Lon Riesberg
@lonriesberg.bsky.social
Builder with tech and data. Creator and publisher of the Data Elixir newsletter (dataelixir.com). Ex-NASA. On a new journey, building SMB SaaS.
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I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!
October 11, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I'm beginning to suspect that a key skill in working effectively with coding agents is developing an intuition for when you don't need to closely review every line of code they produce. This feels deeply uncomfortable!
RSS has quietly survived 20+ years while social platforms come and go. Now there are dozens of specialized feed readers, from browser extensions to self-hosted solutions. Maybe the "old" web had some things right about information consumption. lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-re...
Lighthouse - The feed reader for finding actionable content
A reimagined RSS feed reader, optimized for people who are serious, intentional, and proactive about their content consumption.
lighthouseapp.io
October 9, 2025 at 3:16 PM
RSS has quietly survived 20+ years while social platforms come and go. Now there are dozens of specialized feed readers, from browser extensions to self-hosted solutions. Maybe the "old" web had some things right about information consumption. lighthouseapp.io/blog/feed-re...
If you're interested in getting an email of top posts from your own feed each week, my Bluesky Feed Curator will be available for signups soon. It will be free. Stay tuned.
October 2, 2025 at 3:05 AM
If you're interested in getting an email of top posts from your own feed each week, my Bluesky Feed Curator will be available for signups soon. It will be free. Stay tuned.
I built a Bluesky Feed curator to help me keep up here. For those who remember Nuzzel, it follows a similar algorithm. I mostly follow people in Tech, Data, and Startups. Here are the top posts in my feed this week...
October 2, 2025 at 3:02 AM
I built a Bluesky Feed curator to help me keep up here. For those who remember Nuzzel, it follows a similar algorithm. I mostly follow people in Tech, Data, and Startups. Here are the top posts in my feed this week...
This is a useful discussion for building a local speech transcriber. Good links, tools, and tips here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533...
Show HN: Python Audio Transcription: Convert Speech to Text Locally | Hacker News
news.ycombinator.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:22 AM
This is a useful discussion for building a local speech transcriber. Good links, tools, and tips here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4533...
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Triaging my automation wish list and the options are overwhelming 🤯
My shortlist:
Trend tracking & audience dev
Idea generation
Content curation & repurposing
Marketing/sales (still figuring this out)
Keeping up with... well, everything
What's on your automation wish list?
My shortlist:
Trend tracking & audience dev
Idea generation
Content curation & repurposing
Marketing/sales (still figuring this out)
Keeping up with... well, everything
What's on your automation wish list?
September 25, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Triaging my automation wish list and the options are overwhelming 🤯
My shortlist:
Trend tracking & audience dev
Idea generation
Content curation & repurposing
Marketing/sales (still figuring this out)
Keeping up with... well, everything
What's on your automation wish list?
My shortlist:
Trend tracking & audience dev
Idea generation
Content curation & repurposing
Marketing/sales (still figuring this out)
Keeping up with... well, everything
What's on your automation wish list?
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Better world maps for mobile!
Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study.
Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3
Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study.
Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3
May 14, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Better world maps for mobile!
Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study.
Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3
Despite years of mobile-first design, there’s been little experimentation in this area. So we designed our own at NZZ – and validated it in a large user study.
Summary of the paper: jonasoesch.ch/articles/the... 1/3
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We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
July 31, 2025 at 10:39 AM
We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
foursquare.com/products/spa...
This new mesh communication app by Jack Dorsey is super cool! Smart features and it's free too. apps.apple.com/us/app/bitch...
bitchat mesh
chat with people around you.
don't need their phone # or email.
the sidegroupchat for any function.
uses bluetooth mesh, no internet needed.
relays messages to go the distance!
encrypted private mes...
apps.apple.com
July 30, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This new mesh communication app by Jack Dorsey is super cool! Smart features and it's free too. apps.apple.com/us/app/bitch...
Stay close to the source when reading about AI. The further you stray from official announcements and write-ups from the labs, the more likely you're exposed to noise. Assume all reporting is wrong by default unless from primary source. Here's a great list of trustworthy voices...
How I keep up with AI progress (and why you must too) - nilenso blog
Atharva Raykar
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blog.nilenso.com
July 22, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Stay close to the source when reading about AI. The further you stray from official announcements and write-ups from the labs, the more likely you're exposed to noise. Assume all reporting is wrong by default unless from primary source. Here's a great list of trustworthy voices...
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There are always a flood of posts about what AI can or cannot do, so it is worth pausing and paying attention to this OpenAI tweet. This is a very hard test, done without tools.
Getting gold was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%
Getting gold was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%
July 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
There are always a flood of posts about what AI can or cannot do, so it is worth pausing and paying attention to this OpenAI tweet. This is a very hard test, done without tools.
Getting gold was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%
Getting gold was also viewed as an unlikely goal. Prediction markets had the chance of this happening this year as 20%
This open-source Trello app looks pretty great. Includes private/public boards and can be self-hosted. kan.bn
Kan.bn | The open source alternative to Trello
kan.bn
June 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
This open-source Trello app looks pretty great. Includes private/public boards and can be self-hosted. kan.bn
What's the best way to quantify an opportunity according to the pain point it solves and potential revenue?
