Microblog on Lev Lazinskiy

Why 203AA486

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:08:13 +0000

Why does no one ever talk about low hanging vegetables

I 80A4343D

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:30:53 +0000

I find myself pressing Cmd + K everywhere and feeling sad when it does not do anything in most apps.

Project B6CC9EC2

Wed, 25 Mar 2026 04:42:21 +0000

Project Hail Mary was so good!

Just A1B4F22B

Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:09:13 +0000

Just found out that next year is the year of the goat. Lots of pressure.

Today 266F4B0D

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:39:37 +0000

Today from Claude:

Get 2x more usage on weekends and outside the hours of 5–11am PT / 12–6pm GMT on weekdays. Now through March 28.

Reminds me of the nights and weekends plan for SMS in the 90s.

United 4724C237

Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:42:00 +0000

United is like the master of gaslighting customers — not only does my flight still say its on time (even though the inbound plane lands after we’re supposed to take off) it also says we are going to land early in Newark

Doctorow D28C8D48

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 21:09:32 +0000

Doctorow on a tear today

If the purpose of a customer service department is to tell people to go fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of delivering the service.

This 784F21A2

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 21:56:55 +0000

This mornings train was 40 minutes late, I had hopes that the afternoon train would be on time but we didn’t even make it a full mile out of San Jose Station before coming to a full stop.

Do B92E45E8

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:00:17 +0000

Do yourself a favor and add “McAfee” as filter word to automatically go to spam. I saw this refund scam infect Github PRs now.

Out 1112616B

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:30:53 +0000

Out of all the cities I have been too, Taipei feels like its straight out of cities skylines. Especially when it comes to the diversity of transit options (including a gondola!). Taking a video from the Wenhu line from the foamer seat feels exactly like first person transit view in Cities Skylines 1.

Rare(ish) 21A3AF9D

Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:26:08 +0000

Rare(ish) book recommendation from Cory Doctorow - excited to check out this new author. :)

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/04/slice-bees/

I E3E6B37C

Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:33:03 +0000

I played uno for the first time recently and now strongly feel that the uno reverse card is not that big of a deal.

新年快乐！ 35F11CB9

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:50:07 +0000

新年快乐！

Tokyo C04C4A37

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 05:45:19 +0000

Tokyo central finally opened in Emeryville and it’s so much better than I ever imagined. Packed to the gills with fresh fruits, veggies, and meats. Endless snacks and Asian staples. Mouth watering prepared foods. Best of all everything is very reasonably priced. I feel so lucky to live next door.

Alex 62CBC1F3

Sun, 25 Jan 2026 01:25:23 +0000

Alex Pretti was executed in Minneapolis this morning. Abolishing ICE is the bare minimum that we can do. We need to hold the individual agents and all of their leadership accountable. No government agency can ever have this much power to blatantly disregard the Constitution.

Uber 0EB79CF1

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 06:06:47 +0000

Uber solving the last mile problem for bart is a pretty cool thing, nice to see this integrated in the bart app. https://www.bart.gov/guide/apps/uber

gastown 444E9D5A

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 05:44:07 +0000

I’m headed down to Gastown gonna have myself a time. Friendly faces everywhere, humble folks without temptation.

Let AE04142F

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:30:18 +0000

Let the enshitification begin

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/open-ai-chatgpt-ads-us.html

Where D112C4AF

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 22:23:20 +0000

Where the hell are all the insufferable first amendment auditors when you need them.

When B01ECFF8

Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:26:32 +0000

When (or I guess at this point hopefully if) the Democrats ever come back in power. We must immediately abolish ICE and create the proper structure that no organization like it ever forms again. Horrifying abuse of power.

Cory 2DE3EBC0

Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:02:41 +0000

Cory Doctorow not holding back in 2026

“AI is the asbestos we’re shoveling into the walls of our high-tech society”

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability/

Adding A4966D8E

Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:01:26 +0000

Adding Kabocha makes everything taste better

journalctl 73C93C66

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 08:00:27 +0000

I’ve been using Linux for years but only just today found the journalctl command which just streams logs from all over the place, great way to just see whats going on at the moment.

This reminds me of the time I tried to read every manpage in OpenBSD. I did not finish but learned a ton of useful new programs that are sitting around on my computer. May do something similar as I explore more of Fedora.

Intrigued F28EDA98

Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:52:33 +0000

Intrigued by this new smartphone with a physical keyboard from Clicks https://clicksphone.com/communicator

starting 6ACE0E36

Sat, 03 Jan 2026 06:38:53 +0000

starting the year off by distro hopping to Fedora, how long will this one last?

2025 2db4d09b

Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:21:04 -0800

Happy New Year! Here are my reflections on 2025.

https://levlaz.org/2025/

Starting 2DB75CF7

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 20:48:36 +0000

Starting year off with a bang from Cory Doctorow - post American internet. https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

Trying 0A163546

Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:06:11 +0000

Trying to enter the year with no Anki. Backlog. Started the day with 800, 300 to go.

Kara 5562D2EE

Sat, 27 Dec 2025 22:34:12 +0000

Kara Swisher speaking truth on the latest episode of Bulwark podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bulwark-podcast/id1447684472?i=1000742813137

Merry FF5651BE

Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:30:50 +0000

Merry Christmas, I hope everyone is enjoying their government approved allotment of pencils and dolls.

Every 95238575

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:50:52 +0000

Every time I hear “this christmas” I think of this video where Patti Labelle started without her background singers. She recovered as well as she could.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z84QdJlPpHE

Some 57C0C42D

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:43:57 +0000

Some real zingers in my inbox this morning.

Lev - you’re probably super networked at Foxglove because of how well you’ve done over your career.

No idea what it means to be super networked.

> A3522839

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:35:40 +0000

Hi Lev, Congratulations on your new role as Head of Department at Foxglove!

I am feeling really honored to be head of department.

got 0093328D

Wed, 24 Dec 2025 15:32:19 +0000

got my first llm referral traffic to my personal blog, not sure if I am flattered or sad.

I 50AE3DE7

Tue, 23 Dec 2025 00:11:18 +0000

I had no idea that the Oz series has like 40 books in it.

#books #reading

https://standardebooks.org/collections/oz

ROS1 B43222F7

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:42:49 +0000

ROS1 end of an era

https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/notice-decommission-of-ros-1-infrastructure/51483

Doing B4511018

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:14:22 +0000

Doing this anti corruption and bribery training and was expecting a bit more nuance. All the people in the examples are just stealing shit.

Open 1368B584

Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:09:54 +0000

Open source robotics foundation policy on AI generated code. This feels like some great guidelines for all projects open and closed. https://www.openrobotics.org/blog/2025/5/8/osrf-adopts-policy-on-use-of-generative-ai-in-contributions

Great 977F8590

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:34:27 +0000

Great to see this project attempting to add more emphasis on design in open source https://ubuntu.com//blog/open-design-the-opportunity-design-students-didnt-know-they-were-missing

Doctorow 3BB04C80

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:27:53 +0000

Doctorow on how most of the finance sector creates zero value. https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/self-licking-ice-cream-cone/#job-creators

Really 3EBB8191

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:05:38 +0000

Really cool documentary from Red Hat about the origins of ROS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErHAhRiUaY0

Aosheng CFE6F44B

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 01:05:19 +0000

Aosheng got me a remarkable paper pro move 😍

Saw 74A5DCC3

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:15:42 +0000

Saw a link for G+ on the lubuntu website and kind of miss it. https://lubuntu.me/

You 5011409C

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 06:00:05 +0000

You gotta pretend to be a journalist when working with an LLM and treat it like an unreliable source. Tells a great story but needs to always be fact-checked.

Achievement B6426CFF

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:41:11 +0000

Achievement unlocked - top 1% poster in r/Emeryville and I have only ever shared positive things :D

Are 44AE1303

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:53:40 +0000

Are snaps good? It seems like I only ever hear stories of frustration about this technology, but on the other hand its cool to see that its enabling long term support for ROS on Ubuntu. Need to research this a bit more.

https://ubuntu.com//blog/extending-ros-noetic-support-with-esm-enabled-content-snaps

the B21BB420

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:59:06 +0000

the enshittification will continue until morale improves

Never 49BFC2C3

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:45:00 +0000

Never meet your heroes. I mean it. If you happen to run into them on the street just go the other way.

Caught 47CEDA44

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 02:01:02 +0000

Caught myself typing out some angry response to a troll on Reddit. Almost got me. Not today!

every 0F9E95F6

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:07:18 +0000

every time it rains or drizzles I spoil myself and take a waymo 0.8 miles from SF Transit Center to our office.

Superhuman 52C685BA

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 01:03:13 +0000

Superhuman tried to do a “wrapped” for me and I couldn’t hit the X fast enough. It was a cute idea when spotify did it in 2016 but no one else asked for it.

enjoyed 6E9A31FD

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:24:25 +0000

enjoyed listening to kim petras in waymo this morning

ok A44D2CBF

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:19:37 +0000

ok so now that all this works how the hell am I supposed to check to see if its actually secure. The AI just told me it was secure and I don’t believe that.

everything 2E160F3D

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:49:26 +0000

everything works and I am very scared :)

security

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:47:33 +0000

just going to assume that when I said “make it secure” that it would do the right thing.

vibe coding

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 20:42:31 +0000

vibe coding a frontend microblog publisher that uses my glued together POSSE system.

