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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 9d

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP

Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · 9d

Encountered two `z-index: 2147483647 !important;` declarations today

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dferrer.bsky.social @dferrer.bsky.social · 10d

We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious

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Gail Drakes @gaildrakes.bsky.social · 17d

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

Screengrab from Blacksky migration guide:

blacksky algorithms

A Warning: Anyone else using a blacksky.app handle will receive a warning at first and then a suspension.

Alternative PDSs for Everyone
Blacksky Algorithms also operates two other
PDSs that are open to anyone:
• myatproto.social - Open to all
• cryptoanarchy.network - Open to all

These servers run on the same infrastructure as blacksky.app and are maintained by the same team, but are available for anyone to use regardless of background.

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 21d

If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines

YouTube video by Databricks

www.youtube.com

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · 22d

Feeling chuffed, ended the week with a work win. Parts of a system came together and it started working as designed

Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 25

📝

Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 25

Neat ideas on a different type of social media

Danielle Heberling @danielleheberling.xyz · Sep 25

This! 👇🏻

Slow social media

How can we design better platforms?

herman.bearblog.dev

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 25

The visual essays on samwho.dev are a treasure

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Cory LaViska @cory.laviska.com · Sep 24

So much for a soft launch…the cat's out of the bag. I just hope it doesn't get my mascot. 😅

quietui.org 🐭

Built from scratch, I've released my personal creative outlet under a source-available license for folks to use and learn from.

I’d love to hear what you think!

Quiet UI

A UI library for the Web with a focus on accessibility, longevity, performance, and simplicity.

quietui.org

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 19

👆 is required reading for those delivering apps over the web. Great distillation of what @infrequently.org has been talking about for years

Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 19

💯
“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”

Alex Russell @infrequently.org · Sep 19

Frameworkists are eager to tell you about the name-brand tech they're using on the project, then put a Miele oven in the bathroom. Do not be a frameworkist. Do not _hire_ frameworkists.

Be someone who is agnostic to tools but laser focused on goals.

infrequently.org/2024/11/if-n...

If Not React, Then What? - Infrequently Noted

Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives…

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 14

Also used tape to straighten out a curly pattern. That's a satisfying application

The pattern piece likes to roll up in a tube and doesn't lay flat

Taping the edges of the curly pattern piece down in preparation for cutting

The pattern piece is now cut out. Close up of a corner. Two edges have tape.

Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 14

Put tape on the corner of the pattern before I cut it out. I think this will make more durable corners. Not certain if it'll mess up transferring the pattern to fabric.

Crisp corner from tape on thin tracing paper

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 13

I like the plain tracing paper over the gridded version. Way more legible

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 13

Praxis

Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Sep 13

me, @rishkebab.blacksky.team and @marisa.blacksky.team built this already by the way. It's called Papertree and it's now under the Blacksky umbrella.

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Rudy wants revolution. @rude1.blacksky.team · Sep 13

> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining.

White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...

Woman explains how she and friends use shared bank account for group trips to alleviate stress of splitting bills

Kim Brindell explained how they came up with the idea.

abcnews.go.com

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 13

Got a nice system to secure tracing paper to patterns. I put down tape on the pattern piece that I affix the tracing paper to

#sewing

Pattern paper with tape on the paper as points to affix the tracing paper

The tracing paper affixed to the pattern

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 13

Improvised a tracing table from lighting panels

#sewing

Lighting panel on a desktop with a tube light underneath. On top of the lighting panel is a sewing pattern and tracing paper

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 4

The horizontal strip is cut! Used a fancy electric fabric cutter

A vertical view of the strip. Hopefully it'll be enough for the project

Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Scrounging some fabric for the coat project

Illustration of pattern pieces laid on top of a folded piece of fabric

An old fitted sheet that will be the source material for the prototype. The bottom has 2 mountain top cut outs, that used to be the corners of the sheet. The top is missing pieces from another project

Rough approximation of the width needed to fit the pattern layout

Going to cut a horizontal strip. The black measuring tape shows the doubled width of the previous measurement.

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Honey B. Stinger @honeybeestinger.bsky.social · Sep 2

Reviving my sewing hobby
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck

Illustration showing the pieces of the Foreman pattern, numbered 1 to 11

The pattern pieces have been transferred to tracing paper

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Sara Soueidan @sarasoueidan.com · Aug 27

A list of #accessibility features and assistive tech I use daily:

• Page/browser Zoom & OS-level Zoom.
• High Contrast Themes (in VSCode)
• Reduce transparency (macOS)
• Dark theme (macOS)
• Larger cursor size (if you try this it becomes hard to go back to the OS's default size)
• Eyeglasses 👓

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Chad @chadtmiller.com · Aug 25

Excited to share some new stuff I've been I've been working on. It's an appview for building appviews called Slices. A slice reads your lexicons, indexes your records from the Jetstream, does backfill and provides a typescript client to interact with your lexicon .listRecords, .searchRecords, etc

dashboard of slice showing how many records are indexed and links to other slice things like lexicons, record explorer, code gen, and sync.

lexicon page showing an input to paste in a lexicon definition and press submit

sync page showing collections from your lexicon ready to sync

codegen page showing a generate client button, below the generated typescript for a slice which includes methods for interacting with your lexicon records

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Brandon Roberts @brandonroberts.dev · Aug 22

Vibe coding used to be staying up until 2am only to figure out your code was missing a semicolon 😤

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