Author | Lightnews

john vining

@johnvining.bsky.social

110 followers 1.1K following 230 posts

Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Madison, Wisconsin. jvining.com

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 6d

Freedom of speech, Wisconsin, 1840s.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 7d

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 13d

This stripe press book has a progress bar

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 13d

give a man a swuash, feed him for a day; put a squash in a man's compost bin, feed him for a lifetime

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 14d

I found the greatest investment opportunity. Guaranteed returns as long as I help the owner find some additional investors for his Japanese citrus sauce company.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 17d

The synthesis between the utilitarians and everyone else is easy. If you’re donating millions be a utilitarian. If not, be normal.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 18d

if I were in charge of energy management at apple I would make sure there was a single func like this:

if (plugged_in) {
do it
} else {
dont
}

Surprised by how often the ipad kills itself over night while not in use or charging while; phone doesn’t update while plugged in.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · 18d

I’ve been reading the first three paragraphs of Yudkowsky articles for ten years now

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Oct 2

The kids are up to no good

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Oct 1

Has someone already made the “pictures of bags of food near the front door across america” living room book yet?

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 26

in a pop song, the purpose of the bridge is to make some bad music for a while so that the chorus sounds especially good by comparison

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 21

the modular synthesizer is just a product tailored to those with an unfulfillable and displaced desire to be a telephone switchboard operator

1 1

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 21

In case this helps just one other sorry soul: I just solved a years-long problem with distorted music on my macbook by disabling spotify's in-built equalizer (which was set totally flat).

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 20

Two stars

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 20

Thinking about what nearly free code authoring is going to do to companies that make software for other companies. Gonna be weird.

jvining.com/notes/consen...

Consensus among Competitors

The standard way of creating business software is to create a program that represents a specific way of doing things. This is either some sort of average of all expected ways of doing things, or, in…

jvining.com

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 19

a longterm desire for long, monotonous music tracks to work to has finally led to just keeping a drum machine and synth on my desk

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 19

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rEj...

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz (Later With Jools Holland '95) HD

Supergrass - Caught By The Fuzz (Live On Later With Jools Holland) 1995 Recorded for BBC Television's 'Later... with Jools Holland' 03/06/95 (HD Video…

www.youtube.com

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Sep 5

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Aug 24

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jul 19

using the pareto principle I was able to streamline my gardening content and now each day I just post a video that says, "...and give it a good drink"

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jul 10

They say it’s easy to learn a language as a kid because everyone around you provides constant gentle corrections. But in truth children are surrounded by adults who find their mistakes adorable. It’s a wonder they learn at all.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jun 28

Stay safe out there.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jun 27

the scraped up apple iphone capable of the worlds music art and song and silent if you put it on a counter and move on to make drinks or talk about a song from the eighties.

All of the reactionaries are lost. Hopeless.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jun 22

Interesting. Why hopeless?

I find the language model + image model produces surprisingly good ocr. I remember trying to parse a giant reference list from ocr stuff 15 years ago and it was not goooood.

john vining @johnvining.bsky.social · Jun 22