🌱 Liam

toward a more beautiful network

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

the year is 2097, the grandchildren of Eric Adam’s Charter Revision Commission meet in a Brooklyn church’s basement gym

[Chris Sommerfeldt @C_Sommerfeldt]

Eric Adams' Charter Revision Commission (which insists it's alive even though Mamdani ordered it disbanded) just ended its 2nd hearing, held in a Brooklyn church's basement gym.

Only 1 person showed up to testify (she asked mostly about how to get in touch with Mamdani's team).

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

sauna sets my brain to xhigh

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@ClaudeDevs @bcherny can you split this into two options?

I want Claude to auto-fix CI - I don't want it to post comments on my behalf

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

Strange Loop Summer

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

@simonsarris NYC has elements of both London and Paris (is less old though), but with a lot of improv and main character energy. It’s the city that’s most like Twitter imo

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@nikillinit @p_millerd come host @fractaltechnyc ! main room can fit 80, 4 other rooms can each hold ~20. DM me if you want to a tour or pics

[Daniel Golliher 🗽 @danielgolliher]

The word "hackathon" helps to point people in a conceptually correct direction ("build things on the computer"), but for many people who haven't done this it connotatively points to "only come to this if you're a computer person, and we will all be at our computers coding for hours."

There is a different word that means:
- Come and see people do demos of things they've made with Claude, Codex, and other AI tools.
- Come and hang out, eat snacks, meet cool people.
- There will be many domain experts from non-tech backgrounds, and many tinkerers in others.
- Come and get ideas about what you could build, even if you haven't built anything before. And not just *on* the computer, but *with* the computer (see Simba as a small, fun example: https://t.co/IzszYchEOC)

I'm not sure if that different word exists in a big way yet. But when I invite people from the government/civic realm to hackathons, they almost never feel excited at the prospect, or like they would fit. Then I describe the nature of the event, and they get interested.

So I'm telling you: I want you to come to my/other events like this! You know too much not to share it with those who are building with AI tools! The people want to hear from you, hang out with you, learn about your work, and see how they can help it.

Personally, I also want to welcome you to The Computer. I think it's faster than ever for a driven person to become acquainted with their machines in a way that was formerly denoted by years of training.

"But I'm not a computer person." Truly, I do not believe you, and that's probably because we disagree about what "computer person" means. You 🫵 are a great New Yorker in any domain, and you are so very probably a computer person.

[Andrew Rose @__drewface]

we are hosting another personal computing party tomorrow at 7pm, because the last one was very fun.

https://t.co/C5XE2iFB7T

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

imagine if we’d never invented the concept of a question? big deal

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@ankurnagpal @andruyeung host at @fractaltechnyc!

we've got a huge space and have done several of these, plus a roof that could probably hold all guests if the weather is nice

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@rslantonie @__drewface sick!!!

[Andrew Rose @__drewface]

Going to start hosting some AI reading groups in NYC at our campus, starting with beginner/entry-level stuff (I think I will start with The Scaling Era by Dwarkesh)

lmk if you're interested, and/or what you would join for if we were reading it :)

[Matt Murray @mattmurrs]

You missed the subway and need an e-bike across NYC, https://t.co/GNY1w9VUXa gets you there.

Real-time MTA + Citi Bike data in one API. Pay just cents via x402 or MPP

Add to your agent and get around NYC your way

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

wat do:

[Leo Alt @leonardoalt]

told Claude to use caveman dialect + first order logic instead of plain (verbose) English, great result, save token

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@mr_samosaman wb garbage collection (poop-time)

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

who warns the surgeon general?

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

generation zeta

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@danielgolliher delicious

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

cc @StreetsblogNYC @TransAlt

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

@NYC_DOT @NYCMayor could you explore a physical treatment to prevent parking in the no standing zone on the west side of 4th ave btwn Atlantic & Pacific?

this �� lane constantly gets blocked - even more important once Ashland connection to 4th is finished!

[🌱 Liam @liamdanielduffy]

the opposite side of the street on the same block already has a treatment to prevent this problem - mirroring this would be great!