Joshua Silva
joshuasilva.me
Joshua Silva
@joshuasilva.me
Will it scale tho

The Loop is Back: Why HRM is the Most Exciting AI Architecture in Years medium.com/@gedanken.th...
The Loop is Back: Why HRM is the Most Exciting AI Architecture in Years
Years ago, I sat in Jeremy Howard’s FastAI class, right at the dawn of a new era. He was teaching us ULMFiT, a method he (& Sebastian…
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August 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I want programming to feel like a craft again. Any tips?
July 10, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Lin-Manuel Miranda soundtracks are fueling my productivity this week and I don’t know why 😭
June 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
If dipping powdered donuts in ranch is crazy, LOCK ME UP
May 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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There is a special place in hell for people who make false PNGs
February 24, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Happy to see Apple is keeping it's DEI initiatives. Companies reflect shareholder values.
💥 Apple shareholders voted today to uphold the company's DEI initiatives.

Director of the right-wing group that brought the proposal called for "abolishing DEI" at Apple, saying "DEI is out, merit is in."

Apple shareholders voted: DEI is in.

www.cbsnews.com/news/apple-d...
Apple shareholders reject proposal to scrap DEI program
Apple credits its DEI program as helping make the iPhone maker the most valuable company in the world.
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February 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
One project that I'm pretty excited about is a pdf extraction library that I'm working on in Zig. I want to build a library to extract text and images from a pdf to be used for various other use cases. I originally played with the idea in Go, but switched to Zig for a number of reasons
#zig
February 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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The Time of the Wasps

Now is not the time for your usual life.
Within our hive
the wasps have already launched
their swift assault,
overwhelming our guards,
killing the workers,
turning their avid eyes
on our pooled, collective honey.

They come for our eggs, too.

#poetry
February 4, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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“The next time someone talks about creating a UI-less experience, ask them: Through which of the five senses do they expect users to perceive their product? Whatever the answer, that’s their interface.“
Yup, fully agree with this

The Interface Is Always There by Christopher Butler
The Interface Is Always There - Christopher Butler
If it’s not one of your five senses, it’s an interface. This might seem like a bold claim in an era obsessed with “invisible” and “UI-less”
www.chrbutler.com
February 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Realized some of my longer rants on bsky would be better as actual blog posts. So as soon I migrate my blog to Astro 5 (maybe with some atproto action), i'm gonna start writing a bit more. I might start with dev logs cause I got some cool projects and I'd like to document as I learn from them
February 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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January 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Ya ever want to rewrite an entire React codebase to Svelte? Just to feel something?
January 25, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I’ve already tried to open TikTok 3 time purely out of habit. It’s a mild behavioral addiction that I didn’t know I had until it was taken away from me. I think I really might see a 10x productivity spike
January 19, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Ok I think I just figured out the Zig build system
January 17, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I’ve trying to figure out what platform will replace TikTok for me as someone who uses it all the time, but has never been drawn to competitor’s products like Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts
January 16, 2025 at 5:17 AM
A moment of silence for everyone got in their car this morning only to realize Chick-Fil-A is closed
January 12, 2025 at 5:06 PM
I need to write more in 2025
January 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I just want to know my score sometimes
December 29, 2024 at 5:57 PM
Is there a reason it still doesn’t recognize some codes? Anyone how this feature actually works?
samuel.fm Samuel @samuel.fm · Dec 27
this is Apple’s best feature. please guys i need this
December 27, 2024 at 8:48 PM
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I've been begging people to uninstall Honey forever, just based on the idea that all middlemen are rent-seeking and scamming. Turns out, that was a good instinct:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4y...
Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam
YouTube video by MegaLag
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December 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
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When you still haven’t received your offer letter and your anxiety is out of control.
December 9, 2024 at 5:51 PM
I've completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9
Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024
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December 9, 2024 at 11:41 PM
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The deep goal of bluesky is to decentralize the social internet so that every individual controls their experience of it rather than having it be controlled by 5 random billionaires. Everyone thinks they signed up for a demuskified twitter...we actually signed an exciting and bizarre experiment.
December 3, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
December 2, 2024 at 4:02 AM