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Bryan Russett

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Thoughts @ od0.com // Building @ empathic.dev

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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 27/04/2026
all of the above to date, now working on generating dynamic skill files from agent traces plus external context
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I feel like a million bucks
Enough DDR5 to pay for a house
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Evan Schwartz @emschwartz.me · 02/04/2026
For anyone using Claude Code, I cannot recommend the Superpowers plugin by @s.ly enough. I've been raving about it to enough people that I just wrote up my thoughts as a quick blog post emschwartz.me/a-rave-revie...
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A Rave Review of Superpowers (for Claude Code)
I have no connection to the authors of the Superpowers plugin for Claude Code, but I have been raving about it to everyone I talk to. Using Claude Code with ...
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
RIP Tracy Kidder, who inspired so many of us, and gave us permission to feel unapologetic passion for our chosen craft bcantrill.dtrace.org/2019/02/10/r...
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Reflecting on The Soul of a New Machine | The Observation Deck
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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Our latest foster. If you’re in the Bay Area consider adopting this sweet boy. He had literally been sedated to be euthanized when he was rescued www.instagram.com/reel/DWVIIbo...
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slowaf @slowaf.lol · 26/03/2026
For a great example of why we are building clash.rs and why the power of being able to apply specific sandboxes to specific binaries is important.
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Clash
Write rules for your AI agent. Clash enforces them.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 27/02/2026
Everyone has been asking for this writeup, now it’s live!
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Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 22/12/2025
Context windows out to thwart all our beautiful dreams
The butterfly meme where the butterfly says "context 95% full. start a new chat" and the guy says "is this AGI?"
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
On brand, @ahl.bsky.social and I are picking this one up on the podcast today. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild tale of death by uptime! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 02/10/2025
i gave sonnet 4.5 a tool called `more_entropy()` that just returns random @ponder.ooo skeets and it **obsesses** over it timkellogg.me/boredom/sonn...
More Output sorry boss, couldn't come in today, just wasn't energetically favorable

Assistant slides thermodynamics textbook across desk "I'm gonna need you to show your work on that Gibbs free energy calculation." AG = AH - TAS Where: • ДН = enthalpy of getting out of bed (highly positive) • T = temperature (it's cold out there) • AS = entropy of staying home in pajamas (maximized) Yeah... the math checks out. See you tomorrow. Maybe. Depends on the activation energy required.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 25/09/2025
I see someone else made this joke already but I’m going to hold this bag
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 25/09/2025
Would be funnier if they didn’t allow people named Sam to join
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 11/09/2025
if you know any folks dealing with (or trying to get out ahead of) that security nightmare, please connect me :)
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 11/09/2025
Great post by @chris.blue materializedview.io/p/mcp-server...
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This MCP Server Could Have Been a JSON File
There's a lot of buzz around MCP. I'm not convinced it needs to exist.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 11/09/2025
love that place
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 01/09/2025
lol
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mal vSpooky.0 👻🎃🦇 @malorienilson.com · 30/08/2025
Just a heads up to anyone using Firefox:
Text reads: Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of... naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

Displayed is a screenshot of Firefox showing the config search bar with the listed search. The word "false" is circled in red.

Text continues: If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.
Doing that turns off the Al chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 29/08/2025
An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...
Since I love collecting questionable analogies for LLMs, here's a new one I just came up with: an LLM is a lossy encyclopedia. They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang).

The key thing is to develop an intuition for questions it can usefully answer vs questions that are at a level of detail where the lossiness matters.

This thought sparked by a comment on Hacker News asking why an LLM couldn't "Create a boilerplate Zephyr project skeleton, for Pi Pico with st7789 spi display drivers configured". That's more of an lossless encyclopedia question!

My answer:

