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Tech Stuff
Trammell Hudson “my new years resolution is 80x25”
“If you think technology will solve your problems, you don’t understand technology and you don’t understand your problems”
~ attrib. Laurie Anderson
Improving my terminal setup Quick tips for setting up Ghostty and Fish.
corner-smoothing Apple-like smooth corners for Tailwind CSS.
When I first learned to program, I though imperative programming was "closer to the machine" than functional programming because you update variables just like you do registers in assembly.
Later I learned that modern optimizing compilers completely throw away all of your source-level variable mutation by translating to a functional intermediate language (SSA) and then decide for themselves how to store your variables.
seemoo-lab/openhaystack Framework for tracking personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive Find My network.
LocalSend Share files between devices. Like AirDrop but works across macOS, iOS, Android, Linux, and Windows.
ChatGPT both sides the vim vs. emacs debate, when we all know vim is clearly superior.
VSCode Pets This free VSCode extension adds playful pets 🦀🐱🐶 in your code window.
Developer advocacy at startups = identifying and triaging chaos:
🔥 Actual crisis: Users can’t access the product.
🤷♀️ Fake crisis: Someone freaking out over button color in the docs.Not every fire deserves your hose. Pick your battles. 👩🚒😉
Modular numpad concept adds some Teenage Engineering industrial aesthetic to your workflow
"may your parentheses remain ever balanced" --old lisp saying
Coffee Commit Analyze your caffeine-driven code productivity and chart your caffeine correlation key metric.
Eye for Design
Cozy Comfort Instead of saving the world, the goal of cozy games are typically smaller in nature, like tidying up your room. This article explains cozy games by being a cozy game in itself. Right now it feels like cozy games are exactly what we need.
“There are two classes of system designers. The first, if given five problems will solve them one at a time. The second will come back and announce that these aren’t the real problems, and will eventually propose a solution to the single problem which underlies the original five. This is the ‘system type’ who is great during the initial stages of a design project. However, you had better get rid of him after the first six months if you want to get a working system.” — Kinslow
🦠 We program a lot of things in this office but none quite as frustrating as our new sinks. yes, sinks.
the sink settings (!) are set with an infrared remote, which you have to place in front of the faucet IR sensor — virtually guaranteeing it immediately gets drenched in a spray of water. anywayyyy
Business Side
While assessing the current product is important, what most companies fail to understand is that much more important than the products they are buying, is the organization’s ability to develop new products going forward, and more generally, for those new products to be successful as part of the acquiring company.
‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley
The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s
Assaf “How to look busy in the office”
Machine Intelligence
We can’t let China’s AI destroy jobs. Only our AI can do that! The SF Standard perfectly captures what's going on in the world of AI this week:
Breaking news: As you’ve been reading this, Qwen has defeated DeepSeek. That’s right, Alibaba just unveiled an LLM that can put DeepSeek out of its job, a job that’s putting out of work our own AI, whose intent in the first place is to put everyone else out of work.
Purely AI-generated art can’t get copyright protection, says Copyright Office
The US Copyright Office said in a report that prompts for artificial intelligence bots can’t be protected under the law since they can’t control the outputs.
Tech bros: AI will make things cheaper and faster and eliminate jobs
China: Makes an AI that is cheaper and faster and eliminates tech bro jobs
Tech bros: Not like that!
Insecurity
What do I do for a living? Like many of you, my primary occupation is entering passwords and two-factor codes into a variety of apps and websites all day long.
Everything Else
"What's your greatest weakness?"
"Procrastination"
"Can you elaborate?"
deep sigh "Can we not do this now?"
did you know you can just buy a lab coat?
nobody checks if you're a real sciencemancer or anything.
Cornish couple avoid sky high train fares by flying via Malaga to Crewe The couple flew more than 1,300 miles to Malaga and then back to the UK to pick up their new car. £54 x2 for flight and £45 for hotel stay was together cheaper than two £200 train tickets.
Linguistically, “DEI” is now the new “critical race theory”: a scapegoat phrase used devoid of any of its actual meaning by people who never understood the original in the first place
A Young Man Used AI to Build A Nuclear Fusor and Now I Must Weep If you think AI is some sort of elevated intelligence this story seems alarming! If you know AI is just munching text it found elsewhere, this story is very unremarkable. If you understand this blog post is about capturing your clicks by saying one thing but pretending to say the opposite … good job!
The big deal here seemed to be that a total novice had been able to construct a pretty complex machine with AI as his major guide, even when the AI didn’t really want him to do this in the first place.
People over Papers Crowdsourced reports of ICE raids.
Harold S I just signed up because given all the recalls from 2024, I don’t trust the suppliers (or grocery stores), but also I know the US government is shutting down the FDA:
If this helps anyone, you can sign up for the Canadian food recall alerts. We get a lot of our food from the U.S. and test it regularly.
It won’t catch everything, but it’s better than nothing.
Suspects in Recent Murders Are Two Young Computer Nerds That Reportedly Have Ties to a Techno-Cult
Open Vallejo characterizes the Zizians as an “ideology centered on using scientific techniques to enhance human decision making,” though a better description might be “a bunch of Extremely Online wackos with radically bad ideas.” Indeed, online descriptions of the Zizian worldview make it sound pretty damn out there: it’s an apparent offshoot of the Rationalist movement, which is a (mostly) online movement that circulates around the LessWrong web forum.
7:4 “coffee”
