SWE on Google Chrome, amateur photographer and radio operator. Opinions expressed here are mine and not my employer's. 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🇨🇦 Also at https://toot.cafe/reillyeon.https://bsky.app/profile/reilly.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3mr57ewlrck24Trying to install a firmware update on my car and at this point I wish I could use Web Serial because there's no universe in which a web-based tool could be any more dangerous or user-hostile than the bullshit I'm dealing with from GM.21 Jul 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr57ewlrck24https://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3mmf63khl3k2wThis is the post I wish I could've written back on 2021. There are so many cool sites using this API now. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 May 2026 19:35 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmf63khl3k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3mmae3d7bfc2uWeb Serial shipping in Firefox means I can finally say I've written a real interoperable web standard. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 May 2026 21:39 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmae3d7bfc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3lubrzboz222fI need someone to reconcile the Direct Sockets proposal in the Web Incubator Community Group with the Sockets API proposal from WinterTC before either gets so entrenched that we end up with two very similar and yet incompatible specifications for a TCP/UDP sockets API in JavaScript environments.19 Jul 2025 01:16 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3lubrzboz222fhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3kt6phy7a2c2zAs a browser engineer, seeing people build things like this warms my heart. lyra.horse/antonymph/ (Warning: Mildly NSFW but mostly just extremely online.) https://lyra.horse/antonymph/23 May 2024 21:01 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kt6phy7a2c2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3kesm7tkjhx2gAn @oxidecomputer.bsky.social rack comes with casters, unlike the Mac Pro.22 Nov 2023 21:38 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3kesm7tkjhx2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k7oact5vcl2zMy little tool for setting the time on a Xiaomi e-ink clock made an appearance on Eric Lawrence's recent post on security tradeoffs. Web APIs for connecting to Bluetooth and USB devices are scary but they're better than the alternative of executing native code. https://textslashplain.com/2023/09/15/security-tradeoffs/18 Sep 2023 12:49 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7oact5vcl2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k7lzvkcret22Web developers should be forced to use their own sites while using an international roaming plan that gives you 256 kbps (or worse). Especially bus ticket site developers.17 Sep 2023 15:49 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k7lzvkcret22https://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k6mucaxv752xI managed to convince Windows 11 to let me configure dial-up networking.05 Sep 2023 06:16 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k6mucaxv752xhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k622ycncx22rI'm curious if @koush.bsky.social has noticed any issues with garbage collection pauses when receiving lots of data with WebUSB in vysor.io. https://github.com/WICG/webusb/issues/217 is a potential solution but it's hard to justify creating so much churn without strong signals that it will be helpful.28 Aug 2023 18:55 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k622ycncx22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k4fp5o2i2e22Can I please just write Rust instead of having to figure out how to make C++ behave like Rust?07 Aug 2023 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k4fp5o2i2e22https://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k326ir4iur2rI am disappointed by people.21 Jul 2023 15:42 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k326ir4iur2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3k2qumfbcv22sI need a shirt that says, "Fuck off, I don't want to install your app."17 Jul 2023 22:51 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3k2qumfbcv22shttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jwltvkntbk2oI have transitions lenses (UV reactive lenses which darken in sunlight). Since I'm walking with the sun exactly to my left, my right lens is in shadow. That means that only the left lens is transitioning and so colors appear differently between my eyes. This is very weird.26 May 2023 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwltvkntbk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jwidpqe27k2wAs a phone nerd I am simultaneously excited by phone systems and scared of bothering people by actually using them. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 May 2023 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jwidpqe27k2whttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jw4iv4ihzt2cIt's really hard not to get mad over the wonderful coworkers I lost so that Google could offer shareholders $70 billion in stock buybacks.19 May 2023 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jw4iv4ihzt2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jvfa7ijmsc2hI am here to reskeet cats.10 May 2023 16:41 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jvfa7ijmsc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jvfa5vuhts2zAnyone know where one could buy an LTE-U base station as a normal person (not a telco)?10 May 2023 16:40 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jvfa5vuhts2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jve2bzt5ah2nI'm having one of those moments where I'm reading through the code for a system and discovering that how I thought it works is not at all how it actually works. At least I found a comment pointing to an issue tracking fixing things so that they work a lot more like how I thought they did.10 May 2023 05:22 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jve2bzt5ah2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/reilly.io/post/3jvdrli7rvw2pCustom domain handles are basically the killer app for this site.10 May 2023 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:tdu4kgif3az6pplyk4qwi7rg/app.bsky.feed.post/3jvdrli7rvw2p