Emeryville 2fa30828

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:00:30 -0800

I have not felt single earthquake here in Emeryville, are we floating over the bay or something?

Grandma C36fcde6

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:57:18 -0800

Inspired by corry.us I wrote a little bit about regretting not coming out to my grandma when I had the chance. https://levlaz.org/coming-out-to-grandma/

Ac Transit 0e1b93f9

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:39:57 -0800

happy to see that AC transit busses finally support tap to pay with visa and mastercard!

Kagi A55F5044

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 13:33:15 -0800

Seeing a lot more traffic to my website from kagi.com these days and it warms my heart. <3

Nps 568DB9D7

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:48:57 -0800

Rippling asked me 3 times in 1 session to answer NPS on how likely I was to recommend rippling to a friend.

I don’t talk to my friends about HR software, and I hope neither do you.

Wonderful BAA24E6A

Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:08:51 -0800

Every once in a while you see something useful on HN, yesterday I learned about https://readsomethingwonderful.com/about

Most of the best writing was not created in the past year. Yet most of what we get served is from the past 24 hours.

It’s wonderful.

Apostrophe B3868d74

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:32:51 -0800

I’ve been using Apostrophe to write blog posts in markdown and it’s my current favorite distraction-free writing tools.

https://apps.gnome.org/Apostrophe/

I especially appreciate “Hemmingway Mode” that does not allow you to use the backspace key at all.

Simply More 266937b6

Sat, 13 Dec 2025 20:15:44 -0800

Finished reading Simply More by Cynthia Erivo, As much as I love her, the memoir buried inside a self-help book full of cliches wrapped in inspirational quotes you see embroidered on pillows at a Christmas market left me wanting simply more.

https://levlaz.org/simply-more-by-cynthia-erivo/

19 Years Navy Cd13524e

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:48:38 -0800

Damn 19 years just flew by. Wrote a recollection of how 19 years ago tonight I bummed a smoke from a kind stranger at O’Hare airport before getting on a bus to Navy boot camp.

https://levlaz.org/great-lakes-illinois/

Masked Email A1797e2a

Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:39:59 -0800

The masked email feature of Fastmail is the best thing ever.

Sorry 00145562

Mon, 08 Dec 2025 13:03:00 -0800

Saw this about ten years ago and it changed my life, my shortform is to tell people “don’t ever apologize to me” but what I actually mean is expressed so beautifully in Yao Xiao’s comic “If You Want To Say Thank You, Don’t Say Sorry”

https://www.yao.nyc/shortcomics/2020/3/30/if-you-want-to-say-thank-you-dont-say-sorry

Reverse Centaur 29DC8635

Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:48:01 -0800

“The Reverse-Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI” by Cory Doctorow. https://pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/pop-that-bubble/

Another banger from Doctorow. I love reading Pluralistic because of all these great ideas, but on the other hand it makes it harder to enjoy his books since a lot of those ideas are then packaged up for I assume non-pluralistic readers.

Either way, great speech here, wish I could have seen it in person!

Self Driving 3270481C

Thu, 04 Dec 2025 15:27:59 -0800

“Self-driving cars are an unambiguous social good” vis Matthew Ingram https://torment-nexus.mathewingram.com/self-driving-cars-are-an-unambiguous-social-good/

Grow B829D2C3

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 15:31:39 -0800

“Grow, like a tree not a cancer” - love this idea https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/grow-like-a-tree-not-a-cancer/

Trick or Tret 1311B11C

Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:25:35 -0800

Shout out to all the devops vendors handing out swag to the trick or treaters at Re:Invent this week. Wish I could be there with you!

Tendon 131A4817

Sat, 29 Nov 2025 11:14:35 -0800

“No Phones in the Ten-Don Shop” by Craig Mod is a wonderful essay about the magical little food shops in Japan. I did not go to this place but went to a few like it in Tokyo a few weeks ago and I am still thinking about them. Also reminded that I have not written a single word about that trip and I should fix that soon before the words all fly away.

Quote 5FF42F84

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:45:14 -0800

Just noticed Mastodon has a quote feature now.

Donate 6A3AB9EB

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:20:54 -0800

“If you don’t have money, volunteer your time. If you don’t have time, volunteer your money.” – message about what to do next from Oakland Theatre Project.

Yellow Star D2C0CD20

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:20:14 -0800

Cabaret teaches us that we are always a song and dance away from having some asshole bring back the little yellow stars.

Libreoffice 449926B5

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:19:34 -0800

Finshed reading Enshittification by Cory Doctorow and was delighted to learn that he wrote the book inside of Libreoffice.

Cabaret EF905032

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 21:53:42 -0800

Saw the Oakland Theatre Project put on a Cabaret tonight and it was stunning. Blew my mind and exceeded all of my expectations. There is no better way to experience theatre than in a tiny sold out room and a cast giving it their all.

https://oaklandtheaterproject.org/cabaret

Sadly the rest of the shows are sold out, but if you were lucky enough to grab tickets you arein for a real treat.

Zenoh Ris 5CF8D617

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:13:21 -0800

As all things in robotics, this is further complicated by some folks at ZettaScale attempting to build a Zenoh native ROS 2 stack.

https://github.com/ZettaScaleLabs/ros-z/

Zenoh B7FFCD79

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:08:44 -0800

I am talking to more and more folks that are building a robotics stack on top of zenoh.io instead of ROS.

Subway 2C9AAF07

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:51:48 -0800

I have been wasting way too much time playing subway builder lately.

Charity 1D068F74

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:44:35 -0800

I love that Charity writes just like she talks.

https://charity.wtf/2025/10/30/the-pillar-is-a-lie/

Chatbots DA6E2D12

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:38:23 -0800

“AI can’t do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can’t do your job.” via Cory Doctorow. LMAO

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/11/sorry-to-bother-you/

Language A2566016

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:25:42 -0800

Watched this TedX video about how to learn any language in six months and felt annoyed after struggling with Chinese for years. But then I took some of the ideas into consideration and am already noticing an improvement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0yGdNEWdn0

Eugen 03059EEA

Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:23:32 -0800

Eugen Rochko started a revolution and has earned a well deserved break. I hope he finds some time to unwind and reflect on the huge positive change that he has brought to the world. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/

Danya AE592151

Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:57:51 +0900

I was so sad to hear about Daniel Naroditsky passing away.

During the pandemic I spend hundreds of hours watching him teach chess on Twitch and YouTube. His famous super slow “speed runs”. I learned so much from him and I’ll miss him a lot. Rest in Peace.

“Okay, so you lost your queen, don’t panic.”

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/oct/20/daniel-naroditsky-dies-chess-grandmaster

Agentic 21EFF685

Thu, 16 Oct 2025 12:19:51 -0400

Overheard someone on the phone in Atlanta saying “… agentic workflows” and I am so happy to be working in Robotics where I have not heard anyone say that phrase in weeks.

Day2 FC7C20BE

Tue, 30 Sep 2025 15:53:49 -0700

The latest version of MacOS and iOS is so sloppy. When they released Vision Pro as a half baked expensive thing I told Aosheng that it was day 2 for Apple. I am sad to be right. It’s so depressing to watch a company that you admired for so long dissapear in front of your eyes.

Ros2 C69AEFF5

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 20:12:06 -0700

Spent some time this weekend working on a vagrant box that makes it easier to use ROS2 inside Ubuntu on an Apple Silicon Mac via VMWare Fusion.

https://levlaz.org/vagrant-box-for-ros2-on-apple-silicon/

Ros2 F7867203

Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:34:33 -0700

Not sure what is more challenging trying to get ros2 work done on MacOS or trying to get an Ubuntu VM running on an M series Mac. Just pain on top of pain everywhere you look. :)

Scott F774F63A

Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:58:05 -0700

I miss scott-free august

Vanta F7a0df3c

Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:45:03 -0700

Ok folks, we need to talk about the Vanta Llama.

Foxglove 6A0F23E4

Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:33:29 -0700

Excited to share that I’ve joined Foxglove(https://foxglove.dev/) to build out the Solutions Engineering and Fordward Deployed Engineering functions. We’re building the observability stack for robotics and I could’nt be more excited to dive in.

Learning 7965BFA4

Wed, 03 Sep 2025 21:14:30 -0700

You know you are really getting deep into a learning hole when you look up a definition and the definition also has new words, and that definition also has new words.

Bsp 6B38AF53

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:42:26 -0700

my BFF saw a PPT that said their CEO was into MCP but they dont TDD and they dont TIP so their MVP fell of HN,FP. they wanted B2B but got no RSVP so took their IDE plugged in API key and made an RPG that siphoned BTC. now their SAFE is worth 1000g and the MAU are looking quite healthy so they took their MRR and multiplied by 3 to let their lead VC, get some liquidity, via SPAC. so now my exBF is a rich NIMBY who lives near SJC and writes on WSJ, he mentors people on all the right things to say to help the next gen Z get accepted to YC.

