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Jake Bailey
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According to git blame, I wrote the TypeScript compiler, don't fact check that

Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft working on TypeScript

Underground gopher, finally revealed

https://jakebailey.dev/
https://github.com/jakebailey

arch btw
If you have a repro, an issue would be helpful!
January 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Damn I couldn't even do that and so I've resoldered my mouse buttons twice already
January 7, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I promise when it sounds like the audience is silent they're actually laughing
January 7, 2026 at 2:51 AM
replace most meals with popcorn
January 6, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Yay! Setting the font and size again in gsettings/dconf worked to fix my tab/URL bar font issues.

All I personally have left are how slow scrolling is in chromium browser, and that they get a close button (I'm tiling, I don't want that!).

That and probably hardware acceleration...
January 4, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Great post, of course; you noted a couple of Wayland font issues I've been trying to solve myself (and have been working around by disabling Wayland for chromium-based browsers in the meantime)

Hope they work. Annoying how gtk sticks stuff in dconf/gsettings and not a file
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 PM
If you're new to foot, I would try out Ctrl+Shift+O rather than manually copying links; it instead pairs each link on screen with a letter you can hit and then it'll open in the browser.

I also suggest using foot --server and then using footclient as the default terminal; slightly faster to open.
January 4, 2026 at 4:43 PM
No, this is not (yet?) possible
January 2, 2026 at 10:02 AM
I use giscus.app and am very happy with it, though I recognize it does tie things to GitHub (which is fine for my kind of content)
giscus
A comments widget built on GitHub Discussions.
giscus.app
December 29, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Faster, certainly, though I am not sure what "transparent" means in this context
December 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Lmao at least this is a shared opinion
This is far south side stuff. Aurelio's has a stranglehold from 147th on down and has since I was a kid. Lord knows why, too much damn sugar in the sauce
December 28, 2025 at 7:52 PM
User error, I wasn't logged in, shameful
December 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Well, that's embarrassing
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
agghhhhhh I'm not logged in on my phone
December 28, 2025 at 5:15 PM
go-review*
December 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
go-source doesn't have that, so it seems to me

I've seen people just add themselves to CC, which I never want to do (and also, anyone can remove anyone else from CC which is exciting)
December 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Hm, I don't see a star on Go CL pages; I thought starring was an issues thing (I do that on the chromium tracker)
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
My memory of the giant thread is poor so I can't remember a specific example, but I personally haven't had such problems in TS, even in codebases which don't opt to require parens even around single element argument lists.
December 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM