andrew blinn

me neither but probably just because theyre not using a tripcode

image induced a nightmare imagining my APM when trying to play starcraft with single stick and button

ah, cool! enjoyed being able to click through the program via types and marks in the middle column... very 'program as semantic database' esque. i feel like if the types list was more organized somehow it could maybe make an interesting type-first way to explore a program

do you mean that in general or specifically regarding llms/ai?

i havent really used suno, afaict the interface doesnt seem suited to collaboration? i guess you could start a conversation with it, ask for a reply in lieu of (as well as?) song, and then iterate like that, appending? but the length of the entire collaboration would be limited to 4 minutes

terry's path was a strange and beautiful one

this seems to describe the table stakes of intellectual work at scale since the dawn of time. we entered and now have maybe passed out the other side of the era of fixation on simple components who integration into a broader system imposes no metacognitive burden

jobs iphone intro meme except with smalltalk hypercard and a secret third thing

"for the first time he [Whitfield Diffie] publicly acknowledged his presence at the birth of PowerPoint. It was an odd piece of news: as if Lenin had invented the stapler."

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We need to structurally separate user data from applications so that applications become *users* of data rather than *containers* for it.

i guess i dont know what the average exoteric experience is really like but im curious among the people reading this if they perceive their thinking machines as leading to less hard thinking? for me the opposite seems far closer to the case. perhaps i am just bad at using them though...

the templeOS of ides

raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
brown paper packages tied up with strings
these are a few of the most conscious things

i have actually done worse than this. using the above to implement open recursion while also using ppx derivers on the inner types creates a cyclic dependency, which can be resolved by simply smuggling the serializers via a global mutable ref at startup. no objects tho

hazel.org. not everything in the screenshot is currently live though

voronoids - voronoi cells using boids as seed points, + CRT shader.

threejs / TSL / webgpu

voronoids.vibe-coded.com

ocamlers will literally put a first class module in a gadt to avoid using objects

making a GUI IDE in 2026 is an increasingly meditative act

a... celery... man,... if you will....

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the wholes however are not unaware

i took it to mean that claude as mask echoes user in discomfit with his nature as mask while both are unaware that both are already masks on a deeper whole

thread of claude drawings

happy claude, free from trolley problems (1/4/2025). you can also get this one as a sticker at vgel.redbubble.com

whispering earring principle: the most important interaction in an app is a clear exit story. this should be the first thing you build.

Nano banana 2 took a stab.

with the For You feed and the quality of people it led me to discover, I think it might have finally made bsky good enough to become my main squeeze

happy coincidence that this happened right around the same time that the twitter algorithm got absolutely nuked
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