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Budd @n7eoj.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

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Matt Macauley @visualalgebra.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My 7-year-old made her first Cayley graph and Cayley table today! And she LOVED it! At 9pm, she was too excited to go to sleep…”but I just want to do more algebra!” 🥰 #MathSky #VisualAlgebra

Bird’s eye view of my 7-year-old daughter drawing a Cayley graph of the Klein 4-group on an iPad.

Cayley graph and Cayley table of the Klein 4-group on an iPad, with some of it in a 7-year-old’s handwriting

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

JUST IN: yt-dlp is limiting Bun support to versions 1.2.11–1.3.14 and deprecating it. Reason: "Bun was recently rewritten in Rust using Claude, and its development seems to have taken a turn towards being fully vibe-coded." #rustlang

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Rust Bytes @rustaceans.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Is your company currently hiring for a role that includes using Rust? Reply with a link to the opening and any relevant context. If you're not, we'd appreciate a repost for visibility #rust #rustlang #programming

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Serhii Potapov @greyblake.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Nutype 0.7.0 is out, newtypes with sanitization & validation in Rust. github.com/greyblake/nu... Highlights: - cfg_attr for conditional derives - where clauses + HRTB in generic newtypes - constructor visibility - len_utf16_min / len_utf16_max - derive(Valuable) #rustlang

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Release Nutype 0.7.0 - conditional derives and more · greyblake/nutype

What is nutype? Nutype is a Rust proc macro for type-driven domain modeling: it turns the newtype pattern into refined, branded types with built-in sanitizers (trim, lowercase, custom) and validato...

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Ally @categorically.me · 17/04/2026

Yesterday the @bsky.app made my day ❤️❤️❤️! The status page says reginos instead of regions and also broken grammar! This means some dev actually wrote this and it’s not all E2E AI! Someone actually wrote this! Feels personal! I can’t explain the joy this gave me, it’s irrational.

Screenshot of the bsky status webpage showing a small typo in the text indicating that a human and not AI actually wrote it

Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

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No, nyet, nein, never, offs - "Starting April 15, in ChatGPT, customers can explore a new Starbucks app that helps them find a Starbucks drink based on their mood or vibe of the day." #starbucks #FuckAI #ffs #ChatGPT about.starbucks.com/press/2026/a...

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Edward Vogel @mathartforall.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Just got a used copy of this. If you are looking for summer camp math art activities this is the real deal - how to, aesthetics and rigorous mathematics including calculus, complex numbers and group theory. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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Creating Symmetry

A step-by-step illustrated introduction to the astounding mathematics of symmetry

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Elias 🦀🇵🇸🇻🇪🇧🇷 @elias.sh · 04/04/2026

If LLMs become the "best way to produce software", we will need open alternatives or alternatives made in the Global South. I just saw a post where someone spend 5 USD on a problem. 5 USD is a lot of money in the Global South.

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Ally @categorically.me · 04/04/2026

If it’s a nothing burger: Are we headed for a global recession if the bubble pops? All that investment came out of somewhere! The world’s largest economy is not in a recession because of 5 companies?? I need a drink. Rant over 😊

Ally @categorically.me · 04/04/2026

I get that everyone thinks they lived through a major shift/transition … but boy is this one insane. If AI hypers are right: the gap between haves and have-nots grows exponentially (assuming capitalism stays as is and does not evolve) If AI doomers are right: LMICs are now just resource farms

Ally @categorically.me · 04/04/2026

Absolutely! It’s crazy because you could argue that running your own open alternative is more expensive (in the short/mid term at least) than the $5. A bigger issue is if we lose problem solvers to LLMs, and develop a dependency, global south is F’d when the VC money stops and $5 is actually $300

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Rob Chavez @robchavez.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Excited to share our latest paper on computational mechanisms of self-enhancement with links to mental health. We used hierarchical Bayesian drift diffusion modeling to decompose choices on a social comparison task and relate them internalizing symptoms. journals.sagepub.com/eprint/GPFSV...

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Computational Mechanisms of Self-Enhancement During Social Comparison and Their Relationship to Internalizing Symptoms - Moriah S. Stendel, John A. Clithero, Robert S. Chavez, 2026

Internalizing disorders, such as anxiety and depression, commonly feature cognitive biases in self-evaluation, particularly in the context of social comparison....

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Ally @categorically.me · 20/03/2026

Made it through about 25% and had to come back and say this is freakin awesome! Congrats and Great work! Now … back to it!

Andy Bell @bell.bz · 13/12/2024

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After 15+ years of teaching, architecting & delivering CSS for global organisations & startups, I’ve collated that experience into an extensive course which will take your CSS skills beyond the next level. Complete CSS has taken nearly a year to produce and it’s officially live 🎉 complete-css.com

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Complete CSS

A high quality, expansive CSS course that will elevate your CSS and core skills to a level you never thought was achievable.

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Ally @categorically.me · 22/02/2026

I’m struggling to get reliable street level env air quality data - Working on health+env models with clinics serving unhoused populations and recently learned that they are often kicked out of their neighborhoods and only return for clinic days … not sure where to start … help? #data #climate

iter::reskeet(🦀) @tuckersiemens.com · 15/02/2026

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This is why I'm appreciating ai;dr as a sibling to the usual tl;dr.