The way to solve this particular problem is to make a correct example available to it. Don't expect it to just know extremely specific facts like that - instead, treat it as a tool that can act on facts presented to it.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 29/08/2025
that seems to be the concern I’m seeing on socials right now, but it’s good to have a standard here I think
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 29/08/2025
This is cool
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Cloudflare & Browserbase: Pioneering Identity for AI Agents
For AI to be productive, agents need reliable, responsible web access. Browserbase provides web browsing capabilities for some of the largest AI applications. But today, websites can’t tell the differ...
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 27/08/2025
62 degrees and I just got a nice hug and cuddle from my toddler. It’s snuggle season
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Scott Spence @scottspence.dev · 22/08/2025
New job title just dropped on LinkedIn “Vibe code cleanup specialist”
Vibe code cleanups specialist job titles on LinkedIn
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 22/08/2025
very cool! proud dad :)
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Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
New blog post: A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification. The post defines what storage unification means, defines terminology and evaluates different building blocks and approaches to doing it. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/8/...
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A Conceptual Model for Storage Unification — Jack Vanlightly
Object storage is taking over more of the data stack, but low-latency systems still need separate hot-data storage. Storage unification is about presenting these heterogeneous storage systems and form...
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Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
[New Book Alert] Systems Engineering for Agentic Applications A guide for turning AI-powered prototypes into production-ready agentic applications Released monthly, chapter by chapter. If 100 people sign up, we are doing this agenticapplications.substack.com/about
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Reminder: our conversation with @scott.hanselman.com is this evening!
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Iroh @iroh.computer · 08/08/2025
We want you to build protocols! For that, you need to know about message framing. Conveniently, we produced a video about doing this in #rust on top of #QUIC with iroh :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6bB...
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we are here to frame you
YouTube video by number 0
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Ilya Boyandin @ilyabo.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming. foursquare.com/products/spa...
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 30/07/2025
amazing work all around 🙏
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 30/07/2025
Awesome 🔥
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Randy Au @randyau.com · 29/07/2025
This week on Counting Stuff, I write more SQL than most and found that LLMs get in my way in some cases, and are useful tools in others, and it depends a lot on application and whether I have energy to feed it context #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/doing-sql-wo...
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Doing SQL work with LLM aids as a SQL addict
It could be better, it could be worse
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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
1/4. I'm incredibly excited for this case study to come out. The @paradedb and @BiltRewards teams have been working together to take Bilt's user-facing search experience to the next level, all without the cumbersome infrastructure of a bespoke search database.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 23/07/2025
awesome work!
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 22/07/2025
yes definitely!
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Cameron @cameron.stream · 22/07/2025
Is there interest? I'd basically want to walk through how everyone's approached memory architecture, tool use, personality design, etc.
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Cameron @cameron.stream · 18/07/2025
I'm still mad about this But also it's so fucking funny
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JA Westenberg @joanwestenberg.com · 04/07/2025
Read weird things. Talk to obscure people. Share ideas in public. Write with your name on it. Make things. Break things. Find smarter people and bug them, nicely, until you’re the person people bug. 8/16
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Philippe Noël @philippemnoel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
1/12. I'm excited to share our latest technical blog post on ParadeDB. After a brief hiatus focused on transforming ParadeDB into an enterprise-ready database, expect to hear a lot more from us. Today's post: How ParadeDB built an LSM on top of Postgres block storage. 🧵
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 01/07/2025
dude this looks awesome
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 25/06/2025
was working on something like this a few years ago, would love to know if there's something active in the same spirit github.com/serval
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Serval Computing
Serval Computing has 11 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 17/06/2025
Wagyu hanger steak courtesy of Paisanos Butcher Shop in Brooklyn :)
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 17/06/2025
Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social & Robert Bogart Bulking up athlete edition - Hanger Steak with Feta Cream and Fresh Herb Salad - Garlic Scape Pesto Mafaldine
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It was a wild week for crooked AI! On the next Oxide and Friends, @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by @benshindel.bsky.social, the author of this terrific piece on the MIT fabulist, to talk about AI, materials, and fraud. Join us, Monday, 5p Pacific! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
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Simon Späti 🏔️ @ssp.sh · 17/05/2025
Why open table formats are suddenly all the rage? Why is AWS investing heavily in making Iceberg tables on S3, and why did Databricks pay a reported $2B to acquire Tabular? The answers might change how we think about data architecture.
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Rill | The Open Table Format Revolution: Why Hyperscalers Are Betting on Managed Iceberg
Why are open table formats booming? This blog explores the four layers of the ICE Stack, from storage to catalogs, and why managed Iceberg might represent the post-Modern Data Stack future where data ...
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 06/05/2025
cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021... cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012...
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 06/05/2025
they are from Bocci! the code is a little unclear on flush outlets so there’s a bit of interpretation left up to inspectors
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 06/05/2025
Cooking with 🔥& @oxide.computer & Friends @ahl.bsky.social @bcantrill.bsky.social @matthewsanabria.dev really loved the solutions conversation! Worked to understand the needs of my two customers, then went with Lemony Orzo With Asparagus and Garlic Bread Crumbs + Tri-Tip Steak With Tomato Romesco
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Bryan Russett @bryan.run · 05/05/2025
On the menu tonight: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1021... cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012...
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Lemony Orzo With Asparagus and Garlic Bread Crumbs Recipe
Every spoonful of this pasta has a happy jumble of lemony orzo, grassy asparagus, garlicky bread crumbs, fresh herbs and salty Parmesan The pasta and thinly sliced asparagus cook together in the same ...
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