Aaron Brooks
@aaron.brooks1.net
Loves people, ponders systems, types parentheses, drinks tea, makes dad jokes, seeks Christ - software engineering @ Equinix
Formerly: https://twitter.com/0x1B
Sometimes on: https://mastodon.social/@abrooks
Formerly: https://twitter.com/0x1B
Sometimes on: https://mastodon.social/@abrooks
Folks: Use AI in hard mode.
Use it to be stronger, not as a substitute for your strength. And for goodness sake, don't let it be your voice. It's a great audience and editor to give you feedback and to train and refine your voice. Your voice is you — don't lose it!
Use it to be stronger, not as a substitute for your strength. And for goodness sake, don't let it be your voice. It's a great audience and editor to give you feedback and to train and refine your voice. Your voice is you — don't lose it!
November 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Folks: Use AI in hard mode.
Use it to be stronger, not as a substitute for your strength. And for goodness sake, don't let it be your voice. It's a great audience and editor to give you feedback and to train and refine your voice. Your voice is you — don't lose it!
Use it to be stronger, not as a substitute for your strength. And for goodness sake, don't let it be your voice. It's a great audience and editor to give you feedback and to train and refine your voice. Your voice is you — don't lose it!
New type of context engineering? When using chat-mode LLMs, I'm really wanting to "fork" conversations. I've created a useful context but don't want to pollute it with several different directions of exploration.
I want this as a feature.
I want this as a feature.
July 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
New type of context engineering? When using chat-mode LLMs, I'm really wanting to "fork" conversations. I've created a useful context but don't want to pollute it with several different directions of exploration.
I want this as a feature.
I want this as a feature.
Q: How many LLM agents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Either 1000 who will burn through through enough tokens to light the room directly or just one who is thoroughly confident that the lightbulb is already changed.
A: Either 1000 who will burn through through enough tokens to light the room directly or just one who is thoroughly confident that the lightbulb is already changed.
July 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Q: How many LLM agents does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Either 1000 who will burn through through enough tokens to light the room directly or just one who is thoroughly confident that the lightbulb is already changed.
A: Either 1000 who will burn through through enough tokens to light the room directly or just one who is thoroughly confident that the lightbulb is already changed.
LLMs are the foie gras geese of data science
July 8, 2025 at 3:46 PM
LLMs are the foie gras geese of data science
I am SO THOROUGHLY BORED of the AGI-is-next-week / AI-doesn't-think debate. The problem is, we don't have a good definition of what thought *is* -- because it is not just one thing. We'd get a lot farther if we start teasing out by what we mean by thought and all of its different facets
July 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I am SO THOROUGHLY BORED of the AGI-is-next-week / AI-doesn't-think debate. The problem is, we don't have a good definition of what thought *is* -- because it is not just one thing. We'd get a lot farther if we start teasing out by what we mean by thought and all of its different facets
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The lesson from the past 6 months is to do stuff in your communities with your neighbors and plug in where you can.
July 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
The lesson from the past 6 months is to do stuff in your communities with your neighbors and plug in where you can.
I want someone to create a Pokemon card game but for gut flora
"Oh, you have a Lactobacillus rhamnosus! That gives a +7 immuno regulation -- so cool!"
"Oh, you have a Lactobacillus rhamnosus! That gives a +7 immuno regulation -- so cool!"
July 7, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I want someone to create a Pokemon card game but for gut flora
"Oh, you have a Lactobacillus rhamnosus! That gives a +7 immuno regulation -- so cool!"
"Oh, you have a Lactobacillus rhamnosus! That gives a +7 immuno regulation -- so cool!"
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My watchgha lets you watch the progress of GitHub Actions in your terminal. Now the job names are sorted, since GitHub now returns them in a randomish order.
github.com/nedbat/watch...
github.com/nedbat/watch...
March 25, 2025 at 6:41 PM
My watchgha lets you watch the progress of GitHub Actions in your terminal. Now the job names are sorted, since GitHub now returns them in a randomish order.
github.com/nedbat/watch...
github.com/nedbat/watch...
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Another Claude Code experience report. This is a followup to bsky.app/profile/kana.... Last time I tried to get Claude Code to create a new mal implementation in Fortran. It couldn't finish step1 due to memory management. This time I asked for a from scratch implementation using python3.
Claude Code usage report.
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
GitHub - kanaka/mal: mal - Make a Lisp
mal - Make a Lisp. Contribute to kanaka/mal development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Another Claude Code experience report. This is a followup to bsky.app/profile/kana.... Last time I tried to get Claude Code to create a new mal implementation in Fortran. It couldn't finish step1 due to memory management. This time I asked for a from scratch implementation using python3.
Reposted by Aaron Brooks
Claude Code usage report.
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
GitHub - kanaka/mal: mal - Make a Lisp
mal - Make a Lisp. Contribute to kanaka/mal development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Claude Code usage report.
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
Task: implement a fortran implementation of mal/make-a-lisp (github.com/kanaka/mal). Mal has implementations in 88 languages but none in fortran yet.
1/n
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
... or give me $5,000,000 USD and we'll call it even
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
... or give me $5,000,000 USD and we'll call it even
March 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
... or give me $5,000,000 USD and we'll call it even
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
... or give me $5,000,000 USD and we'll call it even
Does anyone have any experience reports using SURD?
github.com/Computationa...
#SURD #causal_inference
github.com/Computationa...
#SURD #causal_inference
GitHub - Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD
Contribute to Computational-Turbulence-Group/SURD development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 4, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Does anyone have any experience reports using SURD?
github.com/Computationa...
#SURD #causal_inference
github.com/Computationa...
#SURD #causal_inference
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Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section?
