It doesn't matter what kind of conference you've signed up to go to, it's actually going to be a conference about AI.

Behold my cavalcade of creatures, covering a wide spectrum of leggedness.

Another goodie from this newsletter. I'd love to know who's sending this out. rokosbas.beehiiv.com/p/june-17-2026

"Whether open-source models eventually close the performance gap and provide a genuine ownership alternative is the question that will determine what kind of infrastructure AI actually becomes [...] the fence is up, the cameras are running, and the lease is long" rokosbas.beehiiv.com/p/june-15-2026

Voodoo Sweeney-nomics

I love how meta working on this thing gets. Markdown diagram in my markdown app showing some architecture plans for my markdown app.

How or why does every podcast have that music?

Trying an idea I'm stealing from @doctorow.pluralistic.net, wherein I summarize this blog post in long-ass thread form! ---- Wherein I mourn the death of the #openweb, and muse about what comes next. angelmarino.com/the-poverty-...

I love everything this guy touches: www.youtube.com/watch?v=S67z...

The best thing about it this article, it begs the question, what does government look like if it were to grow and evolve to meet society and technology where it’s going. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Big day out for a little snake! Love how pretty her eyes look in the sun.

Fully endorse the Obsession + Backrooms double feature, especially if you’re a sucker for horror and go into them cold.

I knew this was going to happen. I published two blog posts, and now I have like five of them, but just 90% written.

My favorite part about building a markdown editor: I can't stop writing inside of it, while I'm building it. github.com/solo-ist/prose

Holy crap Meetup got bad. Love these SPAs that are *so* SPA you can’t even CMD + click a new tab.

Focusing on doing one thing at a time? Imagine that! A little pricey for what you're getting, but I love Monocle! I hope this dev isn't offended if/when I make a FOSS version. #monotasking www.heyiam.dk/monocle

I've been toying with this idea of "mutable, immutable apps." Like each user gets their own little container sandbox. Security doesn't come from code signing, it comes from getting an immutable image, which means you don't need a central signing authority, just a hash.

It's kind of disgusting how good #warp is. An open source, multi-harness, multi-agent, meta-harness is the way to go. I wish they had a "bring your own OZ" option though...

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

I’m really looking forward to this becoming popular, then showing up on short form vertical video feeds.

💡 Watch the recording of the latest DWeb Virtual Meetup, where we welcomed @lxcast.bsky.social of @folktech.bsky.social, @b-cavello.bsky.social of @aspendigital.bsky.social, and @lizbarry.bsky.social of @metagov.bsky.social! Join us at DWeb Camp on 8–12 Jul to talk about these ideas and more 🌻

What does your token burn *actually* cost? Can't say I agree with AI having *no* ROI, but these guys have definitely clocked the economics around the current token panic. open.spotify.com/episode/5Ngk...

He had me at Brian Eno.

Netflix: Dude starts off mailing DVDs back when the internet wasn't ready for streaming. Amazon: bookstore was never the point, it was the backbone of a commerce operations behemoth. Constraints drove their early economics: cost, ubiquity of the internet, and operational backbone.

There’s dozens of us! “there are sane and normal people who use these things, they’re mostly drowned out by a crowd of people that oscillate between bootlicking and regurgitating capitalist mythology in a way that makes it hard to trust anybody who spends significant amounts of time using an LLM.”

My favorite was when Claude kept outputting in its thinking blocks: "Keep it light. Keep it natural." Then proceeded to go into an anxiety spiral when I asked about that and it realized I could "read its thoughts."

I love how weird Claude gets in the thinking blocks. "Angel thinks an LLM can't help with this, but that's where he's wrong." I'll be the judge of that, robot.

Love it when Anthropic rolls out a change that *oops* accidentally cost me like 10x what I'm used to paying.

Fear that “[…] the future has already been written, that the machines are coming, that the jobs are evaporating, that the climate is breaking, that politics are fractured […]” Love this latest AI-flavored genre of tone deaf commencement speeches. gizmodo.com/ex-google-ce...

For all the hand wringing and pearl clutching about AI, it's hard to deny the potential when you close ~22 Github issues in ~72 hours. github.com/solo-ist/pro...

I want to put this in a robot. thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interac...

I forgot my mantra…

Been chewing on post-scarcity economics and the impact of AI on software development. One part excising some thoughts from my brain, one part response to the wonderful recent essays from @jasmine.bsky.social @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @aleximas.bsky.social angelmarino.com/the-great-le...

Ah shit, I forgot to internet again…

Against the backdrop of an energy crisis and a warming planet, more than 50 countries have come to Santa Marta, Colombia, to discuss concrete ways to phase out oil, gas and coal.

Formed a blog, I formed a blog… look at me, I formed a blog… A Chorus of Human Voices angelmarino.com/a-chorus-of-...

Love the banal evil to LinkedIn having games now. I'm just picturing all the anxious sweaty proles whiling their time away on sudokus while an ATS machine guns their job prospects down.

If you have the wherewithal, download it free on Github, it’s open source and actually has more features because I don’t have to deal with the app sandbox. reMarkable sync and a kick-ass Claude Desktop integration is coming next! github.com/solo-ist/pro...

Real talk though, my humble markdown editor actually made it onto the app store! The whole thing has been an exercise in seeing how far I can take a fully agentically developed app. apps.apple.com/us/app/prose...

SCOOP: Palantir's 22-point manifesto is alarming even its own employees—but it's just the latest move by leadership that's incensed workers. More on the internal dissent growing inside the company: wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

SUCKERS

Man, I’ve been thinking a lot about organoids lately. Literally just taking neurons and starting to use them for compute, right around the same time the whole AI thing is taking off. I’m sure our better instincts should prevail over the economic incentives of running AI wetware superclusters…

You know what my web browser needs? A notes app, said no one every. You know what my terminal needs? A web browser, said no one ever...

THE RETURN OF NEOVIM.

Ah, the joys of negotiating the Mac App Store "guess how many fingers I'm holding up" submission feedback process.

I feel like I'm learning to internet again; I swore off anything social back in, what, 2015? on account of the whole enshittification thing that's been happening in tech for the last decade or so.

*swivels around from desk* "Oh, hello world. Didn't see you standing there..."