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Ed White @edfff.com · 19/10/2025

Visiting DC and came to see this quote at the Jefferson Memorial. I had seen it online once, it resonated with me then, but it especially resonates today as we see the system under obvious strain. Glad for an opportunity to see it in person.

A quote at the Jefferson Memorial, written in copper embeds white granite, green stains showing the age, that reads: “I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind as that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made. New truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors.”

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 15/07/2025

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 06/07/2025

▶️ im_on_a_boat-lonely_boys.mp3

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Ed White @edfff.com · 15/06/2025

I got about the perfect Father’s Day gift from @dallasnagata.bsky.social

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Golden State Worrier @cheesegod.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Finally a show about Boolean logic operators

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Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 08/11/2024

Lmk what you think

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Ed White @edfff.com · 24/05/2025

Found the drinking hole for Junior Programmers!

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Ed White @edfff.com · 04/05/2025

Finally understand enough about type systems (functional knowledge) and Haskell (just enough) to fully understand "parse, don't validate." The idea is simple tho: Attach type system information at the system boundary so those invariants can be reused! lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11...

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Parse, don’t validate

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Laurens @laurenshof.online · 03/05/2025

a network thats split up into separate and independent components that can be reused by other parties is just so fucking cool especially now that were at the point these components can be chained together: you can take blacksky's relay, feed it into appviewlite, and connect that to deer

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Ed White @edfff.com · 29/04/2025

My son insists on using a kid’s toothbrush like he has at preschool, though we got him an electric one. Last night we’re brushing teeth together and suddenly he starts insisting on the electric one. I ask why and he hits me with “I want to be like you, daddy!” for the first time. Still feeling it.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 27/04/2025

Working on the seasoning to our wok this morning. Between the hammered carbon steel and the strokes of seasoning oil, it looks like a rustic painting!

A carbon steel wok held up against a blue background. The wok’s seasoning has a deep copper color that looks like brush strokes and clouds which give the pan a rustic, painterly feel.

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

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Ed White @edfff.com · 31/03/2025

This has surely been done before, but I just came up with this local dad joke and got a laugh out of @dallasnagata.bsky.social Knock Knock Who’s there? Chee (You know the rest 😂)

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Nikolai Svakhin @nikolai3d.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Why do programmers prefer Dark mode? Because the light attracts bugs

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Ed White @edfff.com · 22/02/2025

Bought some food weights that weren’t available on Amazon, and was reminded how nice it is to get stuff from smaller passion project businesses. This was a nice surprise!

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Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

My New Year’s Resolution for 2025 is to make a website. Like, not a blog or a professional site but a geocities-style Web Site with like, pages and stuff. Topic tdb. I think I need like… accountability partners? Does anyone want to… make sites?

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Ed White @edfff.com · 29/12/2024

Strawberry-Raspberry Lassi!

Hand holding a creamy pink beverage in a clear double-walled glass cup with a glass straw, held against a blue wall to contrast the warm tones of the drink.

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Dallas Nagata White @dallasnagata.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

My son, the random password generator.

Various colorful wooden alphabet and number magnets on a stainless steel refrigerator door, spelling out “vm-4VOUkZ
GIC93z2Ryu”

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Ed White @edfff.com · 29/12/2024

Stencil warning anticipating my intrusive thought when finding a random minigun.

Photo of a decommissioned cobra helicopter turret, which still has a six-barrel minigun installed, with a stenciled sign that says “warning gun will fire if rotated by hand.”

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Ed White @edfff.com · 28/12/2024

Making some future gauzy memories

A stack of three Polaroids with warm-tinted images of a young boy and girl frolicking in in gentle surf along Oahu’s northeastern shore.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 23/12/2024

Another misconception: That speciation is slow and that gene barriers are strong. The last portion of this podcast talks about speciation in the Galapagos after an invasive fly decimated a population of finches, happening within a human lifetime and it’s *fascinating* youtu.be/v_2LAtQKzNU?...

