Alex Beal 🆎
@lexb.bsky.social
senior staff blade runner. big tech cyberpunk. proud member of the brotherhood of technologists.
@beala on twitter.
@beala on twitter.
Software engineering is my passion.
March 26, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Software engineering is my passion.
24 minute video on this guy's collection to weird green fans. An AI could never.
March 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
24 minute video on this guy's collection to weird green fans. An AI could never.
Oh yeah, OpenAI has been cooking.
March 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Oh yeah, OpenAI has been cooking.
Rumors of RSS's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Look at all these big beautiful feeds. Everything I've tried has worked. Bless the webdevs keeping the dream alive.
March 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Rumors of RSS's demise have been greatly exaggerated. Look at all these big beautiful feeds. Everything I've tried has worked. Bless the webdevs keeping the dream alive.
Which way western man?
March 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Which way western man?
> Procrastination is ok. You just need to harness it to productive ends.
All right smart guy. How do I harness endlessly doom scrolling social media to productive ends?
All right smart guy. How do I harness endlessly doom scrolling social media to productive ends?
March 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
> Procrastination is ok. You just need to harness it to productive ends.
All right smart guy. How do I harness endlessly doom scrolling social media to productive ends?
All right smart guy. How do I harness endlessly doom scrolling social media to productive ends?
It's whitepill monday, folks.
. @nikomccarty.bsky.social & I have written a new round up of big news in medicine & biotech:
A new genome sequencing method, a chikungunya vaccine, terminations of foreign aid programs, a non-opioid painkiller, multi-step enzymes, and more.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
A new genome sequencing method, a chikungunya vaccine, terminations of foreign aid programs, a non-opioid painkiller, multi-step enzymes, and more.
www.worksinprogress.news/p/links-in-p...
March 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
It's whitepill monday, folks.
Tabarrok: In this post I will argue that the truth of the lab leak hypothesis does matter.
Cowen: In Haiti, I was robbed at gunpoint. Someone tried to steal my car. So I guess it wasn't so dangerous after all. The spicy macaw tripe was the best I've had. In line at the airport, I met Elvis.
Cowen: In Haiti, I was robbed at gunpoint. Someone tried to steal my car. So I guess it wasn't so dangerous after all. The spicy macaw tripe was the best I've had. In line at the airport, I met Elvis.
March 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Tabarrok: In this post I will argue that the truth of the lab leak hypothesis does matter.
Cowen: In Haiti, I was robbed at gunpoint. Someone tried to steal my car. So I guess it wasn't so dangerous after all. The spicy macaw tripe was the best I've had. In line at the airport, I met Elvis.
Cowen: In Haiti, I was robbed at gunpoint. Someone tried to steal my car. So I guess it wasn't so dangerous after all. The spicy macaw tripe was the best I've had. In line at the airport, I met Elvis.
Up late rolling out a patch for slop.js again.
March 24, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Up late rolling out a patch for slop.js again.
Broooo just add the magic http header and skip any nextjs middleware you want. How is web dev such slop. zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and...
Next.js and the corrupt middleware: the authorizing artifact
CVE-2025-29927
zhero-web-sec.github.io
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Broooo just add the magic http header and skip any nextjs middleware you want. How is web dev such slop. zhero-web-sec.github.io/research-and...
Your frontend dev moments before dropping the spinning AI singularity cone.
March 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Your frontend dev moments before dropping the spinning AI singularity cone.
You, a normie: I have no idea when to use o3-mini-high or o1.
Me, a connoisseur: the o3-mini-high is really more of a sativa. Very cerebral. Gets those creative juices flowing. o1 is more of a body high. Couch locked, contemplating the universe.
Me, a connoisseur: the o3-mini-high is really more of a sativa. Very cerebral. Gets those creative juices flowing. o1 is more of a body high. Couch locked, contemplating the universe.
