Arpit

Arpit

@arpitonline.com

Director of Engineering at Comcast Labs. Former illustrator trying to get back to into art. I make pretty apps. https://arpitonline.com https://arpitmathur.substack.com/

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TIL the phrase "Ubicomp": "Ubiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to desktop computing, ubiquitous computing implies use on any device, in any location, and in any format"

en.wikipedia.orgUbiquitous computing - WikipediaUbiquitous computing (or "ubicomp") is a concept in software engineering, hardware engineering and computer science where computing is made to appear seamlessly anytime and everywhere. In contrast to…

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Ah ha! — So X Money is really about harvesting your transaction data to personalize the ads X shows you... #DeadTwitter

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I have changed my mind about this feature so many times, a human coder would have just walked away 😅

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The launch experience of the first version of Cubic did a poor job telling what it was. I think the new screen does a better job 🤔What do you think?

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question. As interesting as the note-graphs look in Obsidian and other apps, does anyone find them very useful?

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Something I think about quite a bit https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/creative-career-condundrums-if-you-could-jobs-advice-051026

itsnicethat.com“Know your ‘why’ behind what you want to prove”Achieving ‘success’ in creative education is interesting when it comes to transitioning into a workplace environment, because it’s not one-to-one comparable. Education has its set boundaries (essays, modules, terms, years) which don’t necessarily translate to working in the field. So, if you’re a high-achiever in education, your ‘success’ may not necessarily look or feel the same in the workplace. In this week’s Creative Career Conundrums, Kat Wong, founder of career change platform Oh Yeah, mulls over this issue, discussing how to not let one’s past successes define your day-to-day.
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USPS celebrates Diwali with new stamp ❤️ https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2026/0917ma-usps-celebrates-festival-of-lights-with-new-diwali-stamp.htm

about.usps.comU.S. Postal Service Celebrates Festival of Lights With New Diwali StampThe Postal Service will celebrate the Hindu festival of Diwali with a new stamp. Diwali falls on the eve of, or on, the new moon that occurs between mid-October and mid-November. In 2026, the main day of the festival will be Nov. 8.
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This has been a work in progress for so long but excited that Cubic - my second brain + feed reader app is finally on the AppStore Thanks to everyone who helped me beta test this 🙏. And now the next phase of the journey begins! apps.apple.com/us/app/cubic...

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🐺 https://act.biologicaldiversity.org/6JN-eB1kTEibjYnFId7jzA2?SourceID=1011833&fbclid=IwZnRzaAUKkh5wZG9mBWZkaWQWUN65bL3rOABgSukPPsJNlZszNv7L3WV4dG4DYWVtATAAYWRpZAAAL8Zz8u4Cc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQKNjYyODU2ODM3OQABHjeUI76pLyxftQZG7iSuYph655lBvsRIC1PXI9e72ubbTLPGxa2PtjElbUqL_aem_7gG8gETIUJckFiMxkE4W3w

act.biologicaldiversity.orgHelp Save Yellowstone's Oldest Wolf PackOne of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s best-known wolf families — including the area’s oldest living wolf — is in imminent danger. Trophy hunters could kill them this fall. Tell the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission to protect Mollie’s pack before it’s too late.
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Claude's watermarking implementation (based on Google Deepmind's work) is actually kind of interesting https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-text-watermark

anthropic.comHow Claude's text watermarking worksFuture Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change.
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I am a fan of this. So many stories of people accidentally exposing their keys or letting a bug in the code burn through their credit card

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The joy of discovering that your favorite band released a new album recently that you just discovered ( Foo Fighters :) )

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The joy of discovering that your favorite band released a new album recently that you just discovered ( Foo Fighters :) )

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The cyberattacks and now this? Hey remember when Silicon Valley freaked out cause the last admin wanted AI safety to be a priority? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/science/ai-viruses-bacteria-arc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3lA.UX2D.MQ7qfx5taYz4&smid=url-share

nytimes.comThis A.I. Just Created Viruses Not Found in Nature (Gift Article)Scientists trained artificial intelligence on libraries of DNA and then asked the model to create recipes for viral genomes. Sixteen of them were viable, yielding new viruses.