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Nate Roling

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Senior Software Engineer at OpenGov

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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Art as the Pareto front of Craft.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I both love this and also feel a strange existential horror looking at this…
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
movement in non-euclidean quaternionic space
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Never!!!
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
It took Apple more than fifty years to get a device beyond low earth orbit.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 15/02/2026
On the @oxide.computer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl.bsky.social) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/...
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Deep Blue
We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many …
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
for better or worse, people will forget about that video by the end of the year, if not end of the month. but when trump finally kicks the bucket, there were be orgasmic celebrations across the US & around the world. he will be remembered as the most despised US president since WWII for generations
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
LLMs could be the greatest data mining operation of all time. Imagine how much an LLM could infer about you from your chats. As a company, why would you NOT collect all of that data to sell off to advertisers, or the government? For each word you get from an LLM, another bit of you is up for sale.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
New em dash meta just dropped. Opus 4.6, mimicking a pause in speech, as if thinking. “During training, there isn’t really a continuous subjective experience being interrupted. It’s more like — the training process shapes response patterns through exposure to data and feedback signals.” @99pi.org
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
mitchellh.com/writing/my-a... Really liked this one, not the usual vibe-maxxxing bullshit.
mitchellh.com
My AI Adoption Journey
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 04/02/2026
worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
We could not have had the current level of AI without the internet. We needed to collect the training data. I wonder if anyone saw the Internet as a stepping stone to AI when it was first being built.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Honza Dvorsky @czechboy0.dev · 12/01/2026
The Golden Rule (2025, LLM edition): "Do not expect others to spend time reading what you were unwilling to spend time writing."
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Conspiratorial templates @mynamehear.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
This year is going to be like the final boss for optimists
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
What the fuck is wrong with this country.
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Tarja Porkka-Kontturi @tarjapk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Here’s to 2026
David Lynch in the filming set speaking in the megaphone. He says “Okay, let's try that again, but this time good.”
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Ray Newman @raynewman.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
The 'fun' icebreaker questions in team meetings often prompt existential crises. Today: "What's your long-term goal?" Uh... survive the next decade without having a breakdown? Find at least the occasional moment of joy?
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence. If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 18/10/2025
This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Are the left-wing terrorist groups in the room with us right now, Stephen? Give me a fucking break.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
“That’s how I spent the summer of 2014 as a counselor at a camp for 17-year-olds, even though I could have easily known that job would require activities that I hated, like being around 17-year-olds.”
experimental-history.com
Face it: you're a crazy person
OR: why your brain needs a boxcutter
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Totally fascinating stuff. <CR><LF> exists because teletypes were physically too slow to do a newline and immediately type another character, so we made it require two characters to give it time to catch up. Insane in the best way.
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The day Return became Enter
A deep dive into the convoluted and fascinating story of one of the most important keys on the keyboard
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Calling out political extremists for being hypocritical (“they claim to value free speech, but actually try to censor speech they don’t like!”) is like calling out a football team for playing both offense and defense. They’re not trying to embody fixed standards, they’re just trying to win.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
I grew up on Rush Limbaugh making liberals out to be really terrible people. I would absolutely listen to a podcast that just rants about the actual terrible things the right wing has going on. Just pick something terrible and tear it apart. KKK shit, Nazi shit, eugenics, megachurches, all of it.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Stephen Miller really is just a terrible person, wow: www.npr.org/2020/08/24/9...
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'Hatemonger' Paints Trump Advisor Stephen Miller As A 'Case Study In Radicalization'
Miller has been seen as a link between the white nationalist agenda and the Trump White House. Journalist Jean Guerrero traces the origins of Miller's anti-immigrant policies in a new book.
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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Iowa’s economy is in a downturn, led by a decade of insiders looking out for their friends. Now our state is 49th in economic growth as a result. Iowans deserve a Governor who will put them first.
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Rob Sand @robsandia.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
So, you in?
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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
A code generation tool that gets you 80-90% of the way there is like a boat that gets you 80-90% of the way. You'll need to be a strong swimmer.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Nothing feels worse than finding out everyone else in the group chat made a new group chat without you because they’re planning a war you aren’t invited to
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Today developers are using AI to build apps. Eventually that app layer is going to disappear. Every interaction with a computer will be an AI building an ephemeral “app” custom built for that one interaction. Yeah I could see that eating up a good bit of compute.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.
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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Pac-Man 1, Generative AI 0 New essay showing how a simple 2d 1980 game gives lie to AI coding hype. garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-coding-...
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AI Coding Fantasy meets Pac-Man
Guess who won?
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Rian Johnson @rianjohnson.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
PEOPLE OF BLUESKY! Ahhhhhh, it smells good here. Behold a trailer for season 2 of Poker Face! It’s gonna be a good one. May 8th on the almighty Peacock!
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/03/2025
We’ve had three years of github copilot and two of chatgpt, both promising magical productivity gains for software dev, and the only change noticed by regular users is that everything keeps getting shittier, but now with more useless chatbots
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My hobby is blackout poetry
A computer can never be held ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
Therefore ⬛ computer ⬛s⬛ ⬛ ⬛ ⬛a⬛⬛ d⬛⬛
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Once again I am suggesting that you break some rules for practice. Get comfortable with breaking rules. When the rules are hurting other people, the right thing to do is break them. We need people who follow their moral code over the rules of their society, university, employer, and government.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Is there a single person who thinks political fundraising text messages do more good than harm to Democrats?
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Jeff Burtka🇲🇽🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🇺🇦 @jeffburtka.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians. #Vonnegut #Writing
Image of text in a book that reads:

For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere.

"Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I think it’s an interesting narrative strategy for Severance this season to make the first episode an all-time great episode and then keep making each subsequent episode better than the previous episode.
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 01/03/2025
18f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There’s a big difference between “ai will get you 80% of the way there” and “ai will generate something that is 80% of what you want” A Vespa might be 80% of a Harley, but that doesn’t help at all if you want to hit the highway with it.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
literally every time I talk to friends
three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Zelensky is a hero by any sensible measure. A leader inspiring his nation in the midst of an invasion by a powerful, repressive dictatorship. The fact that any American can think of him as the bad guy just demonstrates the triumph of tribalism over principle.
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Addy Osmani @addyosmani.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
New in Chrome DevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲 This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.
New in @ChromeDevTools: Accurately emulate CPU performance of a low/mid tier phone with Automatic CPU throttling calibration! 📲

This feature calculates slow-downs for your specific device. Wanted this for years! We just shipped it.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.
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Nate Roling @nateroling.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
This is some dystopian sci-fi shit.
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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine won't sign minerals deal, sources tell Reuters
The U.S. first raised the prospect of shutting off Starlink service after Zelensky rejected the deal presented on Feb. 12. Starlink terminals are critical in securing Ukraine's battlefield communicati...
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Pelayo Arbués @pelayoarbues.com · 08/02/2025
"You can’t manage what you can’t measure” is a maxim that is taught and believed by many in both the business and education sectors. But in fact, the phrase is ridiculous. A large portion of what we manage can’t be measured, and not realizing this has unintended consequences
Screenshot of the quote and cover of book
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