Code froghttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.devhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mn5o5mpsq22cDo people ever find text wrapping for code preferable? So many sites and tools have this on as a default. I give up attempting to read it quite quickly.31 May 2026 13:26 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mn5o5mpsq22chttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mkba7qklxc24@tangled.org really needs a design rework. It looks straight out of 2013. Silly, but probably the main blocker for me at the moment. I'd move some repos over otherwise.24 Apr 2026 19:12 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkba7qklxc24https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mggvobmjls27Kind of insane: integrityindex.us does not show up on Google and Gemini refuses to acknowledge it is a working or legit or existing website. ChatGPT and Bing get it immediately. I think Google is forcibly down ranking it? https://integrityindex.us07 Mar 2026 03:38 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggvobmjls27https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mem7dom3o22eYou can now run through watlings online! watlings.emnudge.dev https://watlings.emnudge.dev/11 Feb 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mem7dom3o22ehttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3medcmrg4i224Made wat-docs.emnudge.dev I don't know of another WASM docs website, which is very strange. You basically just have specifications, some written in LaTeX for some reason. MDN's guide is probably the closest you get https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebAssembly/Guides/Understanding_the_text_format https://wat-docs.emnudge.dev/08 Feb 2026 06:29 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3medcmrg4i224https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mct6facxoc2yI vibecoded a thing I think is mildly impressive https://github.com/EmNudge/wat-fft Pure WAT implementation of FFT. Benchmarked against best-in-class alternatives which is either beats or is at parity with.20 Jan 2026 03:06 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mct6facxoc2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mc6jcfe6ss2zMost under-looked skill of great programmers: writing Echoes some recent thoughts I hear from @oxide.computer - some of the best programmers I've worked with are excellent at communicating. Getting good at this is a great boon to your career. Writing has helped me better express myself.11 Jan 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mc6jcfe6ss2zhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3mbcoeklwcs24New blog post - What Happened To WebAssembly https://emnudge.dev/blog/what-happened-to-webassembly/31 Dec 2025 20:11 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbcoeklwcs24https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3m4v5ecyccs2nhttps://emnudge.dev/blog/optimism-as-pragmatism/05 Nov 2025 13:21 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4v5ecyccs2nhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3m4ohuav5cs2vYour company has too many managers https://emnudge.dev/notes/too-many-managers/02 Nov 2025 21:41 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4ohuav5cs2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3m3krbiekns2vNew article https://emnudge.dev/blog/know-what-you-like/19 Oct 2025 16:53 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3krbiekns2vhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lv2n5lxfzc2jIt feels obvious since that's kind of why they exist, but LLMs are awesome for language learning. A missing piece for me is getting ChatGPT or Gemini level voice chat offline. There are dozens of ollama clients for the non-multi-modal LLMs. Would be awesome to get this for voice.28 Jul 2025 22:26 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv2n5lxfzc2jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3ltf43kapfs2yI would love recruiters and hiring managers to stop saying they were "impressed by my background" when they just mean I worked at a company they like. There is nothing impressive about this. You sound silly. My work outside of my employment is publicly visible. Be impressed by my rants.07 Jul 2025 15:29 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltf43kapfs2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3loumtcjf5s2gI kind of don't like how obvious it was that the copy for this readme was written by an LLM github.com/block/goose The website also seems to have a ton of LLM copy - which is fine, I guess. I just know that someone is going to go "Surprise! Even this was an LLM!" as if it wasn't already apparent.11 May 2025 04:33 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3loumtcjf5s2ghttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lopkebbui22qI saw something at work that surprised me. Large design documents, complicated product specs, slack threads and channels - all around Project Geppetto. ...