Bun is being ported from Zig to Rust
A commit adding a Phase-A porting guide to the docs in oven-sh/bun. Updates PORTING.md and port-batch.ts, totaling 622 additions and 0 deletions (commit 46d3bc2 by Jarred-Sumner).
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A short list of terms and metrics without context: needles/sec, distance, length, pi, stop, restart.
A commit adding a Phase-A porting guide to the docs in oven-sh/bun. Updates PORTING.md and port-batch.ts, totaling 622 additions and 0 deletions (commit 46d3bc2 by Jarred-Sumner).
A suspected YouTube frontend bug spikes RAM usage and causes severe lag and frozen tabs across Firefox, Brave, and Edge. Investigations point to a bug in the video-controls interface: a flexible menu container beneath the player repeatedly checks if all buttons fit, hides one button to free space, then the container width changes, making the hidden button reappear and overflow again. This causes endless layout recalculations (layout thrashing), driving CPU load and memory usage high. Mozilla Bugzilla reports and cross-browser observations suggest YouTube is the root cause; Google/YouTube has not publicly confirmed a fix yet.
I audited Georgia Tech’s Designing for Curiosity and, with CMA Atlanta, designed a museum exhibit called Wild Lenses to spark kids’ curiosity about animal vision (ages 6–12). The concept used a periscope-like enclosure with a VR headset showing either prerecorded 4K footage or real-time ‘animal vision,’ controlled by a rotary dial and a 360° stand. After multiple playtests, the team pivoted from a bulky VR headset to a Quest 2, added arcade buttons and tactile cards, and improved the stand, visuals, and instructions. Final exhibit attracted kids independently; learnings included cross‑domain collaboration and social exploration.
Scientists warn New Orleans is in a terminal trajectory: sea-level rise and rapid coastal erosion could leave the city surrounded by water by century’s end. A Nature Sustainability perspectives paper estimates 3–7 meters of sea-level rise and the loss of about 75% of coastal wetlands, causing the shoreline to move up to 100 km inland. It calls for immediate, coordinated managed retreat and relocation of residents, especially the most vulnerable, to safer ground beyond Lake Pontchartrain, and criticizes the abandonment of coastal-restoration plans like the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion and the political-legal obstacles to funding.
Ed Caesar's New Yorker piece follows Trinity College law professor David Kenny, inspired by Swift’s epitaph at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, to test whether Swift’s boastful epitaph hides a last joke. By poring over Swift’s letters, biographies, and, crucially, the will, Kenny discovers Swift ordered a black-marble monument for his own tomb beside Primate Narcissus Marsh—Swift detested Marsh—and possibly mocked him from beyond the grave. Renovations later moved Marsh’s monument and separate the two, effectively undoing Swift’s joke. Scholars: Leo Damrosch finds the theory plausible; John Stubbs is intrigued but cautious. Kenny’s quest continues, despite health setbacks.
Agent Skills by Addy Osmani outfits AI coding agents with senior-engineer workflows to avoid shipping code without specs, tests, or reviews. A skill is a frontmatter-markdown workflow auto-injected into the agent’s context, guiding it through Define, Plan, Build, Verify, Review, Ship, with code-simplify across all. Five principles: Process over prose; anti-rationalization tables to rebut shortcut excuses; verification as a hard exit; progressive disclosure of skills; and strict scope discipline. It aligns with Google practices (Hyrum’s Law, test pyramid, trunk-based dev) and is portable across runtimes. GitHub: addyosmani/agent-skills (MIT).
Testing MacOS on the Apple Network Server 2.0 ROMs shows the 2.0 ROM adds Cirrus video and 53C825 SCSI support, letting MacOS install from internal CD but requiring external CURIO SCSI and a Mac-compatible PCI video card to boot. The Open Firmware console works but the LCD stays blank and boot diagnostics are quirky. In MacOS 9.1, performance lags well behind a G3 reference (CPU, FPU, graphics three to five times slower), despite fast internal SCSI. Rhapsody boot attempts mostly fail; preproduction ROMs remain superior for MacOS. The author suggests kernel patches may unlock Rhapsody, and plans further work.
