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Josh Bleecher Snyder

@commaok.xyz

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Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 9h

My 8yo: “We’re making a movie! Do you want a ticket?”
Me: “Sure.”

Hands me this and waltzes off giggling…

Corrugated cardboard scrap, with “Speeding ticket 15$” scrawled on it in marker.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 2d

If UTF-16 was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 4d

It’d be great if you quit Bluesky: you’re the only real reason I’m here, and I could use less social media in my life.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 7d

If by “got this” you mean “t.Skip”, yep, totally, 100%.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 8d

How it started:

Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

How it's going:

Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

sigh

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 17d

Our Calvin and Hobbes books are being loved back into looseleaf. Pages turn up everywhere.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 18d

And answer: yes

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 19d

How many years until an American teenager meets someone British and is like “whoah you have an AI assistant accent“?

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 21d

I love small town parades. More people marching than watching. And fun either way.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 22d

When I get into my car, I want my phone call to automatically switch from my AirPods to the car speakerphone, even if I'm still wearing the AirPods.

...said nobody ever.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 22d

At 8 I read Tolkien on vacation in a house in the mountains and was convinced the upstairs was Rivendell.

I’m now curious about your feelings about Kent Haruf and Ishiguro.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · 26d

New blog post: Security through intentional redundancy

commaok.xyz/post/securit...

Security through intentional redundancy

When writing a service, it’s very easy to accidentally forget to check permissions or ownership of an object. This code has a gaping security hole in it: func (s *Server) deletePhoto(w http.ResponseWr...

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 8

…so they start the fasteners and keep them fastening as needed.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 5

Nobody praises prevention of failures that didn‘t happen, so I‘ll take this chance say here: thank you for your attention to detail and fact checking. It’s astonishing how quickly a false note can destroy a world or book for a reader. (I could rattle off examples, but you clearly don’t need them.)

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 5

Makes sense. And empirically there’s plenty of depth there because I am still randomly mulling over them, months later.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 5

I guess, as Yogi Berra didn’t say, counterfactuals are hard, especially about things that didn’t happen.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 5

Hmmm. Maybe?

But irreverent teens gonna irreverent, and subcultures gonna subculture.

And there’s phonological reduction etc. (I guess this devolves into the unsettled discussion about the Great Vowel Shift, rhoticity, ...)

Still, it seems like at a minimum there’d be a “Titan accent”.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 5

@nickharkaway.com another thing I’ve been wondering about Titans: languages evolve rapidly. Shouldn’t the older ones sound hopelessly archaic? And be befuddled by generations of accumulated unlearned slang? (And that’s not even to mention norms and mores.)

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 3

Co-worker nicknames new vibe-coding agent Shelley. I get the poet reference...but miss the "shell" joke.

But also: Ozymandias is about vibe coding if it's about anything.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Sep 3

github.com/josharian/vi...

Converts a video into an ANSI "text" file that you can `cat` to your terminal to play that video (very pixelated).

Demo: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP0Q...

GitHub - josharian/vidcat: video -> terminal playback

video -> terminal playback. Contribute to josharian/vidcat development by creating an account on GitHub.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Aug 27

“I keep my car in airplane mode” means something much less exciting in 2025 than I would have imagined two decades ago.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Aug 5

Terminal.app is the IE6 of TUIs.

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Jul 31

I tried feeding some Lean to Sketch a month or two ago. It is…not good at it. (To be fair, I don’t understand Lean at all. But I know flailing when I see it.)

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Jul 28

Studio Ghibli

Josh Bleecher Snyder @commaok.xyz · Jul 25

Our cat has been leaving notes around the house for us asking for wet food, new catnip plants, etc.

This one reads (with spelling fixed for clarity): “if you will not let me destroy the cat carrier, let me destroy the car. or destroy the vet. -apples”