Ian

left politics, ✨technical✨ adtech, bike+climate stuff

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

Making a prediction for posterity: b0fdf04645302f9ee327280980e2407e22860c19b2861873422763d356b2548fc88fd94254490e15d9eed9bcf57930eadbc16dbf3e27f91660fba6cac66d9eff

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

showing my family the new software factory i built running deepseek v4.1-flash

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

Claude has mastered speaking like your weird coworker: "Your hypothesis survives. Mine is dead."

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@andymonfried isn’t this more or less https://t.co/k4hN7rNVnR ?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@_azims just need to quantize a little bit

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

why doesn't boingo (airport wifi) make their inventory available programmatically? surely chrome direct buys can't pay _that_ well? it's basically rewarded video to a super captive audience!

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

california maxxing (reluctantly)

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

How did I miss the Goop podcast featuring a leading AI weapons manufacturer

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

quality of work life has gone up tremendously since i added a nextel chirp as a user interaction hook to claude code

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT @auren has some of the clearest thinking on this topic IMO https://t.co/9vP9smCI9c

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

saying "smooth move" undefeated

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT There's also a suggestion that the platonic ideal of the web is plain text web pages. That might appeal to a small sliver of the population (including yours truly!) but are the masses consuming streaming TV, Reels/Tiktok and similar complaining about "ugh this video was 90 mbs"?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@BradAT There's some truth in here but a lazy critique IMO. The author implies that ad blocking would "fix" the user experience NYT. But the heaviest assets are all first-party video, photos and a bit of js:

[TransitingNerd @NerdTransiting]

bro.

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

I foolishly assumed the “New Yorker visits SoMa for 36 hours” trope became extinct in 2019.

pathetic.gif

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

the new "sent from my iPhone"

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

Is GPT-5.2 now live in the OpenAI API?

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

guy writing the rails app for finland's social security portal:

"fucking finally"

[Ian @decaffeinateddd]

@adamheimlich https://t.co/8RrxikbpNg