I do computers. Married to @radkat. Two sons. Xoogler. @golang team 2010~2020. Made LiveJournal. Currently @Tailscale making WireGuard easy.
Sep 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We've started getting nonsensical PRs to GitHub that are too bad but oddly somewhat valid to have been written by a human. They seem like they're Copilot-authored.
Somethines the author opens & then closes them.
One had mystery commit messing with GH Actions yml
I looked for malicious stuff in the referenced GH Action but seemed fine, but maybe git history was rewritten by the time I looked.
We never allowed CI to run on it.
Apr 7, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
"Part of your Tools", an ode to curl...
🎶 Look at these flags
Don't they run deep?
Wouldn't you say my manpage's complete?
Wouldn't you think I'm the curl
The curl that speaks everything?
🎶 Look at this code
Software unsold
How many nerds did that Swede embold?
Paging my docs one might think
Sure, I speak everything
Dec 22, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Christmas present for our music-loving 18mo: his own Sonos music controller made out of a Raspberry Pi 400 and a wood case with handle and velcroed battery pack inside. Printing out 40 color icon stickers for the keys next. Little #golang program reading /dev/input key events.
Zip ties solve all problems.
