Eric Case

Essential reading: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_People%… us.macmillan.com/books/97803741…

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Publications of every ideological bent have always been free to investigate Cesar Chavez. It was the NY Times that spent 5 years digging up the story that would destroy the legacy of a liberal icon. The journalists who broke the story are the envy of their colleagues, who have been effusively praising them on social media. None of this is surprising to anyone who follows the work of publications like the Times that have been doing this sort of work, exposing bad actors of every political stripe, for more than a century.

spot-on, from @anneapplebaum Money quote: "Donald Trump does not think strategically. Nor does he think historically, geographically, or even rationally. He does not connect actions he takes on one day to events that occur weeks later. He does not think about how his behavior in one place will change the behavior of other people in other places." "He does not consider the wider implications of his decisions. He does not take responsibility when these decisions go wrong. Instead, he acts on whim and impulse, and when he changes his mind—when he feels new whims and new impulses—he simply lies about whatever he said or did before." theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/03/…

@allafarce Once you get to Public Schools, it’ll be similarly eye-opening when all students are given Google Workspace accounts by default

Well I did not expect my preschool enrollment to include both a Force Majeure clause *and* a Plaid flow. I guess I'm well prepared for being a 21st Century parent after all.

Built to Modify As an engineer, I am always looking for ways to improve things. I need to put my mark on something and make it better than it was before. Open-source software is great for this, but it is a bit more complicated for a hardware engineer. Fortunately, there are companies like @FrameworkPuter designing open, modular hardware that provide the freedom to make it my own. This freedom is contagious and there is a growing ecosystem around their modular approach. The DockFrame being developed by @hwmedialabllc is a great example. DockFrame is a customizable USB Type-C dock built around the Framework modules allowing people to customize the features of the dock the same way they customize the ports on a Framework computer. It is great to watch the development process out in the open. HW Media Lab recently blogged about the survey they did for DockFrame and tradeoffs they are making to give the people what they want. It is nice that they candidly describe the challenges of different features and the need to balance advanced features with price expectations. I am definitely looking forward to this project making its way to @crowd_supply .

@JustJake Achievement unlocked

What happens when an unstoppable force (Claude Code's Memory usage) meets an immovable object (Ghostty's efficiency)? My terminal dies. Claude 1, Ghostty 0

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 🧵

macOS already ships with age verification

Indeed! I'm not sure who else is on the team, but @_hamilton_matt and @sherlyholmes alone are two incredible people to build around. LA is a giant city, filled with news with dwindling amounts of outlets to cover it. We are very lucky to have LA Material help fill the void. If you haven't read Bad City by Paul Pringle, there's a great scene in it where Matt and Sarah Parvini are in a restaurant pretending to be on a date. But really they are there to eavesdrop on a very bad man. It's investigative reporting like I've never heard of before. And best of all: it worked.

It's incredibly rare when #cursed x #based drop in the same tweet.

New local media just dropped @busblog !

California grows the food you find around the perimeter of your grocery store. The Midwest grows what you find in the center aisles.

We asked 704 people what they want from a modular USB-C hub. They told us. Here's what we learned, and what we're building because of it. Interactive charts, real quotes, and our honest roadmap: hwlab.io/blog/704-respo… #DockFrame #OpenHardware #Framework #USBHub #opensource

What we launched in February: blog.exe.dev/feb26-update Relatively quiet month for us because most of what we built is coming out this month.

By the way, speaking of Shahed-136s. Back in 2022-2023, when Iran first supplied them to Russia and they were first used on a large scale against Ukraine, they were fairly simple loitering munitions -- a slow, buzzing two-stroke engine whining high in the sky like a moped, a 50-kg warhead, and often they could be shot down by machine guns mounted on pickup trucks. Now, after several years of massive use, Russia has dramatically upgraded them. And they evolve all the time along with our defenses. They can now carry almost twice the warhead -- sometimes even thermobaric. Experimental versions used jet propulsion. They can fly high and then suddenly dive onto their targets, making them much harder to intercept. They can also fly extremely low, skimming just above the treetops. They’re painted black to make nighttime detection even harder. Now they can carry cellular modems or Starlink terminals to transmit telemetry and video to operators and allow remote control. Some are equipped with infrared cameras and target-recognition systems. They can act as communication relays for other drones. There are also simple decoy drones designed purely to overload your air defenses. And here in Ukraine we’ve even seen Shaheds carrying MANPADS, air-to-air missiles, and even another remotely controlled FPV drone. And most importantly -- they are cheap, mass-produced, and there are a lot of them. Dozens or hundreds every night against your targets, together with swarms of decoys. In other words -- welcome to the party, pal. For four years, we Ukrainians have been begging on our knees for weapons, warning that endless appeasement and “escalation management" that give Russia and its totalitarian allies time and shielding Putin from defeat in Ukraine was a colossal mistake. Now we are all reaping the consequences.

