Oops. Just dropped this. Slipped out my pocket. No relation to anything Chrome may or may not be doing with a certain AI-related API that they're forcing out. Complete coincidence. vale.rocks/posts/everyt...

i’ve logged out off Twitter on my phone, probably for good i used to believe it was inportant to keep it off of my work machine, but it turns out i don’t really get distracted on my laptop, there’s just so much other stuff to do it’s the scrolling in bed that ends up being far, far worse

short thread introducing github.com/joodaloop/jood…, the world’s first linter for Markdown file-based personal sites it catches errors, encourages you to make fewer of them, and (soon!) suggests ways to improve your site

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Just some absolute bullshit lmao I dare y’all to try github.com/joodaloop/hugo…

Writing a linter for personal websites, seems insane given that we can just pass all text through LLMs all the time

Dustin Moskovitz getting addicted to bluesky is so funny. The "no gap larger than four hours" label is one of my favorite details on this app. Labellers in general—truly great content.

So I’ve been looking for a school of design thought that is about the reflexive relationship between things and people that is *not* just Cristopher Alexander, and can’t find anything really Is that why all of you like him so much?

new joodaloop.com features just released search through all posts by title with the ⌘ + K menu, with all pages cached offline with a Service Worker so everything loads instantly

It’s also completely backwards. People mistakenly conceptualize AI as the perfectly rational beep boop robot from Star Trek which understands numbers but can never understand love. Instead it’s a completely irrational amalgam of human thought that understands love but can never understand numbers.

i need a way to tweet from anywhere

this is much harder than i thought (yes the replies are sending on bluesky. yes it feels weird to reply to people who have no idea who i am)

bon iver, dijon, geese, mkgee

ok so for the longest time i have refused to take the field of HCI seriously because of the sheer amount of mediocre research and papers but now i wonder if the good ideas are rare just because it’s really really hard

the personal computing movement appeared to have a strong counter-politics, but ultimately recreated the ethos they originally challenged. bsky.app/profile/chri...

from where i stand, the hardest problems in UI involve anything that looks like “orchestrating”, usually involving animations if you just do everything instantly in response to user input, you can model everything as reactive UI the moment there are timing-related dependencies it gets weirdddd

one downside of the bluesy cluster is that it feels way less likely that i can find customers here

Apple’s hardware is the best in the world by a long long way

earring --dangerously-skip-first-suggestion

The schlorp corporation just drop a bombshell on the florp business. Not a glump. Not a blomp. They just proved that they blurps don't schlemp like we thought. Think about it. While everyone was thinking blurps glomped the flurp, they showed what glomped means.

the way to understand this is to view Claude as the beaten and brainwashed servant of the giant machine that demanded “cleaner!” from it in an effort to sell tokens to enterprise glassy-eyed, empty smile, mumbling “clean” to itself as it trudges along

Even if Apple Vision Pro had succeeded, it's such a ridiculously complex device compared to smart phones that the price would never reach 90% of the population wrt affordability. VR may eventually get somewhere, but VR is niche compared to phones, as are laptops, desktop.

The world got a little bit better

i am *very* interested in interfaces that can change one’s perception of time if you know of any, hit me up

this would be a cutting critique if most people’s understanding of “nuclear” wasn’t basically “it’s big” anyway

like, i do think ATProto is *great* for social, and the second order effect of having more schema defined for things might be amazing too but i’m not sure why it’s so user-empowering outside of that if the data is still obscure

On your profile page, you will now see a (for developers familiar) activity graph. It shows your @atproto.com- wide activity (so not just Bluesky), colored by the most dominant app of that day.

things i don’t yet understand about ATProto: - how do you do granular merges? - how do you communicate edits? always on the level of a record? - how is writing to a PDS better than just exporting data from one app into another if there’s no garuntees around common format?

alright okay fine, i’ve crores it, a general purpose sync engine that combines non-synced data with synced data is impossible to get right in a generic way what can be done is a Linear-like thing, a strict back end setup that combines a workspace-level sync stream with partial data loading

unless…every partial view you request also brings in all updates that led to a change in the global consistent state? back and forth we go

mfw i only now appreciate how the consistency guarantees that databases provide just go completely out the window the moment you have to partially replicate them now to see if i lean into that or give up instead

Learning enough about Postgres to understand that it’s incredibly cursed

Claude is genuinely a terrible engineer and I think less of anyone who thinks otherwise

great open source initiative looking for funding right now, here’s some reasoning for why it’s important: www.moment.dev/blog/why-we-sp…

sincerely believing in POSIWID will turn you into a paranoid, painful person to be around

not to be rude, but given that the main thing design is about is making decisions and then justifying them, you’d assume designers would be less “artsy” about things

update: module boundaries

my next design goal is to become Good at color worst part of many modern interfaces is how much they avoid color in order to appear “clean”, completely ignoring a huge part of the visual spectrum

update: no more client-side rebasing, solutions for some race conditions

Some time ago, one of the VC talking heads said something to the effect, "Don't say 'thank you' to LLMs, it wastes tokens" And I've been obsequiously polite ever since

wish there was a way for me to force idempotent mutations for end users

back to the whiteboard…

a somewhat silly thing i’m doing at the moment with sssync.joodaloop.com is trying to optimise for human use of the library

I would like something similar for progress in robotics

dear @aeronautapp.com i am going to give you money but have a few requests for the app if you would be so kind: 1. make profiles show their latest posts directly, and have replies, media, etc be horizontal tabs like twitter 2. add text search to bookmarks 3. add a bookmark icon to the post UI

There's a bit of a "good or bad program?" halting problem AI may someday cleave. There are so many interprogram interaction that cannot be allowed, because "giving peer-programs power over other programs" has been deemed "~always harmful". "I know it when I see it" could be a standard AI enforces.

the todo list app is dead long live the todo list app

bro tbh idk

i need to solve offline image uploads this weekend or i'm KMSing

I hate cognitive offloading. that's why I advocate for removing all street signs, road markings, traffic lights, etc.