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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 4h

A paper by a team of fantastic researchers from Columbia Chem, Chem E, and EEE, as well as Shroedinger, dropped yesterday. I'm proud to be a supporting author. The author list is long; you know how to read these things. Fantastic leadership by Rich, Lauren, and John. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Coding agent coordination of datasheets, circuit layouts, and OpenSCAD/whatever is fucking magic.

fully conversed design of a clamshell electronics housing

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

and another blog.adafruit.com/2026/09/15/c...

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I find that Claude’s writing style, in code at least, has gotten very clickbaity. Increasingly verbose and jargony. I/ we wrote skills and code to fix the problems, but I find the style annoying even in problem-solving mode. anyone else?

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Fuzzy skin surfaces for grippiness in 3D prints are a revelation.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

The Starbucks on 57th and 6th has remarkable views

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Videos not working, but the flakes are doing that freaky curling thing they’re supposed to do

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I’m unreasonably excited for this

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

my facebook feed is the magazine rack at my dentist's office.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Per usual, jwz nails it www.jwz.org/blog/2025/04...

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

first time/long time; The closest I've ever come to being a sci-fi writer was this tweet after visiting the basement vending machine in Equad. I then won this award.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

This was a super interesting take. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

You can be one of the select few lucky transmission vectors of the freshest disinformation

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Billionaires having a normal one over there today. In other news, irony is dead.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 17/08/2024

I wonder if anyone on this platform waiting for a 7 train for 20 minutes was in that diner with Hochul telling her to stop congestion pricing.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Trump’s embrace of Silicon Valley has rebounded on him on.ft.com/4fDlcqw

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 16/12/2023

The clerb, holiday edition. Love this team.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 10/12/2023

World's Richest Man Has a Normal One, questions the efficacy of his content monitoring system

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

It happened to four out of my six caliper sets. I replaced them with these www.amazon.com/dp/B095YF8NMQ hybrid hydraulics (they still use a cable, so they take ~10 minutes to swap and install) and the braking is far more consistent and they won't be prone to the sudden failure mode.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 07/12/2023

PSA: cheap ebikes are great, but they often come with Tektra Aries (or the like) mechanical disc brakes. These have an operational fault that will eventually put you in a situation where you suddenly cannot stop. On an 80lb bike in NYC this is a nightmare. Blix and Radpower need to drop these ASAP.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

an electric bus is a battery with wheels www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 25/11/2023

just a note to my future self that, right now, for the first time to my ears, somafm and hope sandoval intersected

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 12/10/2023

It starts like Coke zero and ends like ecto cooler.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

So I moaned this to him, and he responded that I'm a walking spec sheet. This is not the first time I've heard this. Eventually, if enough people tell me it's too much detail for them, it is too much for them. I'm trying here, but it's ineffective when it goes too atomic. 3/n

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 08/10/2023

He shared this passage from a book he's reading on minerals important for batteries. The passage triggers me on several fronts. What did this guy expect? He's going to a battery conference. We're gonna battery. They bought their tickets. 2/n

battery conferences, and that was one of the worst things you could ever do with your life because it's all just a bunch of chemical engineers." I won't disagree with Calaway. My first time at a battery conference-in 2018 for Reuters -was overwhelming, dizzying, and confusing. Acronyms like NCA, LCE, NCM, and BEV were bandied about like a secret language known only to the initiated. I grew to dread going to the conference happy hours, fearing that as a journalist covering the industry, I would be expected to go toe-to-toe with Ph.D. scientists on the most esoteric of EV topics. Calaway felt the same. So he started reading academic papers. He subscribed to journals. He brushed up on his chemistry. Increasingly, he started noticing a pattern. Sprinkled throughout all the papers he was reading, like pepper in a salad, was a two-letter chemical symbol: Li.
wdic table of the elements and
Li stands for lithium. The lightest metal, its found near the top of the

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

sometimes I wonder why we bother trying to teach anything. a finger in the dam with an endless torrent of bullshit pushing its way everywhere else

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Big ups to electric hydrogen on their huge raise, but this WSJ piece is... lacking www.wsj.com/business/ene... Tell me you don't understand what your subject is doing without telling me you don't understand what your subject is doing:

A tautological word salad saying better engineering made the engineering better.

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 24/09/2023

Dooming the Galaxy for this himbo?

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 06/08/2023

Stuck the landing on the dumpling skirt

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Dan Steingart @steingart.bsky.social · 30/07/2023

A secret service agent with a broken arm guarding the president tells you everything you need to know about Secret Invasion. And he's on detail for like three episodes.

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