Nathan Anderson
mrndrsn.bsky.social
Nathan Anderson
@mrndrsn.bsky.social
SRE @ Epic Games. Formerly at 37signals. I try to make stuff, fail a lot, and revel in the learning.
archive.is/2025.10.31-1...

That’s wild! And by “wild”, I mean “absolutely terrifying”. Fuck this admin.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
theoatmeal.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is what I've been struggling to communicate at work:

“What the hell is this?” he asked. “What are all these generated class names? Did we just… cancel the cascade? Who made the web work this way?”

alfy.blog/2025/10/04/h...

Browsers are amazing. We should let them do their thing. ❤️
How Functional Programming Shaped (and Twisted) Frontend Development
alfy.blog
October 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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My friend @dansinker.com wrote a wonder piece on the eve of the occupation of Chicago.

dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
A Benediction for Chicago on the Eve of Occupation | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
@pshima.bsky.social getting lots of Claude practice at work.

Are you using any subagents? Or commands?

I’ve found they can really help for focused tasks. I’ve got a golang expert, a frontend expert (next.js), a playwright expert, a devopsengineer, etc.
September 4, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This guy.
This guy right here.

You (yes, YOU) should hire him.
Amazing Product Person/Engineer/Leader.
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Whether you’re concerned with public health or retribution for your political opinions, you should not be punished or criminalized for wearing a mask at a protest.
Criminalizing Masks at Protests is Wrong
There has been a crescendo of states attempting to criminalize the wearing of face coverings while attending protests. Now the President has demanded, in the context of ongoing protests in Los Angeles...
www.eff.org
July 6, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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2025 feels like being awake during surgery
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hoooly crap. The Nostalgia hit so hard. I had to sit down. 🥲

Thanks for that, @jonas.do
June 21, 2025 at 2:18 AM
🔥
...he says to Signal's president
June 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM
dafuq? Since when does the military endorse any product?
A solider in uniform is handing out free cans of Phorm Energy, an America250 sponsor co-owned by Dana White. A rep from the company was taking a selfie with the soldier handing the products out.
June 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
June 14, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy

*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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✨ EuRuKo 2025 is shaping up to be something special.
This year we’re embracing our roots:
→ A single-track, two-day format
→ Built for deep conversations and community-driven insights
Sept 18–19 in Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Ruby Safari on the 20th
#EuRuKo2025#TheHeartOfCode #RubyCommunity#RubyConf
June 9, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Did I follow this blindly? No. But do I love lots of things about this setup? Yes!

Unified Kernel Image
SecureBoot
Full disk encryption
Pipewire
Wayland

Fantastic base upon which to customize.

Thank you, Giacomo Coletto!

giacomo.coletto.io/blog/arch-amd/
Installing Arch Linux on a laptop
How I got rid of Windows and never looked back
giacomo.coletto.io
February 22, 2025 at 3:23 AM