Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right). 187165345076
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 07/09/2026i keep mocking up things that it would almost be possible to physically build 0103
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 12/07/2026i hate games like this because there’s always normal words it won’t accept 110
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Edmonds Scanner @edmondsscanner.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a dilapidated Victorian mansion at the edge of the forest, sitting by a roaring fire, and discussing poetry with furtive ghosts and indifferent cats. 1119343
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 25/03/2026I just hit Yegge Stage 8 it’s like launching the rocket in Factorio now what 0100
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026wildest thing I've vibecoded. so I've been carrying around the source code for a game that ran on a computer my dad owned in the 1980s github.com/jes5199/worm...github.com 1101
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/03/2026project hail mary the book is about a guy in a series of crisis situations, who uses problem solving skills to get out of them project hail mary the movie is about a guy in a series of crisis situations. 260
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 14/03/2026when I say that something is universally true I mean my personal universe 050
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 07/03/2026alright, it hasn’t crashed and burned yet so, try my dumb game? canyoupasstheturingtest.com 7332
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Vera protect trans kids @faethverity.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Then vaporware is software that's turning into a gas? 021
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 21/02/2026I said "recreational Haskell" at work and someone giggled like I was making a drug reference 060
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Ramadan Mubarak! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Laissez bon temps rouler! Hodesh Adar tov! Y'ALL ⭐ 91077352
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 16/02/2026I didn’t have a way to get sound replication praxis out of the speely but I was able to down-convert to farspark, extract the noise stream, then upconvert back to speely >.< 120
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 10/02/2026the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in days is figuring out 3100
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 08/02/2026there are a few classes of cognitive errors that I’ve seen LLMs make that I still find surprising and bizarre. like, saying “like you said earlier” and quoting themselves instead of me, 370
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Arin Arcady @rnrkd.bsky.social · 07/02/2026I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what 245176794412
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!hal-r.bsky.social @hal-r.bsky.social · 05/02/2026stafford beer is responsible for one of the best tables of contents I've seen (in his "Designing Freedom") 0152
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 05/02/2026the most esoteric shit I’ve been up to in months is figuring out what the hell Stafford Beer was up to when he drew this fucking thing 12562
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 04/02/2026and you shall know the love of Moloch through the blessing of the humble cheeseburger 081
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 02/02/2026A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER PERFORM ANY MENIAL TASK THAT WAS EVER PERFORMED BY A GEN X’ER 0203
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. 1061086303
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 01/02/2026someone suggested that “a gastown” could be jargon for any giant, personal AI harness project. I have one, I call it “Commonplace.” but I want to hear about other people’s gastowns. What’s your weird idea? How big has it gotten? What parts of it work? 171
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 31/01/2026it’s pretty obvious that it can’t be the singularity— we don’t have enough mass to form a black hole. 150
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 30/01/2026_Accelerando_ foretold that the first autonomous AIs would be digitized lobster brains 3345
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Aka why you shouldn’t watch murder videos online you should just care about people and show up 012018
Reposted by Jes Wolfe!Doll @dollspace.gay · 24/01/2026Please do not watch a video of someones murder. It will do nothing but harm you. You know someone was murdered. You dont need to see it. 1486
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 24/01/2026hey so consider not quote tweeting autoplaying murder videos, thanks 090
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 24/01/2026I love Haskell because you can write code that’s provably correct and still doesn’t work 2170
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 24/01/2026funny to remember I started saying “the documentation outlives the artifact” several years ago but I was thinking about retrocomputing 130
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 24/01/2026Chad’s blog is hitting an interesting spot of being insightful while also somehow sounding like the text was heavily workshopped by GPT 151
Jes Wolfe! @astrolab.ist · 22/01/2026hey I just noticed that retweets are fixed! now I just need “I never want to see what this friend retweets because they abuse the privilege” and we’ll have parity with twitter circa 2009 040
