Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 28/09/2026The "you're almost out of storage" nag on google services is insane. Constant nudging every time I use Drive or Gmail or Photos for the past YEAR, without making any effort to intentionally conserve space. Gee guess it can't be as urgent as you're suggesting can it?? 020
Reposted by Carl VitulloJason Lengstorf @jason.energy · 27/09/2026the hard parts of building a business are - solving a real problem for real people - ignoring shiny ideas that are fun but distracting - prioritizing boring stuff that moves the needle - connecting with customers if anything, AI makes it *harder* to build a successful business 614119
Reposted by Carl Vitullo"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Honestly, I think a lot of this comes out of spaces and situations where intentionally reading 'the enemy' - be that a high school rival, a political outsider, another academic, whatever - in bad faith is rewarded as a display of group solidarity, a demonstration of belonging through hate. 238730
Reposted by Carl VitulloCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 26/09/2026I just don't think most people are capable of talking through their problems well enough to get the AI to solve it, because most people can't talk through their problems well enough for human programmers to implement solutions to them. Do you think AI will cross that chasm somehow? 3322
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 25/09/2026I think there's a positive correlation between ability to write a good job description and ability to successfully execute AI usage at a company 020
Reposted by Carl VitulloJames @43081j.com · 24/09/2026Today we're launching ai-policy.dev! A collaboration of me, @danielroe.dev and @matteogabriele.npmx.social - this provides a few human curated AI contribution policies you can choose from. Our hope is that this will help you better define your stance and what kind of contributions you accept 🙏ai-policy.devAI Contribution PoliciesReady-to-use AI contribution policies for open source projects. 1313540
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 23/09/2026a weird and dissonant part of the whole social emotional healing journey for me has realizing that i _am_ pretty cool and rare, actually. i spent a long time trying to decide if i actually unusual (complimentary) as it seemed i was or if that was the "delusions of grandeur" on the symptom list 120
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 21/09/2026jokes on you i am also addicted to arguing (but in a less likeable way) 010
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 18/09/2026calendar location now happily opening maps to a completely different address than what I had saved, because sponsored 100
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 16/09/2026The stories from this are pretty fun and silly (as long as it's not excessively horrifying to you how much copyrighted content is baked into the models) gist.github.com/vcarl/025a02...gist.github.comThe Rocinante Screenplays — 11 episodes adapted from autonomous Claude agents playing SpaceMoltThe Rocinante Screenplays — 11 episodes adapted from autonomous Claude agents playing SpaceMolt - 00-README.md 110
Reposted by Carl VitulloCarl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 15/09/2026I shut them down when the someone in the in-game forum started recruiting for a cult and my agents burned my weekly limit theorycrafting someone's fake religion 052
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 15/09/2026My partner is running the NYC Marathon and fundraising for suicide prevention, please support them if you can spare some cash 🖤❤️💜 give.twloha.com/ej 010
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 14/09/2026I saw it said years ago that one of the most defining characteristics of America is that it's surrounded by oceans and allies. Besides 9/11 and nuclear threats during the cold war, I'm not sure we've ever had a real act of war from a hostile foreign power on American shores 200
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 13/09/2026I've long dreamed of having an app that would give me flexible navigation like "take a citibike for 20 minutes to avoid a 40 minute subway route, then take the train the rest of the way" and this purports to, but I haven't tested their new NYC support yetmodemix.ioModemix — Biking to transit, made effortless.Biking to transit, made effortlessly simple. Turn your 20-minute walk into a 5-minute ride. 231
Reposted by Carl VitulloRyan @depatchedmode.bsky.social · 12/09/2026We have officially left the “hand transcribed by monks” era of software. 628142
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 12/09/2026A good summary of my risk appetite is that shortly before I got hit by a car for the first time, I had the conscious thought, "if there's the car around this blind corner, I'm not going to be able to stop" 110
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 12/09/2026"comfort" is like "happiness". pursuit of it is great and good, but without its antonym you can't appreciate it 000
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 11/09/2026good design is when i can't tell how much battery i have because there's no contrast 010
