I built statusbar, a status bar for any terminal.

I've been writing code for more than 35 years, a large part of that professionally, but I've probably written most of my code as a hobby. I've written plenty of C, PHP, Go, JavaScript, Solidity, Python, and other languages.

This is a fun experiment that started as a way to generate deterministic "usernames" for Nostr npub keys (see the last section).

tldr; I used them long before LLMs were a thing and I can prove it.

I call this a “blog”, but I keep using the term I used many years ago only out of convenience. I’d rather call it “a public repository of thoughts and ideas” —sometimes, even private thoughts masquerading publicly as something else. But then I’d have to explain it every time. “Bl...

fēdan: "to nourish, give food to, sustain" — the base verb, from Proto-Germanic *fōdjan, ultimately PIE *peh₂- ("to guard, graze, feed").

For every one of my blog posts, my static site generator pre-computes an atproto TID defined by the post date time and its slug:

AI agents are increasingly being used to review code, summarize documents, analyze contracts, and answer questions. In many cases, the result itself matters less than its authenticity.

I install a lot of small tools. A CLI from someone's GitHub, a Homebrew tap with twelve stars, a Rust binary that does one thing well. This is how I like software, and there has never been more of it.

Shell history is one source of leaked credentials. Commands containing API keys, bearer tokens, passwords, or connection strings are often written to history files without much thought.

CSAR is a proposed EU Regulation whose purpose is "to prevent and combat child sexual abuse" (procedure 2022/0155(COD)).

You share your blog post on X, Facebook, Bluesky, etc and you know it will be presented so much better if it has an image. Sometimes it's easy. You blog about something that has a visual element and it's easy to use a diagram, a product photo, a landscape —you would have done it ...

This was fun: A "Where Is Waldo" game for QR codes.

It was never about Balogun, a relatively unimportant player compared to the rest of World Cup teams roasters. It was not about the game between USA and Belgium, that many of us in non-American timezones, whouldn't have sayed awake to watch.

When I moved to a static blog, I also removed comments. Or maybe I did it while I still used Wordpress, I'm not sure. The point is I didn't remove them for technical reasons, I removed them because even in 2012, hosting a comments section had already started being less rewarding ...

I'll write more about listnr, a fediverse bridge for my statically generated blog.

Derek Thompson wrote one of the most interesting things I've read lately.

Frontier LLMs are becoming infrastructure.

My EU age verification post triggered a long debate on lobste.rs. Here are the points I found most worth engaging with.

There is a lot of chatter about online age verification. When the criticism turns to the EU's approach, it tends to be either uninformed or deliberately misleading.

@simonmaechling wrote:

GigaOm, was one of my favorite feeds in my RSS reader.

In 2024, Farcaster was the most decentralized it had ever been: a peer-to-peer network of hubs that were, at the protocol level, peers. My hub running on a Raspberry Pi at home, your hub on a VPS, Merkle’s hubs powering Warpcast, Neynar’s hubs powering various independent apps — ...

bckt v0.7.3, my "opinionated but flexible static site generator for blogs", is out!

The VT102 (1978) and VT220 (1983) had the familiar 24-line terminal screen . This the reason your terminal defaults to 80×24, or 132×24. The VT320 (1987) kept a 24-line main display for compatibility, but added something extra: a 25th line at the bottom, reserved for status infor...