Safta Catalin Mihai

Platform Architect @ING_ro - working with Scala, Pekko, Cats - Philosopher of Computation. HTMX CEO

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

New blog post

I compiled this list, initially for myself but now for all of you, to share these invaluable resources that continue to shape my work.

https://t.co/UJzTIghLd1

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

I knew this intuitively, but @TheGingerBill says it clearly and explicitly with his usual eloquence.

[gingerBill @TheGingerBill]

One thing I really dislike: the concept of "Design Patterns".

It makes no ontological sense, as the causation runs backwards. You abstract a pattern only after seeing it recur, never before.

Don't apply "patterns" first: that's actually anti-abstraction.

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

Excellent Talk from @cmuratori

[Casey Muratori @cmuratori]

The VOD for my BSC2026 talk "The Root of The Root of All Evil" is now available! It's the spiritual successor to last year's "The Big OOPs", so if you enjoyed that one, join me for one more adventure into the history of computer science:
https://t.co/pAtgLkI27C

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@tsoding

[Тsфdiиg @tsoding]

Frequency Modulation

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@dhh @kitlangton @tobi i did this also just yesterday😅

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@dhh would prefer one not made by ai.

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@trashh_dev @OnAirMarc

[Blick Video Editor @Blick_Editor]

Blick Video Editor is releasing next Saturday, August the 1st, on macOS and Windows. Save the date!
Sign up to our mailing list and join our Discord on: https://t.co/Xe6oFHuq86

[devsDefaulter @devsDefaulter]

Agree or disagree?

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@trashh_dev the guy who made subsurface

https://t.co/3KtbBVQSb2

[Richard Feldman @rtfeldman]

Since the @bunjavascript folks recently wrote about their experience moving from Zig to Rust, it seemed like a good time to write about our experience rewriting @roc_lang from Rust to Zig!

https://t.co/JkPboqnGTn

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@TheGingerBill nice, gg on the video btw- awesome editing.

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

Blog post: https://t.co/EcwCEsIqJX

Full screen demo: https://t.co/EQpBPW36Ic

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

Another entry in my Star Trek LCARS series, building the interface from scratch in C + Raylib.

What I added this time:
🎙️ Voice dictation — speech recognition that runs fully offline on desktop via Vosk (no cloud, no API).
✏️ Edit text anywhere — rewrote the editor on a gap buffer, so you can finally insert/delete mid-text, not just at the end.
🖱️ A drag-and-drop layout editor — move and resize any element on screen.
There's a playable WebAssembly demo right in the blog post
#C #Raylib #StarTrek #LCARS #WebAssembly

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@DelaneyGillilan are there examples of using c on the backend for datastar ?

[Steve Ruiz @steveruizok]

the year is 2027. we code by squeezing a ball. the orchestrator senses the urgency + attitude of our squeeze via a capacitive electrode grid, references the state of the product, company, and market, and infers the correct steering for the dark code factory. we squeeze daily

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@Jonathan_Blow yes, please

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@aestheticsguyy ok… why ?

[Safta Catalin Mihai @mihaisafta_]

@sbkaufman the domain is for sale. opportunity is here.