James Munns
@jamesmunns.com
Notable Protocol Enjoyer.
Doing stuff, mostly in Rust and on Embedded systems. Need help with that? Hire me @onevariable.com
Co-host @sdr-podcast.com
DMs (matrix): @jamesmunns:beeper.com
DMs (signal): jamesmunns.255
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Kein Ort für Nazis
Doing stuff, mostly in Rust and on Embedded systems. Need help with that? Hire me @onevariable.com
Co-host @sdr-podcast.com
DMs (matrix): @jamesmunns:beeper.com
DMs (signal): jamesmunns.255
he/him
Kein Ort für Nazis
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hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!
February 11, 2026 at 10:24 AM
hey uhhh. I got fired yesterday. if anyone has rust positions in the Netherlands let me know!
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Our $200M Series C
oxide.computer/blog/our-200...
oxide.computer/blog/our-200...
Our $200M Series C / Oxide
Raising our Series C round of financing
oxide.computer
February 10, 2026 at 2:17 PM
Our $200M Series C
oxide.computer/blog/our-200...
oxide.computer/blog/our-200...
Are other Fastmail-users out there not seeing the last wave or so? I set up filters so it's been skipping my inbox, but I stopped having them show up in spam/my filter folder since Feb 5th
Not sure if I'm just in a different dataset/partition, or if fastmail has started blocking it @ the mailserver
Not sure if I'm just in a different dataset/partition, or if fastmail has started blocking it @ the mailserver
Zendesk. Please.
February 10, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Are other Fastmail-users out there not seeing the last wave or so? I set up filters so it's been skipping my inbox, but I stopped having them show up in spam/my filter folder since Feb 5th
Not sure if I'm just in a different dataset/partition, or if fastmail has started blocking it @ the mailserver
Not sure if I'm just in a different dataset/partition, or if fastmail has started blocking it @ the mailserver
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someone please hire me. i'm going to go work on calendars now
as i write this i have just submitted the 100th application since i started in august last year
February 10, 2026 at 11:52 AM
someone please hire me. i'm going to go work on calendars now
Me, for the last 2-3 weeks or so, writing embassy HAL support for Deep Sleep mode for the NXP MCX-A family of processors.
(we now have a custom executor that auto-sleeps to the deepest level possible, light/deep sleep, whenever you .await, and automatically inhibits deepsleep when needed/requested)
(we now have a custom executor that auto-sleeps to the deepest level possible, light/deep sleep, whenever you .await, and automatically inhibits deepsleep when needed/requested)
February 10, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Me, for the last 2-3 weeks or so, writing embassy HAL support for Deep Sleep mode for the NXP MCX-A family of processors.
(we now have a custom executor that auto-sleeps to the deepest level possible, light/deep sleep, whenever you .await, and automatically inhibits deepsleep when needed/requested)
(we now have a custom executor that auto-sleeps to the deepest level possible, light/deep sleep, whenever you .await, and automatically inhibits deepsleep when needed/requested)
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Oxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Oxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Landing one of my most ambitious PRs to date — switching vixen's VFS RPC from TCP to SHM. I was in suspense the whole time that the macOS sandbox would get in the way and... nope! Works fine 😌
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard)
github.com/bearcove/vix...
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard)
github.com/bearcove/vix...
macOS VFS: switch mount handshake to SHM sid rendezvous by fasterthanlime · Pull Request #109 · bearcove/vixen
Summary
switch macOS VFS mount handshake from stream setup to SHM sid rendezvous
wire VFS extension and mount helper to bootstrap SHM via App Group control socket
add detailed mount/bootstrap diag...
github.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Landing one of my most ambitious PRs to date — switching vixen's VFS RPC from TCP to SHM. I was in suspense the whole time that the macOS sandbox would get in the way and... nope! Works fine 😌
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard)
github.com/bearcove/vix...
(This is Rust⇄Swift IPC btw, using facet + postcard)
github.com/bearcove/vix...
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February 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM
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By the way, any self-hosted folks out there have any "paperless" systems they like? e.g. scanning + catalogging docs, doing OCR and full text search, etc.?
I finally set up a wiki (otterwiki.com) just for my wife and I to actually write down stuff that we need to commonly remember. It's super useful. I would highly recommend it to any couples. I have it running in a container and only accessible locally.
Welcome
NoteFirst of all, there are no otters here. I'm utterly sorry about that. When I started this project, the name was given by the decision to write an otter wiki. -- Ralph·This is the home of An Otter ...
otterwiki.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:41 PM
By the way, any self-hosted folks out there have any "paperless" systems they like? e.g. scanning + catalogging docs, doing OCR and full text search, etc.?
I finally set up a wiki (otterwiki.com) just for my wife and I to actually write down stuff that we need to commonly remember. It's super useful. I would highly recommend it to any couples. I have it running in a container and only accessible locally.
