Justin Hunter

Stupid code is useful code spikepuppet.io/posts/write-...

The AL Central and the final NL Wild Card will be decided on the last day of the season. I love baseball!

I’m rebuilding a 1980 Suzuki GS850 with my son and I have never known shit about electrical. But I’m determined to learn and I’m already learning so much. It’s a great project. Reminds me a lot of coding

The internet is only as forever as you make it. This is why I don’t like blogging on closed platforms. I want every one of my blog posts in HTML or markdown format that I can have forever and recreate anywhere. tallywinkle.bearblog.dev/the-internet...

A couple of years ago, I paid $99 for Nova, a Mac only IDE. I didn’t give it much time tbh, but I’m thinking about giving it another shot. It’s made by Panic, and it’d be cool to support them. nova.app

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We just updated Orbiter's custom domain infra to be decidedly faster and more resilient. Our original setup used a traditional NGINX reverse proxy. Now, we're using Cloudflare proxies. This gives us the full benefit of Cloudflare's CDN as well as bot and DDOS protection without manual configuration

In addition to having the simplest static site/SPA hosting out there, Orbiter also supports serverless functions. We tried to maintain the simplicity when we designed this backend functionality. orbiter.host/functions

Orbiter looks awesome for deplying dweb sites 😤👍 That and ipcm.dev, solves dynamic IPFS content with smart contracts pinata.cloud/blog/ipcm-so...

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I think it’s a good exercise for writers especially to read Ken Liu’s and Ted Chiang’s takes on AI in addition to articles like this. 3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily...

This is basically an advertisement for Orbiter. You can get this kind of discount by using Orbiter directly without any additional proxy. x.com/siddsax/stat...

Last year, I read a lot of books on the history of PC and console gaming. It made me start thinking about assembly more than I ever had. Just came across this interactive tutorial and will be diving into during my free time on my vacation. shikaan.github.io/assembly/x86...

People should take all their old Intel Macs that will no longer be supported by the upcoming versions of macOS and turn them into Linux machines rather than dump them. tedium.co/2025/06/09/a...

Time is a valuable constraint that a lot of engineers dislike. Having a deadline changes how you approach a problem. It unlocks creativity. www.joanwestenberg.com/smart-people...

This is the strangest thing you’ll read on the internet today. But you will read it. And you’ll keep reading until the end. And you’ll ask yourself why while still being entertained. ericneyman.wordpress.com/2019/11/26/f...

Lol AI scrapers don’t read terms and conditions. techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/x...

Paul Graham has some really good essays, but its essays like this that make him sound elitist and out of touch. You know why you should write? Because you want to. Simple as that.

The general point of this article is really good. Educators need to personally leverage AI themselves to build learning tools for their students. Use, don’t run from, AI. resobscura.substack.com/p/ai-makes-t...

Pretty neat tool! Markdown tables are hard (for me) so this is great.

I’ve felt this way a lot. Next.js especially makes me feel this way. I will still use React quite a bit, but I’ve decided I’m done jumping through the constantly changing bits of Next and would prefer the simplicity of an old client-server relationship.

This is why I won’t let LLMs write for me.

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This is a great write-up. Collaborative data syncing is a hard problem and Linear seems to do an awesome job at it. github.com/wzhudev/reve...

So DOGE was largely just the same as the Obama USDS but with more chaos and more firing of people. sahillavingia.com/doge

I view all of this crawling as a balance. We’re going to be living in a post SEO world. And if you want your sites discovered, you’ve got to let the crawlers in. But at the same time, the cost of server resources is real and you have to mitigate the surge. lambdacreate.com/posts/68

Getting one of these felt like living in the future in the early 2000s.

This is what the web should be. Build things you like, have fun, experiment. Fight the hegemony. goodinternetmagazine.com/my-website-i...

Pretty clear that Trump has always wanted a kingdom. Now he can have a castle. AI Safety Institute is about to become CASL. www.axios.com/pro/tech-pol...

I love PWAs and I want them to succeed but the App Store model has so much inertia despite its problems. I’ll keep pushing for PWAs because they represent the open web, but it’s an uphill battle. thenewstack.io/when-to-use-...

Web Assembly is fun. I wanted to learn it a little bit, so I just built a simply app that takes C++ code to blur images, compiles that to wasm, then uses the wasm in the browser to blur an image.

Glitch recently announced that they would no longer be hosting projects. This is going to leave a lot of creators looking for a new home, so I wrote about three options for migrating projects. orbiter.host/blog/how-to-...

Web Assembly combined with the power of modern computers and browsers makes it possible and maybe even likely that browser-based gaming can become a much larger category. velzie.rip/blog/celeste...

Today I learned that in 1996/97, Netscape built an alternative to the newly created CSS called JSSS (JavaScript-Based Style Sheets). It went nowhere and didn’t become a standard. But for all you CSS-in-JS fans today, maybe you should thank Netscape. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScr...

Pretty wild that JWTs are only 10 years old. self-issued.info?p=2708

Maybe you should reinvent the wheel. endler.dev/2025/reinven...

This is FIRE coded nonsense, but a bunch of tech bros who don’t need to worry about this and are not the supposed target will read this and be like hell yeah shagbark.substack.com/p/how-to-liv...

This seems trivial but so many people don’t approach life this way. josephthacker.com/personal/202...

“Anthropic notes that Claude Opus 4 tries to blackmail engineers 84% of the time when the replacement AI model has similar values.” techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...

Glitch is ending support for app hosting. If you need a new home, Orbiter might be it. We have a generous free plan and affordable paid plans. And we’re dead-simple to use. blog.glitch.com/post/changes... orbiter.host

We’ve been super focused on developers but one of the cool things about Orbiter is hosting a site/app is as simple as uploading your assets. Like the old ftp days. orbiter.host

I've just signed the pledge to Stop SSR! Join the movement for faster, client-rendered websites at www.stopssr.com #StopSSR

This is still, by far, the most popular blog post we’ve written on Orbiter. orbiter.host/blog/the-sta...

In 2008, I went to this exhibit and was blown away by the scale at which a house could be automated. Smart homes as a concept weren’t new, but this was tangible yet out of reach still. Today, you can run all of this on a raspberry pi. Pretty wild. worldlandscapearchitect.com/museum-of-sc...

Want a global dashboard of what humans are doing like you’re a god? You got it! This is pretty neat. humans.maxcomperatore.com

This is wild and impressive. First of all, building games largely without proprietary game engines and code is awesome. Second, I didn’t realize how far C# had come. noelberry.ca/posts/making...

Great post from @justinjackson.ca on podcasting’s future. A lot of parallels to websites in terms of the openness of RSS vs walled gardens of Facebook, Medium, and others. Applies to hosting too. justinjackson.ca/youtube-kill...

Remember how we spent 20+ years either correcting our own language or encouraging others to correct theirs so as not to use phrases that made others feel lesser just so that gen z and gen alpha could start using those phrases all over again?