@jamesmunns.com - James Munns · Scour

Finally updated to macOS 26.2 almost entirely just to get dictation services. I had to change my system local from being in Germany to being in the US just so i...

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TIL: CAT7 cable has thicker conductors, which means the (cat5?/cat6?) 8p8c connectors I have won't work. Also, I managed to forget my PoE injector at home, so t...

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After 3 months of waiting, we finally had fiber internet installed to the @onevariable.com office.

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"you all should've been nicer to my trans homies" is the kind of energy I want to be channeling in 2026.

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The New Rust Office Suite:

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I guess Hetzner bills monthly, and I set up this server ~8 hours before midnight.

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Ephi has done most of my tattoos, a couple of OSS logos, and is an amazing artist.

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@oxide.computer announces their new desktop sized "mini fridge" rack

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Software developers (myself included!) were collectively fools for not unionizing when we were at peak bargaining power.

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Happy new years from me and my strangely copper house

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Did you know, instead of figuring out firewall rules to expose your home server, you can just rent an 8C arm64 server w/ 16G of RAM from hetzner for like €0.50 ...

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Another mini announcement: I've made a new crate, `postcard-core`, that contains only the raw actions required to push or pop items to/from a byte stream, with ...

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Hey ATProto touching friends, what would be the easiest way to view a moderation list, say https://bsky.app/profile/jamesmunns.com/lists/3m7b2x2v36i2y, and see ...

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📣 Mini announcement:

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Also, the only reason I found this was because I was splitting up the monolithic `postcard::Error` into multiple more-specific errors, including some assoc type...

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someone, somewhere, asked me about why `postcard::to_stdvec` returns a result, if pushing to a Vec can never fail. I told them it was probably an oversight, b/c...

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"nonlinearities of scale" are so fun to see, especially as a consultant. "We can't afford to do X/We can't afford NOT to do X" at different scales are 100% goof...

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Time to spend all of the money you’d normally spend on regularly priced RAM upgrades on sponsoring devs building oss + native Rust (or swift, or go) desktop UI ...

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It's that time of year again :D

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