Nik McLaughlin
@nikmclaughlin.bsky.social
nikmclaughlin.com | “I want to be part of the people who make the meaning. I want to do the imagining, not be the idea” - Barbie
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the first 13 seconds of Day One need to be studied as a masterpiece in modern musical composition: open.spotify.com/track/6QJVQS...
Day One
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Hit my head on a cabinet pretty hard so I’m reading concussion symptoms and why are they just describing parenting?
Coming home from a week away at a conference (#WCUS) and apparently I’ve decided “taking art time with the kiddo way too seriously” is the way to re-ground myself 😅
Fairly well known correction to the entire "delay of gratification" model you may think of as an individual trait is that it is moderated by things like our beliefs in environmental stability www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Rational snacking: Young children’s decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability
Children are notoriously bad at delaying gratification to achieve later, greater rewards (e.g., Piaget, 1970)—and some are worse at waiting than other…
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Alone Crawford@kellylink.bsky.social · last yr.With alt text:
atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app
Lessons from Contributor Day at #WCUS so far: 1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity 2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity 3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity #OpenSourceContribution
So much to unpack here from @micahflee.com but for now I’m just taking it as a permanent cure to any imposter syndrome I ever feel ever. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY?...
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
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Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder. Here’s how to use RSS. www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
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👀 blog.cloudflare.com/content-inde...
Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation!
It’s Content Independence Day: Cloudflare, along with a majority of the world's leading publishers and AI companies, is changing the default to block AI crawlers unless they pay creators for content.
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God this is truly one of the most annoying things about the whole "AI benchmarks" discussion too, like tests designed for humans are not tests designed for technology and don't mean equivalent things
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
Good to see this WooCommerce extensibility discussion making waves. www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-...
WooCommerce Blocks: The Extensibility Challenge
In the fast-evolving landscape of ecommerce, WooCommerce has long stood out as a flexible and powerful platform, largely thanks to its deep extensibility. Developers (like myself), agencies, and store...
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Settling in back in Portland for @crowdsupply.bsky.social #TearDown2025 this weekend. As a web/software guy, I’m pushing myself to learn and explore more on the hardware and electronics side of things. What better way to learn than to dive all the way in surrounded by a whole community of experts!
FAIR is basically AT Porto but for plugins and I feel very targeted by that 😅 github.com/fairpm/fair-...
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Seems big: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...
Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability
Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem
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it's convenient to believe that one can be a person just by consuming media
Really appreciate how @codetv.dev’s Web Dev Challenge became a team sport for season 2. Feels like a better representation of how the work gets done IRL and it adds a whole competitive layer to managing around the work 👏 youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw?... Or for the whole backlog codetv.dev/series/web-d...
Build a custom API + app in 4 hours · Web Dev Challenge S2.E1
YouTube video by CodeTV (formerly Learn With Jason)
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“This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan.”
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · last yr.4chan hacked: www.404media.co/4chan-is-dow...
time is but a rotating point of experience, fluid, grotesque, delinquent pls fix
I’m at the Signal chat. I’m at the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility. I’m at the combination Signal chat and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
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Love this from the @convex.dev team 👏 I was impressed with their platform when I got to play with it - great to see them landing the self-hosting update AND joining @opensourcepledge.com at the same time 💪 news.convex.dev/self-hosting/
Convex Self-Hosting: More than just open source
Convex is now self-hostable. We’ve open sourced the dashboard, added support for storing data in Postgres in addition to SQLite (plus MySQL very soon!), and packaged it all up in a docker container yo...
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One of @woocommerce.com’s greatest strengths is its massive developer ecosystem helping the platform address long-tail eCommerce needs with limited bloat and lock-in. Over the past year, the shift to the block paradigm has required these developers to learn new tech, tools, and workflows. 🧵1/4
okay, announcement time! as of this week, Learn With Jason (the company) has officially rebranded – we're @codetv.dev now! - CodeTV refocuses on what we produce (vs centering on me) - we now have the option to become a supporter to get early access: codetv.dev/support more to come. stay tuned!
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I know I'm not the only one, but the rhetoric around "AI" has always been disturbing, but it finally hit critical mass for me last week. So, here's my long-form thoughts on just SOME of the issues with AI: Do our tools work for us or the other way around? bryanlrobinson.com/blog/does-ou...
Does our technology still work for us?
I've seen a lot of talk recently about all the work that we need to do to help usher in the new age of "AI Agents." That really begs the question, does our technology still work for us or are we worki...
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