coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™)

Father of 2 •
Dangerous Wrongthinker •
Technophobic Technologist •
Go, Zig, JS (@JSJabber) •
are not my own

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

Perfect timing.

@ryanburnette are starting cloud hosting (like Digital Ocean / Heroku).

Bootstrapped.
Privately owned.
No VCs.

Economies of scale
1 🍌 = $1
10 🍌 = $5

NOT economies of SaaS
1 🍌 = Free
2 🍌 = $5
3 🍌 = call for enterprise

Interested?
Comment for an invite.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

@sullrich

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

@mholt6 no middleware found != ok

[Beyond Code (AJ ONeal) @_beyondcode]

Android Phone w/ Dual SIM: $50
Tello SIM: $5/month each

2nd Claude account: Priceless

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

@mholt6 Remember how you used to be able to root iOS this way ~2012?

And then how you could root macOS this way ~2020?

Like how you could remotely root any Apple device this way by sending a text message with an image attached even if it wasn't opened ~2024?

Rewrite it in Go...

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

@tinrab @ThePrimeagen You're too young then.

Back when we and the dinosaurs roamed the earth, the web was fast, and developing for it was too.

F5 could reload a page in an instant - in dev and prod.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

Having a kid is like waking up from a dream and finding out that _now_ you're in the real world.

[Beyond Code (AJ ONeal) @_beyondcode]

2026 needs a new CSV format that supports multiple sheets and that doesn't require escaping.

ASCII US (Unit Separator) for comma
ASCII RS (Record Separator) for newline
ASCII GS (Group Separator) between worksheets
*maybe* ASCII FS (File Separator) for embedded images

Three header rows:
1. name of worksheet
2. Names (like usual)
3. Types (string, int, date, etc)

Editors should treat Unit Separator like tab, except that it should be calculated to the data-width and data can wrap within the column based on maximum display width or column width. RS should obviously represent rows, and GS for tabs.

Binary data must be hex encoded (because it compresses better than base64). Any data containing those control characters or other non-printing, non-UTF characters is considered binary.

Metadata can be stored in a group before the worksheet begins. Lines starting with `#` and followed by `.` and no other separator until GS can be used to pad groups to a rounded standard size to avoid full-file rewrites on simple metadata or single-value update.

No formulas or user-oriented spreadsheet stuff. This is just a data format for APIs and AIs.

[Beyond Code (AJ ONeal) @_beyondcode]

Does anyone know why in practice you would want to use an alternate DNS from the same provider?

For example, I would expect most people do do something like
1.1.1.3,9.9.9.9

But in the wild I see a lot of something like
1.1.1.3,1.0.0.3

The first example seems like it would be the standard best practice to do - because when Cloudflare primary is out, well, Cloudflare alt is all but certainly going to be out as well, but it's highly unlikely that the Quad9 primary is also out, so I'd use that for my alt.

I had just assumed that 1.0.0.3 would be more for the benefit of Cloudflare to knowing that something is wrong with their primary if somehow their alt is still up - not for my benefit of still being able to still use the Internet during an outage.

Any thoughts on this?

[⚡️ Webi @_webinstall]

HELP WANTED

Bots have really killed my joy.

I'd really like to bring on a co-maintainer to handle triage.

https://t.co/NSzR6IREj6

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

Reliving Goldeneye 007 on the @analogue 3D is simply magical.

Playing at 60fps (or something definitely above the stock 30 with dips) looks so much better than I would have guessed.

And it's such an amazing game. Why don't we have games this fun and challenging today?

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

I can't wait for the Stranger Things "What it should have been"s.

Some of those for Star Wars are my favorite movies. I think the same will be true here.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

I'm 100% pro low-risk, high-benefit vaccines, but why would you get vaccinated against "a virus associated with the common cold" at the risk of brain disorders and losing your baby or your own life?

We need doctors to wake up and go back to science-based health care again.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

Doctors are pushing a vaccine on my pregnant wife.

Stated Benefits:
- may prevent "mild cold-like symptoms" that in some cases could progress to pneumonia

Stated Risks:
- neurological disorders in adults
- pre-eclampsia in pregnant women

Who would ever take those odds?

No. 💯

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

I finally watched 2001: A Space Odyssey.

It is a weird movie.

Beautiful.
Technically stunning.
But weird.

I definitely didn't understand it.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

@LundukeJournal, as the former leader of the Church of Rust in the Beehive State, I hereby formally challenge your claim of poking a stick at the beehive with the Rust logo on it - were it true, I would certainly be one to know. 😉

https://t.co/efddupzrrP

[ハセン حسن @hasen_95dx]

Docker is a good solution to a stupid problem (languages that do not produce a shippable output).

It should not really exist though. Languages should just fix themselves so that they do produce a shippable artifact instead.

[Ryan Fleury @rfleury]

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[Beyond Code (AJ ONeal) @_beyondcode]

I spent the evening teaching my 6yo daughter to add numbers from the `node` repl, to type in `vim` (with spell enabled), and use `say` to have the computer read what she typed.

I also let 4yo open Notepad and just type. His big moment was maximizing notepad to fullscreen.

❤️💪

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

The latest anti-bot measures seem to have been extremely effective over the last few weeks.

Some new ones will be coming to the sign-in process soon, as well as the option to pay for uptime guarantees and custom domains.

[coolaj86 👨‍💻 (Old Man Yelling at The Cloud™) @coolaj86]

While doing the maintenance I peeked at the logs and discovered a massive wave of bots abusing the service.

I'm trying to get that under control, which is causing intermittent disruption.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but this makes the experience better overall. More to come.