Andy Gayton
@ndyg.ca
Simple tools, fewer abstractions—inviting everyone to tinker & build. What’s worth building? For me: empathy and reworking our urban environments for humans.
https://ndyg.ca / https://www.cross.stream
🌌 Milky Way, ☀️Solar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Toronto
https://ndyg.ca / https://www.cross.stream
🌌 Milky Way, ☀️Solar System, 🌍Earth, 🍁Canada, Toronto
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new jynpost jyn.dev/the-terminal...
November 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
new jynpost jyn.dev/the-terminal...
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“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.”
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
React vs Backbone in 2025
A comparison between a React and Backbone password strength app
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
“The interesting part is not how much better React is—it's how little progress we've actually made.”
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
backbonenotbad.hyperclay.com
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3.0.0 pre.5 is out and brings journal compression support.
Here's 16K JSON blobs being written:
Here's 16K JSON blobs being written:
November 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
3.0.0 pre.5 is out and brings journal compression support.
Here's 16K JSON blobs being written:
Here's 16K JSON blobs being written:
I've been exploring this hunch that there's something really interesting in combining an event stream with Nushell. I've been trying to work out what makes this combination special, and really liked this observation from boomshroom. in shells, streaming is the default
November 6, 2025 at 5:29 AM
I've been exploring this hunch that there's something really interesting in combining an event stream with Nushell. I've been trying to work out what makes this combination special, and really liked this observation from boomshroom. in shells, streaming is the default
A prison of my own making
Killing the joy of homelabbing with my own expectation
jsteuernagel.de
November 3, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Well, it was a faulty RAM stick everybody
October 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Well, it was a faulty RAM stick everybody
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TIL @andersmurphy.bsky.social One Billion Checkboxes demo is actually 1,000,583,424, checkboxes cause the math worked better that way. Just casually chucking in an extra 500K reactive checkboxes 😂
Two way data bindings when you need them makes #datastar an absolute joy to work with.
October 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
TIL @andersmurphy.bsky.social One Billion Checkboxes demo is actually 1,000,583,424, checkboxes cause the math worked better that way. Just casually chucking in an extra 500K reactive checkboxes 😂
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Once you realize the web is really just a giant game / graphics engine that gives you a DSL for content, and a DSL for styling, and a scripting language for anything extra...it all kinda starts to make sense.
the "scripting" language is the escape hatch for the cases the DSLs can't handle.
the "scripting" language is the escape hatch for the cases the DSLs can't handle.
October 20, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Once you realize the web is really just a giant game / graphics engine that gives you a DSL for content, and a DSL for styling, and a scripting language for anything extra...it all kinda starts to make sense.
the "scripting" language is the escape hatch for the cases the DSLs can't handle.
the "scripting" language is the escape hatch for the cases the DSLs can't handle.
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@nushell.bsky.social fully integrated into @zed.dev ? 😍
October 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
@nushell.bsky.social fully integrated into @zed.dev ? 😍
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Messing around with nushell because sometimes, when I'm bored, even video games can't hold a candle to... terminal shells/scripting languages?
Oh God I might need to socialize with people some more.
As soon as I'm done gushing about how fucking cool it is that nushell can read SQLite databases.
Oh God I might need to socialize with people some more.
As soon as I'm done gushing about how fucking cool it is that nushell can read SQLite databases.
September 22, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Messing around with nushell because sometimes, when I'm bored, even video games can't hold a candle to... terminal shells/scripting languages?
Oh God I might need to socialize with people some more.
As soon as I'm done gushing about how fucking cool it is that nushell can read SQLite databases.
Oh God I might need to socialize with people some more.
As soon as I'm done gushing about how fucking cool it is that nushell can read SQLite databases.
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I forgot how nice sqlite and nushell are to work together with when debugging
October 8, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I forgot how nice sqlite and nushell are to work together with when debugging
This is the way. Don't attempt to replace your system shell on day one. Reach for Nushell like you might `jq` or a Python repl
I realized Nushell should be a tool and not a shell replacement and it changed my world. Lot of cool features for daily data driven tasks
October 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is the way. Don't attempt to replace your system shell on day one. Reach for Nushell like you might `jq` or a Python repl
6 weeks=new Nushell release! 0.108.0 is here:
nushell.sh/blog/2025-10...
