Alessio Maffeis

It’s the last day of the year, so it’s a sort of #caturday, right? It’s my last chance to come out as a #catdad in 2025: Say hi to Theo!

My brain is not built for dictation

This must be satire. I am really not anti-AI but if you need AI to come up with “the impossible task” of listing three points on what makes *your own child* special, you do deserve the robot apocalypse.

Quick test, don't mind me

It's back!

The only good type left

ceo of burger king: our burgers have gone rogue again and infected people with e coli

software engineering in 2026 is like 80% fixing supply chain vulnerabilities, 20% waiting for github to come back online

I suspect we'll continue seeing ports of basically all #compiler / static analysis tools as that problem space tends to be really well suited for #AI development. Comprehensive golden test cases and performance gates ensure you don't regress. Beyond that, the code is purely fungible.

Really wanted to see THE movie now, but it's premiering at the Stockholm film festival in a month. Turns out you CAN'T see everything. :(

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We asked ourselves what we wanted the future of web development looked like. Instead of asking what AI can do, we asked: What do we want it to do? And what will we always want to do by hand? The result is a product that is still Nordcraft at its core, but feels like whole new tool!

Just took one earlier today, actually. Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

this is so sick 🤩

To grow the ATproto network, Bluesky has to grow a lot more. If Bluesky doesn't grow, it's just gonna disappear. It's not like Mastodon, which is perfectly happy to stay small. If Bluesky doesn't grow, it is going to die alongside the network.

Nothing Bluesky PBC does matters if the Bluesky app fails to reach mainstream scale. And if it reaches mainstream scale, everything else, including monetization, is easy. So @toni.bsky.team here's your scorecard so far:

Google is such an unserious company

Small caps (including fake ones) are just one more casualty of this AI phase (wouldn't really call it an era).

If you are reading this, you are not conscious, and certainly not very intelligent.

You are both wrong in different ways. Maybe reconsider posting.

fuck it, 2010 ipad twitter but as a pwa for bluesky

the cost of inflexibility of expertise has gone up!

It’s 2015. The Apple TV is $69. Life is good…

I made your old iPhone apps work again, it's a Christmas miracle. Legacy Store brings back the 2010 App Store: 60,000+ apps your old iPhone or iPod touch can install over the air. And if the iPhone’s long gone, Light Touch runs an emulated iPod on your Mac. www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_4z...

This is amazing! Hopefully the GOAT (iPod 5th gen) is next.

"Is markdown fascist?"

“I have come to bluesky to post about how everyone should go back to Twitter and then when I get yelled at I go, see, it’s so unfriendly here” is exceedingly tiresome at this point

The “are LLMs conscious” debate is so funny because boils down directly to “do these things we don’t understand have a characteristic we also don’t understand” Idk man

Not satire

He's right. Unfortunately also far-right. www.youtube.com/shorts/GbonUW...

Explore the universe in 3D CSS. JavaScript is optional. Launching css.earth 🌍 🚀 #WorldSpaceWeek

heartbreaking: this measure just became a target

If you never used and AI agent, you are about a week behind the best Agentic Engineers.

You don't have to think JPEG XL is the best format, or plan to use it, to understand that we all benefit when browser vendors are responsive to developer feedback. I'm sorry it took this long in Chromium, and while I'm unlikely to use this format in my own work, I'm happy we're adding options.

Effective Altruism in Cybersecurity: "why should we worry about the security bugs we have now when we can be fixing the security bugs we believe that we will have in the future?" x.com/AlecMuffett/...

You need to wet your AI properly, or this is what's going to happen

My (not very) humble suggestion: read less Harry Potter fanfic and more Sein und Zeit.

The situation is grave, but not serious.

Smells like 'chosis in here

An engineer I work with gave me a simple rule for using AI: brain → AI → brain. Understand the problem before the agent builds. Then check its work before anyone else has to. New post: terriblesoftware.org/2026/10/02/t...