Brent Fitzgerald

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Be the weird you wish to see in the world.

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The unholy urge to fuck around yet not find out.

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Copilot isn’t fucking around

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Progress in this AI x 3D x Gaming area is just phenomenal. This is a great vid if you’re even mildly curious about what’s been happening. https://x.com/bilawalsidhu/status/1892243301790597268?s=46

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So busy this week so of course it’s a perfect time to explore migrating from zsh to fish.

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Astrology is classic pre-internet brainrot.

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If you get far enough in your career and have a few successes and build even a modest network, people will actually pay you to hang out with their team, provide guidance, and just be yourself. It’s wild.

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Good recent Lex Fridman ep with Nathan Lambert and Dylan Patel. You can ambiently catch up with what’s happening in the AI race, from chips to data centers to national security to reasoning models. Not normally a “Lex guy” but these were interesting guests with great depth. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lex-fridman-podcast/id1434243584?i=1000688396667

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80% of wisdom is just not saying dumb shit.

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Friend of mine used to describe getting baked as defragging.

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Yesterday I ran Ethernet (through an underground conduit and some walls), crimped it, and installed jacks all for the first time. Networking feels just a little faster when you hand arranged each little wire.

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TIL folk etymologies. I always link the herb mint with the verb mint—like you’re creating a minty fresh coin. But they actually come from different Latin roots. The herb comes from mentha, while the verb comes from moneta, as in Juno Moneta, where coins were minted.

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In 2036, members of the slow computing movement will rediscover this lost art, crafting organic brain-to-screen user manuals by sifting through layer upon layer of code and community lore, and then manually and painstakingly typing each letter one at a time.

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at this point LLMs are really the only way I can comfortably write React code, i.e. without accumulating mental damage.

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Left display: Intel SGX vs AMD SEV-SNP Right display: 9yo's drawing about how a fart cannon might work

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but focusers focus on focusing

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I create problems for myself and then solve them. It is my longest running hobby.

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Highlights of first experience in tech the summer before college: - macromedia authorware. devs nicknamed it awfulware. - there was a slide in the office. my wallet chain got caught on it. - localized printed user manuals. output as .ps files. burned cds to mail to printer - paid internship. $9/hr. still higher than today’s national min wage.

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Closed the twitter account I had for 18 years. Early posts were things like “need more coffee.” Such simple innocent moments, looking back. Funny how networked life potentiates both foreverness and ephemerality. The trivial and banal become permanent, but the personal connections and traces of meaning disappear in a click.

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Any recommendations for a one week first time itinerary for Costa Rica for a family with kids ages 13 and 9?

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