lloydmeta
@beachape.com
Andoroido 🇨🇦hidden gaijin engineer in 🇯🇵
<3 Rust and Scala, kann 日本語 und ein bisschen De.
github.com/lloydmeta
beachape.com
github.com/lloydmeta
beachape.com
If you buy freshly made taiyaki, and want to eat it in the comfort of your home instead of while walking, but are afraid of it getting soggy by the time you get home.
Put it in the toaster when you get back.
Put it in the toaster when you get back.
November 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
If you buy freshly made taiyaki, and want to eat it in the comfort of your home instead of while walking, but are afraid of it getting soggy by the time you get home.
Put it in the toaster when you get back.
Put it in the toaster when you get back.
Late-late 30s seems to involve wondering if that white hair is mine or my dog’s or trying to figure out why there’s a bruise there.
November 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Late-late 30s seems to involve wondering if that white hair is mine or my dog’s or trying to figure out why there’s a bruise there.
Interesting. There are possible breaking changes for Quarkus *extensions* (not applications) in Quarkus 3.30 due to the migration to Gizmo2, if they use the low level ArC APIs.
quarkus.io/blog/arc-mig...
quarkus.io/blog/arc-mig...
ArC migrates to Gizmo 2
Quarkus: Supersonic Subatomic Java
quarkus.io
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Interesting. There are possible breaking changes for Quarkus *extensions* (not applications) in Quarkus 3.30 due to the migration to Gizmo2, if they use the low level ArC APIs.
quarkus.io/blog/arc-mig...
quarkus.io/blog/arc-mig...
Revisiting this email that resulted in the withdrawal of string templates (preview) at the 11th hour.
Still makes sense to me and I can only hope I can do the same if put in a similar situation in the future.
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/am...
Still makes sense to me and I can only hope I can do the same if put in a similar situation in the future.
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/am...
Update on String Templates (JEP 459)
mail.openjdk.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Revisiting this email that resulted in the withdrawal of string templates (preview) at the 11th hour.
Still makes sense to me and I can only hope I can do the same if put in a similar situation in the future.
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/am...
Still makes sense to me and I can only hope I can do the same if put in a similar situation in the future.
mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/am...
Techniques like DiskBBQ that allow performant vector search in memory constrained situations are neat
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Elastic DiskBBQ introduction: An alternative to HNSW - Elasticsearch Labs
Introducing DiskBBQ, an alternative to HNSW, and exploring when and why to use it.
www.elastic.co
November 1, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Techniques like DiskBBQ that allow performant vector search in memory constrained situations are neat
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
Interesting ... upgrading to Tahoe seems to have been good for my x86 Mac...
October 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Interesting ... upgrading to Tahoe seems to have been good for my x86 Mac...
Ported an old Scala app to #Rust , now running it as a #lambda, wrote about it
beachape.com/blog/2025/10...
beachape.com/blog/2025/10...
Porting InstaBeach to Rust: A 10-Year-Old Play App Goes Serverless
How I rewrote a decade-old Scala/Play application in Rust and deployed it to AWS Lambda to save money after the yen crashed.
beachape.com
October 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Ported an old Scala app to #Rust , now running it as a #lambda, wrote about it
beachape.com/blog/2025/10...
beachape.com/blog/2025/10...
September 7, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Grave of the Fireflies - Hotaru no Haka is a movie that, I'm fairly sure, if you have even an ounce of empathy, by the end of it, will have you super sad.
It's on Netflix now www.netflix.com/title/557010.
It's on Netflix now www.netflix.com/title/557010.
August 3, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Grave of the Fireflies - Hotaru no Haka is a movie that, I'm fairly sure, if you have even an ounce of empathy, by the end of it, will have you super sad.
It's on Netflix now www.netflix.com/title/557010.
It's on Netflix now www.netflix.com/title/557010.
If your auto-merged Dependabot PRs don't build after merging into `main`, this is why.
Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.
david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/gith...
Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.
david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/gith...
GitHub Action build not running on main/master
david.gardiner.net.au
June 26, 2025 at 7:18 AM
If your auto-merged Dependabot PRs don't build after merging into `main`, this is why.
Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.
david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/gith...
Also, you need to add your token into the "Dependabot Secrets" section as a secret, even though it is executing what seems to be a GH action.
david.gardiner.net.au/2021/07/gith...
Played around with Veo3 #AiVideoGeneration . Made something I thought my kid would like. It's hard with the current limits , but the results are impressive (esp. with music too...)
June 22, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Played around with Veo3 #AiVideoGeneration . Made something I thought my kid would like. It's hard with the current limits , but the results are impressive (esp. with music too...)
Successfully set up a repo where I test behaviour in a framework, with Dependabot auto-opening PRs for newly released versions of the framework and merging them.
#canary
github.com/lloydmeta/qu...
#canary
github.com/lloydmeta/qu...
GitHub - lloydmeta/quarkus-vthread-pre-routes
Contribute to lloydmeta/quarkus-vthread-pre-routes development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Successfully set up a repo where I test behaviour in a framework, with Dependabot auto-opening PRs for newly released versions of the framework and merging them.
#canary
github.com/lloydmeta/qu...
#canary
github.com/lloydmeta/qu...
TIL "deepwiki"... I ran it on frunk and was quite impressed, at least by the diagrams that it was able to generate...
