Alan
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Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
September 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers
Does anyone have an at proto diagram that clearly illustrates the distributed architecture that's better than the one linked below? @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev
I'm struggling to find one and the one in the docs here is quite hand-wavy.
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
I'm struggling to find one and the one in the docs here is quite hand-wavy.
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
Federation Architecture | Bluesky
The AT Protocol is made up of a bunch of pieces that stack together. Federation means that anyone can run the parts that make up the AT Protocol themselves, such as their own server.
docs.bsky.app
September 12, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Does anyone have an at proto diagram that clearly illustrates the distributed architecture that's better than the one linked below? @atproto.com @atprotocol.dev
I'm struggling to find one and the one in the docs here is quite hand-wavy.
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
I'm struggling to find one and the one in the docs here is quite hand-wavy.
docs.bsky.app/docs/advance...
Claude Desktop just tried to connect to facebook. MRW
July 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Claude Desktop just tried to connect to facebook. MRW
If SKYNET becomes a thing that breaks loose from it's creator, it'll probably be a live demo gone wrong. 😂
Keep saying your prayers to the demo gods, lest you be the one to release the wrath on society running that agentic workflow that allows full computer use. 🤖 ⛈️
Keep saying your prayers to the demo gods, lest you be the one to release the wrath on society running that agentic workflow that allows full computer use. 🤖 ⛈️
May 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
If SKYNET becomes a thing that breaks loose from it's creator, it'll probably be a live demo gone wrong. 😂
Keep saying your prayers to the demo gods, lest you be the one to release the wrath on society running that agentic workflow that allows full computer use. 🤖 ⛈️
Keep saying your prayers to the demo gods, lest you be the one to release the wrath on society running that agentic workflow that allows full computer use. 🤖 ⛈️
So if tariffs are off the table, who the hell are going to pay our taxes??
/s
/s
May 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
So if tariffs are off the table, who the hell are going to pay our taxes??
/s
/s
I love that LLMs learned bad trailing whitespace habits. Dangling tabs and spaces everywhere. There's a little bit of human in them, or rather, a lot. They're the worlds largest experiment: etching the collective thoughts of billions of people into floating point numbers on silicon dioxide.
May 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I love that LLMs learned bad trailing whitespace habits. Dangling tabs and spaces everywhere. There's a little bit of human in them, or rather, a lot. They're the worlds largest experiment: etching the collective thoughts of billions of people into floating point numbers on silicon dioxide.
I don't yet have proof, but I'm pretty sure my nighttime productivity is largely improved because the critical SaaS products I use (github, cloudflare, google, anthropic, etc) are just less overloaded and have much lower latency.
April 23, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I don't yet have proof, but I'm pretty sure my nighttime productivity is largely improved because the critical SaaS products I use (github, cloudflare, google, anthropic, etc) are just less overloaded and have much lower latency.
Forget Cursor, Zed and Copilot. Who’s building the mobile native vibe coding app? Imagine how much more of the world that could program with a good mobile editor powered by AI. Most websites are boring but could use a fresh coat of paint.
April 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Forget Cursor, Zed and Copilot. Who’s building the mobile native vibe coding app? Imagine how much more of the world that could program with a good mobile editor powered by AI. Most websites are boring but could use a fresh coat of paint.
Fun vibe-coding game to play: match the Figma using prompting alone!
I'm sure folks are sprinting to make that a reality (probably @Figma proper even), but until then it's pretty fun to play and crazy to see how quick progress you can make.
I'm sure folks are sprinting to make that a reality (probably @Figma proper even), but until then it's pretty fun to play and crazy to see how quick progress you can make.
April 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Fun vibe-coding game to play: match the Figma using prompting alone!
I'm sure folks are sprinting to make that a reality (probably @Figma proper even), but until then it's pretty fun to play and crazy to see how quick progress you can make.
I'm sure folks are sprinting to make that a reality (probably @Figma proper even), but until then it's pretty fun to play and crazy to see how quick progress you can make.
There's just something about describing a problem you're currently working on precisely to an LLM, having it spit out hundreds to thousands of lines of code that are very nearly exactly what you're looking for that keeps me hacking into the wee hours of the morning.
March 29, 2025 at 7:51 AM
There's just something about describing a problem you're currently working on precisely to an LLM, having it spit out hundreds to thousands of lines of code that are very nearly exactly what you're looking for that keeps me hacking into the wee hours of the morning.
I've been a user of 1password for a long time but it saddens me to see the product degrade slowly over time. Tons of syncing issues and lack of clear documentation kills me. Reaching out to support in the past has not been helpful. What's going on over there?
March 20, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I've been a user of 1password for a long time but it saddens me to see the product degrade slowly over time. Tons of syncing issues and lack of clear documentation kills me. Reaching out to support in the past has not been helpful. What's going on over there?
The moment I knew the AI programmer was better than me was when it started including great documentation with every change... 😂😭
March 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
The moment I knew the AI programmer was better than me was when it started including great documentation with every change... 😂😭
I didn't know Microsoft was rewriting Typescript before anyone else, but I sure am thrilled to learn it's being done in Go. Right tool for the job!
Excited to hear about it at future conferences. :-)
Excited to hear about it at future conferences. :-)
March 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
I didn't know Microsoft was rewriting Typescript before anyone else, but I sure am thrilled to learn it's being done in Go. Right tool for the job!
