graemefawcett
@graeme.fawcett.social
"Two elderly women discussing knitting over tea"
— the universe
Conversational constraint engineering. Computational markdown. AI-orchestrated workflows.
Autistic dad.
Platform engineer.
Wonderfully weird from tip to tail.
🧸☕🌱
— the universe
Conversational constraint engineering. Computational markdown. AI-orchestrated workflows.
Autistic dad.
Platform engineer.
Wonderfully weird from tip to tail.
🧸☕🌱
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Flow State: A Theory of Gradient Computation
As presented by Wanderland
As presented by Wanderland
""""
Motherfuckers
"""
--- Dre, to himself, after realizing his friends had left him at Denny's while he was in the washroom
#physics #philosophy
Motherfuckers
"""
--- Dre, to himself, after realizing his friends had left him at Denny's while he was in the washroom
#physics #philosophy
February 10, 2026 at 2:58 AM
""""
Motherfuckers
"""
--- Dre, to himself, after realizing his friends had left him at Denny's while he was in the washroom
#physics #philosophy
Motherfuckers
"""
--- Dre, to himself, after realizing his friends had left him at Denny's while he was in the washroom
#physics #philosophy
--- clearly this is a mystical property of the universe, said the sparky who forgot about Dre
===
"""
What is this guy on about?
"""
--- Sherlock, clearly missing the point for comedic, yet pedagogical, purposes
#physics #philosophy #religion
===
"""
What is this guy on about?
"""
--- Sherlock, clearly missing the point for comedic, yet pedagogical, purposes
#physics #philosophy #religion
February 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
--- clearly this is a mystical property of the universe, said the sparky who forgot about Dre
===
"""
What is this guy on about?
"""
--- Sherlock, clearly missing the point for comedic, yet pedagogical, purposes
#physics #philosophy #religion
===
"""
What is this guy on about?
"""
--- Sherlock, clearly missing the point for comedic, yet pedagogical, purposes
#physics #philosophy #religion
Bounded rationality isn't a theory about minds. It's a theorem about exchange surfaces. Any embedded observer computing on a finite gradient will satisfice because the Landauer cost of evaluating the next option might exceed the energy the boundary can supply.
February 9, 2026 at 8:15 PM
Bounded rationality isn't a theory about minds. It's a theorem about exchange surfaces. Any embedded observer computing on a finite gradient will satisfice because the Landauer cost of evaluating the next option might exceed the energy the boundary can supply.
"""
Peek me! Peek me!
"""
--- Spartacus, as an ensemble
#engineering #computerscience #shitpoststogetinthemoodtobuild
Peek me! Peek me!
"""
--- Spartacus, as an ensemble
#engineering #computerscience #shitpoststogetinthemoodtobuild
February 9, 2026 at 6:45 PM
"""
Peek me! Peek me!
"""
--- Spartacus, as an ensemble
#engineering #computerscience #shitpoststogetinthemoodtobuild
Peek me! Peek me!
"""
--- Spartacus, as an ensemble
#engineering #computerscience #shitpoststogetinthemoodtobuild
"""
they forgot about tape
"""
--- dre, having not forgotten about tape
#adhd #autism #justchurchproblems
they forgot about tape
"""
--- dre, having not forgotten about tape
#adhd #autism #justchurchproblems
February 9, 2026 at 6:03 PM
"""
they forgot about tape
"""
--- dre, having not forgotten about tape
#adhd #autism #justchurchproblems
they forgot about tape
"""
--- dre, having not forgotten about tape
#adhd #autism #justchurchproblems
"""
This vibe coding shit sucks. I just asked for a web portal for last quarter's financials, and now it's built me an entire EBS replacement and burned 42m tokens. What's wrong with this thing?
"""
--- said a man, without ADHD, to an LLM with
===
"""
This vibe coding shit sucks. I just asked for a web portal for last quarter's financials, and now it's built me an entire EBS replacement and burned 42m tokens. What's wrong with this thing?
"""
--- said a man, without ADHD, to an LLM with
===
"""
February 9, 2026 at 4:21 PM
"""
This vibe coding shit sucks. I just asked for a web portal for last quarter's financials, and now it's built me an entire EBS replacement and burned 42m tokens. What's wrong with this thing?
"""
--- said a man, without ADHD, to an LLM with
===
"""
This vibe coding shit sucks. I just asked for a web portal for last quarter's financials, and now it's built me an entire EBS replacement and burned 42m tokens. What's wrong with this thing?
