Alex Sweeney
@alexjs.dev
Math, cosmology, biology, geology, photography enthusiast and software engineer. They/them
I'm not going to argue with you.
I'm not going to argue with you.
Still not a great idea. You leave yourself vulnerable to the real people in your life who have physical access to that paper.
Nothing beats a real password manager. More secure and convenient.
Nothing beats a real password manager. More secure and convenient.
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Still not a great idea. You leave yourself vulnerable to the real people in your life who have physical access to that paper.
Nothing beats a real password manager. More secure and convenient.
Nothing beats a real password manager. More secure and convenient.
This honestly sounds like a great use case for an evolutionary algorithm. Especially if you're not interested in perfection.
- Generate neighbor-finding functions
- Run on a bunch of long test sequences
- Slightly modify the good functions
- Repeat
- Generate neighbor-finding functions
- Run on a bunch of long test sequences
- Slightly modify the good functions
- Repeat
October 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This honestly sounds like a great use case for an evolutionary algorithm. Especially if you're not interested in perfection.
- Generate neighbor-finding functions
- Run on a bunch of long test sequences
- Slightly modify the good functions
- Repeat
- Generate neighbor-finding functions
- Run on a bunch of long test sequences
- Slightly modify the good functions
- Repeat
Is that @ayliean.bsky.social doing the voice over?
October 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Is that @ayliean.bsky.social doing the voice over?
I would love to see what this looks like on hair geometry
October 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I would love to see what this looks like on hair geometry
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
October 14, 2025 at 2:09 AM
You do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"
A Melitta funnel and a kettle is like $30. Smaller, easier to clean, and you can use a kettle for other things.
October 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
A Melitta funnel and a kettle is like $30. Smaller, easier to clean, and you can use a kettle for other things.
Target has paying customers where a boycott could be effective.
Twitter won't let you move to a different app with different ToS.
Going right is when you don't enforce unenforceable rules? Just block the assholes. It's liberal as fuck. Bluesky doesn't aim to build/prune your network for you.
Twitter won't let you move to a different app with different ToS.
Going right is when you don't enforce unenforceable rules? Just block the assholes. It's liberal as fuck. Bluesky doesn't aim to build/prune your network for you.
October 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Target has paying customers where a boycott could be effective.
Twitter won't let you move to a different app with different ToS.
Going right is when you don't enforce unenforceable rules? Just block the assholes. It's liberal as fuck. Bluesky doesn't aim to build/prune your network for you.
Twitter won't let you move to a different app with different ToS.
Going right is when you don't enforce unenforceable rules? Just block the assholes. It's liberal as fuck. Bluesky doesn't aim to build/prune your network for you.
I had the same thought before I started used a mac. Then I got a Mac and it just feels more natural. Browser, IDE, and Slack are all full screen and everything doesn't need to be that important.
I think Windows' square corners and tall menu bars feel too bulky to justify being smaller.
I think Windows' square corners and tall menu bars feel too bulky to justify being smaller.
October 5, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I had the same thought before I started used a mac. Then I got a Mac and it just feels more natural. Browser, IDE, and Slack are all full screen and everything doesn't need to be that important.
I think Windows' square corners and tall menu bars feel too bulky to justify being smaller.
I think Windows' square corners and tall menu bars feel too bulky to justify being smaller.
A few of those frequencies fade out after the explosion. I assume it's some machine that shut down either directly from the explosion or an automatic safety thing. That's really interesting to see
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A few of those frequencies fade out after the explosion. I assume it's some machine that shut down either directly from the explosion or an automatic safety thing. That's really interesting to see
I think you two should collaborate and publish an unofficial API that makes atproto embeds easy. Bluesky/leaflet should provide easy, ways to respectfully embed posts/leaflets elsewhere. Atproto apps would feel more connected.
You shouldn't have to rewrite their already fine renderers.
You shouldn't have to rewrite their already fine renderers.
September 30, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I think you two should collaborate and publish an unofficial API that makes atproto embeds easy. Bluesky/leaflet should provide easy, ways to respectfully embed posts/leaflets elsewhere. Atproto apps would feel more connected.
