Nate Butler's Avatar

Nate Butler

@nate.rip

Making things, writing software • nate.rip • build native & open, share your ideas with the world • future exploration @githubnext.com, ex @zed.dev / fb

736
Followers
166
Following
670
Posts
16.04.2023
Joined
Posts Following

Latest posts by Nate Butler @nate.rip

Post image

making a GUI IDE in 2026 is an increasingly meditative act

04.03.2026 03:08 👍 122 🔁 13 💬 8 📌 4

that is a wild YoY change!

03.03.2026 08:22 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

‘Making’ chess pieces from Lego. Wow !

Source / Creator: Greg Saniatan aka slopsmcgee, in collaboration with LEGO

01.03.2026 07:14 👍 210 🔁 76 💬 0 📌 6

Nice! I won’t be able to make it to this one, but will definitely catch the talk online!

25.02.2026 02:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
nate.rip

I haven't had too much time to tinker recently, but I got nate.rip moved over to @standard.site this weekend!

22.02.2026 21:15 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

lmao I DID try to get a toast built for long requests but it never got picked up.

I got hit with this a lot in the early days

21.02.2026 20:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Cole!!!! Yes!!!! Great job

18.02.2026 20:24 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nice - any hiccups? What did you port from? (Apple photos? google photos? neither?)

18.02.2026 19:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oooo I like it. Great mod.

Wish this had existing when we were looking for fonts for Zed initially - glad it's made it in now though.

18.02.2026 18:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

github.com/ente-io/ente looks great - anyone tried it yet? (Especially with reasonably large library - 500gb or so?)

17.02.2026 16:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
You Deserve a Tech Union — ethanmarcotte.com Read this page on ethanmarcotte.com

I think the most pragmatic thing people can do, if they're being mandated to use LLMs, is to unionise.

If by some miracle the bubble doesn't burst, there will still likely be lots of layoffs so get protecting yourself and your colleagues.

@ethanmarcotte.com has got the blueprint for you here.

17.02.2026 12:22 👍 100 🔁 20 💬 6 📌 3

llms or not, everyone in tech should unionize! There is literally no downside despite the angle big companies will push.

17.02.2026 14:33 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I love his channel! Pure tinkering joyx

17.02.2026 14:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pro tip: opus 4.6 is garbage. Drop back to 4.5 and you will see a big improvement.

16.02.2026 13:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I finally joined the dark side and started using pre-commit hooks (lints, cargo check, etc) so that when the model commits, it has to solve the problems.

(I can hear @maxdeviant.com shuddering from here)

15.02.2026 17:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Finally! Very excited that GitHub is now letting us have controls over who can open PRs on repos.

https://github.blog/chan...

13.02.2026 21:05 👍 17 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

🤯

14.02.2026 03:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I was so out of the dev scene then I didn't even know there was rust work happening at fb (or about rust at all LMAO)

that is cool though – I do miss some of the internal tools... and stacked diffs 🥲

12.02.2026 19:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

TIL you worked on scuba!! I remember that ui viscerally haha

12.02.2026 18:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Preview
a cartoon character stands in the rain in front of a building with chinese characters ALT: a cartoon character stands in the rain in front of a building with chinese characters

tfw you haven been working on a new crate for a few weeks, uncommon name, available, don't want to be squatting before there is something to publish...

publish...

the remote server responded with an error (status 403 Forbidden): this crate exists but you don't seem to be an owner.

12.02.2026 16:35 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come say hi to the Next team if you are in London! I’ll be there 🙂

11.02.2026 15:54 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Post image

I grew up on these streets

09.02.2026 23:25 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1

yeah this is awesome. anyone not excited about atproto in 2026 is just sour as hell

07.02.2026 04:59 👍 97 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0
Post image Post image Post image

say what you want about language models. but I love being able to iterate on shit like this in minutes.

It feels so good to just get to do the fun part.

07.02.2026 05:50 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Video thumbnail

having a blast tonight cooking a new nate.rip ~

astro, backed by atproto, hardly a rectangle in sight

07.02.2026 05:48 👍 25 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 1
Post image

I've always wanted this, and did design for it in the Zed git ui but it didn't make the cut sadly 😭

I like to work across branches a lot, and being able to reference across them would be really nice for my workflow

29.01.2026 17:09 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

To be fair, I did the Zed one in like... 2021 😜

28.01.2026 19:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ayy, this is the way ~

28.01.2026 19:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loooove this. Maybe we can get away from boxes now

28.01.2026 17:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🎶 seems like a timely day for a repost 🎶

24.01.2026 01:54 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0