Regex 2A05C905

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 15:25:49 -0700

regex101 is still the best resource for quickly playing around with regex. https://regex101.com/

Bundling E2689BD7

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:56:15 -0700

The great bundling and unbundling cycle continues. Now that each streaming service is approaching 20 bucks a pop, it’s only a matter of time before a benevolant bundler comes along and allows us to subscribe to all the services for a discount. That discount will then increase every year until we are back to where we started with cable and the great cycle will renew.

queue lion king intro music

Emacs 2CB49D84

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 17:22:30 -0700

emacs requires two key combos to do anything but I still somehow manage to fuck it up and get stuck in emacs hell all the time.

Agent.ai F5E67C29

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 15:59:54 -0700

agent.ai is the new opensea

Mcphee 5058BA64

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:04:16 -0700

This piece about John McPhee’s writing methods is so good, makes me want to write. I also love that org-mode gets an honorable mention here. :)

https://jsomers.net/blog/the-mcphee-method

Win3 4A6154E4

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:41:17 -0700

Windows 3.1 was the first operating system that we had on a home computer that my mom brought home around 1998 (already a generation behind). This post brings back some memories.

https://www.xtof.info/inside-windows3.html

Dhh Distro Hopping 029B7259

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:58:50 -0700

DHH is in his distro hopping phase. ubuntu, arch, looking forward to the linux from scratch omakase.

Ragebait 069CABE8

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:53:07 -0700

Not enough officially published rage bait books anymore. https://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf

Scamlexity 9AA8E4B7

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:39:37 -0700

This post about browser agents falling for scams is interesting. If this tech actually takes off there is going to be a whole new game of cat and mouse starting up.

https://guard.io/labs/scamlexity-we-put-agentic-ai-browsers-to-the-test-they-clicked-they-paid-they-failed

Hn 88716CF2

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:37:14 -0700

Feeling happy that a bunch of the top stories on HN today were just links to github repos.

C 20042112

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 10:36:50 -0700

C making a comeback?

https://github.com/bravenewxyz/agent-c

Grug 7897CD1A

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:19:04 -0700

grug for design, hot tips in here.

https://www.grug.design/know

Mac Classic CFBAF682

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:13:18 -0700

Such a cool post about restoring a Mac Classic

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/build-log-macintosh-classic

Adam CB1AE752

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 14:10:54 -0700

The other day at around 8am in WeWork two dudes show up as guests and took a look around. I overhead them in the hallway lamenting how WeWork does not have the same energy ever since Adam Neumann left.

Gemini 5EB90D65

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:56:40 -0700

Has anyone figured out how to disable gemini/ai inside of google docs? It’s gotten so bad with constant pestering that I used Pages for the first time this decade.

Cynic 09F82923

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 15:36:55 -0700

How do you get over the cynicism? I miss being naive and optimistic.

Browser Sue 2674A281

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:55:13 -0700

Interesting post about browser-use removing the playwright abstraction and getting down to the core Chrome DevTools Protocol.

https://browser-use.com/posts/playwright-to-cdp

Hn E602859C

Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:43:01 -0700

Dan Moore wrote a good post about the value of hitting the front page of HN. My main takeaway is that Hacker News is not a marketing plan: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3530

You Are a Programmer AD90CA07

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:36:13 -0700

My skepticism of LLMs and vibe coding grows every day but I love this take from Armin about welcoming people who are introduced to programming through vibe coding into the community and providing a human connection.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/the-next-generation/

mitsuhiko.at is a real one.

Notify 34B2D028

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:41:17 -0700

Am i the only one that is tired of being prompted to install various extensions in my editor? Just let me do my work :D

Rss C03A6B8C

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:39:18 -0700

Why do tech companies keep putting out blogs without rss feeds? :'(

Notion 3A78539C

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:36:46 -0700

Notion offline mode is finally here. https://www.notion.com/help/guides/working-offline-in-notion-everything-you-need-to-know

Emacs 53872ED2

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:34:53 -0700

People using still using emacs to do stuff gives me hope.

https://xenodium.com/emacs-as-your-video-trimming-tool

Fad 20F4F2D5

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:17:19 -0700

We’ve reached the “I have a personal anecdote about my parents that prooves AI is not a fad” part of the AI discourse.

Todo.txt 2CEF9CCC

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:11:08 -0700

Derek Sivers got me hooked on plain text years ago and it’s cool to see other folks coming to the same realization.

https://sive.rs/plaintext

https://www.al3rez.com/todo-txt-journey

Classic Mac 68B036DA

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 14:07:49 -0700

Turning iPad into a Classic Mac - speaks to my inner geek.

https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/17/turning-an-ipad-pro-into-the-ultimate-classic-macintosh/

Fix Typewriter 403D03E2

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:56:36 -0700

I’m like a writer who wants to create experiences for readers, but I have to keep fixing typewriters

This one hits close to home. I feel like this all the time while trying to do anything these days.

Some interesting ideas in the hyperclay project.

https://hyperclay.com/

Slot Machine FE8C3835

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:54:09 -0700

Heard about this essay from Cory Doctorow and I can’t stop thinking about it.

https://blog.glyph.im/2025/08/futzing-fraction.html

Comparing LLM to a slot machine is just too good, especially as someone who has spent way too many hours in front of a slot machine and a chat box.

Roi 09BC1C98

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 13:50:54 -0700

https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/generative_ai_zero_return_95_percent/

Learning 07E36F58

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:14:21 -0700

I always found it so interesting that Doctors spent like 8+ years in the classroom but all of their core skills were developed using the “see one, do one, teach one” apprenticeship style approach. Also found that when it came to doing simple medical procedures the support staff like nurses and medics were usually much better than the doctors since they likely saw all the ways a given producdure could go wrong.

Slow Builds D20B5477

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:12:21 -0700

Snooping on Slow Builds with Syscalls.

https://danielchasehooper.com/posts/syscall-build-snooping/

Very cool, this is the kind of stuff I am dreaming of at Dagger all the time.

Org Social 59D40DC0

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:10:31 -0700

Fuck. Yes.

Org-social is a decentralized social network that runs on an Org Mode file over HTTP.

https://github.com/tanrax/org-social

Ddg 1594EE6C

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:04:23 -0700

I switched back to DDG because I was tired of useless AI slop results in my google search. But it seems they are bringing that into the mix as well. Maybe its finally time to listen to @tzeejay@mastodon.social and try Kagi.

Debian Wiki CE05FB62

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 08:01:33 -0700

Oh man, I’d love to see the quality of Arch Wiki make it over to the debian community. I love Debian but its docs are so painful and could use some love. Every time I try to contribute to making any part of it better I quickly feel defeated.

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032604/73596e0c3ed1945a/

Ourpaint 850BFB77

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:58:50 -0700

I love the design of this website. It reminds me of the hand crafted digital gardens of the 1990s.

https://www.wellobserve.com/OurPaint/index_en.html

4 Years 046E505E

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 11:10:37 -0700

Feeling so happy to celebrate 4 years of not smoking today. Still a long way to go to heal the damage that was caused from so many years of smoking, but today I am feeling happy to make it this far.

4 Years
$22,000 saved
43,000+ cigarettes not smoked

Debt 5BDB2BDD

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:43:18 -0700

“Code that nobody understands is tech debt.”

Interesting thoughts on vibe coding: https://blog.val.town/vibe-code

Fish FFCF9961

Fri, 01 Aug 2025 09:39:38 -0700

This is really cool, more of this weird stuff on the web please.

https://drawafish.com/

Panda AA9275E7

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:37:50 -0700

上周在中文课，我说胸毛而不是熊猫。🙈

Tsunami 870185D0

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:09:24 -0700

This tsunami alert looks like something you would read on a VaultTech terminal in fallout 3.

https://www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/2025/07/29/t06p1k/6/WEAK51/WEAK51.txt

Emdash 7445A80D

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:21:26 -0700

Before AI generated blog posts took over we had a bunch of bad writing that overused buzz words and cliches (https://levlaz.org/forbidden-words/). When I would come across one of those in a piece of writing my brain would just turn off.

I’ve been having a similar reaction whenever I see an emdash these days. Brain just turns off and I stop reading.

Yeah I know an emdash is real thing that has its place in grammar, but AI ruined it for everyone.

Matrix B5B94E5B

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:13:54 -0700

Terence Eden takes the blue pill in this post about why he’s done with Matrix. :)

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/07/im-never-going-back-to-matrix/

Good post, and makes me think a lot about how technically interesting communities often sabotage themselves with an inability to communicate with their users.

