Tom MacWright
@tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
engineer, writer, "artist"
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little effect devlog about runtimes and logging https://macwright.com/2025/11/26/effect-devlog
Effect devlog
macwright.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
little effect devlog about runtimes and logging https://macwright.com/2025/11/26/effect-devlog
the process of looking through backlinks to my site is a grim reminder of my last name's utter unspellability
November 23, 2025 at 4:35 PM
the process of looking through backlinks to my site is a grim reminder of my last name's utter unspellability
lately i've been wanting to know who links to my website, because i've found some thoughtful responses and riffs on what i wrote, but months later.
haven't found a good solution for this: i get some backlinks from ahrefs, but lots of backlink spam and bad visibility into geniunely new links […]
haven't found a good solution for this: i get some backlinks from ahrefs, but lots of backlink spam and bad visibility into geniunely new links […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
lately i've been wanting to know who links to my website, because i've found some thoughtful responses and riffs on what i wrote, but months later.
haven't found a good solution for this: i get some backlinks from ahrefs, but lots of backlink spam and bad visibility into geniunely new links […]
haven't found a good solution for this: i get some backlinks from ahrefs, but lots of backlink spam and bad visibility into geniunely new links […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/115582441718385043
i (at work, with val town) do the least popular option, using tsx. haven't found a strong reason to compile with typescript yet, and node's ts support is super tempting but we need jsx syntax because the server sends emails and templates […]
i (at work, with val town) do the least popular option, using tsx. haven't found a strong reason to compile with typescript yet, and node's ts support is super tempting but we need jsx syntax because the server sends emails and templates […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/115582441718385043
i (at work, with val town) do the least popular option, using tsx. haven't found a strong reason to compile with typescript yet, and node's ts support is super tempting but we need jsx syntax because the server sends emails and templates […]
i (at work, with val town) do the least popular option, using tsx. haven't found a strong reason to compile with typescript yet, and node's ts support is super tempting but we need jsx syntax because the server sends emails and templates […]
shipped a new feature on https://placemark.io/ that i've had on the list for 3+ years: drawing with automatic routing.
represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring.
currently uses the mapbox directions api.
very beta - there's some […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring.
currently uses the mapbox directions api.
very beta - there's some […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
shipped a new feature on https://placemark.io/ that i've had on the list for 3+ years: drawing with automatic routing.
represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring.
currently uses the mapbox directions api.
very beta - there's some […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring.
currently uses the mapbox directions api.
very beta - there's some […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
little work on https://placemark.io this sunday: fixed undo states, upgraded to react, simplified map rendering a bit https://macwright.com/2025/11/16/placemark-sunday
placemark.io
placemark.io
November 16, 2025 at 10:50 PM
little work on https://placemark.io this sunday: fixed undo states, upgraded to react, simplified map rendering a bit https://macwright.com/2025/11/16/placemark-sunday
i haven't written that much about my day job. here in this article, i wrote a lot about it, and even about how we're hiring! https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i haven't written that much about my day job. here in this article, i wrote a lot about it, and even about how we're hiring! https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town
doing little public daily devlogs when i do stuff with #effect because the learning curve can be tough: https://macwright.com/2025/11/07/effect-nov-7-caching
Effect notes: caching
macwright.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
doing little public daily devlogs when i do stuff with #effect because the learning curve can be tough: https://macwright.com/2025/11/07/effect-nov-7-caching
congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
Fewer people should run marathons
macwright.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
my /micro page grew to be 3mb because I Wrote Too Much so it now has a big pile of links at the bottom, this is one of my semiyearly website tweaks https://macwright.com/micro/
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
my /micro page grew to be 3mb because I Wrote Too Much so it now has a big pile of links at the bottom, this is one of my semiyearly website tweaks https://macwright.com/micro/
software is so bad
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
software is so bad
upgrading vitest from 2 to 3 made our tests slower upgrading it from 3 to 4 make our tests even slower than that
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
upgrading vitest from 2 to 3 made our tests slower upgrading it from 3 to 4 make our tests even slower than that
staying "hip to it" by trying out anthropic skills https://macwright.com/2025/10/20/agent-skills
First-run with agent skills from Anthropic
I tried to use Anthropic Skills which are kind of like lazy-loaded prompts and are a complement to MCP but that let you run code either locally or on their compute.
macwright.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
staying "hip to it" by trying out anthropic skills https://macwright.com/2025/10/20/agent-skills
this idea from @lifewinning is so cool, i had not heard of inertial navigation https://placing.technology/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-and-i-wrote-down-my-worst-ideas-for-fixing-geo#bring-back-inertial-navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
this idea from @lifewinning is so cool, i had not heard of inertial navigation https://placing.technology/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-and-i-wrote-down-my-worst-ideas-for-fixing-geo#bring-back-inertial-navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak
it rocks living in lincoln restler's district in nyc, i get to read articles about him doing cool stuff like actually taking action on tons of illegally parked cars https://hellgatenyc.com/downtown-brooklyn-is-one-big-illegal-parking-lot/
Confirmed—Downtown Brooklyn Is One Big Illegal Parking Lot
Placard abuse reigns supreme and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
it rocks living in lincoln restler's district in nyc, i get to read articles about him doing cool stuff like actually taking action on tons of illegally parked cars https://hellgatenyc.com/downtown-brooklyn-is-one-big-illegal-parking-lot/
Recently
Back from the wilderness
macwright.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
porteur bag v2 update: https://macwright.com/2025/09/27/porteur-bag-2
Porteur bag 2
Thinking machines, no! Sewing machines, yes!
macwright.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
porteur bag v2 update: https://macwright.com/2025/09/27/porteur-bag-2
posted photos from my last bikepacking trip (the c&o+gap, pittsburgh to dc) on the blog https://macwright.com/photos/
September 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
posted photos from my last bikepacking trip (the c&o+gap, pittsburgh to dc) on the blog https://macwright.com/photos/
decided to write up just all my thoughts about the ar glasses, just to get them out there: https://macwright.com/2025/09/21/cooking-with-glasses
Cooking with glasses
What's the positive view of AR glasses?
macwright.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
decided to write up just all my thoughts about the ar glasses, just to get them out there: https://macwright.com/2025/09/21/cooking-with-glasses
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/114905822977634292
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/114905822977634292
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
placemark changelog: exporting shapefiles was broken, is fixed now
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
placemark changelog: exporting shapefiles was broken, is fixed now
keep thinking about this house, the sarimento house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiento_House
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
keep thinking about this house, the sarimento house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiento_House
wrote about how i manage npm dependencies, and used it as an excuse to make some watercolors https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
wrote about how i manage npm dependencies, and used it as an excuse to make some watercolors https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies
fastmail just launched offline support, continues to be one of my favorite web applications that i use all the time
September 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
fastmail just launched offline support, continues to be one of my favorite web applications that i use all the time