Daniel Fosco
@danielfos.co
software designer @github.com • big nerd • skateboarder • opinions my own etc • danielfos.co on the web • 🇧🇷🇳🇱
gas town feels more like an experimental fiction writing project than actual software, and maybe that's why it's so brilliant
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Gas Town Emergency User Manual
It’s been a busy 12 days since I launched Gas Town. ️I’ve merged over 100 PRs from nearly 50 contributors, adding 44k lines of code that no…
steve-yegge.medium.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 PM
gas town feels more like an experimental fiction writing project than actual software, and maybe that's why it's so brilliant
steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-eme...
steve-yegge.medium.com/gas-town-eme...
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tip for screensharing animations on zoom
- set display size as close to 1920x1080 (viewers get a 1080p video, closer you are the less downscaling)
- make sure this is checked before starting screenshare
viewers will see a crispier feed and closer to 30fps (regular is ~5fps)
- set display size as close to 1920x1080 (viewers get a 1080p video, closer you are the less downscaling)
- make sure this is checked before starting screenshare
viewers will see a crispier feed and closer to 30fps (regular is ~5fps)
January 13, 2026 at 6:15 PM
tip for screensharing animations on zoom
- set display size as close to 1920x1080 (viewers get a 1080p video, closer you are the less downscaling)
- make sure this is checked before starting screenshare
viewers will see a crispier feed and closer to 30fps (regular is ~5fps)
- set display size as close to 1920x1080 (viewers get a 1080p video, closer you are the less downscaling)
- make sure this is checked before starting screenshare
viewers will see a crispier feed and closer to 30fps (regular is ~5fps)
connect my what??
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, encouraging users to connect their medical records
But it’s “not intended for diagnosis or treatment.”
buff.ly
January 13, 2026 at 8:31 AM
connect my what??
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‘Dueling Banjos’
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before
January 12, 2026 at 3:49 PM
‘Dueling Banjos’
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before
A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before
code blocks are not enough
i need embeds running arbitrary third party interfaces on bsky
i need XSS injection on the atmosphere
i want little widgets on my feed!!!
i need embeds running arbitrary third party interfaces on bsky
i need XSS injection on the atmosphere
i want little widgets on my feed!!!
Are there plans to add syntax highlighting to code blocks and inline code to Bluesky? It is one of the top features devs appreciated in Elk. Being able to share a11y code snippets instead of images makes a huge diff. I think it could help a lot to promote tinkering with the protocol among devs
January 8, 2026 at 10:57 PM
code blocks are not enough
i need embeds running arbitrary third party interfaces on bsky
i need XSS injection on the atmosphere
i want little widgets on my feed!!!
i need embeds running arbitrary third party interfaces on bsky
i need XSS injection on the atmosphere
i want little widgets on my feed!!!
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We're actively looking to grow our team at @ersc.io again! If you are interested or know someone who might be, I'd love to chat.
We are looking for distributed storage folk as well as frontend/UX.
We are looking for distributed storage folk as well as frontend/UX.
January 8, 2026 at 10:25 PM
We're actively looking to grow our team at @ersc.io again! If you are interested or know someone who might be, I'd love to chat.
We are looking for distributed storage folk as well as frontend/UX.
We are looking for distributed storage folk as well as frontend/UX.
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serious question: is anyone hiring? open to connecting. 10+ years of full stack experience plus 1 year of unhinged ai/atproto hacking
January 6, 2026 at 9:52 PM
serious question: is anyone hiring? open to connecting. 10+ years of full stack experience plus 1 year of unhinged ai/atproto hacking
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January 6, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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This is one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
January 5, 2026 at 10:45 PM
This is one of the coolest fucking things I’ve ever seen
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
An old school anarchist hacker who goes by Martha Root infiltrated a nazi dating site, got all of their into onto okstupid.lol, and THEN SHE DELETED THE ENTIRE SITE LIVE WHILE DRESSED AS THE PINK POWER RANGER.
hero.
OK now when is the Medabots set coming out, LEGO?
January 5, 2026 at 7:46 PM
OK now when is the Medabots set coming out, LEGO?
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checking out the crypto gaming magazine’s 2026 “most anticipated” list to see how blockchain gaming has been going
January 4, 2026 at 5:54 PM
checking out the crypto gaming magazine’s 2026 “most anticipated” list to see how blockchain gaming has been going
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Political experts paint an increasingly dire picture. They expect that by 2035 the US will turn into a lawless wasteland called the Battlerealm. Their analysis predicts everyone will fight to obtain Skaxx, a street drug that makes you good at karate
October 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Political experts paint an increasingly dire picture. They expect that by 2035 the US will turn into a lawless wasteland called the Battlerealm. Their analysis predicts everyone will fight to obtain Skaxx, a street drug that makes you good at karate
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The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
December 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
If you care about what building software looks like in the future, start your year reading this one.
Not a crystal ball post or AI hype, just a genuinely fresh take.
Not a crystal ball post or AI hype, just a genuinely fresh take.
December 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
If you care about what building software looks like in the future, start your year reading this one.
Not a crystal ball post or AI hype, just a genuinely fresh take.
Not a crystal ball post or AI hype, just a genuinely fresh take.
rio de janeiro / barra
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 AM
rio de janeiro / barra
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Here’s to 2026
December 27, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Here’s to 2026
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had to amend based on my Expertise
December 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
had to amend based on my Expertise
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Back in the 2000s, Orkut was the biggest social network in Brasil, but their DM system was unusable.
People started using their testimonials feature (think LinkedIn recommendations, but for praising your friends) as a message system, since the request itself was private.
People started using their testimonials feature (think LinkedIn recommendations, but for praising your friends) as a message system, since the request itself was private.
This reminds me of a colleague who used to use Monzo as a chat app by sending £0.01 to a friend and using the reference field as the message. You get the money back when they reply. They send thousands of messages back and forth.
I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.
December 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Back in the 2000s, Orkut was the biggest social network in Brasil, but their DM system was unusable.
People started using their testimonials feature (think LinkedIn recommendations, but for praising your friends) as a message system, since the request itself was private.
People started using their testimonials feature (think LinkedIn recommendations, but for praising your friends) as a message system, since the request itself was private.
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a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
suspect a big reason why many academics and others who work in areas where getting facts RIGHT is key are disinterested in using LLMs for research:
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
they’ve tried it, they keep noticing major errors in output, and they conclude that having to verify all that doesn’t actually save them time.
December 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
a required skill for being able to use an LLM in any professional capacity is discernment, essentially already being an expert in the field so you know when (and why) its outputs are incorrect.
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
now, LLMs are being deployed to non-expert groups in a way that ensures they will never *be* experts
posso confirmar, entrou e limpou mesmo
December 21, 2025 at 7:36 PM
posso confirmar, entrou e limpou mesmo
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You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering
December 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering