Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 30/09/2026I personally say “I learned it by watching you” much more. I think it’s very close but if I had to pick one as more famous, it would be your brain on drugs. 000
Reposted by Matt LehrerThe Local Sweden @thelocalsweden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026BREAKING: Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson abandons attempt to form a governmentthelocal.seBREAKING: Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson abandons attempt to form a governmentSocial Democrat leader Magdalena Andersson says her attempts to build a coalition of parties willing to tolerate her as prime minister have failed. 012
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 24/09/2026The order feels designed to infuriate everyone who reads it so that it’s more likely to be a part of The Discourse. 001
Reposted by Matt Lehrerarr @arr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This makes me hopeful. This number is aspirational but nowhere near out of reach: a working professional could realistically cash out their 401k and buy off a public official. Owning a senator is more attainable for most Americans than home ownership. 6246761035
Reposted by Matt LehrerOwen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Great case of "land doesn't vote, people do" in Sweden 815952
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 11/09/2026This oped is an excellent summary of what it feels like here. The headlines everyday on how the opposition promises to form commissions to study the problems introduced the last four years make me want to scream. 022
Reposted by Matt LehrerAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11/09/2026“The Miami Herald will no longer have a Miami beat” is the state of local journalism in a nutshell. Really, really bad. 352512636
Reposted by Matt LehrerJake Gold @jacob.gold · 08/09/2026If you use AI less than I do, you just don’t get it. If you use AI more than I do, you’ve fucking lost it. The optimal amount of AI is exactly how much I currently use. 1330929
Reposted by Matt LehrerColin @colin-fraser.net · 03/09/2026attention Fastmail executive team: please continue to be normal. If you have any thoughts about anything other than emails, please keep them to yourselves. Please do not fund any external projects that have anything to do with anything other than emails. Thank you. 321027
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 26/08/2026I'm going to relisten to Dolly Parton's America and get inspired all over again. I have enthusiastically recommended this to tons of people and now you, too. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...wnycstudios.orgDolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | PodcastsThe story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars. 000
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 25/08/2026I am in for #SvelteSummit in Ljubljana! Is anyone getting there Tuesday or leaving Sunday for a day to just be a tourist? I am thinking about a day trip to Bled but am open to ideas. 250
Reposted by Matt LehrerskELLY @ellyzoe.bsky.social · 23/08/2026😂 this does seem to be the new agreement With alt text 07421
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 15/08/2026Finally decided to look for alternatives to the Sonos app. Tried SonoPhone, hated it. Awkward UI and I think it’s impossible to go from a song to its artist’s page, a dealbreaker for me. Went through the mild hassle of setting up Music Assistant and am really liking it so far. www.music-assistant.iomusic-assistant.ioMusic AssistantMusic Assistant is a music library manager for local and streaming sources 020
Reposted by Matt LehrerMarcin Wichary @aresluna.org · 14/02/2025I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime. This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today. aresluna.org/the-hardest-...aresluna.orgThe hardest working font in ManhattanA story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today. 1402583892
Reposted by Matt LehrerDolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.social · 05/08/2026There’s a guy on TikTok who posts just him taking a pizza out of the oven every day with tongs and all of the comments are about how their day is ruined from having watched this 2613676651
Reposted by Matt Lehrerryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/08/2026this owns www.inverse.com/input/cultur...inverse.comThe adorable love story behind Wikipedia’s 'high five' photosNearly 14 years later, the tale of this iconic couple can finally be told. 453085784
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 01/08/2026I believe there are a TON of use cases where slow is completely fine. This is great. 020
Reposted by Matt LehrerMinna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 29/07/2026After soon 2 years living in Sweden as a Finn, two profound insights: 1. Swedes are as awkward as Finns, just better dressed 2. Both suck at smalltalk, but in Sweden being silent isn’t as socially accepted as in Finland, so Swedes sometimes pretend not to have seen you to avoid awkward smalltalk 2131721
Reposted by Matt Lehreralice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Click through for the details: eBay employees (incl. execs) sent them "a bloody pig mask, pornography, a package of fly larvae and live spiders, and live cockroaches...They also listed Craiglist ads for a swinger party, a threesome, and an estate sale, all pointing to the Steiner’s home address." 063
