Andrew Badr @ab - Bluesky Profile

(i’m in one)

11.05.2025 00:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

a california horseshoe town is where the local honey can cure ""covid""

10.05.2025 22:45 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Spotify should introduce typographically distinct commas for the intra- and inter- artist name cases

29.03.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I asked Claude to list all the physical states that music exists in between hitting play and me hearing it

22.03.2025 07:29 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

USAID: My next-to-last project — Crooked Timber

Great first-hand window into USAID's work: crookedtimber.org/2025/03/08/u...

10.03.2025 04:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Claude, Makers, and Managers

New blog post: "Claude, Makers, and Managers"

andrewbadr.com/log/34/claud...

27.02.2025 20:29 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Sesame on LinkedIn: At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. We have… At Sesame, we believe in a future where computers are lifelike. We have two goals—a natural and expressive personal companion, and lightweight eyewear to be…

I've been working for the past year on a new companion built into glasses. We're debuting what I think is the best speech engine in all the land, and we're shooting for something extremely ambitious. Ping me if you're interested. We're hiring across the board.
www.linkedin.com/posts/sesame...

27.02.2025 17:13 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

Answer: UTF-7 being decoded as ASCII. That apostrophe is a U-2019 Right Single Quotation Mark.

16.01.2025 03:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Anyway, if you know what this is please lmk, I'm curious.

15.01.2025 07:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A small character encoding mystery. I came across this product review where apostrophes got replaced with "+IBk-". Curious, I tried searching for more examples or information. The only instance I came across is this bizarre Usenet post, which seems like it should be from 30 years earlier.

15.01.2025 07:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

victory

15.01.2025 07:23 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0