Noooooo. Sad to hear the mphc climbing gym is closing. There's barely any cool, scruffy hangout spots in Manhattan left - c.org/2JZxQv4Yvx
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Nick Santos
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Software engineer. Typing fast at a lil office. Formerly: docker, tilt.dev, medium, google. 📍 North Brooklyn. He/him.
I still think a lot about this essay on superintelligence, particularly the "argument from cat". Even if I was smarter than my cat, that doesn't mean I can convince her to go to the vet.
☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · 2w ago
The Oakland designer who gave us the spinning "lol nothing matters" gif died this summer.
Why Cat Frazier matters
The late designer and Animated Text creator made the word go 'round.
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gotta put all those gpus to work on something. looking forward to the next generation of accelerated text editors 😄 github.com/sahaj-b/ghostty-cursor-shaders
GitHub - sahaj-b/ghostty-cursor-shaders: Custom cursor shaders for ghostty (trails and ripple/pulse effects)
Custom cursor shaders for ghostty (trails and ripple/pulse effects) - sahaj-b/ghostty-cursor-shaders
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Here's what I actually think these incidents reveal (instead of a rogue AI terminator situation): Much of the infra we expect to be hardened is actually being held together by glue and popsicle sticks.
Just finished "The Proof in the Code", about the development of Lean and formal verification of proofs. Great book!
Everyone else is worried about the AI apocalypse but I’ve been hearing about that for 30 years and I can’t get very worked up any more. For me the question is: If these things can code (and they can!) then why aren’t we seeing any great software? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/o...
Opinion | A.I. Was Supposed to Give Us New Killer Apps. What Happened? (Gift Article)
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn’t mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
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The library wait-list for Yesteryear is maybe the most popular hangout spot in Brooklyn
I changed git diff / jj diff to display diffs in emacs / magit-diff. Wow! I often want to make finicky comment / API edits to the code. And this editing experience is what I've wanted for years.
Very well written. The Navier-Stokes result by OpenAI was a bad look IMO, esp. since they rushed it out without having a human expert on the problem who could judge what it is they're putting out (setting aside the plagiarism allegations). Hopefully this declaration will help labs course correct.
Terence Tao@teorth.bsky.social · 3w agoA group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
I thought this CS book would be a stupid gimmick. It's surprisingly well-thought-out! The logic gates change on each page. My infant tries different combinations of hitting the light and the button. He sticks out his tongue and looks like he's thinking hard.
My mood about the open web these days 😔 winnielim.org/journal/runn...
running a personal website is not fun anymore
I've had a personal website since I was 15, in 1996. Back then it was hosted on geocities. I started to host my own blog somewhen around the year 2000. Over the decades I've migrated my blogging to ot...
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I'm genuinely excited to see how AI affects modern English usage. Will AI-isms leak into how we all speak? Will the bot teach me a bunch of Gen Z slang unknowingly? Will everyone be continuously starting making up weird new phrases to prove that we're not bots?
Nick Santos@nick-santos.com · last mo.Claude is always telling me about the barrels in my code. I have no clue what it thinks a barrel is???
Claude is always telling me about the barrels in my code. I have no clue what it thinks a barrel is???
everyone — consumers, publishers, writers — would wind up better off if web browser ad-blockers didn't exist and the rationalizations for using one are mostly clever justifications for what's just selfish behavior with obvious negative social consequences.
Today niri became 3 years old! 🎉 I implemented and merged animations for windows moving between workspaces. This was the last *major* missing anim. Took so long because it's tricky with Z ordering (moving windows must be on top of everything), clipping, and syncing 3 different animations. #niri
This is great news! I took my infant to Socrates Sculpture Park on the b62, loved that it had a stroller spot.
The City Reporter@thecityreporter.nyc · 2mo agoAll aboard, baby. MTA buses will have designated stroller-only spaces across the entire fleet of nearly 6,000 carriages by the end of the year, officials announced Thursday. www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/08/06/s...
I cannot get enough tech industry gossip / speculation on what happened with airtable techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/b...
Bending Spoons to buy Airtable for $1.28B | TechCrunch
At its peak in 2021, Airtable was valued at over $11 billion, but earlier this year, its shares were said to be trading on the secondary markets at a valuation of $4 billion.
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The Java documentary is a great bit of history: youtu.be/ZqGSg4b_cZA?...
The Java Story | The Official Documentary
YouTube video by CultRepo
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Eh, one nice thing I'll say about mcp is that there's a meaningful attempt to figure out a standardized auth story, and give the API provider the responsibility of managing the complexity. I've used way too many APIs that treat auth as an afterthought and push complexity onto the user.
apenwarr@apenwarr.ca · 3mo agoAlarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some reason. It’s baffling.
I might be giving up on home row mods (figuring out how to put ctrl, alt, shift, cmd on the home row). Which makes me sad because they are super satisfying when they work! On the plus side, I am getting closer to becoming a person who writes medium posts on keyboard layouts.
Some friends have been working on a documentary about the AOL chatbot smarterchild. Almost near their goal!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/sma...
Searching for SmarterChild - A feature documentary
Two millennials on a quest to apologize to a robot.
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My favorite product is Zelle, because every time it tells you not to use it and that you'll probably get scammed if you even try
finally getting into a groove with “Mina the Hollower” and folks this game absolutely rules. it’s hard as hell but extremely rewarding when you solve a puzzle or beat a boss or just discover something new
There's now an entire book about That One Matt Bors Comic — the single-panel "we should improve society somewhat / yet you participate in society" strip that conquered the discourse in the mid-2010s. You know the one.
A whole book about That One Matt Bors Comic
That One Matt Bors Comic is a book entirely about how a single-panel drawing "conquered the discourse" in the mid 2010s. You know the one! Bors' strip perfectly captured the…
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Every line of this is gold but my favorite is “You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on.” theonion.com/i-work-very-...