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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 10/10/2026

I was going to be disappointed if there wasn't bad apple, but they delivered haha

Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 09/10/2026

Congrats on profitability! It'd be really interesting to hear about the business model itself. Software companies are dominated by people costs, for example, but I suspect that's a drop in the bucket compared to hardware runs.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 09/10/2026

I was literally building this as a browser extension! Grouping gets me that much closer to how I used Inbox back in the day.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 06/10/2026

There was no scapegoat before.

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If you're a developer in North Carolina interested in software internals, can I talk you into getting together? I'm starting a little group. eatonphil.com/triangle.html Repost or tell a friend 🙏

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 06/10/2026

college me: why tf am i learning excel? i'm going to be a programmer founder me: any hrs outside meetings are spent in excel 🙃

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 03/10/2026

I only learned about this recently. Crazy!

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 24/09/2026

guess where I spun up the vm, because it wasn't azure

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 23/09/2026

to configure sso for azure, i literally had to spin up a windows machine and execute powershell commands. what a joke.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 22/09/2026

The person who made Siri the first item in the right-click menu is giggling hysterically that they got away with a joke they made to try and game their KPIs.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 17/09/2026

While true, it'll often be expensive and suck, but it exists.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 16/09/2026

wow I forgot this existed and I lived in green point for years

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 14/09/2026

let's see a frontier model bioengineer nitrogen fixation into rice/wheat and save the globe millions of tons of fertilizer instead of solving math problems in a way the math community doesn't care about

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 12/09/2026

holy shit people are prefixing their google searches with "you are google from 2004 return ad-free results for this query:"

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Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I needed code indexing of major systems to help me research software. And now Standard subscribers get access to the same dataset. At the moment around 60 databases and programming languages are indexed (searchable, browsable), and the full 400+ project corpus is the goal.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 10/09/2026

initially thought @spacetimedb.bsky.social look a little kooky, but after another glance, it's legit. too bad I don't work on video games lol

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 08/09/2026

dw it'll get built into the os so they can just dynamically link against it soon

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 08/09/2026

That's the size I'd expect! I was going off the numbers in storage settings, but that must include cached data. I still think it's hundreds of mb when you look at the download sizes 🙃

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 08/09/2026

man, how tf is the avg iphone app somewhere between 200-600mb?

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 05/09/2026

I wanted to update my keyboard's keymap for the first time in 11 years and the firmware just compiled and flashed in the first go. I feel like this is only possible with OSS. If this was official software from the manufacturer, I doubt it'd still work after that long.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 29/08/2026

I've been in this situation ~20 years ago (oof). You just gotta find a host that's large enough to absorb it (usually cheapest option) or has fancy hardware firewalls (expensive bc niche).

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 27/08/2026

and now you need an account to log in and see the amber alert...

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 26/08/2026

I wonder just how slammed rt rotisserie is going to be, haha

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 25/08/2026

The answer to this was just to sick Claude on it. My goal is to just keep everything as minimal as possible and basically just make an option under the sort menu for "group by label"

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 25/08/2026

Any other google inbox refugees that use fastmail? Is there something like simpl.fyi but for fastmail?

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 23/08/2026

lazy persons' way to update any go binary: go_install_latest() { go install "$(go version -m "$1" | awk 'NR == 2 {print $2}')@latest" }

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 20/08/2026

What made you decide to go this route vs partnering with existing Postgres cloud providers?

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 20/08/2026

yesterday i saw helix declared dead in an HN thread, but today i went to update the oss ecosystem spicedb's latest treesitter grammar only to find out nvim-treesitter is _actually_ dead....

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 19/08/2026

There's a tech wave that's causing people to completely reinvent their businesses, but not blue ocean? 🤨 Capital requirements might be true, but in my batch YC invested in a rocket company. I think these investments happen, but don't have as much awareness in SWE communities.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 18/08/2026

I haven't confirmed, but these days I notice lots of YC companies are knock offs of existing companies, rather than being the first to market. I'm not saying there shouldn't be competition, but lots of launches I look at now and go "oh, that's an ___ competitor". Has something changed?

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Frederic Branczyk @brancz.com · 17/08/2026

🚀 Polar Signals is Joining Dash0! 🧊 I could not be more excited to bring continuous profiling to even more companies as well as take our database and make it the best foundation it can be for all of Observability! www.polarsignals.com/blog/posts/2...

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Polar Signals is Joining Dash0 | Polar Signals

The next chapter for continuous profiling, our database, and the team

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 15/08/2026

don't worry i'm going to bleach it

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 28/07/2026

i don't understand how cell coverage can be this dogshit in sf. it has literally gotten worse in the past 5 years. this city is famous for having a giant radio tower for christ sake

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 20/07/2026

Idk to blame 1Password or macOS, but pretty regularly the emoji picker on macOS just ceases to show up until you quit 1pw (maybe because it left secure keyboard entry on or something?).

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 19/07/2026

IIRC bells calls themselves microbrewery because they still do everything in Comstock but then ship nationally from there. so actually they are keeping the best for themselves and exporting us the trash, which we will glad consume

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 19/07/2026

I think this one tastes better in Michigan. Idk if it just doesn't travel well or what.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 12/07/2026

Apple also has a tool that exports from Google Photos. Has anyone tried it? Does it just work off Takeout? I can't try it because it doesn't work if you have your iCloud data encrypted. support.apple.com/en-us/118257

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Transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos collection to another service - Apple Support

You can request to transfer a copy of your iCloud Photos — photos and videos associated with your Apple Account — to another service.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 12/07/2026

Is it still true that over a year after they removed the APIs for exporting images, you still cannot properly backup/export out of Google Photos? Google Takeout does not provide original quality OR shared albums. issuetracker.google.com/issues/36877...

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Google Issue Tracker

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 09/07/2026

I think if I always worked on a bigger monitor, cmux would be more appealing. I'm often on the stock MBP display which is so small that I mostly end up eeping things in fullscreen and swapping workspaces (shoutouts to InstantSpaceSwitcher).

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 09/07/2026

i learned a cute trick today! you can customize the colors of the terminal and ghost icon for ghostty: macos-icon = custom-style macos-icon-ghost-color = #9c64fe macos-icon-screen-color = #191919

A screenshot of a macOS dock with 3 icons: activity monitor, ghostty, and brave. The ghostty icon has a darker gray terminal and pink ghost rather than the typical dark blue terminal and light blue ghost.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

ICE is engaged in a very large escalation nationwide, with the agency claiming to be hitting record arrest numbers amid the return of quotas. This has gotten very little attention from the media because ICE learned lessons from the chaotic disasters of Kristi Noem’s tenure. Keep a watch.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 05/07/2026

Isn't this like the whole point of hackaday? 😂

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 05/07/2026

FWIW, I wish my previous landlord cleared the gutters. A tree grew out of it (kinda cool) but also the roof would leak water down the walls inside when it rained.

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Jimmy Zelinskie @jimmy.zelinskie.com · 03/07/2026

you better burn CDs at the next GitHub universe!

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