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The migration season continues! In Volume 1 I finally moved my incoming mail from Gmail to Protonmail. Today it’s the outgoing kind: the newsletter (that thing that pings you whenever I post here) is moving to

Last week I replaced Vite and all its deps and stuff with two Bun scripts and felt rather pleased with myself. The footnote at the bottom hinted at something even better, and here it is. Lo and behold, the scripts are now a reusable plugin! 🥳

I have an Elm app at work that needs exactly one thing from the JavaScript ecosystem: an npm package to piggyback on some A$ure auth thing. And for that one(!) package, I was running Vite with an Elm plugin and a growing pile of config to keep the two on speaking terms. Plus a backlog of bun audit warnings, courtesy of said auth thing’s dependencies, and/or build tools just b...

Here’s a meta post for you, if there ever was one: if someone shared this post with you and a preview image showed up, that image was generated by the thing this post describes. The post is its own demo. I find that unreasonably satisfying.

It looks like this, generated live from the post’s own title and description as you read this:

(If I change the ...

Of all the monsters that fill the nightmares of our folklore, none terrify more than werewolves, because they transform unexpectedly from the familiar into horrors. For these, one seeks bullets of silver that can magically lay them to rest.

That’s how the most famous essay in software engineering opens. Fred Brooks,