Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 29/09/2026I guess that fan on the pi 5 was good for something after all 000
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 26/09/2026There's a kid on the playground named Diablo. New one for me. I wonder if they googled the meaning 010
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 23/09/2026Doing some Google Cloud stuff after years of mostly AWS. Seems like their UI has gotten a bit better! AWS is still terrible, but GCP used to be worse. 010
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 20/09/2026Almost had to fill in a missing minor report today. #FatherOfTheYear 150
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 19/09/2026My Sony TV was getting slow, and I was able to turn on developer mode and use adb to find bad behaving apps and uninstall them. Recommended! 020
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 12/09/2026Cute new server alert. HP proliant DL20. The internet said it was quiet. 100
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 12/09/2026Installed some quiet fans in the mikrotik switch. Peace has returned. #homelab #mikrotik #noctua 130
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 11/09/2026notion could be so nice if they weren't so cavalier with ux expectations and break things that should just work like copy-paste. good feature set but bad taste. 011
Reposted by Evert PotMatteo Collina @nodeland.dev · 08/09/2026Publishing a large monorepo of interdepent modules has become impossible with the new change on npm: the new scan thing delays every publishing substantially, and it does not recognize a batch. Maybe one should try doing a staged publishing and then do 15-20 clicks to approve them all? 382
Reposted by Evert PotGoodnews @goodnews.computer · 04/09/2026Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts. 895493548
Reposted by Evert Potjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/09/2026so unfair that you might be attacked for just wanting a white ethnostate anyway after like a decade plus of usage i canceled my @1password.bsky.social subscription and switched to apple passwords. took 15 minutes. 773090536
Reposted by Evert Potppk 🇪🇺 @quirksmode.org · 02/09/2026Fifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective. quirksmode.org/quirksblog/2...quirksmode.orginitial-scale no longer neededFifteen years ago I helped popularise the meta viewport width=device-width,initial-scale=1. Today I found out the second bit is no longer necessary. A retrospective. 16021
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 31/08/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cdw9WcTdyU The Real Villain of The Backrooms.youtube.com - YouTubeEnjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. 100
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 27/08/2026Out of the 10 companies on my resume, 4 still exist today. Only 1 has outlived my personal blog. It's nice to have a permanent record there of what I've been thinking/working on over the years because mostly all my commercial work has disappeared. 390
Reposted by Evert PotPirijan @pketh.org · 25/08/2026Your only career goal should be "How do I get a cool job where I'm just making a cool thing with cool people?" 1456
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 22/08/2026Rewatching muriels wedding for the first time in 25 years and didn't realize it was so good! #movies 010
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 21/08/2026My house lost power, and I'm on vacation. Turns out my NAS doesn't turn itself back on after power is restored 😭 030
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 20/08/2026je kan 'AH Bonus barcode'' googlen en als je niet een bij je hebt en dan krijg je 1 die werkt 000
Reposted by Evert Potluke karrys @lukekarrys.com · 20/08/2026not me getting called out by the admin 131
Reposted by Evert PotArtem Zakharchenko @kettanaito.com · 16/08/2026We made a huge mistake with the Fetch API. We brought it to the server. 1193
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 14/08/2026Airbnb should add a default field for internet bitrates in listings. 010
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 13/08/2026My dad lost some files on a microsd, and linux is so fun for data recovery. Just cp /dev/sda to a file, run 'strings' and pipe to grep and you're already well on your way. 000
Reposted by Evert PotJesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 12/08/2026“And you, you have the courage to ask me what impression the Eclipse made upon my spirit! It had such a strong effect on me that I was restless for three or four days and could not occupy myself with art.” -Ippolito Caffi, View of Venice with the Eclipse of July 8, 1842, c. 1843 (Private Collection) 2374128
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 04/08/2026At work I've been working on a safer, faster NPM mirror and place for teams to publish private packages. After roughly 8 months we're done! It's been a ride vlt.io #vlt #npmvlt.ioHome | vlt /vōlt/Package registries for teams that move fast 051
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 04/08/2026I wish wireguard would tell me if the connection is down instead of pretending its all good 000
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 29/07/2026Was curious why I've been getting more OOM errors recently, but just remembered I recently started some frontend work and have a Figma tab open 😅 120
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 28/07/2026As expected when npm starts blocking install scripts, malware just shifts to import-time. 174
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 28/07/2026Turns out #Hono quietely ignores HEAD routes and just rewrites them to GET unconditionally, explaining a pretty major performance bottleneck for us. hono.dev/docs/guides/best-practices… #hono #httphono.devBest Practices - HonoWeb framework built on Web Standards for Cloudflare Workers, Fastly Compute, Deno, Bun, Vercel, Node.js, and others. Fast, but not only fast. 111
Reposted by Evert PotAnil Dash @anildash.com · 27/07/2026Just 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. 862286643
Reposted by Evert Potvlt /vōlt/ @vlt.io · 26/07/2026The average node_modules has more contributors than most companies have employees. We just never see their faces. 1122
Reposted by Evert PotRyan Cavanaugh @searyanc.dev · 27/07/2026Insistently referring to correct and novel LLM outputs as merely being "answer-shaped" is such funny cope. Yeah this so-called paperclip factory doesn't actually produce paperclips, they're just paperclip-shaped pieces of metal wire that can only coincidentally fasten pieces of paper together 1017618
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 27/07/2026Finally got wireguard up and running so I can VPN from my laptop and phone back to home. Bit more manual than I expected, I wish the server was able to hand out IP addresses, but neat to see it all working nonetheless. 000
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 24/07/2026I've used #MySQL for most of my career, but finally really getting in the weeds with #postgres And dang Postgres has some nice features but MySQL blows it out of the water performance-wise. That or Neon is just especially slow. 020
Reposted by Evert PotJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Someone in DC set up a “little free blockbuster” with DVDs inside instead of books lol 376221943296
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 22/07/2026I told myself I wouldn't work for a company again that stylizes its name all lowercase, but here we are again. Making me look like I forgot to capitalize. It's the worst when it's at the start of a sentence. 120
Reposted by Evert PotLars @webpro.nl · 22/07/2026✂️ Knip v6.29.0 is out Oh too many goodies to count: github.com/webpro-nl/kn... ⚡ And just in case you might be thinking Knip's performance has to suffer from all those plugins, compilers, features & backwards compat... it's not!try.venz.devVenzEasy and accessible dataviz 1315
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 22/07/2026I don't know why, but oh-my-zsh asking me if I want to check for updates is the key thing that makes me want to stop using it and figure out my own config. 030
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 21/07/2026I just blogged: "Using a SSH bastion, but only when I'm touching grass" evertpot.com/ssh-tunnel-if-unresolv… 021
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 21/07/2026It's true! I blogged! "Using a SSH bastion, but only when I'm touching grass" evertpot.com/ssh-tunnel-if-unresolv… 010
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 20/07/2026Anyone wanna go in on buying the .staging TLD? Only need 250K 111
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 14/07/2026Why would anyone ever want the slack in app browser instead of a real one? 100
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 11/07/2026Pretty funny juxposition. Here are some stats from an open source project I maintain: Weekly downloads 110
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 11/07/2026Joining the 10gbe club this weekend! Long waited for a good second hand deal for this router and finally got it 1100
Reposted by Evert PotMicah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable 4953201299
Evert Pot @evertpot.com · 06/07/2026Whenever I work in next.js I just have an uncontrollable urge to throw everything out and rewrite it into a server-rendered html app with a bit of client-side javascript for interactivity. 3100
