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Founder, investor, engineer. Shill for big Monad.
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standplaatskrk.pl
"the Myth of "Consensual" Internet - Isn't There Somebody You Forgot to Ask?" "I CONSENT" ~ Browser "I CONSENT" ~ Host "I DON'T!" ~ Cloudflare
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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retr0.id
happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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codemunkee.bsky.social
November 17, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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jessicacalarco.com
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
My 11-year-old sitting with her pile of Halloween candy, sorting it into a bar graph
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
xnomagichash.bsky.social
Look, I'm not an AI maximalist, and I do think we're in a bubble. But I think a lot of people misunderstand why engineering managers feel like AI is such a productivity multiplier.

In my mind, there's two things you shouldn't do to engineers you supervise: micromanage or assign throw-away work. 1/n
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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olil.bsky.social
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
A picture of a foggy street
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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skullmandible.bsky.social
the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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fullmoon.id
The idiomatic Haskell program is twenty imports, six language extensions, and one line of Perl
sekun.net sekun @sekun.net · Dec 14
the lines saved from haskell being such a terse language is offset by the amount of imports, and language pragmas you need to write
December 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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nicholaskole.bsky.social
my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru
July 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
X's head of product
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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robin.berjon.com
"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy

*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation."
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
xnomagichash.bsky.social
I was hoping Haskell would be a perfect fit for an LLM because types, but instead Claude bitterly complains about how tedious and repetitive pattern matching on GADTs is, and then marks every implemebtation as undefined when it doesn’t work the first time.
June 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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paulginva.bsky.social
Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?
Ardem Patapoutian's story is not just the American dream, it is the dream of American science. He arrived in Los Angeles in 1986 at age 18 after fleeing war-torn Lebanon. He spent a year writing for an Armenian newspaper and delivering Domino's at night to become eligible for the University of California, where he earned his undergraduate degree and a postdoctoral fellowship in neuroscience. He started a lab at Scripps Research in San Diego with a grant from the National Institutes of Health, discovered the way humans sense touch, and in 2021 won the Nobel Prize. But with the Trump administration slashing spending on science, Dr. Patapoutian's federal grant to develop new approaches to treating pain has been frozen. In late February, he posted on Bluesky that such cuts would damage biomedical research and prompt an exodus of talent from the United States. Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to "any city, any university I want," he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.
June 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
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May 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
xnomagichash.bsky.social
My mom, an english professor, has been despairing over student use of LLMs for years. This semester she accidentally discovered adversarial prompting by laying out the instructions for an assignment in such a way that ChatGPT was unable to follow, outing students who fed the assignment into an LLM.
May 26, 2025 at 9:32 PM
xnomagichash.bsky.social
PSA: When a can falls off a shelf, it is not a good idea to attempt to stop it from hitting the floor by kicking it. Ow.
May 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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quinnypig.com
This afternoon I choose violence.
Painted meme showing two muscular arms clasping hands in a handshake against a dark background. Text overlays identify the left arm as "Software engineers" and the right arm as "Chefs" with "Making spaghetti" displayed above their handshake, suggesting a humorous comparison between coding and cooking.
May 6, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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wired.com
For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever. www.wired.com/story/north-...
Your Favorite New Coworker Is an AI-Enhanced Operative From North Korea
For years, North Korea has been secretly placing young IT workers inside Western companies. With AI, their schemes are now more devious—and effective—than ever.
www.wired.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:05 AM
xnomagichash.bsky.social
Evening hanami in Boston at Arnold Arboretum
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April 21, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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retrotechdreams.bsky.social
These are the screenshots in current documentation for Adobe Dreamweaver
Dreamweaver's documentation with Windows XP screenshots
April 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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dieworkwear.bsky.social
Matt Priest, president of the largest footwear trade group, says he doesn't think footwear manufacturing is coming back to the US.

via PBS News
April 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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steveklabnik.com
chat am i cooked?
asking chatgpt 'can you write me some rust code in steve klabnik's style' and it gives Absolutely! Steve Klabnik’s Rust code style tends to follow these characteristics: Clarity first: readable over clever. Idiomatic: uses ownership, lifetimes, traits, iterators effectively. Minimalist: avoids overengineering. Well-commented: explains why as well as what. Elegant use of Result, Option, ?, iterators, and pattern matching. Avoids macros unless necessary. Here's a simple example that feels like something Steve might write: a small command-line tool that counts lines in a file. rust Copy Edit use std::env; use std::fs::File; use std::io::{self, BufRead, BufReader}; /// Opens the file at the given path and returns the number of lines. /// /// # Errors /// /// Returns an `io::Error` if the file can't be opened or read. fn count_lines<P: AsRef<std::path::Path>>(path: P) -> io::Result<usize> { let file = File::open(path)?; // The `?` operator propagates errors let reader = BufReader::new(file); // Using iterator to count lines Ok(reader.lines().count()) } fn main() -> io::Result<()> { // Expect a single command-line argument: the file path let path = match env::args().nth(1) { Some(p) => p, None => { eprintln!("Usage: linecount <file>"); std::process::exit(1); } }; let count = count_lines(&path)?; println!("Number of lines: {}", count); Ok(()) } Why this feels Klabnik-ish: Simple and idiomatic use of the standard library. ? operator for error propagation. No unnecessary abstractions. Clear use of Result and types. Uses BufReader for efficiency. A gentle nudge toward correctness without adding needless complexity. Want it to do something fancier, or in a different domain (like a web server, parser, etc.)?
April 8, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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tanukinomori.bsky.social
Kyoto transformed into a winter wonderland❄️

#photography #kyoto #snow #japan
February 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM