compliment vs complement

Get Ready for a YA Franchise Not Written by a Transphobic Billionaire Animorphs is coming and it's going to be produced by Ryan Coogler.

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.

Xkcd comic about how modern infrastructure depends on so many parts, that the whole thing can be brought tumbling down if the smallest piece is removed. I scribbled over one of the blocks and wrote glass on it, suggesting that I think it's even more dangerous that we build on BIG things we haven't truly considered their fragility.

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.

I will point out that the #2 example on atproto.com suggests building an auto-reply bot, which seems inconsistent with this statement

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

Is this even a question anymore?? Stop asking and start doing!!! Come ON, seriously

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York. Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue. We're fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.

There's def opportunity to make something more comprehensive I think, since I have 1 bot to do scheduling and another bot to record, but that starts to be a massive investment of effort. Not sure about smaller pieces

I use Chronicle bot and it's basically perfect for my use. Syncs to a calendar, pulls description and "location" using a dsl for channel ID to get the stage. I set it up once 3 years ago and haven't touched it since, $10/yr

AT Protocol Roadmap (Spring 2026) - AT Protocol Updates to the AT Protocol roadmap, including Permissioned Data and Account Experience.

We've got an updated protocol roadmap out, covering the next few months.

Look forward to seeing folks at AtmosphereConf later this week!

There are a ton of features in the Claude SDK (which requires an API key and is not compatible with an OAuth token) that are not replicable with `claude -p` (which requires an OAuth token and has massively subsidized usage billing). This looks to go a long way to narrow that gap

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

Keytrace - You be you, everywhere. Link your GitHub, domain, and other accounts to your internet handle. Cryptographically signed, user-owned, and portable.

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

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Running some lil benchmarks

A screenshot of a performance monitor showing 128gb physical memory (125gb in use), with a GPU usage history chart showing it at 95-100% utilization

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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

Code golf is neat. Esoteric programming challenges are fascinating. I love that, and I hope people continue to do it in the AI era. But, that hasn't been me in a long time

Increasingly so, I'm starting to believe in the idea that code is a liability, not an asset. You can make it less of a liability through careful craftsmanship, but it's still a liability. Now, I tend to believe that that energy is better invested in discovering requirements

It doesn't matter how good you made the code if it doesn't solve the problem it needed to. It's so hard to clearly communicate requirements in a way that results in the correct solution being written the first time, so it's not worth putting that effort in until you know what you're doing

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.

I haven't seen it in part because I got this vibe from it. Just, eh

Commit some kindness

Like this is neat and useful, but it's 1 handler, and a fairly simple one at that. In a complex system with dozens of handlers, this isn't legible -- needs lots of supporting UI and design work to clarify, so this is a bigger problem than I'd hoped it would be

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 💸