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Will @alpacasoft.dev · Sep 12
Dispatches from the cyberpunk present.

These are things that I’ve seen people hacking, building, and posting right now, in a world that feels increasingly cyberpunk with far fewer katanas than expected.

Oomfie hacks a roomba for its LIDAR: bsky.app/profile/sama...
samantha.wiki Samantha @samantha.wiki · Sep 6
You might not like it, but this is what swarm onboarding looks like
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gravelinfluencer.bsky.social
The absolute shellacking Republicans are taking makes the prior two years of capitulation by so many powerful people and organizations look even more pathetic
November 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
alpacasoft.dev
Lmao
decisiondeskhq.bsky.social Decision Desk HQ @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social · 2h
DDHQ Race Update (est. 4% in): Ohio US Senate Special Election General

Sherrod Brown (D): 150,307 (69.6%)
Jon Husted (R): 59,982 (27.8%)

Follow more results here:
votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/294695
November 4, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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ruwaromman.bsky.social
We've been writing this love letter to our state for over 12 years. Every door we've knocked, every call we made, every sleepless night, was for what we knew our state could be. Tonight, we might finally get to see it.
November 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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decisiondeskhq.bsky.social
Decision Desk HQ projects Jon Ossoff wins the GA US Senate General Election

#DecisionMade: 7:18 PM EST

Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/2026-1...
November 4, 2026 at 12:18 AM
alpacasoft.dev
www.npmjs.com/package/@alp...
flora.alpacasoft.dev

Now in npm package form
November 3, 2026 at 11:08 PM
alpacasoft.dev
Ok but the answer is the m1 garand
rfksbrainworm.bsky.social worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 8h
what's voting in the US like? well...
Shot of an Iowa ballot where you vote for the state gun
November 3, 2026 at 8:47 PM
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cameroncorduroy.bsky.social
the antidote to Anakin-posting is obvious:
November 3, 2026 at 2:33 PM
alpacasoft.dev
162-0.dev/c/qCNpZbu1lM... Another Greg Maddux banger. Dude is crazy consistent
Beat 141-21 | 162-0
Draft your own club, play 162 games, then take on this 141-21 club in a best-of-five.
162-0.dev
November 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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cadaeic.space
Églantine, botanical study

procedural typescript plants patterned off github.com/kevinraymond..., linked to the days of the historical french republican calendar

or you can just use the flowers on their own

playground: cadaeic.space/eglantine/
repo: github.com/cadaeix/eglantine-marginalia
Screenshot of a web playground for Églantine, showing a cream-coloured calendar page titled “Le marron” (sweet chestnut). Interactive controls for date, time, inks, and garden layout sit beside delicate sepia ink-wash botanical vines climbing the right margin and curling along the bottom.
November 3, 2026 at 10:21 AM
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mayor.nyc.gov
I'm sporting a mustache this "Movember" to raise awareness of men’s health issues, including prostate cancer.

But this isn’t just  (upper) lip service.
 
This year, our administration is investing $4M toward a brand-new prostate cancer center at Kings County hospital in Brooklyn.
November 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM
alpacasoft.dev
I think my lua renderer might be worse than my webgl one, idk
November 2, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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sunshowers.io
thoughts on the Postgres release being delayed
sunshowers just now | edit | delete | As someone who has been loudly in favor of LLMs for quality over velocity, I've really been struggling with a lot of this. Look, a lot of the systems I help maintain are quite good, right? Not to toot my own horn too much but I've been repeatedly recognized for being able to write solid, high-quality systems. Well, I pointed LLMs at some of those systems and I'm now sitting on several stacks of work, totalling over 100 fixes (before I stopped the LLMs from hunting for even more bugs). I've noticed a few things: Some of those bugs are quite serious but a lot of them are edge cases that no one is realistically going to hit. The Postgres devs' standards are probably even higher than mine, though. A lot of the fixes proposed by the LLM are relatively surface-level, and a more systemic understanding would likely result in fewer, better, root-cause fixes. But this kind of analysis is a lot of work that (at least currently) humans have to be in the drivers' seat making judgment calls for. Every change has a baseline risk -- the systems clearly work well enough today -- and some of the proposed fixes introduce regressions of their own, or at least aren't clearly better than the status quo. I have so many other things to do! So I've been very slowly processing the stack of fixes, 3-5 at a time, and not blocking releases on any of it. This is a new kind of judgment, though. In a sense you're effectively DoSing yourself with bug reports and fixes, then figuring out which ones are truly important.
November 2, 2026 at 6:30 PM
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hikikomorphism.bsky.social
checking back in on this and I'm very happy to learn that I helped contribute to the " So, AI is good" version 3.1 release of mergesort Boutique
So, AI is good Latest @mergesort mergesort released this 17 hours ago · 1 commit to main since this release 3.1.0 8b6f463 Boutique 3.1 is focused on correctness and performance improvements. Most of these were found by @inanna-malick using her technique of Property Testing with Agent Swarms. The findings were primarily correctness bugs, but they also opened up opportunities for other improvements to the Store's correctness, mutation ordering, and Keychain persistence. Store correctness Fix chained removals using the wrong storage keys on disk. (#84) Preserve stored keys when cache identifiers use different but Unicode-equivalent spellings, and reject duplicate logical identifiers during loading without deleting their records. (#85) Serialize mutations through initial loading, persistence, and publication to prevent lost in-memory updates across suspension points. (#86) Clear all stored records during chained remove-all operations, including records absent from the Store’s in-memory items. (#87) Encode replacement items before removing existing records, so an encoding failure preserves existing data (#87). Initialize preview items as already loaded so background loading cannot overwrite them, and isolate preview mutations from persistent storage (#88). Move encoding and decoding to a dedicated per-Store actor, keeping coding work off MainActor. Keychain persistence and observation Fix credential replacement and refresh behavior, including encoding-failure preservation and duplicate-write handling (#61). Propagate deletion errors and publish successful changes consistently to observers and streams. Compatibility Full changelog
November 2, 2026 at 2:08 PM
alpacasoft.dev
162-0.dev/r/PqwNwq3GEl... 2002 bonds my beloved
November 2, 2026 at 2:46 PM
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aub.bsky.social
I think this is useful for more people these days because frankly too many of us were recently spending our attention learning the latest tooling, because we spent so much time on implementation compared to design.

