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zachrip··on The HTML-in-Canvas API origin trial
Why are you just making stuff up? How do you think we got tainted canvases to begin with?
zachrip··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
Shout out to Giacomo's twitch streams. He has taught me about some features of Gleam, Rust, and on top of that he's just a very chill person. He takes time away from his focus to answer questions politely and without judgement. There are dozens of programming streams where the streamer forgets to leave their ego at the door and he is not one of them. I highly recommend following it.
zachrip··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
Did you read the post?
zachrip··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Local models exist as part of the solution to privacy invasion. Not saying google has never been nefarious, but the whole point of local models is that your data doesn't leave your device.
zachrip··on Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others
I think the accessibility checks only take into account the text color, not the actual real world readability of given text which in this case is impossible to read because of the font weight.
zachrip··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
Where did they say the prompt cache is shortened?
zachrip··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
That is a way to approximate it, though I'd be curious to know the semantics compared to xhr - would they both show the same value at the same network lifecycle of a given byte?
zachrip··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
Fetch has also lacked support for features that xhr has had for over a decade now. For example upload progress. It's slowly catching up though, upload progress is the only thing I'd choose xhr for.
zachrip··on Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw
This is a pretty widely known acronym
zachrip··on Making MCP cheaper via CLI
Oauth with mcp is more than just traditional oauth. It allows dynamic client registration among other things, so any mcp client can connect to any mcp server without the developers on either side having to issue client ids, secrets, etc. Obviously a cli could use DCR as well, but afaik nobody really does that, and again, your cli doesn't run in claude or chatgpt.
zachrip··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
Can you clarify what you mean?
zachrip··on Railway (PaaS) global outage
I actually think the title is misleading. I'm not sure actual existing deployments are affected? Seemingly just new ones are not working?
zachrip··on Railway (PaaS) global outage
I've been using railway a while now, and I've basically never paid them but I would. It's even better than heroku. Super easy to use.
zachrip··on Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
Is the code in the eval also turned into wasm first then? Does this work as a JIT for wasm?
zachrip··on Show HN: Sandboxing untrusted code using WebAssembly
Would like to see the eval version - the dialogue version just seems like normal code with extra steps?
zachrip··on Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Can you give a real world example?
zachrip··on How I fell in love with Erlang
64 bit ints are a thing in JS for a while now
zachrip··on Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition
Why do they obfuscate if they're just going to provide the mappings?
zachrip··on Tags to make HTML work like you expect
I'm low vision and I have to zoom to 175% on HN to read comfortably, this is basically the only site I do to this extreme.
zachrip··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
They're also working on mRNA treatments, there is the LUNA study currently underway. Unfortunately I have a rare variant that isn't covered by this treatment. I'm hopeful but alas I live my life like treatment isn't coming because it's probably not.
zachrip··on People with blindness can read again after retinal implant and special glasses
I was prescribed vit a palmitate, lutein, and DHA. The vit prescribed was a high dose, like 10k iu per day. I cut back on that dose, I'm going blind but I also need to consider my general health. I have ushers syndrome, not md, but it's a retinal disease (retinitis pigmentosa).

To be clear, this is prescribed as a "we can't do anything else for you" thing, since there is no cure for RP. This may or may not actually help.

zachrip··on Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server
Heroku's pricing model made me shy away even from using them for small stuff. Why get comfortable on a stack that disincentivizes success?
zachrip··on Structured Procrastination (1995)
They did mention their adhd diagnosis..
zachrip··on Benefits of choosing email over messaging
The worst part is that I pay for the privilege!
zachrip··on Benefits of choosing email over messaging
Gmail is dogsh*t at search. It's so bad. I can search the EXACT word I want and not a single email will come up, or it will bring up the most irrelevant emails.
zachrip··on The Sagrada Família takes its final shape
When I found out I am going blind, I traveled around Europe solo for a summer and I found myself at La Sagrada Familia...once inside I almost cried because the light was so beautiful. And finding a special spot to just sit and enjoy an espresso on a sunny day with it in the background is blissful. I'm not religious at all, but many of the nicest buildings throughout my travels were places of worship.
zachrip··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Packages are not auto updated if you have a package-lock. Agreed that post-install, left-pad, etc have been overall problematic tho.
zachrip··on Oh no, not again a meditation on NPM supply chain attacks
What about if pw or 2fa change, your tokens go on a 24hr cooldown? I think the debug package maintainer even provided his 2fa to the phishing site. Obviously doesn't fix the case where they just exfiltrate and use tokens, but there's no fix that solves all of this, there needs to be layers. I also think npm should be scanning package updates for malicious code and pumping the brakes on potentially harmful updates for large packages.
zachrip··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
Do you think companies using node don't analyze supply chains? That's nonsense. Have you cargo installed a rust app recently? This isn't just a js issue. This needs to be solved across the industry and npm frankly has done a horrible job at it. We let people with billions of downloads a month with recently changed password/2fa publish packages? Why don't we pool assets as a collective to scan newly published packages before they're allowed to be installed? These types of things really should exist across all package registries (and my really hot take is that we probably don't need a registry for every language, either!).
zachrip··on Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised
I can tell a lot about a dev by the fact that they single out npm/js for this supply chain issue.
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