Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 28/09/2026It changed because of the mayor and because of our taxes. This stuff makes me really happy to be a taxpayer. 01244
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 27/09/2026Eh my standards for “woman who is responding to death threats” are considerably lower than “software engineer writing about a vibe-coded project” 060
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026The Met Museum (Met Gala) != The Met Opera. I walked the red carpet at the opera gala. Am not a celeb. 100
Reposted by Matt Brownhuck mason @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 25/09/2026baldwin's de niro impression ...never seen anything like it. supernatural. 6648
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026A 9% drop over a 3 year span is not great but not a sign of imminent failure ripe for Bluesky to disrupt the space IMO 120
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026I can think of a few obvious reasons why r/nfl, r/nba and r/fitness have varied engagement throughout the year 140
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026You mean “do professionals post on Reddit about their work” which is a slightly different question, but the answer is yes — for example r/aviation is a mix of amateur enthusiasts and professional pilots. Other topic-focussed subreddits are similar. 130
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026By that measure Twitter peaked in 2012. It took 9 years and an acquisition by a comically awful person for Bluesky to even *begin* to nip at its toes. 110
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026That happened in 2023, yet 26% of US adults said they used it in 2025 compared to 5% on Bluesky (Pew study). And their revenue (cumulative $2.8B in the last 4 quarters) seems pretty healthy. 120
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 25/09/2026But Reddit communities seem to be flourishing and aren't going anywhere. Do they need to be recreated on Bluesky, esp when Reddit exists and is pretty decent at the task? Maybe a better bet would be developing stronger ties with sites like Reddit that could benefit from cross-pollination. 110
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 23/09/2026That’s presumably a partial result for September, right? And there’s zero evidence that Bluesky communities is a panacea. And what if fewer terminally-online people is actually sort of good? 1121
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 23/09/2026Big Toothpaste doesn’t want you to know about This One Trick 0150
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 21/09/2026I knew a telekinetic who submitted himself to laboratory testing. He disappeared a week later, and the study’s author had his grant revoked. 030
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 19/09/2026IMO you shouldn't let your 1-year-old play Fortnite but that's just me 111
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 17/09/2026Yeah so dumb. Let he who is without sin throw the first Piledriver 110
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 17/09/2026we still have the technology (5 packs a day) but now it‘s more expensive 060
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 15/09/2026Those people weren’t big on NFTs tho. FTX sold NFTs because that was a crypto commodity, but SBF never flaunted his bored ape or whatever. It feels like we’re trying to put “people who say dumb things” into a single bucket and there are in fact multiple dumb buckets. 000
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 15/09/2026AI safety is not really what he’s known for. Also I don’t think he’s been on that many podcasts recently. 060
Reposted by Matt BrownBryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...bcantrill.dtrace.orgThe contagion of fear | The Observation Deck 1624083
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 14/09/2026Found an angle that makes it look so much worse. Like how did nobody say anything to him beforehand www.npr.org/sections/cod...npr.orgMacklemore Plays Dress-Up And Lands In Hot WaterMacklemore, the rapper who was the peg for numerous pieces on racial appropriation last year, caused a stir this weekend when images of him as what appeared to be a Jewish caricature hit social media. 040
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 14/09/2026I get the anger about him not speaking up about Macklemore, but I think it's good that he didn't give that other clout-seeker man more attention 110
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 14/09/2026and it's all vibe-coded! Looks terrible, well done everyone 010
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 14/09/2026important footnote to “solved in 88 hours”: the effort involved thousands of agents costing (conservatively) millions of dollars directed by a team of mathematicians who were acting on a rumour that a different team had arrived at the same result using LLMs 030
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 13/09/2026Ok yes and also lol. I imagine they deliberately cap the RTs per account but maybe not. 220
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 13/09/2026Since Fable landed the models are now good enough for any coding you need. The blockers now are cost, and making people actually care about the output vs just boasting about productivity gains. But I’m wary of generalising those gains beyond STEM (stuff that’s very amenable to RL) 040
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 13/09/2026Account takeover. Long-standing accounts are sought-after because they pass some of the trivial spam checks. 110
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 13/09/2026they’re frequently accused of supporting genocide whenever they crack down on ATO spammers 1130
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 12/09/2026I don’t get it. Like, “prove you’ve built a nuclear weapon — give us all nuclear missiles”. I’m not sure how that logic works. 170
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 10/09/2026Send screenshots and also DM me via Slack Connect (brownmatthew @ sf) 100
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 10/09/2026My big red binder labelled “passwords” never tacitly supported forced repatriation 100
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 09/09/2026those health recaps aren't shared though, right? Just like my phone's notes app messages are private to me 120
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 08/09/2026It was just a Segway exec in the UK, and he was apparently backing up so someone could pass. Dean Kamen is alive and well 020
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 08/09/2026I think like 90% of the negative responses are from non-programmers. Makes sense when like 90% of the benefits of the newest models accrue to SWEs 030
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 06/09/2026I think there’s very little chance of any court in the US or Western Europe ruling that the current crop of frontier LLMs are violating FOSS licenses. I predict the US and other similarly-inclined countries will pass laws clarifying this in the next 1-2 years. 010
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 04/09/2026Even more marketing hype today — a brand new LLM bot swarm message board was discovered. Almost had me fooled into thinking it was real, but then I realised it had to be fake because “fancy autocomplete” cannot do those sorts of things. 140
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 04/09/2026I mean, sure but that’s still not remotely comparable to this single case that a lot of people are outraged about and which is likely to be overturned. 000
Matt Brown @mattbrown.dev · 04/09/2026And gave rise to the all-timer theonion.com/a-shattered-...theonion.comA Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit AgainSPRINGFIELD, MO—Were this an ordinary Tuesday night, Wendy Vance would return home from her receptionist job at a Springfield chiropractor’s office and spend the evening engaged in any number of empty... 010