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
So cool! I just used this to add comments to my site and published an npm package to make it easy for anyone else to do it:
www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...
www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...
Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
Long live the open web!
www.coryzue.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section?
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
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One of the greatest values you can provide to an employer is saying No. To have experience to know what's important. If we don't log this thing we will have more retention of what matters MORE, longer. The real world has costs, and those have to be paid.
November 23, 2024 at 7:12 PM
One of the greatest values you can provide to an employer is saying No. To have experience to know what's important. If we don't log this thing we will have more retention of what matters MORE, longer. The real world has costs, and those have to be paid.
Welcome, folks! 😁
Despite a massive head start, BlueSky has now overtaken Threads in the US 👇
November 20, 2024 at 12:08 AM
Welcome, folks! 😁
Since when are there more ollama supported models than cannabis strains?
Also, I'm not sure which are which... moondream, yi, zephyr, deepseek, nuextract, mathstral, notus, megadoplhin, codebooga, magicoder
Also, I'm not sure which are which... moondream, yi, zephyr, deepseek, nuextract, mathstral, notus, megadoplhin, codebooga, magicoder
September 26, 2024 at 2:17 AM
Since when are there more ollama supported models than cannabis strains?
Also, I'm not sure which are which... moondream, yi, zephyr, deepseek, nuextract, mathstral, notus, megadoplhin, codebooga, magicoder
Also, I'm not sure which are which... moondream, yi, zephyr, deepseek, nuextract, mathstral, notus, megadoplhin, codebooga, magicoder
I don't know who needs to know this but the 1992 Sneakers movie soundtrack is now on Spotify 🎉
April 26, 2024 at 2:07 PM
I don't know who needs to know this but the 1992 Sneakers movie soundtrack is now on Spotify 🎉
That's confidence inspiring...
February 14, 2024 at 8:36 PM
That's confidence inspiring...
This is all my Xitter notifications are now, NFT minting spam and Xitter asking to turn push notifications on. As if...
P.S. Xitter is pronounced "shitter"
P.S. Xitter is pronounced "shitter"
October 24, 2023 at 10:47 PM
This is all my Xitter notifications are now, NFT minting spam and Xitter asking to turn push notifications on. As if...
P.S. Xitter is pronounced "shitter"
P.S. Xitter is pronounced "shitter"
Aaron's law (and maybe someone else's) of not being (so much of) an @hole:
The need for you to say That Thing is inversely proportional to how badly you feel like you need to say it.
Not saying it Right Now will allow you to find the right time & words and, maybe, that it doesn't need to be said.
The need for you to say That Thing is inversely proportional to how badly you feel like you need to say it.
Not saying it Right Now will allow you to find the right time & words and, maybe, that it doesn't need to be said.
October 16, 2023 at 9:13 PM
Aaron's law (and maybe someone else's) of not being (so much of) an @hole:
The need for you to say That Thing is inversely proportional to how badly you feel like you need to say it.
Not saying it Right Now will allow you to find the right time & words and, maybe, that it doesn't need to be said.
The need for you to say That Thing is inversely proportional to how badly you feel like you need to say it.
Not saying it Right Now will allow you to find the right time & words and, maybe, that it doesn't need to be said.
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"Please explain this gap in your resume"
Oh I'm sorry Mr. LaTeX formatting genius
Oh I'm sorry Mr. LaTeX formatting genius
"Please explain this gap in your resume"
It was a well-known retail store back when I worked there.
It was a well-known retail store back when I worked there.
"Please explain this gap in your resume"
ToTK
ToTK
September 29, 2023 at 6:12 PM
"Please explain this gap in your resume"
Oh I'm sorry Mr. LaTeX formatting genius
Oh I'm sorry Mr. LaTeX formatting genius
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My talk at Strange Loop (which I had to give remotely) is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0a...
It covers our experimental text editor Upwelling www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ as well as the internals of Automerge and a bit about Peritext www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
It covers our experimental text editor Upwelling www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ as well as the internals of Automerge and a bit about Peritext www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
"New algorithms for collaborative text editing" by Martin Kleppmann (Strange Loop 2023)
Real-time collaboration made apps like Google Docs and Figma popular, and many other apps have also been adding similar features. However, the algorithms tha...
www.youtube.com
September 29, 2023 at 7:02 PM
My talk at Strange Loop (which I had to give remotely) is now up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr0a...
It covers our experimental text editor Upwelling www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ as well as the internals of Automerge and a bit about Peritext www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
It covers our experimental text editor Upwelling www.inkandswitch.com/upwelling/ as well as the internals of Automerge and a bit about Peritext www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
On my way to the very last #StrangeLoop full of excitement and sadness. Looking forwards to seeing y'all. I'm hoping someone will be inspired to create a fascinating, beautiful, inspired, connecting tech+arts+??? conference in a city with good food and interesting places like STL.
September 20, 2023 at 1:18 PM
On my way to the very last #StrangeLoop full of excitement and sadness. Looking forwards to seeing y'all. I'm hoping someone will be inspired to create a fascinating, beautiful, inspired, connecting tech+arts+??? conference in a city with good food and interesting places like STL.
I'm finding myself baffled by the realization that the thoughtful, caring community interactions I really love these days are on YouTube and the more obnoxious drive-by absurdity is on Xwitter. 10 years ago (and more recent than that), it was the opposite.
September 3, 2023 at 11:19 PM
I'm finding myself baffled by the realization that the thoughtful, caring community interactions I really love these days are on YouTube and the more obnoxious drive-by absurdity is on Xwitter. 10 years ago (and more recent than that), it was the opposite.
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tired: leaving twitter
wired: Xodus
wired: Xodus
August 17, 2023 at 4:54 PM
tired: leaving twitter
wired: Xodus
wired: Xodus