Nathan Smith
@smith.fo
Software 🦀➕🐪 • Philosophy 🧐 • Maths 🧮
Having the moment of anagnorisis as a developer
Having the moment of anagnorisis as a developer
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November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Watching @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and suddenly see @bcantrill.bsky.social talking about Oracle was an exciting surprise.
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Watching @moreperfectunion.bsky.social and suddenly see @bcantrill.bsky.social talking about Oracle was an exciting surprise.
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October 4, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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More Oxide and Friends for your weekend
Scaling Manufacturing | Oxide and Friends | Episode 27
Bryan and Adam were joined by members of the Oxide manufacturing team to talk about all that goes into ramping up production, from people and processes to expanding the team and refining inefficiencie...
share.transistor.fm
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
More Oxide and Friends for your weekend
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dstp is a free and opensource tool that run common networking tests against your site such as ping, dns, TLS certificate validation and check for HTTP status codes for your website. It is a small tool that is useful for both developers and IT professionals. Try it out. github.com/ycd/dstp
GitHub - ycd/dstp: 🧪 Run common networking tests against any site.
🧪 Run common networking tests against any site. Contribute to ycd/dstp development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
September 16, 2025 at 11:51 PM
dstp is a free and opensource tool that run common networking tests against your site such as ping, dns, TLS certificate validation and check for HTTP status codes for your website. It is a small tool that is useful for both developers and IT professionals. Try it out. github.com/ycd/dstp
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Criterion Collection sale at Deep Discount.
More than 1,000 4Ks, Blu-rays, and DVDS up to 45% off.
DVDs are as little as $11.25. Free shipping if you spend $25.
www.deepdiscount.com/criterion-co... #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
More than 1,000 4Ks, Blu-rays, and DVDS up to 45% off.
DVDs are as little as $11.25. Free shipping if you spend $25.
www.deepdiscount.com/criterion-co... #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
September 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Criterion Collection sale at Deep Discount.
More than 1,000 4Ks, Blu-rays, and DVDS up to 45% off.
DVDs are as little as $11.25. Free shipping if you spend $25.
www.deepdiscount.com/criterion-co... #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
More than 1,000 4Ks, Blu-rays, and DVDS up to 45% off.
DVDs are as little as $11.25. Free shipping if you spend $25.
www.deepdiscount.com/criterion-co... #FilmSky #PhysicalMedia
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To those that post a screenshot of a paper without a link: seriously?
September 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM
To those that post a screenshot of a paper without a link: seriously?
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im a heap developer, personally
September 4, 2025 at 11:18 PM
im a heap developer, personally
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Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
👉 tuta.com/blog/microso...
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
👉 tuta.com/blog/microso...
August 28, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
👉 tuta.com/blog/microso...
Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊
Because you deserve better. ❤️
👉 tuta.com/blog/microso...
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unfuck.email
August 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This tool looks to be helping: unfuck.email
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A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social
Adventures in State Space
YouTube video by 2swap
www.youtube.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
A beautiful visualization of the state space of puzzles, 11 min of joy, h/t @danlarremore.bsky.social
Anyone want to start a book club?
August 21, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Anyone want to start a book club?
It's interesting that there is a desire to bring chipmaking back to the US without the expertise and foundational knowledge. Investment could build the plant, but it doesn't come with the people and knowledge required to make it competitive.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking
To remain the world’s foremost technological power, America needs its friends
www.economist.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:05 PM
It's interesting that there is a desire to bring chipmaking back to the US without the expertise and foundational knowledge. Investment could build the plant, but it doesn't come with the people and knowledge required to make it competitive.
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Watching Frances Ha for the first time. My notebook is getting filled with quotes, "It's just, this apartment is very... aware of itself", "...", ...
August 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Watching Frances Ha for the first time. My notebook is getting filled with quotes, "It's just, this apartment is very... aware of itself", "...", ...
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realized part of why people are using ChatGPT instead of google: no ads or paywalls. I could not figure out why it just “feels easier” to use Chat until I had to start researching how to address heel pain on runs. Articles where every 2 paragraphs i am cut off or forced to scroll 10x to keep reading
August 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
realized part of why people are using ChatGPT instead of google: no ads or paywalls. I could not figure out why it just “feels easier” to use Chat until I had to start researching how to address heel pain on runs. Articles where every 2 paragraphs i am cut off or forced to scroll 10x to keep reading
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A product that (almost) everyone uses from mid-sized tech companies and up but I rarely hear talked about: Grafana
In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"
This is Grafana:
In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"
This is Grafana:
August 18, 2025 at 9:14 AM
A product that (almost) everyone uses from mid-sized tech companies and up but I rarely hear talked about: Grafana
In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"
This is Grafana:
In The Pragmatic Engineer 2025 survey, it had more mentions than Cursor, and dominates as the answer to "how do you turn information into graphs"
This is Grafana:
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I’m at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton this week, doing research for the particle physics book I’m writing. It’s an amazing place. Today I spent about five straight hours talking about the future of fundamental physics with a colleague and my brain is full but man it was so much fun 🤯
August 19, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I’m at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton this week, doing research for the particle physics book I’m writing. It’s an amazing place. Today I spent about five straight hours talking about the future of fundamental physics with a colleague and my brain is full but man it was so much fun 🤯
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(trying to start a discourse)
Nice argument you have there. However, I have already depicted you as the emacs user and me as the vim user
Nice argument you have there. However, I have already depicted you as the emacs user and me as the vim user
August 19, 2025 at 3:20 AM
(trying to start a discourse)
Nice argument you have there. However, I have already depicted you as the emacs user and me as the vim user
Nice argument you have there. However, I have already depicted you as the emacs user and me as the vim user
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I have a tremendous idea: SaaP
Software as a Product
Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it
Who's with me
Software as a Product
Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it
Who's with me
August 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I have a tremendous idea: SaaP
Software as a Product
Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it
Who's with me
Software as a Product
Instead of paying every month, you just buy it once and then you just kind of keep it
Who's with me
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What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468
August 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
What is emergence? This is one of the most central ingredients of complexity, and a challenging one to formalize. Here's a paper by @seanmcarroll.bsky.social & Achyth Parola that attempts to classify different forms of emergence. @manlius.bsky.social @sfiscience.bsky.social arxiv.org/pdf/2410.15468
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Mathematicians have worked out the optimal strategy for Guess Who? The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical fallacy. www.newscientist.com/article/2491...
Mathematicians have worked out the optimal strategy for Guess Who?
The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical fallacy, according to mathematicians
www.newscientist.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Mathematicians have worked out the optimal strategy for Guess Who? The quickest way to win the board game Guess Who? involves asking sneaky questions that involve a logical fallacy. www.newscientist.com/article/2491...
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GitHub - microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners: 21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/ - microsoft/generative-ai-for-beginners
github.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🔥 Hot Repo！ 🔥 (100+ new stars)
📦 microsoft / generative-ai-for-beginners
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21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/
📦 microsoft / generative-ai-for-beginners
⭐ 94,469 (+151)
🗒 Jupyter Notebook
21 Lessons, Get Started Building with Generative AI 🔗 https://microsoft.github.io/generative-ai-for-beginners/
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Watch with the sound on to hear the cow bells echoing through the alpine meadows. Taken at the top of Mount Pilatus with a view of lake Lucerne at the end
August 7, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Watch with the sound on to hear the cow bells echoing through the alpine meadows. Taken at the top of Mount Pilatus with a view of lake Lucerne at the end