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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 25/12/2025

> The sour sweet wind awakens the gree-grumps from their slumber in the tree stumps around Punkers Pond, and once woken up, the gree-grumps begin yowling, which upsets pond, which disturbed the hakken-kraks that live in the pond, and causes them to rise out of the water and begin yowling, which

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 17/11/2025

I wonder if I could bribe @steren.fr to expose exit codes on cloud run jobs 🤔

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 02/11/2025

Decompress DEFLATE using only HTML5 Canvas retr0.id/stuff/canvas...

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 18/05/2025

RIP our little Grace Anne.

A cute, elderly, fawn-colored puggle is wearing a high visibility bright yellow Coyote Vest with punk rock-style spikes attached to it for protection. Her name is Grace Anne. She has large, floppy ears that feel like a soft brown velvet. She nearly looks like a puppy, but the white fur around her eyes and nose betrays her age. She is standing at the top of some grey-painted wooden stairs that lead down into a sunny patch of grass that is shaded by a few large out-of-frame pine trees. She is looking back towards the photographer while nervously licking her nose, unsure about this new outfit. At the bottom of the stairs there is a grey concrete landing and a wooden gate with black hinges swung open. The gate is painted the same color as the stairs.

On the vest, there is a row of spikes circling her neck and two parallel strips of spikes running long-ways down her back, slightly off-center. There is a third velcro strip running down the middle of her back, which can be used to add optional porcupine-y spines that are not present in the photo.

The photographer is standing on a wooden deck that is painted the same grey color and connected to the top of the stairs. He is encouraging Grace to scamper down the stairs and do her business, which she will eventually do.

Grace loved being outside on this deck. As she got older, she lost most of her senses, but her nose remained sharp to the very end. She would lie out here in the sun for hours, just sniffing around, occasionally barking at some smelled but unseen critter. Approximately two years after this photo was taken, Grace was 16 years old and her body started to give out all at once. We unfortunately had to put her down. A vet came to our home so we could say goodbye on her favorite deck.

A year later, our (now) 3 year old daughter occasionally asks about Grace: "Where's Gracie? Did she go home?"

She did.

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mcyoung 🏳️‍🌈 @mcy.gay · 30/04/2025

the go compiler is a little bit like a cat. stubborn but very food motivated and ultimately clueless to my machinations

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thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

The new json/v2 #golang stdlib package is still a proposal, but was merged yesterday behind a GOEXPERIMENT. Two ways to play with it: 'gotip' and the Go Playground. gotip: $ go install golang.org/dl/gotip@latest $ gotip download $ GOEXPERIMENT=jsonv2 gotip doc encoding/json/v2 Playground example:

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Go Playground - The Go Programming Language

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 19/04/2025

I think the mathematicians use wikipedia as a way to prank normal people.

A screenshot of the Fiber Bundle wikipedia article which opens with inscrutable math gibberish, then tries to relate the math gibberish to a hairbrush. It does not help the reader to understand.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 03/04/2025

This post is so very good that I'm kinda mad. Very on-brand. Brad and Russ were already heroes of mine. I am still somehow surprised by the effort and absurdity of it all. Wow. Also I will be stealing the name "goonzeep" for a future project please nobody take this from me.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 25/03/2025

Remember the death march to add Google+ integrations into every Google product no matter what and how well that ended for everyone? Loving the gemini button on every single surface of gmail. Great job everyone.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 21/03/2025

There is so much to gzip. It's a perfect microcosm of the experience of Computering. Fractally complex and clever. Hamstrung by the limitations of computers at the time it was invented. Dramatic, backstabby origin story. Completely unused extension points. Both prescient and myopic in its design.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 23/02/2025

Briefly thought @forrestbrazeal.bsky.social was in Wicked as Doctor Nikidik, was disappointed by imdb.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 13/12/2024

RTL language computer friends: does the phrase "shift left" make sense in your head? Would it make more sense as "shift right"?

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 13/12/2024

TIL go has LZ bitmaps in the garbage collector to track which fields of struct types are pointers.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 07/12/2024

It should be illegal for wells fargo to call me and leave a message pretending something important has happened to get me to call them back so that they can try to sell me services. I used all my "make a phone call" emotional budget this quarter on that because I assumed something bad happened :(

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 05/12/2024

Have been listening to an old podcast with @jamesmunns.com and @bcantrill.bsky.social and it is hilarious because they are basically just taking turns getting super excited about rust and safety to the point that they are accidentally screaming at each other.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 03/12/2024

Hey @steren.fr long time listener first time caller. I am using GCS volume mounts on Cloud Run and see a warning: > DirectPath is misconfigured. Please set the EnableDirectPath option along with the EnableDirectPathXds option. If y'all fixed that would things go faster? 🙏

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 28/11/2024

I have a strong urge to organize all the source material (mostly blog posts) for opinions I hold because it would be easier to short-circuit discussions by just pointing to them directly instead of paraphrasing a bunch of them poorly but I'm worried that this would be off putting. Is this normal?

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 26/11/2024

Today I suggested that we serve HTML over HTTP for our website frontend instead of using React and everyone laughed because they thought I was doing a bit. The frontend situation is so dire.

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 24/11/2024

I wish there was something like a named pipe that allowed for random access (lseek and/or pread) instead of only FIFO without having to go all the way to FUSE. Is this a thing?

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 08/11/2024

This will not surprise anyone but my enthusiasm for gzip is at an all time high since looking at github.com/mxmlnkn/rapi... It is so ridiculously clever. I am jealous that I did not come up with this myself. tl;dr speculatively decompressing anything that looks like DEFLATE goes brrrrrrrr

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GitHub - mxmlnkn/rapidgzip: Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines

Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines - mxmlnkn/rapidgzip

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 29/10/2024

I have suddenly acquired many followers who seem like actual, real people, but I am an obscure container nerd. How did y'all find me? Am I on some kind of list or is bluesky just growing that rapidly?

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 17/05/2023

Last December, @awsteele.com completely ruined me. I have been unable to think about anything but gzip for over 5 months now. I am sitting here reading research papers about novel gzip methods, wondering how it got to this point. I have never been nerd-sniped this hard in my entire life. God why.

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