Trek Glowacki
@trek.bsky.social
Helped start Ann Arbor's OG Coworking community, couponed at Groupon, usually working to get some startup acquired. Ember.js core emeritus. Paul Irish once called me a hero. ❤️ Ruby and JavaScript. 🏳️🌈. 📍Chicago.
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Almost every day I think about how much better software could be if we spent 1% of the money and energy being poured into LLMs on improving existing developer tooling in ways *we already know how to do*, whether because it’s just long-desired improvements, or known from academic research.
December 16, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Almost every day I think about how much better software could be if we spent 1% of the money and energy being poured into LLMs on improving existing developer tooling in ways *we already know how to do*, whether because it’s just long-desired improvements, or known from academic research.
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Borrowed with love from Mastodon:
December 16, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Borrowed with love from Mastodon:
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All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.
WATCH: Replica of the Statue of Liberty topples due to strong winds in Guaíba, Brazil
December 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
All subtlety is out the window this season, I see.
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I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
December 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
I hate that every week there's something stupid like an Everyone Has To Drink Pee Now Bill and the alert sounds to CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES THIS IS NOT A DRILL and you really wish you could just trust them to not go for the pee drinking bill
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Just shipped @vite.dev 8 beta / rolldown to production.
This ember app's build time is 70% faster (cold, no caches) and 47% faster (warm)
Before / After
This ember app's build time is 70% faster (cold, no caches) and 47% faster (warm)
Before / After
December 14, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Just shipped @vite.dev 8 beta / rolldown to production.
This ember app's build time is 70% faster (cold, no caches) and 47% faster (warm)
Before / After
This ember app's build time is 70% faster (cold, no caches) and 47% faster (warm)
Before / After
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This entire weekend
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
This entire weekend
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This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 AM
This NYT story failed the reader by not digging deeper. One subject dropped out of college after one year (five years ago) and lists "Windows" as his skillset. Story should be: young conservatives who blame immigrants for their personal failures and whose lives won't be improved w/ fewer immigrants
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Retrofit an iBook G3 with an iPad Pro using 3D printing and parts from Adafruit! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/ibook-ipad-c... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/09kZ8Uk0MCc
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Retrofit an iBook G3 with an iPad Pro using 3D printing and parts from Adafruit! Guide: learn.adafruit.com/ibook-ipad-c... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/09kZ8Uk0MCc
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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Who needs browser extensions when you can use bookmarklets?
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
December 13, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Who needs browser extensions when you can use bookmarklets?
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Here is a bookmarklet that makes *any* website able to toggle between light and dark mode.
Site only has dark mode? you can make it light mode.
Site only has light mode? you can make it dark mode
Turns out many of the apartment buildings in Chicago I really like were all done by Robert DeGolyer
December 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Turns out many of the apartment buildings in Chicago I really like were all done by Robert DeGolyer
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also by the the talented @usagiboots.bsky.social
December 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
also by the the talented @usagiboots.bsky.social
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"co pay" is a brilliant rebranding by insurance companies of them not paying
December 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
"co pay" is a brilliant rebranding by insurance companies of them not paying
me too bitch u ain't special
December 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
me too bitch u ain't special
Truly do not understand the "you've got to adopt 'AI' now or be left behind" rhetoric. Doesn't that imply it's so complicated that if you're late to adopt it you'll never catch up? That seems like a really shitty pitch.
December 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Truly do not understand the "you've got to adopt 'AI' now or be left behind" rhetoric. Doesn't that imply it's so complicated that if you're late to adopt it you'll never catch up? That seems like a really shitty pitch.
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We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
December 12, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We have transitioned to Workday for all college functions. If you have not yet experienced this misfortune, imagine being being transported back to a corporate hellscape fever dream from 1997 and that’s just where you live now.
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It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
December 12, 2025 at 5:40 PM
It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.
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I try to stay grateful for free things but I am losing my cool with how GitHub can no longer count to 10 comments without taking off its socks.
December 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I try to stay grateful for free things but I am losing my cool with how GitHub can no longer count to 10 comments without taking off its socks.
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Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
December 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
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is there a *mr* information?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
is there a *mr* information?
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Soon. Maybe initially it was neat to gen images and text—novel. Now, as creative shifts towards a statistical center, we notice a bit more that AI is primarily a tool of exploitation. A bit more sense-making happening at the edges in 2nd/3rd order effects. It's so new and alive, yet... decaying.
Stunned we haven't seen the rise of "anti-AI" businesses.
Media outlets that promise human reporting and authorship.
Shopping sites that promise human curation.
Art sites that promise human creation.
"How do I avoid slop?" is gonna be a defining question in 2026. Businesses should answer it.
Media outlets that promise human reporting and authorship.
Shopping sites that promise human curation.
Art sites that promise human creation.
"How do I avoid slop?" is gonna be a defining question in 2026. Businesses should answer it.
December 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Soon. Maybe initially it was neat to gen images and text—novel. Now, as creative shifts towards a statistical center, we notice a bit more that AI is primarily a tool of exploitation. A bit more sense-making happening at the edges in 2nd/3rd order effects. It's so new and alive, yet... decaying.
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I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
December 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I couldn’t leave Chicago without getting a cut from my old barber, Zariff!
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them