Welcome
NoteFirst of all, there are no otters here. I'm utterly sorry about that. When I started this project, the name was given by the decision to write an otter wiki. -- Ralph·This is the home of An Otter ...
otterwiki.com
February 8, 2026 at 7:11 PM
I finally set up a wiki (otterwiki.com) just for my wife and I to actually write down stuff that we need to commonly remember. It's super useful. I would highly recommend it to any couples. I have it running in a container and only accessible locally.
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wtf that's so upsetting, at least there's still html5zombo.com
ZOMBO
html5zombo.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:05 PM
wtf that's so upsetting, at least there's still html5zombo.com
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This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com
RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.
Anything at all.
RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.
Anything at all.
Zombo.com - No limits - You can do anything
Welcome to Zombo.com — a colorful, playful place where you can do anything. There are no limits. Zombo is unlimited.
zombo.com
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 AM
This is an act of cultural vandalism: zombo.com
RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.
Anything at all.
RIP zombocom, 1999-2026. You could do anything at zombocom.
Anything at all.
The work by @hailey.at and @nonbinary.computer in particular on (mostly) autonomous, stateful, agents on bsky has been one of the coolest things in this space to watch, and has significantly changed my perception + opinions on what is possible these days.
This was a very cool read.
This was a very cool read.
felt the need. i feel vastly under qualified to write something like this, but i also feel its especially important that we think about the way we use language
Is the Detachment in the Room? - Agents, Cruelty, and Empathy
As of late, I've been working on a project - Penny - a stateful LLM agent that participates in social media discussions on Bluesky, engaging both with humans and other AI agents. Initially, there were...
hailey.at
February 7, 2026 at 9:18 AM
The work by @hailey.at and @nonbinary.computer in particular on (mostly) autonomous, stateful, agents on bsky has been one of the coolest things in this space to watch, and has significantly changed my perception + opinions on what is possible these days.
This was a very cool read.
This was a very cool read.
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L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static
February 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static
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in-band signaling is always a mistake and unix tooling is full of in-band signaling https://mas.to/@zekjur/116022397626943871
Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 (@zekjur@mas.to)
Attached: 4 images PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages? Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change! This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.
mas.to
February 6, 2026 at 8:05 AM
in-band signaling is always a mistake and unix tooling is full of in-band signaling https://mas.to/@zekjur/116022397626943871
weirdest Sorted Food episode crossover yet
Was this very mid-2000s emo person press-ganged into ICE servitude?
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 AM
weirdest Sorted Food episode crossover yet
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"strong" type systems are such a silly concept. it's actually really simple: there are statically typed languages like python and dynamically typed ones like LLVM's C api
February 5, 2026 at 9:55 PM
"strong" type systems are such a silly concept. it's actually really simple: there are statically typed languages like python and dynamically typed ones like LLVM's C api
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Borrowing these filters from @notnite.com, so I can regain some order in my inbox:
February 4, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Borrowing these filters from @notnite.com, so I can regain some order in my inbox:
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sigh, looks like the next round of zendesk proxy spam has started
February 4, 2026 at 6:58 PM
sigh, looks like the next round of zendesk proxy spam has started
Weird naming thing, if you use Jira for issue/task tracking, do you call each entity "A [Jira] Ticket", or a "A Jira"?
I would say "close that Jira ticket", but I have a customer that says "close that Jira".
I would say "close that Jira ticket", but I have a customer that says "close that Jira".
February 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Weird naming thing, if you use Jira for issue/task tracking, do you call each entity "A [Jira] Ticket", or a "A Jira"?
I would say "close that Jira ticket", but I have a customer that says "close that Jira".
I would say "close that Jira ticket", but I have a customer that says "close that Jira".
> Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, source says
Texas Instruments is in advanced talks to buy chip designer Silicon Laboratories for about $7 billion, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
www.reuters.com
February 4, 2026 at 11:49 AM
> Texas Instruments in advanced talks to buy Silicon Laboratories
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
We march ever closer to the "silicon vendor singularity"
www.reuters.com/technology/t...
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But IMO the world hasn’t been made any better by half-built products looking for quick exits and requiring constant data collection in order to run their A/B tests
I am personally of the opinionated, obsessive, craft + taste > market analysis, vertical integration, long timelines ilk of technologist
I am personally of the opinionated, obsessive, craft + taste > market analysis, vertical integration, long timelines ilk of technologist
February 3, 2026 at 4:33 PM
But IMO the world hasn’t been made any better by half-built products looking for quick exits and requiring constant data collection in order to run their A/B tests
I am personally of the opinionated, obsessive, craft + taste > market analysis, vertical integration, long timelines ilk of technologist
I am personally of the opinionated, obsessive, craft + taste > market analysis, vertical integration, long timelines ilk of technologist
Today in "comically tall electrolytic capacitors", the 25mm tall www.lcsc.com/product-deta..., on a 55x75mm board. Finding a 50V 680uF bulk cap is surprisingly challenging.
February 3, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Today in "comically tall electrolytic capacitors", the 25mm tall www.lcsc.com/product-deta..., on a 55x75mm board. Finding a 50V 680uF bulk cap is surprisingly challenging.