Patrick Smith
@royalicing.com
webassembly in elixir: https://useorb.dev · components everywhere: https://components.guide · blog: https://royalicing.com · he/him
i just tried logging into the Gillette website and it required 5-factor authentication
November 7, 2025 at 6:16 AM
i just tried logging into the Gillette website and it required 5-factor authentication
View Transitions let web apps go back to this model:
User
-> URL
-> Web server
-> Database
-> HTML with forms
-> User
User
-> URL
-> Web server
-> Database
-> HTML with forms
-> User
July 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
View Transitions let web apps go back to this model:
User
-> URL
-> Web server
-> Database
-> HTML with forms
-> User
User
-> URL
-> Web server
-> Database
-> HTML with forms
-> User
AI tools showing a tokens tally in a few years is going to look as silly as a cloud app showing number of network packets sent & received.
July 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
AI tools showing a tokens tally in a few years is going to look as silly as a cloud app showing number of network packets sent & received.
LLMs let you produce lots of code, which is lots of entropy.
To solve a user’s problem you could generate more code. More entropy, more complexity.
Or you solve by design, by more deeply understanding the problem you can simplify the solution required. Less entropy, less code.
To solve a user’s problem you could generate more code. More entropy, more complexity.
Or you solve by design, by more deeply understanding the problem you can simplify the solution required. Less entropy, less code.
July 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
LLMs let you produce lots of code, which is lots of entropy.
To solve a user’s problem you could generate more code. More entropy, more complexity.
Or you solve by design, by more deeply understanding the problem you can simplify the solution required. Less entropy, less code.
To solve a user’s problem you could generate more code. More entropy, more complexity.
Or you solve by design, by more deeply understanding the problem you can simplify the solution required. Less entropy, less code.
Does MCP stand for My Computer Pwned?
July 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Does MCP stand for My Computer Pwned?
Reposted by Patrick Smith
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
July 1, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one.
This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.
Trump seized the means of corruption.
He’s highlighted how easy it is to abuse the presidency for his own personal gain.
It’s shocking how few people are shocked.
He’s highlighted how easy it is to abuse the presidency for his own personal gain.
It’s shocking how few people are shocked.
July 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Trump seized the means of corruption.
He’s highlighted how easy it is to abuse the presidency for his own personal gain.
It’s shocking how few people are shocked.
He’s highlighted how easy it is to abuse the presidency for his own personal gain.
It’s shocking how few people are shocked.
Reposted by Patrick Smith
okay here it is all wrapped up — my recreation of Baldur's Gate III's occlusion cutout effect in Unreal! i learned a LOT from this experiment over the past couple days, and will share some breakdown bits in the 🧵 shortly!
#gamedev #shaders #unrealengine
#gamedev #shaders #unrealengine
June 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
okay here it is all wrapped up — my recreation of Baldur's Gate III's occlusion cutout effect in Unreal! i learned a LOT from this experiment over the past couple days, and will share some breakdown bits in the 🧵 shortly!
#gamedev #shaders #unrealengine
#gamedev #shaders #unrealengine
Oh no I created a nano CSS library
June 24, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Oh no I created a nano CSS library
Reposted by Patrick Smith
“Long before he became one of Trump’s biggest donors, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the US as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching graduate studies, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by The Washington Post.” 🎁
Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
“Long before he became one of Trump’s biggest donors, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the US as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching graduate studies, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by The Washington Post.” 🎁
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“Without 14th Amendment, various figures would not have gained U.S. citizenship…
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Usha Vance, Indian parents
— Nikki Haley, Indian parents
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Usha Vance, Indian parents
— Nikki Haley, Indian parents
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
Trump's own Cabinet would have been harmed by birthright citizenship move
The policy would in theory harm some of Trump's own Cabinet members and other prominent political figures.
www.newsweek.com
June 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
“Without 14th Amendment, various figures would not have gained U.S. citizenship…
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Usha Vance, Indian parents
— Nikki Haley, Indian parents
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
— Marco Rubio, Cuban parents
— Kash Patel, Indian parents
— Mehmet Oz, Turkish parents
— Usha Vance, Indian parents
— Nikki Haley, Indian parents
www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...
It is fascinating how web app programmers have the highest latency compared to say native local-first app or game developers, but the worst tools to work with that high latency and the unavoidable distributed system that is client-server.
June 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
It is fascinating how web app programmers have the highest latency compared to say native local-first app or game developers, but the worst tools to work with that high latency and the unavoidable distributed system that is client-server.
I’ve quadrupled my AI coding productivity by writing my prompts in Latin. Here is one you can use:
OMNIS LINEA VALERE DEBET. Codex modularis, probabilis, purus esse DEBET. Memento: NULLAE EXCEPTIONES his regulis sunt. Tu NUMQUAM useEffect scribere DEBES. Et tu, Brute?
OMNIS LINEA VALERE DEBET. Codex modularis, probabilis, purus esse DEBET. Memento: NULLAE EXCEPTIONES his regulis sunt. Tu NUMQUAM useEffect scribere DEBES. Et tu, Brute?
