new cli-driven llm tools are looking more 'hardcore hacker' than ever, the programmer identity crisis means that these glorified chatbots have to be super butch
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new cli-driven llm tools are looking more 'hardcore hacker' than ever, the programmer identity crisis means that these glorified chatbots have to be super butch
"We're clean on OPSEC" I text my Meta coworkers as I torrent LibGen
'apple in china' was a crazy read and so i'm pretty intrigued to find out if it's going to be mostly manufactured in mainland china / india / somewhere else. probably china, though.
tech enthusiasm: the apple macbook neo looks cool, actually, i'd get one in a number of circumstances. the price is impressive, though it probably has a ton of factory-labor skullduggery behind it. the macbook is overkill for most people anyway.
one thing that really radicalized me is realizing that the "ability to accept gigantic investments" is a feature of companies like this for huge investors who have to invest a ton of money and don't want thousands of companies in their portfolio, which helps this agglomeration happen
back in 2023 leaflet was hyperlink.academy and didn't have anything to do with atproto, leaflet dev started mid-2024 and release announced in march 2025 and i think judging by the language they hadn't gone all-in on atproto at that point news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4326...
i'm just an onlooker but it seems like @leaflet.pub is such a good example of a technology that waited around for the right wave and then rode it: leaflet existed as just a document editor on the web for a long time before the atproto wave came around, and then it all locked into place
demo for tracy.nereid.pl which recently got added to @folkcomputer.bsky.social
now that is a very fast web application experience (c++ to wasm afaict): tracy.nereid.pl
not quite shia labouef
kinda brian cox
sketching practice
i love that two people have already made visualizations of this on @observablehq.com observablehq.com/@roop-pal/gr... observablehq.com/@jwolondon/g...
i think there's still room for making a spinny interactive demo but on the other hand i should maintain a sleep schedule
rotary encoder
gray code encoder close-up
gray codes in rotary encoders look like ancient geometric puzzles from sci-fi, translating an angle of rotation to a number in binary en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_code
not yet but slowly writing a post about it in my head
Once again, I regret to inform you that Ben Thompson is wrong about monopolies.
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yeah, multiformats is cool at least
i kept trying to use it and nothing worked macwright.com/2017/08/09/d... and then again macwright.com/2019/06/08/i...
all at the same time i see that they're raising hundreds of millions and paying huge salaries. it was the embodiment of the "cash out before accomplishing the goal" crypto ethos
they incinerated a bajillion dollars creating tech that didn't work, then created a crypto coin which incinerated even more money, hyping the thing up based on things it never could do, built a mess of projects that will never be finished
every day i'm trying to be positive about technology but reality is making that hard
ipfs
i've been hating on ipfs for a decade now, but for the first time i'm encountering it in the wild, and it's being used to host malware payloads so i hate it even more
nice! looks like they're using maplibre on the web but i'm still the 9th author of that too 😂
i cannot believe you were not joking
the apis are my main problem, they're _amazing_ for sending passwords from fake login phishing pages into group chats of scammers
are there any non-criminal uses of telegram
anthropic might be lying to its own employees on this piece, but i heard this very recently from one of them that the plans are subsidized
just wrote a blog post about using claude code with subagents, wait no, about sewing
One thing I find so embarrassing about the "agentic AI is so great this changes everything" discourse is while I'm sure Claude is great for various use cases people sound like they're in a commercial and that just is the opposite of cool
the second highest paid actor was the other guy in the big bang theory
