Tony Wallace
@tonywallace.com
Woodworker, instrument maker, web developer.
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THE ART IS IN THE STRUGGLE!
There is no creation without the process of creating.
There is no creation without the process of creating.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 2:28 PM
THE ART IS IN THE STRUGGLE!
There is no creation without the process of creating.
There is no creation without the process of creating.
Sorry about the double post. I was testing a Ghost-to-Bluesky integration. Done.
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sorry about the double post. I was testing a Ghost-to-Bluesky integration. Done.
Make a simple and versatile paste wax with besswax and mineral oil. tonywallace.com/how-to-make-... #woodworking
December 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Make a simple and versatile paste wax with besswax and mineral oil. tonywallace.com/how-to-make-... #woodworking
Make a simple and versatile paste wax with besswax and mineral oil. tonywallace.com/how-to-make-...
December 15, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Make a simple and versatile paste wax with besswax and mineral oil. tonywallace.com/how-to-make-...
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A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
December 6, 2025 at 2:54 AM
A massive problem today is the uneven distribution of shame. Some of us are running dedicated on-site shame servers 24/7 while others have no access to shame at all, even though they desperately need it. What we need to do is put shame in the cloud
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No f***ing way I’ve been waiting for this css all my life and I was born in the 60s
Fit width text in 1 line of CSS
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
`text-grow: per-line scale;`
nerdy.dev/css-text-grow
(prototype in Canary 165+)
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
No f***ing way I’ve been waiting for this css all my life and I was born in the 60s
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At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 4, 2025 at 6:34 AM
At some point you realize that the prominent, powerful people you see on your screens are mostly morons who either got lucky or are saying things billionaires want to hear, and that nobody smart or competent is in charge, and we're all just collectively flailing, and it's a miracle anything works.
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One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...
Steve Cropper, Legendary Guitarist for Booker T. & the MG’s, Otis Redding and the Blues Brothers, Dies at 84
Steve Cropper, guitarist for Booker T. & the MG's, Otis Redding, the Blues Brothers and many more, has died. He was 84.
variety.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...
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Firing squad. I’m sorry there’s just nothing I can do for these ppl
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Firing squad. I’m sorry there’s just nothing I can do for these ppl
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Idea guys should be more appropriately called one-idea guys, because that's all they got. Not knowing how to produce new ideas makes the one they do have feel like the most precious thing in the world.
Meanwhile the rest of us, haunted by hundreds of ideas, understand the worthlessness of just one.
Meanwhile the rest of us, haunted by hundreds of ideas, understand the worthlessness of just one.
October 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Idea guys should be more appropriately called one-idea guys, because that's all they got. Not knowing how to produce new ideas makes the one they do have feel like the most precious thing in the world.
Meanwhile the rest of us, haunted by hundreds of ideas, understand the worthlessness of just one.
Meanwhile the rest of us, haunted by hundreds of ideas, understand the worthlessness of just one.
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If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.
October 21, 2025 at 8:17 PM
If we're having a debate, and at any point you say, "let's ask ChatGPT", then you lose by default.
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In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
In the late stages of the bubble we’re starting to see multiple “people in tech don’t really believe in all of this, honest, we just act like it because we think we have to”, but the truth is that it doesn’t matter. What matters is that you’ve been acting like a true believer and you are what you do
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I don't understand why AI people keep insisting, "if we can't steal your work, our industry will die" as if this were a compelling argument.
It reveals the very rotten core of your soul if you don't understand how foolish this makes you look.
It reveals the very rotten core of your soul if you don't understand how foolish this makes you look.
October 8, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I don't understand why AI people keep insisting, "if we can't steal your work, our industry will die" as if this were a compelling argument.
It reveals the very rotten core of your soul if you don't understand how foolish this makes you look.
It reveals the very rotten core of your soul if you don't understand how foolish this makes you look.
Listened to this twice in a row this morning. It’s excellent.
September 6, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Listened to this twice in a row this morning. It’s excellent.
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Throughout the 1970s, Ken Carter was known as The Mad Canadian.
He travelled around Canada, jumping cars, buses and ponds.
Then he decided he wanted to jump the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the USA in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental.
This is his story.
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He travelled around Canada, jumping cars, buses and ponds.
Then he decided he wanted to jump the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the USA in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental.
This is his story.
🧵 1/12
September 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Throughout the 1970s, Ken Carter was known as The Mad Canadian.
He travelled around Canada, jumping cars, buses and ponds.
Then he decided he wanted to jump the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the USA in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental.
This is his story.
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He travelled around Canada, jumping cars, buses and ponds.
Then he decided he wanted to jump the St. Lawrence River from Canada to the USA in a rocket-powered Lincoln Continental.
This is his story.
🧵 1/12
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I think I need to drive this home more: programming didn't used to be like this—even for complex, networked apps with a large amount of features and complex user interfaces.
And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.
And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.
IMO the reason why people yearn for tools that generate code is that programming is broken—everything now is giant layer cakes of huge, complex and intransparent frameworks designed by and for large teams in giant tech companies.
i'm actually not averse to the idea of computers generating code. after all, that's what all scripting languages etc. do, and all visual programming tools do, and all plain-language programming languages do
i could see there being actually smart tools for this
but this is not where we're at
i could see there being actually smart tools for this
but this is not where we're at
September 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think I need to drive this home more: programming didn't used to be like this—even for complex, networked apps with a large amount of features and complex user interfaces.
And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.
And apps didn't have thousands of dependencies like many even simple ones do now.
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Listen now to the first two tracks from _Thereupon_, the forthcoming album by Fieldwork (Steve Lehman, V.I., Tyshawn Sorey) !!!
music.apple.com/us/album/the...
music.apple.com/us/album/the...
Thereupon by Fieldwork on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 9 Songs
music.apple.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Listen now to the first two tracks from _Thereupon_, the forthcoming album by Fieldwork (Steve Lehman, V.I., Tyshawn Sorey) !!!
music.apple.com/us/album/the...
music.apple.com/us/album/the...
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If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking
August 3, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking
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You can choose not to use AI, but you can't choose not to have dumbfucks using AI ruin your entire day.
new type of annoying pattern is people filing nonsensical AI-generated issues and other people sending nonsensical PRs trying to fix those issues
August 3, 2025 at 1:57 AM
You can choose not to use AI, but you can't choose not to have dumbfucks using AI ruin your entire day.
Ability to use html and css more or less properly, and attitude towards it, is the one thing I will unabashedly judge web developers on. These are the fundamentals of the craft.
Management pressures people into using these frameworks but if you actually think you *need* them, you have work to do.
Management pressures people into using these frameworks but if you actually think you *need* them, you have work to do.
every time I see tailwind-esque classnames and divs in divs in divs I sigh in disappointment
![screenshot of html code with divs in divs in divs and each element has multiple abstract classnames such as 'w-[calc(var(--spacing-nav-width)-2*var(--spacing-xs))]'](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vuhj36g3hic4l7ad4aoc3sbn/bafkreic7zmzcm2okffhifokkqq4l3fui6kjcmdjpzxmcdjxuek7t6sbpoi@jpeg)
July 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Ability to use html and css more or less properly, and attitude towards it, is the one thing I will unabashedly judge web developers on. These are the fundamentals of the craft.
Management pressures people into using these frameworks but if you actually think you *need* them, you have work to do.
Management pressures people into using these frameworks but if you actually think you *need* them, you have work to do.
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The real hierarchy of needs
February 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The real hierarchy of needs
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I have this weird theory that it's still probably a good idea to know what you're doing.
July 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I have this weird theory that it's still probably a good idea to know what you're doing.