Lexas (Alexis Christoforides)
@thenull.net
Computers, Cyprus, comics, cats. Lead OS hacker on Meadow, the .NET IoT computer @wildernesslabs.bsky.social Ex-Xamarin/Microsoft, ex-cancer genomics research. Indoors/outdoors. Boston Area, USA. https://thenull.net
Wonder what the Internet Explorer moment will be for the AI wave. We won’t be paying for AI subscriptions in a few years. One of the big companies will integrate a top-of-the-line agentic LLM to their OS and offer it for free. The rest will have to follow a similar path. You’ll always need the OS
December 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Wonder what the Internet Explorer moment will be for the AI wave. We won’t be paying for AI subscriptions in a few years. One of the big companies will integrate a top-of-the-line agentic LLM to their OS and offer it for free. The rest will have to follow a similar path. You’ll always need the OS
Time of the year for this gem:
Starcraft - 12 Days of Christmas Song
YouTube video by faxmunky
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December 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Time of the year for this gem:
We’re so back: subprime mortgage loan ads on IG
December 17, 2025 at 5:04 AM
We’re so back: subprime mortgage loan ads on IG
Putting Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 minutes probably brilliant. Not gonna watch the whole thing ofc, this one’s for the clips online
December 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Putting Marjorie Taylor Greene on 60 minutes probably brilliant. Not gonna watch the whole thing ofc, this one’s for the clips online
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I will now defend myself by paraphrasing jack nicholson in that scene from a few good men, who is the hero of that movie btw
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
I will now defend myself by paraphrasing jack nicholson in that scene from a few good men, who is the hero of that movie btw
Time to start doing my wintry mix sports in Boston! Not-skiing, not-cycling, not-even-doing-any-walking, etc.
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Time to start doing my wintry mix sports in Boston! Not-skiing, not-cycling, not-even-doing-any-walking, etc.
I think Google will win this GPT thing and Microsoft will eat OpenAI in 5 years and be a close second. But who knows
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I think Google will win this GPT thing and Microsoft will eat OpenAI in 5 years and be a close second. But who knows
Best decision of my academic life might have been to not take NLP too seriously in grad school… what a wiped-out subfield, GPT definitely took those jobs
November 6, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Best decision of my academic life might have been to not take NLP too seriously in grad school… what a wiped-out subfield, GPT definitely took those jobs
Dog mountain is a charming place of remembrance. Much concentrated evidence of love for dog. Definitely visit if you are around it
Owners can find solace in pet cemeteries and on Dog Mountain, a pet-centric pilgrimage in Vermont. Every year, hundreds of dogs show up here for a celebration of life. Thousands more arrive in spirit.
After our pet died, traveling to Dog Mountain was my therapy
Owners grieving over their pets can find solace in places that celebrate animals and their people, such as pet cemeteries and Dog Mountain in Vermont.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 30, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Dog mountain is a charming place of remembrance. Much concentrated evidence of love for dog. Definitely visit if you are around it
What a mess
Posting again as a public service (and because I can't freakin' remember either):
October 27, 2025 at 9:26 PM
What a mess
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Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
October 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre
The Riyadh Comedy Festival was, actually given context, one of the most progressive events of the last ten y— *trips, stumbles, and falls down a set of stairs and straight out of a window*
October 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The Riyadh Comedy Festival was, actually given context, one of the most progressive events of the last ten y— *trips, stumbles, and falls down a set of stairs and straight out of a window*
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One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary
October 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
One of the things I took away from the 60s and Richard Nixon, first mentioned by Hunter Thompson, but I believe to be true, is the fact that we believed, at time, that all our protesting, marching and sign waving was futile and pointless when in fact, it drove Richard Nixon to alcohol fueled madness
It caught me by surprise how quickly eugenics became acceptable, in different dimensions, by both the right and the left in America
At the end of the day, so much of these moral panics are driven by eugenics and the belief that certain people shouldn't exist.
Azeen Ghorayshi at the NYT has moved on from going after trans people and is now pushing the leasing question that autism diagnoses are too common because of its expansion of it to a spectrum.
archive.ph/Whji1
archive.ph/Whji1
October 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It caught me by surprise how quickly eugenics became acceptable, in different dimensions, by both the right and the left in America
Aaah people are buying property on debt again from what I am hearing 😮💨
October 1, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Aaah people are buying property on debt again from what I am hearing 😮💨
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Living in an exurb must be so grim. Their whole engagement with culture is big box stores and chain restaurants. This is what they feel nostalgia for because this is their whole life.
This is doing numbers on social media right now and it's so depressing how people truly yearn for this shit and want to preserve that feeling indefinitely like a mausoleum of false memories.
September 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Living in an exurb must be so grim. Their whole engagement with culture is big box stores and chain restaurants. This is what they feel nostalgia for because this is their whole life.
This particular cursed fake Reddit map hits hard for me
September 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This particular cursed fake Reddit map hits hard for me
My favorite agentic task I have given successfully to software builder LLMs is “Fix the build”. Not the most impressive or interesting. Just my favorite
September 10, 2025 at 7:11 AM
My favorite agentic task I have given successfully to software builder LLMs is “Fix the build”. Not the most impressive or interesting. Just my favorite
Proud of this one! Just some API redesign that I finally had some time to do, and now we have seamless full OTA on any app.
Meadow.OS v2.3 is out and includes an awesome new feature: Automatic OtA! Simply register your device with the cloud, enable updates in config, and off you go! Read more about it in our blog: blog.wildernesslabs.co/meadow-os-v2...
August 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Proud of this one! Just some API redesign that I finally had some time to do, and now we have seamless full OTA on any app.
Reddit has a formatting bug on my phone that slightly slants conversations, creating this wobbly effect… I kinda love it
June 27, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Reddit has a formatting bug on my phone that slightly slants conversations, creating this wobbly effect… I kinda love it
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It can’t be said enough that the Democratic Party isn’t strictly real. America doesn’t have real political parties. The Democrats are a loose affiliation of donor networks and elected officials that allow you to use their brand name if you win an election.
The Democratic Party did not try to clobber Mamdani. A faction of the party did. The Democratic Party just nominated him for mayor.
June 25, 2025 at 5:36 PM
It can’t be said enough that the Democratic Party isn’t strictly real. America doesn’t have real political parties. The Democrats are a loose affiliation of donor networks and elected officials that allow you to use their brand name if you win an election.
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Just a reminder going forward...
(cartoon from 2003)
(cartoon from 2003)
June 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Just a reminder going forward...
(cartoon from 2003)
(cartoon from 2003)
Cape Cod glamping
June 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Cape Cod glamping
Hear me out C# people: implicit maximally-scoped try-block if you have a catch{} or finally{} without a try{}
June 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Hear me out C# people: implicit maximally-scoped try-block if you have a catch{} or finally{} without a try{}
Another beautiful piece of our platform just dropped 😍 No one likes to develop edge computing on-device if they can help it!
Introducing Meadow.Blazor - Build rich hardware UI's with Blazor WASM. Build on the desktop for speed of develpment, and deploy on @raspberrypi.com for real world deployments.
Read more on the blog: blog.wildernesslabs.co/bringing-bla...
#DotNET #Blazor #MeadowIoT #RaspberryPi
Read more on the blog: blog.wildernesslabs.co/bringing-bla...
#DotNET #Blazor #MeadowIoT #RaspberryPi
June 13, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Another beautiful piece of our platform just dropped 😍 No one likes to develop edge computing on-device if they can help it!