This answer using Claude-4.0 is pretty great.
What's your preferred approach?
#startups
www.perplexity.ai/search/what-...
This answer using Claude-4.0 is pretty great.
What's your preferred approach?
#startups
www.perplexity.ai/search/what-...
what's the best way to quantify an opportunity according to the pain point it...
Based on the various opportunity scoring methodologies, the most effective approach to quantify opportunities using pain point severity (0-1 scale) and...
www.perplexity.ai
May 24, 2025 at 8:56 PM
What's the best way to quantify an opportunity according to the pain point it solves and potential revenue?
This answer using Claude-4.0 is pretty great.
What's your preferred approach?
#startups
www.perplexity.ai/search/what-...
This answer using Claude-4.0 is pretty great.
What's your preferred approach?
#startups
www.perplexity.ai/search/what-...
It's Quieter in the Twilight
YouTube video by YouTube Movies
www.youtube.com
May 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🎶 strudel is a new live coding platform for writing dynamic music pieces in the browser. Free and open-source. Follow the links! This is a big rabbit hole. strudel.cc
Strudel REPL
Strudel is a music live coding environment for the browser, porting the TidalCycles pattern language to JavaScript.
strudel.cc
May 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
🎶 strudel is a new live coding platform for writing dynamic music pieces in the browser. Free and open-source. Follow the links! This is a big rabbit hole. strudel.cc
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For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
May 6, 2025 at 10:03 AM
For #TidyTuesday this week, we're looking at data on terminations of NSF grants 📊
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
🎨 Using colour to highlight one category
📈 Transparency to highlight the important data
✍️ Annotations instead of a legend for transparency
#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz
I love this take!
This week on MT @taylorotwell.bsky.social talks with @ianlandsman.com & @aaronfrancis.com about why it’s the best time ever to be a coder, why you still need a good idea, and why we all need to learn how to step back and accept when your ideas are too niche or just not good enough.
May 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I love this take!
It's Time to Jailbreak Your Kindle.
YouTube video by Dammit Jeff
www.youtube.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Interesting insights in this interview w/ James Cameron. As a movie maker, he's not opposed to AIs learning from his work. Essentially, we're all models and we can't control each other's input. Legal considerations, either on our meat computer or an LLM, should be on output. youtu.be/qOdjM14QW0s?...
Boz To The Future Podcast #23 - The Future According to James Cameron
YouTube video by Meta
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Interesting insights in this interview w/ James Cameron. As a movie maker, he's not opposed to AIs learning from his work. Essentially, we're all models and we can't control each other's input. Legal considerations, either on our meat computer or an LLM, should be on output. youtu.be/qOdjM14QW0s?...
Useful approach here for optimizing your profits.
I’ve published a new YouTube video! Only my second one, so be kind. 😁
It’s about an obscure analysis method which increase profits at WP Engine by millions of dollars. (Yup.)
It’s about an obscure analysis method which increase profits at WP Engine by millions of dollars. (Yup.)
Profit Whale Curve
An obscure analysis that increased profits of this startup by millions of dollars.*Subscribe* to A Smart Bear on YouTube ► https://www.youtube.com/@asmartbe…
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Useful approach here for optimizing your profits.
Looking for a way to search the indieweb, small web, and digital gardens?
searchmysite.net focuses exclusively on non-commercial content from personal and independent websites.
Perfect for researching people's personal experiences or deep-dives on topics without the marketing noise.
searchmysite.net focuses exclusively on non-commercial content from personal and independent websites.
Perfect for researching people's personal experiences or deep-dives on topics without the marketing noise.
Search My Site - Open source search engine and search as a service for personal and independent websites
searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites
searchmysite.net
April 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Looking for a way to search the indieweb, small web, and digital gardens?
searchmysite.net focuses exclusively on non-commercial content from personal and independent websites.
Perfect for researching people's personal experiences or deep-dives on topics without the marketing noise.
searchmysite.net focuses exclusively on non-commercial content from personal and independent websites.
Perfect for researching people's personal experiences or deep-dives on topics without the marketing noise.
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Nice animation lib! a bunch of text effects.
I’d recommend giving Reactbits a try—it’s got everything you need! www.reactbits.dev/backgrounds/...
GitHub: github.com/DavidHDev/re...
GitHub: github.com/DavidHDev/re...
React Bits
An open source collection of high quality, animated, interactive & fully customizable React components for building stunning, memorable user interfaces.
www.reactbits.dev
March 16, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Nice animation lib! a bunch of text effects.
I love this take: foundersfund.com/2023/06/choo... "Bold moves are where the real magic happens." h/t Hiten Shah
Choose Good Quests - Founders Fund
Today, Silicon Valley faces a crisis of nonsense. With no shortage of problems, and no shortage of both young technologists and well-capitalized former founders capable of solving them, our best and b...
foundersfund.com
March 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I love this take: foundersfund.com/2023/06/choo... "Bold moves are where the real magic happens." h/t Hiten Shah