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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 18/09/2026

not sure what's going on here @semble.so , but i follow @burrito.space on bsky as well? thought i'd bring to your attention :)

screenshot of semble's recommended follows on the explore page that shows I'm following @psingletary.com but not @burrito.space (when I am also following burrito.space)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 04/09/2026

What in the heck

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 29/08/2026

You're the goat dawg 🙂‍↕️👑

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 29/08/2026

Yo @semble.so can we fix up this view with dvh for open keyboard

Screenshot showing the create collection view, but the save button is hidden by the keyboard on android mobile using the semble web app installed

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 10/08/2026

Earned my @goose.art approved sticker, feels good :)

Goose verified you

like the verification icon but in the middle is a hand drawn goose (@goose.art's icon) giving you a thumbs up

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 05/08/2026

I've been getting this page for ages

Screenshot of cloudflare showing the host of arabica.social is down

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 11/07/2026

Required reading for autocoding imo danluu.com/ai-coding/

In general, when I talk to software folks about testing, I'm coming from such a different place that they immediately look at me like I'm an alien, so let's talk about how we tested at this hardware company I worked for, Centaur, which informs my biases about how I like to work. Some of the things that we did that were or are unorthodox in the software world are:

Hired dedicated QA / test engineers, with testing being a first-class career path on par with being a developer
No code review by default
Virtually no hand-written tests
Constant testing via what programmers sometimes called property based testing, randomized testing, fuzzing, etc., although we just called those tests (hand-written tests were called "hand tests").
Large regeression test suite (3 months wall clock to execute on compute farm)
No unit tests

Just to give you an idea of the general structure, when I left (in 2013), we had about 1000 machines generating and running tests at all times for roughly 20 logic designers and 20 test engineers. This was on prem and the machines took up half a floor of the building we were in. The general structure was that we had maybe 20% of machines running regression tests, and 80% generating and running new tests. Three months of regression tests is too much to gate commits on, so there was a much shorter list of tests that took maybe 10 minutes or so to run that people would run before committing. Those pre-commit tests would run on a special setup to run as quickly as possible, with overclocked machines that were the fastest machines money could buy, as well as a different simulator setup.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 14/05/2026

i'm putting 3js in my slides nobody can stop me

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 13/05/2026

I thought you were a vibe coder! what is this real code doing here??

screenshot of the video above where there is code on the webgpu on the screen

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 13/05/2026

i got inspired by @codetard.bsky.social and started doing threejs webgpu stuff start with boids ofc

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 05/05/2026

It's not just ethanol either! Corn is in fucking everything. @swiftonsecurity.com had a bit about how corn is literally in everything you eat and use. It's not just for the energy production!

@swiftonsecurity tweet screenshot: "Surfactants in shampoo and dishwashing liquid are often chemically processed with corn glucose. Cosmetics are often corn. You use corn to remove corn from your dishes. You take a shower and clean yourself with the help of corn. Corn is applied to cardboard boxes during production. Table salt uses corn to help iodine stick. Windex uses 2-hexoxyethanol which is made from corn"

Animals eat corn, but meat isn't corn, right? Correct.

How is bacteria controlled in meat cutting operations?
Interestingly by spraying lactic acid.

Where does lactic acidd come from? Fermenting glucose.
Where does glucose come from? Corn syrup

You are slowly realizing it has been literally years, maybe decades, since you at any meal made without corn.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 19/04/2026

a single diagram should be able to explain "what is the cloud and how does it work" and it should be no more complex than the following water cycle diagram. the cloud diagram unfortunately doesn't exist

a pretty stock art image of the water cycle showing: precipitation -> (down the mountain) -> collection -> evaporation -> condensation -> precpitation

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 17/04/2026

our robot has a hat

photo of my robot vacuum with a pan brush on top of it like its wearing a hat :)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 16/04/2026

this mf'er high af LOL

screenshot of the holding back tears emoji on the blacksky emoji picker, and why is its eyes RED!?!?

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 16/04/2026

@semble.so please fix I'm following these people already and its very confusing to see

screenshot of semble notification page showing wesley and lyre with a button that says "Follow" (but I'm already following them)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 02/04/2026

thank god im covid negative still have the throat scratchies and a bit of brain fog so it might be a false negative... should i take the meds?

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 11/03/2026

practice makes perfect! some of my friends are insane, ~0.002 is common, im pleb mode lol

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 10/03/2026

I can't tell if this is good or not?

i scored 0.0050 on the JND test (this is a screenshot of the result)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 09/03/2026

i tried a few different handles, always returns this

error page for atvouch showing XRPCError

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 21/02/2026

I might have a problem...

screenshot of Firefox mobile showing 3558 open tabs

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 15/02/2026

Found out about it because I've been playing with Obsidian. Wanted to see all the music shows I wanted to go to, but didn't want to do the math of which show happens where and on what date. Built a plugin in about an hour that makes it easy to see. Just _had_ to use the tileset

Screenshot of obsidian showing a bunch of shows listed in seattle to the left, and on the right is the plugin i talk about. On the top is a calendar view showing all the dates the shows are happening (parsed from the file) and below that is a map with markers of where these shows happen (the map is using the watercolor tileset from the previous post). It's all bidirectionally synced, so if you move your cursor, or click a calender event or a map pin, it'll show up the date and the cursor moves to the location.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 15/02/2026

i just discovered Stamen's Watercolor tileset and it's just beautiful! I wish all maps where this beautiful. Bring more whimsy and beauty to websites

Screenshot of the vancouver metro area rendered by the Stamen Design water color tileset, and it's gorgeous. it looks like a real water color painting

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 09/02/2026

Can't lie, landed in a pretty good neighborhood :)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 05/01/2026

technically i think so, but the location goes missing?

