Markus Unterwaditzer
@untitaker.myatproto.social
I really don't think that new HTML5 parsing libraries is what we need. We need to figure out how to keep the existing ones well-maintained, and so if we can't improve the funding situation on them, we need to figure out how to make maintenance easier.
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How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents - Friendly Bit
I recently released JustHTML, a python-based HTML5 parser. It passes 100% of the html5lib test suite, has zero dependencies, and includes a CSS selector...
friendlybit.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:23 PM
I really don't think that new HTML5 parsing libraries is what we need. We need to figure out how to keep the existing ones well-maintained, and so if we can't improve the funding situation on them, we need to figure out how to make maintenance easier.
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Easy answer:
Because to them, “Retro” is anything more than 10 years old… and that’s basically the EXACT point where tech flipped from being something that solved problems to something that sold subscriptions.
Kids aren’t stupid. They see it.
Because to them, “Retro” is anything more than 10 years old… and that’s basically the EXACT point where tech flipped from being something that solved problems to something that sold subscriptions.
Kids aren’t stupid. They see it.
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Why do Gen Z have a growing appetite for retro tech?
Gen Z are going retro, with studies showing a resurgence in people buying tech in the modern age that can be dated back decades.
www.bbc.com
December 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Easy answer:
Because to them, “Retro” is anything more than 10 years old… and that’s basically the EXACT point where tech flipped from being something that solved problems to something that sold subscriptions.
Kids aren’t stupid. They see it.
Because to them, “Retro” is anything more than 10 years old… and that’s basically the EXACT point where tech flipped from being something that solved problems to something that sold subscriptions.
Kids aren’t stupid. They see it.
Running a fuzzer, then feeding the crashes to an LLM to generate new seeds for the fuzzer, ... lots of shellscripting involved but such is life with AFL.
December 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Running a fuzzer, then feeding the crashes to an LLM to generate new seeds for the fuzzer, ... lots of shellscripting involved but such is life with AFL.
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Read this if you're wondering how Code of Conduct teams go wrong. It's hard, and not a job/team to be taken lightly. This is an A+ explanation everyone should read and boost.
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (@david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)
@lina@vt.social @commdserv@mastodon.social
I can’t speak for fd.o, but I was in a leadership position on another project where we got a similar case disastrously wrong, so I might be able to illumin...
infosec.exchange
October 25, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Read this if you're wondering how Code of Conduct teams go wrong. It's hard, and not a job/team to be taken lightly. This is an A+ explanation everyone should read and boost.
infosec.exchange/@david_chisn...
infosec.exchange/@david_chisn...
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a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.
October 12, 2025 at 2:17 PM
a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society
just wrote an .envrc to unload volta and load corepack, as one does. This means whenever I run node, I get a shim (quickenv) that loads a shim (corepack/volta) that loads a real binary.
Makes me apprechiate that Rust only has one version manager and not N.
Makes me apprechiate that Rust only has one version manager and not N.
October 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
just wrote an .envrc to unload volta and load corepack, as one does. This means whenever I run node, I get a shim (quickenv) that loads a shim (corepack/volta) that loads a real binary.
Makes me apprechiate that Rust only has one version manager and not N.
Makes me apprechiate that Rust only has one version manager and not N.
macOS quarantine is really funny because it does everything in its power to prevent me from running a downloaded rust binary from any terminal, yet arbitrary shellscripts are okay. what if the shellscript I downloaded contained a binary and xattr call? whoops!
September 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
macOS quarantine is really funny because it does everything in its power to prevent me from running a downloaded rust binary from any terminal, yet arbitrary shellscripts are okay. what if the shellscript I downloaded contained a binary and xattr call? whoops!
JavaScript should have concurrency control builtin. i.e. tokio's JoinSet or just some kind of semaphore.
August 2, 2025 at 8:48 PM
JavaScript should have concurrency control builtin. i.e. tokio's JoinSet or just some kind of semaphore.
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Seeing this reminded me of a pattern I've noticed among passionate LLM/Gen AI advocates on here:
A number of them are bad at talking to people, in a weird and specific way.
A number of them are bad at talking to people, in a weird and specific way.
"Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels."
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed thr...
arxiv.org
June 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Seeing this reminded me of a pattern I've noticed among passionate LLM/Gen AI advocates on here:
A number of them are bad at talking to people, in a weird and specific way.
A number of them are bad at talking to people, in a weird and specific way.
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You wouldn't believe the shit I get send each week from people working in industry/gov. We are entirely unprepared for the mess this is creating.
I'd send them to journalistic outlets with their inside info, but they too are entirely incapable of analyzing and presenting all of this properly.
I'd send them to journalistic outlets with their inside info, but they too are entirely incapable of analyzing and presenting all of this properly.
May 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
You wouldn't believe the shit I get send each week from people working in industry/gov. We are entirely unprepared for the mess this is creating.
I'd send them to journalistic outlets with their inside info, but they too are entirely incapable of analyzing and presenting all of this properly.
I'd send them to journalistic outlets with their inside info, but they too are entirely incapable of analyzing and presenting all of this properly.
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Hey Liv. I have questions. I just wanna talk.
Meet me outside.
Meet me outside.
January 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Hey Liv. I have questions. I just wanna talk.
Meet me outside.
Meet me outside.
These custom feeds in bluesky are pretty great but seem hard to create, and are still a blackbox.
In Mastodon I can just follow a hashtag. That's not as good but the barrier to entry for creating one is much lower.
Missing private lists from Mastodon for a similar reason.
In Mastodon I can just follow a hashtag. That's not as good but the barrier to entry for creating one is much lower.
Missing private lists from Mastodon for a similar reason.
December 1, 2024 at 6:05 PM
These custom feeds in bluesky are pretty great but seem hard to create, and are still a blackbox.
In Mastodon I can just follow a hashtag. That's not as good but the barrier to entry for creating one is much lower.
Missing private lists from Mastodon for a similar reason.
In Mastodon I can just follow a hashtag. That's not as good but the barrier to entry for creating one is much lower.
Missing private lists from Mastodon for a similar reason.
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Errol Musk has always been anti-Apartheid, but during Apartheid P.W. Botha's [the National Party prime minister] wife and daughter would stay with them because they were such close friends... amazing how that works
November 26, 2024 at 5:55 PM
Errol Musk has always been anti-Apartheid, but during Apartheid P.W. Botha's [the National Party prime minister] wife and daughter would stay with them because they were such close friends... amazing how that works
#1 feature request i need on bsky is to disable reposts for certain accounts.
November 26, 2024 at 5:11 PM
#1 feature request i need on bsky is to disable reposts for certain accounts.
this app isn't working very well. what happened? it was fine two weeks ago. now it's just sluggish as hell.
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
this app isn't working very well. what happened? it was fine two weeks ago. now it's just sluggish as hell.