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- I like the vibe of restaurants with 4 mismatched budget Android tablets and handwritten instructions mounted on a wall for delivery services. Feels very @omar.website
- New Bret Victor talk dropped!
- Reposted by Reilly WoodWhat if I told you that the building the torment nexus is an extremely interesting challenge from an engineering perspective
- Reposted by Reilly Wood"If computation is the execution of algorithms on structured data, then screenshots may prove naive. But if computation is the shepherding of information through space and time, then they may prove essential."
- some notes from screenshot conf! cristobal.arquipelago.org/writing/scre...
- Reposted by Reilly WoodJust learned about the existence of Joe Spreadsheet, the beefcake 80s spreadsheet software mascot a la Mavis Beacon
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- Reposted by Reilly Woodimagine an ant which lives on a map of your hometown. there are many things which you know about your hometown which that ant can never learn. but it is not the case that the ant living on that map knows nothing about your hometown.
- software people working on LLM stuff data science people working on LLM stuff
- Reposted by Reilly WoodYou know how cartoon characters get dollar signs in their eyes when they see a big pile of money? Academics are like that, but with “.pdf” signs in their eyes when they get a result that will make a great research paper
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- I spend half my life in the terminal and sometimes Linux is too much even for me I just want a simple GUI for viewing+editing apt sources, why is this not a thing
- Reposted by Reilly WoodI think the appeal of the screenshot is very related to the appeal of the PDF: both are compelling exactly _because_ they are not computational or dynamic, they represent a different 'state of matter' that guarantees a certain stability and transparency for their contents
- What are people doing to test/eval their agentic applications? Testing gets harder when 1) you don't know ahead of time which parameters an agent will run a tool with 2) tools are provided by an MCP server
- Reposted by Reilly WoodI'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sh...
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- Really good post that helps get people to the "whoa, it's that easy to build a code editing agent 💡" moment but IMO people should be thinking about this in terms of other tools+tasks too ampcode.com/how-to-build...
- Reposted by Reilly WoodCome to Screenshot Conf! with @omar.website and I! screenshot.arquipelago.org
- feeling pretty good as a wordcel-ish programmer these days written communication skills have always been important, but they are especially valuable now that "write a concise+precise description of what you want" is such a common thing to do
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- been worrying for a while that Shopify having a big incentive to kowtow to the US administration is not going to end well
- hmmm, gpt-4.1-mini is a fair bit more expensive than gpt-4o-mini. which means gpt-4.1-nano is cheap but not quite as cheap as I'd assumed from a skim of today's press release openai.com/index/gpt-4-1/
- was chatting with some UX people, and wow the frontend/backend divide is firmly entrenched in their minds. was a little hard to explain that I usually work on a secret third type of programming
- German word for the pride you feel when your emoji react gets the most follow-on reactions (or the shame when nobody else picks it)
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- Huh, Askama (my favourite Rust template library) had a change of ownership and some big improvements blog.guillaume-gomez.fr/articles/202...
- Praying for Waveshare to stock this 12" Raspberry Pi-compatible e-ink display again... the alternative seems to be to build (print?) my own enclosure for one of their other displays www.waveshare.com/product/disp...
- Finally gave in and paid for a year of Cursor. The autocomplete is *way* better than Copilot in VS Code. And as much as I like Aider, Cursor has a lot of nice UX features that can't really be done in a terminal
- constantly thinking about this banger by @elizas.website
- I’ve been using Sonophone on iOS to control my Sonos speakers, and it’s good software. Has a dated UI but it actually works reliably (unlike the Sonos app since May last year)
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- Happy to announce something I've been working on. If you're a Datadog customer, give it a try! If you're not a customer, maybe change that! www.datadoghq.com/blog/introdu...
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- My dryer runs a web server to display software licenses, what a world
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- Anthropic found another One Weird Trick: give the model a “think” tool, lol simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/21/...
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