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russ @qqrs.us · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace Wendell Berry
Text of the Mad Farmer manifesto
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russ @qqrs.us · 30/08/2026
Sewing practice I want to be able to repair things
Back stitch with white thread in a pair of old jeans
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AT Protocol Developers @atproto.com · 20/08/2026
The most significant extension to the protocol since launch—atproto spaces—is now officially alpha software you can start testing with. Here's more about the goals and how to start testing. atproto.com/blog/atproto...
atproto.com
The Atproto Spaces Alpha is Live
Atproto Spaces, formerly known as “the permissioned data protocol,” is a new extension to atproto that enables non-public data. The alpha is now officially open. Here’s how to develop with it and what to expect as we work towards the full release.
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russ @qqrs.us · 22/08/2026
i'm at @atproto.nyc community day 2026 [gvb5n9d7] #atprotonyc
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russ @qqrs.us · 12/08/2026
The sun + moon did their eclipse thing (It’s always good to check)
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brainwane @harihareswara.net · 03/08/2026
Text adaptation of Andrew Kelley's Software Should Work 2026 keynote andrewkelley.me/post/dont-ta...
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Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley
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russ @qqrs.us · 03/08/2026
Good talk by Terence Tao on problems with AI in math research I'm finding the language helpful for thinking about AI in non-math stuff (writing, coding) teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid...
teorth.github.io
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atproto.nyc @atproto.nyc · 25/06/2026
July atproto.nyc meetup — who's in?! 🌀 Tues, July 7 🌀 5:30pm (talks ~6:30) 🌀 Brooklyn, near Atlantic Terminal 🔹 Pizza & drinks 🔹 A few short talks 🔹 Good conversation Please ping @schlage.town if interested in doing a ~10 min talk & share with friends / communities who might like to come!
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atproto.nyc - July 2026
Join us once again for pizza, a few short talks, and a whole lot of atmospheric conversation! ## When The evening of Tuesday, July 7, 2026. - Come at 5 to help set up - Doors at 5:30 - Pizza at 6 o...
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russ @qqrs.us · 15/06/2026
Good writeup on what Fable is like simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/...
simonwillison.net
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russ @qqrs.us · 03/06/2026
The state of software development in 2026
iTerm2 Software Update prompt
- Fix a number of bugs that caused crashes.
- Update AI models.
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Myko Nordy @n0rdy.foo · 04/05/2026
In case somebody missed this with all the AI thingy and world news. The 2nd edition of the best (imo) software engineering book has been recently released. Thanks for the gem, @martin.kleppmann.com
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russ @qqrs.us · 04/05/2026
Screenshot of article
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russ @qqrs.us · 04/05/2026
TIL my urge to pronounce Classon Ave like it's French is entirely unfounded The origin is almost certainly Dutch ("Claes-son" or similar)
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russ @qqrs.us · 09/04/2026
unironically sīla, samādhi, pañña
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russ @qqrs.us · 09/04/2026
FreeTaxUSA 4 life 🤘
FreeTaxUSA logo
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russ @qqrs.us · 09/04/2026
meaningalignment.substack.com/p/designing-...
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daniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 07/04/2026
what's your ai strategy? what's your quantum computing strategy? what's your ww3 strategy? what's your collapse of consensus reality strategy? what's your restructuring of global supply chains strategy? what's your pedophile billionaire cabal blackmail ring strategy?
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russ @qqrs.us · 09/04/2026
Also this is cool www.digitalinclusion.org/honor-roll-o...
digitalinclusion.org
Honor Roll of Low-Cost Plans - National Digital Inclusion Alliance
Who Is This Page For? In the table below, click on the “+” symbol next to the provider’s name on the left-hand side to expand more information. Click on
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russ @qqrs.us · 09/04/2026
Saw a rec from a friend for this, very tempted to switch $15/mo on the T-mobile 5g network www.computers4people.org/shield
computers4people.org
Computers 4 People
Unlocking Access to the Digital World.
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russ @qqrs.us · 21/03/2026
Vinay Gupta's simple critical infrastructure maps myhopeforthe.world
SCIM diagram showing six quadrants: illness, injury, too hot, too cold, hunger, thirst
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russ @qqrs.us · 20/03/2026
Prompted myself into a description of what I'm looking for in my next role
example of prompting the LLM with what I've been doing lately that may inform my career pathexamples of response, the parts that resonated
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russ @qqrs.us · 12/02/2026
substack.com/home/post/p-...
Screenshot of post
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russ @qqrs.us · 08/01/2026
TIL: Diátaxis framework for software documentation diataxis.fr
Diataxis framework 2x2
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. I see plenty of developers insisting AI coding tools are overhyped and error-prone. But I’m also starting to see the opposite, people who’ve fully embraced them and now find they’re so good it’s triggering a real crisis of confidence.
