Nicholas Macias
@nich.bsky.social
Waving my hands around in front of a computer until it does what I want.
https://rockinghelvetica.com
https://rockinghelvetica.com
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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When I play Lumines Arise,
I am no longer in The Cynical World.
I am a cat in a sunbeam.
(my lumines arise review) www.polygon.com/lumines-aris...
I am no longer in The Cynical World.
I am a cat in a sunbeam.
(my lumines arise review) www.polygon.com/lumines-aris...
Lumines Arise is the cure for our cynical world
The cult classic rhythm game is back in life-affirming fashion
www.polygon.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 PM
When I play Lumines Arise,
I am no longer in The Cynical World.
I am a cat in a sunbeam.
(my lumines arise review) www.polygon.com/lumines-aris...
I am no longer in The Cynical World.
I am a cat in a sunbeam.
(my lumines arise review) www.polygon.com/lumines-aris...
There oughta be a devtools plugin that pulls in live image of ANOTHER window (via screen sharing) onion skinned atop. bonus:
- anchor on an element (so, like, match up two containers and the rendering stays at that origin even if there are other page differences)
- coordinate window resize/scroll
- anchor on an element (so, like, match up two containers and the rendering stays at that origin even if there are other page differences)
- coordinate window resize/scroll
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
There oughta be a devtools plugin that pulls in live image of ANOTHER window (via screen sharing) onion skinned atop. bonus:
- anchor on an element (so, like, match up two containers and the rendering stays at that origin even if there are other page differences)
- coordinate window resize/scroll
- anchor on an element (so, like, match up two containers and the rendering stays at that origin even if there are other page differences)
- coordinate window resize/scroll
Little bits of Bond land on bystanders at the close of the last film. Cut to a classic, recursive 007 title sequence as their DNA is shown reconfiguring into Bond at a cellular level. As he regains consciousness he rips off a sleeve of whatever they wore & field dresses a proper tie; fixes hair.
- open on Bond in ER bed. “Clear!” next scene he’s fine
- he uploaded his consciousness to a computer, just download it into a new Bondroid
- Bond tells a team of kid agents what to do through a magic Speak ’n’ Spell
- hire a necromancer to reanimate him
- his spirit haunts a talking Chucky doll
- he uploaded his consciousness to a computer, just download it into a new Bondroid
- Bond tells a team of kid agents what to do through a magic Speak ’n’ Spell
- hire a necromancer to reanimate him
- his spirit haunts a talking Chucky doll
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Little bits of Bond land on bystanders at the close of the last film. Cut to a classic, recursive 007 title sequence as their DNA is shown reconfiguring into Bond at a cellular level. As he regains consciousness he rips off a sleeve of whatever they wore & field dresses a proper tie; fixes hair.
I understand the argument about relying on LLMs to a fault, knowledge entropy etcetera etcetera but, like, I never really learned CSS Grid and I'm pretty sure that brain space can be better applied
November 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I understand the argument about relying on LLMs to a fault, knowledge entropy etcetera etcetera but, like, I never really learned CSS Grid and I'm pretty sure that brain space can be better applied
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if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.
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There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.
November 7, 2025 at 6:07 AM
There needs to be trials and there needs to be people sent to die in a prison cell. Consequences must fall on the people who issued the orders and those who carried them out. We must make the punishment of these people a national spectacle that will be remembered for generations.
after some hilariously bad attempts by an LLM to reduce headlines to a subsetting string, I went back to the old ways. Here is a google sheets tool for generating a sorted character list, where A1 is any text matter you have.
=JOIN("",SORT(UNIQUE(MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)),1))))
=JOIN("",SORT(UNIQUE(MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)),1))))
November 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
after some hilariously bad attempts by an LLM to reduce headlines to a subsetting string, I went back to the old ways. Here is a google sheets tool for generating a sorted character list, where A1 is any text matter you have.
=JOIN("",SORT(UNIQUE(MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)),1))))
=JOIN("",SORT(UNIQUE(MID(A1,SEQUENCE(LEN(A1)),1))))
All this Thiel group thread et al silliness makes me realize that there have been thousands of salons & schools of thought along history that were just SO deliciously daft but they didn’t make the curriculum
I want lectures on the pettiest people in history, the funniest delusions
I want lectures on the pettiest people in history, the funniest delusions
November 6, 2025 at 5:44 PM
All this Thiel group thread et al silliness makes me realize that there have been thousands of salons & schools of thought along history that were just SO deliciously daft but they didn’t make the curriculum
I want lectures on the pettiest people in history, the funniest delusions
I want lectures on the pettiest people in history, the funniest delusions
looping this in art school, looping this 22 years later
Emerge
open.spotify.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:22 AM
looping this in art school, looping this 22 years later
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good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
November 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx
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These things come in three packs, what gives?
November 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
These things come in three packs, what gives?
Guillotine Vogue
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Guillotine Vogue
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It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
Trial Begins for Man Accused of Lobbing a Sandwich at a Federal Agent
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.
I'm here to make @figma.com figjam diagramming unsafe for some of y'alls
November 4, 2025 at 12:05 AM
I'm here to make @figma.com figjam diagramming unsafe for some of y'alls
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Alan Moore knows the score
November 1, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Alan Moore knows the score
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Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today.
What a masterpiece.
What a masterpiece.
October 30, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Grim Fandango (LucasArts) was released 27 years ago today.
What a masterpiece.
What a masterpiece.
I’m supposed to sleep and I wake up in the middle of the night to the sudden end of USCIS work permit renewals, and OpenAI learning that The Winds of Winter is about them
This feels consequential, though, inventing new legal jeopardy for so many workers
This feels consequential, though, inventing new legal jeopardy for so many workers
NEW: Work Permit Extension Ban Shuts Down Migrant Paychecks Overnight
migrantinsider.com/p/work-permi...
migrantinsider.com/p/work-permi...
Work Permit Extension Ban Shuts Down Migrant Paychecks Overnight
Effective tomorrow, timely work permit filings offer no protection—one bureaucratic delay means lost jobs for thousands.
migrantinsider.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I’m supposed to sleep and I wake up in the middle of the night to the sudden end of USCIS work permit renewals, and OpenAI learning that The Winds of Winter is about them
This feels consequential, though, inventing new legal jeopardy for so many workers
This feels consequential, though, inventing new legal jeopardy for so many workers
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Nostalgia level: 💯
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
October 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nostalgia level: 💯
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
(yeah this is a working music player & browser)
Basically the idea of Diffuse, chopped into custom components so you can hook it up, and style it, however you want. Here's multiple audio inputs (subsonic & aws s3) fed into some processors (search, metadata, etc) + webamp.org
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I have been threatening to write this essay for ~2 years
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
It is too on the nose for the most beloved bodega cat in the Mission to get killed by a Waymo. It’s a heartbreaking and deeply cliché entry in the annals of San Francisco gentrification commentary. Delete it, please, and try again.
✍️ @emmaruthless.bsky.social
✍️ @emmaruthless.bsky.social
In Which We Deserve Options Other Than Rapists and Robots
I don’t want to be assaulted by a driver, nor surveilled by cat-killing robot cars. Is this really the best we can do?
www.coyotemedia.org
October 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I have been threatening to write this essay for ~2 years
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
thank you to @supermarke.bsky.social @48hills.bsky.social and @litquake.org for hosting an event that finally made me write it
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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ok fuck PC/console I want to make a game for THIS
Gameboy peripheral PediSedate was designed for dentists and dosed kids with nitrous oxide as they played games.
October 28, 2025 at 2:14 AM
ok fuck PC/console I want to make a game for THIS