Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 13hI assume they do the usual "people we like get refreshers" thing 120
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 03/10/2026Started using last.fm again after a decade away. I used it with iTunes for a very long time, and having that old history was really useful for rebuilding my music library post-Spotify 020
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 02/10/2026Probably identical. Either way code is being written to call out functionality, the main difference is whether that code runs on our computer or the user’s 110
Reposted by Reilly WoodBoris @bmann.ca · 02/10/2026Great article by Oana Olteanu “Against Usefulness” that centers @folkcomputer.bsky.social while describing “the stage before useful, who works on it, and who pays for it, so that the next generation of useful companies has something to stand on”motivenotes.aiAgainst UsefulnessIn a Brooklyn warehouse, a man handed me a piece of paper that was a running computer program. 24012
Reposted by Reilly WoodAdam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 02/10/2026Someone just asked "what do you think about this PR?" nice try buddy. That's a distillation attack. Blocked. 322316
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 02/10/2026Been thinking about this as an MCP server author. Client-side code mode is prob the future, but you can't rely on most clients having it for the foreseeable future. So we're shipping server-side code mode *now*, and will have to straddle an awkward gap for a while earendil.com/posts/you-sa...earendil.com“You Said No MCP!” | EarendilPi now supports MCP. Why we changed our minds, what changed in MCP and in Pi, and what Codemode is. 120
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 02/10/2026I am really curious what strategies people would come up with to get around the moderation 150
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 02/10/2026This actually seems kind of fun. Like now I want to start a contest where you port software to an OS that actively tries to fuck with you 010
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 30/09/2026As a former .NET guy turned Rust guy: general feeling that the ceiling for what can be built is higher with Rust, and desire to avoid shipping runtime or having to think about NativeAOT limitations but compile times are certainly on .NET's side 010
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 30/09/2026computer, accept all cookies. no, not just the essential ones. give me all the cookies. more cookies. MORE 040
Reposted by Reilly WoodGrace @gracekind.net · 28/09/2026A computer is a type of apartment building 4655
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 29/09/2026Feeling a bit of guilt these days when working on hyper-customized personal apps instead of "hard problems." I'm a lot more productive at it now but pre-agents it was more of a skill-building exercise than it is today. 061
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 28/09/2026Ha, amazing - appreciate you posting this, what a specific answer 010
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 28/09/2026humbling to think that we can now write more software in a weekend than a medieval peasant could in their entire lifetime 21034
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 28/09/2026not that I would ever recommend this, but you can "download" an entire Spotify playlist pretty reliably by grabbing a CSV from exportify.app and telling an agent to go wild with yt-dlpexportify.appExportifyExport Spotify playlists using the Web API 120
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/09/2026looking forward to "good-enough local model" becoming a widely available+abstract primitive 050
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/09/2026I find myself building little specialized agents into fairly vanilla software more+more often. It's so cheap and easy if you can give your software an OpenRouter key. ex: music player has an agent to auto-tag songs, just a cheap model with a MusicBrainz search tool and web search, works very well 110
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 27/09/2026I interact with so many smart people whose brains are simmering in a very bad place, I do not like it 040
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026Interesting thread of people using a Samsung commercial-use e-ink display at home, tempted www.reddit.com/r/eink/comme...reddit.comSatoer's comment on "I bought the new Samsung EMDX 32” color E-paper, AMA"Explore this conversation and more from the eink community 000
Reposted by Reilly WoodAlex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Why are database benchmarks always some nicely assembled TPC queries and not just an utter horror unleashed upon the world? Join Order Benchmark is just IMDB. JuniorVoluteerDataEngBench would be so appalling people would say “that’s not a realistic workload/query”… because it’s too realistic. 0253
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026What should I do with a banked reset on the 20x Codex plan? The low-hanging fruit for my personal projects has already been picked 100
