babe wake up
ipv8 proposal just dropped
https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Reading over this, my main concern is privacy.

It seems like one fundamental way this works, is that it tries to de-anonymize traffic. The mechanisms by which it does this are reasonable and have realistic and agreeable goals, but the end result might make tracking much much easier.

Would wanna wait to see what VPN companies say tho, I'm no network engineer.

talking to other engineers about this Thain IPv8 proposal, I think my current conclusion is:

There’s a lot of good to be taken away from this, but it’s overzealous and confuses too many boundaries. It mixes too many concepts together into one, which should remain separate for many reasons.

But the core concept of extending IPv4 and the nuances of how that’s handled is elegant and very practical. I think that should be taken very seriously by the tech industry.

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I'm gearing up to release a really big update to one of my favorite Swift packages

Omg We missed this in the Monday Blaze

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/04/tim-cook-to-become-apple-executive-chairman-john-ternus-to-become-apple-ceo/

About once every two weeks, I come back to my Mint desktop like this. Linux is not nearly ready to be a desktop OS.

This is a scam. Don’t fall for this.

It's illegal for me to tell you this, but uhhh

13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640

I'm gonna Gnut

Thinking about a pint type. Not, like... an eighth of a gallon, but like a positive integer.

Also, not an unsigned integer, just like.. an int type's positive half. Yeah, it leaves a lot of potential values on the table (e.g. PInt32 going from 0 to 2^31-1 where UInt32 would go from 0 to 2^32), but we find that to be a perfectly acceptable max value for `int`s anyway so that's fine.

And this way you have fewer problems converting back and forth between a pint and an int than you would a uint and an int because it's no longer "is it positive and does it fit within this range?", instead just "is it positive?"

Smaller problem-space at compile time, means fewer bugs at runtime!

Here’s your yearly reminder that GitHub is closed source

Our thoughts so far, trying various desktop OSs this year

"C++ is a great case study in how C devs are incurable"

Oooo 👀

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-metal-with-triple-coppers-heat-conduction-challenges-fundamental-physics/

... iiiiinteresting.
I feel like there's... security implications to this? I don't know what that'd be; it just raises my hackles.