March 23, 2025 at 9:01 PM
You, a normie: I have no idea when to use o3-mini-high or o1.
Me, a connoisseur: the o3-mini-high is really more of a sativa. Very cerebral. Gets those creative juices flowing. o1 is more of a body high. Couch locked, contemplating the universe.
Me, a connoisseur: the o3-mini-high is really more of a sativa. Very cerebral. Gets those creative juices flowing. o1 is more of a body high. Couch locked, contemplating the universe.
I've been asked on several occasions why ReadIt.bot doesn't have an all-you-can-eat subscription option. It seems like many people don't know that all-you-can-eat subs are often a bad deal. The problem is that it's like a game of "split the check" where everyone sitting at your table is a stranger.
Read It
Use advanced AI text-to-speech to easily turn your newsletters and articles into a podcast feed.
ReadIt.bot
March 23, 2025 at 8:52 PM
I've been asked on several occasions why ReadIt.bot doesn't have an all-you-can-eat subscription option. It seems like many people don't know that all-you-can-eat subs are often a bad deal. The problem is that it's like a game of "split the check" where everyone sitting at your table is a stranger.
There's this common folk belief about type 2 diabetes that it's caused by eating too much sugar, but afaict that's not the mainstream view among people who actually research it. The mainstream view is that it's caused by excess calories, fat (especially visceral fat), and genetics.
March 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
There's this common folk belief about type 2 diabetes that it's caused by eating too much sugar, but afaict that's not the mainstream view among people who actually research it. The mainstream view is that it's caused by excess calories, fat (especially visceral fat), and genetics.
The key to a great dinner party is to send out a list of topics beforehand and moderate a single conversation? Idk I just scored 22 on that autism quiz and this is too autistic even for me.
March 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The key to a great dinner party is to send out a list of topics beforehand and moderate a single conversation? Idk I just scored 22 on that autism quiz and this is too autistic even for me.
Lmaooooo I didn't even think I was answering that autistically. But I guess that's exactly what an autist would say.
March 23, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Lmaooooo I didn't even think I was answering that autistically. But I guess that's exactly what an autist would say.
I think I've developed some sort of neck injury from reading on my phone too much. Clearly, a life of the mind has taken its toll (scrolling shit posts for 8 hours a day).
March 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I think I've developed some sort of neck injury from reading on my phone too much. Clearly, a life of the mind has taken its toll (scrolling shit posts for 8 hours a day).
Time traveling to 2012 and trying to explain that the lizardmen aren't real but there is a pseudo anonymous account called catturd that controls the federal government.
March 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Time traveling to 2012 and trying to explain that the lizardmen aren't real but there is a pseudo anonymous account called catturd that controls the federal government.
Setting up a self-hosted rss feed reader and having my secretary print out my emails. I've been radicalized.
March 23, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Setting up a self-hosted rss feed reader and having my secretary print out my emails. I've been radicalized.
I'm back on bsky, baby.
March 23, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I'm back on bsky, baby.
bro why are my wires magnetic. copper isn't magnetic. 😭
November 24, 2024 at 8:41 PM
bro why are my wires magnetic. copper isn't magnetic. 😭
A tagging service that tags duplicates tweets with the original. Is this something?
November 23, 2024 at 4:17 PM
A tagging service that tags duplicates tweets with the original. Is this something?
A blocklist for blockers that don't block themselves.
wait, am I understanding correctly that someone can’t put you on a blocklist if you’ve blocked them?
so, like, could someone just make a blocklist blocklist, blocking all blocklists except their own, and then have a blocklist-free experience?
who blocks the blockers?
so, like, could someone just make a blocklist blocklist, blocking all blocklists except their own, and then have a blocklist-free experience?
who blocks the blockers?
November 23, 2024 at 4:16 PM
A blocklist for blockers that don't block themselves.
What the hell is going on with diethylene glycol?
November 23, 2024 at 3:13 AM
What the hell is going on with diethylene glycol?