Tom MacWright

engineer, writer, "artist"

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2024-11-08 16:23:59

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@npub1y4p…vsfq time to join the brooks zealots?

2024-11-08 16:23:59

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@npub1y4p…vsfq time to join the brooks zealots?

2024-10-12 13:24:53

this is some technology i can get excited about - a translator that works offline in real time that you can just put on a table between two people to have a conversation between languages: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/11/introducing-torre-a-new-way-to-translate/
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2024-08-26 19:22:55

wow, brave unshipped their ipfs support.
in the kindest, most generous terms, i must say, ipfs is a tarpit that has failed at everything that it set out to do and sunk at least two startups i know of.
https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/37735#issuecomment-2247764368

2024-07-31 12:31:26

tempted to write a debunker of https://www.notboring.co/p/why-the-democrats-lost-tech but i shouldn't do it, right, it's not worth it

2024-06-19 00:16:10

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@npub1xed…yg9w it’s essential to build a good base very low heart rate couch training

2024-06-19 00:03:19

my quest to run a sub-20 5k this summer has started… slowly
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2024-05-09 14:22:09

today in late capitalism, my doctors office asked for a cash donation because they are nearly out of operating cashflow because of the cyberattack on change healthcare, a unitedhealth subsidiary
somehow i feel like unitedhealth, which still has a 500b market cap, could maybe chip in here

2024-05-07 13:52:11

'optimizing llm prompts' is the least satisfying work i've done in my engineering career, this is worse than tweaking kubernetes configs, it's like begging an idiot to do the right thing though an untestable blackbox interface

2024-01-27 20:25:01

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@npub14n4…y3e3 this is a car wash in Chelsea, is there a land use that would be worse?

2024-01-27 20:01:01

land value tax fixes this
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2024-01-24 18:59:12

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@npub1xed…yg9w a good starting point: https://github.com/wooorm/npm-esm-vs-cjs

2024-01-19 16:03:24

chatted with manuel about blogging, for people & blogs, which is a lovely and very well-designed newspaper/website: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-tom-macwright

2024-01-19 16:03:24

chatted with manuel about blogging, for people & blogs, which is a lovely and very well-designed newspaper/website: https://manuelmoreale.com/pb-tom-macwright

2024-01-10 15:59:26

Chrome Devtools protip: Emulate a focused page https://macwright.com/2024/01/10/emulate-a-focused-page.html

2024-01-05 15:36:43

github used to be my main example of an application that used web components successfully, but their new products are all moving away from that.
what should be my in-the-field web components success-story application now? maybe… youtube?

2023-12-08 14:19:27

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@npub1xed…yg9w and then you wonder: are the pro teams just financial instruments getting passed around by billionaires and their playing ability is almost an afterthought?

2023-11-22 14:47:14

the latest from openai: out (two women), in (famed misogynist)

2023-11-13 19:49:45

So, news today is that I'm closing down placemark.io https://macwright.com/2023/11/13/placemark
It's okay! It was a hard decision but I made it a while ago and have (mostly) processed the feels.

2023-11-13 16:58:18

web components are future proof and won't be removed from browsers (here i'm referring to the v1 spec, not the v0 spec of web components that was shipped to browsers, promoted, and removed)

2023-09-24 13:44:08

has anyone figured out how to 'cultivate optimism' and be chill about the potential for failure? i'd even read a self-help book about this if there's a good one.

2023-09-10 01:15:13

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@npub1c0m…xqjl apple was one of the designers of usb-c as part of their involvement with the usb implementers forum?