Leigh
leighm.cc
Leigh
@leighm.cc
Aussie Software Engineer. http://leighm.cc
The Replit mobile code editor is phenomenal. I haven’t found anything as good as it. I really wish GitHub had it or something like it integrated for mobile code editing that was fast and easy to bring up with any GitHub repo.
March 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Yikes, people can merge changes to nixpkgs with no human review?! 😱 For example, there is no review on this change: github.com/NixOS/nixpkg.... I find it hard to trust a major package manager that doesn’t have some review process.
February 22, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Waaat. So many issues I opened or 🙏 for in past years have suddenly gotten activity with PRs and releases. What. Is. Going. On. =O
January 2, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Is there a Santa AI?
December 24, 2024 at 8:45 AM
When I started using Cloudflare's new worker/pages products I was pretty impressed with the minimal permissions they request. Felt right. Welp, I guess that's gone now. :/
December 20, 2024 at 8:22 AM
November 26, 2024 at 1:51 PM
Something I find odd in Australia: folks expecting signatures on incomplete or blank form documents. Half dozen experiences of this in the last year.
November 3, 2024 at 1:48 PM
I think the main reason that make is such a successful for me to use is that it is so enjoyable and effortless to type on a keyboard, over, and over again.
November 23, 2023 at 5:54 AM
This passkeys thing as an MFA is pretty sweet.
October 1, 2023 at 3:39 AM
"Sometimes, however, you want to solve simple problems, or at least relatively simple problems. In those cases, it can be helpful not to use the building blocks of more complex software, lest you emulate their complexity without creating commensurate value."
htmx.org/essays/no-bu...
August 26, 2023 at 7:43 PM
There's a special place in my heart for Ruby, but it doesn't make up for the fact my build is broken because a stdlib function was removed between Ruby v3.1 and v3.2.
August 25, 2023 at 5:01 AM
Reposted by Leigh
The Rust community has weird supply chain security priorities.

There is a little meltdown over a package shipping a precompiled binary, meanwhile the crates index still has no anti-targeting mechanism and build[.]rs files run unsandboxed at build time, yes?
August 19, 2023 at 6:14 PM
Write Go. Pray for sum types. 🙏🏻 https://blog.boot.dev/golang/one-thing-id-change-about-go/
August 19, 2023 at 5:37 PM
Tried to load a modest sized library of photos into Apple Photos. Runs out of memory. Seems it loads all the photos into memory at once. Is this not a reasonable use case that was developed for?
August 11, 2023 at 4:34 AM
Google keeps displaying this prompt after I've hit 'No thanks' multiple times. I guess this means the feature benefits Google more than it benefits me. Or some team's promotions are dependent on it.
August 4, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Seems that Google Takeout can no longer export my Google Photos. So my entire photo collection is stuck in the Google machine. 😕
August 2, 2023 at 10:16 PM
I've clicked on "Don't Switch" in Gmail's "Switch to Chrome" popups an obscene number of times.
July 16, 2023 at 6:12 PM
Google Photos refuses to acknowledge that I have three kids. Or thinks they are clones.
July 14, 2023 at 1:30 AM
What do folks reach for when they want a static-site-generator that is as flexible as any built on an interpreted runtime (e.g. JS, Ruby), but due to the sheer size of the site need near the speed of Hugo?
July 13, 2023 at 2:48 AM
Reading an open source repos readme file and the build from source first step is how to deal with the main branch being force pushed 🧐 which supposedly happens sometimes...
June 29, 2023 at 5:15 AM
Me playing Fortnite 💪
Me playing CS 💀
June 26, 2023 at 5:14 AM
Tried to play some Windows games on an Mac M1 tonight. Six hours later, I got a couple games working, but multiplayer in all seems shot due to anti-cheat whatever not working. All in all a waste of time.
June 18, 2023 at 7:29 AM
The new clear builtin coming in Go 1.21 will not only clear/empty a map, but will also zero out, but not clear/empty, a slice. This seems pretty confusing.
June 14, 2023 at 5:23 AM
Til Go's 'new' function doesn't always allocate in the heap. 👏
June 11, 2023 at 4:50 AM