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Jared Forsyth

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trying to be christian. feminist. mormon. type theory, PLT Mobile dev @KhanAcademy building kipos https://github.com/kipos-lang/kipos @jaredforsyth on the dead bird site

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Nov 30

10 years ago, I thought "programming is too hard, I'll make tools to make it easier"
5 years ago, I thought "I'll make a new language to make it easier"
now I'm working on tools to make "making new languages" easier 😂

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · 13d

how about "I don't want to spend brain power (variable accuracy) on this, I want the computer to do it (reliable accuracy)"

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Nathan Edwards @grackle.space · 20d

dudes rock

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Sep 8

so my spouse is part of a weirdly intense but mostly benign men's workout group that meets at like, 5:30am outside every day, even in winter. they do a lot of burpees and lugging cinder blocks up hills and stuff.
they take turns leading the workouts and tomorrow is his turn. I asked what he was planning. he handed me a sheet of William Carlos William poems from a large stack he'd printed.
I said "what" and he explained, helpfully, "it's a William Carlos William themed workout." I asked what inspired it and he said "l've been planning this for months."

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Sep 9
it was a smash hit.
a dozen guys showed up (more than usual). spouse brought a red wheelbarrow and they took turns bringing cinder blocks up the hill with it. then they broke up in teams and did a relay with an "icebox" (cooler filled with 40lbs of ice). at the end he opened the cooler to reveal it was full of beach plum lacroix and all the guys cheered. they drank sparkling water as he read 'approach of winter' out loud.
he was home by 6:30am.

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Sep 3

an art

based on a macro-pattern from the Mirador de Lindaraja in the Alhambra

a 3d rendering of an islamic geometric pattern

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 26

Yep. Prestige podcasting is dying for the same reason as the rest of the media: Pontificating is cheap and reporting is expensive.

It turned out that companies could make way more money if they went straight to the profitable projects—the ones that favored big names and “always on” publishing schedules, and which required (and allowed for) less editing, less format experimentation, and less contemplation. This is why the word “podcast” increasingly means “dudes talking at each other for five hours on camera.” Those hours are then cut down to one minute-ish clips to share on social media in the increasingly futile hope that one will go viral. Step 3, as always, is: ??? Step 4, the most important one, remains: Profit. The result of this enshittification is a fundamentally different medium, and one that produces work very different than the kind I got into this business to make. The consensus picks among people in the industry for the best and most influential podcasts of all time are the sort of work that the industry mostly does not produce anymore—higher-touch narrative projects that are more novel than shitpost, and more art than commerce.

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Hold Me Closer, Giant Dancers @giantdancers.bsky.social · Aug 25

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · Aug 25

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Aug 20

Is somebody training an LLM to turn CS Paper algorithm descriptions into runnable code? That would be so cool.

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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · Aug 16

AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read.

Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.

Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · Aug 16

People are reading AI-generated synopses of books and then claiming they read 100 books in a week. This is how the abolition of books began in Fahrenheit 451: classics were condensed into five-minute summaries for those too busy to do the reading. Later came the burnings.

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Aug 16

The Lady's Not For Burning (1987). Nonstop wit, whole also remarkably thoughtful about the human condition

Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Aug 11

this would radically alter the funding models of those small towns; enforced speed limits means no speeding tickets, right?

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Aug 9

There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · Aug 9

New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It

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Annie Sexton @anniesexton.com · Aug 7

By now, you know that LLMs take TEXT and turn them into NUMBERS...somehow.

But how does it actually work?

youtu.be/4A_nfXyBD08

TOKENIZATION: How AI models turn text into numbers | Byte-Pair Encoding

YouTube video by Annie Sexton

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Una Kravets @una.im · May 12

Intent to ship for sibling-index() & sibling-count()!

You won't need to itemize nth-child to style things like staggered animations anymore 🥳

For example, I'd be able to clean up the angle position and animation delays in this demo: codepen.io/una/pen/Qwwz...

Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

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gabby @fullmoon.id · Jul 29

The Grace programming language now natively supports a Key type for managing API credentials. The benefit of a distinct type is:

- Grace guarantees that values of this type are never rendered
- The Grace browser obscures form inputs of this type

$\{ key : Key } -> { "You'll usually use keys for API calls": prompt{ key, text: "hi" } , "The key can never rendered by the client": key } --- You'll usually use keys for API calls: Hello! How can I help you today? The key can never rendered by the client: 🔒$

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Jul 26

IN CONCLUSION (finally) a desert or dry prairie grassland does not need to be made into trees! It’s pulling its carbon weight just fine! Respect the grassland! Respect the desert! It is not a slacker! It is doing big shit on way less water, and we should work with it, not against it.

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Jul 21

New blog post! "A Practical Comparison of AI Coding Agents"
giving a real-world complex ambiguous scenario to 14 different LLMs
jaredforsyth.com/posts/practi...

A Practical Comparison of AI Coding Agents | Jared Forsyth.com

Thoughts about programming, mostly

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Aboogail Screamini @abbeyperini.dev · Jul 10

Hey y'all, my favorite conference, @magnolia.boo , needs sponsors.

It has the best food, supports an under-served community, and as the inaugural costume contest winner, I can say it has the best costumes!

Sponsorships start at $500, so send this to your company:

drive.google.com/file/d/1p2bg...

2025MagnoliaSponsorshipProspectus.pdf

drive.google.com

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Jul 14

I'm not seeing a deadline; how long is the CFP open?

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MagnoliaConf (OCT 21-23!) @magnolia.boo · Jul 14

CFP IS NOW OPEN! forms.gle/VN5j1xSN3YXP...

Magnolia Conf 2025 CFP

Thank you for your interest in speaking at Magnolia Conf (formerly MagnoliaJS) 2025! We're hosting the event October 21-23 at the Mississippi Museum of Art. We know we're biased but it's a great confe...

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Jared Forsyth @jaredforsyth.com · Jul 2

so the refundability is managed by a third party? Is it actually like some kind of insurance? I'd like to see a "powered by SomeCo" or something if that's the case.