bending spoons likes to acquire products that do one thing good and when they decide the product is as good as they can get it, they lay off everyone who worked on it so they can just let it hum along as a money printer until customers jet, money printer stops and the product dies

Happy 34th Birthday HTML tags! On October 29, 1991, the internet pioneer, Tim Berners-Lee, published a document entitled HTML Tags. #WebDesignHistory

Microsoft's new "vibe working" AI feature in Excel fails at 42% of tasks. The regular Copilot feature fails at 80% of tasks. This information is in the same blog post *Microsoft itself* published that also called it "like you’re handing off work to an Excel expert." 🫠

Bread & Puppet press at the New York Art Book Fair

"I highly recommend doing this the old fashioned way, with your eyes and brain, but LLMs can be helpful too if that's more your speed: but don't offload the whole task to a robot. Actual understanding is the goal, and you can't achieve that secondhand." Highly applicable to most tasks lol

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

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...

Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.

In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!" And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college. This is, in fact, good politics.

Uncode text → CIELAB color blocks :)

simulator human input (input fuzzing, I guess?) Stops automatically when it finds an inconsistency :)

I made a piece of software! It’s called the film|minutes video|graphic workstation. It’s pretty niche but cool if you want to take notes or do very close readings of films/videos.

I'm seeing a lot of different people, coming from different angles, recognize that the Same-Origin Policy is insufficient for the kind of apps that we want to make now, and that we need something more fine-grained and more secure. Very interesting times!

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

The ATProto DID spec definitely is mature enough! The identifiers are already spec'd as being either web addresses (did:web:example.com) or did:* (commonly: did:plc:) atproto.blue/en/latest/at...

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.

After banning visas for Palestinian children seeking medical care, the Trump administration is now banning any Palestinian passport holders from entering the United States. Extraordinary bigotry being converted into US policy. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...

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

Something very satisfying about taking a ton of screenshots for a tutorial and watching them get arranged by this very neat little algorithm in Figma The variance in dimensions here is because I took some screenshots with ⌘ + 5 ("Capture selected portion") and some with ⌘ + 3

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either. ht @danhon.com

1979 - We Have Always Been Techlashing

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

Whenever one of these guys trots out a "badass Spartan" quote, i find myself asking "and then what happened?"

If Cloudflare's analysis is correct -- and I've no reason to doubt it -- this is shameful behavior from Perplexity blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...

I'm going to Taiwan and then Japan (August 6 → August 22nd, exact dates/locations TBD) Anyone want to meet up / see the Folk Gadget? Also happy to do a talk, lab visit, or just grab coffee with anyone! DM me here or send me an email at [email protected] :-)

I use agents (namely Claude and Gemini these days) to generate first drafts and ideas — *toys* — because, as @maggieappleton.com says, “vibe coding is legacy coding”. For @folkcomputer.bsky.social I never use AI *because* it’s so new syntactically no AI agent tools can help

Omg peak new combo move @leaflet.pub x @spencer.place web stone i keep the stone in my kitchen and literally just tap to the leaflet where i record my recipes life. changing.

Looks like @notability.bsky.social is beta testing a Quiz feature going: PDF → ML → spaced repetition flow like @andymatuschak.org has dreamed of. Instead of SR this quiz activates on-PDF-open at unknown intervals. I found it really useful & engaging! Hopeful for more AI edu tools like this

having a very normal Friday night making @signal.org sticker packs of my cat

If you ever thought, 'I'm done with the screen. Let me escape... but god, let me keep programming...' then you'll definitely want to watch @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social's talk on Folk Computer and the Folk Gadget:

This was an awesome talk! I am glad I was able to attend it in person. Both @omar.website and @cwervo.bsky.social knocked it out of the park. Definitely worth checking out for folks 😉interested in HCI and Physical Computing.

Thank you to everyone who came to our last Localhost talk with @cwervo.bsky.social and @omar.website!‬ They presented on @folkcomputer.bsky.social and unveiled the Folk Gadget! Together we escaped the screen and entered the realm of light and paper-based computing. ​📽️📄🌀 Watch the recording below:

How many Palestinians had to be slaughtered before you could say the obvious out loud? Maybe next week's headline will be the bombshell that Bibi has been letting the genocidal Kahanists get their way since he let them get into the coalition? Or that demolitions serve no military purpose? Like.

i can trusted with the aux cord during sex

I know it’s obvious, but it’s worth saying anyway: The reason rage bait is such a bad thing (for society) is that editors are trying to publish stuff that hurts people—because people tend to react when we’re hurt. It’s a formula for oppression.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Sunset this evening.

Branson's going through some kind of a mutation lately. And instead of deformed red blood cells or lactose tolerance, it means an extremely demented, dynamic comic that shocks and excites every time I click that 9 month old link. Check it out if you haven't!

absolutely fascinating document #tcl is such a funny language, it shows up in the most interesting, mission critical places, it's "everywhere" (kind of like Java) but people are always very skeptical / confused / assume I work in a hobby, niche, toy language for @folkcomputer.bsky.social lol

Reminder that last year I made an iPhone app that always points at the centre of the Milky Way It peaked at 87 in the US App Store free apps chart (Travel category) haha Here’s what Ars Technica said about it arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024...

What if books about abstractions didn't have to stay flat? Visualizing Mathematics with 3D Printing by Henry Segerman @henryseg.bsky.social www.3dprintmath.com Johns Hopkins University Press 2016 Model www.printables.com/model/167505... on @printables.bsky.social

I will never get over how quickly and enthusiastically people are turning over their entire lives to anthropomorphized autocomplete machines. It's giving despair tbh.

Good morning. It is now 12:01 AM, which means tariffs on nearly all steel & aluminum have been raised to 50%. That includes an increase in the tariffs on steel & aluminum content in derivatives, plus a new tariff on derivatives' non-metal content based on country-level tariffs

my friend Jenn Schiffer™, Profession Great-Takes-Haver®

i have the brain cells & masters in compsci to handle a nuanced discussion on the broad topic of artificial intelligence, but not the character count allotment on here. i will say, the “you’ll be left behind if you don’t use it” crowd is very goofy just like the “have fun being poor” web3 folks were

sometimes the jam ends because your battery dies