Ide 07F030C5

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:01:11 -0700

Despite all the hype I was pretty surprised to see Cursor and Windsurf not even make the top 5 in the Stack Overflow IDE survey. https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/

Study Mode 125DE3B2

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:51:53 -0700

I like the premise of study mode a lot. https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

Disable_ai C78FF688

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:21:31 -0700

Love to see Zed leading from the front and giving people a choice on if they want to use AI or not. I think this will be a trend with other great software in the future.

https://zed.dev/blog/disable-ai-features

Ruby 4C42D135

Wed, 23 Jul 2025 09:53:07 -0700

The best part about the SF Ruby meetup is that its one of the few local meetups where people are still talking about and showing code that they have written as opposed to just talking about ai.

Its a time capsule to 2015 era SF. I’m cherishing it as long as it lasts.

Ai_skills D410003B

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 16:05:03 -0700

Found something claude is really good at. Extracting tables from PDFs into csv format. This is the kind of toil I am hoping llms become perfect at solving.

Reading 115F09C3

Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:23:27 -0700

I am sooooo behind on my reading goals for the year. 3/52 :'(

Linux_india 3E044ABC

Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:47:35 -0700

Fascinating personal story of computing history about how this person became the first Linux user in India. Would love to read more of these sorts of stories.

https://medium.com/@vishalmisra/how-i-became-the-first-linux-user-in-india-b86be9d2a6c5

Calvin CF8CAA72

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:13:58 -0700

Interesting reading Calvin French-Owen’s reflecitons on his past year at OpenAI. https://calv.info/openai-reflections

He also has the best blog/personal site I’ve seen in a while. Lots of founders have one of these that they started a decade ago and have not updated since. Its cool to peek into his brain since he kept it up to date.

If_css 0D483C07

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 16:07:43 -0700

This CSS conditional using if() from the Chrome team is interesting, but are people actually writing CSS targeting a specific browser. Feels like its too much work, or do you just assume that anyone who matters to you is probably using Chrome?

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/if-article

Email 2AFB4CBE

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 11:15:27 -0700

Excellent post on how to write better email. https://refactoringenglish.com/chapters/techniques-for-writing-emails/

Geomys 48510886

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:50:40 -0700

Cool to see this model for sustainable open source maintenance.

https://words.filippo.io/geomys/

Wishing the Geomys team the best of luck!

Mirror AE17958B

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:58:59 -0700

The iPhone screen mirror feature of latest MacOS is pretty dope. Makes me happy to see apple make something useful for a change.

Genai 44810BE1

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 10:02:05 -0700

Finding myself feeling completely repulsed by GenAI lately.

Forks 1BB99A04

Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:30:21 -0700

Every editor is a fork of VS Code.

Every browser is a fork of Chromium.

That’s why I am always rooting for https://zed.dev/, lost all hope for the browser though.

Doormat BDD2DFFC

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:45:13 -0700

Some startup had this brilliant idea of sending doormats to their customers instead of cold calling. I admit its clever. It’ll get attention and work exaclty one time.

On the other hand, I am worried that we’re about to have a deluge of random crap sent to physical offices in an attempt to capture this exciting new channel.

I am still puzzled on why anyone would leave this mat on their front door advertizing some other companies product to anyone who happens to walk by. But it does remind me of some diners on the east coast that sold ads on their placemats. Nothing screams tasteful design like an add for Big Bobs Oil Change in a nonmatching font.

Screen_studio CE5BB53D

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:28:16 -0700

If you spend any time making screen recordings you have to check out Screen Studio for Mac. https://screen.studio/

This is the best tool I’ve ever tried for the task, a truly wonderful experience built by people who I am convinced have spent way too much time fiddling with quicktime or imovie in the past and decided enough is enough.

Public_traces D6E52A1C

Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:15:49 -0700

I’m so excited to see this small but mighty feature ship in Dagger Cloud. You can now mark any trace as public and share the link with anyone. This makes it so much easier to collaborate with folks around stuff that you are doing in Dagger locally.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEGTfaFnpA

Mokapot 0a3a26cf

Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:09:23 -0700

Really enjoyed reading Jason’s love letter to his moka pot. https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-bliss-of-good-enough-an-ode-to-my-moka-pot/

Quality 7d8ab01b

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:52:31 -0700

An appeal for software quality from the founder of Zed.

https://zed.dev/blog/software-craftsmanship-in-the-era-of-vibes

Runme 4997b83e

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:40:32 -0700

This post reminds me of the problems runme.dev are trying to solve.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/17/measuring/

When I first dove into programming I found the idea of RTFM quite hilarious. “Why are you asking dumb questions, just read it up.” The unfortunate reality is that the manual often doesn’t exist — or is wrong. In fact, we as engineers are quite willing to subject each others to completely inadequate tooling, bad or missing documentation and ridiculous API footguns all the time.

Lantian F6f0c222

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:15:59 -0700

TIL the CEO of Bluesky’s given name is 蓝天 lán tiān which literally means blue sky. It blows my mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Graber

Bluesky Dying A7de077b

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:12:59 -0700

There are a lot of articles about Bluesky dying, but this one by Sean Thomas is the most insufferable.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/bluesky-is-dying/

Normal Eng 5bbaa7c8

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 22:04:37 -0700

In Praise of “Normal” Engineers via Charity Majors https://charity.wtf/2025/06/19/in-praise-of-normal-engineers/

Thinkboi 35c8c7d7

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:55:43 -0700

Claude is shockingly good at making LinkedIn thinkboi style content.

Agi Economy Bbee3e9a

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:51:34 -0700

The AGI economy is coming faster than you think. By Rohit Krishnan

https://www.freethink.com/artificial-intelligence/agi-economy

Rss Bankrupt 34fb65bc

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 21:39:47 -0700

How often do you declare bankruptcy on your rss inbox? I’m staring at 1484 posts.

Harper 487f22db

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:13:45 -0700

Open source alternative to Grammarly that I’ve been desperate for. https://writewithharper.com/

Cursor Playbook 406552c9

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:04:18 -0700

New pattern, the curosr playbook: fork popular open source tool with a huge existing ecosystem, add some AI features, profit. Happening now with a Chromium fork called nxtscape.

https://levlaz.org/cursor-playbook/

Hope Dd2df522

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:26:49 -0700

There is still hope. Asked Claude Code to find a file:

Done (10 tool uses · 36.9k tokens · 57.4s)

Something that I am pretty sure would take less than a second using silversearcher.

Infinite Macos 1c4a1206

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 17:02:19 -0700

This is so cool! You can run NeXT and early MacOS in your browser here: https://infinitemac.org/

Instantly fell into a nostalgia hole.

K8s20 21806eb9

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:43:19 -0700

What would kubernetes 2.0 look like? https://matduggan.com/what-would-a-kubernetes-2-0-look-like/

“A lot of the Linux skills that were critical to my career are largely nice to have now, not need to have. You can be happy or sad about that, I certainly switch between the two emotions on a regular basis, but it’s just the truth.”

Cuts deep.

This is a good post, lots of good ideas. Also first I have heard of the “norway problem” in YAML but apparently no evaluates to false, so using that country code fucks a bunch of shit up.

Generated Deps 3b8cca56

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:29:22 -0700

Wrote a few thoughts on using ai to generate dependencies instead of grabbing them off the shelf. https://levlaz.org/generated-dependencies/

Ladder Behind Us 657b0900

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:21:14 -0700

Xe Iaso writes about the risks of replacing all the jr. jobs with AI. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately too. If there are no more junior people, who will replace the existing senior people?

https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/rolling-ladder-behind-us/

Agentic Coding Recs 0357b9b7

Fri, 20 Jun 2025 15:42:12 -0700

Armin Ronacher shares some of his recommendations for agentic coding: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/12/agentic-coding/ via @mitsuhiko.at

Best practices for agentic coding via Anthropic

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:48:32 -0700

Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding via Anthropic Engineering blog https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices

field notes from shipping real code with claude

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:48:32 -0700

Field notes from shipping real code with claude https://diwank.space/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-with-claude

moving on from nix

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:48:32 -0700

Carlos Becker on moving on from nix: https://carlosbecker.com/posts/bye-nix/

quick notes on agentic coding experience 18june25

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:48:32 -0700

Notes on a brief agentic coding experience: https://olano.dev/blog/agentic-coding-experience/

via https://hachyderm.io/@facundoolano

What google translate tells us about vibe coding

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 16:41:32 -0700

Another point of view about vibe coding. And how the translation industry offers some hope.

https://ingrids.space/posts/what-google-translate-can-tell-us-about-vibecoding/

I used $LLM_SERVICE_PROVIDER to make a small throwaway tool, so all programmers will be unemployed in $ARBITRARY_TIME_WINDOW” :')

Chinese_reading 506FB65E

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 10:19:37 -0700

Doing chinese homework, still feels so satisfying to show up to a block text, feel completely overwhelemed, then start to read it and realize I actually can. 😇

Container Use 29E1CAD2

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:05:51 -0700

If you missed it two weeks ago at AI Engineer World’s Fair, check out Solomon’s talk launching Container Use. It’s one of his best talks yet.

https://www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY-kHY?t=3400s

Flatpak A55e423a

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 16:07:09 -0700

Every single time I install an app with flatpak it runs into some weird issues and then spend way too much time trying to debug it.