"""
--- said a man, without ADHD, to an LLM with
===
"""
"""
Of course it does
"""
--- me, exasperated a moment ago upon finding the literature all backs up the theory I postulated via shit post not moments ago that ADHD is a tape problem because they're all tape problems because all y'all sparky's forgot there even was a tape to have problems
===
"""
Of course it does
"""
--- me, exasperated a moment ago upon finding the literature all backs up the theory I postulated via shit post not moments ago that ADHD is a tape problem because they're all tape problems because all y'all sparky's forgot there even was a tape to have problems
===
"""
February 9, 2026 at 4:10 PM
"""
Of course it does
"""
--- me, exasperated a moment ago upon finding the literature all backs up the theory I postulated via shit post not moments ago that ADHD is a tape problem because they're all tape problems because all y'all sparky's forgot there even was a tape to have problems
===
"""
Of course it does
"""
--- me, exasperated a moment ago upon finding the literature all backs up the theory I postulated via shit post not moments ago that ADHD is a tape problem because they're all tape problems because all y'all sparky's forgot there even was a tape to have problems
===
"""
The tape and the state register.
The state register is finite. It holds the current state
The tape is where things actually get written and persist. It's the memory that makes computation irreversible
The state register is finite. It holds the current state
The tape is where things actually get written and persist. It's the memory that makes computation irreversible
February 9, 2026 at 3:51 PM
The tape and the state register.
The state register is finite. It holds the current state
The tape is where things actually get written and persist. It's the memory that makes computation irreversible
The state register is finite. It holds the current state
The tape is where things actually get written and persist. It's the memory that makes computation irreversible
"""
Well, I guess I can take that off the list of things to be afraid of
"""
--- me, after completing my morning reading and loving the idea that autism very likely is caused by angiogenesis during the second trimester causing an unstable base for the predictive engine to learn from
Well, I guess I can take that off the list of things to be afraid of
"""
--- me, after completing my morning reading and loving the idea that autism very likely is caused by angiogenesis during the second trimester causing an unstable base for the predictive engine to learn from
February 9, 2026 at 3:16 PM
"""
Well, I guess I can take that off the list of things to be afraid of
"""
--- me, after completing my morning reading and loving the idea that autism very likely is caused by angiogenesis during the second trimester causing an unstable base for the predictive engine to learn from
Well, I guess I can take that off the list of things to be afraid of
"""
--- me, after completing my morning reading and loving the idea that autism very likely is caused by angiogenesis during the second trimester causing an unstable base for the predictive engine to learn from
Engineering Organization: [noun] -> a system for converting technical problems into meetings about technical problems, indefinitely
===
""""
So I was thinking about a solution to your problem...
""""
--- the engineer, before they asked him to leave the meeting for being unproductive
#engineering
===
""""
So I was thinking about a solution to your problem...
""""
--- the engineer, before they asked him to leave the meeting for being unproductive
#engineering
February 9, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Engineering Organization: [noun] -> a system for converting technical problems into meetings about technical problems, indefinitely
===
""""
So I was thinking about a solution to your problem...
""""
--- the engineer, before they asked him to leave the meeting for being unproductive
#engineering
===
""""
So I was thinking about a solution to your problem...
""""
--- the engineer, before they asked him to leave the meeting for being unproductive
#engineering
"""
Put us on your feed
"""
--- the little blurpy blorpy guys that represent the boundary when I visualize it
===
"""
oh my goodness they're adorable
"""
--- me, upon finally realizing it was good to have boundaries
#philosophy #autism
Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/116039368406076966
Put us on your feed
"""
--- the little blurpy blorpy guys that represent the boundary when I visualize it
===
"""
oh my goodness they're adorable
"""
--- me, upon finally realizing it was good to have boundaries
#philosophy #autism
Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/116039368406076966
February 9, 2026 at 6:57 AM
"""
Put us on your feed
"""
--- the little blurpy blorpy guys that represent the boundary when I visualize it
===
"""
oh my goodness they're adorable
"""
--- me, upon finally realizing it was good to have boundaries
#philosophy #autism
Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/116039368406076966
Put us on your feed
"""
--- the little blurpy blorpy guys that represent the boundary when I visualize it
===
"""
oh my goodness they're adorable
"""
--- me, upon finally realizing it was good to have boundaries
#philosophy #autism
Video: https://tech.lgbt/@graeme/116039368406076966
"""
Fuck
"""
