After having my instrument rating for 3 years, I finally flew my first approach in actual IMC (zero vis) solo to minimums. Got the runway lights at 210 ft and got the runway itself at 150 ft. Really cool experience and felt good the whole way!

I hopped on with devtools.fm and chatted about my personal journey into startups and open source, why I'm working on a terminal now and my plans for that community, and a bit of aviation of course! devtools.fm/episode/94

Cloud pricing applied to literally anything else, i.e. the coffee shop: coffee is $5, but if you stay it’s free and we charge $0.06/minute unless you’re using internet then it’s $0.09/minute. First timers get 30 minutes free. Talking to others in the cafe is free. Voice calls…

Classic Google consumer experience: my payment method rejected for Google One (extra space) so my email (old address) is not arriving. I try to get upgrade and get internal errors. I try to find support, but need to pay to get support. I can't pay because I get errors. Repeat.…

I actually did crack my screen once but it was on purpose.

Many years ago, my iPhone stopped charging. I took it to the Apple Store, they said they could repair it for free but I would be without a phone for 5 days. At that time in my life, I was in an airplane or another…

I’ve never cracked a phone screen (no case), I’ve never lost my keys, I’ve never misplaced AirPods, and my wallet is always exactly where it should be. I have a ton of flaws but you can’t take this achievement away from me. 😂

The iPhone innovation I need is for FaceID to recognize yawning.

I'm now eyeing the font stack in Ghostty to decrease memory usage. Early results: 5-10% less memory on macOS and 10-25% less on Linux. Interestingly, the standard fontconfig/freetype/harfbuzz stack on Linux must use more memory than CoreText on macOS to account for this delta.…

I've joined Polar as an advisor! I think it benefits everyone for devs to have more options to get paid to work on their passions, to support upstreams, and for users to have more confidence/transparency in the software they're supporting/purchasing. mitchellh.com/writing/polar

Today in Font Rendering Really Hates You: CoreText on macOS synthesizes glyphs for several codepoints (undocumented afaict) but they aren't actually available to rasterize. Chrome literally special-cases hyphens on macOS to fix this: chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+…

I've made contact. Thank you. Hopefully can help figure this out.

Any Apple employees follow me who have access to the kernel/firmware teams? There is a pretty horrible kernel panic since 14.4.0 (still present in 14.4.1) plaguing Ghostty users and it seems relatively widespread beyond that (Android Studio, Sublime, Zed, BetterDisplay, etc.).…