natemoore on elm street 👻

leaked software industry training manual (2026)

Maturing as a software engineer doesn’t mean writing fewer Horrors, it means knowing when to write A Horror and how to construct the proper containment zone around it

There is no such thing as over-engineering anymore. Be as ambitious as you know how. Make perfect, fast, accessible, maintainable software.

I *may* have over-engineered this shadow designer just a touch but gawwwddamn, she pretty. #Lumen for #CSS → lumen.renderg.host

Good news Bluesky users: you can now access the Halo 2 main menu directly from my profile

📊 LayerChart: Bin edition Aggregate dense point data into discrete shape-based bins to easily see data trends (ex. heatmaps)

prescient

🙋‍♂️ what if one client worked on every forge? 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔤𝔢𝔰 is a new TypeScript library for issues, PRs, notifications, checks and webhooks across 12 forges ✨ forges.link

If you're a railway customer, you need to jump on this immediately. "We strongly recommend that you immediately roll all environment variables, including any API keys, stored in Railway" blog.railway.com/p/security-d...

We just sent $100,000 to 20 open source projects ($5000 each) that the Syntax team use regularly and depend on. Thanks to all the maintainers for all your time and efforts! Thanks to @sentry.io and @opensourcepledge.com for giving us the resources to do this. blog.sentry.io/another-year...

Building an atproto PDS in Zena today, that's going to be the basis of the Zena package manager. Fun times!

has anyone slop forked the typescript compiler in coffeescript yet? opportunities abound.

put the tools right in the model

Wrote a blogpost about AI and atproto. Just a normal blogpost. Normal kind. (I actually did write the text of it.)

My thoughts on the current state of AI driven software development, why I'm no longer concerned about a runaway intelligence explosion, and what I think is a far worse outcome we could be walking into maevyn.codes/decoherence

'you can see everything' is the best movie i've seen in 2026, you must see it

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

my strength as a junior was my fearless (yet exceptionally naive) belief that we are capable of building absolutely anything it's too easy to let life grind that belief out of you. don't!

humans do this too

I highly appreciate this directed graph showing which language is used to indicate incomprehensibility in different languages (eg, “it’s Greek to me”)

In this age of unlimited opportunities, slop forks, and reverse engineering, focusing on doing less but better is crucial.

My support for bluesky/atproto is pretty much explicitly a "political" project. It is bad for a small number of (mostly right-wing) people to literally own all the sources of media. Open-source algorithms + the ability to move your account without negative network effects opposes this.

and they're live! bomb.sh/docs/router/...

if you're using a modern terminal, there's no technical reason your favorite TUI is completely missing cursor affordances cursor support coming to @bomb.sh/tty soon ✨

tech bro is short for technically broccoli

airdrop fully reverse-engineered! works flawlessly on my framework laptop

If the cost of generating and maintaining code is going down, open source projects should double down on community, people, helping their dependencies and upstream teams, building trust that they are good stewards of that piece of the ecosystem. Some are sadly going in the opposite direction.

One thing I'm hoping to come out of this is that Deno... or at least a derivative of it, is picked up by someone in the ecosystem and continued. We need choice and diversity in the ecosystem.

GM. It’s not that atproto is illegible to devs or even civilians but inscrutable via the systems of power that have taken over the internet. The sin of social media wasn’t technical but aligning with the desires of established power and ours is the long hard work of breaking that alignment.

I was thinking about atproto more and had a thought: no one needs to know or care about the protocol. we just need to normalize the idea that it’s bonkers to allow any company to own part of your identity it’s like how you used to lose your phone number if you switched carriers. that sucked

So, today I built `<calc-input>`. It’s a custom input element that accepts mathematical formulas — such as 2 + 3 or (2 + 3) * 4 — and automatically toggles between showing the formula on focus and the calculated result on blur. → brm.us/calc-input

📊 LayerChart: a new dimension New in v2.6.0, `view={isometric}` can be passed to any Chart to add a tilted perspective to your Svg, Canvas, and Html layers. Going further, use the `z` accessor to add (faux) 3D depth rendering for most marks.

this new typeface from Paper is gooood paper.design/mono

cooking docs 😉 for @bomb.sh/router

very cool work done here to use #CSS scroll snap for gesture powered bottom sheets github.com/viliket/pure...

The incredible team at @bomb.sh has been absolutely dominating. New bomb router is slick. Tty is best in class for tui. Prompts are really well done. Everything is slick slick slick, well packages, small code size. Ridiculously OP team.

prowling up and down the feed with my new reaction image in hand

OpaqueRange should be on your radar

I helped with the rsbuild plugin now that sentry uses it 🙌. Happy to be part of this release 🫶

our new CLI router supports standard schema and takes lots of inspiration from HTTP. read all about it the blog!