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Tech Zine Issue 1: LLM System Eval https://forestfriends.tech
Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips.
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Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips.
Longform: https://interjectedfuture.com
Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@techniumpod
This isn't too hard to understand, if you just view the TV as the left branch and the painting as the right branch of a binary tree.
Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:47 AM
This isn't too hard to understand, if you just view the TV as the left branch and the painting as the right branch of a binary tree.
Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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Also, this is the sort of thing your engineer co-worker is juggling in their heads when you interrupt them with a question.
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Typing text is about one of the most performance sensitive interfaces we use regularly. The only thing more sensitive are twitch-based games.
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November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Typing text is about one of the most performance sensitive interfaces we use regularly. The only thing more sensitive are twitch-based games.
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What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music?
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:00 AM
What affordance does the spatial component afford us more than a screen when making music?
It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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It's essentially a drum machine that snakes around space.
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Also, I now recognized this diagram as an instance of the ones you see in Category Theory. So I asked GPT, if the Laplace Transform is a functor between two categories.
Almost. According to GPT, it's an almost-functor (a functor up to natural transformation).
Almost. According to GPT, it's an almost-functor (a functor up to natural transformation).
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Also, I now recognized this diagram as an instance of the ones you see in Category Theory. So I asked GPT, if the Laplace Transform is a functor between two categories.
Almost. According to GPT, it's an almost-functor (a functor up to natural transformation).
Almost. According to GPT, it's an almost-functor (a functor up to natural transformation).
Kids nowadays are so lucky. Signal processing class would have been easier if I had explanations like this. I had only a glimmer of what we were doing back then.
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Kids nowadays are so lucky. Signal processing class would have been easier if I had explanations like this. I had only a glimmer of what we were doing back then.
We already have digital necromancy in the form of Tupac holding concerts every few years.
The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
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The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
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November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
We already have digital necromancy in the form of Tupac holding concerts every few years.
The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
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The cocktail party question, "Who would you want to have dinner with, alive or dead?" would be wish fulfillment.
Heck, with AR, the dead can accompany you to the cocktail party itself.
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When making stuff for others, you have to wear two hats: someone behind the interface, and someone in front of the interface. It's hard but necessary to remember to be the latter.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
November 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
When making stuff for others, you have to wear two hats: someone behind the interface, and someone in front of the interface. It's hard but necessary to remember to be the latter.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
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I'll echo the sentiment for DC metro's ticket machines.
I hope you leave stuff up in the future. I was researching React/Solid arguments for and against, and it was hard doing archeology on the topic since I kept running into your deleted posts.
November 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I hope you leave stuff up in the future. I was researching React/Solid arguments for and against, and it was hard doing archeology on the topic since I kept running into your deleted posts.
I hate that it's the prevailing narrative, as it's a betrayal of craft. But this is the market dynamics when making new market categories. Only in mature markets that become infra does the downstream effects of code quality seem to matter to customers.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I hate that it's the prevailing narrative, as it's a betrayal of craft. But this is the market dynamics when making new market categories. Only in mature markets that become infra does the downstream effects of code quality seem to matter to customers.
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It's a missed opportunity by Anthropic where if you click the button, you can't continue the existing conversation someone shared. You might have other questions. Instead of comments on web pages, this might be more helpful.
October 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It's a missed opportunity by Anthropic where if you click the button, you can't continue the existing conversation someone shared. You might have other questions. Instead of comments on web pages, this might be more helpful.
tag functions are nice. I didn't even know this was a thing in javascript. Well applied to writing raw SQL. I think this can do more.
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October 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
tag functions are nice. I didn't even know this was a thing in javascript. Well applied to writing raw SQL. I think this can do more.
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October 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New post: Most people think you need foundations before attempting hard things. Prerequisites as requirements.
But that's just an artifact of industrial-scale curriculum design. Prerequisites are activation energy, not gatekeepers. 🧵
But that's just an artifact of industrial-scale curriculum design. Prerequisites are activation energy, not gatekeepers. 🧵
October 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
New post: Most people think you need foundations before attempting hard things. Prerequisites as requirements.
But that's just an artifact of industrial-scale curriculum design. Prerequisites are activation energy, not gatekeepers. 🧵
But that's just an artifact of industrial-scale curriculum design. Prerequisites are activation energy, not gatekeepers. 🧵
It's the same debate going on when I was in school. I agree then as I do now: it's better for the students to learn the theory in school. Glad my school didn't bow to the pressure to teach Java in the classes.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It's the same debate going on when I was in school. I agree then as I do now: it's better for the students to learn the theory in school. Glad my school didn't bow to the pressure to teach Java in the classes.