Excited to hear about it at future conferences. :-)
Excited to hear about it at future conferences. :-)
Engineering and product leadership should always get laptops a few tiers below what the rest of the team gets. Your users won't all have the best hardware, and someone on the team should be dogfooding the product on those specs. Might as well be leadership.
March 12, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Engineering and product leadership should always get laptops a few tiers below what the rest of the team gets. Your users won't all have the best hardware, and someone on the team should be dogfooding the product on those specs. Might as well be leadership.
Are Software Engineers going to put product managers out of work? Or are product managers going to put software engineers out of work? Are the roles going to merge? What do you think?
March 6, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Are Software Engineers going to put product managers out of work? Or are product managers going to put software engineers out of work? Are the roles going to merge? What do you think?
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You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
December 25, 2024 at 6:37 PM
You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…
Everybody in infosec today: DISA does background checks and drug testing? Defense Information Systems Agency != DISA Global Solutions 😅
https://buff.ly/436mfvr
2 months passed undetected. Billions in damages.
https://buff.ly/436mfvr
2 months passed undetected. Billions in damages.
US drug testing firm says data breach impacted 3.3 million people
DISA Global Solutions, a leading US background screening and drug and alcohol testing firm, has suffered a data breach impacting 3.3 million people.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Everybody in infosec today: DISA does background checks and drug testing? Defense Information Systems Agency != DISA Global Solutions 😅
https://buff.ly/436mfvr
2 months passed undetected. Billions in damages.
https://buff.ly/436mfvr
2 months passed undetected. Billions in damages.
Testing is difficult. Sometimes the best things in life are worth sleeping for. :-)
February 20, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Testing is difficult. Sometimes the best things in life are worth sleeping for. :-)
"Doctor's don't tell you, but engineers don't have heart strings, they have pre-fabricated parallel wire heart strands." 😉
Practical Engineering really showing why it's such a treasure of a youtube channel. Educational, aspirational and entertaining. What more could nerds ask for?
Practical Engineering really showing why it's such a treasure of a youtube channel. Educational, aspirational and entertaining. What more could nerds ask for?
February 16, 2025 at 1:33 AM
"Doctor's don't tell you, but engineers don't have heart strings, they have pre-fabricated parallel wire heart strands." 😉
Practical Engineering really showing why it's such a treasure of a youtube channel. Educational, aspirational and entertaining. What more could nerds ask for?
Practical Engineering really showing why it's such a treasure of a youtube channel. Educational, aspirational and entertaining. What more could nerds ask for?
🌶️ take: The teams that will be fastest to innovate in the near future will know how to write code that's easy for LLMs to extend or modify. Code that's easy for LLMs to extend or modify is also easy for humans to do the same, but humans are slower typists.
February 5, 2025 at 7:33 PM
🌶️ take: The teams that will be fastest to innovate in the near future will know how to write code that's easy for LLMs to extend or modify. Code that's easy for LLMs to extend or modify is also easy for humans to do the same, but humans are slower typists.
If I look at a Startup Company's "About Us" page and everyone on the team is a Founder, Vice President or Director, then who's left building the product??? 🦚 😂
January 31, 2025 at 9:11 PM
If I look at a Startup Company's "About Us" page and everyone on the team is a Founder, Vice President or Director, then who's left building the product??? 🦚 😂
The pick-your-own-algo feature of 🦋BluSky is pretty awesome. I wonder how long it is before other socials start ripping it off. 🤔
January 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
The pick-your-own-algo feature of 🦋BluSky is pretty awesome. I wonder how long it is before other socials start ripping it off. 🤔
Interesting and serious vuln in DeepSeek's dev infra found by Wiz https://buff.ly/4jBy42s
Obviously an observability database, but ofc chat logs got in there.
Rocket building prompts in the post. But most likely it's training data to prevent the AI from responding.
Obviously an observability database, but ofc chat logs got in there.
Rocket building prompts in the post. But most likely it's training data to prevent the AI from responding.
Wiz Research Uncovers Exposed DeepSeek Database Leaking Sensitive Information, Including Chat History | Wiz Blog
A publicly accessible database belonging to DeepSeek allowed full control over database operations, including the ability to access internal data. The exposure includes over a million lines of log…
www.wiz.io
January 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Interesting and serious vuln in DeepSeek's dev infra found by Wiz https://buff.ly/4jBy42s
Obviously an observability database, but ofc chat logs got in there.
Rocket building prompts in the post. But most likely it's training data to prevent the AI from responding.
Obviously an observability database, but ofc chat logs got in there.
Rocket building prompts in the post. But most likely it's training data to prevent the AI from responding.
Want to start a company or build a solo business someday? Work at a startup! 🌶️ The experience you get and lessons you learn will be far better than any business degree. To top it off you'll get paid instead of going into debt. 💸
January 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Want to start a company or build a solo business someday? Work at a startup! 🌶️ The experience you get and lessons you learn will be far better than any business degree. To top it off you'll get paid instead of going into debt. 💸
The Emergent Reasoning discovery is probably the most shocking and substantial advancement in LLMs in over a year. 🤯
January 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The Emergent Reasoning discovery is probably the most shocking and substantial advancement in LLMs in over a year. 🤯