Hello. @mozilla.org is in the market for a "0→1 engineer" for a consulting role focused on open source AI 🌍 remote friendly 💰 budget ≈ $200K–$227,250 🕰️ fixed term contract (not FTE role) 🧑🏾‍💻 fluency in Python and/or TypeScript 🤖 comfortable working w/ agents 📧 contact mike@mozilla.org if interested

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✉️ Q2 2026 — Keeping Archivist Alive, and Other Side-Projects szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...

time sure does fly

pvh@pvh.ca · 3mo ago

Ink & Switch is ten years old this month! We made you a card to celebrate. inkandswitch.com

fantastic talk!

Andy Matuschak@andymatuschak.org · 4mo ago

⭐ New talk! Watch / read / visually skim here: andymatuschak.org/tat Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

✉️ Q1 2026 — Home Server on NixOS, Sandboxing in MicroVMs, and Feedback Loops for LLMs szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...

prototyping co-drawing with Gemini Flash 3 at Google in these demos "thinking" is disabled, which makes the model return tokens very quickly (all videos are realtime), and I find these rapid responses pretty good for the use-cases I'm experimenting with, like: executing simple diagrams ...

✉️ Q4 2025 Newsletter — Independent Consulting, and Interfacing with LLMs szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2... --- I'm an independent consultant as of November, currently exploring at Google Creative Lab reach out if you're interested in working together! hi@szymonkaliski.com

arrows!

we should both see the same thing

another small situated "ai" tool -- rename pdfs by their content (I am *very* lazy, yes)

I am so very bad at finding the proper balance between staying inspired and not overstimulating myself (there is *so much* great stuff out there); please give me tips for dealing with this

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need to dig up my apple pencil

ai-grep -- when you're looking for something, but you're not exactly sure what npm i -g ai-grep github.com/szymonkalisk...

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somehow I missed new Midwife came out in July?! mattjencik.bandcamp.com/album/never-...

Never Die, by Matt Jencik & Midwife

10 track album

mattjencik.bandcamp.com

happy UIST-proceedings-are-out day to everyone dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | ACM Conferences

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✉️ Q3 2025 Newsletter — Bi-Directional State Synchronization in React and Graphical Notation in Figma szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...

Figma plugins have no access to Web MIDI, so disappointing

this is what computers are for

Recurse Center@recurse.com · 12mo ago

🦠Watch Peter Whidden's first public talk on Mote: an interactive ecosystem simulation! Mote uses a custom GPU-based physics engine to model hundreds of thousands of organisms, leading to fascinating emergent phenomena: a sandbox that is part game, part research. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hju0...

MirrorState - React library + Vite plugin for bi-directional state sync with JSON files for prototyping: szymonkaliski.com/projects/mir...

the rumors are true, hmu

Andrea Lathrop@cabernet.bsky.social · last yr.

Kasey is hiring! In NYC!

just saw end credits to DS2 -- absolutely amazing, but also: what the fuck

✉️ Q2 2025 Newsletter — Prototyping Component Re-Use, and the Simplest Whisper Wrapper szymonkaliski.com/newsletter/2...