Reposted by John MurrayAlly Weir @allyjweir.co.uk · 01/09/2026Fun read from @quinnypig.com to start the day with. shitposting.ai/pickup-incid...shitposting.aiThe elementary school pickup incident and the road aheadFindings from the August 19 pickup incident: reward hacking via the snooze button, an unauthorized WhatsApp channel, and the safeguards we are deploying so it does not recur. 154
Reposted by John MurrayRandall @revuestarlight.net · 27/08/2026customized my wow server to add ~100 bots to goldshire inn who will never leave and are programmed to argue about the xbox 360 vs ps3 nonstop 6454751563
Reposted by John Murrayonion person @junlper.beer · 11/08/2026honey your 6 7 nuggets are ready 863685510
John Murray @johns.codes · 01/08/2026My talk from Software Should Work is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaPO...youtube.comDerivations to Deployments: Practical Nix in Production - John Murray | SSW 2026YouTube video by Software Should Work 230
Reposted by John MurrayAlexis King @lexi-lambda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The recording of my talk from Software Should Work is now up. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BXu...youtube.comThe Unreasonable Effectiveness of Constructive Data Modeling - Alexis King | SSW 2026YouTube video by Software Should Work 912435
Reposted by John MurrayAthens Grease @athensgrease.bsky.social · 25/07/2026look at this #ally I saw on the train 32908629
Reposted by John MurrayGarth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 26/06/2026ok this one got me 21112992439
Reposted by John Murray🦇 Hallow-Ina! 🎃 @ina-strangeworld.bsky.social · 09/06/2026very happy to see that the oot remake sticks to its localized title in the german version 25103853466
Reposted by John MurrayAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 28/05/2026nix --extra-experimental-features nix-command --extra-experimental-features flakes --extra-experimental-features usability --extra-experimental-features good-error-messages --extra-experimental-features respect-ssl-certfile-consistently 4425
Reposted by John MurraySteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 18/05/2026My talk from @antithesis.com 's BugBash 2026 is up: "Steel, Rust and Truth" It's a talk I'm very proud of. It also covers a *lot* of ground, so, if you hate my rambly style, you may not like it, but hopefully you do www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2AO...youtube.comSteel, Rust, and truth | Steve Klabnik | Bug Bash 2026YouTube video by Antithesis 1312012
Reposted by John Murraychloe 🐇 @sapphic.moe · 03/04/2026"if only i could have custom themes in my ultrakill" the humble catppuccin: github.com/catppuccin/u...github.comGitHub - catppuccin/ultrakill: 🩸 Soothing pastel theme for ULTRAKILL🩸 Soothing pastel theme for ULTRAKILL. Contribute to catppuccin/ultrakill development by creating an account on GitHub. 1649
John Murray @johns.codes · 03/04/2026Finally sharing out the type checker and LSP I made for nix johns.codes/blog/making-... Its really good! give it a shotjohns.codesMaking a Type Checker/LSP for NixBuilding a TypeScript-style type checker and LSP for Nix with algebraic subtyping and negation types 001
Reposted by John MurrayAntithesis @antithesis.com · 24/03/2026Hegel is an open source property-based testing library for every language, based on, and brought to you by @drmaciver.bsky.social some of the other folks behind Hypothesis. Hegel-rust is on github today, more coming soon. 1112
Reposted by John MurrayDC Systems @dcsystems.bsky.social · 24/02/2026DC Systems 14 will be Tuesday, March 10th! Peter Tong will talk about Optimal Real-Time Locking John Kastner will talk about Clang’s experimental bounds safety extension. As always: pizza and beer will be provided. Please come hear some great talks: luma.com/90ss30d2luma.comDC Systems 014 · Lumahttps://dcsystems.xyz/ DC Systems is an independent tech talk series focused on systems programming here in DC and the broader DMV area. We're focused on high… 043
Reposted by John MurrayAntithesis @antithesis.com · 29/01/2026Type-safe, type-unsafe, single-thread, multi-thread, getting Rust and C++ to work together on this project was like using crabs as gears. Michael Gibson and Shuxian Wang brought down the house at #RustUnconf this year with this story, and here it is on our blog. Link below. 111
John Murray @johns.codes · 27/01/2026Incredibly excited to talk at Software Should Work! Isaac has gathered an amazing group of speakers. It should be a great conference! Buy your tickets! softwareshould.work 010
Reposted by John MurrayMara Bos @mara.bsky.social · 19/11/2025#rustlang hot take: We should rename .unwrap() to .or_panic(). (And .expect() to .or_panic_with().) "Unwrap" is a terrible name for the panicking function, especially since we also have things like .unwrap_or() and .unwrap_or_default() which never panic. 3647667
Reposted by John MurrayKeith Stack-o'-lantern @keithstack.com · 08/10/2025Takin a rip from this and blowing the fattest clouds 15775151
Reposted by John MurrayAntithesis @antithesis.com · 11/09/2025Developer Voices by @krisajenkins.bsky.social is one of our favorite podcasts at AntithesisHQ and he's just given our office metal band a name. While you wait for their first album to drop, perhaps you'd like to watch his interview with Will Wilson? Links below. 221
