Peter Tripp

Thrashy is better than crashy. A chunk of swap is often the difference between a system that dies a tragic death and one that recovers.

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Sometimes I find myself remembering old IPv4 addresses of systems I ran. This is very much an old man thought, but like phone numbers, people used to need to **know** IP addresses.

At Chartio I somehow managed to acquire 52.6.1.1 by manually banging on the AWS EIP allocate tap for a couple hours. Chartio used it as the source of all our outgoing database connections (added in many customer firewall rules). Long live `exit.chartio.com`

After Atlassian acquired Chartio in 2022, I assume they closed-out the old AWS account and deallocated 52.6.1.1. Maybe it found a new home -- or maybe a mostly-empty AWS account has been paying $3.50/mo forever. If someone at Atlassian knows -- hit me up. And i'd happily take it off your hands.

onemileatatime.comCool: TSA PreCheck Members Can Now Clear Security Without A FlightGateside by TSA PreCheck lets members clear security at select airports without flying, using PreCheck lanes. Currently available at 13 US airports.

8 Sept

As someone who **once** got to surprise their partner with flowers at the gate prior to 9/11 I’m considering getting PreCheck just for this.

Steve Klabnik@steveklabnik.com

nature is healing onemileatatime.com/news/tsa-pre...

5 Sept

Realizing people are unlikely to mistake my writing for LLMs —no matter how many times I reread drafts I usually miss a doubled word and often include phasing which works fine in spoken english but is awkward when read. I wonder if Pangram would agree

2 Sept

A reminder: Google will never call you. If someone says they are Google on the phone it is a scam. If you ever get a call from someone claiming to be from your bank, hangup and call the number on the back of your card. Incoming numbers and CallerID can be easily spoofed.

20 Aug

I used to create open source tools to scratch and itch and hoping someone else would find them useful. Now I create a new tools almost weekly, post them on GitHub and don’t care. It’s not my job to convince everyone they are missing out on useful shit.

github.comGitHub - notpeter/offwhite: Whitespace enforcementWhitespace enforcement. Contribute to notpeter/offwhite development by creating an account on GitHub.

20 Aug

Offwhite. A tool for checking and fixing whitespace standards using .editorconfig **quickly**. github.com/notpeter/offwhite

devforum.play.dateSDK/OS 3.1.0 is now availablePlease see the changelog, and download the latest at Develop for Playdate. Let us know if you run into issues by posting a new thread in <span class="hashtag-icon-placeholder"></span>SDK Bug Reports<...

17 July

Panic released the PlayDate SDK 3.1.0 and I've updated playdate-luacats Lua stubs for all the improvements. Get it while the bits are hot. github.com/notpeter/pla... devforum.play.date/t/sdk-os-3-1...

17 July

Full Changelog available here: github.com/notpeter/pla...

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5 July

Glass bottle Fruitopia (1994-1997) Strawberry Passion Awareness Raspberry Psychic Lemonade Cranberry Lemonade Vision Pink Lemonade Euphoria Lemonade Love & Hope Citrus Consciousness The Grape Beyond Fruit Integration Gone but not forgotten.

Kasey Gifford@kaseygifford.bsky.social

On this special 4th of July I want to remind everyone that the ambrosial 90's era beverage Fruitopia was around for nine years, thats five years longer than the Confederate States of America.

20 May

I'm checking the [noun] against the [source of truth] so I can answer precisely rather than hand-wave the [verb] behavior.

2 July

Let me confirm empirically rather than reason about it.

27 June

Wanna be a better listener? Be like John Cena. When people open up, prompt them to talk about it more. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8GdnQ78/

24 June

Everyone is excited about Valve’s box shaped computer, but only one company dared to ship cube with one corner too few. #BoxeeBox

19 June

“On July 1st all US Households will receive a bill for $2222 to cover their portion of the war reparations to Iran.” ($300B/135M households) #ArtOfTheDeal™️

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social

The reason "pallettes of cash" became such a sticky anti-JCPOA talking point is because it's vivid - you can hold an image of it in your mind's eye. "$300 billion" sounds like a lot of money but doesn't connect with people the same way. Dems should consider this in crafting talking points

6 June

Introducing defaults-differ a tool for diff-ing macOS defaults preferences step 1: run default-differ step 2: change something in System Settings step 3: get `defaults` commands of the changes (profit?) github.com/notpeter/def...

