jwz

I write screen savers and sell beer. Impresario of DNA Lounge, the world's greatest nightclub. Also wrote your parents' web browser and stuff.

jwz.org: https://www.jwz.org/
@dnalounge: https://sfba.social/@dnalounge
@dnapizza: https://sfba.social/@dnapizza

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2026-04-12 02:25:01 UTC

I want whoever decided that clicking on a text field should auto-select all the text in it brought up on charges.

2025-12-15 01:35:23 UTC

This just in, I have been informed that my stance of, "no, I am not interested in hearing your anecdote about how the Plagiarism Machine saved you some time once" means that I "live in a bubble".

2025-09-18 20:12:23 UTC

Netscape Navigator 2.0 was released 30 years ago today.
This version introduced a number of new features:
• Plugins! This was the first time a web page could make sound, via RealAudio.
• Incremental display of progressive JPEGs on slow dialup connections.
• Animated GIFs that were actually useful.
• HTML frames.
• JavaScript! That wasn't my fault, but you still have my apologies.
• And of course my baby, the first release of Netscape Mail and News:
https://jwz.org/b/ykvY
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2025-08-25 23:18:00 UTC

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This is great stuff!
I'm happy to report that XScreenSaver's UTF-8 parser already seems to replace the problematic codes you've identified with 0xFFFD. At least according to my self-tests: https://github.com/Mathiasb17/xscreensaver/blob/82348d51320b89281407e1cb0e18ce0022189144/utils/utf8wc.c#L564
The one exception being \000 simply truncating the text, because, well, it's C.

2025-08-25 18:59:38 UTC

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Well, she's funded by Jack Dorsey, who's deeply in bed with Saudi Prince Bonesaw, for a start.
If you support Blue Sky, you support Dorsey, Musk, Trump and the rest of the fascists, TESCREAL lunatics and cryptogrifters. They are all the same fuckin' octopus. https://jwz.org/b/ykgp

2025-07-16 18:28:58 UTC

Secret Police need Secret Lawyers.
Law and Order ICE: "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups. The secret police who throw suspects into unmarked vans, and the secret attorneys who deport them to third world concentration camps. These are their stories."
ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court:
https://jwz.org/b/ykrQ
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2025-06-26 20:34:13 UTC

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I honestly thought that "grab a screenshot" would be a straightforward and non-controversial thing. I mean how could it not be?
But you kick over any Wayland rock, and this is the kind of absolutely bugfuck insanity you find underneath.

2025-06-25 00:56:11 UTC

Bezos moves wedding after threat of inflatable alligators.
Protesters in Venice are claiming an "enormous victory" after US tech billionaire Jeff Bezos and his wedding guests were forced to "run away" from the city centre, moving their main...
https://jwz.org/b/ykqG
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2025-06-24 22:35:21 UTC

To dip my toes into the oncoming clusterpocalypse that is Wayland, I thought I'd try something "simple"... Let's see if there's some way to make XScreenSaver hacks able to grab and manipulate screenshots under XWayland. Here is what I have learned so far:
https://jwz.org/b/ykqC
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2025-03-27 05:37:30 UTC

Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"
It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.
This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.
Stop hanging out at the Nazi Bar.
https://jwz.org/b/yklG

2025-03-21 21:58:29 UTC

UK Subs Denied Entry into US.
After being held for "25 hours without sleep," Gibbs was finally released. "Although not being something I'd want to replicate, it was actually an educational experience," Gibbs concluded. "I'm kind of proud of myself for...
https://jwz.org/b/ykky
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2025-03-17 21:01:36 UTC

If Patreon was software, I would never, ever upgrade it.
Every change they make is worse than the one before.
https://jwz.org/b/ykkt

2025-03-03 00:14:11 UTC

Lindsay Young: I am the Executive Director of 18F and 18F's longest running employee- I have been at 18F for 10 years. You may not have heard of us, but last night proved that we are powerful. The way the administration ran to get rid of us under the...
https://jwz.org/b/yki1
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2025-02-12 05:20:04 UTC

Currently practicing self harm by reading the changelog on the Wikipedia page for the Gulf of Mexico. The best part is the ongoing weeks-long edit war over whether a subheading should say "Name" or "Nomenclature".
Wiki gonna wiki.
https://jwz.org/b/ykh-

2025-02-09 10:33:04 UTC

Flipped off someone driving a swastikkkar tonight.

2024-11-09 03:07:14 UTC

Some wingnut I've never spoken to before (or again (foreshadowing!)) accused me of living in an "echo chamber" because I block people.
Fuck the "echo chamber" discourse. I reject it entirely.I am not here to wear an ascetic's hair shirt because you think that surrounding myself with dickheads builds character.
Block early and block often. I expanded on this in some detail in my "On Blocking" post from a few years back, but it bears repeating. Especially now.
https://jwz.org/b/ykcn

2024-08-25 21:35:48 UTC

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If you are "embedding" a post by using any tags other than blockquote and img, you are doing it wrong.

2024-08-25 19:00:53 UTC

Apropos of nothing, more billionaires should live in fear of being pulled off their private jets and arrested.

2024-06-19 06:43:10 UTC

youtubedown help needed.
You may have noticed that youtubedown has been failing on just about all Youtube videos for the past week or so. I think something has changed about how you apply signatures to URLs, but I can't figure it out.
I would like someone else to figure it out, please.
In fact, I would like someone else to take over maintenance of this program. For 17 years, I have been reverse-engineering YouTube's countermeasures pretty much on my own, and I am ...
https://jwz.org/b/ykVc
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