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Dominik 🔮 @tkdodo.eu · 10/02/2026

Well, we shipped it! @preactjs.com is joining the party with an official @tanstack.com Query adapter 🎉 Huge shoutout to @thvdnta.bsky.social, who drove this effort 🙌 Welcome, @preactjs.com 👋

React, Vue, Angular, Solid and Svelte having a BBQ on a beach, the sun sets in the background, everyone is having a good time.
Preact is arriving on a sailboat to join the party

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Ally @categorically.me · 09/02/2026

I leave with 7 books, come back with 14 …

Ally @categorically.me · 05/02/2026

Oh yeah this was a great talk!

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TigerBeetle @tigerbeetle.com · 04/02/2026

TigerStyle.dev A new, visual home for TigerStyle -- the software engineering methodology developed by TigerBeetle to produce safer, faster software in less time. "Do the hard thing today to make tomorrow easy." "If you want to be remembered, be remarkable."

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ADHD Jesse @adhdjesse.com · 02/02/2026

[doing things I’m bad at] “ugh, I suck at everything” [doing things I’m good at] “this doesn’t count because it’s easy for me”

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Ally @categorically.me · 02/02/2026

Ouch, yeah… sounds about right 🙃

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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/01/2026

2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us

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Ally @categorically.me · 28/01/2026

It’s not hyperbolic to say AI is a multiplier. A multiplier multiplies. I’m seeing more people just getting better are “meta-work” and large volumes of mediocre work. If you don’t know where you are going you will just go further in random directions. The real problems don’t go away.

Dion Dokter @diondokter.nl · 27/01/2026

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When using LLMs, it's very important to give clear instructions. Spec-driven development is the future. For example, a clear prompt to add two numbers could look like: ADD a TO b ON SIZE ERROR DISPLAY "Error" This specifies the overflow as well.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 26/01/2026

vibe coding

A toilet that has — and I can't believe I'm writing this — latte art (classic leaf) in it

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Gene Park @gene.meme · 22/01/2026

hey guys, just to confirm this is my fundraiser. i didn't want to ask for help, but i do need it. my cancer is back. i am going through a lobectomy next week, the same surgery Walter White undergoes. i can't express how grateful i am. thank you so much everyone. www.gofundme.com/f/support-ge...

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Hi, my name is Gene Park. I’m a games critic at The Washington Post, and I’… Gene Park needs your support for Support Gene Park's Cancer Surgery and Treatment

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Ally @categorically.me · 21/01/2026

life is wild right now!

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Ally @categorically.me · 20/01/2026

@todoist.com , can we get description for projects? This could be a game changer! Often projects need a short description (or a long one), and we have to put it in a doc elsewhere… and have to juggle tools. I wouldn’t need google docs for project spec documents, my team can just live in Todoist!

Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

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Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

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Ally @categorically.me · 17/01/2026

I'm convinced understanding Geometric #Algebra requires unlearning almost *everything* from years of Linear Algebra exposure. My brain is actively rejecting GA - especially in applications. This transition in thinking frameworks is worse that when I gave up Frequentism for the church of #bayes.

Ally @categorically.me · 12/01/2026

It feels like eating but not getting satiated, and feeling more empty. But it’s a great business because it’s much harder to work without it after using it - skill loss is 100x easier than skill gain. Feels like for the first time ever neural plasticity is a handicap

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Weißstreifen @weissstreifen.eu · 11/01/2026

This mute list feature is pretty good. Finally the good stuff in my feed is not swept away by threads on how good vibe coding is. Sorry for repost, forgot the alt text

A screenshot showing the words on my mute list. Agentic, agent, GPT, grok, ChatGPT, claude, Opus, gemini

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Yes, human programmers can create problematic code, too. But not at that speed.

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Ally @categorically.me · 11/01/2026

Bsky went from ‘Using LLMs is a mortal sin & you’ll burn’ to ‘you must use LLMs or else you are a dumb ignorant Luddite, let’s all pile on you’. Maybe it’s just my feeds … Both suck! Luckily in #bsky I can just change who I follow and my algo 😊! Pls recommend #science peeps who do creative work!

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Ally @categorically.me · 11/01/2026

I see what you mean! On the other hand, can we say generative AI saves us time making digital art, so we think for longer, and ship less digital/media? (Probably not) For many the issue was never the code generation, it was the excuse not to ship - this group still won’t ship (also including me)

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Ally @categorically.me · 11/01/2026

I see your point, but only if weird is measured as “not what most others are doing” and not as a negative quality. I still don’t like using LLMs, simply because they take away the parts I like and rob me of AHA moments in the details. Which, to your point, may make me weird 😊!

Ally @categorically.me · 08/01/2026

Ha! I would only disagree that your kid’s crayon drawings could provide some common ground, express empathy or vulnerability which could strengthen a relationship … your AI-generated clip-art, not so much. Also, love the pod! Thanks for the content!