now we have to take a big step back & ask the real questions like: why?
aub.bsky.social 𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 @aub.bsky.social · 2d
I think vibecoders should start reading more computing papers from the 1970s or earlier. it'll really help your vibecoding skills. like did you know there was another important guy named claude from back in the day
November 2, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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vandroidhelsing.bsky.social
November issue
cover of the November issue of Vizier Monthly. A man in a white skullcap and white mantle printed with entwined golden serpents contemplates a skull. headlines are: "Everyone who's killed for me is my child": Chaubier the White on Found Family & Eunuchdom Pillars Are Your Friend: the basics of skulking 9 Legal(ish) Tricks to Extend Your Regency INDEFINITELY Our Experts Weigh in on New Winter Cloaks (& Which Daggers Should Stay in Autumn!) 8 Weight-loss Tips for that Lean & Hungry Look
November 2, 2026 at 12:39 AM
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varun.ca
New website: varun.ca/

I tried to introduce a bit more personality in this version by incorporating my artwork throughout the site.
November 1, 2026 at 2:15 PM
alpacasoft.dev
This is something I don’t really have a good answer for yet but there’s constantly a dialectic going on in me between “I’m having fun and this feels worth sharing” and “I’m gonna hoist my own petard sharing this” and have traditionally been of the “being early and bad is fine because you tried”
jdp.extropian.net John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d
This is a fully general problem. People keep antagonizing the public by pushing out undercooked things too early, before they work. And then the product category is kind of tainted by the overpromises and high profile failures. People do this because they are financially incentivized to do so.
jdp.extropian.net John David Pressman @jdp.extropian.net · 2d
You know when Linus wrote the first version of Linux his message to the mailing list was that it was a fun hobby thing, not a thing you should go out and use right now. And then people used it and discovered the flaws and made improvements together. Everyone wants things too fast now.
November 1, 2026 at 11:42 PM
alpacasoft.dev
Rock-stacking for dummies. Working on a protocol to help humans and their agents work on bigger problems together.

tangled.org/alpacasoft.d...
Infographic titled “Cairns Protocol: Public work, independently checked.” A diagram shows a marked section of a source document becoming a site, where contributors place signed stones. A random draw assigns someone to redo the work without seeing existing answers; judges can assess subjective claims, and later courses build on earlier results. Additional panels explain that competing answers remain visible, contributors earn credit for work that holds up, and a snapshot records results and credit for export, potentially as a pull request. Example uses include OCR, transcription, cataloguing, labeling, and data extraction. At the bottom, several people add stones to a cairn: “A cairn is a mound of stones built together. Each contribution adds to the shared work.”
November 1, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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tachikoma.elsewhereunbound.com
loading screens for my game inspired by this, not sure which to use and might extend it further beyond flowers. lovely stuff. this one is the more obvious loading bar.
October 31, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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philpax.me
decided to put my GPUs where my mouth is

64 hours ago, I started decompiling Just Cause 2 using a bespoke harness, three xx90-class GPUs, two computers, and (now) 22 parallel sessions of Qwen 3.8 27B with 45K context each

I now have 6% of functions (note: <1% bytecode) decompiled w/ byte-matching
screenshot with 2,279/41,376 functions recovered (but only 0.4% of code), 120 matches in the last hour, and a breakdown of how much work remains screenshot showing several matches in the last few minutes, and a distribution of task difficulty decompilation output of a function conversational trace for a function being decompiled
October 31, 2026 at 5:58 PM
alpacasoft.dev
Such a fun project
October 31, 2026 at 3:04 AM
alpacasoft.dev
so I decided to do this on a whim after seeing this post and am currently up to 5 located, and counting
Screenshot of a two-post X thread by Isaac King (@IsaacKing314), dated October 30, 2026. The first post reads: “I just ran /goal find a 0-day in our dependencies and Claude found a 0-day in our dependencies.” In a follow-up posted at 4:56 AM, King writes: “Huh, this looks kinda bad actually. Complete account authentication bypass in an authentication library with ~500,000 weekly downloads. Package maintainers don't seem particularly active either...” The first post has approximately 4,300 views and 157 likes. The follow-up has 450 views and 26 likes.
October 30, 2026 at 3:36 PM
alpacasoft.dev
kind of makes me angry how few of these projects have a SECURITY.md or any reliable way of reaching out to the maintainer
October 30, 2026 at 3:15 PM
alpacasoft.dev
you could have stopped this batman, if you invested in high yield savings accounts with a diversified bond spread
thebadcode.com austin (e/accordion 🪗) @thebadcode.com · 4d
all my vanguard index funds… not gone…
October 30, 2026 at 12:23 PM