Elia

Elia

@scotto.me

Software and writing -> scotto.me

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"In centuries past, scientists and mathematicians were limited in their ability to solve problems by their ability to understand the solutions. This bottleneck has been removed, and now there is no theoretical limit to the amount of scientific and mathematical factoids we can fail to understand."

terrytao.wordpress.comWhy are we even doing all this?[This is a guest post by Rikab Gambhir. This blog post was initially written in a different file format and converted using AI. — T.] First, they came for the artists, and I did not speak out…

Tip: before replacing engineers with agents, try to use GPT/Claude desktop apps and notice how buggy they are

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my room? chinese my valley? uncanny my spaces? liminal my internet? dead my lesson? bitter my sheep? electric

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Living Internet Theory is the idea that some of the people interacting with this post, and/or the person who posted it, might be real physical conscious human beings

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Replying to @gracekind.net

Software engineers: “my occupation used to be associated with intelligence, but now a computer can do it” Chess players:

My Top 5 fiction 2025: 1. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald 2. When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamín Labatut 3. Portnoy - Philip Roth 4. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert 5. Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Gabriel García Márquez

All I wanted for Christmas was a kanban board for agents. Move the task into "Doing" to spawn new agent with context to complete the task. Agent moves task to "Done" when finished and tested. Context is stored in project ledgers for later use.

Internet handle, #atproto handle, love it but I cannot open it. If the user doesn’t add the link in the description I’ve to manually type the domain in my browser to visit the personal page. Also I can’t copy it. Would not be good if it opens a browser page with the domain when I click the handle?

A while ago I needed a place to manage all my ebook highlights and notes, offline. So I built 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞. A free desktop app that imports your notes from Kobo, Kindle, and Apple Books in one place, with search, tags, favorites, and more. Check it out! → liture.co

liture.coLiture - Book Quotes Manager for DesktopOrganize, explore, and revisit your favorite book quotes effortlessly with Liture. Import highlights from Kindle and Kobo, tag, search, and star your favorite quotes.

Obsidian is really a great software. I always have it open, it’s like vscode but for writing. What’s missing? Integrated agents. 🧵

kepano@stephango.com

what's one improvement you'd like to see in @obsidian.md in 2026?

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I use Obsidian for writing. I would like an agent that can give me suggestions and improvements near the editor, rather than have to copy/paste the text into a chat. I want to write first then proofread, keeping my style. Not vibe-writing my content, so system prompts should be carefully crafted.

Cursor is transforming the coding process and I feel Obsidian has a lot of potential to mimic the same process. It’s the best editor, offline, and it’s still closed source.

Obsidian is really a great software. I always have it open, it’s like vscode but for writing. What’s missing? Integrated agents. 🧵

kepano@stephango.com

what's one improvement you'd like to see in @obsidian.md in 2026?

Cursor & co. are replacing vscode because they do a better job integrating LLMs as a service. Pay for unlimited completions and complex tasks, planning, debugging, etc. Obsidian should do the same, for writing.

At work we use Obsidian to manage our internal knowledge base, but then I have to open it in Cursor or Claude to ask questions and extract information. We also tried to upload it on notebooklm but it gets too verbose. Obsidian should monetise agents integration with a business subscription.

Definitely deserves the fame. I played it on Switch and the new redrawn art gives it a fairly modern feeling.

tiddlydump.bsky.social@tiddlydump.bsky.social

Finally righted a wrong & played Braid (2008). I knew the general outline of the twist, but it was executed so well! I would have loved to have experienced it truly blind. Puzzles were great. Even for a game more than 15 years old they felt fresh and innovative. Cool stuff. Try Braid or whatever.

"27. Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it." — Alan Perlis, Epigrams In Programming

If only my compiler course had chosen Racket instead of Java.

Kristopher Micinski@krismicinski.bsky.social

My five-project (along with slides, video lectures, etc.) compilers course has all projects now available online free: kmicinski.com/functional-p.... Five projects have you incrementally build a compiler for a substantial language, including functions, mutation, loops, vectors, etc.

Verisign increases prices 7% per year, it might be the real inflation %.

The simplest way to track real-world inflation - 5 years ago .com domains were something like $10/year, now they are $18.5/year.

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