Reposted by Andrew Duffyapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 03/09/2026I need to apologize. This post was completely unfair. In order to coordinate a mob the IPv6 people would have to connect to each other somehow 1624421
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 11/08/2026Being highly online and exposed to diverse information streams used to help with creative thinking. Now being online makes you more average and incapable of original thought. Some people have realized this but a lot still haven't. 020
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 24/06/2026i'm in the trenches. i'm at war. i'm in the arena. i'm an operator. i'm a killer. i move mountains. we're winning. we're revitalizing. we're reindustrializing. we're the shield of western civilization - guy doing LLMs for procurement 030
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 24/06/2026Lobsters is currently the nexus of Butlerian Jihad culture and it's made it hard to have any respectful/interesting discussions about AI there sadly. 030
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 11/06/2026for Zotero lovers out there github.com/a10y/zotero-...github.comGitHub - a10y/zotero-webdav: Self-hosted WebDAV server for Zotero file sync on Cloudflare Workers + R2Self-hosted WebDAV server for Zotero file sync on Cloudflare Workers + R2 - a10y/zotero-webdav 020
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 26/05/2026The explicit move semantics is such a nice thing in Rust that I miss whenever I have to work in other languages again 020
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 20/05/2026WebSerial is a great addition for device-flashing from browser 🚀 010
Reposted by Andrew Duffyapenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 19/05/2026Hold on, there’s a Tailscale client for ESP32 now? Why does nobody tell me these things? 2574
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 08/05/2026@rustrover.jetbrains.com adding nextest support was great! any chance you have support for rstest test cases on the roadmap? VSCode/Zed have had this since forever and my coworkers are making fun of me 110
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 03/05/2026Just burned a couple hours debugging a handheld Pi project, seeing HAT not getting power. Then got out my probe and ran continuity test. "hmm that's weird, why are all of these holes sharing a node..." I ordered stripboard instead of perfboard 🤦 010
Reposted by Andrew DuffyAlfonso Subiotto @asubiotto.com · 28/04/2026We've been working on a major schema migration at @polarsignals.com that has unlocked some pretty wild improvements. Apart from a 50% (!!) reduction in storage size thanks to logical compression in vortex.dev, there has been a dramatic improvement in query performance. 1167
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 28/04/2026The honest answer: it's not just a pattern –– it's a phenomenon. 110
Reposted by Andrew Duffyauonsson @auonsson.bsky.social · 26/04/202624/48/72h track with neighbors from the journey, synced in time and space. Soon: replay per boat or per area. 1561
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 31/03/2026Fun 30 minute 3D print project: diffuser that fits on top of cheap target lamp 000
Reposted by Andrew DuffyAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/03/2026billionaire being interviewed: i havent listened to a single note of music in 27 years. think about it, music was basically invented, what, maybe 50 years ago? interviewer: this is really interesting 5257741203
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 17/03/2026To be extra realistic, there is no data for the month of August 011
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 16/03/2026It's still hilarious that when I ask Claude to draft up a plan for a complex task, it gives me human-time estimates. "Part 1: Months 1-3. Part 2: Months 4-6" But then you just tell it to go and it finishes everything in a few minutes lol 021
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 11/03/2026If at this point you can’t admit LLMs are good at lots of white collar stuff then you’re just deeply unserious 000
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 08/03/2026Even if you think you as an interviewer intellectually dominate your guests, I think it’s bad form to gloat about it 000
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 16/02/2026Look, I get it, Lobsters is sort of the un-HN. Which is cool, I've been a lurker/occasional submitter for over a decade now. The vibecoding tag drama is annoying though. Coding agents are obviously technically/culturally interesting, the repeated attempts to censor it seem misguided 010
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 25/01/2026Perfect snow day activity: making a toothbrush stand for our small bathroom. Part 1: designing the support bracket and doing a test print 111
Reposted by Andrew DuffySimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 20/01/2026This is great - it's about time someone updated the discourse on LLM energy usage to reflect that coding agents use massively more prompts than occasional questions to ChatGPT Simon estimates that a day of coding agent usage comes out close to the energy needed to run a dishwasher 2339889
Reposted by Andrew Duffyamos @fasterthanli.me · 10/01/2026RUST REFLECTION MVP HAS LANDED github.com/rust-lang/ru... THIS IS NOT A DRILLgithub.comReflection MVP by oli-obk · Pull Request #146923 · rust-lang/rustI am opening this PR for discussion about the general design we should start out with, as there are various options (that are not too hard to transition between each other, so we should totally jus... 918339
Reposted by Andrew DuffyJeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 19/12/2025My colleague Sanjay Ghemawat & I have done a fair bit of performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document ~2 years ago as a way of identifying some general principles & we've recently published a version of it externally. Doc: abseil.io/fast/hints.h... 213225
Reposted by Andrew DuffyAlex Tong @alextong.bsky.social · 10/12/2025🔮Introducing OXtal – a new all-atom diffusion model for crystal structure prediction! We tackle a grand challenge in computational chemistry: predicting the structure of crystalline solids directly from their chemical composition. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2512.06987 Blog Post: oxtal.github.io 1/8 1285
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 10/12/2025This looks beautiful. How do you make those ascii art diagrams? I’ve seen planetscale and turbopuffer both use that style and I’m obsessed 120
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 04/11/2025Somehow this isn't even the worst thing Boebert has been caught doing with her boyfriend in a public place 000
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 12/10/2025CommonForms is cool. Guy filtered CommonCrawl down to PDFs and trained a 3-class YOLO model on it. Performs better than Acrobat. arxiv.org/pdf/2509.16506arxiv.org 000
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 01/10/2025hard to tell if it’s doing nothing or it’s just a volume problem. sometime in the last few months i’ve started getting at least 3-5 BS group texts per day. reporting junk diligently has not ceased the onslaught 030
Andrew Duffy @a10y.dev · 01/10/2025TIL ClickHouse is able to optimize queries using information from table constraints, pretty cool! clickhouse.com/blog/whats-n...clickhouse.comWhat’s New in ClickHouse 21.12What’s New in ClickHouse 21.12 010
Reposted by Andrew DuffyThe Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Federal Troops Arrive in Portland and Immediately Form Bands 12956254
Reposted by Andrew DuffyZamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols. Thread 1/n 14300154