[rest below] https://emnudge.dev/notes/naming-it-defines-it/09 May 2025 04:05 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lopkebbui22qhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lkcqggfsnk2lThe Web Speech API needs some love. The built in speech synthesis is pretty awful. Browsers like Chrome and Edge will include options that offload processing to them. These options require a network connection. My phone has a really good TTS built in, right? Why is it not letting me use this.14 Mar 2025 04:08 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkcqggfsnk2lhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lk6y4elfpc2jSpaced repetition is such a revolutionary concept, it’s surprising that it’s not taught in schools across the country. It would easily demonstrate a considerably improvement in retention which would likely show results in cumulative exams. I used to cram and forget everything after the exam.12 Mar 2025 16:15 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk6y4elfpc2jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3ljgnsfamsc2rProvided it is difficult to ensure correctness in any provable way, when are you satisfied with your unit tests? e.g. imagine you’re testing a utility with an unbounded variation in its inputs. When do you call it a day? I’ve got some thoughts but am curious to hear others.03 Mar 2025 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljgnsfamsc2rhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lisajluzn22p@stuffwithstuff.com I just sat down to read the Crafting Interpreters book and realized the first half is completely gone! Looks to be a printing error - super strange. Starts on page 249 right before chapter 14.4 This isn't intentional, right?22 Feb 2025 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lisajluzn22phttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3liqjwafpgs2jimessage has never been a secure way to send messaging. The recent news about it removing encryption in the UK is surprising to anyone that has yet to try imessage in china. Use an app built for this, not imessage.22 Feb 2025 04:59 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3liqjwafpgs2jhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3li3aq5obdc27Every python codebase I've touched feels considerably worse than pre-typescript web development. Not only is everything severely untyped, but it requires global dependencies such that there's a 30 step process before any code can even run. I do not like this.13 Feb 2025 17:48 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3li3aq5obdc27https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lhhljdm4tk24What are folks using for private registries? NPM has been a pain for a variety of reasons. I know many companies have something custom set up. Would love to know if people have a personal favorite! #javascript #npm05 Feb 2025 22:08 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhhljdm4tk24https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lgqt4wbngk22I find most rust codebases simpler to reason about than most python codebases. The confidence you get from stricter typing and built-in test runners is unparalleled.27 Jan 2025 20:53 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgqt4wbngk22https://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lg7uxhxovs2pHappy to see the capcut desktop app still works. It's honestly one of the nicest video editors I've used. They try to trick you into using "premium" effects which require subscriptions, but as long as you're just doing the basic chopping and scaling, you're golden. It's better than DaVinci Resolve21 Jan 2025 03:11 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg7uxhxovs2phttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lg4ih7pol22tGmail has keyboard shortcuts and it actually makes cleaning up your inbox much easier! You can get a list of the the shortcuts with "?" - you'll need to click "enable" to get access to the full list19 Jan 2025 18:49 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lg4ih7pol22thttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lfvywyk5dk2uI think I'm gonna start using yums.email The formatting on these recipe websites makes it really hard to actually find the recipe. Very solid service by @fancypenguin.party17 Jan 2025 04:55 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfvywyk5dk2uhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lezgq2mub22xSeparate state governments has an advantage - you can experiment a lot with different strategies and see what works. Obviously there are regulations that only work because of aspects specific to certain states, but you'd still find some more objective winners. Unfortunately, they move too slow.05 Jan 2025 20:15 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lezgq2mub22xhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lekjcxgen22iMade an article expounding on this: https://emnudge.dev/notes/llm-summary/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Dec 2024 21:51 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lekjcxgen22ihttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3lecxrqqooc2yIn another world, drugs would be legal and I'd be a super libertarian. We put restrictions because drugs are "biological hacks". They are cane sugar with bigger side effects. We add sugar and glutamates to food because the body is primed to find these desirable. Also hacks.27 Dec 2024 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3lecxrqqooc2yhttps://blacksky.community/profile/emnudge.dev/post/3ldqkpnrnu222If we force companies to expose TOS before going through sign-up flow, we can have your in-browser LLM summarize it. Would massively improve the state of TOS I think. No one reads it right now so there’s no incentive to keep it reasonable.20 Dec 2024 14:07 +0000at://did:plc:tgatoi47bb7xrxexwk7ogx73/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldqkpnrnu222