Neil

Wrote down some of my thoughts on LLMs and vulnerability disclosure after a rather busy few weeks in the @nats_io sphere. neilalexander.dev/2026/03/31/llm…

When I was young I fixed my parents’ computer and now that I’m older I fix computers for my kids. Are we the only generation that knows how computers work?

Absolutely hilarious listening to British people talk about climate change migrants as if we’re completely immune to climate change and as though one day half the world population will just suddenly arrive here, when in reality half of Britain will be underwater by then

it feels like there are no websites anymore. there used to be so many websites you could go on. where did all the websites go

I've literally never clicked copied and pasted text and thought, "I'm so glad it kept the formatting and font from the other document."

The strangest miscalculation Apple have seemingly made with the FineWoven case for the iPhone 15 Pro is that I have three separate high-speed Thunderbolt cables and none of their connectors physically fit in the cut-out on the case for the port on the bottom of the phone

@bki89sm Congratulations! 🏡🥰

Sitting on the bottom step of my new house, buzzing my chebs off. Best feeling ever.

@cjdelisle G.hn would probably work fine for data connectivity over an electric fence without modification!

Also DSL-over-Electric-Fence so that farmers can run data acquisition / cameras without wifi 😎

There should be Power Over Electric Fence so farmers can power lights, cameras, SCADA, chicken house doors, etc right off of their fences.

Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:

Universal apps are 10-100 times more expensive in design and development than 2 native apps for each platform. Based on 14 different shipped products. Universal apps never feels and looks good. Sorry.

@OllieWride MOVE OVER MARIAH!

It’s 2022 and to my mind they just don’t make Christmas songs like they did in the 80s… So here’s a little clip to enjoy during the post Xmas / Pre NYE time warp called: “Shed Some Light On Christmas” 😅🎶🤟🏼🥳🎄

Must read 🔖 Blog | Matrix & Dendrite Projects move from Kafka to NATS @neilalexander explains the journey to #NATSio from Kafka with Matrix & Dendrite! Thank you for sharing, Neil 🥰 #NATSioFanClub nats.io/blog/matrix-de…

This thread is wonderful

I’m assuming this is what the new button was built for.

interviewer: if you can explain what deadlocks are, I’ll hire you me: hire me, and I’ll explain deadlocks

The problem with using puzzles in coding interview is that you end up selecting for people who like puzzles and that's how your production code will inevitably be written.