Gordon
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Gordon
@gordon.bsky.social
· Apr 22
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Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Yesterday at TPAC I publicized my draft proposal for adding a declarative templating API to the DOM.
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
github.com/justinfagnan...
The repo has:
📖 Explainers for the templating API and DOM scheduler API
🏗️ Full prototype implementations
⚗️ a JSX transform
⚛️ a mini React-like framework
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80 layers — for those not paying attention, @dorialexander.bsky.social has been posting for weeks about how small models with deep rather than wide layers exhibit eerie emergent behavior
this one is worth checking out
this one is worth checking out
Synthetic playgrounds enabled a series of controlled experiments that brought us to favor extreme depth design. We selected a 80-layers architecture for Baguettotron, with improvements across the board on memorization of logical reasoning: huggingface.co/PleIAs/Bague...
November 11, 2025 at 2:26 AM
80 layers — for those not paying attention, @dorialexander.bsky.social has been posting for weeks about how small models with deep rather than wide layers exhibit eerie emergent behavior
this one is worth checking out
this one is worth checking out
low-end disruption harbinger
My first advice to junior contributors is to STOP using vibe coding for PRs. OSS is always about people more than about code. We don't need more code generated by LLM, we need more people who care.
November 10, 2025 at 2:10 PM
low-end disruption harbinger
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dream-logic is more powerful than logic-logic and oral cultures must encode knowledge into powerful meme-spells newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-and-h...
November 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
dream-logic is more powerful than logic-logic and oral cultures must encode knowledge into powerful meme-spells newsletter.squishy.computer/p/llms-and-h...
the internet is the most successful decentralized system of all time
November 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
the internet is the most successful decentralized system of all time
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you mean i can just publish anything to the web without some random gatekeeper (apple, google) telling me what to do? that's crazy
November 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM
you mean i can just publish anything to the web without some random gatekeeper (apple, google) telling me what to do? that's crazy
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Universal Basic Whole Earth Catalog
May 21, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Universal Basic Whole Earth Catalog
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here's my prediction of how its gonna play out
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 PM
here's my prediction of how its gonna play out
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AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 PM
AI could end scarcity, end humanity - or boost trend growth by 0.2 percentage points
rewatching 28 days later and impressed by how gentle and humanistic it is
November 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
rewatching 28 days later and impressed by how gentle and humanistic it is
lotta people on here acting like stochastic parrots... responding to new input by regurgitating their training data
November 7, 2025 at 12:49 PM
lotta people on here acting like stochastic parrots... responding to new input by regurgitating their training data
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The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The US government should subsidize Open AI rather than OpenAI
Man I love the Digitakt so much. I aspire to design tools like this… simple features that you can compose to unlock almost infinite creative possibilities…
November 7, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Man I love the Digitakt so much. I aspire to design tools like this… simple features that you can compose to unlock almost infinite creative possibilities…
preview of the near future
huh, the entire alberta energy grid was free for 16 hours yesterday
wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently
wind power was overproducing, so it just... goes to zero apparently
November 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
preview of the near future
I've been noticing people use the word "move" in an interesting way lately e.g. "mental move" or "running a good workshops is one of the most effective moves for making things happen in the world." bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/running-sm...
November 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I've been noticing people use the word "move" in an interesting way lately e.g. "mental move" or "running a good workshops is one of the most effective moves for making things happen in the world." bengoldhaber.substack.com/p/running-sm...
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it really cannot be overstated how good a tacit knowledge database is
"is the best practice to do it like this, or like this?" unlocks soooo much in any domain
"is the best practice to do it like this, or like this?" unlocks soooo much in any domain
One incredible thing about LLMs is that they encode a bunch of best-practice knowledge you would otherwise only pick up through apprenticeship, or by spending months digging through blogs and docs. any% speedruns in new domains are much faster now.
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
it really cannot be overstated how good a tacit knowledge database is
"is the best practice to do it like this, or like this?" unlocks soooo much in any domain
"is the best practice to do it like this, or like this?" unlocks soooo much in any domain
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for me, coming around on LLMs for learning and coding was less "i was wrong, these things are 100% accurate!" and more "wow, I really underestimated how many things are trivially fact-checkable but hard to surface"
November 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
for me, coming around on LLMs for learning and coding was less "i was wrong, these things are 100% accurate!" and more "wow, I really underestimated how many things are trivially fact-checkable but hard to surface"
One incredible thing about LLMs is that they encode a bunch of best-practice knowledge you would otherwise only pick up through apprenticeship, or by spending months digging through blogs and docs. any% speedruns in new domains are much faster now.
November 6, 2025 at 8:11 AM
One incredible thing about LLMs is that they encode a bunch of best-practice knowledge you would otherwise only pick up through apprenticeship, or by spending months digging through blogs and docs. any% speedruns in new domains are much faster now.
From the standpoint of requisite variety, it is best to let the AI drive vs trying to orchestrate it. Power it up with capabilities and let it sense-plan-act on its own. This is bullish for the foundation model companies...
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 AM
From the standpoint of requisite variety, it is best to let the AI drive vs trying to orchestrate it. Power it up with capabilities and let it sense-plan-act on its own. This is bullish for the foundation model companies...
Solar is fundamentally decentralized. You don't have to wait for state capacity or resolve collective action problems to build it out. And in many places it's not even competing with baseload, it's competing with a dysfunctional centralized grid, or nothing climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
Why Solarpunk is already happening in Africa
Or: How Africa is building the future by skipping the past
climatedrift.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Solar is fundamentally decentralized. You don't have to wait for state capacity or resolve collective action problems to build it out. And in many places it's not even competing with baseload, it's competing with a dysfunctional centralized grid, or nothing climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarp...
subcultures are society buying real options on other ways of being
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
subcultures are society buying real options on other ways of being