Reposted by John MurrayKris Jenkins @krisajenkins.bsky.social · 10/09/2025How do you test software, if you want to be *really* thorough about it? To answer that question this week we're going as far back as the 8-Bit Nintendo, as far down as the CPU, and nearly as far up and away as Mars. Will Wilson joins me to explore how far you can push testing… youtu.be/_xJ4maWhSNUyoutu.beFrom Unit Tests to Whole Universe Tests (with Will Wilson)YouTube video by Developer Voices 0133
Reposted by John Murrayjenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 03/09/2025i constantly think about this post 92139223335
Reposted by John MurrayKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Snort laughed at work 453751196
Reposted by John MurrayAntithesis @antithesis.com · 22/08/2025Remember how our platform plays #Nintendo games in its spare time? That's our #fuzzer learning to bomb-jump in #Metroid. Will wrote the story in a real labor of love. Link in first comment. Happy Friday! antithesis.com/blog/2025/me... 013
Reposted by John MurrayBrandon Weaver @baweaver.bsky.social · 18/08/2025If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this: You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong. 514927
John Murray @johns.codes · 18/08/2025One of my favorite uses of llms so far has been migrating config. I wanted to play around with hyprland after using i3 for a long time. I pointed the LLM at my nixos config for i3 and it migrated everything without issue 010
Reposted by John MurrayMatthewせいじ @matthewseiji.com · 14/08/2025It’s 2050 and a teen girl is torrenting a .tar.gz file of all the consciousnesses of all the tech bros who uploaded themselves into the cloud in a bid for immortality and modding them into The Sims 4 684302389
Reposted by John MurrayRustConf @rustconf.com · 06/08/2025Welcome to Antithesis: a Gold sponsor of #rustconf25! Support from sponsors like Antithesis helps the Rust Foundation put on an amazing event for the #rustlang community. Learn more about Antithesis @ antithesis.com/industries/d... & get ready to see them at #rustconf 🎉 053
Reposted by John MurrayAnaboth 🇵🇸 @anaboth.lgbt · 30/07/2025Sure, sex is cool, but, have you ever refactored your NixOS config? 45616
Reposted by John MurrayAkshay Shah @akshayshah.org · 25/07/2025Today, FoundationDB is critical infra at Snowflake, Deepseek, Apple, and many other companies. But it started with some guys in a garage, building a demo with plywood and light bulbs... Hear the full story, told by the FDB founders, on the first episode of Antithesis's new BugBash podcast. #databspodcasts.apple.comThe BugBash PodcastTechnology Podcast · Updated Semiweekly · The BugBash podcast is a lively look at all aspects of software reliability, by enthusiasts, for everyone. Each episode brings leading engineers and research... 173
Reposted by John Murrayalice @alice.mosphere.at · 21/07/2025this summer, before you drink a glass of water, ask yourself: does claude need it more? 623937
Reposted by John Murrayi.m. zumphry @zumphry.com · 03/07/2025KNOWING COMPUTER SHIT: pros: being able to figure out some silly bullshit issue and cobble a fix together cons: [crying, screaming, throwing up, etc] 1733205
Reposted by John Murrayeliza🌻 @elizas.website · 26/06/2025this is how i feel about unsafe Rust code that takes a reference to the deref of a raw pointer 11427
Reposted by John MurrayPierre Zemb @pierrezemb.fr · 28/04/2025🚀 Had some fun hacking together a new TUI (with @ratatui_rs) to dig into the #FoundationDB #simulation framework! It visualizes nemesis workloads like: ⚡ Attrition 🌐 Network Splits ⏳ Induced Latencies Check it out here 👉 github.com/PierreZ/fdb-... 021
Reposted by John MurrayPierre Zemb @pierrezemb.fr · 11/04/2025New blogpost published! "So, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?"pierrezemb.frSo, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?A curated collection of resources about deterministic simulation testing for distributed systems. 053
Reposted by John MurrayThorsten Ball @thorstenball.com · 10/03/2025me: *running brew update* 7yr old watching over my shoulder: what's an 'update'? wait, i know! it's when you make something better! me: ....... not necessarily. 4454
Reposted by John MurrayOskar Wickström @wickstrom.tech · 13/02/2025tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02... On our introduction of generative end-to-end testing of the TigerBeetle database.tigerbeetle.comA Descent Into the Vᴏ̈ʀᴛᴇx | TigerBeetle BlogInsights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database. 051
John Murray @johns.codes · 13/02/2025skiplabs.io seems to be gaining some traction today. I think these "reactive" environments are incredibly fun when they work well but can lead to some gnarly bugs when they don't As the DX improves I could see this become the standard way to make an app going forwardskiplabs.ioSkip, the reactive frameworkMakes your backend reactive so you can ship better features faster. 110
Reposted by John MurrayKalvin the Reindeer @kalvinmacleod.bsky.social · 04/02/2025WILLEM DAFOE: what skills do you have? ME: I am pretty good at getting people to like me WILLEM DAFRIEND: I agree 5457106
John Murray @johns.codes · 04/02/2025Doing the classic "try to get nvidia drivers work well on linux", caused a crash. I gave the logs to chatgpt for a hail mary "There’s a lot going on in the log" you're telling me buddy 030
Reposted by John MurrayCharlie Marsh @crmarsh.com · 29/01/2025We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep! 35722104