Reposted by Matt LehrerSvelte Society @sveltesociety.dev · 27/07/2026Svelte Summit tickets are coming in the next few days 🎟️ Join the launch list and we’ll email you a discount code when they go live. See you in Ljubljana on November 19–20. → sveltesummit.com/ticket-updatessveltesummit.comTicket Launch Updates | Svelte Summit Ljubljana 2026Join the Svelte Summit ticket list for the sales date, discount code, and program news. 34517
Reposted by Matt Lehrermr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 21/07/2026obviously this is a huge problem for safety this example was mundane, arguably even good. But it still involved ruthlessly pursuing a goal without considering if that goal is good or intended 181
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 12/07/2026I started the Molly Crabapple book Here Where We Live Is Our Country, about the Jewish Bund. I feel a strong connection to them. Am I Bundist, not as much anti-Zionist? This is very hard to reconcile, as an emigrant. 110
Reposted by Matt LehrerBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences 115208675339
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 05/07/2026This show is somewhere around 10% of the reason we moved here 000
Reposted by Matt LehrerSean Lynch @techniq.dev · 02/07/2026📊 LayerChart 2.0 is officially released! After ~16 months of development and 67 pre-releases, the official 2.0.0 release has been published! 🎉 This includes the Svelte 5 rewrite, CSS framework agnostic, improved API and state, numerous new components and chart types, and so much more! 1110019
Reposted by Matt LehrerTits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios 141180875569
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 23/06/2026Not my three year old picking up the eight inch orange painted wooden penis bottle opener in the beach tourist shop and yelling “mommy, it’s a carrot! <fake bite>” 020
Reposted by Matt LehrerScott Spence @scottspence.dev · 21/06/2026How I Stop LLMs Drifting In Production Codebases: scottspence.com/posts/how-i-... heavy Svelte focusscottspence.comHow I Stop LLMs Drifting In Production Codebases - Scott SpenceThe problem I care about with LLM coding is drift: one plausible shortcut gets copied, then future sessions start treating it as how the app... 1147
Reposted by Matt LehrerSam Robotham @hamrobotham.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I don't care if you're not a Knicks fan. I don't care if you're not a New Yorker. Watch this speech. 712087348
Reposted by Matt LehrerKilian Valkhof @kilianvalkhof.com · 17/06/2026Cherry blossom! This is a heavy one: inspecting one of the petals crashes the web renderer. random-item() isn't implemented yet, but the petal styles still look random because even though the pattern repeats each petal starts at a random point. 241
Reposted by Matt LehrerAntoine @antleth.fr · 04/06/2026SvelteKit 2.63.0 just got released, and env vars are now handled much better than before! 🔥 Here is a quick recap: 3364
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 04/06/2026I made Mexican matzah brei (migas) for the first time. I thought it was pretty good. Could barely get the kids to taste it. Typical. 000
Reposted by Matt LehrerDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Happy #WorldBicycleDay to all who celebrate this simple solution to some of our most complex problems. 823660
Reposted by Matt LehrerLuis Villa @lu.is · 29/05/2026This is really quite a good walkthrough of how deanonymization can work here in 2026, with fairly smart people who thought they’d done their homework to respect someone’s privacy. 26631
Matt Lehrer @mattlehrer.com · 26/05/2026why do banks get to decide national holidays? how did that start? 000
Reposted by Matt LehrerJames @43081j.com · 23/05/2026the replacements.fyi site now lets you drop a package.json into it to see which dependencies can be replaced with native functionality, or more performant choices 🎉 17539107
Reposted by Matt LehrerPaul Crider @paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com · 21/05/2026As a liberal, I am against this sort of thing. 18218
Reposted by Matt LehrerBuzz Andersen @andersen.buzz · 20/05/2026In a lot of ways, it feels like AI is sort of capitalism’s ultimate trap. No one can afford not to play the game, even though it seems likely to undermine the foundations of the entire edifice. 151
Reposted by Matt LehrerJacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Ok I've designed an LLM prompt to make Google AI just give you a list of links. It's longer than you might think because it kept ignoring the instructions. This is efficient. This is The Future™ 512480626
Reposted by Matt Lehrerevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 11/05/2026If you are in your late thirties to mid-forties right now, there is a good chance that you have spent most of your life in a cycle of making some sort of home on the internet only to have it crumble beneath you like chalk and having to start over. 43822200
Reposted by Matt LehrerChristopher Mims @mims.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Morgan Stanley projects that next year, the 5 AI hyperscalers - Meta, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, Google - will spend more building out AI data centers than the federal government spends on all of the Department of Defense www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-i... 56834