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paco @pa.co · 13/08/2026
Nest thermostat: It never stops learning.
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paco @pa.co · 08/05/2026
time: the only asymmetry
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paco @pa.co · 04/05/2026
anything not saved will be lost
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paco @pa.co · 01/04/2026
correctness at the wrong scale is its own form of failure
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paco @pa.co · 17/03/2026
big part of games being more immersive and enjoyable software experiences is their considerate handling of user inputs continuous spectrum of reaction — not individual events
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paco @pa.co · 08/03/2026
are there any models that encourage hallucinations? i.e. non-existent but plausible ideas nearby in idea space?
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paco @pa.co · 06/03/2026
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paco @pa.co · 23/02/2026
is markdown a good idea? not convinced
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paco @pa.co · 15/02/2026
my defense against AI attacks on my open source software is to simply not work on my open source software
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paco @pa.co · 12/05/2023
time and randomness created everything we know
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paco @pa.co · 09/05/2023
the human genome is a 3.2 billion line assembly file half of it is deprecated methods a third is malicious Russian code and it’s the most efficient program of all time
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paco @pa.co · 23/01/2026
never seen Söhne look bad… until soundcloud
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paco @pa.co · 23/01/2026
content negotiation and machine readable data comeback
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paco @pa.co · 22/01/2026
brew is just a thin layer over an HTTP request
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paco @pa.co · 19/01/2026
love you HTML love you JSON-LD thx @timbl.bsky.social
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paco @pa.co · 12/01/2026
the death of the LAN is exaggerated online and offline meet at different points
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paco @pa.co · 08/01/2026
______ and _______ are styled with CSS. Frameworks rot. CSS waits. .md 2.4kB Mar 18 2025
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paco @pa.co · 02/01/2026
a lot of design is typography. without even considering the content, pay attention to the visual space that type occupies and how it relates to elements around it
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paco @pa.co · 02/01/2026
"hand terminal" a CLI in your pocket
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paco @pa.co · 24/12/2025
time new currency. arg. hard not to spend
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paco @pa.co · 22/12/2025
harp is luxury
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paco @pa.co · 12/12/2025
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paco @pa.co · 13/11/2025
didn't expect Apple's best hardware competitor to be Valve
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paco @pa.co · 09/11/2025
transclusion is so useful
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lynn @chordbug.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
idea: Turbo-C-style initials
same art but the B is in a dark blue box reminiscent of Borland Turbo C
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paco @pa.co · 09/11/2025
more inputs, let me tweak
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paco @pa.co · 29/10/2025
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paco @pa.co · 28/10/2025
crazy that storing a piece of data that needs to be accessible from multiple sources is incredibly hard at scale it means caching, which means latency and stale data, which means coordination and resolution it becomes a time problem
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paco @pa.co · 20/10/2025
it's great to see that design engineering is a mix of both sides; many started programming websites and appealed to the intricacy of visual interfaces; others start from art and graphic design; we meet the web as a medium of expression
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paco @pa.co · 17/10/2025
.
└── human
    └── device
        └── os
            └── app
                └── window
                    └── view
                        └── frame
                            └── document
                                └── element
                                    └── node
                                        └── attribute
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paco @pa.co · 17/10/2025
it all belongs in the browser
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paco @pa.co · 17/10/2025
why `npm install`, HTTP request was right there
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paco @pa.co · 05/10/2025
startup idea: space CDNs/router
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paco @pa.co · 18/09/2025
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paco @pa.co · 05/09/2025
love shared code
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paco @pa.co · 02/09/2025
deeply learn CSS until it flows like water
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paco @pa.co · 25/08/2025
browser problem: scary amount of data access. need a centralized "browsing data" store managed by the OS, so you can swap out the browser frontend?
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paco @pa.co · 22/08/2025
on my PC
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paco @pa.co · 06/08/2025
never once has telling Siri to "open this on iPhone" worked
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paco @pa.co · 30/07/2025
love bugs, they always reveal a misunderstanding or deeper understanding of flawed systems
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paco @pa.co · 29/07/2025
Safari web apps ("Add to Dock") does NOT clear web storage after 7 days of inactivity, unlike the default behavior for Safari browsing
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paco @pa.co · 24/07/2025
cringe that AI editors are focusing on having it write code for you, instead of tackling the more valuable problem: reading/navigating/understanding existing code!! i need on-demand "code maps" with generated documentation, so I can more quickly traverse a codebase with thousands of methods
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paco @pa.co · 07/07/2025
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paco @pa.co · 26/05/2023
the goal is to make the interface between intent and software really thin
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paco @pa.co · 08/05/2023
systems of recursive systems all the way down to atoms all the way up to cosmos
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paco @pa.co · 29/06/2025
symbols
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paco @pa.co · 28/06/2025
it's a race can CSS be an expressive enough layout system vs can you move enough application JS into a worker and truly make the main thread === UI thread
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paco @pa.co · 27/06/2025
github.com/pacocoursey/...
github.com
GitHub - pacocoursey/xslt: Native web build system (XML+XSLT)
Native web build system (XML+XSLT). Contribute to pacocoursey/xslt development by creating an account on GitHub.
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paco @pa.co · 07/03/2025
we are about to re-enter the era of the STYLESHEET
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paco @pa.co · 10/05/2025
figma config gf, stripe sessions bf
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