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TL;DR: Miss Biscuits is 90% fluff, 3D printed ghosts instead of guns, snarfed down three Adrian Tchaikovsky books at hyperfocus speed, shipped feedspool-go v0.2.0 with over-engineered lazy loading, learned about GitHub Actions cross-repo triggers, got obsessed with a TR/ST song on repeat, and caught up on Classic Doctor Who featuring cyborg Loch Ness monsters.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHappy #caturday from Miss Biscuits who is 90% fluff:
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Ended up in a fun thread with folks about my 3D printer setup. I'd shared a photo of my basement rig - Prusa MK4S in an enclosure with cereal canisters full of filament spools as dry boxes. The whole thing's enclosed as much as possible because... cats.
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I also saw a thread about ghost guns and 3D printed parts. I mentioned that I just skipped the gun part and printed some ghosts, because that's more fun.
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Over the last weekend, I finished reading Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky after getting more and more hyperfocused on snarfing it down.
\nStruck me as a wild mix of Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky, Brin's Uplift series, Stephenson's Seveneves, Hawley's Alien: Earth, and odd bits of Star Trek optimism. Somehow it all worked fabulously for me. Oh yeah, and there are bits of exposition straight out of nature documentaries and I was eating all that up too.
\nOne thing I really like: the author managed to build some narrative Necker cubes in this series. That is, from one perspective, something reads like horror - but with a few more details, the perspective flips and it's suddenly the complete opposite.
\nOn Monday, I started reading Children of Memory, the next book in the series, and just absolutely housed that down in a day or two.
\nAfter that, I picked up Elder Race (also by Adrian Tchaikovsky) and snarfed it down in a day since it was about half the length. I've gotten through 7 of his books since last spring. I guess I have a new favorite author.
\nNow I'm like, do I chase the ADHD serial enthusiasm and get into more of his books or try something else?
\nSpent some time hacking on my feedspool last weekend. Found a bug that I realized was making me miss a whole lot of feed items. Fixed that, which made it start rendering a whole lot more items. So I fell down a rabbit hole of making the web UI aggressively lazily loaded.
\nNow I've got a statically generated news stream that incrementally loads as I scroll down the page of feeds, only loading as much as I want to see, just before I want to see it. The whole thing is a static site with a 5kb index.html, which is good because I accidentally linked to my personal feedspool rather than the project page and brought down the Mastodon orbital link-unfurler laser on my homelab.
\nI should probably rig this thing up to publish to GitHub Pages so I can leech off their static hosting bandwidth. One problem: the static site generator produces a lot of file churn that does terrible things in a git repository. Eventually throws a wrench into GitHub Pages.
\nThe whole thing is inspired by Dave Winer's River of News concept, which I wrote about in the v0.2.0 release post. It's me trying to build the RSS reader I actually want to use.
\nTIL you can trigger GitHub Actions workflows in one repo via workflows in another repo with the proper access token and the repository_dispatch event.
So I can kinda build a whole CI / evaluation system in a separate repo, even make it reusable between a few different related projects. This seems like it could be handy for maintaining a bunch of related Go CLI tools.
\nSuddenly obsessed with repeating a playlist that just keeps going back & forth between \"Dressed for Space\" by TR/ST and the Ari Mason cover.
\nAlso: had a song from Muse's album The 2nd Law come up on shuffle today. I was like, \"oh, I haven't heard their new album in awhile.\" That album came out in 2012. They've had several more since then, including one I missed in 2022. My brain keeps doing this to me. Stop it, brain.
\nWhat else? Oh yeah, I was watching the Classic Doctor Who channel on Pluto TV, playing Terror of the Zygons wherein I forgot it's about tentacle aliens who deploy a cyborg Loch Ness monster to wreak havoc on Tom Baker. \"You can't explode depth charges in Loch Ness, Brigadier!\"
\nDeprecation Notice - fictional piece about transitioning to a fully autonomous development pipeline
\nPlease Don't Say Mean Things about the AI - McSweeney's satire on AI investment defensiveness
\nMeet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit - performance art meets protest: \"AI chews up and spits out art made by other people\"
\nAI companies will fail - Doctorow on what we'll salvage from the wreckage: cheap GPUs, open-source models, applied statistics expertise
\nA Codeless Ecosystem - orchestrating dozens of AI bots to build software without directly touching code
\nYour App Subscription Is Now My Weekend Project - vibecoding is 100% viable for personal stuff: we now have apps on demand
\nWhy Designers Can No Longer Trust the Design Process - Jenny Wen from Anthropic explains why the traditional research-first design process no longer fits modern reality
\nI don't write code anymore - I sculpt it - shifting from writing code to sculpting Claude Code outputs, removing excess, making pieces fit and reusable
\nThe head chef model for AI-assisted development - your role shifts from implementation to orchestration, from programming to validating
\nThe Five Levels: from Spicy Autocomplete to the Dark Factory - five clear tiers of AI code automation
\nSubagents, Commands and Skills Are Converging - buried in recent Claude Code releases is a fundamental shift in extensibility
\nAI tribalism - a lot of developers burying their heads in the sand, refusing to acknowledge the truth in front of their eyes
\nDOOMBUDS - running the 1993 classic DOOM on an earbud, then connecting it to the internet for remote play
\nPorting DOOM to WASM - stress testing a WebAssembly VM implementation with a DOOM port, because of course
\nSubmitted for Your Approval - Rails application running full stack in browser via WebContainers, Action Cable over BroadcastChannel, Active Record over IndexedDB
\nBroadcast Channel API - basic communication between browsing contexts on the same origin
\nUse RSS to read newsletters - if I want to read someone's newsletter, what I'm actually subscribing to is their RSS feed
\nPhantom Obligation - why do RSS readers look like email clients?
\nFeedsmith - fast JavaScript feed parser and generator for RSS, Atom, RDF, and JSON Feed
\nMany Small Queries Are Efficient In SQLite - SQLite runs in the same process, so N+1 queries aren't the problem they are with client/server databases
\nUsing 3D Printing And Copper Tape To Make PCBs - interesting technique for custom PCBs with just a 3D printer and copper tape
\nMaking a Factory Out Of LEGO That Builds LEGO - turning a LEGO car factory into a general pick-and-place machine
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