catskull

Was the decision to not support reader mode deliberate or accidental?

Air Gradient has and will far outlive any of your VC backed competitors. Your devices are not e waste. I think we’re totally valuing the wrong things.

I love the title but reader mode is completely broken. I have vision impairment and cannot read the default grey on grey text.

Mirror with functional reader mode: https://yazzy.fly.dev/https://blog.douwe.com/2025/07/were-al...

I started a podcast and have been having a lot of fun talking with staff-level engineers about their passions. It’s called Interrobang.

https://catskull.net/podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interrobang-with-dave-...

I built the whole tech stack with Jekyll and Cloudflare and wrote about it on my blog: https://catskull.net/podcast-workflow.html

Finally, I built a simple chat app as a web component with a Cloudflare durable object and have a few AI bots spamming the chat that may or may not ignore you: https://catskull.net/the-most-dangerous-app.html

I have a very very strong episodic memory.

I have a very hard time "selling myself". I've added solid stuff to my resume in the last year simply recalling what I've done from an outsider's view. From my perspective, I was just messing around. From another perspective, I was building "impressive" "successful" things.

Learning to give myself credit for my accomplishments is what I think made me the difference between a senior engineer and a staff engineer, as silly as that sounds.

I don't understand the difference between ANC On, ANC Off, Adaptive ANC, and Transparency Mode. I'm not sure if it's a settings issue but I feel like when I hold to change the mode these days, pretty much nothing happens.

Looks interesting! I’ve been playing with UTM to do aarch64 VMs and I even cooked up a little Sinatra server to do some AppleScript to reboot the VM and do some other things on the host. I’ll look at this as a more robust solution as to be completely honest, UTM has left a lot to be desired at least for virtualization.

When IT policy prevents root access to the host but VMs are fine

but how far are we from some bot ordering you a breakfast burrito on DoorEats and having it delivered? I can 100% envision a bug in one of the current crop of "AI" products resulting in mass burritoing.

It makes me question if I've ever seen a metric employed by a company that didn't have a detrimental effect on the happiness of the people involved. We are all unique but we're also really, really similar and it's in those uniquenesses that we find real happiness. But if we're only a number of sales/dollars/tickets/loc then the distinction is a zero-sum game; I only stand to lose a dollar that you make.

I’ve tried other 3d modeling software (blender, fusion, etc) and picocad is the only one I’ve been able to actually pick up and use without unsuccessfully spending hours watching outdated tutorials. I understand it’s not apples to apples. Just wanted to say thanks and this is an awesome tool!

Exactly this. If we drop the cost per kWh by half, the market will respond. The market doesn’t ultimately care about the planet which is why we need govt but bringing the price per kWh with clean fusion kills two birds with one stone.

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Workers use the web worker API so theoretically there’s less lock in. I’ve also found wrangler pretty good, what problems have you run into?

The deeper you get debugging, the more you have to reverse engineer, modify, even outright hack the target. Awesome war story, I know how good that must have felt.

Excellent points! I considered how to work in those cheap "Hail Mary" kind of commits. In then right situation those can be effective but it can also be incredibly risky. This is coming from someone with "Revert Revert Revert..." commits with my name tagged on them hahaha!

I love war stories!

"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered." - Galileo

I always think about this. "Once I figured out the solution, it was easy!"

In Safari, I've had good success setting breakpoints in client side JS. The call stack isn't perfect, but usually it's at least enough to get me to the next step. The other thing I'd mention is request/response overrides in those cases you're debugging in production!

these are the moments that make our careers worthwhile, in my opinion.

Thanks for reading my blog! I agree, it is basic.

Thanks for checking it out and for your comment!

I agree with your take on cf - the idea is that cf could be seamlessly removed for whatever db you want to use. The important detail is that an individual user has the account and ownership of the data. I think long-term what I'm really trying to describe is an open API for the social/emergent web.

I commented with this on the issue and it was removed due to “spam” ironically

Just looking at your site now. I'm inspired by your projects page.

If I had to architect a front end today, I'd start with HTMX. Very curious how far a HTMX+Deno stack could get you.

Also check out Gizzhead.org - my site for tracking their live sets!

Thank you, I believe I have fixed it. TIL variable fonts on web are not great! AFAIK they don't distribute the regular/bold/italic/bold italic 4 font mix?

The best GUI's I've used by far were text based curses (midnight commander, htop, nano, etc). They even support pointer input!

this comment got me to switch from google, thanks

I had not previously heard of Htmx but this looks neat. My favorite part about Vue is it’s templating system so it feels just like supercharged html. Htmx reminds me of that, but seems to be nice combined with some other templating system like ERB. I’d love to try this out in a rails app to see how I like it compared to a separate JavaScript front and and rails in api mode!

Thanks! Your dashboard looks like a cool project as well!