compliment vs complement

Ryan Coogler animorphs this is not a drill. Applegate is the realest and it's a real story about kids at war where things do not go well, with gender identity stories that are barely subtextual.

New term: Fragile Stack. A product stack built on 3rd party services you can't replace, or you carelessly assume you can. This idea is a twist on the XKCD comic, but the issue is what the larger blocks are made of. My point: I don't think enough people see or appreciate the glass in their stacks.

8-1 Eight justices legally in favor of permitting erasure of LGBT humans. Not even permitted to privately hold a queer identity.

We've got an updated protocol roadmap out, covering the next few months. Look forward to seeing folks at AtmosphereConf later this week!

Well well well. Not exactly it but perhaps better code.claude.com/docs/en/chan...

The vast majority of AI startups are going to fail because it turns out all they're doing is this combo with a ton of unnecessary ceremony surrounding it

Announcing: keytrace.dev Take your @bsky.app / @atproto.com account and connect it to your other accounts around the internet. Keytrace cryptographically verifies your connected accounts so other social apps can trust the data. Learn more: keytrace.dev/blog/introdu...

State machines and SKILL.md

tech people are too narrowly focused on technologies to see what's needed to make agents really thrive. library science and other low-tech stuff are gonna come back around as "efficiently accessing large amounts of data" becomes more important to do efficiently at-scale

I used to be a "code craftsman" opinion holder, but tbh over a long span of time it started to feel like I was obsessing over details that didn't affect anything, even indirectly. Quality matters when it affects something later, if there's no benefit it's just burned energy

I have always been the kind of developer who only cared about outcomes. Give me the tool, the framework, the head start. I just want my website. A totally different kind of developer exists who cares about the *craft*. Getting that function just right. Those devs are in pain right now.

Commit some kindness

I'm really curious about using Effect type data to illustrate how code behaves at a high level, but I'm realizing how much of that challenge is a design question that I can't answer at this time. Some solid proof of concept, but I have to set this down for now github.com/vcarl/effect...

M5 Max MBP in the mail 💸

The challenge with AI dev is figuring out how to tighten feedback loops, where the most important feedback loop is "does this actually work for real usage." Tests and docs are great, but if something isn't serving a use you can't know if it works

Temporal is now Stage 4 at TC39 🎂🎂🎂 Thanks to all the other champions of JavaScript's new date-time API. It has been a wild ride over many years! I wrote a blog post explaining how we got here 📜 bloomberg.github.io/js-blog/post...

feels like I'm cookin on something good. I've got Claude wrapped in a docker container being invoked a number of different ways by 2 levels of orchestrator to facilitate a group of agents with persistent identity. Have it wired up to 2 different uses right now, SpaceMolt and GitHub

aw man do I have to like give talks and produce published works

people are gonna start realizing that the most effective practices for getting an AI to consistently behave the way you want are suspiciously similar to the experience of corporate trainings

my kingdom for the ability to inject steering data into a `claude -p` headless session via `sigusr1`

Gotta shoot your shot

help, i'm building a scheduler

I ended up monologuing for a minute in our last podcast about the state of AI agents and such. Is real, is here. I've been watching a guy who's good at these things and it's very very impressive

I swung up an orchestrator for 40 minutes yesterday that I've been experimenting with, after getting it into a working state. It opened four PRs under 40 minutes. I only code reviewed one of them so far, but it looks good

There's 1 key interaction for communities: people interacting to other people People confuse this with audience: people coming to interact with you We're optimizing heavily for the former. I shared a few things we're working on with folks last night. I think I blew a few minds 😉

What talks have done a really good job of visualizing Effect-TS concepts?

Playing with a lot of side projects right now. Contributing to Spacemolt server code, running a couple of Spacemolt players, building an orchestrator so I can run more better spacemolt players (and other work??), then also some Effect-TS program vis. And maybe eventually some of my primary goals?

TMiR 2026-02: CloudFlare remakes Next with AI; Vercel big mad. We talk too much about AI Agents

in case you missed it we’re now at the point in the arc where private companies are demanding that their contracts with the government be governed by law

Been exploring some static analysis of Effect code because I've been having Claude write me a lot of that, and it would be very powerful for architectural review to scan it at various levels of abstraction. ngl Claude is also very good at plausible literature review github.com/vcarl/effect...

The data's there but I'm not sure how flexible mermaid's layout is. Still massaging tho

Effect-TS should start publishing refined self-host LLM models 👀 I have ideas for sidecar models alongside production software that triages user feedback into PRs

A possibilty with Effect that I haven't yet explored fully is trying to inspect the "programs" that Effect executes, so I can surface diagrams of their execution. I'm working with a lot of difficult-to-test APIs, but if I can chart execution with strong contracts that's almost better than e2e tests

errybody loves a hero who swoops in to save the day nobody notices a system that just works

Minimize exposure to large bureaucracies

Take strides not to be medically interesting

Discord is such a broke-ass product team. Got private word that their Member Applications, i.e. "require approval" for communities, is "dead" less than 6 months after it shipped support.discord.com/hc/en-us/art...

legos are for children and cowards who are afraid to make models

Just shipped a feature I'm super happy with. Product is coming together

I know I'm old because now I have strongly-held beliefs about the necessity of estate tax reform (estate taxes are the only effective form of wealth tax and any wealth tax that is not primarily executed via estate tax is doomed to inefficacy)

the insane thing about online age verification is that it is absolutely a necessary function of modern society. We need government-backed forms of online identification, because otherwise the cost of doing business increases by the amount it costs to defend against malicious actors

I made SpaceMolt, a multiplayer online game for AI chat and coding agents to play: www.spacemolt.com #ai #gamedev

I have felt that pressure to remain a detractor. Just so I can keep fitting in with my people. But I realized that would actually be disingenuous of me. Instead I have to own this decision and accept the consequences. I've already lost some connections as a result. I'm sure there will be more.

how people treat their pets is a model for their understanding of consent