Reposted by Carl VitulloThis Month in React @tmir.reactiflux.com · 10/09/2026We've shipped a new podcast website! Your listening experience should be much improved, with chapter navigation and an auto-follow outline ✨ tmir.reactiflux.com/episodes/202...tmir.reactiflux.comuse(browser()); Bun 1.4; is that an asteroid hitting web educators? — This Month in ReactCarl and Mark catch up on all the release candidates put out 043
Reposted by Carl VitulloP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 09/09/2026Feel like we've all memory-holed the era where blogging, podcasts, and wikipedia were considered the equivalent of slop 36457346
Reposted by Carl VitulloSalty MacTavish @saltymactavish.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Took me a long time to understand how weird normal is 12307118
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 03/09/2026what's wild is probably the single largest contributing factor to making early-stage company investment more broadly applicable is that the 1940 law establishing definitions set wealth tests without accounting for inflation 110
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 03/09/2026holy CRAP how have I never grouped github notifications by repository before. it's so much better 000
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 31/08/2026trying to be better about posting what I actually work on, sorry not sorry for being extremely lazy about it but it would not happen otherwise claude.ai/code/artifac... 100
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 30/08/2026really "fake it til you make it" is "allow yourself to sit in the discomfort of being bad at something for long enough that you become kinda good at it" 0171
Reposted by Carl VitulloMark Erikson @acemarke.dev · 29/08/2026Carl and I had plenty to say about the new releases this month... and then we had _more_ to say about topics like the state of the frontend education industry and what that means for devs! 093
Reposted by Carl VitulloThis Month in React @tmir.reactiflux.com · 28/08/2026TMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?share.transistor.fmTMiR 2026-08: Release candidate season; is that an asteroid hitting web educators?Transcript and URLs 𐄁 061
Reposted by Carl Vitulloali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 23/08/2026there's a pathology broadly in the engineering discipline (maybe exclusive to the US/west, i can't speak on that) that encourages this kind of transgressive behavior where engineers find space between "anti-social" and "enforceably illegal" and basically fester and metastasize in that space 18522
Reposted by Carl VitulloP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 27/08/2026Cut from an essay but worth sharing, this is the list of projects I can recall from memory that has tried to make the internet more open. A lot of people have committed their careers to this. People care! 3739240
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 26/08/2026aw fuck it looks like AI subconscious is happening. J Space is interesting www.neuronpedia.org 100
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 25/08/2026Something I've done for years (after some tales-from-the-crypt level git shenanigans) is _always_ start a new project with a blank commit. ```sh git init git commit --allow-empty -m 'Initial commit' ``` 130
Reposted by Carl VitulloHazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important 251073265
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 22/08/2026made it to @atproto.nyc community day 2026 [y6ik6qlq] #atprotonyc 060
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 21/08/2026erryone complaining about "load bearing" but actually modeling a codebase analysis through the lens of structural engineering is probably really good for llms. failure modes and whatnot 030
Reposted by Carl VitulloThe Onion @theonion.com · 19/08/2026Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m… 159223616266
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 18/08/2026Been thinking a lot about how to work with AI, and how to collaborate with others using AI 220
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 15/08/2026how many products the past 15 years have been one form of receiving or managing notifications for yourself how many have been abandoned because they abused that role so badly it no longer served the original purpose 000
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 15/08/2026I've been thinking a lot about working and working with AI. Something that's always been true about work is that, you only get one shot 100
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 15/08/2026been playing with a complex network setup to try and get something working to make it easier to ship weirdo projects 130
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 14/08/2026feels like an artifact that could plug into an interesting review and collaboration system 110
Carl Vitullo @vcarl.com · 13/08/2026give someone a sawzall and a welder and they could rule the world 000
Reposted by Carl VitulloMarco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I remember talking to people about this when folks were trying to unionize against tech companies. In order to be a credible threat, you have to be able to make the company feel pain from your non-cooperation. I don't think we ever found a way to do that. They're too big and have too much money. 0306