'latitude comes first' and 'vacancy rates are high' neck and neck for the most common niche misinfo i have to personally battle day in and day out

i wrote everything that i've been kind of nervous to write about @val.town: here's how things have been going the last three years, and read to the end for how we're hiring for two people macwright.com/2025/11/11/v...

i used to joke that the solution to the housing crisis is to make home prices lower but keep home values high, but slowly realized that's what a lot of the financial engineering is actually trying to do.

the hallucination problem with llms is very bad macwright.com/2025/11/07/h...

doing little public devlogs for learning effect because the learning curve can be 📈 macwright.com/2025/11/07/e...

got my first contribution to biome! github.com/biomejs/biom...

recommitted to @opensourcepledge.com at @val.town for 2025! very pumped to support projects like zod, fastify, codemirror, unified, and esm.sh with real 💸 as well as positive vibes. blog.val.town/oss-pledge

i'm starting to get effect.website pilled. started to add some to the @val.town codebase. loving that it's one big dependency with a common style & maintainers. doesn't seem that much more cryptic than neverthrow in practice. discovered one bug so far, in datetime parsing, but robust otherwise.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

I'm working on a new kind of computer. It's called the Radiant. I've been dissatisfied with the state of personal computing for many years now, so it's time I did something about it. If you think computers could be so much better than what they are, this is for you. radiant.computer

and then cuomo was never seen again

Cops stopped giving out traffic tickets is what happened lbwatchdog.com/content/file...

this is a really really great talk www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH2d...

what the new york times has lacked in understanding voter sentiment this election, it has made up for in repeatedly interviewing one of the four founders of warby parker about how much he doesn't like mamdani

hyperlocal brooklyn news: the intersection of Willoughby and Duffield is finally getting fixed! crosswalk signals installed yesterday. Used to net an unmarked crosswalk that drivers would speed through. Good stuff!

the ex-palantir blog posts about how "oh boy, there are moral grey areas but we were just building technology and we didn't do the very bad things" are aging like milk, sorry folks you're the baddies, treat the rest of your career as penance

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today! a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons macwright.com/2025/11/02/f...

You can't make this up.

this is super cool - first time i've seen a viable, in-production version of the "custom physical pieces that interact with a screen" idea - board.fun

this has to be coupled with the things that *don’t* count as a scandal: an array of harassment allegations, covering up Covid deaths, staying in a race after losing the primary, etc.

prediction markets really ended up being one of those 'interesting in theory but shit in practice' kind of things, they're legal and popular now but basically an outgrowth of gambling addictions and are absolute political cesspools

take a break from screaming into the void online to get together with good friends at a nice cafe so you can scream into the void together

dead internet theory is true

I wrote a column about Andrew Cuomo: www.elizabethspiers.com/andrew-cuomo...

watching people creative-vibecode live is going to be just as exciting as watching a guy yell at another guy to paint a painting for him www.newmuseum.org/event/10-09-...

@slowmassmusic.com was incredible live, best show this year www.slowmassmusic.com/tour

github successor? ersc.io

welp another one for the list www.are.na/tom-macwrigh...

i am puzzled about how all of the new york city council's pushback against this year's budget proposals is legal at all www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

In Milwaukee, police will now be able to impound any vehicle driven recklessly. City Alderman: “It’s a two-ton weapon. We should look at this the same way we look at firearms. Let’s get as many of them off the street as possible.”

welp another one on the list www.are.na/tom-macwrigh...

quick notes about @anthropic.com skills macwright.com/2025/10/20/a...

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

@daringfireball.bsky.social quoted Stanley Kubrick in his defense of AI art, I'm announcing my champion to quote in response: the one, the onlyyyyy 💪 Kurt Vonnegut 💪 macwright.com/2025/10/16/t...

lots of thoughtful replies from smart people, no good news, none at all!

i think the 2005-2015 era open source boom was built on a nice job environment where people had a little free time and employers believed in creativity the free time dried up, everyone burned out, 2015-2025 open source has been explicitly targeted toward getting funding & making money. what's next?

openai announcements: the gold mine is also selling the picks and shovels now

Queen

recently: macwright.com/2025/10/04/r...

🚄 new train map from planemad alert: api.mapbox.com/styles/v1/pl...

yesterday i used llm tools a lot to write a lot of code, overall i'd say that the experience taught me nothing and the whole discourse about 'adapting and learning new tools' is kinda goofy, it's not a new programming language it's a slot machine

"no more superficial individual expression"

spent some time reading dario amodei's "machines of loving grace" this morning. found it surprisingly narrow? extensive ideas about how ai will assist medicine and then a pretty brief, noncommital discussion of economic, governance, and cultural impacts www.darioamodei.com/essay/machin...

porteur bag v2 update macwright.com/2025/09/27/p...

Mad Enough to Blog It™️:

According to data from Ice, we passed a significant milestone. Immigrants with no criminal record now make up the largest group arrested and booked into detention by Ice.

bike camping photos came back ❤️

just learned that the max-age header's shared-cache equivalent is… s-maxage. why not s-max-age why do i have to commit this to memory for the rest of my life