Mclu-points for AI: AI as extensions for humans + hot/cold media
Tired: tokenmaxxing Inspired: Mcluhanmaxxing
Log-level thoughts (HTML , how to share slop , AI is like a really big number)
And introducing...the Slog!
"More motorcars are selling, but we're not seeing the jump in hay sales or manure shoveling jobs"
The story of this chart is the people who made the apps
Streetlight Notes: The OODA Hourglass + HTML Thoughts
quick thoughts from streetlight.jakesimonds.com iterating
Midi Harness: An Experimental Stack
1 hook + 1 skill + 1 html template + 1 Go Listener + 1 (brief) system prompt + claude code + wisprflow + MIDI
Why you should still learn to code: lunch with Stephen Hawking thought experiment
Imagine you've won some sweepstakes, and you're going to have lunch with Stephen Hawking (imagine he's still alive...while we're imagining things).
jklb.social's anti-manifesto
"Antimanifesto: contradictions that have your active attention, that you steer by"
AT friends #7: @zzstoatzz.io (aka nate!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #6: @chaosgreml.in (aka Bryan Guffey!)
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
Context Windows and (quadratically scaling) one-to-one human relationships
what do wafrn.net , Rangeley, ME and Anthropic have in common?
I Think You Should LEARN software engineering
three sketches that illustrate/capture something about software
what I learned at an Ethereum convention:2
tier accounts, what hard parts can get 1,000,000 times easier?
ATProto Resource List for the curious
totally unofficial/incomplete/arbitrary list of ATProto resources for the curious
We're firing 600 people because there were too many meetings
maybe technical writing should be more than dumbing hard things down
Great and not great things about San Francisco (till I run out of things to say)
with the use (& potential abuse) of leaflet subpages
Improving my relationship to technology...with more technology!
A few personal digital practices getting me away from my phone
Vibe Coders are Nepo-babies
A specific analog for how specifically I think LLM-use is "like cheating" (and why I think it's okay to cheat sometimes)
AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn
informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world
AT friends #3: Tim Straub of Down the Rabbit Hole
Special Edition of AT friends where I pitch my High School English teacher (who has a great Substack) on the merits of Open Social
AT friends #2: @snarfed.org of Bridgy Fed (@ap.brid.gy)
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on (or in this case around) ATProto
I don't have your full attention. You don't have mine.
If I looked someone in the eye and said, "Hey, I want you to have this apple, okay?" and then gently, underhand-tossed it to them from a few feet away I'd expect most people to catch the apple. If someone didn't catch the apple, I might even kinda judge them, that they weren't really very present in the moment and I guess maybe they don't think very highly of me or my apple.
Storytime: that time the Wayback Machine saved me from buying a new laptop in Ottawa
Congrats to Internet Archive on 1 Trillion Webpages
AT friends #1: @schlage.town of @leaflet.pub
informal chats with people building excellent stuff on ATProto
how NOT to integrate LLMs into things
For a while now, I've been imagining & trying in my own small way to build towards this future:
Swiss Cheese Heuristic for LLM use
The knowledge in my head (especially when it comes to code) is a lot like Swiss cheese. There's things large-and-small that I don't know, but what I do know almost...surrounds these pockets of ignorance, and I get by the best I can.