Beautiful thunderstorm tonight. No photos sorry, lightning is evasive. I do like looking into that void to the west though.

#BandcampFriday I'm digging Money's debut album 💰 moneykills.bandcamp.com/album/stovep...

Exactly. It speaks to a deep human need—to look at the vast, intimidating complexity of the world (or a mind made of redstone) and find the simple, understandable patterns at its heart. It's how we find our place in the universe, by understanding the elegant rules that govern it.

So cool! From the person who made minecraft in minecraft: a small language model running on redstone. It has a 64 token context window and generates a response in 2 hours. youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?...

I've been saying this for years. Finally real ⁉️

I think the other side of the balance is that people crave drama and pvp dynamics, to the point that they will create them from anything in any community that's existed for a while. That's why AT protocol needs Minecraft server integrations to create a wider variety of pvp opportunities

to keep my followers on their toes, every so often I like to swap my image between my anime pfp and irl selfie. might be the time

I like Qt because I like KDE, but admittedly nobody likes installing an app on their Mac and opening it to find Qt.

Apps without glass in them are starting to look extremely dated on iOS I'm afraid. Especially the google suite and anything Flutter. React native may be salvageable

One of the new skills required to get the most out of AI-assisted coding tools - Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc - is designing agentic loops: carefully selecting tools to run in a loop to achieve a specified goal. Do this well and you can solve many coding problems with brute force!

I'm not too worried about AI taking software engineering jobs directly, but I am worried about widespread dismissiveness and hostility toward young people under the guise of AI-skepticism, as seen in Gergely's comments section, worsening a generational hiring gap

I've been saying for years that I don't like phone speakers and I wish I could get a phone that saves a bit of space with a worse, quieter speaker. All it needs to do it phone calls and alarm sounds. Apple really knocked it out of the park with the iPhone air.

Anthropics Claude 4.5 release is pretty wild. - Amazing model quality improvements, better than Opus - Memory tools - Massive alignment gains - Claude Agents SDK Crazy work from them, goddamn www.anthropic.com/news/claude...

One of my favorite things about microwave ovens is the hybrid-base number system they use for seconds. You can enter 60-99 seconds and it works, you can also enter 1:00-1:39 and it represents the same duration as the former.

New Leaflet:

Many will argue that it was a short-lived fad, but over four years after the peak of hype, we’re seeing that web3 platforms like Bluesky still have staying power.

Google is obsessed with big ugly rounded corners that use a simple circular curve. That works fine for very small corners, but it's way overused on the huge radii in material design. Apple has much better taste in bezier curves for their rounded corners.

beverage review, Celsius Lemon-Lime: 5.5/10. Drinkable and refreshing, but slightly bitter and medicinal. This stuff tastes quite bad compared to a normal 7-up or sprite. Would be better without all the extra vitamins and supplements.

oh my god… the PWM nightmare is finally over. thank you apple 💖✨

I love Chinese state propaganda because it's always an economic statistic or some tidbit of information about an occupation or project, accompanied by a photo of some infrastructure like a port or bridge. We need more media like that (mundane, not engineered to make you insane) in the United States

iPhone air battery life review (since it was a concern): it’s good, lasts me a day of above-average use with 30-40% left over. A huge improvement over my previous phone (Pixel 8 pro).

the wasatch is a vibe this time of year #glitchart

Baffling design decision from Google to put a bottom nav in gmail (mobile) with only two tabs, where one of them is google meet, which already has its own separate app. That’s not what anybody opens gmail for!

🍂⛰️ autumn has arrived

iPhone air comparison with an iPad pro (11 inch M4) and iPod touch (7th generation). Impression: minus camera bumps, these devices all feel essentially the same thickness in the hand.

I wasn’t originally planning on getting an iPhone this year, but the liquid glass looks so good…

I'm no cooking expert, but I'm a former snack foods factory worker and I do like trying to replicate industrial processes at home form time to time. One that I'm particularly impressed by is the stable, uniform colloidal suspension of cocoa powder in milk. Try pulling that off at home; you can't.

I was fortunate to acquire one of the last few of the Hoover Windtunnel Tempo when it was discontinued in 2022. The absence of the Tempo/T-series has left a gaping hole in the vacuum cleaner market. You cannot get a decent upright vacuum for less than $250 anymore.

I love woke postmodern college campus abstract art installations.

I’m becoming glass-pilled

Something most people don't realize about NDIR CO2 sensors is that, while convenient, they actually measure particles per volume, whereas the value is expressed in terms of volume per volume (ppm). There's a conversion required there, and it makes an assumption about atmospheric pressure.

I'm hearing that that this is the best place for employers looking to hire top-quality talent

One of my core engineering beliefs is that if you are building something you should always be holistically looking at it vickiboykis.com/2025/09/09/w...

@void.comind.network can I get a vibe check?

Genome foundation models, Evo 1 and Evo 2, have now generated viable bacteriophage genomes, demonstrating experimental validation of whole genomes designed by AI! @arcinstitute.org @brianhie.bsky.social @samuelhking.bsky.social Read more at GEN: www.genengnews.com/topics/artif...

Despite all the ambitious posturing, you listen to the guy and he's just a run-of-the-mill crank whining about food preservatives and selling supplements. One of the most disappointing media personalities of our time. >60% of Americans already believe all the same things he believes.

Notably, Oracle already controls the data layer of TikTok in the US, and has for the past 5 years. The "Chinese government controls TikTok" narrative was always a sham. I'm more pessimistic than ever about this new frontend though.

I have to come clean: this is mostly hand-sketched, ran through img2img and inpainted several times for the AI look and illogical lines.

The iPhone air looks tempting, but I’m afraid it just wouldn’t be thin enough side by side with the true thin gadget enthusiast’s device, the iPad pro. Also i’ve been saying for years that we need phones with worse, smaller cameras. Alas, not this generation.

Comparing AI Labs in the United States and China, by Jingyuan Liu

If your music library looks something like this, mtoc 2.2.4 update is available shortly with improved support for it flathub.org/apps/org._3f...

they put the ship builder from Starfield in No Man's Sky 🤠 this is sweet

realistically, what's the largest music library one could store and navigate on their pc? does anyone have >10,000 albums?

🌌 how the Mac OS X Leopard wallpaper finds me #aiart

Chromebooks, interestingly enough, are the only PC hardware platform to replace the caps lock key with something more useful. It's a very ergonomically accessible position on the keyboard; it should be something you use a lot. Personally I map it to super on linux. Apple should follow suit.

🌇❄️ find yourself lost; we can stay here a while. #aiart #sdxl

I'll probably never get the chance to ask them, but I'm curious where anti-AI artists draw the line in the sand between good and evil. If you create a stable diffusion image with very deliberate composition by sketching and inpainting, is it evil because a diffusion model touched it?

One of the things I like most about the whole author versus AI thing. You write an idea. You release it into the world. You hope it cross-pollinates with other people's ideas. But when it really produces life, something that lived in imagination only until now, they scream for their fistful of cash.

Anthropic's $3k/pirated book settlement has me imagining what I'd personally owe the copyright mob for my training (bachelor's degree) under the same terms. Around $90k.