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some friends and i are imagining what a pedagogically motivated IDE for nontechnical folks might look like and i will be updating my design doc to quote this skeet, ty @tedunderwood.me

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halle berry neuron

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

spotify is missing ability to browse by record label

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if you’re one of the 76.2k monthly buxtehude listeners on Spotify, dm me

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

“it was at that place in bushwick where everyone looked like mac demarco”

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latency sensitive

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buxtehude

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

let go of your darlings (the code that you actually know how to write but which Claude will generate much more quickly than you)

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

accidental tahdig

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

is deadlifting is protective against seasonal affective disorder? in this study (n=1) we find that the answer is yes, definitely

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

if you wanted to build an experience like TikTok on AT Proto, wouldn’t you need to include every user’s granular interactions (dwell time) with videos as a part of the data model? likes and comments are not going to cut it

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

the client is open source. so one might dig through that to understand what signals the Discover algo might be using beyond the core interaction data (likes, follows, graph structure) to make recs…

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

til the british neologism sodcast: to play music on a portable device in public without regard for others from sod (contemptible person), not a word u hear much in American English and cast (broad-, pod-)

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

the lines between fiddling around, building something real, and doing Research and Development are so blurry these days

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

spuriously appearing in the ocean

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Echo chamber or just a lounge wyth reallye goode acoustics?

submitted 77 days ago • 17 comments

i wish Spotify would expose track-level popularity metrics in the album view just give me a little mini histogram next to each song or something

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to understand friends’ enthusiasm for blsky.

submitted 79 days ago • 118 comments

every LLM task needs a curated, iteratively developed quant eval. everyone who deploys a single prompt is a data scientist now, whether they realize it or not. there is a lot of money to be made in helping orgs internalize this.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

manual grid search

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

in many nyc food places, the kitchen is listening to bachata or nortena or cumbia and if you’re close to it, you get these surreal mashups with whatever is playing in the front of house. convinced some bangers could be born from taking inspiration from this

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

glanced at some logs today and noticed a first: a user (not me) *bookmarked* a thing that they encountered in their very first Metguessr game 🥹

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

need to find a cafe exactly 5k steps from my house

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

this thing holds its own with the Bosches and Bruegels imho

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

wild that iOS lets apps deny users a screenshot. screenshotting feels like a sacred os-level operation, the control of which should not be delegated to an app

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