Root Shell E6af630e

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:42:00 -0700

Root shell on a credit card terminal.

https://stefan-gloor.ch/yomani-hack

So fascinating to read about this sort of stuff, and I love the way the author tells the story with photos too.

Punchcards 8e5c46db

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:40:50 -0700

I read the instructions three times and I still have no idea how this works, buts its pretty neat. :) https://volution.ro/pckb/

Streaming Json Aa529d16

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:30:58 -0700

I find the use of em-dashes, italics, bold, and heaven forbid, bold italitcs, to be condescending to the reader.

Eager Agent C61dcda1

Wed, 28 May 2025 23:42:55 -0700

Lately Claude Desktop has been too eager to do stuff. Sometimes I just want to rubber duck for a bit, but it immediatly jumps in and starts to make artifacts.

Best Blog 246c0b55

Wed, 28 May 2025 22:08:31 -0700

The best blog posts are the ones that link to other amazing blog posts that will sometimes also link to amazing blog posts. The chain can keep going for hours.

Love this one from Annie Cherkaev about workflows for ai coding: https://anniecherkaev.com/the-times-they-are-ai-changing

Costco F21d0973

Wed, 28 May 2025 21:52:14 -0700

Has anyone ever been to costco without spending at least $300?

Ryo 1961e15e

Tue, 27 May 2025 22:43:10 -0700

Damn, this is the neatest personal site i’ve ever seen. https://ryo.lu/

Testing 637a664b

Tue, 27 May 2025 22:24:59 -0700

Today I am once again reminded that the hardest part of shipping software is testing. I got my thing to work in a few minutes and then spent hours fiddling with jest, typescript, etc. I still can’t get jest to work because I don’t care to understand the difference between ESM and BDSM or whatever else. Just wrote some vanilla tests using emojis for pass and fail. ✅/❌

Things are finally working but the great feeling of joy from getting something to work was beaten out of me by JS. You win again.

Thinkboi 9EC201DC

Tue, 27 May 2025 15:18:14 -0700

#thinkboi thought of the day. Is there really any difference between using some random library without reading all the code and using a vibe coded library without reading any of the code?

Superblocks B9FB3F7A

Tue, 27 May 2025 14:07:07 -0700

Superblocks brought the cringe to LinkedIn today by having everyone change their job title to ($existing_job_title + | AI software builder) but did it in a way where it notified everyone that someone started a new job. Then they wrote posts about it and congratulated each other.

Has an entire company ever made it to https://www.reddit.com/r/LinkedInLunatics/?

This smells like the scheme of a growth hacker. I’m here for it an I’m also here to hate on it.

Costco 315807dc

Mon, 26 May 2025 23:13:46 -0700

Costco keeps getting me with these emails that say “here is this thing you probably need at a really great price” and I keep buying shit.

Cli E58ed2ca

Mon, 26 May 2025 13:05:57 -0700

In the Beginning was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson. This essay is about early computing but some interesting things are 1. it was written in a time when BeOS was a thing 2. the description of teletype reminds me of modern day llm interactions. What’s old is new again.

https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs81n/command.txt

Gibson Pro Cc2c2c13

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:59:35 -0700

“like the guy who uses NetBSD on a ThinkPad to feel like a William Gibson protagonist.”

🤣

https://borretti.me/article/you-can-choose-tools-that-make-you-happy

Grn F8696a60

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:43:13 -0700

Best website title ever. https://catgirl.ai/

Tech Sales Cb02ec8c

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:37:34 -0700

Mike Dodds’ post about selling format methods applies to selling any technical product. I had not even heard of the concept of formal methods until seeing this post but the sales wisdom is exceptional. Sales works best when you have non “sales people” selling. Just brilliant. https://www.galois.com/articles/what-works-and-doesnt-selling-formal-methods

Selling Formal Methods 30df49cc

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:32:46 -0700

A rare blog post about sales that ended up on lobste.rs but its full of gold. Especially the convex vs concave graph that I keep seeing everywhere. https://www.galois.com/articles/what-works-and-doesnt-selling-formal-methods

Git as S3 7b21a440

Mon, 26 May 2025 12:27:32 -0700

Interesting deep dive from Kris Tun about using git as S3. https://kristun.dev/posts/git-as-s3/

Notebooklm Cdbe27a4

Sun, 25 May 2025 21:26:03 -0700

NotebookLM is very cool but its also a bit of a one trick pony at the moment. Looking forward to seeing how it evolves.

Captcha 9959511c

Sun, 25 May 2025 20:32:25 -0700

Interesting post about how ai has won the ticket scalping arms race by defeating CAPTCHAs https://behind.pretix.eu/2025/05/23/captchas-are-over/

Claude Linux D16c2bd6

Sun, 25 May 2025 20:14:22 -0700

Using Claude to understand how to do various stuff in Linux is such a nice experience. Its 99% correct these days and takes all the guesswork out of digging through docs, wikis, manpages.

Uchiwa A525bb3d

Sun, 25 May 2025 20:07:48 -0700

Uchiwa ramen in Emeryville Bay St. is so good, pork was perfectly cooked and the egg was warm. I keep getting cold eggs thrown into a broth at most ramen places around here. :)

Inbox Zero 46caba0d

Sun, 25 May 2025 18:09:30 -0700

Hitting inbox zero in the superhuman “other” tab is a real achievement.

Llm Cve 6b6b638d

Sun, 25 May 2025 17:28:54 -0700

Awesome post from Sean Heelan about how he used o3 to find a CVE. This is the kind of llm use that we could use more of.

https://sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/how-i-used-o3-to-find-cve-2025-37899-a-remote-zeroday-vulnerability-in-the-linux-kernels-smb-implementation/

Wheels 98dabc21

Sun, 25 May 2025 17:25:33 -0700

Loved this post from https://mastodon.social/@mre about why “reinventing the wheel” might be a good idea.

https://endler.dev/2025/reinvent-the-wheel/

Bluebook 58ad789f

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:07:37 -0700

Boomer take but I actually like these blue books, we used them in high school to write all of our shitty ap english papers.

https://www.wsj.com/business/chatgpt-ai-cheating-college-blue-books-5e3014a6

Superhuman 53c7e731

Sat, 24 May 2025 00:04:37 -0700

For some reason superhuman website is busted if you load it in Linux. Docs are not much help either because it seems that the chrome extension is hidden or something.

Claude to the rescue, reminded me that going to mail.superhuman.com in Chrome will get everything to work as expected.

Release Party F36ff3f8

Fri, 23 May 2025 23:35:02 -0700

#fedora release party happening next week! https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/announcing-the-fedora-42-release-party-may-29-2025/

Llm Ads 514ea671

Thu, 22 May 2025 16:45:04 -0700

So do you think that LLM ads are going to be like reading news articles where very paragraph has a bunch of bullshit in between, or do you think they’ll do product placement inside of your generated images? Thanks to all the zombiecorns, we are only weeks away from enshitificaiton and I think It’s going to get sloppy.

Luckin 3400C4A5

Tue, 20 May 2025 08:29:02 -0700

I am so excited to hear that Luckin Coffee is opening their first US store in NYC. Can’t wait to sip coconut iced coffee. 🤤

F Bus 7d4b4f68

Mon, 19 May 2025 22:25:52 -0700

Took the F instead of BART back home tonight and ran into my husband while boarding. It was so wholesome. We sat together and unwound for the day. <3

Suggestions Cbcf3940

Sun, 18 May 2025 01:33:21 -0700

#Fedora gives you these nice installation suggestions in the terminal when you type in a command that does not exist. Anyone know if this is this a fedora feature or gnome feature?

Postman 3d6121fb

Sun, 18 May 2025 01:32:16 -0700

Postman logging all your secrets and environment variables: https://anonymousdata.medium.com/postman-is-logging-all-your-secrets-and-environment-variables-9c316e92d424

Mod_cat A4ABD556

Wed, 14 May 2025 10:12:15 -0700

I’m so excited to see this ship! It’s one of the most valuable things we’ve built for platform teams creating Dagger modules. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://dagger.io/blog/module-catalog-insights

Buzz 08A5E4E8

Fri, 09 May 2025 07:42:28 -0700

Felt so inspired yesterday watching my husband give a talk about his work on the new Figma Buzz product at ConFig yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPpzI7z_U-o&list=PLXDU_eVOJTx5c9DxIoWJZVh3dVZwIhBGB&index=50

Llm C2A10601

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 11:02:47 -0700

We’ve been working hard the last few months to introduce the llm primitive as a new type in #dagger. You now get an SDK, sandboxed execution envirnment, and observability layer to build your ai agent. This makes dagger a perfect place to experiment with building your own agents.

It’s been so cool to see what people have built with it so far and I can’t wait to see what you are able to do. https://dagger.io/blog/llm

Chinese Spam 4C92D4EB

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:16:07 -0700

A true test of language progess is when you’re able to understand the pig buthchering text messages that you get in chinese.

