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russ @qqrs.us · Nov 18
when we all get augmented reality implants I’m setting this as my center field of view watermark
the sort of wintry week in December where you linger after showering just for a crumb of humidity
December 17, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Super cool ferrofluid standing wave modulator at ITP Winter Show

Artist is Matthew Blanco
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
vajra kitties goodwill find
December 16, 2025 at 8:53 PM
20th century - "dictated but not read"
21st century - "prompted but not thought about"
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Thinking more about the 11ty phenomena…

why am I seeing a giant profile photo grid of their 300+ contributors?

who is andy bell and why am I supposed to care that he says Jekyll is dead to him?

and then there are a dozen+ other testimonials from people I’ve never heard of
Anyway this is what I gleaned from their home pages

Pelican & Nikola - these are ssgs and have the features ssgs have

Hugo - is 1. fast and 2. popular and 3. actively developed

11ty - affirms your identity as a web dev
December 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Picked out a static site generator for setting up a blog

I was surprised at the visceral gut + heart rxns I had to the project home pages

Many of them didn’t sit right with me. Feeling like Goldilocks over here!
December 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
c'est fini
December 12, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Been meaning to dig into SAT/SMT solvers for a while

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76e...
A Peek Inside SAT Solvers - Jon Smock
YouTube video by ClojureTV
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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It's an old myth
December 11, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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computers exist solely to make people upset

the seven layer osi model is just the stages of grief in disguise
November 30, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Yes! They can do amazing things, but you cannot use them naïvely (note dieresis) and expect anything good. If you can provide them with invariants, ways to test those invariants, and understand how, eg, context windows impact state management, they're awesome.
November 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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One of the new skills required to get the most out of AI-assisted coding tools - Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc - is designing agentic loops: carefully selecting tools to run in a loop to achieve a specified goal. Do this well and you can solve many coding problems with brute force!
Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
simonwillison.net
September 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...

Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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log in with your internet handle
Internet Handle
internethandle.org
November 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Hard to overstate how nice a communal lab space is for one-off projects

testing an output pin… oh, there’s a resistor I can use as a pulldown

trying to guess what size screw will fit the servo… oh, there’s a kit of M2-M4 sizes
November 22, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released!

~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :)

Cheers!

minivac.greg.technology
Minivac 601 Simulator
A 1961 relay computer running in your browser
minivac.greg.technology
November 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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this looks very cool, i mean that genuinely, but tbh i bristle a bit seeing "local-first" used as a straw man here. of course if your server is the source of truth you can eliminate a lot of local-first complexity — the entire point of that complexity is to avoid a server-authoritative architecture!
I've built a new library that provides a local-first like experience but without the complexity. Count Cachula takes a different approach; it uses the Cache API, the stale-while-revalidate pattern, server-sent events and cache tags to give you the same full-sync experience.
Count Cachula - Local-first performance without the complexity
Count Cachula - Stale-while-revalidate caching for modern web apps
countcachula.spooky.click
November 18, 2025 at 4:38 AM
it's alive ⚡️
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 AM
test post
qqrs.leaflet.pub
November 18, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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Braiding a 75 ton Technora rope at LangmanRopes.
October 31, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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This is pretty neat labeler for quieting the noisiest parts of ”extremely online” discussions without having to block people. bsky.app/profile/stec...
bsky.app
November 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Threads on Bluesky should feel more like conversations you’d have IRL.

We’re testing new systems to improve reply quality. See what’s coming: bsky.social/about/blog/1...
Progress Update: Building Healthier Social Media - Bluesky
Over the next few months, we’ll be iterating on the systems that make Bluesky a better place for healthy conversations. Some experiments will stick, others will evolve, and we’ll share what we learn a...
bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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I’m writing for the local paper again!
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 AM