I still occasionally get DMs from people who are reverse-engineering old text-to-speech software. I haven’t gone back to it but I’m glad someone’s doing it

I’m in an “oops, all side-projects” season, and I keep thinking about how this tweet is even more true now

my superpower/curse is that I can see communication breakdowns forming before the participants in a conversation know anything is up

mom says “oh, it’s going to storm” immediately followed by a huge thunderclap

absolutely surreal to code-switch into my native accent after this long

I used to always wear a “superman” t-shirt to the airport, it became a habit, the flight attendants would reliably say “hey, Superman!”

this reply I got on HN? (I’m jes5199)

exponential curve derangement syndrome

vibe coders vs manual typists is just the emacs/vim flamewar reborn

bluesky Wednesdays queens 👀

I was trying to write a text adventure and accidentally invented a new software paradigm

it's so much worse in actual video

I’m on the side of tiktok where people are recounting long sessions with chatgpt where it’s confabulating and they’re confused about it and I don’t know to explain oh yeah it just falls into liar mode sometimes, you can learn to recognize it

some years back a friend of mine did a shitpost presentation where every object in his programming language was an HTTP server speaking REST well,

I’ll start! Many people don’t know that the first L stands for Laura, and just like an llm, I thrive with specific instructions, I make assumptions sometimes, I’ll need to restart a conversation if we go back and forth a whole bunch and get nowhere, and I’m more productive when you’re nice to me!

it's a risky procedure but we may have to induce another vibe shift

it’s bluesky wednesday, do I dare post musings about how humans are like LLMs

IT'S BLUE WEDNESDAY!!!

Help I can’t stop laughing at this

okay do you actually want to know the history of the suits

I’m so serious abt this tho. Oh noes if we ratio moderates they won’t post and then the platform won’t GROW! market poisoned thinking. who the hell is fantasizing about The Platform That Endures? platforms are ephemeral, posting is eternal, join my webring

one of those headaches where you can see the little triangles that make up reality

could someone remind me who or what convinced me to buy “Blindsight” by Peter Watts in 2017, I finally read it

🤷🏼‍♀️ better than doomscrolling

I’ve decided to let the mystery be part of the mythos

why did I agree to meet up with a group of people within a larger group of people those are my two least-favorite things!

what’s with all these humans driving cars

I think, since retweets are broken on hellsky, we should go back to 2008 style where we just write “RT” and cut and paste what someone else said

today's mood

(subtweet) the nice thing about being off the grid is they can’t threaten to unplug you

I used to work with a guy who had two roles in the company. One was, write correct concurrent Java code (none of the rest of us could), and then he was also was expected to do a bunch of media interviews comparing our boss to his old boss/frenemy Steve Jobs. because they worked together in the 1980s

happy Bluesky Wednesday!

me, in January: I don’t know how I’m going to pull this off but what if I used NASA data about the inner planets’ orbits to make astrological art on printed circuit boards. but like is it even possible to capture anything like their traditional associations that way

less toil more spin

listen up, Arepo

in old san francisco all the signs and menus are written in trilingual english, ipa english and esperanto

considering changing my bluesky handle to astrolab.ist

It appears an engine simply sits waiting for fuel and a spark. But that is not the case at all. Not even remotely for decades. Engine of now is the cast and forged and stamped and sintered instrument a computer plays music with. Nothing works without the transistor in 2025. Fire does not even burn.

Venus has stationed direct! retrograde.observer/venus/2025-0...

It’s called Formula E because the cars go “eeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEE”

i think we need, speaking generally, significantly more terrifying pride flags

Mercury has stationed direct. retrograde.observer/mercury/2025...

My daily doomrun really helps me feel more in doomsync with my doombody

i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more

I think it's not talked about enough how viscerally physical and emotional coding is

Venus has been retrograde since March 2nd retrograde.observer/venus/2025-0...