Daniel Feichtinger
@auxilit.com
Personal computers, malleable software, hypermedia, augmenting the human intellect. Building HyperMap, a REST API format for the 21st century.
www.allpurposemachines.com — open-source projects
www.auxilit.com — personal site
Norwich, UK // He/Him
www.allpurposemachines.com — open-source projects
www.auxilit.com — personal site
Norwich, UK // He/Him
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Daniel Feichtinger
@auxilit.com
· Jun 23
All-Purpose Machines
www.allpurposemachines.com
I'm reviving my RESTful API stack that's been dormant the past year, starting with a refreshed Website and (2 year late) introductory blog post: www.allpurposemachines.com/posts/hyperm...
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This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions.
The technology in question is the sundial.
From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”
(It isn't wrong, though)
The technology in question is the sundial.
From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”
(It isn't wrong, though)
February 10, 2026 at 5:00 PM
This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions.
The technology in question is the sundial.
From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”
(It isn't wrong, though)
The technology in question is the sundial.
From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day”
(It isn't wrong, though)
A sensible desktop Linux package manager wouldn’t let you install Qt apps in a Gnome env or vice versa — it just doesn’t work.
February 10, 2026 at 10:27 AM
A sensible desktop Linux package manager wouldn’t let you install Qt apps in a Gnome env or vice versa — it just doesn’t work.
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genuinely, just fucking use signal
at least for DMs and small groups
at least for DMs and small groups
February 10, 2026 at 2:10 AM
genuinely, just fucking use signal
at least for DMs and small groups
at least for DMs and small groups
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Here are a couple more impossible cylinders: A heart/infinity symbol and a cardioid whose reflection is not reversed by the mirror.
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Here are a couple more impossible cylinders: A heart/infinity symbol and a cardioid whose reflection is not reversed by the mirror.
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today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
February 9, 2026 at 9:16 AM
today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes
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I still feel like people post fewer links here than they should. Go forth into the big wide internet and return with morsels for us to click.
My view has started to become that the Internet has sort of bifurcated, so that you have the whole universe of constant soulless branding and "content" churn, but there are lots of places where insight, art, and community are still valued.
shadows and dust...
February 8, 2026 at 4:18 PM
I still feel like people post fewer links here than they should. Go forth into the big wide internet and return with morsels for us to click.
When everyone's exhausted the serif font design trend we'll need to go harder: d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/brochures/ra...
February 8, 2026 at 10:03 PM
When everyone's exhausted the serif font design trend we'll need to go harder: d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/brochures/ra...
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I've always wanted better tools to read and navigate—not edit!—source code.
For example, it's incredible to me that there is no iPad app that does LSP features plus bookmarks, navigation tree, etc.
Maybe now that LLMs made it more people's job to read code, we'll get good code reading tools?
For example, it's incredible to me that there is no iPad app that does LSP features plus bookmarks, navigation tree, etc.
Maybe now that LLMs made it more people's job to read code, we'll get good code reading tools?
February 8, 2026 at 11:31 AM
I've always wanted better tools to read and navigate—not edit!—source code.
For example, it's incredible to me that there is no iPad app that does LSP features plus bookmarks, navigation tree, etc.
Maybe now that LLMs made it more people's job to read code, we'll get good code reading tools?
For example, it's incredible to me that there is no iPad app that does LSP features plus bookmarks, navigation tree, etc.
Maybe now that LLMs made it more people's job to read code, we'll get good code reading tools?
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It seems the entire current tech stack will be the x86 (awful but who cares) for the post-human layer of programming.
February 7, 2026 at 6:57 PM
It seems the entire current tech stack will be the x86 (awful but who cares) for the post-human layer of programming.
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It still seems fairly distasteful to have bots pretending to be human and to have feelings
February 7, 2026 at 9:10 PM
It still seems fairly distasteful to have bots pretending to be human and to have feelings
Life is a Metroidvania
February 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Life is a Metroidvania
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getting increasingly stressed that I've only got a single lifetime to work on all my projects
February 7, 2026 at 3:52 AM
getting increasingly stressed that I've only got a single lifetime to work on all my projects
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a gentle criticism that modals like this are not the user experience of a social network that is friendly to hyperlinks
February 6, 2026 at 11:06 PM
a gentle criticism that modals like this are not the user experience of a social network that is friendly to hyperlinks
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We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 AM
We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.
I want a service where I can get stuff printed in those snappable nuclear launch code protectors. Guest WiFi password? Here, snap this. Want that burrito recipe? Snap. Where are we meeting later? Snap.
Snapping that plastic cover to get the nuclear launch codes looks incredibly satisfying ngl
February 5, 2026 at 11:10 PM
I want a service where I can get stuff printed in those snappable nuclear launch code protectors. Guest WiFi password? Here, snap this. Want that burrito recipe? Snap. Where are we meeting later? Snap.
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opus 4.6 is a significant step up at my openscad benchmarks
February 5, 2026 at 7:54 PM
opus 4.6 is a significant step up at my openscad benchmarks
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So the chances of an open source Opus quality model is high and once we get there thats the viability floor for coding AIs
Open models continue to pace closed models on a 9 month lag.
February 4, 2026 at 6:50 PM
So the chances of an open source Opus quality model is high and once we get there thats the viability floor for coding AIs
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inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment
February 4, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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one thing the web should have evolved by now is a portable non-centralised way to verifiably assert "I am the owner of <email address>" because this is clearly necessary for loads of things and approximately nobody does a good job of implementing it
February 4, 2026 at 4:51 PM
one thing the web should have evolved by now is a portable non-centralised way to verifiably assert "I am the owner of <email address>" because this is clearly necessary for loads of things and approximately nobody does a good job of implementing it
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Googling for “a world without apps” has great contrast in its top two results:
1. An Apple WWDC intro equating a world without apps to a literal apocalypse
2. A keynote from Michel Beaudouin-Lafon arguing we should abolish apps in favour of a substrates-oriented computing
1. An Apple WWDC intro equating a world without apps to a literal apocalypse
2. A keynote from Michel Beaudouin-Lafon arguing we should abolish apps in favour of a substrates-oriented computing
February 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Googling for “a world without apps” has great contrast in its top two results:
1. An Apple WWDC intro equating a world without apps to a literal apocalypse
2. A keynote from Michel Beaudouin-Lafon arguing we should abolish apps in favour of a substrates-oriented computing
1. An Apple WWDC intro equating a world without apps to a literal apocalypse
2. A keynote from Michel Beaudouin-Lafon arguing we should abolish apps in favour of a substrates-oriented computing
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We really need the Mozilla of LLMs to emerge before it is too late.
February 4, 2026 at 4:43 AM
We really need the Mozilla of LLMs to emerge before it is too late.
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just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍
February 2, 2026 at 11:22 PM
just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