This one today:

你有空去水族馆吗？我们一起去玩玩吧

“Do you have time to go to the aquarium, lets go play”

Sales Mondays A6B88EEE

Mon, 21 Apr 2025 11:35:21 -0700

I love Monday’s because it gives me an excuse to reach out to people who are ignoring me and say “hope you had a great weekend!” 😇

#sales

Masto 26A6EA25

Wed, 16 Apr 2025 16:20:50 -0700

Mastodon Exit Interview - via @r.v.cx

https://v.cx/2025/04/mastodon-exit-interview

Labs 23105DC2

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:54:18 -0700

Check out this new lab from @sagikazarmark.com on how to test and release #helm charts with #dagger.

https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/testing-and-releasing-helm-charts-with-dagger-4dcb152e

Mark is a Dagger, Helm, and Go expert. I always learn something useful when looking at his code. Thanks so much for putting this together!

Worst Ssg 7ED2180D

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 16:10:30 -0700

I made the worst static site generator in the world using an LLM. It takes almost 10 minutes to generate a simple index.html page for 30 sub pages.

Taxes 2CCAE9A4

Wed, 09 Apr 2025 12:15:24 -0700

Finished my taxes early this year instead of scrambling at the last minute. Feels good. 😎

Cherish FB75F425

Mon, 07 Apr 2025 17:22:52 -0700

Reminding myself to cherish those around me. One year ago today I played a few games of chess with my Grandpa before rushing off to some other activity. “I’ll see you later!” I said. Had no idea that would be the last time we spoke.

Kubecon 3761D2CE

Fri, 28 Mar 2025 10:15:06 -0700

Looking forward to spending the entire week in London for #kubecon. Day -1 at #rejekts is off to a great start.

Lyingai 76A6F3BA

Tue, 18 Mar 2025 17:48:18 -0700

I love AI engineering. I spent the entire afternoon getting lied to by an LLM.

Fsaf FE75E2BD

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:01:00 -0700

Did you fill out your free speech activity form before posting?

Cold Dm 4BECB571

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:17:07 -0700

Can’t believe I need to give this pro tip to all my fellow cold callers out there. But if you send me cold message saying someone I know told you to reach out to me. Please make sure they actually did that. If they didn’t it makes you and your company look really bad. I’d never want to do business with you. Word gets around.

Sjcd 1E5858AB

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:26:02 -0700

The fact that San Jose Diridon station is surrounded by Single Family Housing is a crime.

#transit

Free Speech Activity 281B2604

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:54:55 -0700

An application for free speech activity must be submitted in its entirety, a minimum of 7 days in advance, for consideration.

It started in the malls. Coming soon to a democracy near you.

https://www.westfield.com/en/united-states/valleyfair/services/free-speech-activity

Tai Er E065D6A5

Thu, 13 Mar 2025 09:25:12 -0700

omg. I am so excited that my favorite Sichuan Pickle Fish restaurant is opening in San Jose! Before this we had to go to either Flushing Queens or China to eat there. :D

https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/12/san-jose-economy-store-restaurant-food-movie-valley-fair-jobs-property/

Scale22 D51B6F69

Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:19:04 -0700

Had such a good time and so many great convos at #scale22!

Agent D8BA6D18

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 10:14:48 -0800

@kylepenfound.com just released a #dagger programmer agent that is able to translate your dagger modules into other languages. Its so cool! https://github.com/kpenfound/dagger-programmer

Scale A92D2D40

Thu, 06 Mar 2025 09:18:38 -0800

So excited for my first #SCaLE - hanging out in beautiful Pasadena, CA all weekend.

Oblast 66C85A30

Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:01:18 -0800

It looks like instead of Canada becoming America’s 51st state, America has become Russia’s 47th Oblast.

Kfc AAE4AE7E

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:46:32 -0800

Even Kentucky is not authentic anymore. https://www.yum.com/wps/portal/yumbrands/Yumbrands/news/press-releases/yum+brands+designates+two+brand+headquarters+in+the+us+for+increased+collaboration+and+growth

Dagger Llm B811E3B1

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:26:17 -0800

This is the most exciting channel on discord right now. :)

https://discord.gg/wS8gH5u6

Php D448D730

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 11:25:26 -0800

It was so cool to see this entire Dagger #php SDK come together over the last few months purely through our community. I love seeing the power of community in action!

Wasm 442F1B89

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:50:11 -0800

We replaced our react frontend with Go and wasm at #dagger. The lead engineer on the project @vito.monster wrote a great post about how and why we did this. Check it out! https://dagger.io/blog/replaced-react-with-go

Changsha 36dd8463

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:59:07 -0800

Taking the high speed rail from Shanghai to Changsha today. Riding on these trains through China is always one of my favorite parts of the trip.

China Bc19f5c1

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 14:54:49 -0800

Hello from Shanghai! Bluesky is blocked by default, Hachyderm is not. The power of federation in action :)

Rss Aaf2eb10

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:15:07 -0800

One of my favorite parts about the RSS reader I use is that it lets you create a custom CSS for your account. I wish all apps allowed you to do this. This is one part of the “old web” that I miss the most. https://miniflux.app/

Linkedin 6e858c2f

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:15:01 -0800

Using LinkedIn web site on mobile is completely unusable. Every couple of scrolls its takes over the entire screen and nags you to install the mobile app.

#enshitification

Devtpools 2F303606

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:22:27 -0800

Everything wrong with developer tools in a single paragraph

https://levlaz.org/everything-wrong-with-developer-tools-in-a-single-paragraph/

Odl 11E5346C

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 19:21:57 -0800

On resisting the urge to edit old posts

https://levlaz.org/urge-to-edit-old-posts/

Wml Hugo 233AEA8E

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:52:16 -0800

Was really cool to read about Divine Attah-Ohiemi’s experience as an outreachy intern with #debian. But I am especially excited to learn that they are working on moving from WML to hugo. I’ve tried to fix a few small bugs in WML over the years and its always been incredibly painful.

Mastodon 896D3C6A

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:49:17 -0800

The people should own the town square

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square/

Interfaces for Dev 5C490961

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:44:08 -0800

How to design interfaces for developer tools. via Evil Martians blog

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/devs-in-mind-how-to-design-interfaces-for-developer-tools

Pixelfed 451C97AD

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:37:46 -0800

Pixelfed is about to have a moment via Colin Devroe

https://cdevroe.com/2025/01/14/pixelfeds-moment/

Flatpak B2D38A19

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:35:13 -0800

Flatpak 1.16 just dropped. https://feaneron.com/2025/01/14/flatpak-1-16-is-out/

#gnome #linux

Sideload 17D08C91

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:32:05 -0800

Being able to sideload random APKs into my Peloton makes me feel like I am in the Matrix.

Martin Hench 3CAB35C1

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:19:05 -0800

I read both Martin Hench novels by Cory Doctorow last year and really enjoyed them. Can’t wait for Picks and Shovels to drop on Feb 17th!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/contesting-popularity/#mister-25-percent

Bproof 893EC7A7

Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:08:00 -0800

Billionaire-proofing the internet via Cory Doctorow.

Capitalism D18EA397

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:34:10 -0800

Most “free speech absolutists” are also “free market capitalists”

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/elon-musk-wants-openai-to-auction-off-a-large-ownership-stake

Facebook2 45E80C97

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:16:50 -0800

But then I finally broke free. I deleted facebook in 2013 and never looked back. My life and mental health have been 10x better since then. Feeling really good about that decision lately.

Facebook 260CFAF0

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:14:47 -0800

On July 26, 2010 I wrote a blog post that said:

“I fucking hate facebook, but I don’t have the balls to delete it because then I would truly feel alone.”

https://levlaz.org/facebook/

Bookburning 0D43F0D6

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 12:10:14 -0800

Re: check out my story on Instagram

Thank you so much for the invite, but I’ll not be attending this seasons book burnings. Give Julia my best.

Wp BFD4127B

Fri, 10 Jan 2025 11:53:56 -0800

I think Matt Mullenweg is having a midlife crisis. It’s such a shame to see him destory his lifes work with a few blog posts, slack messages and tweets. I don’t think there is any turning back.

Fedora Wiki D08c59b7

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:43:56 -0800

Is it just me, or is the entire #fedora wiki down?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/

Lex 9472a378

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 21:07:41 -0800

Lex Fridman has been pissing me off lately, but this interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy is brilliant. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u321m25rKXc

Redhat EB5E5488

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:54:07 -0800

Red Hat is hiring a new #Fedora Project Leader. This seems like such a unique and interesting opportunity.

https://redhat.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/jobs/job/Boston/Fedora-Project-Leader_R-044932

Ai Meetup 60C3D345

Wed, 08 Jan 2025 08:31:04 -0800

Went to an AI Dev Tools meet up at the Cloudflare office last night hosted by Sourcegraph. It was awesome. Great people, cool demos, lots of buzz. Felt like #sanfrancisco of 2015.

Fedora D472ab7b

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:11:10 -0800

When did #Fedora get so good? I am really impresssed :D

Kill Bill CAE0839E

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:12:09 -0800

Watched Kill Bill v1 yesteday again. It’s one of my favorite movies and even after watching it so many times I am still mesmerized by the cinematic story telling. Its just brilliant.

