jmoiron plays the blues

@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: Lack of extensibility is a problem common to a lot of declarative systems, because they can't self-describe by design.. if they could, then you could trivially escape the declarative aspects that make them powerful. We've been trying to make web components happen for 25 years. Se...
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: I'd guess that the self-patronage model provides some minor protections against enshittification Not a very repeatable or accessible model, though Perhaps some prior art with Mark Shuttleworth, though Ubuntu isn't entirely unconcerned with profit or viability.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Despite being a former urxvt user and current vim user, I truly no longer care much about terminal emulators. However, I think it would be really fascinating to see an examination of the social aspects of the nearly 2 year ghostty private beta.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: We used it at DataDog, and while we understandably found a lot of limitations, the project has good management, is very open to contributions (eg. here are the ones from the dd eng working with it github.com/substrait-io...), and has been improving over time.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: She's good, her dark matter video was good as was the string theory one.
@jmoiron.bsky.social I volunteered to do inflation for the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade for 4 or 5 years. It's a lot of work but very fun looking back on it. Must have been a tough night keeping those balloons from hitting the trees near the museum and patching things in the rain.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: A friend is having a hard time running a nodebb forum on an affordable instance, and it left me wondering if "developing a modern forum backend" wouldn't be a good test run for AI driven development, since it's non-trivial, but also pretty well defined and well tread territory.
reposted @mattnava.bsky.social: 10th anniversary Journey thread, recreated: I was the art director of thatgamecompany's Journey. It set the course of my career and my art. I'm forever thankful to the community of players and their incredible love for the game. This is a thread comparing early dev images and how...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Now that more poasters have arrived I am realizing that unending cynical irony just isn't good vibes and what I'm really looking for is sincerity.
@jmoiron.bsky.social "If you use this new social media site you'll only interact with people that you like" yeah don't threaten me with a good time
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: For transparency, I am one of the 23% of Manhattan residents that own a car, and I am very pro-charge. I live outside the congestion zone, but I never drive point-to-point within the city.
@jmoiron.bsky.social replied: My instincts are that ~33-35% support for a new tax is pretty strong, but when Bloomberg passed the smoking ban he mentioned that 80% of people don't smoke and hate being around smokers, so maybe vice taxes are a kind of popular tax? Americans seem to enjoy the punitive elements ...
@jmoiron.bsky.social Been thinking about the congestion charge and wondering what precedents there are for enacting new legislation that starts off very unpopular (the "polling" shows 65% oppose though I can't find fine grained info eg. by ZIP). I thought the smoking ban might be an example, but it ...
by jason moiron, 2026