This is my WIP fork of Bun, based on the last commit before their Rust rewrite. It is still very early in its development and is nowhere near ready for production. I saw that a similar project had already been … Read more
Stop Using OpenCode If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the … Read more
TLDR: JWTs should not be used for keeping your user logged in. They are not designed for this purpose, they are not secure, and there is a much better tool which is designed for it: regular cookie sessions. If you’ve … Read more
I’m using it right now! I use it with my chocofi zmk, and with my MacBook (fixes posture for chaise lounge use). I also purchased a couple of 3d movies yesterday. I’ve also streamed games onto it, using Sunshine/Moonlight, and … Read more
You’ve almost certainly encountered Conventional Commits before. It may have reared its ugly head in the changelog of an open source project you’ve used. It may have been the enforced commit format for an open source project you contributed to. … Read more
A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But the thing is, LLMs are … Read more
When I was using a search engine to find resources for a class, I noticed that I was taking a lot more vision breaks and struggling with visual fatigue more often than before. A major reason for this was the … Read more
In our application, we use long-lived server-sent event streams (SSE). These are set up to have a really long timeout and lifetime – 15 minutes in our setup. However, Google Cloud Run has a known issue in that client disconnects … Read more
2026-05-12 I’ve been working on improving how we schedule maintenance in Akamai’s cloud infrastructure, especially disruptive maintenance on hypervisor hosts serving hundreds of thousands of guest VMs. The problem is fairly complex, with competing constraints such as capacity, customer disruption … Read more
← samcollins.blog I discovered a technique for generating reliable text and numbers in AI generated images. For example, the following image is considered impossible with state of the art image models. But I made this with Gemini 3.0 Pro (plus … Read more