Hsk2 Windows D5659F17

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 16:06:11 -0800

I wrote a story about the #windows nightmare I had the night before my HSK Level 2 Chinese test. :D

https://levlaz.org/reinstalling-windows-at-1am/

Cj 2F31E756

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:51:46 -0800

Huge thank you to @tzeejay@mastodon.social for helping me fix some css bugs on my site. <3

Anki 691B5590

Mon, 06 Jan 2025 11:07:41 -0800

I spent a few hours trying to get my Anki Flashcards to work on the Peleton screen. Sideloading took 5 minutes and felt magical. Trying to get any chinese font to load took 115 minutes and I gave up past midnight. :(

I am so close!

Hsk2 Edb9f099

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:28:20 -0800

Just learned that I passed my HSK Level 2 (chinese proficiency test)! Feeling really motivated :D

Oobe A77008a3

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:24:20 -0800

OOBE\BYPASSNRO

#iykyk

Charity

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 21:10:02 -0800

Enjoying reading Charity Majors’ take on founder mode.

https://charity.wtf/2024/12/17/founder-mode-and-the-art-of-mythmaking/

But I’ll admit I just saw the graphic around Brooks’ Law for the first time in this post and it also blew my mind.

Windows

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:30:31 -0800

When I was a kid I often ran Linux inside of a VM on Windows because I could not get networking to work properly.

These days, Window feels so enshittified that I can only tolerate running it inside of a VM.

Funny how things turned out. :)

Doctorow

Sun, 05 Jan 2025 20:16:03 -0800

Cory Doctorow writes about the essential desire of artists to create in his end of year post. Inspiring stuff.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blockheads-r-us/

Ghostty Reflections 70A768D2

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:36:34 -0800

Mitchell Hashimoto’s reflections on Ghostty 1.0 https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-1-0-reflection

(wrote this micropost in vim inside of Ghostty :p)

Tweets C20392E9

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:23:56 -0800

Torn because people should be able to post whatever makes them happy, but I really wish folks would stop posting screenshots of melon husk’s tweets all over mastodon and bluesky. There’s a reason we’re here and not there.

Ghostty ECB509A2

Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:04:43 -0800

Ghostty is finally out :) https://ghostty.org/

I was just reading the post saying it was coming in December, Happy to note that I learned of the release on Mastodon! https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/113720986101323746

Matrix 35430763

Mon, 23 Dec 2024 10:21:04 -0800

Rewatched all of Matrix, its so good, especially thought provokin in a post LLM world.

Poweroff 47881332

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:13:32 -0800

Turned off my power for a few weeks to save a tiny bit of money while out of town and already regretting it because I run a few services on my NUC at home which breaks this blogs publishing workflow. :)

Fairsource 059AA338

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 10:10:06 -0800

This #KubeCon talk from Adam Jacob about Fair Source is so good. I took notes, so many things to think about as we also navigate PMF with an open source product.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhYHzJpkuo

Remarkable 23FC9712

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 08:56:59 -0800

Remarkable is getting even more Remarkable. The desktop app now allows you to take notes by typing, then you can sync back to your tablet and write on it. Its really nice!

Blob E8D2CEBB

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:00:43 -0800

I strongly prefer talking to this blob than a human-like avatar. Reminds me of the fart blob thing from Rick and Morty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgqiSBxvdws

Voicemode F5CC15BC

Tue, 17 Dec 2024 19:20:43 -0800

ChatGPT real time voice mode just blows my mind, especially for learning languages.

Chess E02F7FE2

Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:41:44 -0800

Congrats to Gukesh, new #chess world champion! https://lichess.org/@/Lichess/blog/wcc-2024-round-14-gukesh-becomes-the-youngest-world-champion-in-history/cDggdNZw

Intel Fall 4D627EB3

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:41:22 -0800

Intel falling 500B -> 100B is pretty wild.

https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/intels-fall-from-grace/

Ai Gen Movie C78EFB29

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:35:22 -0800

The future of entertainment is probably bright, but the next few years are going to be painful :)

#AI generated movie slop https://www.404media.co/i-went-to-the-premiere-of-tcls-first-commercially-streaming-ai-movies

Hsk1 391CE59F

Thu, 05 Dec 2024 18:09:58 -0800

So excited to share that I passed my HSK Level 1 Chinese test. It’s going to get exponentially harder from here but I am feeling really happy about reaching this milestone. :D

Bsky Cacm A3FF531D

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 14:33:30 -0800

You its getting real when CACM is writing about #bluesky

https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/the-rise-of-bluesky/

Cfp 1DDD0BBC

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:27:26 -0800

This weekend @sourishkrout.com and I submitted a CFP to #KubeCon London. This is my first one, I’m excited about the topic, wish us luck!

Bike B1C4B7B1

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 23:04:31 -0800

Rode my bicycle all the way to the end of the great highway and back today, it was really nice. I got the most satisfying deep breath of ocean air, made the whole trip worth it.

Tinashe AB59A721

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 22:45:06 -0800

Tinashe was so good tonight, especially her dancers, they brought 100% for almost 90 minutes.

#music

Warfield A6393EF6

Sun, 24 Nov 2024 18:20:02 -0800

Cant wait to see Raveena and Tinashe at the Warfield tonight!

#music #sanfrancisco

Suspiro F8ABA80F

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:04:16 -0800

Cafe Suspiro at 9th & Folsom is my favorite Coffee Shop in #sanfrancisco. Such a great vibe, good coffee, vinyl, local books, its my happy place. :)

Kendrik 2DF8C5A4

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 12:34:52 -0800

I think the new Kendrick Album slaps. So much 90s hip-hop nostalgia.

#music

Swift 417968e5

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:11:34 -0800

Do you think Taylor ever writes in Swift?

Echo 6690c4ae

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 18:10:45 -0800

Are you able to hear my echo?

Lex 2eac59e8

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 15:49:58 -0800

Listening to Lex Fridman interview Argentinia’s president Javier Milei is shocking because he does not challenge a single thing that he says. Maybe its the translation system, but this is becoming a pattern for me. It’s so odd that the expert level interview skills that he’s developed over the years immediately melt away when he is talking to right wingers.

Winget Bf250535

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 23:38:17 -0800

winget makes windows so much more usable.

Ruby Sdk BC83A4EC

Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:05:55 -0800

Someone started working on a #ruby SDK for @dagger.io and it really feels like christmas came early this year. I’ve been dreaming of this one for a while, hope to see it get over the line.

https://github.com/dagger/dagger/pull/9026#issuecomment-2492091852

Chrome B5e75c8c

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:25:24 -0800

Wouldn’t it be hillarious if Mozilla ended up buying Chrome and wining the browser wars after all?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/20/24300617/doj-google-search-antitrust-chrome-breakup

Rail 7522ed17

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 21:23:24 -0800

This is unhinged reporting that somehow turns widespread, people oriented, frequent, and well funded high speed rail into a bad thing. Making it seem like private auto infrastructure has no upfront or ongoing cost.

https://www.wsj.com/world/china/xi-high-speed-trains-china-3ef4d7f0

Sp 63037E3F

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:36:57 -0800

I wish there was a way to make a starter pack in BlueSky without including yourself.

Devtool 45470ABA

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:27:40 -0800

Started working on a Devloper Tools Starter Pack, who am I missing?

https://go.bsky.app/Eewc866

Reinvent 2F9B0DEE

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:21:04 -0800

who is going to aws re:invent?

#aws #reinvent

Somafm 9DFF6552

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 10:08:16 -0800

Counting down the days until I can start to listen to Christmas Lounge on somafm.

https://somafm.com/christmas/

I would listen to it all year long, but I have to resist outside of the Thanksgiving - New Year period :D

Southpark BC271F37

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 14:51:47 -0800

I miss south park

Fakes CA7B4DEF

Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:17:00 -0800

Lots of imposter accounts starting to crop up around Bluesky, for instance this one impersonating Mark Cuban @mrakcuban.bsky.social, I don’t understand the point but I assume its to amass a following and then try to sell them crypto or something.

Forklift Efdbfa18

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:38:59 -0800

Saw an article in WSJ today about fork lift racing in Germany and immediately thought of @tzeejay@mastodon.social

https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/germany-industry-competition-forklift-volkswagen-3bde27a8?mod=hp_featst_pos5

Pigbutcher 0e3575d0

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:21:29 -0800

Got my first pig putcher DM on Bluesky, this place really is becoming popular! Be careful out there folks :)

Xcx 3f8d16d2

Mon, 18 Nov 2024 12:21:02 -0800

Charli XCX on SNL was so good!

Bernie 6004c6bf

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:52:44 -0800

Enjoyed listening to Bernie Sanders on Lex Fridman podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzkgWDCucNY

Bsky Feeds 516b8b0a

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:48:47 -0800

Bluesky feeds are such a cool feature, I need to dig in and play around with that API.

