Andy Balaam

@andybalaam
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Makes coding videos, podcasts, free software.
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Andy Balaam9h ago
I think I like this AI take https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

We’ve all heard of those network effect laws: the value of a network goes up with the square of the number of members. Or the cost of commun...

Andy Balaam10h ago
Chris A Tye, Artist5d ago
'Road junction near Kirklington, North Yorkshire', 2023, Chris A Tye. Oil on canvas board.
Andy Balaam19h ago
Don't mind me, just implementing my own string type in Rust.
Andy Balaam4d ago
NHS England is rolling out Palantir software to manage our health records - handing huge power to a US spy-tech firm with a track record in surveillance, military technology and human rights abuses. Email your local trust and say NO to Palantir in our NHS: https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/
Say no to Palantir in the NHS

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

No to Palantir
Andy Balaam4d ago

My videos are about enjoying the craft of programming, sometimes learning things but often simply making something out of "nothing", using ideas and tools I enjoy.

They are a way for me to be as human as I can. You're welcome to watch.

Andy Balaam4d ago

Writing a snake game in Rust/WASM

Last time we did the hard work, so this time we can focus directly on writing a fun game of Snake using pure Rust, running in a browser canvas via WASM.

https://video.infosec.exchange/w/eXfichLZwz4uDxvDgwhspM

It wasn't as quick as I expected, but we got a working game done!

#rustlang #programming #video

snake-rust-wasm

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Andy Balaam5d ago

For clarity, https://malus.sh is satire.

Dark, dark satire.

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

Andy Balaam5d ago
daniel:// stenberg://5d ago

"Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch"

https://malus.sh/

MALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution

Andy Balaam5d ago
Lobsters5d ago
Secure Communication, Buried In A News App https://lobste.rs/s/d2skzd #cryptography
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/secure-communication-buried-in-a-news-app/
Secure Communication, Buried In A News App

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Lobsters
Andy Balaam6d ago

In the next releases of Element clients, if we notice your key storage (previously "key backup") is messed up, we will create a new key storage version and everything will just work.

We're working, bit by bit, to make using Matrix pain-free. It's not easy, because no-one has built end-to-end encrypted federated messaging with history before.

But we are edging forward.