Jim Jonah
@jimjonah.bsky.social
Principal Software Engineer who loves architecting and building highly available secure applications. When not at the keyboard you’ll find me enjoying the water or traveling, usually on two wheels.
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You gotta give ‘em hop.
October 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
You gotta give ‘em hop.
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it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
October 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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Building a Decentralized File Upload Service with Storacha & UCANs
Every now and then, a small project ends up teaching you something much bigger.
medium.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Non-shortened link: medium.com/@fyattani/bu...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Lucas intended this to be historical allegories. Trying to “cleanse” space, committing genocide like on Alderaan. People saw this and the mass propaganda the Empire had everywhere and were either scared into believing for survival, or just truly agreed. Just like many global powers do in real life.
The Real History That Inspired 'Star Wars' | HISTORY
Historical figures and events informed George Lucas as he created his sci‑fi saga in a galaxy far, far away.
www.history.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Lucas intended this to be historical allegories. Trying to “cleanse” space, committing genocide like on Alderaan. People saw this and the mass propaganda the Empire had everywhere and were either scared into believing for survival, or just truly agreed. Just like many global powers do in real life.
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.
See what changes are in store for your county 👇
See what changes are in store for your county 👇
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...
projects.propublica.org
September 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others.
See what changes are in store for your county 👇
See what changes are in store for your county 👇
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Sure one is disrespectful to the dead person, the other is well, murder. It should be obvious that disrespect != murder, but apparently it's not?
September 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Sure one is disrespectful to the dead person, the other is well, murder. It should be obvious that disrespect != murder, but apparently it's not?
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Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have now been a journalist for 40 years. The forces ranged against my profession have never been so powerful | George Monbiot
Once, I believed that humanity’s problem was an information deficit. Now, I know you can’t speak truth to power if power controls your words, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital.
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We know very little about how cell-site simulators (CSS), devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, are being deployed in the US or globally, but with Rayhunter, we hope to change that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators
www.eff.org
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
We know very little about how cell-site simulators (CSS), devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, are being deployed in the US or globally, but with Rayhunter, we hope to change that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragma...
The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 Survey: What’s in your tech stack? Part 2
Which tools do software engineers use for project management, communication and collaboration, databases and backend infrastructure? Reader survey with analysis, based on 3,000+ responses
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Full article: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragma...
Here’s a long but excellent article that’s a great introduction the various OAuth flows.
www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-a...
www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-a...
What's OAuth2 Anyway? - Blog by Roman Glushko
Why the OAuth2 protocol was designed the way it is and how it works.
www.romaglushko.com
January 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Here’s a long but excellent article that’s a great introduction the various OAuth flows.
www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-a...
www.romaglushko.com/blog/whats-a...
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In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…
propub.li
January 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
See what changes are in store for your county.
By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith
This is very well done. I’m having HyperCard flashbacks and flying toaster dreams lol.
I am so pleased with how this turned out! On desktop, hover over the bottom left corner. Otherwise close the window and go from there. This is still all zero JS.
Matt Kane
Matt Kane's site that looks like it was built in 1991
mk.gg
January 5, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is very well done. I’m having HyperCard flashbacks and flying toaster dreams lol.
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What’s up with Trump and the Panama Canal?
Checks archives.
Oh, right, this from 2019: Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
Checks archives.
Oh, right, this from 2019: Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
In the latest chapter in ongoing litigation, the private equity fund that bought what used to be called the Trump Ocean Club claims the Trump entities pocketed money that should have gone to the Panam...
www.propublica.org
December 23, 2024 at 2:00 PM
What’s up with Trump and the Panama Canal?
Checks archives.
Oh, right, this from 2019: Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
Checks archives.
Oh, right, this from 2019: Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama
Bloom filters are very cool. This article does a great job of showing how they work.
Ooh if you’re interested in the algorithm being put to use here, I wrote an interactive post about them! They’re really cool, and this is a neat use case for them.
samwho.dev/bloom-filters
samwho.dev/bloom-filters
December 18, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Bloom filters are very cool. This article does a great job of showing how they work.
A very cool CSS article well worth reading!
I have a new article out: 🎇 Pure CSS Halftone Effect in Only 3 Declarations 🎇 frontendmasters.com/blog/pure-cs...
This goes through the how behind the 3 declarations and then explores a lot of variations that help us produce 🌟 cooler, more interesting 🌟 patterns.
#CSS #pattern #gradient #halftone
This goes through the how behind the 3 declarations and then explores a lot of variations that help us produce 🌟 cooler, more interesting 🌟 patterns.
#CSS #pattern #gradient #halftone
Pure CSS Halftone Effect in 3 Declarations – Frontend Masters Boost
A halftone is a pattern of dots that vary in size and spacing. It's a printing technique that you normally don't see, but blown up in size, is a cool aesthetic. This is a deep dive on how it can be do...
frontendmasters.com
December 4, 2024 at 1:09 PM
A very cool CSS article well worth reading!
I’ve been reading the white paper on Zanzibar. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-researc...
I keep thinking that a fine grained permission model would be a good fit for a graph database and this goes to great pains to fit in a relational model.
I keep thinking that a fine grained permission model would be a good fit for a graph database and this goes to great pains to fit in a relational model.
storage.googleapis.com
November 21, 2024 at 6:04 PM
I’ve been reading the white paper on Zanzibar. storage.googleapis.com/gweb-researc...
I keep thinking that a fine grained permission model would be a good fit for a graph database and this goes to great pains to fit in a relational model.
I keep thinking that a fine grained permission model would be a good fit for a graph database and this goes to great pains to fit in a relational model.