The incredible Jack68k made a piece of software that is almost a Tech Step (with potentially more flexibility) for those of us that can’t afford an actual Tech Step. Total game changer for those of us that work on old Macs!
tinkerdifferent.com/threads/reco...
reconnaissanceapp.com
inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
AI efficiency is important. The median Gemini Apps text prompt in May 2025 used 0.24 Wh of energy (<9 seconds of TV watching) & 0.26 mL (~5 drops) of water. Over 12 months, we reduced the energy footprint of a median text prompt 33x, while improving quality:
cloud.google.com/blog/product...
everyone calm down, the CEO has suggested using a mutex to solve our problems
If there were a single lesson I'd drill into new software engineers it'd be this:
You can be technically right and politically and systemically dead wrong.
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"People falling asleep in meetings due to exhaustion aren’t sent home to rest — they’re praised for their "extreme ownership" and dedication. Knowledge sharing and documentation get deprioritized against building. Testing is skipped because it harms velocity and extends timelines."
Macintosh SE/30 computer with a BlueSCSI SD slot mounted in the floppy drive opening.
#Macintosh SE/30 ready to go. Clean with #BlueSCSI, #retrobrite, and recap.
Used the brush on technique with SalonCare 30 Volume Creme Developer. Requires brushing a bit more on every 15 minutes to prevent streaking for about 90 minutes in the sun.
I thought Apple devices are supposed to be easy to connect together
The left had a Joe Rogan and it was called Car Talk. You’re welcome.
watched 2001 a space odyssey last night and couldn’t stop saying “HAL is this real”
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
A randomly generated finite state machine, made of the emoji 💧, 💦, ☔️
💧💦☔️
![Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46
[comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreih3hirktm65hdw44t573arldaizpyect42tpkiochyewbagbj5gh4)
Comic. Thought Process While Reading A Big Number: 54,000,000,000,000,000,000,0000,0000,054,000"000,00c2ef46 [comments progress along the line, approximately every 3 digits] (1) 54! Great! I know that number. Solid start. (2) Oh, a comma and some zeros. Cool. Must be at least 54 thousand. (3) A second comma! I wonder if we’re talking population or money. (4) Yikes! If this is money, it’s a *lot* of money. (5) Why am I reading this? Whatever this number is, I’m not going to be able to visualize it. (6) All right, either someone made a unit conversion error or this is one of those incomprehensible astronomy numbers. (7) [4 zeroes between commas instead of 3]] Oh no. Is this a misplaced comma or an extra zero? I guess we’ll see if the next group has two zeros or three. If it’s two, we can at least hope the digits are right. (8) [4 zeroes between commas] Oh *no*. (9) [repeat of the digits 54] What is happening. (10) [a quotation mark in place of comma] Someone messed up real bad. (11) [final digits are c2ef46, cut off] Someone messed up real bad and I hope it wasn’t me.
Reading a Big Number
xkcd.com/3102/
BRB reevaluating some personal relationships
Whenever someone illustrates a point with an analogy, make sure to reply with interesting facts about the thing in the analogy. They’ll love it!
I should have been appreciating the beautiful harbor, but instead I kind of zoned out staring at the beautiful caustics on the underside of the dinghy.
Spending decades on global illumination does strange things to a person!
This is literally the dark side of the Penrose Tiling.
So you know the Penrose Tiling is a 2D-Projection of a 5-dimensional grid?
This is the Projection to the other 3 Dimensions.
#penrose #codeart #mathart
The one where I muse about how this simple bit of code radically changes how the web itself seems to behave…
webkit.org/blog/16967/t...
Flutter's dev tools are from another planet.
- Center a div in one click (science said it was impossible)
- Extract to widgets and add state with code mods
- Generated labels for what each `}` corresponds to
Oh, and did I say hot reloading? What a way to build desktop apps ❤️
Non-zero chance the new pope likes Malort.
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Job interview for my current position included "what happens when you type something into a browser address bar" and they literally had to tell me to stop.
Bloom filters seem like a good data structure to make lock-free for concurrent access: you can use an atomic fetch-and-bitwise-OR instruction for writes
Implemented two-pass GPU occlusion culling (using a hierarchical depth buffer - "HiZ") in my SDF engine!
The video shows disocclusions (bricks that need to be rendered in the 2nd pass) in pink. This technique reduces the number of bricks rendered by 50-90+%.
More details below.
Eventually you reach an age where your story is so beyond telling you just live with it, quiet. And there is confidence in this. They don't know you, and they can't. You've lived longer than being an archetype. You can't be hated, but you also can't be loved.
You just have to sit there, and live.
Taylor Swift on her knees talking into a microphone to audience
You think your walled garden is safe? Gatekeeper can be bypassed, notarization can be fooled, don’t even get me started on Objective-C runtime abuse or malicious LaunchAgents dropped in ~/Library/ where no one ever checks. My dude you use Homebrew. Are you kidding me on security?
My essay, "The Cinematograph and the Noematograph," is out at Big Think. It's my attempt to work out what exactly is "AI art" and why it might be interesting to human artists and art consumers. Let me know what you think!
bigthink.com/high-culture...
New CSA -Fast Flux: This technique poses a significant threat to national security, enabling malicious cyber actors to consistently evade detection. #cybersecurity #FastFlux www.cisa.gov/news-events/... cc @gate15.bsky.social @craignewmark.bsky.social
