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Andy Gayton

@ndyg.ca

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Simple tools, fewer abstractions—inviting everyone to tinker & build. What’s worth building? For me: empathy and reworking our urban environments for humans. https://ndyg.ca / https://www.cross.stream 🌌 Milky Way, ☀️Solar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Toronto

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 10d

but srsly, you should sponsor. fjall is a work of art. 🙌

fjallrs.bsky.social @fjallrs.bsky.social · 13d

If you sponsor NOW (github.com/sponsors/fja...), you can get an exclusive preview of version 3!!

jk I pushed the first pre-release to crates.io - it's unstable though! Breakages guaranteed, and some APIs are missing!

bye

Sponsor @fjall-rs on GitHub Sponsors

Support fjall-rs's open source work

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Anders Murphy @andersmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

#datastar is art

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 22d

edh.dev

Ed Hinrichsen – Personal Website

My name is Ed Hinrichsen, I’m an award-winning web dev / digital designer and full stack software engineer. I have a passion for all things technology and design, from software engineering & machine l...

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 22d

.. @edh.dev 's personal site is 🤩

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 23d

When people choose to take transit vs their personal automobile, everyone's lives are a little better. Let's get incentives right: mass transit should be free, charge people per use who clog public roads with their personal vehicle. Fair’s fair.

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Jul 19

Makes you question: why do mass transit riders pay per trip, while road time is free for personal vehicles?

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Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · 24d

This scene had been waiting for me to paint the details in properly for forever. I finally got there last week. :)

A man stands in a cave full of fungus, holding his arm out to a device connected to a glowing bridge of a translucent orange material.

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 23d

one take is, you can doing really interesting things, that don't require a lot of throughput. so, keep it simple: if your stack requires more than a disposable vape to run on, question: where'd i go wrong?

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 29d

You can try out the working example. Remember, it's multi-player, so be nice!

datastar-todomvc.cross.stream

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · 29d

I'm excited to have stumbled across Datastar: it feels like the missing UI layer I've been looking for.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK9...

This screencast walks through building a multi-player reactive TodoMVC example using Datastar w/ Nushell + cross.stream on the backend

Datastar Todomvc :: Nushell w/ cross.stream backend

YouTube video by Andy Gayton

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 8

wip

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 8

Modern LLMs help mitigate the biggest obstacle to adopting Rust: satisfying its notoriously strict compiler. In turn, Rust mitigates the biggest obstacle to adopting LLMs: its notoriously strict compiler keeps the LLM honest.

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Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm making a point & click adventure game about unusual places and unusual ideas.

A man stands in the rain, near a giant skull cave, car wrecks and glowing fungi. Against a purple sky he says "Ever since, it's like I don't fit my own body properly. Like I'm wearing a suit that's too big or something."

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 5

In Toronto this Tues? Curious about the shell / terminal? I'm running a work shop Tues @ 2pm @ new stadium

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Workshop: Terminal for the Masses · Luma

a hands-on working group exploring what’s possible at the command line, for shell veterans and the curious alike. bring a laptop with a terminal (any kind…

luma.com

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 3

A prompting strategy I really like is:

"ask me one question at a time to tease out of me..."

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 3

Good morning

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Sep 3

Nushell 0.107.0 is out 🚀

"This release has a pretty big variety of improvements to various parts of Nushell. There are some new features for watch, find, and query xml, and changes to over 50 commands!"

www.nushell.sh/blog/2025-09...

Nushell 0.107.0 | Nushell

A new type of shell.

www.nushell.sh

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 28

"Stuck in traffic"

Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 27

New cross.stream release v0.6.1, highlight feature: Expose your streams with @iroh.computer 's peer-to-peer QUIC networking

Full release notes: github.com/cablehead/xs...

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devtools.fm @devtools.fm · Aug 27

Why are there so many different CSS units?

@nerdy.dev can tell you more than most!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jF2e...
creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 27

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo5m...

Home-cooked Software and Barefoot Programmers: Maggie Appleton (Local-First Conf)

YouTube video by Local-First Conf

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 27

i'd love to see your experiments on this front.

@maggieappleton.com describes "the command-line wall" in her barefoot developers talk

a idea i'm hoping to test is that @nushell.bsky.social may provide a pole-vault to help get, say excel formula savvy, users over Maggie's wall

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 26

our current AI tools have a lot of flaws; not least the original sin of their basis on outright theft.. which ever way your ethics shake out though, this issue with sycophancy is really corrosive arstechnica.com/information-...

With AI chatbots, Big Tech is moving fast and breaking people

Why AI chatbots validate grandiose fantasies about revolutionary discoveries that don’t exist.

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 26

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Andy Gayton @ndyg.ca · Aug 26

is the AT Protocol server communal? or is the pattern more, everyone runs their own instance of the AT Protocol server, that's authed to their bsky id?

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