Ghostty just surpassed Terraform in stars (my previous most-starred project I started). It took Terraform 12 years to reach 48K. Ghostty did it in 1 year. It's bigger than Terraform in active usage, too. I take it personally when people doubt I can outdo my past.

I can take credit for starting both, but not for ongoing development (for the successes and failures). Neither project is a solo endeavor. I'm still extremely actively involved with Ghostty, but there's also a team of a dozen maintainers. Terraform I stepped back and stopped working on it directly like 6 or more years ago.

I consider stars a vanity metric and I don't care about it at all except in this narrow case. I'm a super competitive person (in general), but particularly/especially against my past self. There's no one I like "winning" more against than my past. So, this is my one exception for caring about stars.

Do you understand why Trump has lifted the oil sanctions that were punishing Iran, the country he’s bombing, and Russia, the country that’s helping it?

Do you understand why Trump is sending 5,000 Marines to sail through the Strait of Hormuz while complaining that none of our friends and allies will help him reopen it?

Here's the whole explanation.

https://no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god-is-a-comedian

The root problem with a lot of Fediverse moderation is a problem that is well known the reputation-system literature:

If the cost of creating a new identity is zero then a reputation system cannot usefully express a lower reputation than that of a new user.

A malicious actor can always create an account on a different instance, or spin up a new instance on a throw-away domain. The cost is negligible. This means that any attempt to find bad users and moderate them is doomed from the start. Unless detecting a bad user is instant, there is always a gap between a new fresh identity existing in the system and it being marked as such.

A system that expects to actually work at scale has to operate in the opposite direction: assume new users are malicious and provide a reputation system for allowing them to build trust. Unfortunately, this is in almost direct opposition to the desire to make the onboarding experience frictionless.

A model where new users are restricted from the things that make harassment easy (sending DMs, posting in other users’ threads) until they have established a reputation (other people in good standing have boosted their posts or followed them) might work.

The problem is not the FBI buying tracking data without a warrant. Police forces don’t need a warrant to ask people what they saw or look at voluntarily disclosed CCTV footage.

The problem is that this data is being collected and aggregated in the first place. Oppression does not get better because you privatise it.

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/03/16/2

“Listen—I bought these here yesterday, and the dang things won’t stop squeaking!”

Is your timeline a bit empty? Do you want it to be filled with interesting posts and nice accounts?

Here's a simple non-technical guide to all the different ways you can discover accounts to follow on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends

There's no algorithm on here so discovering people and posts may take a bit more effort, but it also tends to produce higher quality more humane results.

If I've missed a method let me know 🙂

#FediTips #Mastodon