Tom MacWright
@tmcw.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
engineer, writer, "artist"
🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@tmcw on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
🌉 bridged from https://mastodon.social/@tmcw on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
i haven't written that much about my day job. here in this article, i wrote a lot about it, and even about how we're hiring! https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town
Val Town 2023-2025 Retrospective
The whole story
macwright.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
i haven't written that much about my day job. here in this article, i wrote a lot about it, and even about how we're hiring! https://macwright.com/2025/11/11/val-town
doing little public daily devlogs when i do stuff with #effect because the learning curve can be tough: https://macwright.com/2025/11/07/effect-nov-7-caching
Effect notes: caching
macwright.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
doing little public daily devlogs when i do stuff with #effect because the learning curve can be tough: https://macwright.com/2025/11/07/effect-nov-7-caching
congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
Fewer people should run marathons
macwright.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:32 PM
congrats to all the finishers of the new york marathon today!
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
a perfect occasion to write about one of my old hobbyhorses: fewer people should run marathons
https://macwright.com/2025/11/02/fewer-people-should-run-marathons
my /micro page grew to be 3mb because I Wrote Too Much so it now has a big pile of links at the bottom, this is one of my semiyearly website tweaks https://macwright.com/micro/
October 26, 2025 at 9:41 PM
my /micro page grew to be 3mb because I Wrote Too Much so it now has a big pile of links at the bottom, this is one of my semiyearly website tweaks https://macwright.com/micro/
software is so bad
October 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
software is so bad
upgrading vitest from 2 to 3 made our tests slower upgrading it from 3 to 4 make our tests even slower than that
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
upgrading vitest from 2 to 3 made our tests slower upgrading it from 3 to 4 make our tests even slower than that
staying "hip to it" by trying out anthropic skills https://macwright.com/2025/10/20/agent-skills
First-run with agent skills from Anthropic
I tried to use Anthropic Skills which are kind of like lazy-loaded prompts and are a complement to MCP but that let you run code either locally or on their compute.
macwright.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
staying "hip to it" by trying out anthropic skills https://macwright.com/2025/10/20/agent-skills
this idea from @lifewinning is so cool, i had not heard of inertial navigation https://placing.technology/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-and-i-wrote-down-my-worst-ideas-for-fixing-geo#bring-back-inertial-navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak
October 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
this idea from @lifewinning is so cool, i had not heard of inertial navigation https://placing.technology/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-and-i-wrote-down-my-worst-ideas-for-fixing-geo#bring-back-inertial-navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak
it rocks living in lincoln restler's district in nyc, i get to read articles about him doing cool stuff like actually taking action on tons of illegally parked cars https://hellgatenyc.com/downtown-brooklyn-is-one-big-illegal-parking-lot/
Confirmed—Downtown Brooklyn Is One Big Illegal Parking Lot
Placard abuse reigns supreme and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:40 PM
it rocks living in lincoln restler's district in nyc, i get to read articles about him doing cool stuff like actually taking action on tons of illegally parked cars https://hellgatenyc.com/downtown-brooklyn-is-one-big-illegal-parking-lot/
Recently
Back from the wilderness
macwright.com
October 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
porteur bag v2 update: https://macwright.com/2025/09/27/porteur-bag-2
Porteur bag 2
Thinking machines, no! Sewing machines, yes!
macwright.com
September 27, 2025 at 8:18 PM
porteur bag v2 update: https://macwright.com/2025/09/27/porteur-bag-2
posted photos from my last bikepacking trip (the c&o+gap, pittsburgh to dc) on the blog https://macwright.com/photos/
September 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
posted photos from my last bikepacking trip (the c&o+gap, pittsburgh to dc) on the blog https://macwright.com/photos/
decided to write up just all my thoughts about the ar glasses, just to get them out there: https://macwright.com/2025/09/21/cooking-with-glasses
Cooking with glasses
What's the positive view of AR glasses?
macwright.com
September 21, 2025 at 4:11 PM
decided to write up just all my thoughts about the ar glasses, just to get them out there: https://macwright.com/2025/09/21/cooking-with-glasses
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/114905822977634292
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
September 20, 2025 at 10:53 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@tmcw/114905822977634292
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
update: i bought a kobo libra color. impressions so far:
- instapaper integration is slick, fast!
- color is surprisingly nice for reading articles
- display is a little less contrast than my kindles, but is more responsive too
- wish it had […]
placemark changelog: exporting shapefiles was broken, is fixed now
September 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
placemark changelog: exporting shapefiles was broken, is fixed now
keep thinking about this house, the sarimento house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiento_House
September 19, 2025 at 11:33 PM
keep thinking about this house, the sarimento house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiento_House
wrote about how i manage npm dependencies, and used it as an excuse to make some watercolors https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies
September 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
wrote about how i manage npm dependencies, and used it as an excuse to make some watercolors https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies
fastmail just launched offline support, continues to be one of my favorite web applications that i use all the time
September 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
fastmail just launched offline support, continues to be one of my favorite web applications that i use all the time
val.town used to run TypeScript in a Web Worker so that our editor would have autocomplete and language features. it was a total hack and didn't work all that well. our summer intern completely rewrote all of that, creating a session-lived websocket-speaking wrapper for the native deno lsp […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
val.town used to run TypeScript in a Web Worker so that our editor would have autocomplete and language features. it was a total hack and didn't work all that well. our summer intern completely rewrote all of that, creating a session-lived websocket-speaking wrapper for the native deno lsp […]
developed another roll of kodak gold, shot on my olympus xa2
September 9, 2025 at 12:57 PM
developed another roll of kodak gold, shot on my olympus xa2
in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.
- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
September 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed.
- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
- first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon)
- structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint
- two wire gate clips to make attachment […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
cutting-edge vegan food alert: nature's fynd is made from an acidophilic fungus discovered in the yellowstone supervolcano, and it makes a pretty delicious & relatively healthy yogurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%27s_Fynd
Nature's Fynd - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
cutting-edge vegan food alert: nature's fynd is made from an acidophilic fungus discovered in the yellowstone supervolcano, and it makes a pretty delicious & relatively healthy yogurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%27s_Fynd
the only good laufey review https://www.hearingthings.co/overrated-albums-2025/
September 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
the only good laufey review https://www.hearingthings.co/overrated-albums-2025/
every hacker news comment is now "ai is great except it needs a robust system for fromulating widgets" and the author of the comment is the ceo of a yc backed startup for fromulating widgets with ai
September 2, 2025 at 3:04 PM
every hacker news comment is now "ai is great except it needs a robust system for fromulating widgets" and the author of the comment is the ceo of a yc backed startup for fromulating widgets with ai