Michael Bullington

Self-regulating my schedule, working on startup ideas, is hard!! New plan: A commit every day keeps the doctor away

[writing 15k+ lines of TypeScript] dang I really miss how nice Rust is (variable shadowing, iterable helpers, everything is an expression)

Google’s AI results are actually really bad and it’s kinda dangerous people use them without verifying their information

Moderate Democrats: Being a sex pest is fine, but asking the voters what their needs are, then doing that, is a line too far!!!

WHAT THIS IS GREAT

Wow got a STACK of info from NYC in the mail about how to vote, where, and who’s on the ballet Weird being in a place that actually wants you to vote

Wild that NIXON of all people signed the Clean Air Act. The EPA took photos to prove how bad it was beforehand. And yet xAI does this... for a pretty mid AI model? Even ethics aside, I'm really not sure why you'd use Grok over Google/Anthropic/OpenAI. Yuck. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...

I ended up making the weblog! www.mbullington.net/weblog

Today we are excited to announce Rolldown-Vite: a technical preview of the version of @vite.dev entirely powered by the Rust stack we built over the past year (Oxc + @rolldown.rs) voidzero.dev/posts/announ...

I am disappointed in the AI discourse steveklabnik.com/writing/i-am...

It may seem like I'm spamming links, but I've been really inspired by simonwillison.net recently! Maybe I should revamp my site around this? Or Bluesky is fine? I don't know!

Kokoro 82M is amazing! I use it to convert articles to podcast files, via an iOS Safari extension I hacked together. Probably listened to over 6hr of generations now: replicate.com/jaaari/kokor...

Fascinating stuff! Huawei has their own AOT TypeScript flavor + Flutter-like framework: wingolog.org/archives/202...

“With proper treatment, 98% of Wait and Save customers go on to live healthy, normal lives.”

Introduce yourself with 4 games but it’s the 90s 🕹️

Your design is the prompt Bring your existing ideas to life with Figma Make #Config2025

A few weeks ago did a gamejam with @samanbb.bsky.social and friends! Try it out! trashmoon.itch.io/subsurface

Duolingo: Why do you want to learn French? Me:

All hands on deck. Figma Slides is now available to everyone

my dad literally wrote SQL for a living at the federal government

Listening on repeat music.apple.com/us/album/in-...

Just in, diagramming improvements for FigJam → New shapes sidebar → More shapes for developers → Stroke color independent of fill color for shapes and sections → Moveable connector labels → Recents section for recently used shapes

This was so cool to receive!!

I am happy to report Flutter seems to be used more in China (see Tencent, Xiaomi, & ByteDance). Maybe because of this? DeepSeek R1 is Very Good at Flutter.

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Always appreciate that Vitalik is clear-headed and principled, even knowing how vociferously he’ll be attacked in many quarters for it. This is a meaningful thing for this person with this voice to say at this time.

Beginning to think social media companies are just Gen Z’s tobacco companies

I dunno, sometimes I feel like I’m never gonna become an oligarch 😔

In all seriousness: the last 2 weeks of TikTok posturing and Zuck grovelling, combined with the X insanity of the last year, should show you that an app with a feed that you don’t control serves *other people’s interests* - not yours.

Without David Lynch, the world of cinema, TV, art and entertainment as a whole would look a whole lot different. The beautiful, anxiety-inducing pieces of chaos you've created will always remain beacons of daring creativity for all filmmakers to come. #RIPDavidLynch

Truly the best laptop ever—bonus: If you get the M1, it's Jony Ive's design! His parting gift. The ultra-thin industrial design finally had its silicon—then they redesigned it. womp. mijndertstuij.nl/posts/the-be...

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Insight from VSCode—Llama (by Meta) is designed to fracture! That's why it's source available. While it's a net benefit, it's not the goodness of their hearts—OpenAI, Gemini, or Anthropic could be The Next Platform. FB desperately doesn't want a new landlord. Ref: ghuntley.com/fracture/

Hoping to put down roots this year and be more civic minded—New Yorkers, what do y’all do? Can I help?

Loving the Process Zero feature of @halideapp.bsky.social Everything is HDR’d now—having an imperfect, grainy camera in my pocket is so much fun

Wow y’all. $3,100! Don’t even know what to say - thanks for being way past cool!

Highly recommend UFO 50! 25 of the games are couch coop—each one is fun in its own way! 50games.fun

Excited to get setup over here! Blue skies ahead