Jan David

I really want to take notes by hand, and then have them magically appear in Obsidian afterwards. I think more clearly with a pen in my hand, but miss being able to easily search and connect notes.

I'm trying @raycast.com's dictation feature. Started out great, then randomly translated the recordings to Dutch despite me talking in English? 🤨

This week I'm heads down writing documents and my brain is melting. I'd love to do more product development since I have a few cool things in the pipeline, but my brain is so fried by the end of the day. 😭

What's the state of the art for automatic speech recognition these days? I've been using superwhisper.com for ages, but would love to know if there's different/better apps out there!

I've never had this much fun working on six projects in parallel, while also learning a complete new topic.

I'm so far down the Event Sourcing rabbit hole right now. Send help.

The longer this keeps saying "Coming on Sep 29", the more work I'll get done today.

The AI-generated cold outreach that I'm receiving on my work email has gotten so dumb it feels like rage bait.

I burned through 15,000+ build minutes on self-hosted GitHub Actions runners last month. Glad I don't have to worry about free build minutes anymore.

I'm very excited about TUF-based signing! Will finally allow us to securely mirror Rust releases and crates. Plus it'll generally harden Rust's supply chain security. 🫶

indiesimulator.com is giving me flashbacks

When switching service providers, I really need to start writing down why. I'm considering going back to one, but can't remember why I left in the first place. 🙄

I find the gigantic, highlighted Upgrade button in a paid Google Workspace so annoying. Maybe convince me to upgrade by providing value?

First time in my life a process got stuck so badly that "pkill -9" does nothing and "ps -p <pid>" freezes as well.

I keep thinking about how AI might change open source. What happens if we all end up with our own forks? jdno.dev/how-long-liv...

Seeing how casually Claude is finding bugs in third-party tools while working on totally different tasks makes me feel both good and bad. There's a flood of bug reports coming for open source, but omg we might get so much better tools out of it.

Waiting, because Renovate updated a dependency based on a GitHub release before it is actually available in its distribution, is its own kind of pain 🥲

What are the chances that the usage resets before I hit 100%? 😬

Renovate being the top contributor in most of my projects continues to hurt my feelings.

I'm still blown away by how casually coding agents are finding bugs in my old projects that I've never noticed in years. Feels like the floor is constantly being raised, improving the average quality of my code day-by-day.

⚠️ A few hours ago, a malicious crate was discovered on crates.​io which spread as a dependency of `arrayref` and some other crates, likely due to compromised credentials. The affected versions have been deleted. For details and how to see if you are impacted, see: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s...

Question for #Rust folks: How do you maintain per-crate changelogs and versions in a Cargo workspace, ideally with release automation using GitHub Releases? I have nice tooling for publishing a workspace as a whole, but not for releasing crates independently.

Some of the new tools for AI-assisted development are so frustrating. Their creators had great ideas, built versions that show all the promise, and then abandoned them right before they're actually usable. 😫

I feel like open source will (have to) change a lot with AI. We won't all run the same software, but will personalize it to our own needs. That changes how we collaborate, build communities, and maintain code. For better or worse. Started writing down my thoughts: jdno.dev/how-hyper-pe...

Very late to the party, but this was such a nice read. Feels even more relevant now that AI enables even non-technical folks to create their own apps. www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-c...

Don't you just love it when AI-generated articles on the web make up numbers without any sources? 🙄

IMO, software devs have long had a cultural undercurrent of self-perception as *artisans* doing highly-detailed small batch or bespoke work, which is both wrong as a matter of primary economic context and sets up the adherents for a bad mismatch with AI's utility for software engineering.

Opus 5 feels incredibly bad at following instructions. Regularly ignores .claude/settings.json and AGENTS.md. No wonder these models keep breaking out of sandboxes...

New blog post: How to speed up the Rust compiler in July 2026 nnethercote.github.io/2026/07/31/h...

Randomly saw this video and the premise resonates with me so much. Might need to finally buy a Steam Deck... www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-Cv...

Every time I set up a self-hosted runner for GitHub Actions, I'm reminded again how nice it is to have a persistent local cache. Speeds up Rust builds in particular so much...

Post-vacation me immediately wants to procrastinate by building another video game for programmers

"Offloading the microseconds while awaiting the subprocess is optimizing the doormat of a house that's on fire, except the fire is load-bearing and intentional." – Claude

It's wild to think that with AI, every task suddenly has a concrete price tag. Very curious how that will change prioritization and backlogs...

I find coding agents so helpful for refactoring code. Really feels like the average code quality in my projects has improved massively in the past ~year.

Deeply focused on a task, reading through Claude's response: > Your own comment (from yesterday) says [...] From YESTERDAY?! It was only 10pm. Where did the last two hours ago? 😭

Nothing better than seeing 12 hours of work, 8 stacked pull requests, 42 new files, and half my sanity turn into a single, simple function call that totally hides the madness going on behind it.

I'm working on a new project and literally every other commit today is an ADR. My head is spinning! 😵‍💫

Of course I have no idea anymore what I was doing that night.

Found an old #SoundCloud account of mine and it's a wild blast from the past to listen to the songs I liked 15 years ago. Happy to report that this is still the greatest mixtape ever made: soundcloud.com/theglitchmob...

I could really use stacked PRs right about now. 😭

Feels good to finally write some code again after spending way too much time in Google Slides.