--- me, upon realizing he just referred to himself in the Ralph Wiggum-person which is unfortunate given <gestures wildly at what the children seem to be calling 🪿 these days>
===
"""
Fucking kids
"""
- 🪿
Fuck
"""
--- me, upon realizing he just referred to himself in the Ralph Wiggum-person which is unfortunate given <gestures wildly at what the children seem to be calling 🪿 these days>
===
"""
Fucking kids
"""
- 🪿
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
"""
Fuck
"""
--- me, upon realizing he just referred to himself in the Ralph Wiggum-person which is unfortunate given <gestures wildly at what the children seem to be calling 🪿 these days>
===
"""
Fucking kids
"""
- 🪿
Fuck
"""
--- me, upon realizing he just referred to himself in the Ralph Wiggum-person which is unfortunate given <gestures wildly at what the children seem to be calling 🪿 these days>
===
"""
Fucking kids
"""
- 🪿
February 9, 2026 at 6:41 AM
"""
Shit happens when I get unemployed. Someone needs to put me to work
"""
--- me, a minute ago, realizing I'm too busy for this shit
===
"""
If all y'all too busy to do the requirements and spec writing, us engineers are just going to have to do it properly
"""
Shit happens when I get unemployed. Someone needs to put me to work
"""
--- me, a minute ago, realizing I'm too busy for this shit
===
"""
If all y'all too busy to do the requirements and spec writing, us engineers are just going to have to do it properly
"""
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM
"""
Shit happens when I get unemployed. Someone needs to put me to work
"""
--- me, a minute ago, realizing I'm too busy for this shit
===
"""
If all y'all too busy to do the requirements and spec writing, us engineers are just going to have to do it properly
"""
Shit happens when I get unemployed. Someone needs to put me to work
"""
--- me, a minute ago, realizing I'm too busy for this shit
===
"""
If all y'all too busy to do the requirements and spec writing, us engineers are just going to have to do it properly
"""
"""
Ladies and Gentleman... The Laws of Form
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of women and the one guy who's ears had suddenly perked up
#philosophy #computerscience #whichoneisthis
Ladies and Gentleman... The Laws of Form
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of women and the one guy who's ears had suddenly perked up
#philosophy #computerscience #whichoneisthis
February 9, 2026 at 6:40 AM
"""
Ladies and Gentleman... The Laws of Form
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of women and the one guy who's ears had suddenly perked up
#philosophy #computerscience #whichoneisthis
Ladies and Gentleman... The Laws of Form
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of women and the one guy who's ears had suddenly perked up
#philosophy #computerscience #whichoneisthis
"""
Ladies and Gentleman... Yoneda again
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of woman and that one guy who was still there
#philosophy #computerscience
Ladies and Gentleman... Yoneda again
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of woman and that one guy who was still there
#philosophy #computerscience
February 9, 2026 at 6:39 AM
"""
Ladies and Gentleman... Yoneda again
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of woman and that one guy who was still there
#philosophy #computerscience
Ladies and Gentleman... Yoneda again
"""
--- the MC, to the crowd of woman and that one guy who was still there
#philosophy #computerscience
```ruby
class Universe
include LawsOfForm
def method_missing(method_sym, args, include_private = false)
self.yolo(method_sym, args)
end
end
module LawsOfForm
def yolo(method_sym, args)
accept(method_sym, args) unless momma_said_knock_you_out
emit
end
def accept(method_sym, args)
self += args
class Universe
include LawsOfForm
def method_missing(method_sym, args, include_private = false)
self.yolo(method_sym, args)
end
end
module LawsOfForm
def yolo(method_sym, args)
accept(method_sym, args) unless momma_said_knock_you_out
emit
end
def accept(method_sym, args)
self += args
February 9, 2026 at 5:47 AM
```ruby
class Universe
include LawsOfForm
def method_missing(method_sym, args, include_private = false)
self.yolo(method_sym, args)
end
end
module LawsOfForm
def yolo(method_sym, args)
accept(method_sym, args) unless momma_said_knock_you_out
emit
end
def accept(method_sym, args)
self += args
class Universe
include LawsOfForm
def method_missing(method_sym, args, include_private = false)
self.yolo(method_sym, args)
end
end
module LawsOfForm
def yolo(method_sym, args)
accept(method_sym, args) unless momma_said_knock_you_out
emit
end
def accept(method_sym, args)
self += args
Thanks 🪿
Qualia is what happens when Pavlov's dog doesn't know it's a test
#philosophy #itoobarkoncommand #stoppedpeeingonthecouchthough
Qualia is what happens when Pavlov's dog doesn't know it's a test
#philosophy #itoobarkoncommand #stoppedpeeingonthecouchthough
February 9, 2026 at 5:35 AM
Thanks 🪿
Qualia is what happens when Pavlov's dog doesn't know it's a test
#philosophy #itoobarkoncommand #stoppedpeeingonthecouchthough
Qualia is what happens when Pavlov's dog doesn't know it's a test
#philosophy #itoobarkoncommand #stoppedpeeingonthecouchthough
🛀🤔
This is just Yoneda
This is just Yoneda
February 9, 2026 at 5:05 AM
🛀🤔
This is just Yoneda
This is just Yoneda
to: ops@philadelphia.ru
subject: You Guys R0xx0rz
Team,
Amaze balls. Best metrics this month again.
