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urbanism stuff is at
@grids.reillywood.com
every single time I do Python stuff
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Figma hired Krazam to promote their MCP server, lol (it's pretty good)
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14 days ago
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Gergely Orosz
14 days ago
Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor. This one:
github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
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Hillelogram
15 days ago
I was doing some software history research and stumbled on this absolutely FASCINATING letter from 1964:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Some random defense contractor writes in to say "You should deliver a minimal prototype as fast as possible to get feedback and involve users at every stage of labor"
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Some observations concerning large programming efforts | Proceedings of the April 21-23, 1964, spring joint computer conference
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1464122.1464146
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Grace
16 days ago
Worse news: there are uncountably many undecidable problems. Computers have been a scam this whole time
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hailey
17 days ago
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shipping software on macOS vs shipping software on Linux, sigh
17 days ago
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I do the West Coast “wake up, catch up on what coworkers in Europe and the East Coast have been doing, work work work in the morning and then things are relatively quiet in the afternoon” thing and mostly always have. Curious whether it’s better or worse than the reverse situation
18 days ago
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new blog post from the agent trenches:
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Tool Calls Are Expensive And Finite
Design your agents accordingly
https://www.reillywood.com/blog/tool-calls-are-expensive-and-finite/
19 days ago
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@taylor.town
catching up on my RSS feed and I thought this was great!
taylor.town/type-of-person
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"I'm the type of person who..."
Nobody accidentally runs triathalons.
https://taylor.town/type-of-person
19 days ago
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Taylor Mullen
20 days ago
Gemini CLI weekly update for v0.5.0: 🎉 FastMCP integration, a "Three-Day Drop" incoming [█▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒] 0%, positional prompts, custom witty loading messages, and major Edit Tool improvements. Deets:
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#GeminiCLI
#Gemini
#AI
#OSS
#FastMCP
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Tim Krief
21 days ago
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my only goal as a programmer is to someday be as cool as Nir, who is still writing new Win32 GUI utilities in 2025
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21 days ago
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lauren
21 days ago
if you have infinite monkeys typing on infinite typewriters one of them will eventually produce the entire works of shakespeare. but you don't have that kind of start up capital. start with 10 monkeys writing steven king's Christine. soon you'll be turning a profit and can start scaling your monkeys
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been thinking a lot about MCP lately (which is kinda my job) and IMO: - there is real value in having a standard for giving tools to agents - MCP servers are usually not granular enough, most uses only need 1 or 2 tools and we need better UX for picking+choosing them
23 days ago
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sam henri gold
about 1 month ago
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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unwrap/expect is essentially a lesson in how defaults matter a lot; it's good that you can do the dangerous thing easily with a *little* bit of ceremony to make sure you don't do it unintentionally
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30 days ago
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Adam Chalmers
4 months ago
on type safety
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Grace
about 1 month ago
Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists
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fun fact: they rent out their lovely Canadian HQ in Vancouver for events like weddings
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about 1 month ago
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SE Gyges
about 1 month ago
going to eat dinner, who belongs on this list. i haven't seen a good ai starter pack in forever
go.bsky.app/2N4PAzz
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a wicked and unusual boy
about 1 month ago
i would install the costco linux
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Well worth a read by
@seangoedecke.bsky.social
whose blog I’ve been enjoying lately:
seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...
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Seeing like a software company
The big idea of James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State can be expressed in three points: Modern organizations exert control by maximising “legibility”: by…
https://seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/
about 1 month ago
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Switched to an old iPhone mini in the hopes that I’d use a smaller phone less, and the jury’s still out on that but I *love* the smaller form factor. Shame nobody bought it.
about 1 month ago
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switching to a new (old, I wanted a mini) iPhone and boy even Apple can't make peer-to-peer data transfer reliable
about 1 month ago
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hailey
about 1 month ago
quoting this again because i saw another few comments recently about something similar that were like “eew gross this is so bad”. the reality though is that this is actually - unironically - what peak development looks like. this has effected zero people, been noticed by almost zero, and works great
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Andrés Cuervo
about 1 month ago
What if a browser could navigate
#ATProto
DIDs and 🦋 Bluesky handles? Made a little prototype of Aura, a browser that can navigate between standard websites (🌐), Bluesky handles (@), and permanent DIDs, resolving them all in the same address bar.
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join a local tech discord ask if the vibes are normal or really weird admin laughs and says “it’s a good discord sir” it’s really weird
about 1 month ago
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Andrew Lawrence
about 1 month ago
rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides
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good shortcut to take, honestly
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about 1 month ago
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stellz
about 1 month ago
The Kant Car
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learned about an exciting mythical creature today
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnacon
about 1 month ago
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battery swelling on my laptop, but "this is why I got a
@frame.work
! I'll just order a new battery... oh." apparently they've been having battery stock issues for 2 months, cool cool cool cool
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about 1 month ago
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🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵
about 1 month ago
fixing all AI forever by adding the system prompt “but no galaxy brain stuff ok”
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last night
@chadkoh.com
taught me some basic things about ATproto! he was very nice about the fact that I’ve been on this platform for a while and had no idea what a PDS is
about 1 month ago
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Tim Hwang
about 1 month ago
No Country for Corporate Memphis
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oh man this is bringing up unpleasant memories (partially because I am quoted unfavourably in the blog post). people care way, way too much about where config files live
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about 1 month ago
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love that people track the SOTA of scaring other people with spiders
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about 1 month ago
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Subscribe to the author of Lazygit’s blog because Lazygit is amazing, but stay for the slightly unhinged creative writing
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ChatGPT 6 is a jerk
You: Good morning ChatGPT 6! Nice to meet you.
https://jesseduffield.com/ChatGPT-6-is-a-jerk/
about 2 months ago
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Whenever this comparison comes up my main question is: why is streaming video so energy-intensive?
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about 2 months ago
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Ryan Moulton
about 2 months ago
Now that your web browser is the only thing your computer runs, it should just claim all RAM at startup.
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Sharon
about 2 months ago
SV should look like Tokyo, change my mind
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Armin’s doing some really interesting work exploring how far agents can go writing+running code, which I think is probably the endgame for a lot of functionality being put into MCP servers today
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about 2 months ago
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I got a Quest VR headset a year ago and I literally only use it to play Walkabout Mini Golf. It's been pretty great for keeping my group of friends together as some have moved away
www.mightycoconut.com/minigolf
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Walkabout Mini Golf — Mighty Coconut
https://www.mightycoconut.com/minigolf
about 2 months ago
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natalie
about 2 months ago
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Omar Rizwan
about 2 months ago
good signs for websites: - Prof. Dr. style (limited/no CSS) - bare MediaWiki or DokuWiki - no HTTPS
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Grace
about 2 months ago
I can’t get this post out of my head
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William B. Fuckley
about 2 months ago
you start work somewhere with a huge ancient code base, but there's no technical debt because the guy who wrote it agreed to have his brain uploaded upon death, so you can ask him things. but he's also still in the system watching all your changes and gets mad if you try and modernize it too much.
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