Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026mfw when they released Mac OS X Public Beta in september 2000 020
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Not exactly the counterfactual you’re looking for but similar in spirit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavane_...en.wikipedia.orgPavane (novel) - Wikipedia 040
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026it’s almost entirely gold, and fun fact Switzerland was top only in 2025 because a tariff arbitrage drove a lot of imports. 030
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026yeah it all seemed quite civil at the time from the outside, but it’s the only thing i can think of. 040
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026i think it’s a reference to karen hao blog.andymasley.com/p/empire-of-...blog.andymasley.comEmpire of AI is wildly misleading on AI water useAnd the media environment that didn't catch this is getting this issue wrong 2100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026wrong screenshot? the line that followed, “he grows anxious when he has an unexpressed thought”, is honestly a pretty solid burn. 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026i like the updike line on this: "Astronomy is what we have now instead of theology. The terrors are less, but the comforts are nil." 030
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 31/07/2026suspect you could keep going and add an entry to github.com/kdeldycke/aw...github.comGitHub - kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in. Contribute to kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood development by creating an account on GitHub. 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 30/07/2026my guess is working on github.com/ghostty-org/... he became the joker (and he was right to, tmux is very bad).github.comFeature: Support for tmux's Control Mode · Issue #1935 · ghostty-org/ghosttytmux has a feature called Control Mode, which allows a client i.e a terminal emulator such as Ghostty to manage tmux panes. This has the benefit of enabling native integration with the terminal emu... 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026@techconnectify.bsky.social has a video on this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzJK...youtube.comInduction cooking - but what about woks?YouTube video by Technology Connections 0220
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 24/07/2026add a master and commander t shirt and then you are on my level 270
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 09/07/2026not a thing in the uk because uk fire hydrants are underground but here is a great disco era song about this phenomenon youtu.be/4XxF4WPh3MEyoutu.beJ Walter Negro & the Loose Jointz ~ Shoot The Pump ~ Zoo York RecordsYouTube video by John Reese 120
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 22/06/2026you know wednesday was last week right? you can just look up complete early voting numbers. you don’t have to do this. 130
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026i read the users.cs.utah.edu/~elb/folklor... for the first time a couple of months ago when a famous tech figure posted it approvingly on the everything app and I was like “damn that’s a bit fashy, anyone else getting that vibe?”users.cs.utah.edu The Story of Mel 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 06/06/2026I endorse this www.seangoedecke.com/anti-ai-nost... 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/05/2026The knowledge that 53 foot trailers are illegal in New York City is an infohazard for Brooklyn dads. 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/05/2026the desktop app and the recommendations are so bad I switched back to spotify. that’s how bad it is! 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 09/05/2026from the creators of darksky. “Light rain all day. The temperature will feel about the same as yesterday” and a timeline you can scroll to the past as well as future.apps.apple.comAcme Weather App - App StoreDownload Acme Weather by Acme Weather on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Acme Weather. 120
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 19/04/2026now looking closely at github.com/neurosnap/zmxgithub.comGitHub - neurosnap/zmx: Session persistence for terminal processesSession persistence for terminal processes. Contribute to neurosnap/zmx development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026right. control mode would be a win for ux (github.com/ghostty-org/...) but it's still tmux ya know. all the weird broken stuff. 130
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/04/2026i hate tmux so much and would love to stop using it, but this is a deal breaker: "cmux does not restore live process state yet. Active terminal app sessions such as Claude Code, tmux, and vim are not resumed after app restart" :-( 130
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026i quit astrophysics 12 years ago, but one thing that will get me to read an astro-ph posting to the arxiv is "Author: @hogg.bsky.social" and "white paper". "Why do we do astrophysics?" does not disappoint arxiv.org/abs/2602.10181. surely the first arXiv posting with "ACAB" in it. 120
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026yeah I didn’t enjoy it and I have no plans to read it again but I’m still thinking about it 5 years later 110
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026the unconsoled is the maddest book I’ve ever read. what do you think? 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026I have strong late millennial taste priors it’s true 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 18/03/2026if you are a high taste Bayesian who can *also* optimize a kernel or tune an inference pipeline then you are having the loudest last laugh 122
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 03/03/2026max read’s list of movies inspired by the show maxread.substack.com/p/eight-movi... and this youtube essay connecting it to revolutionary politics are great (no season two spoilers in either of these)youtu.beThe Thousand Faces of Cassian AndorYouTube video by ArTorr 000
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026the Magna Carta defines a “town” as “any dwellings of mor than one thousand head with kettles for sale” 111
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026it was three towns of 5000 people but yes between them it was rural! 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026eh, i had to drive to three towns in three separate counties in texas to find a kettle. 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026bits.logic.inc/p/ai-is-forc... 100% test coverage is back!bits.logic.incAI Is Forcing Us To Write Good CodeWhen Best Practices Are Best 010
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026there are some good posts along these lines though! (xp is back awoouu) laughingmeme.org/2026/02/15/s...laughingmeme.orgSoftware Practices from the Scrap Heap?I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked o... 100
Mike Lee Williams @mlw.bsky.social · 23/02/2026his takes (or sources?) are worthless imo. my guess is this one is due the superficial resemblance between gas town (LLM psychosis + "i'M wRitinG tIcKets") and agile. 100
