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Building @ http://substructure.one (@substructureone) | Open source maximalist | Creating new avenues for open source adoption: http://kestrelcode.com

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Kestrel preview-mode website launch is now live. Kestrel is built on three pillars: User Pay-Go Pricing, Fair Compensation, and a Self-Managed Database. 1/


I'm fascinated by stories of movies getting their endings completely changed at the last minute due to a bad screening from a test audience. How often does such a fundamental last minute change happen with other products? Was there ever a software app that 3 months before launch…


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Love this, tell my kids this all the time. They are competing against themselves, competing alongside humanity against nature, competing in how much they can grow the pie not to capture more pie. Also tell them comparison to others is thief of joy. Jealousy is just the worst.


Asahi Linux on M1 is so close to being an amazing experience, but the power management issues are rough. Finding your laptop battery dead after a couple days because you didn't think to plug it in or shut it off is a major downer. But it's so close.


Diving in to update the kestrel documentation and noticing the last commit is from 10 months ago... that's embarrassing.


A 5 MHz 286 PC with 640kb of RAM could've stored the database of friend lists in ~a hundred k of memory and looked up all friends-of-friends for a given user at least a couple hundred times per second. What have we done.

When I tested the first prototype of the Gas app at a single school, it cost $600 in server costs per day—with a userbase of only 800 people. This was mainly due to the friends-of-friends feature, a necessary piece to create social graph density. We knew with certainty that we…



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Be an Open Source Absolutist! It is hard to overstate how much value Open Source Software has added to the world, and how broadly empowering it is. Operating systems, development tools, core libraries, and critical applications – a great many of the software tools used by the…


My oddly phone call specific social anxiety exemplified - always bringing up the phonetic alphabet in a browser window before calling any customer service line just in case I need to spell something out.

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Google has seemingly released a new feature where if you search for certain terms on mobile and scroll down far enough you descend straight into the depths of hell.


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Leaked Google document: “We Have No Moat, And Neither Does OpenAI” The most interesting thing I've read recently about LLMs - a purportedly leaked document from a researcher at Google talking about the huge strategic impact open source models are having simonwillison.net/2023/May/4/no-…


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