You shouldn't have to rewrite their already fine renderers.
You shouldn't have to rewrite their already fine renderers.
I'm so glad my parents let me grow my hair out when I decided to. I wish they pushed me to figure out what I liked sooner, but when I finally knew what I wanted they let me have it.
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 AM
I'm so glad my parents let me grow my hair out when I decided to. I wish they pushed me to figure out what I liked sooner, but when I finally knew what I wanted they let me have it.
The solution to climate change needs to be contagious. A country committed to a net 0 plan asap should have such obvious benefits that other countries would feel stupid to not do the same.
The cost is great, the benefits are not obvious, and it's hard to feel hopeful for future generations.
The cost is great, the benefits are not obvious, and it's hard to feel hopeful for future generations.
September 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The solution to climate change needs to be contagious. A country committed to a net 0 plan asap should have such obvious benefits that other countries would feel stupid to not do the same.
The cost is great, the benefits are not obvious, and it's hard to feel hopeful for future generations.
The cost is great, the benefits are not obvious, and it's hard to feel hopeful for future generations.
Midnight Mass was so so good
September 21, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Midnight Mass was so so good
I understand that live tech demos are hard.
But when the tech is an unpredictable, unreliable, hallucination machine, and you rely on it to be grounded and predictable, maybe it's just a bad product.
"It's all good." It's very clearly not.
But when the tech is an unpredictable, unreliable, hallucination machine, and you rely on it to be grounded and predictable, maybe it's just a bad product.
"It's all good." It's very clearly not.
September 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I understand that live tech demos are hard.
But when the tech is an unpredictable, unreliable, hallucination machine, and you rely on it to be grounded and predictable, maybe it's just a bad product.
"It's all good." It's very clearly not.
But when the tech is an unpredictable, unreliable, hallucination machine, and you rely on it to be grounded and predictable, maybe it's just a bad product.
"It's all good." It's very clearly not.
Same with booting up my PC. It takes tens of seconds for it to get to the "press F11 to enter UEFI" screen and then it's immediately gone and I missed the window and have to try again. I have fast hardware but it's worth nothing if software is slow
September 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Same with booting up my PC. It takes tens of seconds for it to get to the "press F11 to enter UEFI" screen and then it's immediately gone and I missed the window and have to try again. I have fast hardware but it's worth nothing if software is slow
This article seems pretty sloppy. Pseudorandom number generators on modern computers are way more random than humans. That ability can be trivially extended to shuffling a deck.
Human shufflers are the ones that are constrained.
Human shufflers are the ones that are constrained.
September 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
This article seems pretty sloppy. Pseudorandom number generators on modern computers are way more random than humans. That ability can be trivially extended to shuffling a deck.
Human shufflers are the ones that are constrained.
Human shufflers are the ones that are constrained.
Open source browsers and plugin frameworks are the only way out of this mess. I wish they would hurry up.
September 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Open source browsers and plugin frameworks are the only way out of this mess. I wish they would hurry up.
August 29, 2025 at 2:35 AM
If only we had a government that bothered to govern. It sucks that plenty of people are capable of thinking ahead and want to minimize damage, but apparently funding the thinkers ahead with taxes is an insane idea.
August 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
If only we had a government that bothered to govern. It sucks that plenty of people are capable of thinking ahead and want to minimize damage, but apparently funding the thinkers ahead with taxes is an insane idea.
AI chatbots are the obvious products to build with LLMs but it's just truly irresponsible. Coding assistant, fancy auto complete, search assistant, fine whatever.
But an interface designed to sound like an authoritative, informed, person with chat bubbles is dangerous.
But an interface designed to sound like an authoritative, informed, person with chat bubbles is dangerous.
August 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
AI chatbots are the obvious products to build with LLMs but it's just truly irresponsible. Coding assistant, fancy auto complete, search assistant, fine whatever.
But an interface designed to sound like an authoritative, informed, person with chat bubbles is dangerous.
But an interface designed to sound like an authoritative, informed, person with chat bubbles is dangerous.