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george.black
Software engineer in Austin, Texas. A huge fan of AWS 💻, Austin FC 🌳, and autonomous cars 🚙. Bluesky side project: theblue.report.
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I wrote some words and made some renders on what the New Design Language of iOS, iPadOS and macOS might be. Physicality: The new age of UI. www.lux.camera/physicality-...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

Uhh I think they took a wrong turn

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Texas charges me $200/year to register my EV… this bill in Congress adds an extra $250 💀 Why are you punishing me?? I just like batteries!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Route sharing + Waymo vans sounds like a good future to me. I wonder if you could get better road utilization by dynamically planning routes for 4-6 people, versus static bus routes (designed for 30-50 people) that get low ridership.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

On the same day that Google's new video model terrifies me, this has me optimistic & thrilled about the future. It took time to figure out how to live with smartphones in a healthy way – it'll take time with this stuff too.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Grateful I get to be a new parent in the age of LLMs Instant, always on, functionally unlimited access to humanity's synthesised advice and research on newborns. They've coached me through sleep schedules, lactation issues, health concerns, and generally been a great emotional support system.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

I'm running a *very* tiny container on AWS, and operating with MASH rules to save money: - 0.25 vCPU / 0.5 GB memory - Spot capacity (container can be interrupted) - No load balancer & static IP — just a script that updates Cloudflare DNS when the container restarts 😂

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty sure Cloudflare Workers is my favorite cloud service of the past few years. Deployed globally by default, no complex networking setup, and crazy fast. There's a lot of overhead to getting the same setup in AWS. (And I'm afraid to try CloudFront Functions.)

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I was in school while smartphones were becoming prevalent. They sucked the life out of everything. Each class began with a ten-minute silent scroll as we waited for it to start. I wish I had gone to school in a phone-free environment.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Who knew that Toyota could be the one competing with Tesla’s FSD?

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Love this city

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

babe wake up time to pay AWS $1.80 for nothing in particular

submitted 66 days ago • 13 comments

Bluesky loves links! We don't downrank, and major publishers report that we're sending more link traffic than other sites. Here's the top links shared on Bluesky, updated hourly. theblue.report/week/

submitted 70 days ago • 366 comments