Tim Disney
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Tim Disney
@disnetdev.com
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you can't make me learn what "cloudflare" is. I shouldn't have to know these things. I have a sensitive artistic spirit
November 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Wrote up how note-taking apps are kinda weird and how to design for that weirdness.

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2025-11...
What's the point of a note-taking app?
The true purpose of a note-taking app is to facilitate deep learning through three interconnected processes—externalizing ideas, internalizing them into new insights, and resurfacing them over time—an...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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I hope as we move past the first wave of AI criticism ("it doesn't work, all hype") we get a new wave of AI criticism rooted in the acknowledgement that, yes, these systems are very powerful & quite useful and focusing a deep exploration of when AI uses are uplifting and when they are detrimental.
October 16, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Oh wow Haiku 4.5 is incredible. Fast is a feature and a fast model this good feels like a step change.
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Wrote about a new project I'm working on. It's a note-taking/thinking-system app that evolved out of an experiment with using just an MCP server for taking notes. Turns out you need a UI.

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2025-10...
Introducing Flint
Introducing Flint October 10th, 2025 Flint is a new note-taking/thinking-system I’m working on that fixes a lot of the frustrations I’ve had with traditional...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism

connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...
‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism
After Kirk's murder, calls for censorship and the crackdown on political places started to include Bluesky. Open social networks must now fight political suppression as well as platform monopolies.
connectedplaces.online
September 19, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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September 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
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Was on a support chat to replace a failing monitor today and it's oddly comforting to see slightly awkward english phrasing and realize they haven't been replaced by an LLM.

"Be assured i will help you with the resolution."

You know what? As a matter of fact I am assured.
August 22, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Wrote a lot of thoughts on junior developers, AI, and what I strongly feel is going to become the defining challenge of our industry's next generation.

www.zacsweers.dev/forklifts-re...
Forklifts Require Training
Sleepwalking into labor collapse
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August 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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August 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I’ve been experimenting with building a GTD system in plain text with Flint. I think it’s kinda neat.

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2025-07...
Building a Personal GTD System in Plain Text with AI Agents
Building a GTD system using plain text and AI agents through Flint. The key innovation is a "Today" note that acts as a centralized dashboard, automatically syncing with individual todo notes through ...
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July 5, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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New post on working more effectively with Claude: "Help Me Think This Through".

TL;DR Normal conversation works a million times better than the most perfect, hand-crafted "context engineering"

open.substack.com/pub/wycats/p...
"Help Me Think This Through"
Context builds through conversation, not perfect engineering
open.substack.com
July 5, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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PRODUCTIVITY HACK: be mentally ill but in the productive way
July 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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📢 Here's my new fav way to wrangle multiple claude terminals. steipete.me/posts/comman...
Command your Claude Code Army, Reloaded | Peter Steinberger
Enhance your Claude Code workflow with VibeTunnel terminal title management for better multi-session tracking
steipete.me
July 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Tiny little context engineering thing I learned today: when working with coding agents switch your test reporter to a more concise output like dot rather than having it spew tons of "test foo passed". The agent only needs to see the failures.
July 2, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Wrote about Flint Note. I've been chasing the perfect note-taking system for years but every tool eventually became a prison when my thinking changed. Built an MCP server to solve that - markdown + AI agents that adapt to your workflows. Let me know what you think!
www.disnetdev.com/blog/2025-06...
The Note-Taking Trap - Why AI Could Save (or Destroy) How We Think
An exploration of the fundamental problems with current note-taking systems and AI approaches that either lock users into rigid structures or make them dependent on black-box intelligence. Argues for ...
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June 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Claude needs to stop telling me I'm absolutely right all the time or I'll absolutely start believing it
June 27, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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ACAB includes antivirus
June 26, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Thnickels - Thick Coins by Theodore Nichols
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June 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I quit my job! After spending a good long time fighting bots on the web it's time for something new. Excited for what comes next.

www.disnetdev.com/blog/2025-06...
June 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four
STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand
DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty
January 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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jpeg is the working class image format. png is for coastal elites. tif belongs to the ivory tower intelligentsia. gif is libertarian borderline sovcit and webp is the DNC
December 4, 2024 at 3:14 PM