Sam Tran
@sam.tran.st
📰 Principal engineer + lead on elections at NBC News Digital
🐧 Pulling the levers behind @omgubuntu.co.uk
🛝 Homelabs, desktop apps, 3D nonsense
🌎 https://sam.tran.st
🐧 Pulling the levers behind @omgubuntu.co.uk
🛝 Homelabs, desktop apps, 3D nonsense
🌎 https://sam.tran.st
Can’t wait to see Ben Gibbard and the Lizard Wizard
August 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Can’t wait to see Ben Gibbard and the Lizard Wizard
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I did not expect the first (public) demo of Carbon-C++ interop I saw to be on a Commodore 64 emulator at a cppnorth keynote about empathy. Great work @scott.hanselman.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:11 PM
I did not expect the first (public) demo of Carbon-C++ interop I saw to be on a Commodore 64 emulator at a cppnorth keynote about empathy. Great work @scott.hanselman.com
macOS Sac Town is our best release yet
June 13, 2025 at 12:31 AM
macOS Sac Town is our best release yet
Fire at the Cheesecake Factory is my Panic at the Disco tribute band
May 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Fire at the Cheesecake Factory is my Panic at the Disco tribute band
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shoutout to the comically large nintendo switch 2 patch on the mariners uniform
April 22, 2025 at 10:58 PM
shoutout to the comically large nintendo switch 2 patch on the mariners uniform
The only victim in my impromptu weekend de-Azurefication was my Bluesky handle 🙈
Dread it. Run from it. It's always DNS.
Dread it. Run from it. It's always DNS.
April 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The only victim in my impromptu weekend de-Azurefication was my Bluesky handle 🙈
Dread it. Run from it. It's always DNS.
Dread it. Run from it. It's always DNS.
I didn't think mobile Safari's insistence on reloading a page until it gives up because it can't keep up with the next page search result would be enough to get me to switch back to Android after four years but...here we are.
Okay it's not the *only* reason, but it's such a baffling recurring issue
Okay it's not the *only* reason, but it's such a baffling recurring issue
March 17, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I didn't think mobile Safari's insistence on reloading a page until it gives up because it can't keep up with the next page search result would be enough to get me to switch back to Android after four years but...here we are.
Okay it's not the *only* reason, but it's such a baffling recurring issue
Okay it's not the *only* reason, but it's such a baffling recurring issue
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Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript
Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.
devblogs.microsoft.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Today we're thrilled to announce our effort to port the TypeScript compiler and language service to native code, gaining a 10x speed boost in build times and editor responsiveness!
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...
Maybe the Firefox ToS changes will amount to nothing, but it’s fun shopping for browsers again like it’s the early 2010s. Can someone revive Camino pls?
March 1, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Maybe the Firefox ToS changes will amount to nothing, but it’s fun shopping for browsers again like it’s the early 2010s. Can someone revive Camino pls?
Ayy, topping the charts two days in a row. I guess my quirky Southpaw Voyager layout really does work!
🏆 Today’s typ.ing daily challenge:
🌟 Speed: 109wpm
🎯 Accuracy: 99.70%
🥇 Position: 1 out of 79 players today
🔥 Streak: 2
📅 typ.ing/daily
🏆 Today’s typ.ing daily challenge:
🌟 Speed: 109wpm
🎯 Accuracy: 99.70%
🥇 Position: 1 out of 79 players today
🔥 Streak: 2
📅 typ.ing/daily
typ.ing
A clean and simple typing trainer that cares about how you feel. Type to find out.
typ.ing
February 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Ayy, topping the charts two days in a row. I guess my quirky Southpaw Voyager layout really does work!
🏆 Today’s typ.ing daily challenge:
🌟 Speed: 109wpm
🎯 Accuracy: 99.70%
🥇 Position: 1 out of 79 players today
🔥 Streak: 2
📅 typ.ing/daily
🏆 Today’s typ.ing daily challenge:
🌟 Speed: 109wpm
🎯 Accuracy: 99.70%
🥇 Position: 1 out of 79 players today
🔥 Streak: 2
📅 typ.ing/daily
I just want to know the backstory to some of the wacky specs up for grabs in Hetzner auctions. I can’t even imagine running an OS off a spinning disk these days.
