David Baker

Supply chain attacks continue to snag folks consistently. Clawdbot has some interesting thoughts in it, but “hand all the keys to the kingdom to an AI bot” does remain *spicy* 😉

Highly recommended read for anyone in the React ecosystem blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2025/06/react-…

Looking forward to talking about some of the things we helped @auditboard with this last year, hope to see you there!

This is pretty nifty

Elon Musk fired 80% of Twitter (6500 people) and everyone thought that Twitter was doomed. He was right. Everyone was wrong. It’s the management masterclass of the decade and every entrepreneur must understand why it worked 🧵:

@framecrop Yes, but the mat options are pretty bland. Seems like there’d be interesting options around customized mat colors that Samsung doesn’t offer at all

@acorncom No immediate plans to add framing around the images. Samsung already has a dedicated UI for adding those.

@framecrop curious, do you have any plans to add framing options around images? Don’t yet own a Samsung Frame, so not sure if that’s doable within the TV or not …

@arunjgd @nullvoxpopuli @wycats If your app is fairly small then the migration should be fairly quick. Easier to do it now then once your app has grown in size ;-)

@nullvoxpopuli @wycats They’re nice to haves. At the moment my repo is not that big yet.

If you're an Ember user stuck on 3.x, what first-party support could we provide to help. I've spent a huge % of my work time over the past couple of years helping migrate people to 4.0, and I'm very much in the right headspace to help. I'm curious where the problems are.

@PatrickDougall @wycats @PatrickDougall if you've got available budget for it, we should talk ;-)

@wycats I need someone to… just do it for me 🙏?

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs If he’s seriously interested in something like the above, a friend works for the Rust foundation and might have a better sense of where frustrated energy could be best directed to improve VS Code stuff

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs Well if he’s got the time / inclination, improving this extension for VS Code might win him a lot of friends in the Rust community 😉 github.com/panicbit/vscod…

The 16y/o just explained Rust borrowing to me. People, I cannot warn you enough: keep a close eye on what your kids are doing on the Internet.

@matthew_d_green @boazbaraktcs Interesting, what doesn’t he like about Cargo? Package managers do amazing things for ecosystems and Cargo is well designed from what I’ve seen

@boazbaraktcs He’s still very turned off by cargo so I think I may have a shot.

This certainly seems like it risks much of the data stored in foreign countries under data sovereignty rules (such as here in Saudi Arabia) where there are specific rules around “this data must stay in-country”

While it looks like there are certain nods toward foreign country sovereignty with this law (“provides mechanisms for the companies or the courts to reject or challenge these if they believe the request violates the privacy rights of the foreign country the data is stored in”)

@caesararum @Metathea11 @patio11 Ugh, this. *So* true

@Metathea11 @patio11 reader, can you guess what happened every time these soldiers traveled overseas? Bank: "your card has been locked due to suspicious activity." "Is the suspicious activity anything like the thing I told you I would be doing in this place, on these dates?" "YES! How did you know?"

I still have an economic life in Japan for predictable reasons, and servicing parts of it are professionally aggravating. Random example: surprisingly many businesses will block (Japanese bank issued) credit card transactions from overseas because of perceived fraud risk.

@thorstenball Increasingly these days I arrive on the site and go straight to reader mode in Safari. *Lovely* to only have the content I came for available

Like, ... has anyone noticed an actual, measurable difference in their daily life after 2-3 years of "Reject all"? Did something change or is the outcome purely the knowledge that somewhere a row with a uuid wasn't saved?

Man, using the internet on my phone has become unbearable. l feel anxious when I know I have to google something and then visit 3-4 pages: cookie banners that fill the whole screen and show up after 1-2s delay, newsletter popups, back-button rarely works, re-renders, …

Helpful discussion of banking sector concerns, quite useful to be aware of when navigating life internationally bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing…

@nicalpi @mattupstate It’s still humming away if you find yourself needing a richer frontend experience. Hotwire / Turbo seem to work well up to some threshold after which you start hitting pain points. But seems like that threshold is higher than it used to be 🙂

@mattupstate You are right, it does. Strangely the only JS framework I never disliked to use 😅

I’ve been developing in Ruby on Rails for 15 years, and managing full stack Rails teams for 12 years. Front end - and more specifically JavaScript development - has always been a massive pain point. ⌛️Until 2008 * We heavily relied on ERB templates and built-in Rails helpers. * It was a simpler time. * For the ones old enough, they will fondly remember scriptacoulus being the pinnacle of JavaScript development. ❤️2009 - 2016 * We’ve seen gems like ‘jquery-rails’ * Then the introduction of the assets pipeline * Rails UJS bought simpler interactivity to our applications. * CoffeeScript was the ‘productive’ way of writing Javascript for Rails developers. * times were good, but font end developers didn’t like the experience. 💔2016 - 2020 * This is where things went a little bit crazy. * BackboneJS, AngularJS, React, Vue.js were a few of the ever growing set of front end libraries.  * Webpacker introduction in Rails aimed to solve the use of those libraries. But things started to get complex. We started to have disagreement within teams on how things should be done, how should front end developers should be integrated in Ruby on Rails teams etc. 💞 2020 to this day Hotwire and Turbo arrived with a small bang in the wider JS community but a huge explosion in the Ruby/Rails world. These tools were promising going back to a simpler way to write applications where JavaScript was important, but as a sprinkles. This was a return to the promise of Ruby on Rails, being the one developer framework (or small team developer framework). And hell did it deliver! It’s never been more productive to deliver properly interactive applications than with Hotwire/Turbo and their Native counterparts. 👉 So my take is, if you’re a Ruby on Rails developer and you’re not investing a large amount of time mastering those new tools, you’re leaving money and productivity on the table. Smooth and productive backend was sorted years ago, and we’re almost there on the front end side. Have you joined the train on board yet?

These are great

@chriskrycho yet dream of another language without some of its shortcomings?

@chriskrycho How many of the typed languages would you classify as *good*? I’ve seen you dabble with a number (and I’m increasingly enjoying typing myself - though not as all-in as you, I have a few other things to do in life 😉). But based on comments I’ve seen you make you quite like Rust

So… I started learning Racket for the sake of working through Essentials of Computation. It’s fun! I have repeatedly bounced off of Lisps, but this time the motivation is finally there. And so far, Essentials of Compilation is quite good as well. mitpress.mit.edu/9780262047760/…