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Galápagos | Radiolab Podcast

YouTube video by Radiolab

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Ed White @edfff.com · 22/12/2024

Spent the morning at Sea Life Park, a new experience for the kids! The displays were a big success, letting the kids get up close and personal with a bunch of interesting creatures.

A photo where the left third is a young boy with his face right up against a plexiglass barrier, and the other two thirds is a tall aquarium display teeming with fish, giving the sense that the boy is peering into a barely contained ocean.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 21/12/2024

I really don’t understand how my kids manage to exude so much cool. Even the baby knows how to work a prop for a photo. Must be @dallasnagata.bsky.social’s influence.

Black and white photo of the moment a baby tips a cowboy hat, obscuring his eyes mysteriously and highlighting a steely expression of determination.

A baby holds the brim of a cowboy hat, gazing pensively directly into the camera lens with a look that says he knows what must be done.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 18/12/2024

Giving a talk on AI/ML for Designers, a la @wattenberger.com’s “hard and soft” essay, so not “how to use AI tools to help with design” but instead “how to reason about AI as a design solution.” I’m struggling with a title because “AI/ML in UX” is too vague. Ideas? wattenberger.com/thoughts/har...

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Bridging the hard and the soft

User interfaces (UIs) are the connections between us — soft, adaptable humans — and the hard, deterministic world of data and machines. Historically, these interfaces have been rigid. With the rise of...

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Ed White @edfff.com · 15/12/2024

“We ought to only read books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place? […] What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune.” - Franz Kafka Mouthwashing lived up to the hype.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 14/12/2024

Getting to the point in my life that there’s a lot of kid birthdays, and I have a lot of girls in my life despite spawning boys. Lucky Javi! I try to find gifts that reflect their interests but nudge towards STEM. Today was dinosaurs! Fun challenge to fit constraint while respecting her femininity.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 02/12/2024

I made the mistake of commenting on politics, so I’ll say this: I don’t like politics. I’m anti-partisan, believe in horseshoe theory, and care more about facts than winning. If your first reaction is to filter info through a partisan lens, I’ll probably piss you off, so don’t follow me please.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 02/12/2024

This bear’s expression is sending me. Very “I just woke up and this is too much” energy.

Cropped-in image from the quote skeet of a Sun Bear with brows raised, eyes wide, and mouth slack, in an unmistakable expression of being overwhelmed.

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Dallas Nagata White @dallasnagata.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Took the kids to the Honolulu Zoo today, also took my camera and actually took some photos! The ʻaukuʻu is my favorite.

The black-crowned night heron, also known as the ʻaukuʻu, standing on a log sounding by shallow water. The water is reflecting blue sky and green plants.

A Malayan Sun Bear, sitting in front of a log covered with a palm branch. There is a tire on the ground to the left, and a stack of short logs and plastic toys in the foreground. To the right of the bear is a bunch of long green grass.

A fennec fox sleeping up on a rock shelf in a zoo enclosure. There is sand, a waterbowl, and a blue tube, along with another rock wall, visible in the out of focus background.

A male peacock standing inside a stand of bushes and bamboo, with a blown-out sidewalk in bright sunlight visible behind it.

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neutral @neutral.zone · 02/12/2024

You can just add “space” to any word or phrase to make it sci/fi, just like you can add “cyber” to make anything sci/fi. That’s why cyberspace is so powerful: it’s double sci/fi.

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Roscoe Rubin-Rottenberg @knotbin.com · 01/12/2024

This. I've thought about this a ton, and I've come to firmly believe the solution to AI scraping lies in legal, not technical, measures. Adding limitations to who can access websites undermine the fundamental principles of the open web. When you lock AI out of the web, you end up locking up the web.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 01/12/2024

ESLint Rule: Only const moose

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Ed White @edfff.com · 01/12/2024

Pretty sure my kid exudes much more cool than I ever did. 📍Kaka’ako Waterfront Park

A toddler turns back to the camera, peeking over his sunglasses, waves crashing over a break and into an open-ocean swimming pool at the bottom of the stairs behind him. The photo is edited to be reminiscent of 90s film photography.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 01/12/2024

Made some Agua de Flor de Jamaica!

