iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

mattd @mrd.dev · 23/04/2025

I played with tview and bubbletea for writing TUI in #golang. Bubbles allowed me make really classy looking apps but the interaction loop felt very heavy. Tview has been far less painful.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 23/04/2025

Since January our consumption has dropped and our usage of Amazon has become almost zero. There are a few edge cases where buying direct from the manufacturer doesn’t make sense so Amazon is a backup in those cases. And it hasn’t impacted us at all other than our pocketbook, which is for the best.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 23/04/2025

I am not sure I could use #neovim without ChatGPT to tell me how to do things. Sure I could google and try to figure out if that works with my set of plugins but throw a bunch of context at ChatGPT and it tells me the answer. Most importantly it’s easy to verify.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 15/04/2025

The AI first tried to do a test sync against random repos, then it tried to format them incorrectly, got the syncing logic very wrong and generated a few hundred lines where 20 would suffice. That being said I ripped that part out and manually wrote it, still a huge success for the boilerplate html.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 15/04/2025

My vibe coding experiment last weekend was interesting. It got started really quick and made great progress. It built the html and templates far better than I could and in minutes. Then we hit syncing with GitHub repo...to be continued

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mattd @mrd.dev · 05/04/2025

Today, going to try and vibe code a blog engine. Should not be to hard and I am a terrible front end developer so will let it do all the heavy lifting there.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/03/2025

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

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mattd @mrd.dev · 24/03/2025

Tramell Tillman as Mr Milchick in severance is a gem and a standout among a packed cast. Everyone season needs him doing a music experience.

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 23/03/2025

I wrote a small piece on deep vs shallow abstractions, through the lens of #golang interfaces. Let me know if you have any cool examples of interfaces on this spectrum you've recently worked with! 🙌

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Deep vs Shallow Go interfaces

I recently read A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout (of Tcl/Tk, Raft, Sprite fame).

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mattd @mrd.dev · 17/03/2025

Everyday, I wish for a new iPhone mini or foldable. The asus zen phone 10, yes it’s old, hit my radar. I bought both of the mini iPhones but now live in a world where usb c is mandatory.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 20/02/2025

Would truly love to see the Democrats in Congress have a real plan with action instead of the equivalent of thoughts and prayers.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 20/02/2025

Been using OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Gnome for the past two years, but been running into headaches around things like getting sunshine streaming to work and a handful of other tools. I like Tumbleweed but everything has instructions and easy path for ubuntu/debian.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 20/02/2025

Playing with ebitengine and its nice and simple until I went to draw an object...copied from their vector demo. That being said I will wrap it in some helper methods and be fine. #golang #ebitengine

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mattd @mrd.dev · 12/02/2025

Looking for coop games for me and my wife to play, many hours into satisfactory, minecraft, corekeeper, ark, 7 days to die, far cry and a few others. Survival builder games are generally a good go to.

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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 27/01/2025

Is there a group of good pretty format plugins for #neovim? That covers dataformats? JSON, XML, logfmt would be nice too.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 09/01/2025

Trying to figure out why ghostty on Linux is giving jagged title bar fonts. Every other window is clean.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 04/01/2025

Ann Telnaes resigned after the Washington Post editorial page killed her cartoon. It’s worth a share. Big Tech executives are bending the knee to Donald Trump and it’s no surprise why: Billionaires like Jeff Bezos like paying a lower tax rate than a public school teacher.

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Paschalis Tsilias @tpaschalis.me · 28/12/2024

For anyone trying out Ghostty, this tool by @zerebos.bsky.social is really handy to get your config up and running 👀 ghostty.zerebos.com

ghostty.zerebos.com

Ghostty Config

A beautiful config generator for Ghostty terminal.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 19/12/2024

Annoyingly Firefox seems to be stuck on partial light mode. The toolbar is far too bright. I will forever be dark mode

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mattd @mrd.dev · 17/12/2024

While off I decided to go deep on performance optimization. A large part of Grafana Alloy's serialization is dictionary encoding and I cant wait for SwissMaps to become the standard. Switching to them saved about 25% on serialization versus standard map[string]uint32. #golang Thanks dolthub!

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mattd @mrd.dev · 13/12/2024

Pondering writing a hand rolled marshaller unmarshaller for a specific datatype. Currently using msgp and it’s great but moving the bytes is about 30% of the cpu for the new wal in Alloy.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 03/12/2024

Web Assembly has some sharp edges. Trying to use it as a psuedo plugin architecture since Go doesnt support plugins in a traditional manner is being quite finicky. Though it works. Anyone got any good tips? Currently using extism and it has a lot of nice features. #webassembly

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mattd @mrd.dev · 28/11/2024

The best eceltornics purchase I bought this year was the Boox Palma. I have read over 30 books this year and it's my travel companion. The only downside I had to get off of overcast for podcasts, thankfully pocketcasts is pretty close and works with android.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 21/11/2024

One of these is not like the others

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mattd @mrd.dev · 21/11/2024

I have my Mirra v1 chair for well over a decade and aside from a piston replacement 7 years ago. Needed a second chair and bought the steel case leap. Not a fan, the seat immediately deforms and sitting directly on the hard plastic. Now on the lookout for another Mirra.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 21/11/2024

Security is hard, Kolide being way to aggressive on notifying me that there is a Firefox release that just hit and Okta deciding I need to relogin every damn time.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 19/11/2024

ChatGPT has been the most productive tool I have ever used for running my DnD campaigns. I generally have it generate random npcs and locations. Then tell it to add some flair and generate photos. #dnd #chatgpt

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Rookie City Det. Sergeant @rookiecitycop.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Release the Gaetz report. Pass it on.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 15/11/2024

I very much want the AYANEO Pocket Micro, but for my purposes and 1/6 the price the Miyoo A30 does what I need it to do, which is play FF6 Brave New World while at airports. Anyone got experiene with the Pocket Micro?

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mattd @mrd.dev · 15/11/2024

At a certain point I feel I am just fighting golangs garbage collector with hacks. Sync.pools, wishing arenas were not experimental and figuring out how to reduce allocations. That being said putting the magic in a few files is a reasonable tradeoff for what else go brings to the table.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 14/11/2024

The Onion buying InfoWars with the blessing of the Sandy Hook families is the best outcome.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 14/11/2024

Been using codeium.com/windsurf and so far its been pretty slick. I wish the best features were available in nvim, but alas it means I have to have open another VSCode window. Still super slick, I was able to feed it a readme of problems and 10 unit tests and it wrote code to pass all of them in 5m.

codeium.com

Windsurf Editor by Codeium

Tomorrow's editor, today. Windsurf Editor is the first AI agent-powered IDE that keeps developers in the flow. Available today on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

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mattd @mrd.dev · 13/11/2024

Occasionally nostalgia hits hard and my memory drummed up web.archive.org/web/20040824074752/… which is a dark superhero story. Warning deals with suicide and a few other dark topics. It has always stuck with me and every few years I enjoy reading it again.

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michael buonauro's "marvelous bob"

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mattd @mrd.dev · 12/11/2024

Will see if I end up using this more than Mastodon. I still have a mastodon account but rarely post there.

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