Bart de Water

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Dutch dude in Canada | software eng @ Thatch, ex-Shopify Payments | Instant human, just add coffee | Opinions are my own
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"The Jetsons Lied to Us."

Twonks on the AI Revolution.

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Herb v0.9 is here! ๐ŸŒฟ

This release focused on stability, compatibility, and deepening Herb's understanding of HTML+ERB templates.

Featuring Action View helper support, Prism AST nodes, new linter rules, a faster linter CLI, new language server features, and engine bug fixes. ๐Ÿš€

Ghostty 1.3 is now out! Scrollback search, native scrollbars, click-to-move cursor, rich clipboard copy, AppleScript, split drag/drop, Unicode 17 and international text improvements, massive performance improvements, and hundreds more changes. https://ghostty.org/docs/install/release-notes/1-3-0
1.3.0 - Release Notes

Release notes for Ghostty 1.3.0, released on March 9, 2026.

Ghostty
People using stripe-ruby version <= 18.1, you might start running into connection issues on February 16 when Stripe starts using new root certificates for api.stripe.com. Details and a workaround if you're unable to upgrade here: https://github.com/stripe/stripe-ruby/issues/1783
Stop bundling root certificates and use the system certs instead ยท Issue #1783 ยท stripe/stripe-ruby

Describe the bug Stripe recently sent an email announcing that the api.stripe.com certificates will no longer be issued from "DigiCert High Assurance EV Root CA" starting February 16. We checked if...

GitHub
The most interesting thing about Pierre Poilievre surviving the Conservative Party of Canada leadership review, after losing a staggering poll lead and his own seat and having to be gifted one of the safest seats in Canada, is that he STILL REFUSES to submit to the completely normal security check.
Having recently done refresher training for OFAC and other US banking things, this story is wild to read: basically a list of all the things youโ€™re not supposed to do ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
Kontigo: Y Combinator's Venezuelan Sanctions Evasion Startup
JPMorgan Served as On-Ramp For Users of Maduro Regime-Linked Crypto Company
https://fintechbusinessweekly.substack.com/p/kontigo-ycombinators-venezuela-sanctions
Kontigo: Y Combinator's Venezuelan Sanctions Evasion Startup

JPMorgan Served as On-Ramp For Users of Maduro Regime-Linked Crypto Company

Fintech Business Weekly
With everything awful & scary going on in the United States & the world, we might momentarily forget that here in Canada, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre STILL REFUSES to apply for the normal security clearance that EVERYONE else in his position has. Itโ€™s reasonable to assume he canโ€™t pass it.
xmas is now deprecated, we need waylandmas

HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6993

je m'alloc (i manage my own memory, for those who don't speak french)