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I'm recently back from @localfirstconf.com. I presented on Cueport, a local-first music player for DJs. Why a music player for DJs? And why local-first? Find out here ▶ www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkrB...

it would be funny if one year the sexiest man alive is just some regular guy off the street. give it up for Greg from Alberta

So you go from the 1500s Italian game "mallet ball," or pallamaglio, to the French "pallemaille," to the English name "pall-mall," to an elongated area where you would play pall mall being called a "mall," to a walking area being called a mall, to an indoor shopping area being called a mall.

Used to love walking through the local market on weekends. Now it's just AI slop signs everywhere. I'll go home and cook a meal instead.

bus stops should have little free libraries

Watch the official visualizer for “Stakes Is High (J Dilla Remix)” featuring Mos Def & Truth Enola, from the 30th Anniversary edition of Stakes Is High, available on vinyl, CD and digitally this Friday October 23rd. Video by Mason London. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXoH...

I found the secret to better metabolism and it's more movement, less sitting, and most importantly, less poasting

They did it, those crazy bastards!

Trying to use the models for things outside of coding / ml, like making slides or coherent plans or longish content design, makes me feel the AGI-is-going-to-take-a-while.

Indoor batting cage with hitfx

its literally about posting

Sovereign AI shouldn’t mean building everything yourself. It means choosing your models, compute, data, and infrastructure, with the freedom to change them. We’re investing millions to make that practical, led by our new GM Patricia Prewitt. tailscale.com/blog/soverei...

My ai psychosis is such that I can't simply start running, I have to build a local first run tracker before I start running

We're working on it!

airdrop fully reverse-engineered! works flawlessly on my framework laptop

I miss reading random novels at my grandmother's house in the summer

Went to the beach today and all the domains I bought were looking at me weird

For gigs, local-first makes a lot of sense. A player that isn't waiting on a connection is one less thing to worry about.

I'm in the market for a "team brain" for a small company (<10 people). Wishes: - Ability to dump in PDFs, spreadsheets, text files, URLs, etc - Fast, accurate, and up-to-date search to answer questions like "where's the latest employment contract template?"

Cool use case for atproto, don't miss the write-up www.domoritz.de/blog/2026/09...

and if you’re trying to name a better water and sewer festival than Clean Water Fest, take your time, owl weight.

Semble, your conference hivemind tool 🥹🫡

evergreen

Looking forward to this one

Here is a recap of last night's listening party pckt.blog/b/whereditgo...

Kawhi Leonard trade to Raptors expected to be completed ‘in coming days’ hoopswire.com/kawhi-leonar...

took me many listens before i looked up the lyrics here and learned the deceiver is love itself lyricstranslate.com/en/deceit-de...

Some cool presentations at ATProto Vancouver meetup like @semble.so ‘s @wesleyfinck.org and @bmann.ca @jacobsayles.bsky.social @hadsie.com talking about @z-space.ca AI inference commons project (ZAI)

Cueport works as a companion for Serato - adds multi device and collab. Data from Serato is stored inside the mp3 file! Now built trailmix.tools to analyze files locally without Serato.

And @djpardis.com presenting local-first cueport.app DJ app!

The heat was hot and the ground was dry But the air was full of sound

Started in on Dub Revolution by David Katz. Was so excited to get this in the mail. It is excellent so far. store.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/products/dub...

If you are looking for tech alternatives: don't evaluate a system by how it behaves today but by who can change the rules, and what it costs you to leave when they do.

Passed a car on the highway with the Vermont plate “POUT1NE.” Can I get a hell yeah?

A walkable town is one of the true blessings in life

Some weekend thoughts on how LLMs change the way we start new projects. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/8/22/fa...

Every object oriented language introduction starts with showing the clean hierarchy of dog and cat inheriting from animal, while every real codebase is like

It's okay to suck at something. Draw a bad picture. Write a terrible blog post with typos. Write some bugs in your code. Try and use Heelys and fail. Make an ugly sweater. Get out there and create something. You may suck at it, or you might be sort of good.

Can't make it to Montréal this September? RustConf 2026 is still available to you. Virtual tickets are pay what you wish! Livestreamed keynotes + sessions, plus access to the conference Discord. Sept 9 & 10. Register: bit.ly/4q5uQIi 🦀 #rustlang #rustconf26

Why LLMs read fast but generate slowly? Inference Performance from First Principles by Eric Schreiber aleph-alpha.com/en/blog/infe...

10 minute videos, jetstream v2, Bluesky Protocol Services, and @bsky/sdk all at the same time. what a day!

I’ve added over 50 accounts to my inspo feed. It’s shaping up nicely.