Phil Kast

Phil Kast

@philkast.com

iOS, Swift and Elixir developer, indie software creator and toddler dad in Portland, OR. 📱 yearofcode.com/steps 🌐 philkast.com

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Phil Kast
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OK, Anthropic gonna do juuuust fine in the public markets

George Pearkes@peark.es

Net revenue retention of *900%* is completely off the charts. That's as-of Sept 30, definition below.

Phil Kast
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Ok, go off lol

Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org

South Dakota US Senate Oct 6 - 8, 2026 Brian Bengs (I) 43% (+1.0%) Mike Rounds (R) 42% Don't know 10% Someone else 5% Concord Public Opinion Partners (A/B) 400 LV Sponsor: Education Reform Now Advocacy (D) View Poll

Phil Kast
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Doubt it. But if this happens, would think you're also looking at Sen Todd Achilles, and a new world on 11/4.

BeshearStan@beshearstan.bsky.social

New Montana Senate poll has Seth Bodnar (I) LEADING in the 3-way race this November: Bodnar (I) 37 Alme (R) 35 Bankhead (D) 13 Undecided 13 Its from Concord Public Opinion Partners, which has A/B rating from Nate Silver

Phil Kast
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Yeah, and different pools of $ ofc. But it feels very strange and off that in the last few years we stood up PFA, a historic expansion of early education. And we passed a $1.8 billion bond to modernize high schools. But in the middle we're now going to shut down a quarter of the schools.

pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼@pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social

Gonna read through this later because I have a lot of respect for Rachelle. I will say I am immensely confused by 2 schools in my district undergoing major renovations last year just to be slated to close now. Was no one talking to anyone else? It just seems insanely badly planned.

Phil Kast
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What is it about this industry that is making naming so hard?

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social

Meta's Muse Wonder Muse Wonder = Muse Wonder Flash Muse Wonder Full = Muse Wonder so confusing... research.meta.ai/blog/muse-wo...

Phil Kast
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Great thread, if you vote in Portland you owe it to yourself to understand this.

David Binnig@binnig.bsky.social

It's totally understandable that people think you shouldn't rank a candidate you don't want in office; the city & county are telling them that. Here's why it's wrong: 1. Ranking a candidate you don't like *can't hurt* a candidate you ranked higher. 2. It can help block a candidate you hate more.

Phil Kast
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PSA: If a bunch of apps on your phone didn't work this evening, it's because Firebase shipped a server side bug that crashed their SDK.

github.com[Analytics] Crash after sdk-exp response: -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKeyedSubscript:]: key cannot be nil (since 2026-09-29 00:41 UTC) · Issue #16728 · firebase/firebase-ios-sdkDescription Since 2026-09-29 00:41 UTC, our production iOS app has been crashing at a growing rate (56 crashes / 56 users in the first 18 minutes). We have not shipped an update. The crash started ...
Phil Kast
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He's not very good at this. If he were, he'd at least sound like he believed what he was saying. C'mon man, if you're gonna do a hit you gotta sell it

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Phil Kast
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Every election I think that this time I'll be calm and skeptical. And now it's late September and once again I'm like, Blexas! Bliowa? Blarkansas?! South Caroblina??!

Phil Kast
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Incredible twist in the last sentence

Billy Wonka@billywonka.bsky.social

Always been a fan of "the Woman", kind, generous, funny, talent, an Icon in music history. Keith, around 1985 was just beginning to be noticed with his drawing on playground walls "CRACK IS WHACK" with his little characters he's famous for. At that time he sub-letted my lower east side apartment.

Phil Kast
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Many of our favorites from the past couple years came in the mail from the Imagination Library. We value books, we'd have books around no matter what and it STILL made our lives better.

Alex Zalben@azalben.bsky.social

Dolly Parton, among a thousand other amazing things she did in her life, gifted over 330 million books to kids through her Imagination Library program. Her passing is a tremendous loss to the world, but you can support the program today to keep it going imaginationlibrary.com

imaginationlibrary.comDolly Parton's Imagination Library | USA, UK, IE, CA, AUDolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.
Phil Kast
@philkast.com

This is probably the #1 way Claude has changed how I think. I understood decoupling, DI, etc., but I didn’t visualize my program structure as “seams” and now I do.

Matt Kane@mk.gg

I asked Claude why I kept going on about "seams" and what it meant. Surprisingly it had an answer: "It's a term from Michael Feathers (Working Effectively with Legacy Code): a seam is a place in a program where you can change what happens without editing the code that calls it."

