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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 27/09/2026

I’ve been playing with MySky. In some ways it’s not as effective in surfacing new stuff but you’re making me wonder whether that’s a good thing - a quieter feed that’s easier to break from

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 27/09/2026

This is smart, and I’ve thought about it before, but never jumped on it as I felt there’s a good chance someone would get missed at some point 😅

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/09/2026

Not to be confused with Google Meet, Google Hangouts, or Google Duo

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 21/09/2026

I really hope WCAG adopts APCA, I do find it does actually perform more sensibly in practice

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 20/09/2026

I’ve been super excited for this to progress, though the excitement has been dampened somewhat by the concerns raised by the assemblyscript folks

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 20/09/2026

There’s something to be said for the community dynamics and at least sense of agency this supports though. Admittedly not sure how to really measure that in any meaningful way though, just a gut feeling.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 18/09/2026

Could you expand more on what you mean by leads and active projects?

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/09/2026

This is probably dumb/impossible to be robust, but is there a way to combine this with endo/ses to support sandboxed scripts with DOM access?

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/09/2026

I've been thinking a lot recently about how participatory science can be a key part of creating more just systems that can solve critical global challenges. I'm grateful to have the opportunity to pull together a set of incredibly thoughtful, experienced folks in our field who I greatly respect.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/09/2026

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 09/09/2026

Something I’ve been thinking about recently: A lot of useful discoveries come from “the process” - understanding a system, seeing its behavior, getting curious, playing with it, the surprising finds along the way. I’m concerned that by “abstracting” the process we’ll significantly harm that

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 07/09/2026

Officially on a self-hosted PDS - cheers @tranquil.farm! Is this the start of my atproto era? We shall see :D

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 03/09/2026

Alternatively, filtered extracts of the library of babel

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 02/09/2026

Super interested to see your approach to defining the colors if you’re going to be sharing that 👀

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/08/2026

Also - the first publication with a research affiliation for @frameshifter.org :)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/08/2026

An important step toward practical RNA design for health, environment, and technology interventions, the advent of deep learning methods that can take up these tasks, and a model presented by @eternagame.org for breakthroughs from AI-human collaboration and co-development.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/08/2026

Our recent work has been featured on the cover of Science! Multiple things to be excited about here:

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/08/2026

CC @chrisshank.com I think it was you I talked with about this a while ago? Or @ronentk.me? Or both? 😅

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/08/2026

I’d previously been thinking about self-governed community spaces as a mechanism for self-selected curation and trust boundaries in large systems, but *shared context* really hits on something I hadn’t realized about what makes that effective for collaboration

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 30/07/2026

BTW is there a mechanism for concurrent task dependencies? Eg "I want to run my e2e tests in watch mode, so I need to trigger backend:start and wait till its online, and frontend:watch and have its initial build complete"

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 30/07/2026

Oops never responded! I suppose the key is being able to support custom tasks including commands that are run, caching behavior (inputs/outputs), etc, which looking at viteplus.dev/guide/run it looks like it does? I feel like I had run into a potential concern but not seeing it now

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/07/2026

Also I’m weird and use NixOS so system install of vite+ doesn’t really work 😅

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/07/2026

Definitely looking forward to full Vue support. Would also definitely appreciate knobs to tube oxfmt à la dprint (from what I’ve heard of it). I’m still not totally sure how vite+ fits into a multi-language project or where there’s eg Docker service deps. I should probably explore mise.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 05/07/2026

Marched in a parade today with the drum corps I’m in. It was _soup_. Both from the humidity and actual rain 😅

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 01/07/2026

("Have to" is maybe doing a lot of work here. You have to if you want to get full marks)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 01/07/2026

Yea you have to get a golden route... and have the dexterity to execute it :D And that would be because (*blames keyboard for typing failure*). I meant Hue

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 30/06/2026

Curious how you’d define puzzle platformer. Like would 10 Second Ninja X or Cue count?

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 29/06/2026

Out of curiosity have you looked at any of the social impact (tech) job boards? I've tripped across a couple but never really dug so curious how good (or even known) they are

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/06/2026

Among other comments here I’d also say loss of intentionality. The experience is almost arbitrary (probabilistic, whatever). There’s no intention in why it would do what it does even at a pretty high level, plus it relies way more on inference of user intention rather than explicit instruction.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 24/06/2026

Been thinking about this a fair amount recently (especially as I’ve been doing a bunch of proposal writing and such) - how even mundane writing tells you something about the person who wrote it.

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 22/06/2026

I’ve been running nixos on my laptop the past few months - still can’t decide if it’s the best or worst decision 😛

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 20/06/2026

This somehow has the perfect aesthetic blend between LEGO Universe (the colors and the trees, especially), LEGO Island (map), and… Super Mario n64? I know it didn’t do dithering like that but my knowledge of titles that would is not great 🫣

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/06/2026

Hey I mean I got a couple new followers out of it 🙃

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/06/2026

This interestingly mirrors discussions I heard when I was around the IRCv3 specification crowd, though in that case more specifically focus on backwards compatibility, but there’s also an element of different client capability (…and historically, differing spec conformance)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/06/2026

Though uh holy filler words Batman I thought I was better than that 😅

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 17/06/2026

Among many other things! This was a ton of fun. Thanks Brennan for the chat, and looking forward to listening to more episodes :)

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 12/06/2026

I might add lack of ability to explore intent, connection, …

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 12/06/2026

I mean I’m sure that the intent is that it starts in reverse then flips to normal order. And it kinda makes sense from a user intent aspect. But it still doesn’t read. Is this a metaphor for algorithmic feeds?

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/06/2026

By which I mean “do I have the capability to” as a cheeky self-awareness bit rather than being a request. English language ambiguity strikes again!

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 11/06/2026

I mean… I’d bet we could find things to yap about. I do enjoy a good yap. But could I keep it short? 😛

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 02/06/2026

I am jealous, all the way up here in CNY

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 01/06/2026

Inverse of @marshallver.bsky.social’s method of counting followers lol

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 01/06/2026

Beyond stuff like instruments and so, I imagine you could apply this to the audio directly with a bunch of time series features à la tsfresh. You can probably get pretty far with stuff like Fourier transforms, etc

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Jonathan Romano @luxaritas.com · 28/05/2026

Hey guess what I talked about with @chrisshank.com this morning 🙃

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