Google will discontinue free access to its full search index for developers. New Programmable Search Engines can search only up to 50 domains; the "Search the entire web" option won't be available for new engines. Operators with more than 50 domains or using the full index must switch to paid alternatives by Jan 1, 2027. Google promotes Vertex AI Search as the paid replacement, with no public pricing; the Custom Search JSON API will also be discontinued. A free 50-domain "Sites to search" feature remains. Alternatives include self-hosted search engines and open-web archives; EU antitrust scrutiny is possible.
Frizbee is a Go-based tool that generates and verifies checksums for GitHub Actions workflows and container images based on tags. It can run as a CLI, GitHub Action, or library. It outputs digests and can replace action references or image references in YAML files, supporting dry-run and CI flows. Installation via Go, Homebrew, or Winget. Configuration through .frizbee.yml with exclusions for actions, images, and tags. Open-source under Apache-2.0; active community.
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An inline comparison of R and Kap, reimplementing a pandas critique. Kap yields shorter solutions but requires explicit defaults that R handles automatically. It contrasts R's read_csv (auto-infers numerics and headers) with Kap's io:readCsv (strings only), extracting headers from the first row and converting numerics with ⍎ on non-header columns. It shows: total sum +/ purchases.amount; grouping by country with +/⌸; deducting discounts via -/purchases[;1 2]; removing outliers with a median-based bitmap (10×stat:median)⍛> purchases.amount and filtering with ⌿; and per-country medians by embedding the median in the group expression.
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Stripe Dev Blog post “Formatting an entire 25 million line codebase overnight: the rubyfmt story” (April 28, 2026) by Fable Tales and Anna Mason. An 8-minute read in Engineering/Developer Productivity. It discusses Stripe’s experience formatting a massive Ruby codebase with rubyfmt, and includes author bios, resources (YouTube, docs, Discord, meetups), and links to related articles on fast CI and provisioning a dev stack.
DHS sought Google data on a Canadian man who criticized the Trump administration after the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, using a customs summons under the Tariff Act of 1930. The man hasn’t entered the US in over a decade. His lawyers say DHS misused a customs tool to obtain information about someone outside US borders, demanding location, activity logs, and records tied to a history of account suspensions for allegedly threatening language. The man says his posts were passionate but not threats. The case highlights civil-liberties concerns about using administrative subpoenas to target immigration-enforcement critics.
Kitten Space Agency (KSA) is RocketWerkz’s spiritual successor to Kerbal Space Program, led by ex-SpaceX flight software engineer Stefan Moluf and Kerbal creator Felipe Falanghe. A pre-alpha build shows a spaceflight simulator focused on rocket construction, flight, landing, and exploration, built on a robust technical foundation to avoid KSP2’s issues. The team emphasizes open development, mod-friendly tooling, and a pay-what-you-want, free-to-play model for accessibility and education, with the game set in a fictional solar system and ongoing community involvement. KSA prioritizes authenticity and gradual onboarding over a polished early release.
James Bennett argues LLMs are not a silver bullet for software engineering. Drawing on Brooks’ No Silver Bullet, he says true productivity gains must address essential, not just accidental, difficulties—specification, design, and testing—where LLMs offer at best incremental improvements. Generating code faster doesn’t overcome the broader workflow of validation, integration, and debugging, and recent studies (DORA, CircleCI) report mixed throughput gains plus higher delivery instability and questionable self-reported productivity. Democratizing coding for non-programmers remains unlikely without deeper breakthroughs. He urges focusing on fundamentals (version control, tests, CI, documentation, small batches) and using LLMs to complement solid practices.
nfsdiag is a small C-based diagnostic tool to debug NFS servers from the client side. It tests network reachability, rpcbind/nfs ports, and the registered NFS/mountd/lockd services, and it validates NFS v2–v4 (including v4.1/v4.2) with various probes. It can test mounts, exports, permissions, UID/GID mapping, ACLs, xattrs, and SELinux contexts, plus latency and I/O with optional benchmarks. Output can be compact by default, or emitted as JSON or standalone HTML reports; there are dry-run and simulation modes. Docker fixtures and build/install instructions are provided.
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