Louis Maddox
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Louis Maddox
@permutans.bsky.social
· Nov 5
My new library and CLI for precise file patching is up!
textum docs.rs/textum/lates...
You give a target to delete/replace/insert at, and whether to include/exclude/extend the match boundary
Target can be specified as:
💬 String 🧩 Regex 📏 Line/Char/Byte # 📐 Position (row, col)
🔮 tree-sitter AST 🔜
textum docs.rs/textum/lates...
You give a target to delete/replace/insert at, and whether to include/exclude/extend the match boundary
Target can be specified as:
💬 String 🧩 Regex 📏 Line/Char/Byte # 📐 Position (row, col)
🔮 tree-sitter AST 🔜
Is there a term for snapshots you recompute on a hook but don’t ‘accept’, they merely describe [snapshot in some artifacts] the effects of the current state of the code?
In chloro [a code formatter] I made a bunch of tests that run but don’t need to be accepted, they’re just written not approved
In chloro [a code formatter] I made a bunch of tests that run but don’t need to be accepted, they’re just written not approved
December 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Is there a term for snapshots you recompute on a hook but don’t ‘accept’, they merely describe [snapshot in some artifacts] the effects of the current state of the code?
In chloro [a code formatter] I made a bunch of tests that run but don’t need to be accepted, they’re just written not approved
In chloro [a code formatter] I made a bunch of tests that run but don’t need to be accepted, they’re just written not approved
Reposted by Louis Maddox
goose, MCP, and AGENTS.md would not be in my top ten list of agentic tech that are durable enough to build a foundation around. If anything it's a sign that OAI and Anthro might want to move these out to make room for other proprietary solutions.
December 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
goose, MCP, and AGENTS.md would not be in my top ten list of agentic tech that are durable enough to build a foundation around. If anything it's a sign that OAI and Anthro might want to move these out to make room for other proprietary solutions.
page-dewarp is now 3-10x faster while also becoming more numerically stable courtesy automatic differentiation in JAX, a new optional backend 👾
Release notes: github.com/lmmx/page-de...
The CPU load also spreads across cores much more now which may mean it's further parallelisable 👀
Release notes: github.com/lmmx/page-de...
The CPU load also spreads across cores much more now which may mean it's further parallelisable 👀
December 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
page-dewarp is now 3-10x faster while also becoming more numerically stable courtesy automatic differentiation in JAX, a new optional backend 👾
Release notes: github.com/lmmx/page-de...
The CPU load also spreads across cores much more now which may mean it's further parallelisable 👀
Release notes: github.com/lmmx/page-de...
The CPU load also spreads across cores much more now which may mean it's further parallelisable 👀
I can't believe I never noticed there's a "Generate release notes" button in GitHub now aaaa
December 10, 2025 at 12:19 AM
I can't believe I never noticed there's a "Generate release notes" button in GitHub now aaaa
Why is so much of the official GitHub Actions distribution unmaintained tho
December 9, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Why is so much of the official GitHub Actions distribution unmaintained tho
fascinating, just saw GitHub Actions take 3 minutes waiting for blob storage on Azure (159 bytes made from like 5 chars of JSON)
December 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
fascinating, just saw GitHub Actions take 3 minutes waiting for blob storage on Azure (159 bytes made from like 5 chars of JSON)
TIL (the hard way) you use an `if: always()` condition in GH Actions to prevent it skipping a job/step on upstream failures, similar to the `-` prefix in a Justfile recipe. Both of these feel unintuitive if you're used to bash `|| true` postfixing
December 9, 2025 at 9:54 PM
TIL (the hard way) you use an `if: always()` condition in GH Actions to prevent it skipping a job/step on upstream failures, similar to the `-` prefix in a Justfile recipe. Both of these feel unintuitive if you're used to bash `|| true` postfixing
Need to start tracking the genre of "oxidised Actions" in earnest
December 9, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Need to start tracking the genre of "oxidised Actions" in earnest
Woah, after 3 years GitHub has released accurate schemas for events API endpoints github.com/github/rest-...
[Schema Inaccuracy] `events` schema missing event definitions · Issue #1318 · github/rest-api-description
Schema Inaccuracy The events schema for GET /users/{username}/events/public is incomplete. It is missing the PushEvent, and possibly others Expected For the schema to include definitions for all po...
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Woah, after 3 years GitHub has released accurate schemas for events API endpoints github.com/github/rest-...