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We are a dynamic economy that uses capitalism to allocate resources. There were other more enticing industries with better margins and growth. This is both good and bad. We captured more of the future, but let our foundations rot.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We are a dynamic economy that uses capitalism to allocate resources. There were other more enticing industries with better margins and growth. This is both good and bad. We captured more of the future, but let our foundations rot.
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This is relatable, is from using vim and emacs, once I got into the habit of searching to navigate. However, that was only within the same document. Search across files was still painful without a plugin. One huge stream sounds like it's something easier to get used to.
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October 15, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is relatable, is from using vim and emacs, once I got into the habit of searching to navigate. However, that was only within the same document. Search across files was still painful without a plugin. One huge stream sounds like it's something easier to get used to.
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The juxtaposition of the fantastic with the mundane has always fascinated us. This sort of effect is even more pronounced in VR.
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October 14, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The juxtaposition of the fantastic with the mundane has always fascinated us. This sort of effect is even more pronounced in VR.
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Surprised at how cute the early sketches of Pokemon are in their design docs.
October 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Surprised at how cute the early sketches of Pokemon are in their design docs.
I imagine it's a similar graph for what VCs and Founders talk about on social media vs what actually moves the needle or the causes of startup death.
The driver is that we, the audience, pay attention to the exceptional, and any medium is driven to capture the audience attention
The driver is that we, the audience, pay attention to the exceptional, and any medium is driven to capture the audience attention
October 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I imagine it's a similar graph for what VCs and Founders talk about on social media vs what actually moves the needle or the causes of startup death.
The driver is that we, the audience, pay attention to the exceptional, and any medium is driven to capture the audience attention
The driver is that we, the audience, pay attention to the exceptional, and any medium is driven to capture the audience attention
Doing more customer interviews won't make you better at them. Conversations give you noise disguised as signal: customers lie out of politeness, leading questions get enthusiastic agreement, and you collect expensive fiction thinking it's insight.
October 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Doing more customer interviews won't make you better at them. Conversations give you noise disguised as signal: customers lie out of politeness, leading questions get enthusiastic agreement, and you collect expensive fiction thinking it's insight.
I don't get many plumbing emails nowadays.
October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I don't get many plumbing emails nowadays.
The worst recruiting email I ever got wasn't even targeted right. It was for a plumbing job. I thought maybe, plumbing as a euphemism for a data pipeline or data engineering job.
But no, it was for an actual plumbing job.
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But no, it was for an actual plumbing job.
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October 2, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The worst recruiting email I ever got wasn't even targeted right. It was for a plumbing job. I thought maybe, plumbing as a euphemism for a data pipeline or data engineering job.
But no, it was for an actual plumbing job.
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But no, it was for an actual plumbing job.
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I kinda like it, actually. I see it a new kind of camera, where you can point it in the space of concepts. The hope is that it'll expand the horizon of imagination. The despair is that it'll be used to stoke preconceptions.
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September 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I kinda like it, actually. I see it a new kind of camera, where you can point it in the space of concepts. The hope is that it'll expand the horizon of imagination. The despair is that it'll be used to stoke preconceptions.
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"You don’t `learn` from a chatbot. You consume...They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up." - random 🦋 account
No. You’re holding it wrong. You can definitely learn from LLMs, though it has to be with critical thinking.
Three ways I learn with AI: 👇
No. You’re holding it wrong. You can definitely learn from LLMs, though it has to be with critical thinking.
Three ways I learn with AI: 👇
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
"You don’t `learn` from a chatbot. You consume...They’re spewing slop and people are gobbling it up." - random 🦋 account
No. You’re holding it wrong. You can definitely learn from LLMs, though it has to be with critical thinking.
Three ways I learn with AI: 👇
No. You’re holding it wrong. You can definitely learn from LLMs, though it has to be with critical thinking.
Three ways I learn with AI: 👇
I think this was my ah-ha moment. UI = f(state) doesn't allow for temporarily illicit states. Without intents as first-class data, you resort to state fiddling, diffing, and inference of previous state.
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September 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I think this was my ah-ha moment. UI = f(state) doesn't allow for temporarily illicit states. Without intents as first-class data, you resort to state fiddling, diffing, and inference of previous state.
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