel-art style graphics show a VHS tape, open book, film reel, chain link, and vinyl record dissolving into digital fragments. At the bottom, a cursor icon points to the word “SAVE,” alongside an archive-style building icon, evoking digital preservation.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 15/09/2026
The risks presented by research like this cannot be ignored. It took over 5 months remediate 😱 The author shows how they reproduced signed thinking blocks from Opus 4.6 using novel (but trivial) metacognition to bypassed safety classifiers
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 13/09/2026
Where's an iconic film like "Dr. Strange love, or how I learned to love the bomb" when you need it?
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 11/09/2026
This is America.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 29/07/2026
⚰️ The npm registry as I knew it is officially dead. False positive rates for malware scanning are known to be astronomically high. That's because one attacker's malware is another developer's feature github.blog/changelog/20...
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npm publish-time malware scanning and dual-use metadata - GitHub Changelog
As part of our ongoing supply-chain security work, npm is introducing automatic scanning of packages at publish time. This changelog covers what publishers can expect and a new metadata requirement…
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 27/07/2026
You know you are having fun programming when you try to evoke emotions from a 404 page. Can't wait to release this one!
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 26/07/2026
Sorry Github. You will have to pry my open source repositories from my cold dead hands. The captain always goes down with the ship
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 10/07/2026
Why can't we just go back to IRC + DIDs + DNS? github.com/chad/freeq
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GitHub - chad/freeq: What if we could go back to using irc?
What if we could go back to using irc? Contribute to chad/freeq development by creating an account on GitHub.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 09/07/2026
Does anyone else miss Freenode?
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 04/07/2026
"A republic, if you can keep it ..." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/o...
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Opinion | Five Questions That Will Determine America’s Next 50 Years
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 02/07/2026
TIL how to control iOS with xcrun and ffmpeg 📲 🤓 I had to notice the pattern and tell the machine to do this This as a parable for what's to come: no matter how great our ability to automate becomes, all is lost if we lose curiosity along the way gist.github.com/indexzero/62...
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A closed loop set of deterministic scripts `claude` made itself to drive iOS simulator based testing using xcrun and ffmpeg
A closed loop set of deterministic scripts `claude` made itself to drive iOS simulator based testing using xcrun and ffmpeg - !ios-osascript
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 02/07/2026
This is everything right now
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 30/06/2026
We must not be afraid to visit on this Court the wisdom borne from what FDR taught to Charles Evan Hughes when he re-ascended to the bench as Chief Justice. The foundation of life in America being decided 6-3 is too damn close ✊ www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...
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Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Reject Trump’s Effort to End Birthright Citizenship
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 30/06/2026
The Republic will endure; but fuck we've got some work to do kids 😳 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...
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Supreme Court Mail Ballot Ruling Deals New Blow to Trump’s Election Plans
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 29/06/2026
How in the name of cartography can such a rare chance for the Watterman Butterfly to shine go overlooked? For shame Pottery Barn Kids, for shame
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 29/06/2026
It's official 😳 I have once again invented something I had no business inventing – release is imminent 🤞
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 19/06/2026
PROTIP: create a file named !{name} in your gists to workaround the horribad name Github assigns your gists when listing them
!actual-name file in gist
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 04/06/2026
TIL Zooko's triangle: when it comes to names for network protocols it's pick two: peer-to-peer (aka truly decentralized), secure, or human-meaningful It makes me wonder what our future will look like when "human-meaningful" includes "AI assisted lookups"
Zooko's Triangle
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 29/05/2026
When oligopolistic competition becomes the norm the peril is celebrated 😳 openmdw.ai
If you distribute any portion of the Model Materials, you shall retain in your distribution (1) a copy of this agreement, and (2) all copyright notices and other notices of origin included in the Model Materials that are applicable to your distribution.

If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in a lawsuit against any person or entity asserting that the Model Materials directly or indirectly infringe any patent or copyright, then all rights and grants made to you hereunder are terminated, unless that lawsuit was in response to a corresponding lawsuit first brought against you.
