I think it’s time to boycott Spotify

New version of allc!

www.npmjs.com/package/allc

Created a #tool in #rust that optimizes input #images to AVIF with customizable quality and speed.

github.com/Trombecher/f...

Whoever decided to round the xy of D65 in IEC 61966-2-1:1999 to four decimal places: how dare you! Now all modern software calculates with inaccurate sRGB constants. /j

Windows just crashed on my again. Third time this week. Becomes unresponsive in a UAC prompt.

Just published LABuf, a Rust library to buffer fallible iterators. Kept copying the source between projects, so I thought it was time to make a library.

#rust #compilers

github.com/Trombecher/l...

It is genuinely hard to write type safe infrastructure critical code in TypeScript without reinventing the whole language.

I didn’t like that fetch had no response length limit, so I had to write my own fetch wrapper, which not only took hours but also resulted in >400 LOC.

An advantage of building TS backends which is often overlooked is that you don’t have to care about bundle size that much compared to when building on the client side.

For example, one night I ported Rust’s Result API to TS because neverthrow felt quirky. Was it worth the two hours? Absolutely!

This is not only another half baked Windows app users yearn to get uninstalled, but also a security nightmare. Good job Microsoft!

Trump’s new tariff math looks a lot like an AI chatbot recommendation. So we decided to ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Claude. Read more here: bit.ly/4ldxJ77

I just discovered this NPM package called “bail” with over 10m weekly downloads.

It is literally five LOC equivalent to

export let bail=e => e && throw e

Such packages save 100 bytes per project. This is a supply chain nightmare! We need to rethink our dependence mgmt.

www.npmjs.com/package/bail

Does anyone know how the font internals on Windows work? The Registry keys in question are undocumented, as well as font linking and aliasing.