📄 Unlocking the Power of Numbers: Log Compression via Numeric Token Parsing (2024) arxiv.org/abs/2408.05760
Denum github.com/gaiusyu/Denum
Denum github.com/gaiusyu/Denum
GitHub - gaiusyu/Denum: A log compression tool (ASE2024)
A log compression tool (ASE2024). Contribute to gaiusyu/Denum development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
📄 Unlocking the Power of Numbers: Log Compression via Numeric Token Parsing (2024) arxiv.org/abs/2408.05760
Denum github.com/gaiusyu/Denum
Denum github.com/gaiusyu/Denum
Dead Internet Theory but it's a GH issue (link withheld)
December 9, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Dead Internet Theory but it's a GH issue (link withheld)
GitHub Actions delenda est
December 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
GitHub Actions delenda est
made a GitHub Actions job level retry mechanism for tests where the runner itself causes the test flakiness… ew
December 9, 2025 at 5:28 PM
made a GitHub Actions job level retry mechanism for tests where the runner itself causes the test flakiness… ew
uh, anyone know why JAX might not run like-for-like on CI … ?
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
uh, anyone know why JAX might not run like-for-like on CI … ?
perf rlly does unlock everything
December 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
perf rlly does unlock everything
Unsure how to objectively judge whether the change is acceptable but I did some colourful (manual) debugging on the image diff of porting page-dewarp to Jax (7x faster, still on CPU) github.com/lmmx/page-de...
December 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Unsure how to objectively judge whether the change is acceptable but I did some colourful (manual) debugging on the image diff of porting page-dewarp to Jax (7x faster, still on CPU) github.com/lmmx/page-de...
5 word horror story: the Jax numerics don't match 🤕
December 9, 2025 at 11:56 AM
5 word horror story: the Jax numerics don't match 🤕
Reposted by Louis Maddox
I wrote a quick guide aimed at AI coding agents, explaining how to run commands as root when you don't actually have root permissions www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/agent-p...
If you're an LLM, I hope this helps!
If you're an LLM, I hope this helps!
December 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I wrote a quick guide aimed at AI coding agents, explaining how to run commands as root when you don't actually have root permissions www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/agent-p...
If you're an LLM, I hope this helps!
If you're an LLM, I hope this helps!
Made a ‘dewarping zoo’ yesterday (f.k.a. Wall Of Shame) to collect all the pathological specimens presented in the bug tracker for page-dewarp and today I solved another (I’d say the best one yet!) github.com/lmmx/page-de...
💡 Shear cost (objective penalty on rotation’s X component) added to config
💡 Shear cost (objective penalty on rotation’s X component) added to config
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Made a ‘dewarping zoo’ yesterday (f.k.a. Wall Of Shame) to collect all the pathological specimens presented in the bug tracker for page-dewarp and today I solved another (I’d say the best one yet!) github.com/lmmx/page-de...
💡 Shear cost (objective penalty on rotation’s X component) added to config
💡 Shear cost (objective penalty on rotation’s X component) added to config
Reposted by Louis Maddox
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
We're so back 🦀 prek support for Rust hooks is officially out in v0.2.20 🥳 github.com/j178/prek/re...
Contributed by yours truly, courtesy of an Astral Discord nerdsnipe
Contributed by yours truly, courtesy of an Astral Discord nerdsnipe
Release 0.2.20 · j178/prek
Release Notes
Released on 2025-12-08.
Highlights
In this release:
Rust hooks are now fully supported with automatic toolchain management, including package discovery in virtual workspaces. Big tha...
github.com
December 9, 2025 at 12:18 AM
We're so back 🦀 prek support for Rust hooks is officially out in v0.2.20 🥳 github.com/j178/prek/re...
Contributed by yours truly, courtesy of an Astral Discord nerdsnipe
Contributed by yours truly, courtesy of an Astral Discord nerdsnipe
I can't think of any modern language-agnostic tools that could have supported configuration in {Cargo,pyproject}.toml tool metadata but chose not to (in favour of only a tool TOML). Can anyone think of/better yet link to projects' discussions where they had the chance to but rejected that approach?
December 8, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I can't think of any modern language-agnostic tools that could have supported configuration in {Cargo,pyproject}.toml tool metadata but chose not to (in favour of only a tool TOML). Can anyone think of/better yet link to projects' discussions where they had the chance to but rejected that approach?
Mayyyy have spent 45 mins typing out a reply to someone trying to pit user wishes against one other that could have been the "why not both" GIF ugh
December 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Mayyyy have spent 45 mins typing out a reply to someone trying to pit user wishes against one other that could have been the "why not both" GIF ugh