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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is the next evolution of mesmerizing entertainment tech since TV and video games. It's like an interactive play with infinite depth. Hypnotizing.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

today I said Kate Moss when I meant Kate Bush. Similar.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Spatial prompting on text spans, this is the easiest way to edit a document or a drawing.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Using functional lenses we can project a reactive notebook to also be a slide deck (at the same time). observablehq.com/@tomlarkwort... riffed from @jwolondon.bsky.social slides design but with offline-first support

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Injecting a self-serializing notebook into an AWS CloudWatch dashboard via the developer console, running a userspace AI in notebook agent to read the data and write it to the injected notebook, and then saving modified notebook WITH the data, to a single-HTML file. Lopecode.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Digital Suminagashi tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...

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Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com · 15/09/2026

here's a peak at what i've been doing for the past few years: building a calm, playful little space for thinking, doodling, journalling, and programming with materials like ink, paper, and… flux that spreads through your notes like a fluid wait what? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurW...

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PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

YouTube video by Ink & Switch

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our Feeling of Computing Slack-to-ATProto bridge has been upgraded to be bidirectional, so posting in ATProto on @colibri.social writes back into Slack. Another step towards weening ourselves FoC off Slack. 9 years (!) of history has been backfilled code here wiki.feelingof.com/slack-colibr...

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Slack ↔ Colibri Bridge

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Joy to the world, Lopecode Newsletter 002. Mainly about my adventures in Functional Lenses. Oh wow the atprotoe standard.site thing worked for once! Local-first but on the atmosphere. Computational blogging FTW did-plc-j7nm3lrd5h7fm3sfhcv3lhfv.lopecode.com/r/lopecode-n...

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Lopecode News Issue #2

Drag the drawing, the code rewrites itself. Issue #2: lenses, self-modifying cells, and a document with no source.

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Mike Bostock @ocks.org · 01/09/2026

It’s finally here! So excited to be working out in the open again and for you all to try the new Observable. bsky.app/profile/obse...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

just benchmarked the newish glm-4.7-flash against Mimo 2.5 (NOT Pro) which has been my goto for a while... it cost 5x more (worse caching) and performed 2x slower (too many steps) and functionally worse (failed more tasks), so that is not displacing the value king yet. deepseek-v4-flash-0731 next...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Quite cool consequence of working with single HTML files is you can get a preview in a PR without a 1st party server, just proxy to the git hash. github.com/tomlarkworth...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Use /remote-control on two laptops to facilitate a transfer after breaking the screen has been a magical experience. Two Claude's communicating and carefully getting the new one in the same state has been great. Bash history is restored!

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I've said it already but its worth repeating. Targeted multi-modal annotation is the dream UX for working with AI.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Caged Code - vanilla Claude Code binary running in a web browser tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...

screenshot of Claude Code running in a browser

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Javascript code has a very distinctive speedup once optimizations kick in if you look closely. Beyond being faster, WASM can also sidestep this. I have golfed an in-browser Assembly Script compiler down to 2Mb with some pruning to Binaryen observablehq.com/@tomlarkwort...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

these guys are the best at what they do by far, new song JOY!! music.youtube.com/watch?v=4OQj...

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JOY!!

YouTube video by Jairo - Topic

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Providing feedback spatially is precise without words. Its a massive workflow win because is quicker and you don't lose focus by switching your focus.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The laptop stares at itself in the mirror while an AI recalibrates the optical parameters, piloted from a nearby phone.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Dug up my fast optical localization project and finally got it running pose tracking direct from webcam feed. The AI managed to optimize its performance down to "3 ms/frame" in the browser! Not bad but I am aiming for *much* faster on real hardware. tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...

Image of phone with circular barcode with synthetic crosshairs nearly over the middle.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

OK one of the greatest things IA've ever built. Bi-directional SVG source code editing. Drawing as programming with programmable drawings. *this* is how I want computers to collaborate with me. Ordinary SVG with a plurality of editable views. tomlarkworthy.github.io/lopebooks/no...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Claude Code's TodoWrite tool has gone? How do I sequence a long list of tasks now?

