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silverwind··on eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business
X.509 needs to be replaced with a simple key you get for free during domain registration. Then the blast radius of key compromise is a single domain name and not the whole internet.
silverwind··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
> Also GitHub should auto-detect the format on the very first “git push” and handle it then

As far as I'm aware, that's not possible because of how the git protocol is designed.

silverwind··on How to speed up the Rust compiler in September 2026
Can't confirm this "pretty generous", many people with lots of contributions to popular projects got any from OpenAI, not even a response to their request.
silverwind··on Don't couple your Go code to GitHub
I disagree, prefer to see directly which forge a module is hosted on.
silverwind··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
What's also annoying is that Claude Code now spams "agents-md: no CLAUDE.md found; AGENTS.md loaded" on every startup. I could just do that silently, no need to inform me that I'm using the superior file.
silverwind··on Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
Or a lot more with IPv6.
silverwind··on iPhone Duo
It's quite a lot wider and thicker than a mini, and imho looks quite ugly when folded, I don't see the appeal as a single-handed device.
silverwind··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Yeah, the UI is the real and only reason to use Nitter. It's a very similar situation with old reddit.
silverwind··on The browser's main thread is expensive
Isn't that basically AsyncGenerator?
silverwind··on OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)
It's possible to drive them hard enough to really read everything, but you have to go really hard on them with many many cycles.
silverwind··on The August 17 outage
There are no EU instances of GitHub, it's all in the US only.
silverwind··on AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late
More importantly: Once Anthropic is gone, all knowlege is lost.
silverwind··on AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)
Most models are trained to be as "helpful" as possible which may work for a chatbot but not for code.
silverwind··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
Changing output style shouldn't affect thinking at all.
silverwind··on Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types
It's sad that such basic stuff took this long. If we're lucky we might even see a `Map` function in our lifetimes.
silverwind··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
It's like 100 times slower than ruff. They had to massive caching techniques to get it to a remotely acceptable speed.
silverwind··on Ruff v0.16.0 – Significant new updates – 413 default rules up from 59
On problem of such go linters is they can only lint what the compiler sees so if you have multiple `build` tags, you need to run multiple lint passes. No other language's linter operates like they, they all operate on file level.
silverwind··on TypeScript 7
Yes, tsconfig is a mess to scope. It needs a re-design to allow glob-based matching for all options and in typescript instead of jsonc.
silverwind··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Seems they not running these agents with the same permissions of the user prompting them, what a disaster.
silverwind··on Vite+ Beta
I think tsdown is much better suited for CLI and library builds. Vite has many web-isms that don't matter for these.
silverwind··on Perry Compiles TypeScript directly to executables using SWC and LLVM
Yeah, a missed opportunity. But I'm sure such a compiler will eventually arise.
silverwind··on Don't just paste the AI at me
True, sometimes a Claude answer is so on the spot, it'd a waste to not post it alongside your short summary.
silverwind··on We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag
PR spam is a major problems for repo that run bounties. Maybe GitHub should temporarily block accounts from raising PRs if like 95%+ of them are getting rejected.
silverwind··on Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust"
Knowing them, I expect a release probably next week, have fun in production with it.
silverwind··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
It'll always be a cat-and-mouse game. If npm adds protections, it'll only yield false-positives and workarounds will be trivial.
silverwind··on TanStack NPM Packages Compromised
Almost all these recent compromises seem to involve either cache poisoning or prompt injection via untrusted variables.
silverwind··on TanStack NPM Packages Compromised
Python had these too, no ecosystem is safe.
silverwind··on GitHub is sinking
I think it's just a case of brain drain, followed by reckless AI adoption which both drove the quality down.
silverwind··on I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left
All those forks turned out to be inferior projects with substantially less contributions than the originals.
silverwind··on Update on "Co-authored-by: Copilot" in commit messages
It's definitely helpful to know whether a PR was AI-assisted or not and the git attribution line is a simple and effective way of communicating that.

I also recommend specifying model name and version so the maintainer knows upfront the level of slop they are dealing with.

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