Chiny cierpliwie obserwują, jak Ameryka i jej walczący sojusznicy szybko zużywają uzbrojenie w konflikcie z Iranem, kalkulując, jak długo armia USA byłaby w stanie prowadzić wojnę, gdyby została odcięta od surowców niezbędnych do produkcji tej broni. Teza stawiana przez autorów artykułu w "FP" brzmi następująco: nowoczesna wojna nadal jest wojną masy, tylko że ta „masa” nie polega dziś wyłącznie na liczbie żołnierzy czy czołgów, ale na ogromnej liczbie drogich, złożonych technologicznie pocisków, bomb kierowanych i systemów przechwytujących. Autorzy wyliczają, że Iran wystrzelił w tym czasie ponad 1000 środków rażenia, a odpowiedź USA, Izraela i sojuszników wymagała bardzo intensywnego użycia uzbrojenia ofensywnego i defensywnego. Autorzy przekonują, że Zachód zbyt długo myślał o odstraszaniu przez pryzmat platform i budżetów, a za mało przez pryzmat tego, ile amunicji można realnie wyprodukować i jak szybko. Nawet duże pieniądze nie rozwiązują problemu natychmiast, bo produkcja zależy od wąskich gardeł: pojedynczych dostawców, certyfikowanych linii produkcyjnych, wyspecjalizowanej siły roboczej i długich procesów technologicznych. Bardzo mocny wątek dotyczy surowców krytycznych - autorzy pokazują „rachunek mineralny” potrzebny do odtworzenia zużytej amunicji. Chodzi m. in. o wolfram, kobalt, neodym, samar, dysproz, gal, german i tantal, a także ogromne ilości nadchloranu amonu do paliw rakietowych. Problem polega na tym, że wiele z tych łańcuchów dostaw jest silnie zależnych od Chin albo od bardzo skoncentrowanych źródeł podaży. Innymi słowy: przewaga militarna Zachodu opiera się na komponentach, których dostępność jest geopolitycznie krucha. Wojna zużywa nie tylko pociski, ale również "kluczowe systemy wysokiej wartości". Autorzy wskazują zniszczenie dwóch zaawansowanych radarów USA w Katarze i Bahrajnie. Odtworzenie jednego z nich może zająć 5–8 lat i kosztować około 1,1 mld dolarów, a drugiego co najmniej 12–24 miesiące. Tu znowu wraca problem krytycznych minerałów, zwłaszcza galu, którego globalna produkcja jest niemal zdominowana przez Chiny. Najważniejszy wniosek płynący z artykułu: konflikt z Iranem ma znaczenie wykraczające poza Bliski Wschód. Autorzy wprost piszą, że jeśli USA "spalają" w takim tempie swoje zapasy broni precyzyjnej (czytaj: szybciej, niż mogą je odtworzyć), to maleje ich swoboda działania w innych teatrach, zwłaszcza wobec ewentualnego kryzysu wokół Tajwanu. I chyba najmocniejsza teza - przewaga militarna USA i sojuszników opiera się na zapleczu, które w czasie długiego konfliktu może okazać się bardzo podatne na "presję geopolityczną" niż same siły zbrojne. Źródło: foreignpolicy.com/2026/03/05/ira…

Happy to share that we've signed 5 contributor contracts for Ghostty totaling ~350 committed hours (~$21k) covering community management, graphics, Unicode compat, and GTK. This is a big milestone, Ghostty is paying contribs for the first time! ghostty.org/docs/sponsor

There is an HTTPS API for exe.dev now, and I am really happy with how it turned out. Instead of dozens of endpoints and a mountain of docs, you send the SSH lobby commands:

The 2003 Iraq War lasted close to 9 years.

McGovern: Republicans can't answer because they were against war with Iran until exactly the second Donald Trump decided to go to war, and now they're all running around sounding like neocon lunatics.  America can't take this level of gaslighting. I went to the classified briefing. There was no imminent threat, I guess, unless Republicans want to redefine the word imminent to mean stretching back 47 years.  This whole thing is just so transparently built on lies. Republicans went from imminent threat to regime change to nukes, back to imminent threat in the last 24 hours. This is Iraq 2.0. I still remember the lies about WMDs. I voted against that war, too. At least George Bush had the decency to lie to people's face. It's not Donald Trump's kids that will have to go fight and die for their draft dodging dad. It's not the children of of the billionaire Epstein class. It's working class kids who are going to put their lives on the line. Shame on Republicans. I'm sick of this bs. We're spending billions of dollars a day on a war, and we can't even get Republicans to join us to expand health care in America. How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.