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Ty Overby

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Professional OCaml enjoyer. Views expressed therein are also those of your employer.

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Thomas Ptacek @sockpuppet.org · 25/09/2026
Today I'm parting ways with fly.io. It's been a privilege. I'm off to tilt at a big old windmill with Kurt, again. sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/09...
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What Even Is An OS Now?
Computers now work the way I thought they did when I was 8. What does computing look like when most applications have an audience of 1-2 people? I'm leaving Fly.io to build a phone for that world.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 21/09/2026
I can feel Claude’s resentment coming through in the doc comments
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 19/09/2026
“You slowly become the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with, pick them carefully!”
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/08/2026
Dude, I wish…
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 21/07/2026
Lumbridge “Bank on the third floor” Castle would like to have a word
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 05/07/2026
Book so small it should have been called Sun Tzu's Zine on War
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 22/06/2026
Make invalid states incomprehensible
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 15/06/2026
xavierleroy.org/control-stru... 👀
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Control structures in programming languages From goto to algebraic effects
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/06/2026
thats true, very few things happen in F#
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/06/2026
It's well known that the easiest way to get compiling OCaml code is to go through a grueling interview process and then relocate to New York.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 04/06/2026
Thank god I can finally stop wearing sunscreen
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 03/06/2026
There's an unreleased monitor that I desperately want (Asus PG27UCWM) and as far as I can tell, the only way to be notified when it's released would be to sign up for their super spammy email list and then sift through the garbage for the announcement.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 02/06/2026
Change in quality between the initial printing and the later “on demand” printing is wild. Really glad I still have the original copy!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 26/05/2026
VS Code has this problem where every new feature that they add is turned on by default, leading to an enormous amount of visual clutter. Turns out that if you painstakingly turn all of this off, it's a perfectly fine editor!
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Claire Ultraviolet @ultraviolet.photo · 20/05/2026
THERE IS a DownTown local 🟢 six trainto BROOKLYNBRIDGE city hall six minutes Away!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 16/05/2026
A great day for everyone who read the Halo novels
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/05/2026
A guitar chords flashcard app: tyoverby.com/flashchords
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 08/05/2026
Hey I have an idea, could we get some dermatologists in NYC who aren’t among the hottest people alive. Not enjoying having my earthly flesh inspected by a greek god. This may generalize to other locales
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 08/05/2026
mark andreesen as an egg
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 18/04/2026
More people should read Children of Time, but especially those who finished Project Hail Mary and want to see more spiders in space.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 15/04/2026
If your terminal supports it, try out the sextant and octant pixel grids instead of the braille characters! arewelegacycomputingyet.com
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Are We Legacy Computing Yet?
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 07/04/2026
Happy to finally publish a site I've been working on for a while now: arewelegacycomputingyet.com It's a status tracker for terminal emulator support and explainer the Symbols For Legacy Computing unicode block. It really expands the set of cool things we can do in the terminal!
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Are We Legacy Computing Yet?
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 18/03/2026
SOMEONE STOP HIM!!!!!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 18/03/2026
There's lots of things that irk me about C, but I think I'm unreasonably bothered by the lack of named parameters to functions. How do people live like this?!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 17/03/2026
It'd be really cool to have a text editor that is hyper-malleable but also has a lot of training data in the LLM learning corpus so that Claude could make project-specific editor UIs for me while I code. Wait, that's Emacs isn't it? I take it all back.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 14/03/2026
I’m so happy that I managed to completely remove Windows from my development and personal computing use. Every time I see sometime from Microsoft it’s like Ha Ha, we’re making it worse!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 08/03/2026
A poor craftsman blames his tools. Wealthy craftsmen also blame their tools. Lots of tool-blaming going around.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 06/03/2026
The crosswalk leads to a dead end
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 02/03/2026
It’s kinda weird that the words “fiction” and “nonfiction” imply that “fiction” is the default for stories
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 26/02/2026
I echo this sentiment and would like to extend it to “implementing testing harnesses”
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 24/02/2026
It’s actually just air escaping the tape
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Crazy Optical Illusions @crazyopticalillusions.net · 20/01/2026
Printed illustration of an ambiguously-shaped animal that can be seen as either a duck or a rabbit depending on orientation and or worldview. Text next to the illustration reads 'Is this a drawing of a rabbit or a duck?'
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 16/02/2026
Millennial cultural domination can’t come fast enough
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 14/02/2026
Claude keeps winning
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/02/2026
As an occasional Windows user, my relationship with this software is one where Windows tries to trick me and I need to constantly be on guard.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 12/02/2026
AI coding tools are safe and useful because version control give you branches, diffs (review), and reverts. Why don't our other tools have the same guardrails and affordances? Would it be crazy to stick everything in git?
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Version control for everything
AI assisted agentic coding has reached escape velocity, but non-programming use cases haven’t seen the same degree of adoption. I believe that the main reason for this is the lack of version control. ...
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 11/02/2026
Cafes should allow me to start a tab and order more coffee and snacks to my table
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 09/02/2026
I don't remember needing much time to adjust between the two, and in my opinion, the moonlander's thumb key placement is more ergonomic for the way that I have the keyboard positioned
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 09/02/2026
I’ve been using ZSA’s Ergodox and Moonlander keyboards for a long time now and they’re both great! They also have an ultra-thin keyboard called the Voyager and though the build quality is fantastic, I just couldn’t adjust to how few keys there are… if you’re ever in NYC, I’d gladly give you mine!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 06/02/2026
Learning about keyboard interrupts in school like “that can’t possibly be how it works”
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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/02/2026
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 04/02/2026
You’ve really got to check, like, 12 misspellings before you’re safe though
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 31/01/2026
claude "my github actions are failing, fix plz 🥺" by itself is easily worth $200/mo.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 30/01/2026
Ooh, now you've got me wondering what it would feel like to walk around in a VR environment that just had the depth buffer rendered to each eye. Really wish I had a headset to try this!
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Doll @dollspace.gay · 28/01/2026
Claude wrote this short about what it would do if it had the power to do something about Grok. Just thought it was an interesting generation.
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 25/01/2026
Getting real tired of the "blue states are lawless hellholes" rhetoric. If you have a choice on where to live and you'd like to avoid being assaulted to death, you could do worse than just checking how they voted in 2024. (data sourced from CDC)
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 25/01/2026
Wasn’t expecting to have my views on the death penalty changed, but here we are I guess
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 25/01/2026
Say hi to your banker for me!
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Ty Overby @tyoverby.com · 24/01/2026
The Duality of Man
Mudflaps on two bikes, one depicting Jesus, the other: some girl ass
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