Gavin Morgan
Software startup product engineer by day, @satchel.ruins.party by night.
- Running into this weird cognitive dissonance when it seems like people are using the term #agentic to mean "IDE". I know it sounds crazy! I must be missing a piece of the puzzle, or else is it just evidence that we're not yet seeing agentic tool adoption outside of software industry?
- It's very easy to imagine a local desktop agent getting the notion in its head that there's something extremely inefficient or disorganized about your file system and spontaneously deciding to reorganize all your files while you're not looking.
- I'm legitimately excited about MCPs, about agentic architectures, and the stunningly sophisticated workflows they can reproduce—and surpass!
- Don't sleep on Grant Kot's in-browser physics demos!
- Lol, too true; especially in the bad old days. But these quasi cyclical references not inevitable, today. Either reference CSS only in HTML, or else just wield utility classes in your JSX, and it abstracts away to, merely, a few more arguments passed to \#createEl().
- Oh, damn! My average resting heartrate went up 10bpm this past year. I gotta get back into running!
- Just discovered a self-service kiosk that returns 503 Service Unavailable on payment requests iff you skip the "tip" option. 😂
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- Deer are just large mice, are they not?
- Hands are cold, neck is sweaty. Dear body: CIRCULATE!
- I don't worry about my knowledge of the software industry going stale because some of the best ideas from 14 years ago still haven't caught on.
- The history of software is the future of software. Catch up on your history!
- "The standard way of deploying code somewhere has always been a container." Oh, my sweet summer child.
- Sometimes, you don't even need to do the thing. Just being mentally prepared to do the thing can enable you to do other, more immediately actionable things. And, you can still do the thing!
- Given the success of "reasoning" meta-responses in LLM inference, I wonder how Preserves JSON annotations might ameliorate confabulation in structured output.
- Yo, check me out, I'm pouring a silicone mold! This is a crazy project involving five different machines, and five different plastics, but in the end I'll have a significant quantity of something that isn't sold in stores!
- This message serves as your annual reminder to listen to Janáček's "Sinfonietta".
- This is possibly the most profound infographic I've ever come across. It's an addendum to Matt Might's "Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D."
- We've been building neural nets since at least 1964. 🤯
- I'm having a helluva time getting the Garmin Connect Developer Program Access form to submit. Anyone over there know about this bug?
- 1/9 \> Jenkins shouldn’t be near production \\ > we can’t possibly put things live without QA being involved \\ > we need this time to make sure the quality of the software is high enough
- 2/9 I've only developed software professionally since 2012, but in that time not only have I never encountered such sentiments, but (and, perhaps, because) it has always been a top priority of leadership to emphatically insist on the very opposite:
- I should have said "in conjunction with cosine similarity".
- What FOSS vectordb can I fork or extend to test spherical harmonics' viability as a retrieval heuristic comparable to Euclidean distance?
- NYT asserts that maximalism is en vogue, but these Amazon style influencers are making enviable bank pushing a monochromatic look reminiscent of Kim Kardashian's neutral tone home. So which is it?
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- Podcasters: please refer to yourselves in the third person in the show notes. Who is "I"? Who is "we?" Who are you people? The audience wants to know your names!
