Nik McLaughlin
@nikmclaughlin.bsky.social
nikmclaughlin.com | “I want to be part of the people who make the meaning. I want to do the imagining, not be the idea” - Barbie
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the first 13 seconds of Day One need to be studied as a masterpiece in modern musical composition: open.spotify.com/track/6QJVQS...
Day One
open.spotify.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the first 13 seconds of Day One need to be studied as a masterpiece in modern musical composition: open.spotify.com/track/6QJVQS...
Y’all this is just a map of Washington state
October 8, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Y’all this is just a map of Washington state
Hit my head on a cabinet pretty hard so I’m reading concussion symptoms and why are they just describing parenting?
September 7, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Hit my head on a cabinet pretty hard so I’m reading concussion symptoms and why are they just describing parenting?
Coming home from a week away at a conference (#WCUS) and apparently I’ve decided “taking art time with the kiddo way too seriously” is the way to re-ground myself 😅
September 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Coming home from a week away at a conference (#WCUS) and apparently I’ve decided “taking art time with the kiddo way too seriously” is the way to re-ground myself 😅
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
Fairly well known correction to the entire "delay of gratification" model you may think of as an individual trait is that it is moderated by things like our beliefs in environmental stability
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
September 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Fairly well known correction to the entire "delay of gratification" model you may think of as an individual trait is that it is moderated by things like our beliefs in environmental stability
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app
August 26, 2025 at 5:47 PM
atproto is like if you could post tweets to your own website and then twitter would be able to draw in all the tweets from across the web into a normal-looking social app
Lessons from Contributor Day at #WCUS so far:
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution
August 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Lessons from Contributor Day at #WCUS so far:
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution
1) Cloning the repo is a successful contributor day activity
2) Telling someone about the project is a successful contributor day activity
3) Learning about the project is a successful contributor day activity
#OpenSourceContribution
So much to unpack here from @micahflee.com but for now I’m just taking it as a permanent cure to any imposter syndrome I ever feel ever. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY?...
"We are currently clean on OPSEC": The Signalgate Saga (DEFCON 33)
YouTube video by Micah Lee
youtu.be
August 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
So much to unpack here from @micahflee.com but for now I’m just taking it as a permanent cure to any imposter syndrome I ever feel ever. youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY?...
Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘
August 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Currently running 'npm install' from a mobile hotspot 🤘
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Curate your own newspaper with RSS
Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read
www.citationneeded.news
July 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newsletter: In a media landscape dominated by algorithmic feeds that aim to manipulate and extract, sometimes the most radical thing you can do is choose to read what you want, when you want, without anyone watching over your shoulder.
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Here’s how to use RSS.
www.citationneeded.news/curate-with-...
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
God this is truly one of the most annoying things about the whole "AI benchmarks" discussion too, like tests designed for humans are not tests designed for technology and don't mean equivalent things
I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?
June 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
God this is truly one of the most annoying things about the whole "AI benchmarks" discussion too, like tests designed for humans are not tests designed for technology and don't mean equivalent things
Good to see this WooCommerce extensibility discussion making waves.
www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-...
www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-...
WooCommerce Blocks: The Extensibility Challenge
In the fast-evolving landscape of ecommerce, WooCommerce has long stood out as a flexible and powerful platform, largely thanks to its deep extensibility. Developers (like myself), agencies, and store...
www.businessbloomer.com
June 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Good to see this WooCommerce extensibility discussion making waves.
www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-...
www.businessbloomer.com/woocommerce-...
Settling in back in Portland for @crowdsupply.bsky.social #TearDown2025 this weekend. As a web/software guy, I’m pushing myself to learn and explore more on the hardware and electronics side of things. What better way to learn than to dive all the way in surrounded by a whole community of experts!
June 20, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Settling in back in Portland for @crowdsupply.bsky.social #TearDown2025 this weekend. As a web/software guy, I’m pushing myself to learn and explore more on the hardware and electronics side of things. What better way to learn than to dive all the way in surrounded by a whole community of experts!
FAIR is basically AT Porto but for plugins and I feel very targeted by that 😅
github.com/fairpm/fair-...
github.com/fairpm/fair-...
github.com
June 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
FAIR is basically AT Porto but for plugins and I feel very targeted by that 😅
github.com/fairpm/fair-...
github.com/fairpm/fair-...
Seems big: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...
Linux Foundation Announces the FAIR Package Manager Project for Open Source Content Management System Stability
Linux Foundation announces FAIR Package Manager project, creating simplicity, security and consistency for the WordPress ecosystem
www.linuxfoundation.org
June 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Seems big: www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...
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it's convenient to believe that one can be a person just by consuming media
April 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
it's convenient to believe that one can be a person just by consuming media
Really appreciate how @codetv.dev’s Web Dev Challenge became a team sport for season 2. Feels like a better representation of how the work gets done IRL and it adds a whole competitive layer to managing around the work 👏
youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw?...
Or for the whole backlog codetv.dev/series/web-d...
youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw?...
Or for the whole backlog codetv.dev/series/web-d...
Build a custom API + app in 4 hours · Web Dev Challenge S2.E1
YouTube video by CodeTV (formerly Learn With Jason)
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Really appreciate how @codetv.dev’s Web Dev Challenge became a team sport for season 2. Feels like a better representation of how the work gets done IRL and it adds a whole competitive layer to managing around the work 👏
youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw?...
Or for the whole backlog codetv.dev/series/web-d...
youtu.be/X2sEoZG8EIw?...
Or for the whole backlog codetv.dev/series/web-d...
“This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan.”
April 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
“This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, another image board that splintered off of 4chan.”
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
time is but a rotating point of experience, fluid, grotesque, delinquent
pls fix
pls fix
April 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
time is but a rotating point of experience, fluid, grotesque, delinquent
pls fix
pls fix
I’m at the Signal chat.
I’m at the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the combination Signal chat and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the combination Signal chat and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
March 24, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I’m at the Signal chat.
I’m at the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the combination Signal chat and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
I’m at the combination Signal chat and Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility.
Reposted by Nik McLaughlin
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...