February 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
I just want to know the backstory to some of the wacky specs up for grabs in Hetzner auctions. I can’t even imagine running an OS off a spinning disk these days.
If library authors want to enforce 'best practices', can they *please* put them in official documentation and remove the 'wrong' ways from the library instead of, I dunno, burying them in old blog posts and leaving a vast free-for-all of an API surface area?
January 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
If library authors want to enforce 'best practices', can they *please* put them in official documentation and remove the 'wrong' ways from the library instead of, I dunno, burying them in old blog posts and leaving a vast free-for-all of an API surface area?
After three days of debugging random reboots, I finally learned that seemingly innocuous HWiNFO updates can bring a Threadripper to its knees like nothing else can. On the plus side, my RAM is fully memtested and all my drives and PCIe devices are reseated and perfectly fine 😪
January 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
After three days of debugging random reboots, I finally learned that seemingly innocuous HWiNFO updates can bring a Threadripper to its knees like nothing else can. On the plus side, my RAM is fully memtested and all my drives and PCIe devices are reseated and perfectly fine 😪
Well I gotta say, one nice thing about Electron apps is that a broken Firebase auth flow can be as easy to fix as copying over some IndexedDB folders from a working browser session 🙈
January 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Well I gotta say, one nice thing about Electron apps is that a broken Firebase auth flow can be as easy to fix as copying over some IndexedDB folders from a working browser session 🙈
Reposted by Sam Tran
Happy National “Back to work” day y’all
January 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Happy National “Back to work” day y’all
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When an artwork has the ALT icon in the bottom right and you click and it says "ART"
December 31, 2024 at 12:55 PM
When an artwork has the ALT icon in the bottom right and you click and it says "ART"
Almost done migrating everything from Zotero, FreshRSS, and Linkding to Readwise Reader. All great projects but they were all basically self-hosted tsundoku. At least all my books, feeds, and bookmarks are all in one place now.
December 24, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Almost done migrating everything from Zotero, FreshRSS, and Linkding to Readwise Reader. All great projects but they were all basically self-hosted tsundoku. At least all my books, feeds, and bookmarks are all in one place now.
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The struggle is real.
December 24, 2024 at 4:24 PM
The struggle is real.
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Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
December 20, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume?
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
Journalist: it's called an em dash.
TIL Paul Giamatti spent a few years doing theatre in Seattle and had a role in a movie produced by our local PBS station www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ03...
VERY early Paul Giamatti role "By The Book" (1991) only shown in Seattle on KCTS
YouTube video by Declan John
www.youtube.com
December 18, 2024 at 11:44 PM
TIL Paul Giamatti spent a few years doing theatre in Seattle and had a role in a movie produced by our local PBS station www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJ03...
Took awhile to realize that a lot of my problems with using the ZSA Voyager full time were probably the stiff Kailh brown switches. Swapped them out for the lightest linear switches in the Choc line and my pinkies thank me 😌
December 17, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Took awhile to realize that a lot of my problems with using the ZSA Voyager full time were probably the stiff Kailh brown switches. Swapped them out for the lightest linear switches in the Choc line and my pinkies thank me 😌
I’m sure CalDAV is finicky to work with, but it’s disheartening when hot new apps only support Google, Outlook dot com, and iCal subscriptions if you’re lucky. At this rate we’ll see JMAP calendar support in popular apps before CalDAV 🙃
December 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
I’m sure CalDAV is finicky to work with, but it’s disheartening when hot new apps only support Google, Outlook dot com, and iCal subscriptions if you’re lucky. At this rate we’ll see JMAP calendar support in popular apps before CalDAV 🙃
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Join me, on this historic day, to celebrate the release of React 19 — the version that finally supports web components!
December 5, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Join me, on this historic day, to celebrate the release of React 19 — the version that finally supports web components!
I keep second guessing doing more hobby projects in Odin instead of Zig, but every time I sit down and learn more about Zig, I start playing with Rust instead 🙈
December 3, 2024 at 2:30 PM
I keep second guessing doing more hobby projects in Odin instead of Zig, but every time I sit down and learn more about Zig, I start playing with Rust instead 🙈