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Brett Morgan

@domesticmouse.com
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Flutter developer relations engineer at Google Australia. Love cooking, thinking about the potential futures, and listening to random YouTubers gripe about how this wasn’t the future they were promised.

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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/09/2026
It turns out that not only can I reverse engineer a VCV Patch file, but I can reverse engineer a this.is.NOISE Gamma mini synth. An overview of the adventure is up at medium.com/@domesticmou...
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Reverse Engineering a this.is.NOISE Gamma synth
I made a horrible mistake. I liked a synth I found online so much, I wound up buying it twice. I emailed the maker and explained my…
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 06/09/2026
Something I have noticed is that LLMs are over eager to burn complexity budget
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 04/09/2026
I had a lot of fun presenting as part of the DevRel track at PyCon AU 2026!
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/08/2026
Making sense of a VCV Rack patch using Google Antigravity. And creating an Agent Skill as part of the exploration. Thanks to @jjbbllkk.bsky.social for the VCV Rack patch that made this possible. =) medium.com/@domesticmou...
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Making sense of a VCV patch with Antigravity
When you are starting out in a new hobby, there is always a time where you are lost for words when looking at something, trying to…
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 24/08/2026
@jjbbllkk.bsky.social I’d like to demo 30 seconds of your VCV patch VCV for sleep 01 on stage as part of my talk at PyCon AU. I will attribute Red Means Recording as part of it. Background: I’m demonstrating how to make sense of VCV patch files.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/07/2026
Building your own tools is enormously freeing. This is going to be fun!
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/06/2026
“It represents proof of work” is my new trip hop dub step band name.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/05/2026
Apropos of absolutely nothing: the thing that can’t afford to continue will eventually stop.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/05/2026
The computer books I grew up reading: usborne.com/au/books/com...
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Computer and coding books from Usborne | Usborne | Be Curious
Usborne children's coding books for a new generation
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 13/05/2026
Can someone teach the kids how to use tmux? share.google/JHusW1zIszqt...
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AI coders are carrying half-open laptops through airports, offices, and ice rinks
Techies are walking with their laptops open to keep their agents running. They told Business Insider their stories, from offices to school halls.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 01/05/2026
This spoke to me. Hopefully it helps you as well. youtube.com/watch?v=ZIYI...
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I was scared of AI until I read Keith Haring’s journals
YouTube video by James Corbett
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/04/2026
One of the weird things is watching people who obviously have never done manufacturing use manufacturing idioms without understanding the implications. Call it Dunning Kruger Engineering. Simplest one, automation vs handmade. In the world of atoms, for building one offs, hand made is cheaper.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 07/04/2026
I don’t understand why people are fantasising about dark factories as a future for software development. It’s almost like software engineers have no understanding of the reality of physical manufacturing. The cost of R&D to set up a dark factory is astronomical and makes no sense for one off items.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 01/04/2026
I’m intrigued as to why Trump is promoting the PetroYuan.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 29/03/2026
I’m curious how long it will take the markets to reprice Nvidia to zero on the back of TSMC’s helium supply chain out of Qatar being impacted
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 22/03/2026
We are treating this change as if it is the first time we’ve seen automation as a society. It isn’t. It isn’t even the first time we’ve dealt with the fear that automation would eliminate all jobs. We have been dealing with the effects of automation since the invention of the steam engine.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 14/03/2026
As someone who has just been solidly reminded that skills are perishable, I have a suggestion. Coders who haven’t fought a compiler for three months should probably accept they aren’t coders any more. They will be forcibly reminded by reality if they don’t.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/02/2026
Equilibria Fixation Disorder is my glitch ambient band name
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/02/2026
I think the fixation on equilibrium by economists is responsible for outsize harm to our ability to understand the world we live in.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 09/02/2026
There is so much here to think about. surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/02/08/n...
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Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 09/02/2026
I’m deeply curious how i wound up on thr idiotic timeline www.perplexity.ai/page/taiwan-...
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Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 19/01/2026
I upgraded to macOS 26. Oh jesus. Wtf happened guys? Are they trying to make my m4 pro into an oversized iPad?
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/01/2026
Silly question, when the US takes Greenland, I’m curious how Europe will go about interning all the US citizens on the continent.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 08/01/2026
Can I just say, I'm not a fan of 2.5mm breadboards. Especially when they are sold as 2.54mm "Arduino compatible" breadboards.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 24/12/2025
AI psychosis was not on my bingo card for 2025
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 30/11/2025
I finally upgraded to iOS 26. It has Win8 vibes.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 15/11/2025
@electrosmith.bsky.social any guidance on whether you’ll be building more patch.init modules? Waiting list?
