CTO/Co-Founder @ https://searchcraft.io Writing a lot of #rustlang & #typescript code these days. Living the 303 🏔️ CO Married, dad, Scottish-Korean contradiction, motorcyclist, synth nerd, Ferrari #F1 fan #GenX Opinions are my ownhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.devhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mwp7wl2dqk2nUnsurprising that it’s shoddy and unethical https://karlbode.com/metas-latest-ai-product-is-a-terrifying-and-hilarious-mess/30 Sep 2026 01:46 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwp7wl2dqk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mtymeo5ds227Meta settling out of court for a slap on the wrist fine and “usage limits”. Maybe get rid of the addictive dark patterns in your apps?26 Aug 2026 15:07 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtymeo5ds227https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3msyaw4j32225GitHub Actions database actionaut.dev https://actionaut.dev/13 Aug 2026 18:17 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3msyaw4j32225https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3msxvlhpeok25Deep dive into how data compression works under the hood and how that ties into AI https://corecursive.com/the-hutter-prize/13 Aug 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3msxvlhpeok25https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3msghkzlqdc2gIt’s Thursday and GH actions is down again https://static.klipy.com/ii/d6b0ce929193df3c242ac34b5654d2ce/98/49/aNGIxJo6.gif?hh=280&ww=498&mp4=VipyaJgTatwKZmV0Md&webm=ZNwn9nLJBfX306 Aug 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3msghkzlqdc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3msgdme6pu22gBuilding a VS Code plugin? You might find this useful codicons.dev https://codicons.dev06 Aug 2026 15:17 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3msgdme6pu22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3msb7apvgfk2oLarge searchable archive of NASA images. Bunch of great Apollo era photos up through shots taken recently by the Mars rovers. nasa-images.net https://nasa-images.net/04 Aug 2026 14:16 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3msb7apvgfk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3ms7xnycpwc2mSearchcraft now has a Rust client! Fully typed async API, composable query builder, typed errors you can match on, keys wrapped in secrecy. rustls default, MSRV 1.75, Apache-2.0. Full engine 0.11 coverage. docs.rs/searchcraft https://docs.rs/searchcraft04 Aug 2026 02:28 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms7xnycpwc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mrxjunuzns2xThe folks at @wasp.sh did a write-up on the Searchcraft customer dashboard. We proudly chose Wasp early on because we prioritize being able to ship quickly. As a developer tool company we value the developer experience and Wasp checked the boxes. https://wasp.sh/blog/2026/07/20/made-with-wasp-searchcraft31 Jul 2026 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxjunuzns2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mrvb6kvmr22qGithub changed their hamburger menu to pancakes30 Jul 2026 20:19 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrvb6kvmr22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mr7fgr42pc26TIL about the fetchpriority attribute. Looks like it got wide adoption near the end of 2024. Slept on this one for too long! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Attributes/fetchpriority22 Jul 2026 03:36 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr7fgr42pc26https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mq445kbwg22tMy son and I are heading to Portland OR tomorrow for his class registration for uni. I’ve joked with him about going back to school to be his roommate ala Rodney Dangerfield. Of course I wouldn’t but I am somewhat jealous on top of being very excited for him.08 Jul 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq445kbwg22thttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mp7kch7nuc25For a long time I worked on websites for some of the larger publishing brands. Everyone who worked on the websites got their name featured in the magazine mastheads for the print editions. It was a good era, kind of sad that tradition disappeared.26 Jun 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp7kch7nuc25https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mp66fsh5q22pDoes anyone else get annoyed that streaming services by default skip show/movie credits? I want to see who worked on things.26 Jun 2026 05:07 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp66fsh5q22phttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mp4uz3wsw22pI haven't tried StyleX yet (have used styled-components a ton) but not being able to target based on parent selectors kind of seems like a deal breaker. https://www.skovhus.dev/blog/moving-linear-from-styled-components-to-stylex?utm_source=tldrdev25 Jun 2026 16:47 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4uz3wsw22phttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3moyucwvhsk2zRIP Meta engineering culture https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-destroying-its-engineering?utm_campaign=email-half-post&r=565q&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email24 Jun 2026 02:24 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3moyucwvhsk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mohg4c4ms226This update from Wasp is huge. In case you didn't know, we explicitly chose Wasp when building out our customer dashboard for Searchcraft because we needed to build a full-stack TS application fast. We needed to know that our packages and tooling would work well together from day 1. [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jun 2026 03:54 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohg4c4ms226https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mof5mkqh722mSoftware isn't solved https://youtu.be/zfYsSFY4l18?si=4nyjxk0kfH3WvG7p16 Jun 2026 06:17 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mof5mkqh722mhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mni67pe67k2cWell this is huge https://blog.cloudflare.com/voidzero-joins-cloudflare/04 Jun 2026 17:40 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mni67pe67k2chttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mndqh47aik22Just released a fresh update for Searchcraft core! Biggest features folks will likely care about are support for minimum_number_should_match in queries and JSON field type support in schema. It's up on Docker Hub https://hub.docker.com/r/searchcraftinc/searchcraft-core02 Jun 2026 23:23 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mndqh47aik22https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mnazotbk5c24Not a good way to start June. Stay safe out there https://www.aikido.dev/blog/red-hat-npm-packages-compromised-credential-stealing-worm01 Jun 2026 21:31 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnazotbk5c24https://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mmp22hf6p22sThe peril of laziness lost. I agree with a lot of this observation. Machines have no impetus to optimize. They are tools to be utilized with care https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/the-peril-of-laziness-lost/ #programming25 May 2026 17:49 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmp22hf6p22shttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mlmmeccbk22xIf you are using TanStack NPM packages you’ll want to check them https://socket.dev/blog/tanstack-npm-packages-compromised-mini-shai-hulud-supply-chain-attack12 May 2026 01:14 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmmeccbk22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mllgrqqah22cHaving spent over a decade working in the magazine publishing business before watching it shrink to a much smaller version of itself I often think about the management mistakes publishers made along the way. Quality has always been what mattered https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-death-of-the-magazine11 May 2026 14:01 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllgrqqah22chttps://bsky.app/profile/donmackinnon.dev/post/3mlej72pvbc2uNode 26! Temporal API support is finally here. LTS arrives in October https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v26.0.008 May 2026 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:zwpmqob7et4chf6ppbktik5t/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlej72pvbc2u