Nathan Tippy

Software Engineer for 30+yrs Rust /Java/AWS/Jenkins/Kubernetes

[John @MagaGrunt1]

🇺🇸Why is this not the norm? This should be the law in all 50 states.🇺🇸

[Nathan Tippy @NathanTippy]

Michael Jackson screaming at Brad 😂😂😂 https://t.co/emaNUQGNNg via @YouTube

[Stephen R. C. Hicks @SRCHicks]

The sometimes-strange power of philosophy.

[GiGadgets @gigadgets_]

Kinetic sculpture titled "Two Spirals" created in 2021 by German artist Felix Scharstein

[稲妻のぺぺ(語り継ぎたい洋楽垢) @sukepon2021]

伝説のマイケル体操...www

To our international friends: In Japan, there is an exercise routine called the "Michael Jackson Exercise."👍

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This woman set up her bathroom with systems that actually work with her ADHD brain — and honestly, a lot of these ideas are just smart, period.

She keeps a phone mount in the shower so she can watch a show while she’s in there (because she hates showering otherwise). She also keeps her water flosser, face wash, and even cleaning supplies in the shower so she can knock out a few tasks while she’s already in there.

She also uses a 3-section laundry hamper (dirty colors, dirty whites, and clean clothes she doesn’t feel like putting away yet) so nothing ends up on the floor.

ADHD or not, these are some really practical ideas.

Have you ever set up a system in your home specifically because it works better for how your brain works?

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY LIVES UNDER SFO'S TAKEOFF PATH SO HE BUILT A CEILING PROJECTOR THAT TRACKS EVERY PLANE FLYING OVER HIS HOUSE IN REAL TIME

he uses a cheap $30 radio receiver to pick up the signals that planes broadcast while flying.

then projects them onto his ceiling in real time

when a jet flies over his house you hear it outside and at the exact same moment a plane glides across his ceiling labeled with the airline, aircraft type, and destination

pure black background so the projector's rectangle disappears and only the aircraft are visible

but he didn't stop at planes

it also draws the real sky behind them. sun, moon, bright stars, constellations, and live satellites including the ISS. all at their true positions for his exact location and time in real time

so he's lying in bed watching the actual night sky projected onto his ceiling with real planes crossing through it as they take off from SFO

there is a huge market for every man alive that runs outside to see the helicopter

vibe coded the whole thing himself with a cheap radio, a projector, and some clever software

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good Starship highlights video

[The Fourth Musketeer @IV_Musketeer]

The 7-second cold wrist rinse was tested on 3,000 soldiers after combat simulations.

Cortisol dropped 52% within 90 seconds. Heart rate fell an average of 22 beats per minute. The Navy classified the protocol in 2009 and kept it secret until 2023.

The mechanism is radial artery cooling. Your inner wrists have the thinnest skin and the largest surface-to-volume ratio for blood vessels. 7 seconds of cold water cools the blood passing to your brain, which signals your hypothalamus to downregulate stress instantly

You've splashed cold water on your face. You've taken cold showers. Both work, but they're inconvenient.

The SEAL protocol takes 7 seconds, requires no undressing, and can be done at any sink. Soldiers used it before night missions to fall asleep fast.

The military classified this because a free 7-second stress fix would reduce demand for combat stress medication ($400M annually).

The 2023 declassification came after a FOIA lawsuit filed by a veteran.

The fix: run cold tap water over your inner wrists for 7 seconds. Both wrists. Do it when you feel a stress spike.

Within 90 seconds, your heart rate will drop. No shower, no ice.

Just 7 seconds.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

That’s how Indiana Jones did it in Raiders of the Lost Ark... 🔥

[Nathan Tippy @NathanTippy]

@drakefjustin Will not believe any of these until someone reports a breach. Until then its just fake news on quantum as they look for more funds.

[Estado Mínimo @xestadominimo]

“El intervencionismo engendra problemas que luego usa como excusa para intervenir todavía más”.

- Hans-Hermann Hoppe -

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Usha's Summer Reading Challenge was a hit last year, and I'm so proud of her.

Summer Reading is back again this year, so be sure to check it out!

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

imagine if we had LLMs in the 80s...

[SciTech Era @SciTechera]

Wow. This is crazy.

A developer trained an AI agent in simulation and deployed it onto a real robotic air hockey table using reinforcement learning.

This robot can track the puck with millimeter-level accuracy and react in roughly 20 milliseconds, fast enough to challenge even skilled human players.

