Thomas Ptacek
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Thomas Ptacek
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Full of passionate intensity.
@oakparknerd.bsky.social Mask off for Stopeck, I guess.
October 2, 2025 at 2:57 AM
What the FUCK, Microsoft?
September 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Champaign-Urbana, Illinois: heart of the Prairie Demoscene.
September 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Changed my mind, back to hating AI.
September 3, 2025 at 12:39 AM
He's like Steve Buscemi's P.I. character in 30 Rock. How do you take this seriously? There are plenty of LLM skeptics who actually code professionally. Why source your skepticism here?
August 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Marking this now as a contender for the funniest subhed of 2025.
August 24, 2025 at 3:31 AM
I didn't know we got to brand our dotfiles. I call this segment of my .zshrc TESSARACTUS:

(omarchy.org)
August 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
What? No.
August 5, 2025 at 12:42 AM
I had a whole spiel about how Sketch.dev was crushing Codex for me today, and then it wrote this and now I want to destroy it.
July 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
"The executive director of an IT consultancy". Ok, then.
July 19, 2025 at 12:53 AM
gee thanks sketch i wasn't sure
July 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
🤘
July 9, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is extremely funny for deeply emacsy reasons.
July 8, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Current status:
June 26, 2025 at 5:01 AM
June 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Kenton Varda in a long thread on HN with an LLM skeptic (they're "kentonv"). I'm particularly jealous of this observation:

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4420...
June 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This is an amazing headline.
June 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Probably Friday Night Infra Logging is not a good idea. But we're doin' it live.
June 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
TIL.
June 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ah. This makes more sense now. Yeah, so: I was not insulting Alexandrescu, but I'm glad we share mid-cut '99-00 era C++ referents.
June 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
June 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Ah, now it all makes sense. Jupiter is made of Malört.
June 4, 2025 at 5:59 AM
June 3, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I get letters.
June 3, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Current status:
June 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM