Kieran McHugh
@kmc.bsky.social
Founder of @daybridge.com, @monzo.com before that
Software engineer, designer, and piano player
🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 London, UK
@kieranmch formerly on X
Software engineer, designer, and piano player
🇬🇧 🏳️🌈 London, UK
@kieranmch formerly on X
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Kieran McHugh
@kmc.bsky.social
· Nov 14
This isn’t going to end well is it
NVIDIA is now 16% of the US economy, in case you're wondering if your labor has any remaining value
The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP
With 16% of GDP riding on a single chipmaker, the U.S. economy is dangerously over-leveraged — and Wall Street is betting blind
medium.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This isn’t going to end well is it
Beautiful!
v1.109 is rolling out today! #NewProfilePic
We've given the app a mini makeover with some new shades of blues! Plus, a whole bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements to make your experience better.
We've given the app a mini makeover with some new shades of blues! Plus, a whole bunch of bug fixes and performance improvements to make your experience better.
October 28, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Beautiful!
About to find out what happens when your vacuum cleaner company also grows your food 👀
October 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
About to find out what happens when your vacuum cleaner company also grows your food 👀
I'm trying to understand why the profiler says a component is re-rendering because 'the parent component rendered' when the parent definitely didn't render?
It's wrapped in React.memo and none of the props are changing (or I presume it would say so?)
Paging @ricky.fm @danabra.mov 🙏
It's wrapped in React.memo and none of the props are changing (or I presume it would say so?)
Paging @ricky.fm @danabra.mov 🙏
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I'm trying to understand why the profiler says a component is re-rendering because 'the parent component rendered' when the parent definitely didn't render?
It's wrapped in React.memo and none of the props are changing (or I presume it would say so?)
Paging @ricky.fm @danabra.mov 🙏
It's wrapped in React.memo and none of the props are changing (or I presume it would say so?)
Paging @ricky.fm @danabra.mov 🙏
We moved all of our stuff off of Vercel and when they emailed me to ask why, I told them straight. We won’t do business with red pilled CEOs.
October 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
We moved all of our stuff off of Vercel and when they emailed me to ask why, I told them straight. We won’t do business with red pilled CEOs.
I love living in London, I’ve been here for nearly 10 years. It might be the best city in the world.
The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive.
Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.
The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive.
Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.
jakelazaroff.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I love living in London, I’ve been here for nearly 10 years. It might be the best city in the world.
The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive.
Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.
The far right hate it because it’s living proof that multiculturalism works and that different cultures can coexist and thrive.
Trump and DHH hate it because it disproves their narratives.
🫡 to all the furries running the internet’s infrastructure
technology used to be cool, but now it’s owned by the worst, most moneysick humans on the planet. but there are transsexual furry hackers out there still fighting the good fight
September 18, 2025 at 6:42 PM
🫡 to all the furries running the internet’s infrastructure
Some parts of iOS 26 are nice and some parts are driving me 🥜
September 15, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Some parts of iOS 26 are nice and some parts are driving me 🥜
The Apple event was a great day for the brits. They wheel us out when they want to make the product announcements sound profound.
September 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The Apple event was a great day for the brits. They wheel us out when they want to make the product announcements sound profound.
I mean, our brains do the same thing only with a biological substrate instead of a silicon substrate. LLMs are “probability machines” but their output is based on a real, acquired understanding of the world from a training data set. Different to humans but still arguably thinking.
Amusing how 99% of people using LLMs forget how these things work:
They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training.
Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
They are advanced probability machines. They generate the next most likely token (word) based in the input and their training.
Under the hood, it’s a giant matrix multiplication that has eerily good output.
September 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I mean, our brains do the same thing only with a biological substrate instead of a silicon substrate. LLMs are “probability machines” but their output is based on a real, acquired understanding of the world from a training data set. Different to humans but still arguably thinking.
In the UK we should do anti-honours. And the first person to get an anti-Knighthood should be whoever removed all of the fucking padding from the seats on the trains and replaced them with ironing boards.
August 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
In the UK we should do anti-honours. And the first person to get an anti-Knighthood should be whoever removed all of the fucking padding from the seats on the trains and replaced them with ironing boards.
Biggest red flag for AI generated text is excessive use of present participles 🚩 "highlighting the importance of", "underscoring the relevance of", "avoiding the risks of", "emphasising the need for" etc
August 5, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Biggest red flag for AI generated text is excessive use of present participles 🚩 "highlighting the importance of", "underscoring the relevance of", "avoiding the risks of", "emphasising the need for" etc
Really like this actually. Currently the selected tab in liquid glass looks atrocious - this would be a better approach.
Tinted Liquid Glass Should be the Future of User Interfaces on Apple Platforms: https://parkerortolani.blog/2025/08/04/tinted-liquid-glass-should-be.html
August 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Really like this actually. Currently the selected tab in liquid glass looks atrocious - this would be a better approach.
Had anyone tried the Donkey Kong game on switch yet?
July 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Had anyone tried the Donkey Kong game on switch yet?
So cool to visit 10 Downing Street!
July 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
So cool to visit 10 Downing Street!
Reposted by Kieran McHugh
Oi mate do you have a loisence for those DMs
July 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Oi mate do you have a loisence for those DMs
I enjoyed Careless People! Very relevant for everyone in tech.
July 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
I enjoyed Careless People! Very relevant for everyone in tech.
So nostalgic about this UI
Windows Marketplace on Windows Vista reimagined (concept)
July 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
So nostalgic about this UI
Lmao StackOverflow mods are going through and closing questions I asked 10 years ago. They shall not rest until they have eliminated every question on the platform.
June 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Lmao StackOverflow mods are going through and closing questions I asked 10 years ago. They shall not rest until they have eliminated every question on the platform.
I’ve seen an uptick in people on LinkedIn posting pictures of sick relatives and using things like relatives’ cancer diagnoses for content.
It’s kinda nauseating tbh.
It’s kinda nauseating tbh.
June 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I’ve seen an uptick in people on LinkedIn posting pictures of sick relatives and using things like relatives’ cancer diagnoses for content.
It’s kinda nauseating tbh.
It’s kinda nauseating tbh.
It’s a big one today! I’ve spent my 20s figuring everything out, and now I’m looking forward to my 30s! 🎈
June 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
It’s a big one today! I’ve spent my 20s figuring everything out, and now I’m looking forward to my 30s! 🎈
Experimenting with Apple's new Icon Composer to see what
@daybridge.com's icon could look like in Liquid Glass. #wwdc25 #wwdc
@daybridge.com's icon could look like in Liquid Glass. #wwdc25 #wwdc
June 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Experimenting with Apple's new Icon Composer to see what
@daybridge.com's icon could look like in Liquid Glass. #wwdc25 #wwdc
@daybridge.com's icon could look like in Liquid Glass. #wwdc25 #wwdc