Tom MacWright
@macwright.com
writes, bikes, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff.
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
anyone i know involved in / gone to resistor nyc events? feeling like i should
February 9, 2026 at 10:12 PM
anyone i know involved in / gone to resistor nyc events? feeling like i should
getting pretty atproto pilled. still need to learn about the hard parts: privacy and performance, are there good articles about that stuff?
February 7, 2026 at 5:56 PM
getting pretty atproto pilled. still need to learn about the hard parts: privacy and performance, are there good articles about that stuff?
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"For far too long we've treated our streets as places to store cars, instead of places where people live their lives, right? And as transportation chair, my guiding principle is that our public space should serve the public," said @shaunabreu.bsky.social.
Council Transportation Chair Vows To Take On Drivers: 'I Don't Want To Just Futz Around the Edges' - Streetsblog New York City
Streetsblog grilled new chairman Shaun Abreu, who says he wants to bring more life and fewer cars to the street.
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"For far too long we've treated our streets as places to store cars, instead of places where people live their lives, right? And as transportation chair, my guiding principle is that our public space should serve the public," said @shaunabreu.bsky.social.
jarred wrote about how claude identified and fixed a memory leak in anthropic's sdk (the sdk generator code is from stainless, a separate company)
claude's fix was wrong
claude's fix was wrong
February 6, 2026 at 3:30 PM
jarred wrote about how claude identified and fixed a memory leak in anthropic's sdk (the sdk generator code is from stainless, a separate company)
claude's fix was wrong
claude's fix was wrong
oh man, adam neely's film-length critique of suno is spectacular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
YouTube video by Adam Neely
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 AM
oh man, adam neely's film-length critique of suno is spectacular: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dc...
today's "searching for mapbox and observablehq on twitter results":
a groyper used mapbox to make a racist map and mapbox shut them off, so a bunch of assholes are crying
a pedocon is using an observablehq map of historical age of consent to downplay the epstein files
2026 is 2026 in every corner
a groyper used mapbox to make a racist map and mapbox shut them off, so a bunch of assholes are crying
a pedocon is using an observablehq map of historical age of consent to downplay the epstein files
2026 is 2026 in every corner
February 5, 2026 at 6:57 PM
today's "searching for mapbox and observablehq on twitter results":
a groyper used mapbox to make a racist map and mapbox shut them off, so a bunch of assholes are crying
a pedocon is using an observablehq map of historical age of consent to downplay the epstein files
2026 is 2026 in every corner
a groyper used mapbox to make a racist map and mapbox shut them off, so a bunch of assholes are crying
a pedocon is using an observablehq map of historical age of consent to downplay the epstein files
2026 is 2026 in every corner
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
recently: macwright.com/2026/02/03/r...
Recently
You need to listen to this Happy Apple album
macwright.com
February 4, 2026 at 3:31 AM
recently: macwright.com/2026/02/03/r...
found this metal-punch plate for encoding x/y coordinates on a telephone pole in columbus ohio. probably in a local grid system?
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 AM
found this metal-punch plate for encoding x/y coordinates on a telephone pole in columbus ohio. probably in a local grid system?
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finally got happy apple's 2020 album, this bassline 💯 sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com/track/vanity...
Vanity Plate, by Happy Apple
from the album "New York CD"
sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com
February 3, 2026 at 8:06 PM
finally got happy apple's 2020 album, this bassline 💯 sunnysiderecords.bandcamp.com/track/vanity...
database correctness seems like the only kind, database software is all formally proven and simulation tested and every other genre of software is the wild west. "actually testing web applications" is impossible in practice. i feel like this engenders an unearned sense of superiority.
February 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
database correctness seems like the only kind, database software is all formally proven and simulation tested and every other genre of software is the wild west. "actually testing web applications" is impossible in practice. i feel like this engenders an unearned sense of superiority.
is 'death stranding' in the same genre as 'there is no antimemetics division' discuss
February 2, 2026 at 2:34 PM
is 'death stranding' in the same genre as 'there is no antimemetics division' discuss
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six centuries of type and printing: brief, exhaustive, fascinating, not for people with a passing interest in the subject, adore the physical book and the indie publishing
macwright.com/2026/02/01/s...
six centuries of type and printing: brief, exhaustive, fascinating, not for people with a passing interest in the subject, adore the physical book and the indie publishing
macwright.com/2026/02/01/s...
Six Centuries of Type and Printing
Exhaustive but brief
macwright.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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six centuries of type and printing: brief, exhaustive, fascinating, not for people with a passing interest in the subject, adore the physical book and the indie publishing
macwright.com/2026/02/01/s...
six centuries of type and printing: brief, exhaustive, fascinating, not for people with a passing interest in the subject, adore the physical book and the indie publishing
macwright.com/2026/02/01/s...
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BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:10 PM
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
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Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
All about "reactionary centrism"
Michael Hobbes joins me to diagnose the pundit class's obsession with scolding the left while the right burns down the house.
www.volts.wtf
January 30, 2026 at 6:35 PM
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
drawing faces is hard, i've been trying though macwright.com/2026/01/31/s...
Sketches
Trying to make something look like someone
macwright.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:52 AM
drawing faces is hard, i've been trying though macwright.com/2026/01/31/s...
it's striking how most companies bury their customer support channels and make it impossible to contact a human, but when i have a concern about a crosswalk in my neighborhood i can email my local rep, the dept of transportation, and the mayor, and get real replies from at least one of them
January 31, 2026 at 7:00 PM
it's striking how most companies bury their customer support channels and make it impossible to contact a human, but when i have a concern about a crosswalk in my neighborhood i can email my local rep, the dept of transportation, and the mayor, and get real replies from at least one of them
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I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE
There Must Be Retribution
Abolishing ICE isn't enough. So what is?
stringinamaze.net
January 29, 2026 at 7:10 PM
I wrote a quick piece about what it would really mean to abolish ICE
oof, this is a good reminder to blog more about sewing blog.avas.space/response-hob...
January 30, 2026 at 3:00 PM
oof, this is a good reminder to blog more about sewing blog.avas.space/response-hob...
another banger from lars doucet!
Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housin...
Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housin...
The Housing Ladder's Broken Promise
Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
progressandpoverty.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:30 PM
another banger from lars doucet!
Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housin...
Housing can be affordable, or an investment, but not both.
progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-housin...
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For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 6:57 PM
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
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Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.
video of the moment a man tried spraying something at ilhan omar at her town hall in minneapolis tonight
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 AM
Democrats should demand every sitting Republican decry this attack and explicitly denounce it, and then censure all of them when they don’t do it. Act like normal decent humans defending your colleague.