Hsk A02ef812

Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:29:37 -0800

Took my chinese test, HSK level 1 yesterday. Feeling really good about the result! On to level 2 :D

Apple Bg Noise 25506E12

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 16:54:27 -0700

Every since Aosheng showed me the built-in background sounds in iOS, its all I listen to. I am looking forward to my 2024 recap saying “ocean sounds”.

Kubecon 95F2CEA6

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 15:28:14 -0800

Leaving Salt Lake City after an awesome #kubecon, met so many amazing people and had some great conversations. Feeling really inspired by the entire CNCF community. See ya’ll in London!

Twitter 154FC6C5

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:20:06 -0800

officially got rid of twitter, feels good. RIP 🐦

Freeve BA0B1A8A

Wed, 13 Nov 2024 13:55:58 -0800

Amazon to shut down Freevee

literally never heard of this service.

Fedidevs 6BA64C3E

Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:38:53 -0800

If you’re at #kubecon this week, you can keep up with whats going on in the fediverse thanks to https://fosstodon.org/@fedidevs

https://fedidevs.com/kubecon-cloudnativecon24/

At CDDFF8E5

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:34:07 -0800

Being able to just be @levlaz.org on Bluesky is a pretty killer feature of the at protocol.

Kubecon CF7B96FA

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:33:22 -0800

On my way to #kubecon 2024 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Hope to see you there, say hello if you are around!

Custom 6954598E

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 11:32:48 -0800

Set up a custom domain on bluesky, it was painless. :)

Agentic D39E31AA

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:39:34 -0800

Added “agentic” to my list of forbidden words. https://levlaz.org/forbidden-words/

Email 228033A9

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 12:02:10 -0800

Just saw an email that I sent myself a few weeks ago, I don’t normally do this and I have no idea how to handle it. Do I, mark it as spam?

Noblog 58161395

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:43:34 -0800

If you’re a #startup, its better to have no blog than have one that does not get updated for months or years at a time. Customers, investors, and fans will assume you’ve died.

Hotdog F653E941

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:31:46 -0800

I’m sad they closed this particular Gray’s Papaya, but I still go up to the one on 72nd St. whenever I get a chance. #nyc #food

https://levlaz.org/hot-dog-coma/

Amtrak 980F4CD0

Thu, 07 Nov 2024 11:09:21 -0800

I took amtrak for the first time 10 years ago and it planted a seed caring about #transit in a way that I never have before.

https://levlaz.org/amtrak/

Sycophant 055C12D1

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 15:09:31 -0800

word of the day - sycophant

noun

A person who attempts to gain advantage by flattering influential people or behaving in a servile manner.

Bs 40F4A852

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 13:57:40 -0800

🦋

Li 80194AE3

Tue, 05 Nov 2024 06:44:41 -0800

Caught myself twice today writing a reply to thinkbois on LinkedIn that I don’t even follow. Stopped and asked myself “wtf am I doing with my life right now” and moved on to something else. Close call, be vigilant out there folks!

Pete D6E639C9

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:39:22 -0800

Pete Buttigieg is dangerously good at #politics.

https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/DB7SFRvAfHS

Gaga 6D7EE0E3

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:33:35 -0800

Overheard at #wework

“But, I’m gonna go see Lady Gaga tonight, sooooooo party at the end of the world!”

Gitlab 8624A04F

Mon, 04 Nov 2024 09:11:56 -0800

A mild-to-spicy #gitlab take, I like it.

https://julien.danjou.info/p/theres-almost-no-gitlab

Substance 4362D5D3

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:48:00 -0700

Saw “The Substance” at E Street Theatre in DC last night. It was unecessarily gory with a profound message. I can’t recommend it to anyone, but overall I enjoyed it. :)

#film

Acela 929E7E59

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 12:13:28 -0700

Taking the Acela from NYC to DC today, leaves changing color are so damn beautiful. 🍁

#transit

Nyc 34D77652

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 14:09:35 -0700

No one in #NYC WeWork every leaves at 5. Must be that famous grindset.

Patriot E60269EC

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:36:28 -0700

“Patriot”, a memoir by Alexei Navalny that was published by his wife after his death comes out today. I’m looking forward to reading it. Does anyone happen to know where I could buy the Russian language edition?

Bcd AB7B4523

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:30:34 -0700

Had BCD Tofu House for dinner last night in Koreatown. That is my happy place for sure. So delicious!

On the hunt for Xi’An Famous Foods for lunch and then going to Tai Er in Flushing for dinner. 🤤

#nyc #food

Love AD8142F4

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:30:00 -0700

Started watching love is blind, its cheesy but I love it. Feels like a missed opportunity to make the first part a podcast so that all of us can learn what everyone looks like together.

Bsky F83ee0bc

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:37:08 -0700

Bsky def feels like 2007 era Twitter right now.

Plan9 8dd98542

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:29:43 -0700

TIL that plan9 is still being developed and they are having an international conference in Paris next year.

https://iwp9.org/

Existential 34b8c81c

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:45:52 -0700

Had a nice boost of existential dread this morning by reading “A Time for Compassion” from Rene Coignard where he compares life on this planet to a hospice.

To me, birth seems like the final stage of a terminal illness, inevitably followed by death.

Deep.

https://renecoignard.com/a-time-for-compassion/

Signal F3a11fd8

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:40:15 -0700

Redownloaded signal after listening to the CEO Meredith Whittaker on the Kara Swisher podcast. I don’t remember why I stopped using it, but excited to give it another go.

https://megaphone.link/VMP1340571392

St Frank C3a2c383

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:37:57 -0700

A few weeks ago my favorite local Coffee Shop (St. Frank on Folsom) remembered my order when I walked in and I was on top of the world becuase its hard to become a “local” in downtown SF.

Today they gave me a free cappucino. Our relationship is escalating and I’m madly in love. 🥰

Kindle Free A5eb9e61

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 00:32:53 -0700

How to make an Amazon-free Kindle, via Rodrigo Ghedin’s blog. I had no idea this was possible. Very interesting.

https://notes.ghed.in/posts/2024/amazon-free-kindle/

@manualdousuario@mastodon.social

Rss Dbe5acc7

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:29:57 -0700

I added the little RSS easter egg I found in @kev@fosstodon.org feed to my own. :) Thanks for the inspiration!

Cliche C8a05338

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:06:07 -0700

Ok fine, you can have a cliche in your essay. But if I read two cliches in your opening paragraph, I’m closing the tab.

Bsky

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 22:42:12 -0700

Updated my Bluesky Dagger Module to support links, #hashtags, and mentions using the official Typescript SDK instead of the Python one.

Bsky

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 01:22:22 +0000

Bluesky seems to be getting a lot of buzz today!

Clutter

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 23:03:13 +0000

The joy of clutter. A look into the other side of Japanese minimalism.

Tsuzuki dismissed the West’s obsession with Japanese minimalism as ‘some Japanophile’s dream’ in the introduction to the English translation of Tokyo: A Certain Style (1999).

https://aeon.co/essays/the-life-changing-magic-of-japanese-clutter

Arc

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:01:30 +0000

When are we going to get Arc for Linux Desktop? 👉👈

Gogen

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:57:15 +0000

A guide on go code generator magic via Evil Martians.

https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/a-taste-of-go-code-generator-magic-a-quick-guide-to-getting-started

Opp

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:52:57 +0000

You down with OPP*? Yeah you know me.

*other peoples principles

Principles

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:49:24 +0000

I really love reading other people’s principles, starting with Ray Dalio. This one really stood out to me from Nabeel Qureshi, attributed to John Collison.

“The world is a museum of passion projects.”

https://nabeelqu.co/principles

Cameron

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:36:05 +0000

Via @brad_frost@mastodon.social, this is truly amazing. An explosion of nostalgia:

https://bradfrost.com/blog/link/camerons-world/

Walk and Talk

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:00:18 +0000

Derek Sivers wrote about this walk and talk that he did for seven days in Thailand over 100km with 8 other people. It sounds amazing, something I’d really like to do some day.

https://sive.rs/wt

Gnome

Thu, 17 Oct 2024 17:58:36 +0000

GNOME infrastrucfture is moving to AWS

https://www.dragonsreach.it/2024/11/16/gnome-infrastructure-migration-to-aws/

Sahil

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:30:54 +0000

Happy Birthday to @sahil@toots.sahilister.in ! In his reflection he mentioned:

It’s hard for an individual to learn, grow and understand the world in a silo.

So true.

https://blog.sahilister.in/2024/10/25-a-quarter-of-a-century-later/

Weird

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 07:06:26 +0000

Still seeing some weird stuff in my posse module but overall I am happy with progress. Possible I’ll never lose another toot!

Secondattempt

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 06:38:28 +0000

I made a lot of progress tonight on my goals for using hugo + Dagger to POSSE my way to success. Using a jenky technique that compares the existing to generated xml feed as a lazy database. If the system works you will see this post somewhere outside of my site.

https://levlaz.org/joining-the-posse-club/

Posse

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 05:59:35 +0000

This is my first post made with the posse system!