Thank you core-team!
It's a blockbuster: QoL + papercut fixes. A highlight: `nu --mcp` lets Nushell run as an MCP server, your agent can now drive it.
With polars plugin: interactive ms dataframe slicing
nushell.sh/blog/2025-10...
Thank you core-team!
It's a blockbuster: QoL + papercut fixes. A highlight: `nu --mcp` lets Nushell run as an MCP server, your agent can now drive it.
With polars plugin: interactive ms dataframe slicing
Nushell 0.108.0 | Nushell
A new type of shell.
nushell.sh
October 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
6 weeks=new Nushell release! 0.108.0 is here:
nushell.sh/blog/2025-10...
Thank you core-team!
It's a blockbuster: QoL + papercut fixes. A highlight: `nu --mcp` lets Nushell run as an MCP server, your agent can now drive it.
With polars plugin: interactive ms dataframe slicing
nushell.sh/blog/2025-10...
Thank you core-team!
It's a blockbuster: QoL + papercut fixes. A highlight: `nu --mcp` lets Nushell run as an MCP server, your agent can now drive it.
With polars plugin: interactive ms dataframe slicing
`ui = fn(state)`
this is a terrific write up
this is a terrific write up
Wrote some thoughts about pure UI/ui = fn(state) after spending some time with http://data-star.dev. If you've been feeling modern frontend dev has felt overly complex and the juice isn't worth the squeeze then check this out.
ui = fn(state) done right
If "ui = fn(state)" has ever resonated with you as a frontend developer you owe it to yourself to consider we as an industry have been going about it all wrong for years.
Likely your state already lives on the backend and by syncing it to the frontend to render UI we're adding measurable amounts of unnecessary complexity. If you're to radically simplify if you development environments and production deployments then read on…
yagni.club
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
`ui = fn(state)`
this is a terrific write up
this is a terrific write up
October 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
did you know, in addition to being a better `jq` than `jq`, @nushell.bsky.social has builtin sqlite support
October 10, 2025 at 2:20 PM
did you know, in addition to being a better `jq` than `jq`, @nushell.bsky.social has builtin sqlite support
but srsly, you should sponsor. fjall is a work of art. 🙌
If you sponsor NOW (github.com/sponsors/fja...), you can get an exclusive preview of version 3!!
jk I pushed the first pre-release to crates.io - it's unstable though! Breakages guaranteed, and some APIs are missing!
bye
jk I pushed the first pre-release to crates.io - it's unstable though! Breakages guaranteed, and some APIs are missing!
bye
Sponsor @fjall-rs on GitHub Sponsors
Support fjall-rs's open source work
github.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:43 PM
but srsly, you should sponsor. fjall is a work of art. 🙌
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This scene had been waiting for me to paint the details in properly for forever. I finally got there last week. :)
September 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This scene had been waiting for me to paint the details in properly for forever. I finally got there last week. :)
You can try out the working example. Remember, it's multi-player, so be nice!
datastar-todomvc.cross.stream
datastar-todomvc.cross.stream
September 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You can try out the working example. Remember, it's multi-player, so be nice!
datastar-todomvc.cross.stream
datastar-todomvc.cross.stream
I'm excited to have stumbled across Datastar: it feels like the missing UI layer I've been looking for.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK9...
This screencast walks through building a multi-player reactive TodoMVC example using Datastar w/ Nushell + cross.stream on the backend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK9...
This screencast walks through building a multi-player reactive TodoMVC example using Datastar w/ Nushell + cross.stream on the backend
Datastar Todomvc :: Nushell w/ cross.stream backend
YouTube video by Andy Gayton
www.youtube.com
September 10, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'm excited to have stumbled across Datastar: it feels like the missing UI layer I've been looking for.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK9...
This screencast walks through building a multi-player reactive TodoMVC example using Datastar w/ Nushell + cross.stream on the backend
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJK9...
This screencast walks through building a multi-player reactive TodoMVC example using Datastar w/ Nushell + cross.stream on the backend