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 29/11/2024

nice! we are going to need to get a Lexicon style guide going soon... a couple notes off the top of head

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Ed White @edfff.com · 26/11/2024

A fellow /r/Hawaii mod and SWE’s 8 year old has requested a gaming rig for Christmas. Instead of a 40XX-based machine, I’m trying to convince him to get an rPi 5 and a copy of “Code the Classics.” It can technically do 4k gaming! (He may put this under the tree then unveil the PC after 😂)

An RGB-lit aluminum and plexiglass raspberry pi case, that resembles a high-end gaming PC

Cover of the book “Code the Classics” with characters alluding to several early video games such as Pong and Centipede bursting from a portal.

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 25/11/2024

now you can run `npm install bluesky-comments` to use bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! thanks @coryzue.com 🙌

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Emily Liu @emilyliu.me · 25/11/2024

By popular request, here's how to add Bluesky replies as your blog's comment section! This requires some technical know-how for now, but I'm hoping that we see some no-code solutions for this pop up soon, like Ghost or Wordpress plugins. emilyliu.me/blog/comments

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Using Bluesky posts as blog comments

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Ed White @edfff.com · 25/11/2024

My son is really into (Hot Wheels-type) cars, and @dallasnagata.bsky.social has now introduced him to the real versions of his toy monster trucks via YouTube, and gotta say I’m actually really impressed by the skill on display, especially using the big wheel physics to maneuver in mid-air!

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Ed White @edfff.com · 23/11/2024

I miss this internet. I like BlueSky because it feels more like this internet. youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E

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Weezer - Pork And Beans

YouTube video by WeezerVEVO

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Dallas Nagata White @dallasnagata.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Happy #AlohaFriday! Did you know that Casual Fridays evolved from Aloha Fridays? In the 1960s, the Hawaiian Fashion Guild campaigned to have employers let men wear aloha shirts to work on Fridays to support Hawaii’s garment industry. By 1970, aloha attire became everyday business wear in Hawaii!

Manaola Hawaii, 2018. Photograph by Dallas Nagata White of a young man wearing a blue aloha shirt and khaki shorts, sitting on a rock shelf next to the ocean with mountains and palm trees in the background.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 20/11/2024

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back. So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!) More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

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Building Bluesky: a Distributed Social Network (Real-World Engineering Challenges)

Bluesky is built by around 10 engineers, and has amassed 5 million users since publicly launching in February this year. A deep dive into novel design decisions, moving off AWS, and more.

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Ed White @edfff.com · 21/11/2024

Another thing is back from the old Twitter that I’m not nearly as nostalgic about: The follow-unfollow growth hack. I like to *actually* connect with *people* on a human level, so I don’t really do the follow-back thing anymore for exactly this reason—gotta talk and engage first!

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Dallas Nagata White @dallasnagata.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Congratulations on being over capacity, @bsky.app! A throwback to a bygone era, updated for our new home, made by me as requested by @edfff.com.

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 20/11/2024

Metaphor is my game of the year. i asked director Hashino a very specific question. He replied, “To be honest, you asked a question that really hits the core. I’ve done many interviews, and I haven’t had a question like this.” www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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Review | The year’s smartest game asks: Is civil democracy just a fantasy?

“Metaphor: ReFantazio” is the most audacious, exciting video game story of the year as it chronicles the birth of democracy.

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ScandyAndy @scandyandy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Here's an article as a gift in case in non-subscribers want to read. And if you love it, do consider signing up through the gift link. The fact that Gene has a job to do this at WaPo is amazing. wapo.st/4fTJRX7

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Review | The year’s smartest game asks: Is civil democracy just a fantasy?

“Metaphor: ReFantazio” is the most audacious, exciting video game story of the year as it chronicles the birth of democracy.

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