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

a directory called 'docs/' filled with markdown files is 1000% better for internal documentation than notion

san francisco drivers park on sidewalks, park halfway down their driveways so they can use their garages as extra space and freeload off of public space, double-park constantly, they are desperately in need of policing and fines

i feel like it's not remarked upon enough that patrick collison crossed the aisle in the 2024 election cycle www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Big fan of @observablehq.com and since their preview release of Observable Notebooks 2.0 my team at Fora Health have integrated Notebook Kit into our app. Works really well so far. Quick demo ⬇️ screen.studio/share/TqvyfFbU

i kinda… like… liquid glass?

weird that we talk about how big ai datacenters are by how many gigawatts of energy they use and not how much computing power they have

i'm biased but i really think my pals at the band brnda's new album is a breakthrough hit, the production, songwriting, performance is all perfect on this one: brendadc.bandcamp.com/album/total-...

decided to write up just all my thoughts about the ar glasses, just to get them out there: macwright.com/2025/09/21/c...

the usefulness of the meta glasses and other ar devices for real-time captioning, translation, and accessibility features feels the same as the usefulness of blockchains for transactions in countries with unreliable banking systems and currencies valid but sus ethical mask that the tech wears

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

i want someone who thinks that the always-on ai glasses are good and that the pros will outweigh the cons to write a treatise about how exactly that works, what they expect ai is mirroring crypto in that afaict the critics are the only ones doing any higher-level or long-term critical thinking

i wrote a whole thing about wrangling npm dependencies because it's an unglamorous part of the job that's nevertheless really important. also because i wanted to make some watercolor illustrations. blog.val.town/gardening-de...

i was on a podcast with my new friend dave degraw, if you're wondering what i look like / think about / sound like in the modern age macwright.com/2025/09/10/p...

(my new job at @val.town is editing the blog) we launched a cli, called vt! you can run it in watch mode and it'll auto-deploy every time you change a file in your project, and you can use claude code, codex, or whatever the hottest new ai tool of the day is blog.val.town/vt-cli

this summer @val.town had an intern, and he was truly kickass: read about how @404wolf.bsky.social put the @deno.land LSP server in a cloudflare container, made it speak websockets, wired it up to codemirror, and made the whole thing scale: blog.val.town/vtlsp

i occasionally search twitter for my name for desperate "do people still think of me" reasons and this time i learned that no, they don't, but the llms do

i was specifically promised this would not happen

interesting july 2024 paper about UBI which says: recipients work less and use extra time for leisure, don't get better jobs, are somewhat more entrepreneurial static1.squarespace.com/static/631f9... (via ted lamande collabfund.com/blog/the-cos...)

decision points whether to ship my bike to ohio to ride the otet, buy an ohio bike (because i spend time in ohio), or, alternatively, hear me out - ride about 900 miles from nyc to ohio on the empire state, erie, and otet

some more photos from this roll of film (shot on on olympus xa2, i think this roll was kodak max)

recently: macwright.com/2025/08/29/r...

the rule of thirds (in photography) is one of the worst 'rules of thumb' in art imho, best ignored 90% of the time

I wrote an unusually strongly worded thing about the transit crisis in Pennsylvania, which is coming soon to Oregon and Illinois. humantransit.org/2025/08/the-...

This is a real work of art in the Youtube Video Essay genre. Funny, witty, hates the people I hate and genuinely insightful. Highly recommend. youtu.be/ewvRS3NwIlQ?...

Big news! I'm available for hire! If you have JavaScript/TypeScript you want written, and you have budget for an ambitious and highly skilled practitioner with over 20 years of experience doing that, including leading teams, communities, and execs, hit me up. izs.me (RT please)

the one thing we know for sure about this labor-saving technology of artificial intelligence is that it requires a lot of labor

writing about the thing that always makes my functional-programming flavored code look gunkier than the pretty examples

til you can add a link to a bluesky post, delete the url, and the embedded link stays around?

cool stuff that lazyvim/neovim can do: the oil.nvim file explorer lets you edit filenames like a textfile, with all of vim's magic, and when you save, it figures out what renames & moves you want and does them github.com/stevearc/oil...

did not write any code this weekend

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

going to this, who else wants to join?

please just do it or don't do it i'm so tired correctthemap.org

nice thing in neovim: flash.nvim selects text by _treesitter nodes_. so here i hit S, for 'select by treesitter', it shows me options around the cursor, i pick one by letter, and then delete it. using this for refactoring, it builds on vim's already selection support github.com/folke/flash....

announcing lots of new ai features on github (pull requests view is down) with enhanced copilot (the website doesn't load)

using time machine to go back in time and encourage lina khan to graduate early so she can block the github/microsoft merger

another way in which LLMs make me feel like an alien as compared to their many fans: I find their default fawning conversational tone to be intensely, viscerally repulsive and suspicious.

folks in corporate are reorganizing the critical infrastructure team to operate under the clowning around department, bad news

free idea: the many startups that offer a "project management view on top of github issues" could be implemented as browser extensions directly hitting the github api, tweaking existing github ui, as an open source thing.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

Unreal. Awdah Hathaleen, who worked on the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land,” filmed himself being killed by Israeli settler Yinon Levi. Levi was freed from house arrest because the judge said there was no “causal connection” between him shooting & Awdah’s death.

good chill day plan: open the wikipedia app, tab over to 'places', find articles about stuff near you that don't have photos. walk there, take some photos, learn about the stuff, improve the pages.

experimental guitar replication crisis

my stress test for new llm/deep-research models is to figure out where my last name came from. so far they haven't been able to do any better than what my research has turned up (an ancestor appeared out of nowhere with no records or prior history in nj in 1882)

the books that have influenced me the most. capital, achieving our country, the world beyond your head, etc: macwright.com/2025/08/08/p...