Reid Burke

Bending sand into fast websites, toolmaker, motorcyclist, father, hunter, San Josean, husband to @jeeyunit

[Reid Burke @reid]

Fullbody Ultrasonic Computational Tomography

[Midjourney @midjourney]

A technical dive inside our new "Midjourney Scanner"

[Reid Burke @reid]

Everyone who had a 90s American childhood knows how good this is

[McDonald's @McDonalds]

caution: get the fried apple pie while it’s hot on 6.23

[Reid Burke @reid]

@jpschroeder BlueSCSI?

Might have another try at making a useful battery. The last time I used it the spinning rust drive died so I haven’t used it in a while.

[Reid Burke @reid]

@jpschroeder I tried baking it and it didn’t help in my case sadly. Maybe I didn’t do it right. It took me a couple hours to get the pin alignment correct after baking. Trial and error.

Do you have a battery? Made a NiMH replacement instead of NiCad so it gets toasty when charging lol

[Reid Burke @reid]

Good deal. Got one for $16.

[Denver Rayburn @DenverRayburn]

For anyone that didn’t get a made in USA @reindsummit sweater last night, we’re giving the first 1,000 away for free 🇺🇸

[React Router @ReactRouter]

React Router v8 is now available!

- All v7 future flags are now the default (Middleware, Vite env API, Split Route Modules, etc.)
- ESM-only
- New baselines: node 22+, React 19+, Vite 7+
- Easy upgrade from v7

[Reid Burke @reid]

“Music System Reference Standard”

[Maciek Pekala @penzington]

A few weeks ago I noticed that Linear got slower than it used to. Especially on the new Diffs feature, that we were getting ready to release, it was pretty bad. For days I was running profiles, staring at profiles, bisecting with agents from every direction.
The pattern was clear - we accessed the DOM a ton, which blocked the main threads on style recalcs and layout for 10s or 100s of milliseconds over and over.
I shipped dozens of PRs to get rid of those layout-causing calls, using pretext and whatever tricks the agents and I could come up with. It helped, but only a bit. I was getting desperate.

[Ryan Dahl @rough__sea]

I miss the solitude of programming. Coffee at hand, excitement powering my fingers. Ideally disconnected from the internet.

But I aspire to be an engineer, not a poet. There are new problems and new skills to learn.

[Reid Burke @reid]

@adjohu This is the way

[Stratechery @stratechery]

Anthropic's Safety Superpower

Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government.

https://t.co/4HKPlYc99i

[Reid Burke @reid]

Read this 90s book to my daughter this morning. Here’s to all the dads at $SPCX inspiring kids everywhere.

[Reid Burke @reid]

Sunday driver

[Reid Burke @reid]

The man in the arena

[Joe Holland @JoeHolland]

It’s true. From Teddy’s autobiography,

“While President I used to box with some of the aides, as well as play single-stick with General Wood. After a few years I had to abandon boxing as well as wrestling, for in one bout a young captain of artillery cross-countered me on the eye, and the blow smashed the little blood-vessels. Fortunately it was my left eye, but the sight has been dim ever since, and if it had been the right eye I should have been entirely unable to shoot. Accordingly I thought it better to acknowledge that I had become an elderly man and would have to stop boxing. I then took up jiu-jitsu for a year or two.”

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Christian Keil @pronounced_kyle]

The vibes are immaculate right now in America.

[Kane 謝凱堯 @kane]

Fun fact: @GavinNewsom has budgeted >300% more tax dollars for a nonexistent California rail system than SpaceX raised in private capital in its entire history as a private company.

[Reid Burke @reid]

Cool

[Anduril Industries @anduriltech]

Captured by Anduril's network of 400 telescopes deployed around the globe:

The second stage of the Falcon Heavy launch of ViaSat 3-F3 performing a routine thrust event. This produced a spiraled-shaped plume effect, a nominal part of operations for a successful launch of Viasat's latest satellite.

[Ivan Krstić @radian]

🔺NEW: Apple is expanding Private Cloud Compute (PCC) beyond our data centers. PCC on Google Cloud: NVIDIA Confidential Computing, Intel TDX, and Google's Titan chip, with capabilities that go far beyond a traditional confidential computing deployment. https://t.co/DF2Hw8HUZH