We’re moving from robots that follow programmed rules to machines that learn strategies in simulation and execute them in the physical world.

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

Funny how the pendulum shifts

1. "GPT wrappers are worthless" → the value acrues to application layer

2. "AI will eliminate white collar jobs" → someone needs to manage all these AI agents and everyone is now saying white collar workers will rise due to AI

3. "Open source will never catch up" → Gemma and DeepSeek are good enough for 80% of tasks

4. "I only use Claude Code, Codex is mid" → Codex is becoming a super app. Coding, docs, browser, computer use, automations, all in one surface.

4. "You need to pick a model and go deep" → model loyalty is dead, the best founders swap weekly based on the task

5. "SaaS is dead" → This was mostly true but for some SaaS margins actually improve when agents pay for their own tokens and need their own seats

6. "AutoGPT is the future" → AutoGPT died. Then agents actually got good 2 years later with Hermes, OpenClaw, and managed agents. The idea was right. The timing was wrong.

7. "Prompt engineering is a career" → lasted about 18 months as a job title. Workflow engineering replaced it.

8. "Computer use is a gimmick" → "sent from computer use/ai agent will be the new sent from iphone

9. "AI design looks generic" → the generic look is a taste problem not a technology problem. The founders feeding their agents references from Japanese packaging, brutalist architecture, and 1960s print are getting beautiful output.

10. "Fine-tuning is the moat" → a well-structured Obsidian vault with good markdown files outperforms fine-tuning for most use cases and costs nothing.

11. "Benchmarks tell you which model to use" → benchmarks tell you which model won a test. I think we're all waking up to this lol.

12. "AI will consolidate into 2-3 winners" → AI is fragmenting into thousands of vertical applications built on commodity models. The consolidation is at the model layer. The explosion is at the application layer. Both are happening simultaneously.

13. "The hard part is building" → the hard part is choosing what to build. Building takes a weekend. Choosing the right thing to build takes taste, domain knowledge, and customer conversations. thats why i built https://t.co/a5ARFnvky2 to make it easier for you.

14. "The terminal is the future" → desktop apps just ate the terminal. Claude Code desktop, Codex app, both shipped GUI versions in the same month. The next 100 million agent users will never open a terminal (thank god).

I guarantee you I'm holding at least 2-3 beliefs right now that will look stupid by Christmas. I just don't know which ones. Neither do you. No one does. Build anyway.

Keep moving because this is the greatest time to be building.

I'm rooting for you.

[Λndrea @peorth]

Estos mosaicos son todos iguales.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

RAM exists as a 1-dimensional space. For programming…that’s kind of irritating.

All the important math happens in 2D arrays.

It’s simple(ish) to compress a higher level space into a single dimension (most languages today are row-major), but there’s a funny quirk.

At the *physical* DRAM layer, the actual bits *are* stored in a 2D array, rows and columns. (…well, when you add up all the layers, it’s more like a hierarchy of 2D arrays, but you get my point).

If this information was directly exposed to you…gosh there are all sorts of neat tricks you can get away with!

Unfortunately, keeping memory addresses in a 1-D space makes things much simpler from the OS perspective for memory management, not to mention code portability. There are nasty security problems too...certainly some valid reasons for keeping physical structure hidden.

Yet, think of how much of performance engineering / memory locality work could be shortcutted if it were trivial to understand the exact physical layout of how your arrays were stored!

[slash1s @slash1sol]

A DEVELOPER TAUGHT GIT WITH A BOX OF CHILDREN'S TOYS AND ENGINEERS WITH TEN YEARS IN SAY IT'S THE FIRST TIME THE THING EVER ACTUALLY MADE SENSE

90 minutes, one table, a pile of Tinkertoys. No wall of jargon -- he builds a real Git repo out of plastic rods right in front of you.

-> The moment he snaps the first pieces together, Git stops being scary command-line magic and becomes what it really is: a chain of tiny objects pointing at each other.

Branches, merges, rebase, the staging area -- every concept that's ever burned you at 2am -- he rebuilds with toys until a four year old could follow. He calls Git a two-trick pony. After this you'll see exactly why.

Memorizing commands was never the skill -> holding the graph in your head is. And with an AI agent now committing and rebasing on your machine all day, that mental model is the only thing between you and a history you can't read.

Scroll the comments and you'll see the same thing over and over: this is the talk that finally made Git click and made people the one their whole team comes to when it breaks.

Bookmark & watch it today. It's the 1.5 hours that pays you back for the rest of your career ↓