6 June

It's wild that in 2004 @daringfireball.bsky.social synthesized an ascii-based spec for annotating text and now I (and millions of others) use backticks when writing. Not just code but prose too. Every single day. At some level, I often think in Markdown. Yikes.

13 May

I've been using LOL in conversation for 30 odd years (ytalk, IRC, ICQ, AIM, etc) but more recently my brain is no longer processing it "Laughs Out Loud". Instead I see a man drowning. Won't someone please help him? lol

13 May

Maybe this is a signal that I should buy `.lol` domain?

28 May

Or maybe the serif party is that way ←

21 May

@github.com: Please support emoji responses to Issues and PRs being closed. I want to 🎉 the merging of a long lived PR 👎 the premature closing of a legit issue and ❤️ an unmerged PR that wasn't quite up to snuff.

jsonschemastore.orgjsonschemastore.org

29 Apr

It's amazing how everything depends on GitHub and so much breaks when it's even a little bit unavailable. Today's example, JSON schema loading from jsonschemastore.org via yaml-language-server / vscode-json-language-server. No auto-complete for me!

25 Apr

Good news everyone! yaml-language-server now supports a more generic inline schema directive! Coming soon to YAML files in all your repos. github.com/redhat-devel...

I’ve hit a bug for years (5?) where my iPhone gets in a state where video refuses to play. Once it’s triggered no app can play video (YouTube, Hulu, TV, etc) until I restart the device.

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Has anyone else run into this? Or have suggestions for how to gather logging/debug data? It seems to happen most often with PIP videos, but I’ve triggered it during normal local playback too — video stops, play/pause does nothing; quitting apps and reopening is no help.

24 Apr

I figured it out. TikTok, Netflix, Peacock, and AppleTV were no help. Everything refused to play video unless I restarted my phone. But HBO. They bring the juice. Unplugging / replugging my headphones and video playback works again.

12 Apr

Does anyone else experience a splotchy mess when transitioning from dark to light on their Macbook? This is a two week old 14inch M5 Macbook Pro Nano-Texture with default settings. None of the display options (Preset, True Tone, Refresh Rate, Brightness etc) seem to help.

12 Apr

Steps to reproduce: 1. Put these two PNG images in a folder. 2. In Finder, select both 3. Press space to open QuickLook 4. Full screen 5. Hold left (or right). Record with SloMo to capture the blotchy intermediary frames.

12 Apr

Actually even just toggling left/right on Bluesky is enough to trigger the behavior for me.

github.comRemove text thread and slash command crates by benbrandt · Pull Request #52757 · zed-industries/zed🫡 Self-Review Checklist: I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments The content is consistent with the UI/UX checklist ...

6 Apr

RIP Zed Assistant (aka Zed Text Threads). By far my preferred method for one-off questions and quick conversations with LLM models. June 7th 2023 - March 31st, 2026 github.com/zed-industri...

github.comIntroduce an Assistant Panel by as-cii · Pull Request #2584 · zed-industries/zedThis pull request introduces a new assistant panel to Zed that lets users interact with OpenAI using their API key: After setting the key up, it will be saved to the keychain and automatically loa...

6 Apr

Amazing to see the initial release had `cmd->` (Assistant: Quote Selection) which allowed you to see/edit the block before submitting it to the model. The current Zed Agent Panel now supports neither. github.com/zed-industri...

6 Apr

This is going to be a hard transition. Literally three times in the last 30mins I've gone to dump a code fragment into a Text Thread to ask the agent to ask a standalone question about it. Zed Stable v0.230.2, I think you and are going to be good friends: ``` "stable": { "auto_update": false } ```

Have you ever wondered why if you save an empty Rust file your editor might add a newline? I thought it was a @zed.dev bug, but turns out it's cause Zed by-default enables format_on_save and rust-analyzer. When rust-analyzer invokes rustfmt and that actually adds the newline. But why?

