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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 29/09/2026

tempted 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.

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'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...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 28/09/2026

I think students should read full books.

Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech," from "The Four Freedoms," 1943
https://prints.nrm.org/detail/260937/rockwell-freedom-of-speech-1943?srsltid=AU7gw4V4FH-u5tF-MWC6kxNw8lDeOazTP-7MNiQoCo3kEiIMRLgK7l7-

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 28/09/2026

marx always said about alienation from your work: it's sick as hell, he recommended it

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 28/09/2026

everyone knows that there are only three TRUE forms of human flourishing: - consuming mass media and toys - having a family - being an ideas guy

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 28/09/2026

oh you felt connected to your work? felt the pride of hard-won skills? you fool! you absolute narcissist!

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Observable @observablehq.com · 26/09/2026

You 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...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 18/09/2026

fond memories of that place (before they moved)

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 16/09/2026

nowadays it's hard to know whether i should follow the ai accelerationism of ashton kutcher or joseph gordon-levitt's safety fears

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 15/09/2026

it'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.ai

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 14/09/2026

mostly riffing on this underappreciated masterwork from @vruba.bsky.social

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 14/09/2026

few people are talking about how good llms are

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 11/09/2026

a bunch of reasons i reckon markdown represents a subset of html. odt, word docs, etc., are supersets. ssgs can implement the whole of markdown relatively easily, couldn't do the same with odt. markdown came out in 2004, odt in 2005, word support for odt in 2007ish, docx was only standardized 2008

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 09/09/2026

if ai companies universally did the same crawl-limiting that google did for years with its search engine crawlers, and they exposed reliable user-agent headers and followed robots.txt and did not use residential proxies, we'd be in a much better place. most of this is them behaving extremely badly.

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Justin Fagnani @justinfagnani.com · 09/09/2026

I 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...

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Zena: A new Wasm-first programming language

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 09/09/2026

it's a bummer that this company founded in 1990s is doing llm bot engagement farming, but c'est la vie i guess, do better

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 09/09/2026

did you automate this post? it came 27 seconds after this very similar formatted one: bsky.app/profile/axia...

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026

i know it's not their market but "an oxide rack but with big honkin gpus" seems like an inevitability

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026

the number of things that are bad in the short term but theoretically good in the long term is a little too high for my tastes!

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026

cycling nyc is so delightful, covered new ground on randall's island and rode the high bridge this weekend

gardens and bridge view from randall's island

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026

ironically i use ai to help me deal with the first two, and it works well! but this is obviously "creating a problem and selling a solution and counting that as gdp and revenue but nothing is created and the world is made worse by the whole ordeal"

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 08/09/2026

i'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

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/09/2026

observable's community is just stacked with talent

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/09/2026

i think this is 'better' as a ux than the norm, which in figjam / excalidraw / tldraw is to show the arrow ui based on the internal representation of arrow draw direction. or at least more what i want, in a way that is quietly delightful for me personally.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/09/2026

little 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

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 06/09/2026

i 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

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 06/09/2026

❤️ www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/o...

But food, for all that, is not art. Both begin by addressing the senses, but that is where food stops. It is not narrative or representational, does not organize and express emotion. An apple is not a story, even if we can tell a story about it. A curry is not an idea, even if its creation is the result of one. Meals can evoke emotions, but only very roughly and generally, and only within a very limited range — comfort, delight, perhaps nostalgia, but not anger, say, or sorrow, or a thousand other things. Food is highly developed as a system of sensations, extremely crude as a system of symbols. Proust on the madeleine is art; the madeleine itself is not art.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 03/09/2026

dusting off my old "good means two different things" schtick to respond with: maybe software is good and getting better and more efficient at what it does, but it is no longer doing good, aligned, happy things that people want it to do

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Observable @observablehq.com · 01/09/2026

For 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...

A screenshot of the new Observable interface, showing a notebook visualizing “Bollinger bands”. Several interface elements are labeled. Along the top: workspace menu, new notebook button, user menu. Along the right side: file attachments, dependencies, comments, settings, enable tinkering, show AI. In the interior: cell inserter, cell menu, cell toolbar.

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 07/01/2026

don't go anywhere near my lakehouse bro, it's swarming with agents

the agentic lakehouse, the only lakehouse built for agents, managed by agents

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 01/09/2026

it's good, you should read it

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 01/09/2026

i'm not an llm internals guy but that seems both reasonable and also something that feels like it should require a much smaller model than the off-the-shelf stuff?

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 01/09/2026

my 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!"

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 29/08/2026

on a fun project bugs are fun too

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journeyman folklorist @aniceburrito.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Flavors used to be infused but nowadays flavors are blasted. This is happening to society as well of course

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026

yeah, i think you're right - there is so much ibm history and i don't know most of it

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026

it continues to fascinate me that of all the custom big corporation fonts, the one that has the most flavor is from ibm

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026

okay i deployed it bsky.app/profile/macw... would've illustrated and copyedited this post but i gotta Sleep and hit that ideal tuesday 10:45pm posting window when content is guaranteed to rip

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Tom MacWright @macwright.com · 26/08/2026

big news as soon as i fix and merge this revert revert revert revert branch

Revert "Revert "Revert "Revert "Move to MapLibre and provider-neutral routing

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