Maggie Appleton

Staff Research Engineer at @GitHubNext. But actually a designer. Writes about design, dev, & anthropology.
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[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@k_grajeda whhhhaaaat context do you give it and what's your promping strat with these they are so good

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

It's remembrance day! 🌺 An excellent day to read a reflection on the horrors of WWI and browse a data vis poppy memoriam.

https://t.co/XBEXB04LLi

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@genmon I simply need to see the list of ideas they brainstormed to get to medieval cats. It works but also wtf

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

The AI slop peddlers have bought themselves a 3D printer, discovered the lucrative niche of novelty advent calendars on Etsy, and are ready to make bank 🤑

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

The 2D AI slop vs the 3D AI slop. Unclear which is worse.

[Max Schoening @mschoening]

I think @Tailscale could be 100x larger than it is today in just a few years.

The open internet is dying. Agents will turn it into a toxic wasteland. UniFi, Tailscale, Discord, and AWS all win in that scenario.

Call of Duty lobbies are a good analogy. When games are overrun by cheaters (humanoids), humans retreat to private, high-trust lobbies.

The same thing happened with the Facebook Wall (blast from the past): people retreated to group chats.

Besides not being a cozy place to hang out it’s also dangerous to advertise your existence (dark forest theory of the internet)…

🔐🕸️

[GitHub @github]

Through internal testing, GitHub’s new Git storage architecture supported 5,000 concurrent agents working on a repo, sending 7,200 pushes per second, all while serving read traffic with consistently low latency. https://t.co/Lfi55duJ77

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@jkup Accidentally drank one of these at 3pm last week not knowing it contained a mountain of caffeine. Should be punished for failing to look like an energy drink.

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@xenocryptsite Lol that’s a good one. Maybe Polymarket will send me a cheque by mail within a few months of winning.

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

I am👌this close to putting £1000 on a polymarket prediction than we’ll need to shut off the internet for 24+ hours in 2027 because of new security vulnerabilities

[ozgun @kultekin]

*sshole is out

if you run sshd on alpine, openwrt or any musl box with password auth on: update now

official writeup: https://t.co/hQUJXVPKwE

[Jungwon @jungofthewon]

Tinkertreat: A weekend with principled, creative souls riffing on calm technology, decision-making, ambient discovery, hardware, fisheye views.

To bring the tinkerer's spirit back into the timeline ✨

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@MrEchoIsHere @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller Read other responses on the thread

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

The carnage of giving a bunch of nerds a thermal printer to play with

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@nazo_btw @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller Good news, they do! We got phenol-free paper. No harmful BPA/BPS. You can buy it online. We can have thermal printer cake and eat it too, no cancer risk

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@erikmartin @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller We got phenol free paper with no BPA/BPS. Cancer free fun with thermal paper is possible

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@mllzi @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller We got phenol-free paper with no BPA/BPS so it’s all good

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@wilsden @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller We got phenol-free paper with no BPA/BPS

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@HeatherRasley @thesephist @Wattenberger @jungofthewon @geoffreylitt @stuhlmueller We got phenol free paper. No BPA/BPS

[Benji Taylor @benjitaylor]

Stageshow: a skill that helps your agent make better faux UI stills, animations, bento grids, and more.

npx skills add benjitaylor/skills --skill stageshow

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@joodalooped But honestly since using these skills with my agents they are exponentially more useful for my kind of design work.

Sounds like it’s not the kind of design work you do.

I’m also a Collier obsessive so I would love this stuff 😉

[Maggie Appleton @Mappletons]

@joodalooped You think it’s all theory, no practical use?

I obvs beg to differ. But depends on what kind of design you do. ~most of what I design is greenfield prototypes so lots of defining the right nouns, verbs, and shape of new products

If you don’t do that kind of work it’s not useful