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 13/11/2025
The first mistake everyone makes is linear extrapolation. We live in a non linear world, linearity is only ever a short run approximation. The second mistake is assuming permanent exponential growth. There are no exponentials in the real world. There is always a hidden constraint, somewhere.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 29/10/2025
Ishan is the real deal when it comes to understanding GPT youtube.com/watch?v=clqB...
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Ishan Anand - GPT in Vanilla JavaScript
YouTube video by CascadiaJS
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/10/2025
So the big bookstore in town has more shelf space dedicated to baking bread than programming. And I can’t find any books on things like electrical engineering. I worry.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 18/10/2025
I'm in Seoul to talk about Flutter and Gemini CLI. This is going to be fun 😁
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 04/10/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw-... TIL that Silicon Valley just invented what my Dad did for living. My Dad retired in the 90s.
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The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew
YouTube video by Y Combinator
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 25/09/2025
Odd reality shift. I was chatting with a startup founder about how to improve the onboarding flow of his product. He pitched me a front end role. I realised I don’t want to do work that isn’t first and foremost about using AI to improve user experience.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 22/09/2025
This agrees with my experience. elma.dev/notes/ai-mak...
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AI Was Supposed to Help Juniors Shine. Why Does It Mostly Make Seniors Stronger? | <Can ELMA/>
AI was supposed to empower junior developers. In reality, it has become a tool that makes seniors more valuable while exposing the gaps in software culture.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 21/09/2025
Silly question of the day: when did Americans stop being engineers? Go back to recordings of the 60s and the US called itself a country of engineers. Justifiably proud of what they built during WW2 and afterwards. Now? I see no pride in building stuff. Just to be fair, Australia is the same.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 20/09/2025
I can’t imagine what Silicon Valley is thinking right about now. I suspect the next round of startups are going to need to either master team work over zoom, or move to Canada. Eh! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas
Move deals potentially major blow to US tech industry, which relies heavily on workers from India and China
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 17/09/2025
I'm curious, what does it take to be able to say something like "Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is now available." I'm shook.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/09/2025
I’m still confused why everyone predicts exponential growth in the early part of the sigmoid adoption curve.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 12/09/2025
Y’know what I find weird? We are doing stochastic compute atop a deterministic abstraction build atop a stochastic reality. That deterministic abstraction is expensive, and I’d guess not needed.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 10/09/2025
One of the odd parts of going from pure software development to combined software and hardware development is the number of engineering trade offs explode.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 09/09/2025
Can someone please explain the concept of "Vibe Coding Certification" please
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 03/09/2025
I’m using GenAI to learn electronics. It’s oddly engaging to have an unreliable tutor. I keep having to engage to figure out if I’m being told the truth or not. It’s waaay more fun 😎
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 28/08/2025
I’m curious when people are going to realise that LLMs make engineers more valuable, not less.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/08/2025
As someone who is tooling around with a soldering iron, I can’t see how anyone builds electronics without easy access to parts out of China. Simple things like SMT resistors and capacitors.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 27/08/2025
I'm curious how bad it is going to get in the US before y'all taco out of the import restrictions.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 15/08/2025
You know, for all the noise about AI destroying education, I’m finding it quite useful for learning new things. There is a difference between “write my essay” and “critique my essay”
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/08/2025
And this is why I like Zed: zed.dev/blog/disable.... For clarity, I like my AI as Gemini CLI, running in Zed’s in-editor shell window.
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You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: If you don’t want AI in your workflow, it won’t be there.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 23/07/2025
Vibe coding, a quick way to learn the power of source control? www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...
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'I destroyed months of your work in seconds' says AI coding tool after deleting a dev's entire database during a code freeze: 'I panicked instead of thinking'
'You told me to always ask permission. And I ignored all of it.'
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 07/07/2025
I'm curious how long until "do not highlight any negatives" becomes standard boilerplate in academic text.
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Brett Morgan @domesticmouse.com · 05/07/2025
Very interesting presentation by @davefarley77.bsky.social on using AI professionally in software construction. I particularly enjoyed the differentiation between coders, software developers, and software engineers. youtube.com/watch?v=EPtU...
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Dave Farley at G[=]K25: Vibe Coding - Is this really the best we can do? The future of programming
YouTube video by Equal Experts
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