The VMUNIX Blues

Was doing some work in a Rust project and realized I’d somehow ended up with both ed25519-compact and ed25519-dalek in the mix.

I released slugr tonight.

TL;DR: A coroutine function can return a value (like Detached{}) before its body has finished executing.

I’ve been building a live-coding glicol VST in Rust for shits and giggles and wanted a “native” EQ in the GUI because it’s convenient vs going back to the DAW and adding a seperate EQ effect, and I couldn’t just farm it out to the Glicol engine because th…

I read a piece by Joan Westenberg a couple weeks ago — Thin Desires are Eating Your Life — that resonated with me.

Have been trying out the Helix editor before teaching the kid about modal editors.

Absolutely nothing new here, move along, this is well known, but I didn’t know it and it was semi-interesting to look into the details of how one small part of one of these Agentic Coding Computers (tm) work.

While the entire video is a little.. much..

Welcome to the new VMUNIX Blues It’s been about a year since I revived the old blog, and while Ghost has been just fine and I like supporting them, I decided I really don’t need a CMS I just need a simple static site.

Essential UNIX Configuration Tips This was a test post I made with Claude as I was debugging the Svelte shit.

I upgraded to MacOS 26 this week, and first thing I’ve wanted to try is the new native container support.

Lots of talk on the socials re: Mozilla and Firefox/Gecko triggered by the recent ToS changes.

It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a new laptop.

TL;DR: I’ve gone from skeptic to fan of Mastodon and the fediverse.

* 2025 note: none of this exists anymore but it’s left here to look back at and point and smirk TL;DR: we’re adding 3 new features to KryptoSign today!

So what happened was that the 6th most rare Meebit was fractionalized into 1M pieces, and 30,000 (3%) of those fragments were graciously donated to MeebitsDAO by Divergence.VC.

Our original 3-month goal was to investigate what a browser designed in 2016 would look like.

** update 08/04: I should have been clearer that Project Tofino is wholly focused on UX explorations and not the technology platform.

Disclaimer: I’m SVP of Firefox at Mozilla, I’m clearly biased, but I’m writing here just as me.