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 05/01/2026

Nope they accept my search, but when I go to submit both show some variation of this screen even though my location is on, and I've chosen to share it with the web app.

Screenshot of beaconbits failing to save a beacon

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 25/12/2025

Experimenting with canvas for displaying records, using @tldraw.com and @nekomimi.pet's atproto-ui what do you think? Would you use this? Maybe for mood-boarding? Maybe a @kinopio.club-like, but AT proto native? Even just having tldraw -> save to PDS seems like, vaguely cool?

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 13/12/2025

I've been learning blender! I made my first render the other day

the final rendered image from the blender donut tutorial

it shows a cartoony kitchen with a plate and several donuts on it, in the early morning light. the donuts have a variety of different glazes and spinkles on the top. most of them are stacked vertically on top of each other, but one is aligned with the camera

they look yummy but you can tell its a beginner work

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 05/12/2025

Made Makgoelli for the first time! Just filtered it, its very earthy and *very* strong!! I diluted it and added sugar for this step, hopefully its yummy

photo of 2 jars of pale milky liquid, makgoelli, on my kitchen counter

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 04/12/2025

Feeds playing games, tryna get me to buy one of these too

screenshot of bsky with one post by @natalie.sh saying "mmmmmmmmmmmmm iiiii reallllly want to buy a framework desktop" followed by @bradfritz.com showing off their new framework desktop in the very next post in the feed

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 03/12/2025

noooo the skylights migrator only works with bsky accounts 😭😭

screenshot of skylights.my failing at the migration for @hyl.st

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 27/11/2025

I'm such a sucker for this aesthetic (stolen from harmonic.fun) Lofi / lowpoly 3D scientific-ish diagrams are my weak spot

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 26/11/2025

Still clearly pretty buggy, but it WORKS!! share_target to load a web page directly from android's native UI to get to a page you can annotate on, directly to your PDS 🎉🎉🎉

screenshot of android share intent dialog with lots of apps, but notably showing Seams!!!

screenshot of sure.seams.so with lots of floating buttons that say "annotate" across the page (bug)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 25/11/2025

Got the mobile view and PWA installation working, but haven't been able to get share intent receiving working yet... I really need that for my workflow, not sure what I've done wrong yet and it's such a nightmare to test...

screenshot of the mobile view of Seams.so test pages

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 24/11/2025

Also built a real backend for this page now! It's a tiny little Go server that indexes records you make (but only ones made through the app for now) Stole @cosmik.network's approach here, it's remarkably effective. Thanks for the code, friends!

The same landing page I posted earlier for https://seams.so

The tagline reads "Wisdom is made Together" on the left side, and on the right is a list of recent test annotations I've made all of them from squishy.computer except one.

It reads as a technical webpage.

In the bottom left corner are the icons for tangled and bluesky.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 24/11/2025

Getting real close to launching Seams.so for real this time! Had to undertake a lot of architectural work to setup a proxy which _doesn't_ require a browser extension, but shares almost all the code with it. Probably going to use this as the mobile version.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 02/11/2025

Landing page, with a backend! This is getting very close to being ready! Wearing my inspiration a bit too strong? I'm open to design critique. What do you think? I'd love to commission someone for some diagrams and a logo, to help finesse this page.

Screenshot of the landing page for my atmospheric annotation tool, called Seams. It's in the style of https://nan.fyi with a blueprint style, and some test annotations sorted recently. The hero line reads "Wisdom is made Together" in a sidebar, and recent annotations to the right. I think it looks rather nifty, technical diagram vibes.

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 23/10/2025

Think it's looking a lot nicer :) Got comments going too, I used @leaflet.pub's lexicon seems to work well for general use case of threaded comments on the atmosphere, thanks friends! We might actually launch this thing yet! Now the hard part: AppViews!

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 22/10/2025

Let's fucking go!!! Save to pds and oauth is in babyyyyy 🎉🎉🎉

screenshot of pdsls.dev showing a "community.lexicon.annotation" saved in my pds

its the famous mike tyson quote "Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face" from squishy.computer, using W3C web annotation formats (TextQuoteSelector)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 21/10/2025

This week on hylst hacks: synthes.is (hypothes.is on atproto) gotta figure out oauth for extensions (need a static site to serve client_metadata?) then a bit of mechanization to move from local storage to pds (it's already using a lexicon) then to the app view! (we'll see how far i get)

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 19/10/2025

little video showing collab of obsidian at home thing I've been working on. not sure i actually care about collab much, but @automerge.org makes it free to do this, so i figured why not?

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 16/10/2025

speaking of updates, my obsidiam at home is coming along :3 ofc its based on automerge, maybe i should try and do collab stuff?

screenshot of my in progress app, showing a text editor with markdown test data showing bold, italics, strikethrough lists and wikilinks

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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st · 15/09/2025

No appview or anything yet (slices when?!) so no pretty pages. But it does allow you to look at other people's bookmarks!

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