Reposted by NenadEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 26/09/2026How do you explain recursion? This one is pretty fun. I had Claude Opus 5.5 make: "A video explaining recursion, where every explanation about recursion has a radically different video style, make this self-referential & clever & fast moving." All code, no images. Nine genre shifts, one prompt... 815516
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 25/09/2026I finally had time to finish nenadmarinkovic.com Front: writing, links, about and contact. Behind: my own admin for writing, monitoring projects, saving links and an Anki-like app for learning German. It runs on a Hetzner VPS, and I've fully left Vercel. 99 on Lighthouse! 🚀 #webdev #selfhosting 130
Reposted by NenadMark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you're designing a website for a restaurant, my tip would be: making it easy to find the menu is important, a 30-year breakdown of the founder's original vision and evolving philosophy less important. 1452221177
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 22/09/2026Seriously considering going back to macOS Sequoia. Golden Gate is full of bugs to the point of being unusable, especially Mission Control and desktop switching. Such a paradox: we have smarter tools than ever for building software, and yet software keeps getting worse. What a pity. 020
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/09/2026This is a map of how Vienna voted. You wouldn't guess why this small area in Ottakring went far-right (FPÖ) in an otherwise red (SPÖ) city. A friend told me: it's the Polizeibau, a 1930s housing complex for police officers. You know who they vote for. More: hof.nenadmarinkovic.com #dataviz #vienna 020
Reposted by NenadEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We have come pretty far from "every AI reference is hallucinated" (which still happens a lot if you use weaker models): when I had an AI go over my new book to check for errors, it found an error not in my reference itself, but in the original article my reference referred to. 1015312
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/09/2026Last week I found a little book gem called The Control Revolution by James Beniger (1986). On how the crisis of industrial control produced the information society we live in today. And I don't want to stop reading it (doesn't happen often). 010
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/09/2026No technology has provoked more resentment than information processing, from its very beginnings to AI today. But nothing is more human. It's what every cell does. What our companies do. What our societies do. It's who we are. Information processing systems of immense beauty and complexity. 110
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 25/08/2026I've been developing a project to get to know Vienna through its open data. You can click around to see where the city's growing and where it's shrinking, and set that against who voted for whom, who earns what, or who has no vote at all, etc. hof.nenadmarinkovic.com Might be interesting for you. 130
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 22/08/2026Hi! My name is Pisko. I can answer all your questions. If you want the most accurate answer possible, make sure to ask your question clearly and completely. You can ask me anything that comes to mind. My owner taught me how to answer all questions. 050
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 21/08/2026Thank you, Brian. I am having a lot of fun with it, either just watching them run or reading what the narrators say is happening. 111
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 21/08/2026It follows the Sugarscape model by Joshua M. Epstein and Robert Axtell, with a few things added. Agents can pay each other in promises, and one of them can emerge as money. #Mistral AI narrators like Marx, Bourdieu and Polanyi comment on what happens. github.com/nenadmarinkovic/nomos #opensource 010
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 21/08/2026I was looking for a way to connect #sociology and programming, and ended up developing Nomos, a small society #simulation: agents gather two resources, trade, take from each other, copy one another, have children, and die. You and a few theorists watch. #buildinpublic #abm nomos.nenadmarinkovic.com 260
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 18/08/2026You might be interested in an open-source experiment I'm working on: Nomos. I simulate a small society and run classical social theorists as AI observers to see what emerges. nomos.nenadmarinkovic.com 120
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/08/2026There is always some beauty and elegance in font names I find interesting: Garamond, Baskerville, Mori, Palatino, Perpetua, Canela, Tiempos, Caslon, Bodoni, Ashbury. Some are designers, some are places, some invented words. Beautiful either way. #typography 051
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/08/2026The app is running on a Hetzner VPS, and you can see how the estimation works at github.com/nenadmarinkovic/bim #opensource 010
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/08/2026Every time I'm in public transport, I open my app to check if my position syncs with the tram or bus I'm on. Living simultaneously in the real city and a small simulation I built. bim.nenadmarinkovic.com #vienna #buildinpublic #dataviz 140
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 16/08/2026Lately I've been building two side projects to get to know Vienna through data. I named them Bim and Hof. I wrote my first post about them, and about a thought experiment they led me to: how much of a city could you rebuild if you had all the data? #vienna #opendata #dataviz #buildinpublicnenadmarinkovic.comHow Much of a City Can You Rebuild From Its Open Data?Vienna publishes data on everything from its 200,000 trees to its trams, and I used it to build two maps of the city I moved to five years ago. You can map almost everything and still miss what makes ... 030
