Jesse Chan-Norris
@jcn.bsky.social
Ruby engineer, cyclist. Lover of animated GIFs and bungalow colonies.
More at: jcn.me, ruby.social/@jcn
More at: jcn.me, ruby.social/@jcn
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If you are working with Rails + ERB and you have not yet installed ReActionView => you are missing a lot.
Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications"
reactionview.dev
Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications"
reactionview.dev
ReActionView - A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.
reactionview.dev
October 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you are working with Rails + ERB and you have not yet installed ReActionView => you are missing a lot.
Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications"
reactionview.dev
Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications"
reactionview.dev
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
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It is nice to have a computer with some whimsy again. I've ported the esheep app from the 90s to run as a native app on macOS
github.com/orta/esheep-...
github.com/orta/esheep-...
August 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
It is nice to have a computer with some whimsy again. I've ported the esheep app from the 90s to run as a native app on macOS
github.com/orta/esheep-...
github.com/orta/esheep-...
the anthem we need right now youtu.be/wdepf8H4Lgc?...
KILLING IN THE NAME - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE // ROCK'N'TOYS SESSIONS #8 - THE WACKIDS
YouTube video by THE WACKIDS
youtu.be
June 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
the anthem we need right now youtu.be/wdepf8H4Lgc?...
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I built a new LLM plugin that can turn a PDF into an image-per-page for feeding into vision models, and in testing it found that GPT-4.1 mini hallucinates WILDLY if you feed it a blank white rectangle followed by a blank black rectangle simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/...
May 18, 2025 at 8:59 PM
I built a new LLM plugin that can turn a PDF into an image-per-page for feeding into vision models, and in testing it found that GPT-4.1 mini hallucinates WILDLY if you feed it a blank white rectangle followed by a blank black rectangle simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/...
Law & Order: Organized Crime has the best theme music of all the Law & Orders
April 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Law & Order: Organized Crime has the best theme music of all the Law & Orders
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Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising:
1️⃣ Celebrity deaths.
2️⃣ USB port connection attempts.
3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.
1️⃣ Celebrity deaths.
2️⃣ USB port connection attempts.
3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.
April 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising:
1️⃣ Celebrity deaths.
2️⃣ USB port connection attempts.
3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.
1️⃣ Celebrity deaths.
2️⃣ USB port connection attempts.
3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.
Reposted by Jesse Chan-Norris
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
LLMs hallucinating nonexistent software packages with plausible names leads to a new malware vulnerability: "slopsquatting."
LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything
: Hallucinated package names fuel 'slopsquatting'
www.theregister.com
April 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
Reposted by Jesse Chan-Norris
With tax day coming up on April 15, we want to make sure our community knows about IRS Direct File. It’s a free option for filing a federal tax return, and you can learn more about it at DirectFile.irs.gov.
DirectFile.irs.gov
April 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
With tax day coming up on April 15, we want to make sure our community knows about IRS Direct File. It’s a free option for filing a federal tax return, and you can learn more about it at DirectFile.irs.gov.
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They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
wrd.cm
March 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Amtrak was cool while it lasted.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ceos-dismissal-signals-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amtrak-analysis/
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ceos-dismissal-signals-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amtrak-analysis/
March 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Amtrak was cool while it lasted.
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ceos-dismissal-signals-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amtrak-analysis/
https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ceos-dismissal-signals-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amtrak-analysis/
Redundant systems, single points of failure, etc. www.wired.com/story/starli...
If Ukraine Loses Starlink, Here Are the Best Alternatives
OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle to replicate Starlink's coverage and usability.
www.wired.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Redundant systems, single points of failure, etc. www.wired.com/story/starli...
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because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...
March 7, 2025 at 1:44 PM
because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...
Can’t wait to see who made large crypto buys in the hours before the crypto reserve announcement
March 3, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Can’t wait to see who made large crypto buys in the hours before the crypto reserve announcement
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introducing tangled
a git collaboration platform, built on atproto
blog.tangled.sh
March 3, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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@lesteph.com did a scrape of the whole site a couple of weeks ago - preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...
