steven deobald

Your guide already highlights transparency and user trust; refining threat models, versioned documentation, user-centered examples, and layered information will make the advice more vivid and immediately actionable. All suggestions: Bruce Schneier, Eva Galperin

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..."

Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

my friend @s3thi.bsky.social just wrote a thing -

ankursethi.com/blog/program...

the mental health section is perhaps the thing i’m hearing about most often these days.

Related: “code is not the hard part” is part of where doctrinaire free software went badly awry. “We just need to give people source code and they’ll be Free” was wrong because source code is painful at best and completely useless at worst to about 99.9% of humanity.

That has changed now.

Not to pick on Blaine, because this is widely shared among coders but: for lots of people good taste was easy and code was hard, or at least deeply unfun.

“Coding was never the hard part” is one of the most selection-biased statements to have ever selection-biased.

how is it always a 35-year-old guy with a mustache. how

"let me tell you about technology"
"let me tell you the best music"
"let me tell you about how science works"
"let me—"

please stop breeding, mustache guy

i vim /etc/hosts occasionally to let myself onto the youtube.

frequently enough that google should know by now: "overly-confident middle-aged white male with big stupid mustache explains things" channels are not of interest, no matter how plentiful they are.

i thought this was year of ai

can’t tell if you’re suggesting an angel investment or if this is hyperbole? 🤔

we tried building a slack alternative at @nilenso.com ten years ago but it was based on mattermost. matrix/riot wasn’t ready back then but it feels almost-there now

a brand with an exclamation point and an underscore in the wordmark tells you everything you need to know about the product

@castrojo.bsky.social ltt's every-four-years linux experiment should see every staff member at linus media group running bazzite by 2030. maybe fedora for the accountant

if pop_os still exists in 2030 he's gonna choose it a third time, i swear

brains are magic

thanks brain

some may be incorrect

chai in a pot

yum 2.3 litres of the best chai you’ve never tasted

a boiling pot of ginger water for chai

the correct amount of ginger for 2:30am ugh-why-cant-i-sleep chai is “more than that”

A photo of a bus stop ad for WealthSimple. It shows a woman in a bunker holding items like toilet paper, beans, and maybe cleaning solution. The text reads "The future is bunkers. Invest in the future, whatever you think that is. Wealthsimple"

Me: "ugh the world is messed up, I'm going for a walk outside"
Outside: "hey so the world is ending, you may as well invest"

switchkabob

i know just enough about pokemons for this comic to be one of my favourites.

it’s about stealing little animals and murdering them

or gremlins maybe

that’s quite a bit.

archive.org can always use your monthly donation to keep this up, btw. it’s a public library for the planet.

did you go back indoors and shove everything you own into 5kg black beans can etf because i just totally did

folate, magnesium, iron, potassium, b1, b6

imma be so rich

macos apps, all with differently rounded corners

but mac gets gtk. shout out the #gtk and #adwaita devs. ❤️

gtk on macos isn't just pretty... it's *prettier and more consistent* than native macos tooling, whatever "native" macos means in 2026.

the gtk app looks more native than 7/9 mac apps i had running when i took that screenshot. here's why.

regardless which of these "native" toolkits you choose on windows, the widgets are always flat, sharp rectangles with no contrast partly blind people like me can't see anyway. if microsoft can't do basic #a11y, i'm forced to lean in. you get what you get, windows people. sorry.

i know there's winui3 and maui and rnwin and... whatever. but they have their own problems and the fact that microsoft has 4 or 5 gui frameworks in 2026 and not a single one of them is blessed as the future of windows app dev is psychotic. so my windows users get the most boring thing i can manage.

we all know how macos and swift ui are broken. i was *shocked* by how broken wpf is in 2026. dotnet 9 gives you native light/dark theming... except for the titlebar? that still has to be custom. oh, and the default about dialog, too.

wat.

Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native Article argues that Claude is not an Electron app not because LLMs can’t do it, but because there are no advantages left for native

i'm grateful gtk works well on mac; i'd choose qt or slint or flutter or something over maintaining 2 ports. but i agree with @tonsky.me - we've lost 2/3 of native:

tonsky.me/blog/fall-of...

the only platform that isn't a trainwreck is linux. qt is good. gtk is good. the devs care, and it shows.

yes, i know python + gtk plays nicely on windows. i don't know python well enough to choose it over typescript for this. however, i do know c#. at a certain point, it was less effort to build (and, hopefully, maintain) a braindead c# + wpf port.

gtk + gjs on windows took me *days* to get building. i had to build gjs from source, fiddle with msys2 packages, and generally try to grok the mismatch.

this silly little app kept locking up the ui, somehow. every time i thought i had it fixed, the ui locked up somewhere else. gjs issue, i think.

gtk app on linux

gtk app on macos

gtk app on windows 10

wpf port on windows 10

this past week has been a weird experiment of seeing how far i can take a tiny xplat gtk app written in typescript.

here's how it looks. i must say, gtk on mac and windows is *damn* pretty. untweaked. kudos, gtk devs. ❤️

but ultimately, i ported to c# and wpf on windows, even though it's hideous.

*many* people i know, from different walks of life, have described this to me as their favourite book of all time.

better yet, a "click here for slop" toggle, disabled by default.

a girl can dream.

i will take

congrats, martin! not sure where you find the time but many of us are grateful you do. :)