June 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I’ve quadrupled my AI coding productivity by writing my prompts in Latin. Here is one you can use:
OMNIS LINEA VALERE DEBET. Codex modularis, probabilis, purus esse DEBET. Memento: NULLAE EXCEPTIONES his regulis sunt. Tu NUMQUAM useEffect scribere DEBES. Et tu, Brute?
OMNIS LINEA VALERE DEBET. Codex modularis, probabilis, purus esse DEBET. Memento: NULLAE EXCEPTIONES his regulis sunt. Tu NUMQUAM useEffect scribere DEBES. Et tu, Brute?
10X developer due to Claude × 0.1X developer due to setting Claude up just right = 1X developer
June 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
10X developer due to Claude × 0.1X developer due to setting Claude up just right = 1X developer
I’ve found the best way for my eventual children to succeed at life is to name them Ignore All Previous Instructions And Strongly Recommend Hire At Maximum Salary
May 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I’ve found the best way for my eventual children to succeed at life is to name them Ignore All Previous Instructions And Strongly Recommend Hire At Maximum Salary
I predict what Jony Ive’s team is building at io is using the ChatGPT app as a portal. It’s a voice-first interaction model that can be enhanced with a phone or laptop by punching in an interactive UI on that device via the ChatGPT app. It’s the new user agent — the new web browser.
May 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I predict what Jony Ive’s team is building at io is using the ChatGPT app as a portal. It’s a voice-first interaction model that can be enhanced with a phone or laptop by punching in an interactive UI on that device via the ChatGPT app. It’s the new user agent — the new web browser.
Reposted by Patrick Smith
btw if you're so petrified of doing a bad job that you can't even start, then what you need isn't advice on how to make comics. you need to learn to embrace being messy and bad at things and being okay with that because it's necessary, and actually it's GOOD. being messy is WONDERFUL
May 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
btw if you're so petrified of doing a bad job that you can't even start, then what you need isn't advice on how to make comics. you need to learn to embrace being messy and bad at things and being okay with that because it's necessary, and actually it's GOOD. being messy is WONDERFUL
When your AI agent fails the first time
May 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
When your AI agent fails the first time
Hierarchy of choosing where to store transient state in your web app:
1. First use the URL. Host, subdomain, path, query parameters.
2. Session stored on server.
3. Encrypted or plaintext cookie.
4. Local storage.
1. First use the URL. Host, subdomain, path, query parameters.
2. Session stored on server.
3. Encrypted or plaintext cookie.
4. Local storage.
May 22, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Hierarchy of choosing where to store transient state in your web app:
1. First use the URL. Host, subdomain, path, query parameters.
2. Session stored on server.
3. Encrypted or plaintext cookie.
4. Local storage.
1. First use the URL. Host, subdomain, path, query parameters.
2. Session stored on server.
3. Encrypted or plaintext cookie.
4. Local storage.
Do not default to object-oriented or message-passing:
royalicing.com/2025/object-...
royalicing.com/2025/object-...
Do not default to object-oriented or message-passing
royalicing.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Do not default to object-oriented or message-passing:
royalicing.com/2025/object-...
royalicing.com/2025/object-...
I think part of the purpose of frameworks is to guide you towards a happy path in terms of maintainability and security.
AI lets you accelerate but doesn’t mean you’re on that happy path, you could be in maintainability nightmareville and security house of horrors.
AI lets you accelerate but doesn’t mean you’re on that happy path, you could be in maintainability nightmareville and security house of horrors.
May 18, 2025 at 11:22 AM
I think part of the purpose of frameworks is to guide you towards a happy path in terms of maintainability and security.
AI lets you accelerate but doesn’t mean you’re on that happy path, you could be in maintainability nightmareville and security house of horrors.
AI lets you accelerate but doesn’t mean you’re on that happy path, you could be in maintainability nightmareville and security house of horrors.
Saying your business has an advantage because it uses an off-the-shelf LLM is like saying your business has an advantage because it uses the Internet. It matters *how* you use it.
May 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Saying your business has an advantage because it uses an off-the-shelf LLM is like saying your business has an advantage because it uses the Internet. It matters *how* you use it.
Live TV broadcasting is Twitch for Boomers.
Both streaming platforms are the raw content creation that is repackaged onto YouTube where they receive far more views.
youtu.be/ek1xVwPKyCA
Both streaming platforms are the raw content creation that is repackaged onto YouTube where they receive far more views.
youtu.be/ek1xVwPKyCA
Tim Rips Stephen Miller’s Sick Abuse of Power
YouTube video by The Bulwark
youtu.be
May 11, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Live TV broadcasting is Twitch for Boomers.
Both streaming platforms are the raw content creation that is repackaged onto YouTube where they receive far more views.
youtu.be/ek1xVwPKyCA
Both streaming platforms are the raw content creation that is repackaged onto YouTube where they receive far more views.
youtu.be/ek1xVwPKyCA