18F: Digital service delivery | Home
preserved.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
@lesteph.com did a scrape of the whole site a couple of weeks ago - preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...
I don’t imagine what we’re seeing today is the “post office of the future” being celebrated here
March 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I don’t imagine what we’re seeing today is the “post office of the future” being celebrated here
What’s up Queens Museum.
March 1, 2025 at 6:41 PM
What’s up Queens Museum.
Really taking a page out of the “just unplug the servers and see what breaks” playbook, which, on some level, is kind of exciting! Except if you’re talking about people’s actual human lives. medium.com/@noahkingdav...
February 21, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Really taking a page out of the “just unplug the servers and see what breaks” playbook, which, on some level, is kind of exciting! Except if you’re talking about people’s actual human lives. medium.com/@noahkingdav...
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Looking up a new name in the DOGE list of engineers, I wondered if I had the right guy. Noticing they had apparently scrubbed their Github and LinkedIn profiles makes me more certain though!
Reminder: I am tracking DOGE activities as reported in the media here github.com/harrisj/trum...
Reminder: I am tracking DOGE activities as reported in the media here github.com/harrisj/trum...
github.com
February 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Looking up a new name in the DOGE list of engineers, I wondered if I had the right guy. Noticing they had apparently scrubbed their Github and LinkedIn profiles makes me more certain though!
Reminder: I am tracking DOGE activities as reported in the media here github.com/harrisj/trum...
Reminder: I am tracking DOGE activities as reported in the media here github.com/harrisj/trum...
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On this day in 1942, German tanks and soldiers marched through Winnipeg. The mayor, premier and Lt. Governor were arrested. The city was renamed Himmlerstadt, books were burned and the swastika flag flew around the city.
This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day.
🧵1/14
This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day.
🧵1/14
February 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
On this day in 1942, German tanks and soldiers marched through Winnipeg. The mayor, premier and Lt. Governor were arrested. The city was renamed Himmlerstadt, books were burned and the swastika flag flew around the city.
This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day.
🧵1/14
This is the story of Winnipeg's If Day.
🧵1/14
Shout out to the iCloud Postmaster team who fixed email deliverability issues from my server to icloud.com in a mere 3 hours on a Sunday night during the Super Bowl. Yes, I am stubbornly still running my own mail server out here in 2025.
Now to get Outlook to unblock this new IP...
Now to get Outlook to unblock this new IP...
February 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Shout out to the iCloud Postmaster team who fixed email deliverability issues from my server to icloud.com in a mere 3 hours on a Sunday night during the Super Bowl. Yes, I am stubbornly still running my own mail server out here in 2025.
Now to get Outlook to unblock this new IP...
Now to get Outlook to unblock this new IP...
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a 30-second ad for sunday's Super Bowl will cost more than $8 million.
in that same 30 seconds, we treat 73,250 gallons of water. it costs $241.
in that same 30 seconds, we treat 73,250 gallons of water. it costs $241.
February 6, 2025 at 2:28 PM
a 30-second ad for sunday's Super Bowl will cost more than $8 million.
in that same 30 seconds, we treat 73,250 gallons of water. it costs $241.
in that same 30 seconds, we treat 73,250 gallons of water. it costs $241.
Reposted by Jesse Chan-Norris
Finally some good news apnews.com/article/newl...
Newly spotted asteroid has a tiny chance of hitting Earth in 2032
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of striking Earth in 2032. NASA and the European Space Agency said Wednesday the chance of impact is slightly more than 1%.
apnews.com
February 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Finally some good news apnews.com/article/newl...
Really glad the US taxpayer will get to play the role of the greater fool.
President Trump announces his administration will move to evaluate the creation of a "national digital asset stockpile" — making good on a promise to support the use of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin.
Trump orders administration to evaluate potential for 'national digital asset stockpile'
The price of bitcoin briefly soared, but the order appeared to fall short of crypto advocates' expecations.
www.nbcnews.com
January 23, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Really glad the US taxpayer will get to play the role of the greater fool.