Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 29/09/2026tempted to make my website's design 'weirder' because websites are getting too normal. might do the csszengarden thing and do multiple layouts with just the power of Modern CSS. 3480
Reposted by Tom MacWrightEverest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms... 24837303
Reposted by Tom MacWrightAsheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026I think students should read full books. 1065274
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 28/09/2026oh you felt connected to your work? felt the pride of hard-won skills? you fool! you absolute narcissist! 2370
Reposted by Tom MacWrightObservable @observablehq.com · 26/09/2026You can now create and manage teams in the new Observable, use Opus 5.5, connect to MySQL… but, most exciting, and by far the most overdue: you can now access SQL cells’ metadata fields by opening the cell menu with ⌃M. Keep those hands on that keyboard! observablehq.com/@observableh... 141
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 16/09/2026nowadays it's hard to know whether i should follow the ai accelerationism of ashton kutcher or joseph gordon-levitt's safety fears 090
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 15/09/2026it's a new computer, it's cute, is it for you? no! for your agents! stay away from the computer, it's a computer for computers. you'll get a computer when your agents decide you deserve one! www.pamir.aipamir.aiLapis One — A Dedicated Computer for Your Agents | PamirLapis One is a dedicated Linux computer for AI agents, built to run 24/7, connect from anywhere, and control other computers with Agent KVM. 0120
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 11/09/2026i'm very happy that placemark is now on maplibre / however, it's sad not to get the huge perf boosts that @agafonkin.com delivers for mapbox-gl-js, few in the industry are on this level github.com/mapbox/geojs...github.comv5: Radically improve memory footprint by mourner · Pull Request #191 · mapbox/geojson-vtTL;DR: 45–75% less retained memory and up to 79% lower peak across the bench corpus, with init build time within ~10% of v4 (and 50–70% faster on point datasets). Tile output is the same; the publi... 0140
Reposted by Tom MacWrightJustin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 09/09/2026I wrote about what I've been up to with my new programming language! Zena targets WebAssembly GC, with a TypeScript-like syntax, sound type system, and lots of cool features like pattern matching, async cancellation, borrow checking, WASI integration, and more! justinfagnani.com/2026/09/09/z...justinfagnani.comZena: A new Wasm-first programming language 410526
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026i know it's not their market but "an oxide rack but with big honkin gpus" seems like an inevitability 2180
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026cycling nyc is so delightful, covered new ground on randall's island and rode the high bridge this weekend 0220
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026i'd recommend people who are really jazzed about ai: - be a sysadmin for a website with a lot of dynamic pages that ai crawlers like to hit - manage a bug bounty program - maintain some popular repos on github, especially awesome-* repos that are good for promoting projects 280
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/09/2026little detail in drawing app side project: when i show options to customize directional arrows, the arrow ui shows the arrows based on their screen orientation, not the order in which you drew then arrows 381
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 06/09/2026i applaud togo on promoting the equal earth projection, but as a pseudo-cartographer i have to note that the earth is in fact round, not flat, and quite a lot larger than this 1110
Reposted by Tom MacWrightObservable @observablehq.com · 01/09/2026For more than a year, we’ve been quietly building an all-new Observable. Today, that new Observable is live on observablehq.com. Read Mike @ocks.org’s announcement: observablehq.com/@observableh... 16115
Reposted by Tom MacWrightTom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/01/2026don't go anywhere near my lakehouse bro, it's swarming with agents 2201
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 01/09/2026my favorite bogus security report goes like "your application does X. and mind you, it does it correctly. but if it _didn't_ do it correctly, that'd be a security problem!" 3170
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 01/09/2026Recently: macwright.com/2026/09/01/r...macwright.comRecentlyThe waning summer days 1100
Reposted by Tom MacWrightjourneyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course 132256350
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026it continues to fascinate me that of all the custom big corporation fonts, the one that has the most flavor is from ibm 0160
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026Placemark is now _fully_ open source, thanks to @bskyum.bsky.social macwright.com/2026/08/25/p...macwright.comPlacemark is now fully open sourceReplacing Mapbox with MapLibre in an update 0181
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026big news as soon as i fix and merge this revert revert revert revert branch 2681
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 25/08/2026the protocol labs narrative is starting to solidify into it having been a very spendy labs project that ultimately benefited atproto and iroh instead of its own projects ipshipyard.com/blog/2026-th...ipshipyard.comThe end of IPFS at ShipyardWe have some difficult news to share with the IPFS and wider peer-to-peer community. Our IPFS funding was cancelled 0120
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 24/08/2026good history of monsignor mcgolrick park in brooklyn, fun to presume that if he had kids they would've hated naming that park after him 000
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 22/08/2026blocked out an hour for my 'focused free time somewhat hard engineering' side project. makes me think about focus & distraction: real focus imho only comes downstream of both effort & quality-of-life stuff like uninterrupted free time. lots of tech either breaks focus or caters to unfocused work. 5170
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 21/08/2026brief notes: - most panelists and the audience were focused on abolishing ai and datacenters - the tax policy (which i love) got a lot of probing questions, which were expertly answered - rorty's theory that post-1960s socialism is an anti-government libertarian movement continues to be correct 120
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 21/08/2026the worst gtm slop for slop product that makes slop (so far) 250
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 20/08/2026phoebe bridgers-bo burnham :: joanna newsom-andy samberg 200
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 20/08/2026phoebe bridgers includes one song that ends loud on each album, i wish she'd make a whole album of loud-ending songs 050
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 19/08/2026some of the placemark code got re-adopted into geojson.io, making it a very full-circle open source story: dev.to/mapbox/rebui... 1261
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 17/08/2026MAN that is a good hero image btao.org/posts/2026-0...btao.orgI don't enjoy the Internet any moreThe pale is growing 2371
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 15/08/2026technology optimism hour, the reprise! last edition was in 2022. this edition: typescript 7, effect, long hardware update cycles, decentralized social media, and encrypted messaging macwright.com/2026/08/14/o...macwright.comTechnology optimism hourFinding some cool stuff to be pumped about in the world of software and hardware 1184
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 14/08/2026launched 'access', a new @val.town feature that lets you restrict access to http endpoints and we handle all the auth particulars. glorious illustration by @jxnblk.bsky.social blog.val.town/accessblog.val.townVal Town Access: one-click team-only authentication for your internal toolsAn easier, more precise way to use Val Town for your back office 0111
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 14/08/20262026-era photoshop tutorials on youtube: ai-generate a generic babe for the screenshot, drop into the dude for the video 0140
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 13/08/2026subscription minimizing: macwright.com/2026/08/13/s...macwright.comSubscription minimizingJavaScript, math, maps, etc 010
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 13/08/2026the changesets-based release workflow is the best yet, i use it on everything 180
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 13/08/2026pleasant update to my post from 2019 about color contrast standards being kind of bad: there's a candidate for wcag 3.0 standards that's a big improvement. via @rubenerd.bsky.social macwright.com/2019/03/30/c...macwright.comAccessibility: Color contrast is a problemBeyond black and white 150
Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 11/08/2026man, 13 year olds with polished ai slop websites makes me so sad, youth is for making weird junk that is a straightforward expression of your pure aesthetic vision as a kid, not for generic resume fodder 39213
Reposted by Tom MacWrighttaylor.town @taylor.town · 07/08/2026taylor.town/leaving-openaitaylor.townI'm leaving OpenAI to build Jurassic ParkWe're so excited to send you back to the stone age. 0187