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026Yeah! I think the B&W/greyscale ones are usually a lot faster. I'd love to do a project with one of these but the E1004 is *so* convenient with the battery, frame, etc. www.waveshare.com/13.3inch-e-p...waveshare.com13.3inch E-Paper E-Ink Raw Display, 1600×1200 Pixels, Black / White, 16 Grey Scales, Parallel Port, Without PCB13.3inch E-Paper E-Ink Raw Display, 1600×1200 Pixels, Black / White, 16 Grey Scales, Parallel Port, Without PCB 010
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026Nice! Yeah, the refresh takes a *long* time which is a little unfortunate but par for the course with the other colour e-ink displays I've used :( 110
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026My approach for the photos is to 1) pass them through an image generator to get a stylized B&W image, 2) do Atkinson dithering on the stylized image. Works really nicely for landscapes and cityscapes, less good for humans+pets. 090
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 26/09/2026current status: weather, grocery list, calendar, personal photos with mega-dither applied 190
Reposted by Reilly WoodFelicitas Pojtinger @felicitas.pojtinger.com · 26/09/2026I think we should actually normalize everyone having their own little 24/7 box running somewhere with root access 1221
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 25/09/2026I recommend being in Cowork instead of Chat (the difference is very confusing and they are eliminating it soon. using Code from the local app is also a good option) 100
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 25/09/2026man, golden age for hosting random little apps on a VPS "it'd be too much hassle to fork/install/maintain myself" is mostly gone as an excuse 010
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 23/09/2026Couple weeks into using Astra for most things at work+home. I can't quite put my finger on it but it feels *easy* to work with; I don't need to correct it often, it's rare that it misunderstands what I'm looking for, it is proactive in a generally reasonable way. 030
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 23/09/2026I was hoping to do this and... sigh. It will be purchaseable someday but it's unclear when. I love my Framework but availability of parts could be better. 000
Reposted by Reilly WoodZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 23/09/2026We are about to see an avalanche of AI generated animations. I think all those low-quality children's animations can already be replaced, which suggests they will be soon. Opus 5.5 is incredibly powerful and cheap. The weirdening is accelerating. Like, this isn't even obviously AI. 2537544
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 23/09/2026ahh, work's done, time to take a big sip of coffee then see who Floating Points is doing DJ sets with these days. soundcloud.com/user-2022863...soundcloud.comFloating Points w/ Hikaru Utada 270726Sam Shepherd a.k.a Floating Points barely needs introduction. Cataloguing depths uncharted to expose some of the best jazz, soul, rare groove and disco around. Find the full tracklist and related ep 010
Reposted by Reilly WoodAdem @adem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026this guy apparently stoped to help a friend in brooklyn and had his website logo plastered all over his bike and shirt and now we're just all hootin' and hollerin' with joy over in bike nerd chat 231
Reposted by Reilly WoodAdem @adem.bsky.social · 22/09/2026please enjoy this man's website augusto.ataugusto.atAugusto's Faces – Pareidolia Fine ArtPareidolia Fine Art images can be found easier if you squint. The abstracts I’ve captured are images of urban surfaces. They are not photos of intentionally manipulated surfaces. Instead, they are subtle portraits created by 123
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 22/09/2026I wonder. It gets me addicted to the $$$ frontier models at home then I’m more likely to use them at API prices at work.. 150
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 22/09/2026The competition on cost at the low end is wild. In under 2 months I've moved to Luna, to GLM 5.3 Flash, and now probably back to Luna for high-volume tasks 160
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 22/09/2026work update: letting agents write code is very good www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog...datadoghq.comCut AI agent cost and improve accuracy with Code Execution in the Datadog MCP Server | DatadogUse the Code Execution toolset in the Datadog MCP Server to help AI agents run multisignal investigations with fewer tool calls and less model context. 130
Reposted by Reilly Woodandrew blinn @disconcision.com · 21/09/2026introducing the embodied coding agent canvas I've been working on, and how it integrates with per-data-type GUI generation to support more transparent type-directed agent dev processes. remote demo for ARIA SGAI www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6lY...youtube.comHazel constellation canvas demoYouTube video by andrew blinn 1225
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 21/09/2026Jamie Brandon is off to Anthropic: www.scattered-thoughts.net/log/0061/scattered-thoughts.net0061: i'm not a cat, artificial adventures, synthetic sagas, anthropic, sponsors 130
Reilly Wood @reillywood.com · 20/09/2026Ah. It's correctly distinguishing between Vancouver Canada and Vancouver USA 100
