Xander Cesari
merriman.industries
Xander Cesari
@merriman.industries
Car enthusiast, software enthusiast, software on cars enthusiast
This feels significant. After the feed algorithms have done so much cultural damage over the last decade the possibility that writing and deploying an algorithm is now so democratized could be important. Not sure if you dabble in tech blogs but I'd love a write up on this!
December 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Everyone says this like it's a dunk but the alternative is an MCU franchise that was built around toys, merchandising, virality, spin-offs, reaction videos, theme parks, tie-ins, etc. Not sure "kids don't wear avatar T-shirts" is the diss you think it is.
December 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Been thinking about this for a few days. First is I'm not used to it yet 🙁 But more importantly I don't think the tech-right are republicans. They're a different weird third thing that were/are aligned with the GOP. It may be pedantic but I suspect this difference will be important in a few years.
December 26, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Photographing with both film and digital led to the illuminating realization that the real world is *really* high resolution.
December 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
After almost a decade in the auto engineering field, he's spot on. Automotive combines a massive R&D spend with a commodity priced product. It's unlike most tech businesses yet it's what they're all approaching. On the long timeline this is what the smartphone biz looks like.
December 16, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Update: I've switched Zed to Helix keybindings.

That got out of hand fast.
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I'm also bringing in Yazi for file management:
yazi-rs.github.io

And of course the old stalwart, Bacon!
dystroy.org/bacon/
Yazi
Blazing fast terminal file manager written in Rust, based on async I/O.
yazi-rs.github.io
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Halloween but only if you're in a small town in New England
November 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
I'm going through the tutorial for the third time in 1.5 years but I swear I'm actually gonna do a project with it this time
November 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Creating word clouds of slang from each era then embedding their meanings in a vector space would be a really interesting way to visualize and contextualize the ephemeral priorities of a moment in time.
November 3, 2025 at 9:21 PM
A secret third recording?? Y'all have come a long way from the days of using an Android emulator to record audio to a computer.
November 3, 2025 at 12:57 AM
A few years ago I found a website that was basically a scavenger hunt for photographers to go shoot needed photos for Wikimedia. It was great! I wish I could remember the name.
November 1, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I really hope that their approach - integration with the community, existing tooling and ecosystem, and openness - sets the standard for future hardware vendor's HAL efforts!
October 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I have breakfast, make coffee, then write until I'm hungry again 🙂 I like to think I use as many words as I need to get the point across. I write for myself more than anyone else and no one has emailed saying "tl;dr" so I'm just going to keep following my heart until I need to learn brevity!
October 27, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Thanks for the reshare! There's so much we could say about both these topics; security of open vs closed source and how we would drive adoption across an entire industry. But I had to cut myself off around 3000 words 😁
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM