That feeling when you reproduce a (difficult) bug in a controlled environment.

When things get too complex, it's a hint that you don't have the right primitives in place yet.

In Ruby, `Request#method` (e.g. GET) conflicts with Kernel#method (returns a Method instance). Would it be better to use `Request#verb` instead?

Async::HTTP client and server now have full support for interim responses (early hints, 100 continue, etc): socketry.github.io/async-http/rel…

WebSockets over HTTP/1 need a nounce, but over HTTP/2 they don't. Of course, if you are implementing a proxy, how this is supposed to work (generally) is left as an exercise to the reader. In the end, I added optional nounce processing to HTTP/2 WebSocket server.

It's kind of amazing that software works at all. Given the level of complexity and the layering of behaviour... is it bugs all the way down?

Well, it was difficult, but I finally got WebSockets proxying from HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 and back again, with minimal "WebSocket specific hacks". This was really the final piece of the puzzle, I believe we are now feature complete in `async-http` for all widely used HTTP semantics.

Samuel Williams My definition of technology is, “something made by humans that barely works” True for computers and I think likely true for many other domains like aerospace, automotive, agriculture, etc. Run it till it breaks, then pull back on the throttle a bit and sell it to the masses.

Samuel Williams kig m.youtube.com/watch?v=aqvGdP… (at 3h 16m)

Because Xavier Noria doesn't stop at simple explanations, I went to dig into why this benchmark give the opposite results of what one would expect 🧵

Experience the magic at Waikato Museum & celebrate the beauty of Aotearoa's native birds! 🦜🌳 We created an immersive Native New Zealand Forest Digital Environment, where you can color & bring to life five native birds: Kōtare (Kingfisher), Kākā (Orange Kea), Kārearea (Falcon),

Single value queue that can be used to communicate between fibers.

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It’s that time of the year.

I used two bobby pins to break into my office. I locked myself out. I’m officially a lock picker!

I thought people only did these kinds of UIs as a joke:

For a long time I tried to avoid modelling HTTP/1 connections using a state machine, but I've added one, and I believe it can help prevent invalid usage which is valuable when dealing with un-trusted input.