Phil Kast
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Tremendously sad to see the Grasshopper Fire running west so fast. Satellite shows hot spots already across hwy 35, seems like Mt Hood Meadows may well burn.

Phil Kast
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Looks like they're still putting the perimeter east of 35 and going back to westerly wind so maybe not 🤞https://www.facebook.com/GrasshopperFire/videos/1031808479747861/

Phil Kast
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Moonshot and Kimi were in the closet distilling Fables and I saw one of the Fables and the Fable looked at me.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says "we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model" (Director Michael Kratsios/@mkratsios47) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Phil Kast
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I'm not sure I understand the strategy after July 12 though. Is the top tier max subscription just forever not going to be their best product? That seems like... not standard product marketing.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Anthropic extends Claude Fable 5 access to all paid plans through July 12; access to the model was set to shift to token-based usage on July 7 (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Phil Kast
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don't let the door hit ya

Willamette Week@wweek.com

Jessie Burke and Jonathan Cohen, married Portland entrepreneurs who courted controversy as they sought to remake the Old Town neighborhood, appear to be selling off many of their assets in the city. www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

wweek.comAfter Bid to Remake Old Town, a Power Couple Is Selling the Society HotelThe Society Hotel listing comes as Cohen and Burke, a married Portland couple that have been both influential and controversial in the beleaguered Old Town neighborhood for the past five or so years, ...
Phil Kast
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I think the exact opposite is true: after like a decade of feeling totally static, I've started to notice Spotify changing every time I open it. What's happening is they aren't changing the core interactions, so you can ignore the new stuff if you want.

Dare Obasanjo@carnage4life.bsky.social

Claude Code’s lead developer interviewed Spotify’s VP of Engineering, Niklas Gustavsson, about how they use Claude. He said Spotify does 4,500 production deployments a day and 73% of PRs are now AI-assisted. At a point stats are meaningless. I can’t recall 4 features Spotify has shipped this year

Phil Kast
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Techmeme@techmeme.com

SpaceX stock closed up 19.6% on Monday, its first full day of trading; Musk said it "might be able to reach" around $1T revenue in 2030, up from $18.7B in 2025 (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Phil Kast
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I’m sorry, developed by the who now?

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net

IplanRIO? The open frontier model company?? "dynamically switches between explicit chain-of-thought and latent-space reasoning"???? Wtf are they doing in Brazil what is this??? huggingface.co/prefeitura-r...

Phil Kast
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Oh, well in that case let’s make the whole retirement plan out of it.

Techmeme@techmeme.com

Sources: SpaceX aims to launch orbital AI computing tests by late 2027 and has requested permission from regulators to launch up to 1M data-center satellites (Akash Sriram/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

Phil Kast
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Looks like WWDC26 ends individual labs. I only see distribution/marketing appointments. Huge loss for the developer community, for almost 20 years those have been a key channel to understand dark corners of the OS frameworks.

Phil Kast
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Here's something I've always wondered. If that's true, how did 30th and Stark get built?

the moon report 🌕@seachanger.bsky.social

this is really not a street design you see in Portland, where PBOT orthodoxy is currently that 2-way protected bike lanes are too dangerous on streets that intersect with other streets

Phil Kast
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This feels like a big deal for local models

antirez@antirez.bsky.social

DwarfStar distributed inference is now on GitHub: you can run 2 bit Flash using 2 64GB machines, or 4 bit Flash with two 128GB machines or 4 64GB, ad so forth. Prefill speed will increase thanks to pipelining. Generation will pay the latency.

Phil Kast
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Give me this so I can run everything I've ever written through it.

Eris ⌬@eriskii.net

Glasswing update: they used mythos to find 10k+ high or critical severity vulnerabilities, cloudflare has found the false positive rate to be better than human testers, and they've used mythos to scan 1k+ OSS projects, finding 6k+ bugs with high or crit severity, and 23k total). Crazy stuff in this

anthropic.comProject Glasswing: An initial updateAn early update on what we've learned from Project Glasswing.

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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)
@thebadcode.com

tech-wise, everything has been basically boring and the same ~2009-2025 and now a billion things are all hitting at once. llms, robotics, 3d printing, all this stuff that existed but kinda sucked has all gotten exceptionally powerful faster than you can blink

Chris Paxton@cpaxton.bsky.social

Pallet movers

Phil Kast
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Update: Xcode Cloud disappeared for my account again?? WTF?

Phil Kast@philkast.com

It just went away for one of my developer accounts for a couple weeks right after they did their ASC analytics redesign. Never could get any help from support.