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𓅓 Today's rainbow is tomorrow's tamale. Engineer at @sanity.io working on IAC and compute. he/him tbeseda.com #380,179

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Sometimes I'm not sure if Red Lobster's Cheddar Bay Biscuits got more bland over time or if I was exposed to more flavorful food as I got older. Still not going to turn down a basket. I just wonder...

Auto-installing your LLM skills or MCP server is the new Internet Explorer browser bar stack. Knock it off.

The "SOTA" acronym is really starting to get to me. It's not even good jargon. Arguably, "frontier" is interesting and sorta qualifying. But saying something is "state of the art" _and_ using an acronym... you're telling on yourself.

I'll be here! find me on the edges, let's talk IaC and cloud functions.

Sanity@sanity.io

Everything *[NYC] is back. Sept 9. Agents, content ops, and what it takes to build and run both. On stage: Vercel, Braze, Semafor, exe.dev, plus our co-founders. Closes with a live laser installation by Shohei Fujimoto. Free to attend, spots are limited: go.sanity.io/xoo4AtO

There's a 3-bay mechanic shop going up for sale in my small mtn town. I think it'd make a killer fly fishing + bike shop (summer) and ski/rental shop (winter). Right on the main road. Across from the reservoir/river. Put a coffee+taco truck in the lot...

I know a little about all these things, but not enough about any one of them. Could an existing business with a similar model expand or invest (heh, imagine retail having enough liquidity in 2026 to invest...)? How does something get motion? The upstart is steep. Grit, I guess.

Weird mountain town thing in 2026: be in hardware store, several phones ding with an ominous notification sound, look at each other, "that's downwind from here," relief. Wildfire weather.

If nothing else, GitHub outages are further proof you shouldn't deploy vibe-coded apps to Azure.

On the back of AI hype train someone should reboot Rdio. Shove some LLM story in there to get the funding and build the music streaming app we all deserve. Apple Music just queued up Nirvana and Black Sabbath when I started an _Arctic Monkeys_ radio station. I love those bands! But this is aint it.

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Ken built a dog adoption app where you skip the filters & toggles and just type "fluffy, will love the stray kittens, won't destroy my small apartment." Sanity Agent Context does the rest. www.sanity.io/blog/better-...

Most of what happens in a given software ecosystem revolves around a core group of authors. Not necessarily the main committers to a platform, but the contributions downstream from those changes. The same names pop up a lot. That's the stuff worth following and learning from IMO.

If your daily playlist doesn't include System of a Down while the US is doing some stupid shit in the Middle East, what are you even doing?

Coding models seem to have the best results in languages where there's good tooling for reference + module discovery and the body of marketing materials used in training is almost zero. Go/Gleam/Zig: A+ JS: shit show

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You build for a VC-backed SaaS (like me!), should you not try to get good standing inside models? Of course you should! But you can also create detailed, small, sharp tools that can be effectively leveraged by the agents using the model. Work for your customer, not their AI provider.

Sucks we (not most anyway) weren't doing this before AI. But if generative AI is the lever, so be it. ¡Unix vive!

Coding models seem to have the best results in languages where there's good tooling for reference + module discovery and the body of marketing materials used in training is almost zero. Go/Gleam/Zig: A+ JS: shit show

The incentives are bad, though. Projects can continue to min-max their SEO to land in training data. Users will continue to thrash trying to use a Mack truckload of tools where a wrench would work. And model providers will gladly take their (employer's) money to burn tokens.

godammit Apple Music. I've got a good station going with RATM, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, A Perfect Circle, and then Puddle of Mudd gets tossed in! What's next? Hoobastank?!

It's 2026, can we solve the everything bagel problem? I don't want to eat it over a napkin so I can funnel all the good stuff into my mouth after eating the bagel part.

I don't think of whistles as particularly clean. They get dirt in them and they go in your mouth.

It's wild that the Xcel page to check on an outage's status (not even view the map) is 28 MB. And it doesn't even handle the return key when I enter my phone number. Like you don't have power, so usually no WiFi, and you have to load and evaluate 21 MB of JS. Total img size is 109kB btw...

PSA: #AWS #Lambda nodejs24.x can run #TypeScript without a build step. index.ts (your handler): export const handler = async () => ({foo: '.ts'}) index.mjs (one liner): export {handler} from './index.ts' NODE_OPTIONS=--experimental-detect-module AWS disabled this ↑ Other flags break execution.

FWIW importing .(c|m)?ts from .(c|m)?js is completely valid. And eval of TS with type stripping is not experimental in Node v24. Dynamically detecting syntax is marked "stability 1.2": experimental release candidate - the next step is "stable".

It's wild that the Xcel page to check on an outage's status (not even view the map) is 28 MB. And it doesn't even handle the return key when I enter my phone number. Like you don't have power, so usually no WiFi, and you have to load and evaluate 21 MB of JS. Total img size is 109kB btw...

Imagine it was a form that POSTed my number, sent more HTML to pick the specific location, and finally more HTML to show the status. 3 network requests and 250 kB. Tops.

Many UI libraries "support" #customElements, but has work been done to go the other way? Use case: Have a future-proof, web-standards-based UI with a series of shiny #webcomponents; but (for reasons) I need to slam in a #React thing. No build step. Slow is fine. Wrap a blob in <react-thing>? 😶‍🌫️

Gusts nearly hit 100mph today. Weird when your ears pop just sitting on the couch. Still waiting for the power to come back. Wifi on battery backup. Got a good book for when that runs out. Fingers crossed no wildfires.

Is there an easily constructed, civilian EMP?

“One of the things about the so-called robot dogs that we are a little wary of is this normalization and this sort of affectionate framing of calling it a dog,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @bloomberg.com. “It’s another piece of police technology.” www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...