On reflection, the curve may have flattened for things where we haven’t automated verification. E.g. there’s been surprisingly little progress on plotting fiction for the past 2 years. You might reason that progress on coding would spill over, but so far, no. Jagged frontier stays jagged.
my hunch is that this ubiquitous "taste" stuff is such a cliché that it can only be a conceptual dead end, what @leifw.bsky.social calls remainder humanism. it will seem quaint in six months when the models are demonstrating what can only be called taste
happy 17776 day!!
Industry’s always had a good soundtrack but jfc Nathan Micay’s found a new level in season 4
youtu.be/z-ecMPU4iO0?...
You know, candidly, I think I believed the capability curve would be starting to look more sigmoid by this point. Also: I would like it to start looking more sigmoid.
Lotta people using “scaffolding” as a metaphor when they mean “armature.” Scaffolding is an exterior structure that allows construction to occur within it, armature is an interior framework around which something is built.
It’s a really special parasocial relationship when there’s someone you’ve followed for years without a follow back. like yessss that’s my friend that doesn’t know me and doesn’t want to
Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”
Correct.
Also now I want a Mr Nello 1970s portable Sony tv so bad. Alas it sold already. Imagine this but hacked with micro controller far field mic array so it comes alive as ai assistant when summoned.
Alex Schaefer - Chase Bank Hit With A Space Laser (2024)
The new flex of having a PDS on a raspberry pi is that you can afford a raspberry pi
Concentric circles: "Software I want" (large) ⊇ "Software I know how to code" (medium) ⊇ "Software I have time to write" (tiny), and "Where I love Claude Code" pointing to the space between the last two.
My evolving relationship with coding.
Not as bad if you’re running LavaMoat. JS flexibility allows defense against supply chain attacks for those who care to. lavamoat.github.io
a screenshot of the webOS multitasking UI. there's a horizontal slider of cards, and front-and-center are 1. an email recommending someone check out an onion article l, and 2. partial occluded by the email card, a web browser tab with that same onion article
the webOS multitasking UI directly inspired iOS's (iirc apple actually hired a bunch of people from the webOS team) but it was again better because you could group multiple cards together. and the cards weren't just apps — each browser tab was its own card that would stay with the app that opened it
Underrated "feature" of AIM / IRC: you could only send people messages if they were online!
Sort of built-in backpressure. If you're busy, you won't sign on much, so you won't end up with a "big unread count". Feels so quaint now, like a little village. Say hi to your friends during passeggiata…
When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.
Just released heerich.js, a tiny voxel engine that renders 3D scenes to SVG
╬ Boolean ops
◮ Oblique & perspective
𝑥 Zero dependencies
◌ Pure vector output, infinite scaling
Named after Erwin Heerich's geometric cardboard sculptures.
meodai.github.io/heerich/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jndl...
🚨 the ecosystem is delicate #atmosphereconf
there's a LOT of enthusiasm + talent, but:
- no magical investor monies
- grant options are THIN
- many first time founders
- many don't want investment
- few other options
- scary macro env
it's a collective challenge
we can just pay for things?
Aspire your software to be a flexible toolkit instead of a monolithic know-it-all.
[30 years into the future]
me: you know netflix used to send films by post
my amazon smart watch: 0.3% Productivity loss detected. Hourly rate reduced to $1.12 for 7m21s. Please refrain from talking on the packing line. Please say "Productivity" to acknowledge
me: productivity
Awesome
in 1992 neal stephenson published that putting internet hardware on your face would make everyone hate you
this was not a hard guess
I am always with you, in spirit, to remind you that thou art mortal.
profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/
An old family computer desktop setup in a stereotypical wooden desktop popular in the late 90s to early 2000s.
All kids should have a mandatory 10-hours a week in front of one of these from ages 8-18. Absolutely life altering experiences.
unsolved problems in computer science: copying a file from one computer to another
