time: the only asymmetry

anything not saved will be lost

correctness at the wrong scale is its own form of failure

big part of games being more immersive and enjoyable software experiences is their considerate handling of user inputs continuous spectrum of reaction — not individual events

are there any models that encourage hallucinations? i.e. non-existent but plausible ideas nearby in idea space?

is markdown a good idea? not convinced

my defense against AI attacks on my open source software is to simply not work on my open source software

time and randomness created everything we know

the human genome is a 3.2 billion line assembly file half of it is deprecated methods a third is malicious Russian code and it’s the most efficient program of all time

never seen Söhne look bad… until soundcloud

content negotiation and machine readable data comeback

brew is just a thin layer over an HTTP request

love you HTML love you JSON-LD thx @timbl.bsky.social

the death of the LAN is exaggerated online and offline meet at different points

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a lot of design is typography. without even considering the content, pay attention to the visual space that type occupies and how it relates to elements around it

"hand terminal" a CLI in your pocket

time new currency. arg. hard not to spend

harp is luxury

didn't expect Apple's best hardware competitor to be Valve

transclusion is so useful

idea: Turbo-C-style initials

more inputs, let me tweak

crazy that storing a piece of data that needs to be accessible from multiple sources is incredibly hard at scale it means caching, which means latency and stale data, which means coordination and resolution it becomes a time problem

it's great to see that design engineering is a mix of both sides; many started programming websites and appealed to the intricacy of visual interfaces; others start from art and graphic design; we meet the web as a medium of expression

it all belongs in the browser

why `npm install`, HTTP request was right there

startup idea: space CDNs/router

love shared code

deeply learn CSS until it flows like water

browser problem: scary amount of data access. need a centralized "browsing data" store managed by the OS, so you can swap out the browser frontend?

on my PC

never once has telling Siri to "open this on iPhone" worked

love bugs, they always reveal a misunderstanding or deeper understanding of flawed systems

Safari web apps ("Add to Dock") does NOT clear web storage after 7 days of inactivity, unlike the default behavior for Safari browsing

cringe that AI editors are focusing on having it write code for you, instead of tackling the more valuable problem: reading/navigating/understanding existing code!! i need on-demand "code maps" with generated documentation, so I can more quickly traverse a codebase with thousands of methods

the goal is to make the interface between intent and software really thin

systems of recursive systems all the way down to atoms all the way up to cosmos

it's a race can CSS be an expressive enough layout system vs can you move enough application JS into a worker and truly make the main thread === UI thread

we are about to re-enter the era of the STYLESHEET

figma config gf, stripe sessions bf

you rarely see these artifacts on the web (…anymore) but if you are Google and rewrite the entire UI in canvas you need your own dirty paint detection, and even billions of dollars will not save you