Grinding Yet Again

It's GDoC week, started yesterday! Most of my social media might be a plethora of updates from the event on my most noisier Atmosphere account at alt.jacky.wtf. I've spent a lot of time as of late working with friends at Spinel on their next generation Ruby version manager (which is a misnomer, it does so much more) around a particular feature; I wrote about it at (short) length.

I've been using Claude Code and Pi more often to understand the hype. I've used it to build out stanchion, an itch of an idea I had with Livtet for ages but now in a prototypical form. The most interesting thing it made to create was the sigstore integration and the HTTP serving aspects so you get a Rust-backed (supporting Python, Kotlin and Swift) plugin index for Lua-based and WASM-based plugins for free. I'm still running security checks on it and introducing fuzz testing but I think it's pretty decent for its offerings.

Links

You know how this goes — I read long posts during a week's time and you get snippets of the highlights of said posts with an incentive to read them yourself.

• African-American Blacksmiths Forge a Lineage of Sankofa

  "Cultural continuity ain't the absence of change, but what manages to travel through it." — Dr. Earnestine Jenkins

• A.I. Risk And The End Of The Neoliberal Style In Politics

  "You can't make pragmatic compromises with predatory counterparties."

• male entitlement & misogyny in queer spaces

  "These groups have the opportunity to stand together against the conglomerate of patriarchy."

• Don't be nice

  "It's better to be good."

• Are we really engineers?

  "They've never built a bridge."

• Calendar-based API versioning

  "Calendar-based versioning allows GitHub to introduce breaking changes regularly without upsetting API consumers."

• Building a Culture of (Digital) Safety

  "The culture of tomorrow isn't platforms deciding what protections should be available to people; it's people coming together and collectively deciding on what tools should be available to feel safe."

• Writing Rust code that's faster than state-of-the-art libraries by asking agents to make the code faster

  "Modern agentic LLMs can indeed write Rust code that is significantly faster than current state-of-the-art approaches if given appropriate guardrails and constraints."

• Opencode Reloaded

  "To the human mind, the gulf between even the most negligible of impediments and none whatsoever is infinite."