Nathaniel Mishkin
Nathaniel Mishkin
@nmishkin.bsky.social
Software developer, co-designer of UUIDs
This message struck me as something that would have appeared only in a sci-fi story not so long ago.
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
In the sort of random walk of Internet content that sometimes happens, today I landed on and skimmed the Wikipedia page for Howard Hughes & this thought occurred to me: In 50 or so years people will probably be able to see an eerily similar page describing the full arc of Elon Musk's life & career.
July 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I bought a dark mode ruler today.
July 9, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This morning I saw an “I read banned books” bumper sticker and I thought “What, you stopped when they got banned? Lame!” :-)
July 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Apple’s new operating system versioning scheme is going to look pretty dumb in 2125. #y2k
June 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Another page from Google from the land that time forgot. (Note the 2009-era styling and copyright date.) I got the URL from ChatGPT while trying to find a fix for a problem. I don't know if it's even reachable from the main Google Calendar UI. #GoogleRelic #GoogleCalendar
May 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
911 Operator: “What is the nature of your emergency?”
Caller: “We have a UX catastrophe here!”
#ux #adobe
April 4, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Maybe the weird properties of quantum mechanics are just side-effects of the limited resolution of the simulation that we're living in.
March 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
November 18, 2024 at 12:09 AM