Niki Tonsky

if you just do the opposite of what you want to do you’d get 14/20 :)

Terminal log of that happening

Claude Code run out of disk space in vibe VM, went ahead and deleted OpenAI Codex. War of the Machines

@nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy An update popup in Windows App on macOS. Skip is a button, maybe

Just wow

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Less confusing than Github’s grumpy.website/1605

Yes, feel free to

It’s hard to justify Tahoe icons Looking at the first principles of icon design—and how Apple failed to apply all of them in macOS Tahoe

New blog post! A close look at Tahoe menu icons https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

Caution! Portals!

It’s forbidden to be sad

Two signs Slippery when whet, one upside down, with a person falling from a puddle

Caution! Portals!

I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong Applying human ergonomics and design principles to syntax highlighting

About syntax highlighting https://tonsky.me/blog/syntax-highlighting/

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles Lockfiles are an absolutely unnecessary concept that complicates things without a good reason. Dependency managers can and are working without it just the same.

We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
tonsky.me/blog/lockfil... - by @tonsky.me

бротан!

Zone of Interest? Although you already have one of Jonathan Glazer’s

You don’t have professional jargon? In normal Russian they swim, but in “professional” sailor’s Russia they “go/walk”

Submarines ходят!

I’m on the lookout for new dev gigs. #clojure

An Oral-B login screen.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

thank you!

Implement a 100% tariff and ruin a movie

Nineteen Weeks

The average American has three friends

Announcing the Local-First Landscape

A comprehensive guide to help developers choose the right tools for building local-first applications.

localfirst.fm/landscape

iOS keyboard on app with three microphone icons

Fuck It, We're Doing Five Microphone Icons

I started a new account — Street Typography @street.rakhim.org

Examples of interesting... words I guess (?) I found on random streets of random cities. Signs, graffitis, weird logos, anything that resembles cool typography.

All pictures are taken by me.