Brett Morgan
@domesticmouse.com
Flutter developer relations engineer at Google Australia. Love cooking, thinking about the potential futures, and listening to random YouTubers gripe about how this wasn’t the future they were promised.
Building your own tools is enormously freeing. This is going to be fun!
Guillaume Laforge@glaforge.dev · 3w agoSometimes you need a custom app for your personal needs. Thanks to AI coding agents like #antigravity, you can easily implement your own software. I built my own little text editor! Someone coined a term for that: #selfware glaforge.dev/posts/2026/...
“It represents proof of work” is my new trip hop dub step band name.
Apropos of absolutely nothing: the thing that can’t afford to continue will eventually stop.
Can someone teach the kids how to use tmux? share.google/JHusW1zIszqt...
AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, and ice rinks
Techies are walking with their laptops open to keep their agents running. They told Business Insider their stories, from offices to school halls.
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This spoke to me. Hopefully it helps you as well. youtube.com/watch?v=ZIYI...
I was scared of AI until I read Keith Haring’s journals
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One of the weird things is watching people who obviously have never done manufacturing use manufacturing idioms without understanding the implications. Call it Dunning Kruger Engineering. Simplest one, automation vs handmade. In the world of atoms, for building one offs, hand made is cheaper.
I don’t understand why people are fantasising about dark factories as a future for software development. It’s almost like software engineers have no understanding of the reality of physical manufacturing. The cost of R&D to set up a dark factory is astronomical and makes no sense for one off items.
I’m curious how long it will take the markets to reprice Nvidia to zero on the back of TSMC’s helium supply chain out of Qatar being impacted
We are treating this change as if it is the first time we’ve seen automation as a society. It isn’t. It isn’t even the first time we’ve dealt with the fear that automation would eliminate all jobs. We have been dealing with the effects of automation since the invention of the steam engine.
As someone who has just been solidly reminded that skills are perishable, I have a suggestion. Coders who haven’t fought a compiler for three months should probably accept they aren’t coders any more. They will be forcibly reminded by reality if they don’t.
I think the fixation on equilibrium by economists is responsible for outsize harm to our ability to understand the world we live in.
There is so much here to think about. surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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I’m deeply curious how i wound up on thr idiotic timeline www.perplexity.ai/page/taiwan-...
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I upgraded to macOS 26. Oh jesus. Wtf happened guys? Are they trying to make my m4 pro into an oversized iPad?
Silly question, when the US takes Greenland, I’m curious how Europe will go about interning all the US citizens on the continent.
Can I just say, I'm not a fan of 2.5mm breadboards. Especially when they are sold as 2.54mm "Arduino compatible" breadboards.
@electrosmith.bsky.social any guidance on whether you’ll be building more patch.init modules? Waiting list?
The first mistake everyone makes is linear extrapolation. We live in a non linear world, linearity is only ever a short run approximation. The second mistake is assuming permanent exponential growth. There are no exponentials in the real world. There is always a hidden constraint, somewhere.
Ishan is the real deal when it comes to understanding GPT youtube.com/watch?v=clqB...
Ishan Anand - GPT in Vanilla JavaScript
YouTube video by CascadiaJS
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So the big bookstore in town has more shelf space dedicated to baking bread than programming. And I can’t find any books on things like electrical engineering. I worry.
I'm in Seoul to talk about Flutter and Gemini CLI. This is going to be fun 😁
youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw-... TIL that Silicon Valley just invented what my Dad did for living. My Dad retired in the 90s.
The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
YouTube video by Y Combinator
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Odd reality shift. I was chatting with a startup founder about how to improve the onboarding flow of his product. He pitched me a front end role. I realised I don’t want to do work that isn’t first and foremost about using AI to improve user experience.
This agrees with my experience. elma.dev/notes/ai-mak...
AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger? | <Can ELMA/>
AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.
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Silly question of the day: when did Americans stop being engineers? Go back to recordings of the 60s and the US called itself a country of engineers. Justifiably proud of what they built during WW2 and afterwards. Now? I see no pride in building stuff. Just to be fair, Australia is the same.