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 31/12/2025
Time for my big year end blogpost about the Atmosphere. From the personal computing perspective, the cloud has been a disaster — but we shouldn't run away from it. We can solve a lot of problems by connecting our clouds, turning it into atmospheric computing.
pfrazee.com
Atmospheric Computing
Cloud computing has been extremely successful, but it lost the values that drove personal computing. We can solve this by evolving forward.
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE PICNIC (1930) 🐕 🐾 Little Rover barked onto the scene as Minnie’s dog in THE PICNIC (1930). He’d get a new name (Pluto) & a new owner, Mickey Mouse, the following year. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the Public Domain, THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COULD (1930) 🚂 💪 Choo Choo Choo! We all learned about perseverance & trying from this iconic train. She thought she could, and she did 🥹 Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 01/01/2026
Welcome to the public domain: KING OF JAZZ (1930) 🎷 🎙️ Bing Crosby’s first on-screen appearance, as a member of the Rhythm Boys, performing in this early sound-era jazz moment filmed in two-strip Technicolor! Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree
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James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 26/12/2025
Yeah, I'd be pretty furious if I got spam email from some "AI agent" thanking me for my contributions too I dug into what happened here, turns out it's an experiment called "AI Village" which unleashes all sorts of other junk emails on the world: simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/...
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How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”
Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …
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russ @qqrs.us · 17/12/2025
the sort of wintry week in December where you linger after showering just for a crumb of humidity
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russ @qqrs.us · 16/12/2025
Super cool ferrofluid standing wave modulator at ITP Winter Show Artist is Matthew Blanco
Device with blobbly black liquid, knobs, buttons, and speaker
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russ @qqrs.us · 16/12/2025
vajra kitties goodwill find
artwork of two cats
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russ @qqrs.us · 15/12/2025
www.patreon.com/posts/genz-a...
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GenZ and 6-7 | Lorenzo Hagerty
Get more from Lorenzo Hagerty on Patreon
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russ @qqrs.us · 15/12/2025
20th century - "dictated but not read" 21st century - "prompted but not thought about"
old letter from 1943, after the signature says "Dictated but not read by Mr Wallace"
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russ @qqrs.us · 13/12/2025
Thinking more about the 11ty phenomena… why am I seeing a giant profile photo grid of their 300+ contributors? who is andy bell and why am I supposed to care that he says Jekyll is dead to him? and then there are a dozen+ other testimonials from people I’ve never heard of
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russ @qqrs.us · 12/12/2025
Picked out a static site generator for setting up a blog I was surprised at the visceral gut + heart rxns I had to the project home pages Many of them didn’t sit right with me. Feeling like Goldilocks over here!
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russ @qqrs.us · 12/12/2025
c'est fini
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russ @qqrs.us · 12/12/2025
Been meaning to dig into SAT/SMT solvers for a while www.youtube.com/watch?v=d76e...
youtube.com
A Peek Inside SAT Solvers - Jon Smock
YouTube video by ClojureTV
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𝕮 @chrisshank.com · 11/12/2025
It's an old myth
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𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗯 @meson.ninja · 30/11/2025
computers exist solely to make people upset the seven layer osi model is just the stages of grief in disguise
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James Felix Black @tft.io · 27/11/2025
Yes! They can do amazing things, but you cannot use them naïvely (note dieresis) and expect anything good. If you can provide them with invariants, ways to test those invariants, and understand how, eg, context windows impact state management, they're awesome.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/09/2025
One of the new skills required to get the most out of AI-assisted coding tools - Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc - is designing agentic loops: carefully selecting tools to run in a loop to achieve a specified goal. Do this well and you can solve many coding problems with brute force!
simonwillison.net
Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/11/2025
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
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dan @danabra.mov · 27/11/2025
log in with your internet handle
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Internet Handle
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Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · 29/11/2025
blog.greg.technology/2025/11/27/2...
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20/80
I finally saw Mean Girls and I get so many more things, about life, myself, and ~20 year old memes.
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russ @qqrs.us · 22/11/2025
Hard to overstate how nice a communal lab space is for one-off projects testing an output pin… oh, there’s a resistor I can use as a pulldown trying to guess what size screw will fit the servo… oh, there’s a kit of M2-M4 sizes
lab tabletop with oscilloscope, resistors, etclab tabletop with soldering iron, machine screw assortment kit, etc
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Greg Technology ❪⎷❫ @greg.technology · 16/11/2025
If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released! ~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :) Cheers! minivac.greg.technology
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Minivac 601 Simulator
A 1961 relay computer running in your browser
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Jake Lazaroff @jakelazaroff.com · 18/11/2025
this looks very cool, i mean that genuinely, but tbh i bristle a bit seeing "local-first" used as a straw man here. of course if your server is the source of truth you can eliminate a lot of local-first complexity — the entire point of that complexity is to avoid a server-authoritative architecture!
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russ @qqrs.us · 18/11/2025
it's alive ⚡️
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