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James @43081j.com · 26/05/2026
released packumeta - a tiny set of utils for dealing with packuments. for now, mostly used to infer a "trust level" from a package version
npmx.dev
packumeta - npmx
A library to extract package metadata from npm registry documents
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 26/05/2026
the underlying force that has shaped my time on earth summed up in a single graph
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 23/05/2026
Buckle up. I think this is where the movie gets really interesting
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 15/05/2026
This is America. On so many levels. Here we come President Comacho
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 17/02/2026
I weep for humanity www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Critical thresholds for ice basin stability
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 05/02/2026
Ames expressed the popular security more wisely: "that [an autocracy] is a merchantman, which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; whilst a republic is a raft, which would never sink, but then your feet are always in water." Emerson, 1844, quoting Fisher Ames, 1795
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 02/01/2026
"We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try." — Zohran Kwame Mamdani Absolute 🔥 This is right up there with "We choose to [...] do [these] things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard" — John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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Martin Saveski @msaveski.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
New paper in Science: In a platform-independent field experiment, we show that reranking content expressing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in social media feeds alters affective polarization. 🧵
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants’ feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field experiment with 1256 participants on X during the 2024 US presidential campaign. Our experiment used a large language model to rerank posts that expressed antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity (AAPA). Decreasing or increasing AAPA exposure shifted out-party partisan animosity by more than 2 points on a 100-point feeling thermometer, with no detectable differences across party lines, providing causal evidence that exposure to AAPA content alters affective polarization. This work establishes a method to study feed algorithms without requiring platform cooperation, enabling independent evaluation of ranking interventions in naturalistic settings.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 26/11/2025
invisalgo is the anti-zalgo – the unicode code points the light forward but the truth lurks through the zalgo! slash u two zero zero slash u two zero six hallow be thy prefixes
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 26/11/2025
dear past me: the future is weird we have robot interns now github.com/indexzero/er...
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The year is 2026 and AggregateError (finally) exists by indexzero · Pull Request #15 · indexzero/errs
One night in 2011, I awoke and I had to write this package. Several hours later, it was published. ... nearly 15 years later ... when seeing AggregateError land in ES2026 the same needless urgency ...
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 26/11/2025
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 21/11/2025
I am one of the first 5,000 GitHub users, and I am disappoint 15 ago I submitted a change on M$FT Codeplex to the Prism project after using the framework at a large financial institution I was told that contributions were only accepted from M$FT employees. I never went to that website again ⬇️
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 18/11/2025
Thanks to Ken Burns TOL Boston was basically an island during the American Revolution
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 10/11/2025
What a long strange trip it's been 🐢🚀 Excited for what's cooking for 2027 🗽It won't be what's come before — and that's the point
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 07/11/2025
The Onion headlines are real life now, what a time to be alive www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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Jurors Find Sandwich Hurler Not Guilty of Assault
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 06/11/2025
The truth is always more interesting than a movie plot. What a fascinating relic of European History to come to light. I can't wait to go see it when it goes on display in Canada! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/a...
nytimes.com
The Florentine Diamond Resurfaces After 100 Years in Hiding
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 05/11/2025
For me, it's been New York or nowhere since Day 1 👶 and it always will be 🗽I always knew the people of New York would not bend the knee ✊ no matter what the fascist Oompa-Loompa-in-Chief lied to the contrary 🤡 and Mamdani's resounding victory backed by historic voter turnout is just the beginning 🇺🇸
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 04/11/2025
> Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use regexp", now you have two problems It's amazing how even after all that time, the Internet I have known & loved is there. And the most recent comment is the most perfect book end imaginable 🤓 regex.info/blog/2006-09...
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 30/10/2025
I knew speaking at @jsconf.bsky.social 2025 would be hard, because so much of what I had to talk about I learned from Mikeal Rogers – and am still learning even now. The goal of the talk was to tell part of that story, a story about how the web isn't finished, yet 💡 all-docs.talks.charlie.dev
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 24/09/2025
24 years ago I shipped my first piece of software from this building. Reflecting on that now the world and my life were set in motion in those weeks You see, two weeks later a pair of commercial airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center a few blocks away NY Forever 🗽
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 14/09/2025
Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 11/09/2025
Wait, does this mean that Captain Kirk is never born now?
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 10/09/2025
If humanity survives the next 200 years what we will be capable of is going to be absolutely jaw dropping scitechdaily.com/blood-vessel...
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Blood Vessels Found in T. rex Bones Rewrite What We Know About Dinosaurs
Researchers uncovered blood vessels in Scotty, the largest T. rex fossil. High-powered x-rays revealed mineralized tissues that deepen our understanding of dinosaur biology. Although much of modern pa...
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 05/08/2025
Truly you know it's bad when you think "yes, the lawyers will save us!" www.cnn.com/2025/08/04/p...
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New non-profit law firm in DC aims to challenge Trump’s executive power | CNN Politics
A group of well-known Washington lawyers is opening a law firm focused on challenging President Donald Trump’s executive orders and agency actions as he strives to dramatically reshape the federal gov...
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 07/07/2025
A long but important read. It turns out—unsurprisingly—the algorithms are to blame www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Column | Did Canada just change how we think of Trump’s 2024 election?
After spotting an odd symmetry between election maps of Canada, the U.S. and England, the Department of Data found one possible answer to the biggest mystery of the 2024 election.
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indexzero @charlie.dev · 20/06/2025
"It is really a passing of the era, not just a man" 💔 I cannot imagine my life had I not met Mikeal Rogers. I've said before that "JSConf changed my life" but behind the scenes there was always Mikeal.
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