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Andy Gayton

@ndyg.ca

Simple tools, fewer abstractionsβ€”inviting everyone to tinker & build. What’s worth building? For me: empathy and reworking our urban environments for humans. https://ndyg.ca / https://www.cross.stream 🌌 Milky Way, β˜€οΈSolar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Toronto

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Alex, I'm curious if your team has looked into Datastar?

05.03.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is pretty nifty. a nushell plugin to work with (and generate) audio on the command github.com/SuaveIV/nu_p...

05.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
ESP32 on a breadboard

ESP32 on a breadboard

cli

cli

Got @iroh.computer to work on the smallest device yet.

An ESP32 with 4MB of application memory and 4MB of heap.

This is a horribly patched version, but nothing drastic, just reducing deps.

04.03.2026 11:22 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Helsinki achieves vision zero traffic deaths..

with speed cameras.

www.politico.eu/article/hels...

04.03.2026 15:56 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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It _feels_ really nice!

03.03.2026 01:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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> Connecting your app to Stellar for live CSS updates
gist.github.com/cablehead/32...

03.03.2026 01:49 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New release for `http-nu` :: github.com/cablehead/ht... ; `xs 0.11` `Nushell 0.111.0` `Datastar 1.0-RC.8`

02.03.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

24.02.2026 02:23 πŸ‘ 2610 πŸ” 875 πŸ’¬ 130 πŸ“Œ 158
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this is just a quick sketch, could likely do better, but by implementing these 4 endpoints, you can provide the backend to a web embedded ghostty terminal in the language of your choice

21.02.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a quick experiment with ghostty-web ; using POST + SSE for the transport, shell set to Nushell

21.02.2026 05:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Claude Code: "make a really amazing horror game based on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, just the wheelbarrow and the plums poems."

All the writing and design by Claude. I actually found it unnerving, despite the crude, "hand-drawn" graphics. so-much-depends.netlify.app

20.02.2026 20:32 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

πŸ˜‚

20.02.2026 20:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Modem - Your dev-team's auto-triage Product Manager Turn support, chat, and analytics into developer-ready context so engineers can decide, fix, and ship faster.

πŸ‘‹ We're hiring engineers in Toronto & SF

modem.dev/about

20.02.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Boris!

20.02.2026 20:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

wow, was this one shoted just from that prompt?

20.02.2026 20:38 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Our family had our swearing-in ceremony to become Canadian citizens yesterday morning. Super proud, humble and grateful πŸ™πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ₯Ή, tyfesf

20.02.2026 15:29 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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fleshing out testing patterns github.com/cablehead/ht...

19.02.2026 04:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It doesn't seem to be common knowledge that bsky runs their PDS vertically scaled on bare-metal servers with 300K+ accounts per server, so I wrote it up

discourse.atprotocol.community/t/vertical-s...

Anyone have availability, failover, or other performance setups to add?

18.02.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

18.02.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Something I think about a lot, with the copyright smash and grab by the big AI labs is, Aaron Swartz faced up to 35 years in prison for downloading academic articles from JSTOR via MIT's network in 2011, before committing suicide.

17.02.2026 14:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

What do People know, anyway!

16.02.2026 16:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
EG Grid landing page showcasing a zero-dependency CSS Grid drag-and-drop library. Features an interactive demo with colorful gradient tiles labeled A-H in various sizes, and a comparison table showing EG Grid's advantages over Packery, gridster.js, and react-grid-layout in terms of file size, dependencies, and features.

EG Grid landing page showcasing a zero-dependency CSS Grid drag-and-drop library. Features an interactive demo with colorful gradient tiles labeled A-H in various sizes, and a comparison table showing EG Grid's advantages over Packery, gridster.js, and react-grid-layout in terms of file size, dependencies, and features.

OK soft launching eg-grid. A 8.4kb gzip 0-dep bundle you can vendor in to your project and customize as needed. No npm. No versions. No guarantee.

derekr.github.io/eg-grid/

15.02.2026 21:31 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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new http-nu release (pulls in the latest cross.stream too) github.com/cablehead/ht...

16.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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http-nu.cross.stream has reached 100⭐s. Thank you everyone πŸ™Œ

15.02.2026 16:05 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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a small update: xs 0.94 ; `.last` gets a buff github.com/cablehead/xs...

05.02.2026 04:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Vibe coded a bento box style grid with drag and drop/keyboard nav using CSS Grid and View Transitions. The dragged element uses the Web Animation API so it can transition from where it's being dragged.

- Keyboard selection/movement
- CSS Grid
- View Transitions
- Pragmatic Drag and Drop

22.01.2026 23:08 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you Ben! This was really fun.

02.02.2026 18:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm going live on the @talkpython podcast at the bottom of the hour to talk about #dataStar with Michael and the creators of the framework.

Join us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFc7...

15.01.2026 15:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸš€ Datastar Unison SDK Continuing streaming HTTP excitements in Unison

One more new library of the year - datastar-unison, Unison SDK for amazing Datastar SSE events #unison #datastar #sse

17.01.2026 14:59 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm going to keep working on the Datastar reveal.js alternative, if anyone is interested in that style of slides. (ctrl h/l to navigate between the slides).

30.01.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0