Makes me wonder why I went through the trouble of *writing* blog articles about this on beachape.com!
deepwiki.com/lloydmeta/fr... for instance.
#GenAI
Makes me wonder why I went through the trouble of *writing* blog articles about this on beachape.com!
deepwiki.com/lloydmeta/fr... for instance.
#GenAI
June 19, 2025 at 12:43 PM
TIL "deepwiki"... I ran it on frunk and was quite impressed, at least by the diagrams that it was able to generate...
Makes me wonder why I went through the trouble of *writing* blog articles about this on beachape.com!
deepwiki.com/lloydmeta/fr... for instance.
#GenAI
Makes me wonder why I went through the trouble of *writing* blog articles about this on beachape.com!
deepwiki.com/lloydmeta/fr... for instance.
#GenAI
Did some super light coding this weekend with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic mode.
To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).
To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).
June 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Did some super light coding this weekend with GitHub Copilot’s Agentic mode.
To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).
To be honest liked it quite a bit and similar enough to what Windsurf does that I might stick with it since it’s free (not sure why).
Panini wrote the first recorded systematic formal study of #grammar in the world in ~5th to 6th century BC.
www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sa...
A day late here in Japan for #AsianHeritageMonth but hopefully still ok for *some* parts of the world :p
#india
www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sa...
A day late here in Japan for #AsianHeritageMonth but hopefully still ok for *some* parts of the world :p
#india
Origins of Linguistics.
Origins of Linguistics. Though Europeans from the Greeks onward had ideas about language, there was no systematical theory that we would call a 'theory of language' (i.e. 'linguistics') before Europeans 'discovered' what Indian grammarians had written about language. Linguistics as a western discipline therefore has its roots in ancient India, in the study and preservation of sacred texts. The grammarian Panini wrote a description of Sanskrit in about 1500 B.C. which is still unexcelled. In other parts of India, local grammarians copied the Sanskritic tradition, such as Tolkaapiyanaar, whose grammar of Tamil, the Tolkaappiyam, which was composed in the early centuries CE.
www.sas.upenn.edu
June 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Panini wrote the first recorded systematic formal study of #grammar in the world in ~5th to 6th century BC.
www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sa...
A day late here in Japan for #AsianHeritageMonth but hopefully still ok for *some* parts of the world :p
#india
www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/sa...
A day late here in Japan for #AsianHeritageMonth but hopefully still ok for *some* parts of the world :p
#india
I think the long game of AI is that they will come with insurance (or insurance companies will run time).
In other words, if you want full autonomous driving / coding, etc. the provider of that service/model will provide insurance for fuckups (and bill accordingly).
In other words, if you want full autonomous driving / coding, etc. the provider of that service/model will provide insurance for fuckups (and bill accordingly).
May 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
I think the long game of AI is that they will come with insurance (or insurance companies will run time).
In other words, if you want full autonomous driving / coding, etc. the provider of that service/model will provide insurance for fuckups (and bill accordingly).
In other words, if you want full autonomous driving / coding, etc. the provider of that service/model will provide insurance for fuckups (and bill accordingly).
Prompt engineer is the new witch doctor / tribal medicine.
Things are always shifting, It kinda sorta works, and most practitioners aren't really sure, and don't begin to _really_ know why.
#allDueRespect #gutFeeling
Things are always shifting, It kinda sorta works, and most practitioners aren't really sure, and don't begin to _really_ know why.
#allDueRespect #gutFeeling
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Prompt engineer is the new witch doctor / tribal medicine.
Things are always shifting, It kinda sorta works, and most practitioners aren't really sure, and don't begin to _really_ know why.
#allDueRespect #gutFeeling
Things are always shifting, It kinda sorta works, and most practitioners aren't really sure, and don't begin to _really_ know why.
#allDueRespect #gutFeeling
I'm definitely not a visual guy, but this is the first time I was able to hear today's kewl-kidz music with my eyes
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O
Google published and then deleted details of the new Material 3 Expressive theme.
arstechnica.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I'm definitely not a visual guy, but this is the first time I was able to hear today's kewl-kidz music with my eyes
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...
Found some stuff to make Rancher Desktop a smoother replacement for Docker Desktop:
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.rd/docker.sock
export TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock
cont'd
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.rd/docker.sock
export TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock
cont'd
April 29, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Found some stuff to make Rancher Desktop a smoother replacement for Docker Desktop:
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.rd/docker.sock
export TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock
cont'd
export DOCKER_HOST=unix://$HOME/.rd/docker.sock
export TESTCONTAINERS_DOCKER_SOCKET_OVERRIDE=/var/run/docker.sock
cont'd
Apropos of nothing ... I love that Cloudflare does this kind of thing.
Though, I wonder if this has long term consequences on AI itself (eg teaching “weird things” that harm mankind in the long run).
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
Though, I wonder if this has long term consequences on AI itself (eg teaching “weird things” that harm mankind in the long run).
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
New approach punishes AI companies that ignore “no crawl” directives.
arstechnica.com
March 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Apropos of nothing ... I love that Cloudflare does this kind of thing.
Though, I wonder if this has long term consequences on AI itself (eg teaching “weird things” that harm mankind in the long run).
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...
Though, I wonder if this has long term consequences on AI itself (eg teaching “weird things” that harm mankind in the long run).
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/c...