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 12/08/2026Literally writing a blog post on this topic for my new personal website. Small example: I used Pocket for saving links until it shut down. Tried Notion API, too complex, needed to login every time! Built my own browser extension instead, exactly as I needed it. There is no going back. 010
Reposted by NenadBluesky @bsky.app · 05/08/2026We’re rolling out improvements to trending topics right now! If you don’t already have it, you will in the next day or so. The new system catches more topics, identifies more posts within that topic, and serves them up faster, so you can feel more in tune with what everyone's talking about. 2692724265
Reposted by NenadBlaise Agüera y Arcas @blaiseaguera.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Our democracies, economies, and legal systems weren’t built to absorb AI at the rate it’s advancing. In a new essay for @noemamag.com, our Reverse Alignment coalition map out the investments needed for society to flourish with AI: www.noemamag.com/what-humanit...noemamag.comWhat Humanity Needs To Flourish In The Next Decade | NOEMAWe are headed toward a world of productivity without prosperity, execution without verification and capacity without constraint. But this outcome is not inevitable. 283
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 27/07/2026Such a peculiar paradox: adding to the endless flow of information the longing for simplicity. Information diets. Showing off minimal app setups. Seven days without a smartphone. Finally happy without Instagram! And yet the flow never ends. The doors that lead back are irreversibly closed. 020
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 27/07/2026I wasn't ready for such a great ending, haha. 💨 Btw, Simon is such a nice name, it was in our top names for a boy. 110
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 20/07/2026On the train from Vienna to Grünau im Almtal. Five days ahead, half work, half fun, while the toddler plays with grandparents. I guess it would be a shame not to share some Alps photos. 110
Reposted by NenadMIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Great convo, in which Fenwick McKelvey recounts the history of efforts to simulate politics by building models of elections, voters, and international relations. ("SimPolitics" is available #openaccess here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205319...) Interview here: newbooksnetwork.com/simpolitics 1183
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 18/07/2026Saturday morning. Woke up at 5 to continue setting up my new laptop. Homebrew, nvm, Oh My Zsh, SSH keys, Hetzner storage via rclone... Ohh well, Homebrew's rclone doesn't support mounting on macOS. Official binary fixes it instantly. Good morning. 110
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 18/07/2026Wow, I didn't know about this one. 😊 Looks super cozy and on my wishlist already. 010
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/07/2026I'm actually quite impressed with the performance. I've been playing Nova Roma, it was on my list and on discount. Graphics are great, fans are spinning and the laptop gets hot on high resolution, but damn, it's such a capable machine. And such a cute game. 110
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/07/2026It's Friday night, the baby girl is sleeping, and I'm installing #Steam just to see how the M5 Pro chip performs. Just for benchmarking reasons. @steampowered.com 120
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/07/2026I got so hooked on mIRC, ICQ, Winamp, Counter-Strike, and Sid Meier's Civilization. They were huge at the time. Anyway, a good moment for a small life reflection. The carrier is still a few stops away. 030
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/07/2026Although my father had an office job at home, he worked in the US as a manual laborer a couple of times in the 90s. Paradoxically, despite the undemocratic regime, people from Yugoslavia could easily get US visas back then. When he returned in 2000, he bought us an Audi 80 and a brand new Pentium 3. 110
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 17/07/2026My new MacBook Pro M5 is a few stops away and I feel like a boy getting his first machine. Good moment to share how I got my first computer. 100
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 14/07/2026If it weren't for a newsletter from Vienna Business Agency I almost ignored, I'd have no idea Nir Eyal is coming to Vienna on July 30. I like listening to this guy. #Vienna #NirEyal #startups viennabusinessagency.at/events-works... 030
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 13/07/2026I'd love to understand auth in #atproto better. Why do third-party Bluesky apps ask for permission to read, send, or delete my public records just to use auth? I don't get that part at all. 1100
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 13/07/2026I've been using Resend for emails and it works great, but looking for alternatives. Anyone using Brevo? How's the deliverability, developer experience? #email #webdev #buildinpublic 290
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 12/07/2026No, not fully, Vercel observability is just out of the box. You fill the gaps (errors, uptime, analytics) with hosted services, but it’s actually quite easy to set up. 020
Nenad @nenadmarinkovic.com · 12/07/2026Dokploy (open-source) + Hetzner VPS is my alternative to Vercel. I'm moving all projects there (one by one). 120
