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Don MacKinnon

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CTO/Co-Founder @ https://searchcraft.io Writing a lot of #rustlang & #typescript code these days. Living the 303 πŸ”οΈ CO Married, dad, Scottish-Korean contradiction, motorcyclist, synth nerd, Ferrari #F1 fan #GenX Opinions are my own

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I think you guys do great work and realize that ads support journalism but maybe tone down the amount of ads that folks get bombarded with. And some higher quality ones too. I just got some really low quality spammy ones right up front when reading that article.

05.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

No lies detected there

04.03.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

90% is pretty optimistic πŸ˜† non-Caucasian facial recognition accuracy is not great

04.03.2026 21:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Dow: all vibes, no strategy

04.03.2026 21:16 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Authoritarian track record

04.03.2026 17:04 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Seven Years to TypeScript: Migrating 11,000 Files at Patreon | Engineering at Patreon Get more from Engineering at Patreon on Patreon

Patreon's 7 year migration from JS to TS www.patreon.com/posts/seven-...

04.03.2026 16:42 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yea it’s kind of weird putting that control into the hands of someone else.

04.03.2026 16:16 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

That seems like a pretty bad oversight for the usefulness of blocklists. Seems poorly architected.

04.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 37 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

A brief tease of a concept of precipitation. It’s been so long

04.03.2026 04:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He’s a good one, not only genuinely funny but a class act. I only met him one time and he could sense how nervous and overwhelmed I was but he totally put me at ease with a few kind words.

03.03.2026 06:15 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

OpenClaw is mostly TypeScript. The problem is that it wasn’t written from security-first principles and the project has people non-technical installing and running it that don’t know better. I would say, as a whole Rust developers are more security-minded but that’s probably a generalization.

03.03.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard OpenClaw Exposure Watchboard lists publicly reachable active OpenClaw instances for defensive security awareness. Verify your deployment, enforce authentication, and remove unsafe public exposure.

Yes, as of right now that’s 224,100 unsecured OpenClaw instances. 😬 openclaw.allegro.earth

03.03.2026 05:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

I never did learn how to make bread but I got really good at Southern style biscuits.

03.03.2026 05:29 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

That bread πŸ‘©β€πŸ³πŸ‘Œ

03.03.2026 03:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Whoa, congrats Kate!

03.03.2026 03:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really really hope so

03.03.2026 03:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

First time coming across the term β€œcognitive debt” but I 100% agree.

03.03.2026 03:31 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Getting Started with the Searchcraft WordPress Plugin
Getting Started with the Searchcraft WordPress Plugin YouTube video by Searchcraft

Getting started with Searchcraft for #WordPress. Better search is here youtu.be/22PixVQpsSU?...

24.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Whoops. Spotted at my gym

22.02.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I Intercepted 3,177 API Calls Across 4 AI Coding Tools. Here's What's Actually Filling Your Context Window. | The Redbeard Claude used 23K tokens to fix a one-line bug. Gemini used 350K. I built a tool to find out why.

Get some insight into your token usage theredbeard.io/blog/i-inter...

20.02.2026 15:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Is there even a question at this point after he posted that horrid apes video or are folks just giving that a pass ?

19.02.2026 23:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gross

19.02.2026 23:40 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Searchcraft for WordPress has landed! Better search is now within reach for WordPress sites. www.searchcraft.io/wordpress

#WordPress #PHP #DevTools #AI #Search #ContentDiscovery #Publishing #Rust

19.02.2026 18:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Gama Space with Sebastian Scholz Podcast Episode Β· Rust in Production Β· 01/22/2026 Β· 58m

Great podcast ep with Sebastian Scholz discussing how they structure their Rust code for their spacecraft at Gama Space. The way they leverage the type system to ensure byte conversion safety is an interesting approach podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

19.02.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Loved it

09.02.2026 04:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I loved it, I thought it was excellent

09.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If this offends you, you are the problem.

09.02.2026 01:58 πŸ‘ 1115 πŸ” 260 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10

David Farber, the world as we know it would not exist without your contributions. Safe journey.

09.02.2026 03:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Loved the shoutout, loved the entire performance

09.02.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Someone vibe coded their infrastructure πŸ˜†

09.02.2026 03:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0