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github.comLet empty files be empty files by notpeter · Pull Request #6839 · rust-lang/rustfmtNo longer add a "final newline" to empty files. Empty files shouldn't need need trailing newlines. Fixes: rustfmt fails on an empty file; --check's diff doesn't result in pro...

I created PR so rustfmt no longer adds newlines to empty files and today it was merged! 🎉 Starting with rustfmt StyleEdition 2027, empty rs files are properly formatted -- no more extra newline required. github.com/rust-lang/ru...

github.comrustfmt fails on an empty file; --check's diff doesn't result in properly formatted file · Issue #5364 · rust-lang/rustfmtGenerate an empty file, and run rustfmt --check on it: $ touch zero_lines.rs $ rustfmt --check zero_lines.rs Diff in /Users/roy/code/random/test-crate/src/zero_lines.rs at line 1: + + $ So, this is...

I cataloged more issue/commit links in this comment, but otherwise have no first hand knowledge. Maybe @ncameron.org has more context. Otherwise it was fun to research a decade old behavior and implement a fix while upholding rustfmt's super-strict stability guarantees. github.com/rust-lang/ru...

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To workaround this, prior to rustc being fixed, rustfmt added a newline to all formatted content. This had the benefit of (a) enforcing a trailing newline on formatted content (b) preventing the rustc panic on empty files. Zero byte files became 1 byte files with a newline.

rust-lang.github.io2437-rustfmt-stability - The Rust RFC Book

For the next decade (through StyleEdition 2024 today) rustfmt dutifully adds newlines, despite the compiler bug being long since fixed. Changing rustfmt formatting now requires some effort to minimize pain for rustfmt users. There's even an RFC: rust-lang.github.io/rfcs/2437-ru... 4/

With some spelunking, I discovered the source of this behavior. Prior to Rust 1.3.0 (2015-09-17) the Rust Compiler would panic if it encountered an 0 byte rust source file, but as long as there was at least one byte (e.g. `\n`) it worked fine.

25 Mar

It took me far too long to realize Indeed was merging with GlassDoor and not NextDoor. For the life of me I couldn’t grasp the private equity AI fever dream where combining profiles of racist NextDoor comments and resumes of unemployed folks led to a profitable synergy.

26 Mar

Am I supposed to use it to complain about where I work? Or the other companies in the same business park? Is NextDoor yet another social network where I’m expected to announce my new job so random people I met a decade ago can comment “Congratulations! 🎉 You deserve this!”

25 Mar

One of my favorite parts of coding agents is that I can just say "fix my merge conflict". I will happily pay some number of pennies to outsource the first pass to a machine.

25 Mar

At a bar with "Mango Cart" on tap. It's amazing how fast this has fallen out of the lexicon. Juul mango pods (along with Creme, Fruit, Cucumber) were discontinued (US in 2019, Canada 2020) but before that were **super** popular with kids. The beer is a about a literal food cart that sells mango.

ggg.lmarx.comGreat Glizzy Gauntlet - 10 Costcos, 100 MilesThe most delicious bike ride in Utah! Visit 10 Costcos in one epic 100-mile century ride on May 2, 2026.

I don't live in Utah, but I think this would be a fun ride. Eating 10 Costco 1/4 Hotdogs would mean my body would be 1% Costco Dog by weight (2.5lbs/250lbs). That should probably auto-trigger an intervention. ggg.lmarx.com

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I’ve hit a bug for years (5?) where my iPhone gets in a state where video refuses to play. Once it’s triggered no app can play video (YouTube, Hulu, TV, etc) until I restart the device.

youtu.beRunning Oxide at Home for Local DevelopmentYouTube video by Matthew Sanabria

I can’t reliably reproduce but it happens 5-6 times a month. Today I was watching PIP Hulu and clicked play on this YouTube link in BlueSky, then clicked to open embedded Safari and then open in the YouTube app. Boom. Everything stops and nothing plays. bsky.app/profile/matt...

Matthew Sanabria@matthewsanabria.com

I get a lot of people asking me how to run Oxide at home. Here's how I do it. youtu.be/qwXtS0-r1uQ