That RTO was out of this world and DORA is your explora baby.
subject: You Guys R0xx0rz
Team,
Amaze balls. Best metrics this month again.
That RTO was out of this world and DORA is your explora baby.
February 9, 2026 at 4:53 AM
to: ops@philadelphia.ru
subject: You Guys R0xx0rz
Team,
Amaze balls. Best metrics this month again.
That RTO was out of this world and DORA is your explora baby.
subject: You Guys R0xx0rz
Team,
Amaze balls. Best metrics this month again.
That RTO was out of this world and DORA is your explora baby.
"""
For the third time, I don't know anything about that guys custom tooling. I use Terraform.
"""
--- Peter, denying he uses Jesus custom tooling, for the third time
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
For the third time, I don't know anything about that guys custom tooling. I use Terraform.
"""
--- Peter, denying he uses Jesus custom tooling, for the third time
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
February 9, 2026 at 3:59 AM
"""
For the third time, I don't know anything about that guys custom tooling. I use Terraform.
"""
--- Peter, denying he uses Jesus custom tooling, for the third time
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
For the third time, I don't know anything about that guys custom tooling. I use Terraform.
"""
--- Peter, denying he uses Jesus custom tooling, for the third time
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
"""
I don't personally have a problem with your methodology but the stakeholders are demanding a rollback and I need to be seen to act. I'm washing my hands of this deploy.
"""
--- Pontius CoPilot, upon washing his hands of this deploy
#devops #religion #agileisbarelyanidealetaloneworthyofworship
I don't personally have a problem with your methodology but the stakeholders are demanding a rollback and I need to be seen to act. I'm washing my hands of this deploy.
"""
--- Pontius CoPilot, upon washing his hands of this deploy
#devops #religion #agileisbarelyanidealetaloneworthyofworship
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"""
I don't personally have a problem with your methodology but the stakeholders are demanding a rollback and I need to be seen to act. I'm washing my hands of this deploy.
"""
--- Pontius CoPilot, upon washing his hands of this deploy
#devops #religion #agileisbarelyanidealetaloneworthyofworship
I don't personally have a problem with your methodology but the stakeholders are demanding a rollback and I need to be seen to act. I'm washing my hands of this deploy.
"""
--- Pontius CoPilot, upon washing his hands of this deploy
#devops #religion #agileisbarelyanidealetaloneworthyofworship
"""
I have given this team EVERYTHING and you're about to let management restructure us. I swear to God. My father. Whatever.
"""
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
I have given this team EVERYTHING and you're about to let management restructure us. I swear to God. My father. Whatever.
"""
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
February 9, 2026 at 3:53 AM
"""
I have given this team EVERYTHING and you're about to let management restructure us. I swear to God. My father. Whatever.
"""
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
I have given this team EVERYTHING and you're about to let management restructure us. I swear to God. My father. Whatever.
"""
👹Ops or 👼Ops
#devops #religion #notyouagileyouvegonetothdevilyouhave
"""
Okay guys, gather round. We're doing a retro. Bread represents the work we've done together. Wine represents the blood, sweat, and tears. One of you is going to file a ticket against me tonight and honestly I already know who because your commit messages have been passive-aggressive for weeks. J
Okay guys, gather round. We're doing a retro. Bread represents the work we've done together. Wine represents the blood, sweat, and tears. One of you is going to file a ticket against me tonight and honestly I already know who because your commit messages have been passive-aggressive for weeks. J
February 9, 2026 at 3:47 AM
"""
Okay guys, gather round. We're doing a retro. Bread represents the work we've done together. Wine represents the blood, sweat, and tears. One of you is going to file a ticket against me tonight and honestly I already know who because your commit messages have been passive-aggressive for weeks. J
Okay guys, gather round. We're doing a retro. Bread represents the work we've done together. Wine represents the blood, sweat, and tears. One of you is going to file a ticket against me tonight and honestly I already know who because your commit messages have been passive-aggressive for weeks. J