Nathan L.
@nathanlawrence.bsky.social
I write code and code accessories in the 🍎 fruit mines.
Home improvement pro tip: Imagine how much spray foam you need. No. You need less than that. No. Still less. Stop. Oh god, it's expanding. This is a disaster.
September 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Home improvement pro tip: Imagine how much spray foam you need. No. You need less than that. No. Still less. Stop. Oh god, it's expanding. This is a disaster.
Reposted by Nathan L.
Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Hey @nytimes.com, do you have literally *any* First Amendment experts on staff, because this is embarrassing.
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
Glad you're speaking up about this, but feels like you should... not make basic mistakes like this?
cc: @kenwhite.bsky.social
Reposted by Nathan L.
Michael Eisner publicly attacking Bob Iger is crazy, what year is it
September 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Michael Eisner publicly attacking Bob Iger is crazy, what year is it
"$25k MRR in 30 days!"
Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.
Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.
September 17, 2025 at 12:49 AM
"$25k MRR in 30 days!"
Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.
Ok, cool (maybe), but lemme know how many people unsubscribe or charge back on month two of their $20/month app that asks Google to draw fake abs on their selfie.
Reposted by Nathan L.
The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page
April 3, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The man sitting next to me on the Metro is reading a printout of the "Tariff" Wikipedia page
"Nathan why are you spending so much time thinking about cassoulet?"
Well why aren't you spending any?
Well why aren't you spending any?
December 24, 2024 at 3:30 AM
"Nathan why are you spending so much time thinking about cassoulet?"
Well why aren't you spending any?
Well why aren't you spending any?
You can't block Team Snapchat
I tried
I tried
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 PM
You can't block Team Snapchat
I tried
I tried
I know I seem to be totally alone here, but "this movie about how a young woman is bullied by all her friends and then she learns her hero is actually a fascist dictator needed brighter colors" is just a strange concept to me.
December 1, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I know I seem to be totally alone here, but "this movie about how a young woman is bullied by all her friends and then she learns her hero is actually a fascist dictator needed brighter colors" is just a strange concept to me.
Reposted by Nathan L.
In the middle of tonight's Simpsons parody of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where people are forced to watch overly complicated prestige TV dramas, this happened. I am still processing it.
November 25, 2024 at 1:41 AM
In the middle of tonight's Simpsons parody of Fahrenheit 451, set in a dystopian future where people are forced to watch overly complicated prestige TV dramas, this happened. I am still processing it.
NPR’s increasingly toothless coverage of US politics that felt increasingly divorced from any relationship with the truth, over paranoia that it would be seen as biased, was the biggest thing that pushed me to question why I worked in news at all.
NPR has spent the last few years softening its coverage to appease Republicans and here's their reward
"Democrat propaganda": Marjorie Taylor Greene plans to team up with Musk to defund NPR
She accused the public radio network of doing "nothing for the American people."
www.salon.com
November 24, 2024 at 11:14 PM
NPR’s increasingly toothless coverage of US politics that felt increasingly divorced from any relationship with the truth, over paranoia that it would be seen as biased, was the biggest thing that pushed me to question why I worked in news at all.
Reposted by Nathan L.
What's crazy is, considering how expensive everything was, I have no idea if these are even good numbers
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
What's crazy is, considering how expensive everything was, I have no idea if these are even good numbers
Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 is out and includes significant enhancements for Predictive Code Completion — check it out: developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
developer.apple.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:26 AM
Xcode 16.2 Beta 3 is out and includes significant enhancements for Predictive Code Completion — check it out: developer.apple.com/documentatio...
Reposted by Nathan L.
United we stand, divided we fall.
November 18, 2024 at 8:05 AM
United we stand, divided we fall.
Reposted by Nathan L.
oh yeah I never posted this classic here
November 18, 2024 at 1:31 PM
oh yeah I never posted this classic here
I would like to think I'm a relatively stable person but in truth all it takes to disarm me completely and leave me reeling and in denial is to witness a normal human being voluntarily entering and eating at a Subway restaurant.
July 27, 2023 at 4:13 AM
I would like to think I'm a relatively stable person but in truth all it takes to disarm me completely and leave me reeling and in denial is to witness a normal human being voluntarily entering and eating at a Subway restaurant.
Reposted by Nathan L.
Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…
Google is changing up search. What does that mean for news publishers?
A shift to AI-generated search results will decrease the traffic that Google sends to publishers' sites, as more people get what they need straight from the Google search page instead.
www.niemanlab.org
July 9, 2023 at 7:47 PM
Something very strange is happening to the Web. Finding something from the past on search engines is eroding. Atemporality replaced by an immediate, constantly vanishing, consumerist hyper-present. What we thought was an infinite Borges-ian library turning into Amazon checkout with a ticking clock…
In the Queer Rapture, your children will be left behind
nobody is “coming for your children,” honestly your children are a pain in the ass
July 9, 2023 at 3:14 AM
In the Queer Rapture, your children will be left behind
Reposted by Nathan L.
No offense, but who in their right mind looks at what happened to Twitter over the last 7 months and says "yup, I'm gonna trust those people with my money..."
NEW: Twitter has recently obtained money transmitter licenses in Michigan, Missouri, and New Hampshire, marking a significant step toward implementing payment services.
w/ @leoschwartz.bsky.social @fortune.com https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/07/05/elon-musk-payments-twitter-everything-app-crypto/
w/ @leoschwartz.bsky.social @fortune.com https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/07/05/elon-musk-payments-twitter-everything-app-crypto/
Elon Musk needs payments to make Twitter an 'everything app'—and the first 3 U.S. states just got ...
Twitter has passed its first hurdle in implementing long-awaited payment services, which could everything from crypto to P2P transfers.
fortune.com
July 5, 2023 at 9:46 PM
No offense, but who in their right mind looks at what happened to Twitter over the last 7 months and says "yup, I'm gonna trust those people with my money..."
My “Your Network” list is already stuffed with names that fill me with dread, so this app might have legs
July 4, 2023 at 2:30 AM
My “Your Network” list is already stuffed with names that fill me with dread, so this app might have legs
OpenAI APIs are slowly becoming the world’s largest honeypot for people who think they can “create value” without any meaningful insight or actual effort.
July 4, 2023 at 2:21 AM
OpenAI APIs are slowly becoming the world’s largest honeypot for people who think they can “create value” without any meaningful insight or actual effort.
Reposted by Nathan L.
Not many people know this, but there's an exclusive set of lightly moderated and mostly invite-only social media apps wealthy and prominent people use to post on a regular basis. They are called "newspapers."
Sam Alito wrote a WSJ op-ed.
No, that sentence is not a joke. https://www.wsj.com/articles/propublica-misleads-its-readers-alito-gifts-disclosure-alaska-singer-23b51eda
No, that sentence is not a joke. https://www.wsj.com/articles/propublica-misleads-its-readers-alito-gifts-disclosure-alaska-singer-23b51eda
June 21, 2023 at 12:35 AM
Not many people know this, but there's an exclusive set of lightly moderated and mostly invite-only social media apps wealthy and prominent people use to post on a regular basis. They are called "newspapers."