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

randomized property testing is a cheap version of theorem proving reachable in a mainstream programming language. So I am seeing better code produced by getting the LLM to create a theory of a domain, and then property checking its parts. Then the architecture becomes assembly by an algebra.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

As agents hammer all free services on the internet, and automate what was previously un-automatable, you will need to hunker down and work offline to get any serious work done i.e. @localfirstconf.com

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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 19/06/2026

My latest (soft) proposal thanks to some really productive conversations we've been having.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

wow this website is jammed full of interesting details.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I am not blown away by Fable. It can do some advanced coding but it still can't accomidate out-of-the-box thinking and spatial intelligence is still non-existent.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I been trying to understand why my notebook coding agents suck compared to Claude Code. What is different? Its not the prompt or the task or the LLM... it was the environment and tool design. did-plc-j7nm3lrd5h7fm3sfhcv3lhfv.lopecode.com/r/coding-tools

Bar charts showing reduction of tool calls from 23 -> 9 going from structured tools to aligned Read/Edit Claude code style tools

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Colibri Social @colibri.social · 26/06/2026

So many new features in a single image! Try and spot them all 👀

A screenshot from colibri's chat interface showing an image gallery with 5 images, a reply to a bot account, and a quote, all as separate messages sent by the same user.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Building on OpenRouter is the correct choice if: 1. You think AI can be useful 2. You are concerned about big LLM providers becoming too powerful. 3. You don't think it's realistic that everyone will have the hardware to run locally

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Mariano Guerra @marianoguerra.org · 23/06/2026

Build your own always up-to-date Feeling of Computing newletter Based on the amazing work by @larkworthy.bsky.social live sync-ing slack to at-proto Try it here: marianoguerra.github.io/Feeling-of-C...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I been working in the shell since February and I am sick of it. I gotta get agentic coding working in a notebook with visual feedback just because it is so much more stimulating than the shell. I hate the shell.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Scratch is better than I remember it. define blocks can execute immediately and outside the animation loop so you call them recursively and do multi sprite spawning in a single tick which is quite handy for generative stuff.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A strange but effective regularisation strategy for LLM prompt optimization is telling it not to overfit e.g. Don't use examples based on the test set. Then it doesn't.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just thrown out the VGA cable I have carried around for years. Probably not gonna need it...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Yeah I think basically bash is the strongest meta-interface to anything for a LLM. "everything is a file" includes virtual abstractions created inside that virtual fs. The file system *is* the interface. The LLMs are tuned so hard on TerminalBench they are shell ops masters.

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Lopecode newsletter-001 Read all about the newest addition to a local-first reactive notebook environment that can be published to ATProto did-plc-j7nm3lrd5h7fm3sfhcv3lhfv.lopecode.com/r/newsletter...

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Eric @esb.lol · 21/05/2026

✨ Atmosphere devs ✨ Bluesky is integrating Standard Site, and our initial work should be released in the next few days. Here's what that means for publishers and apps in the ecosystem: github.com/bluesky-soci... If you have questions or comments, please leave them on the GitHub Discussion thread!

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Integrating Standard Site Into Bluesky · bluesky-social atproto · Discussion #4978

The Bluesky team is working on integrating site.standard.* lexicons. For people using the Bluesky app, this means that when they come across a link published with a Standard.site record, they’ll ge...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

the end of "parametric abstractions". A config menu, a set of arguments for a function, they are parametric. They have a certain specified configuration space. Its what we have always done. Its core to functional abstraction. With on-demand code generation, the space of programs is non-parametric...

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Oh interesting. I added the computeNow ticks of the Observable runtime to the new debugger, and now I can see that cells that have a long compute time end up eating ticks from the runtime. Did not know that!

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

How hard would it be to replicate a community Slack installation to an ATProto lexicon so messages can be archived or sent to other application for indexing? Is there any community lexicons for this already?! cc @bmann.ca

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Working on the next version of the temporal debugger for Lopecode. Now the "blocked" vs "computing" difference is colored, and the cells are topologically ordered so you see the cascades of computation much easier. Its already revealing a ton of unexpected inefficiencies!

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Worked on getting themes reactive which was oddly satisfying. My favourite is ocean-floor

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

My experiments with hosting notebooks on atproto. The Ledger notebook lets you manage your notebooks and cross-post them, like I did just now!

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tom larkworthy @larkworthy.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

It used to annoy me that Safari and Firefox would surface bugs that chrome did not have but now in my wiser years I am thankful there is divergence and multiple vendors for such an important technology as the web. The bugs are fixable, ecosystem capture cannot.

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