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Mark Macdonald

@markm.ac.bsky.social

Oakland dad. Web dabbler. Adopted Californian markm.ac

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And the scenester VCs have upped sticks from South Park to Jackson Square...

16.09.2025 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Mine arrived today!

10.08.2025 03:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Dutch angle - Wikipedia

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16.06.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

See also, β€˜Dutch Angles’

16.06.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Ahh, just saw you shared an epic recipe - going to try that one out

24.04.2025 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

If you ever want a good Kedgeree in Oakland, hit me up! Childhood fave and still in heavy rotation...

24.04.2025 20:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I’ve always wondered why more people don’t use Desk View for this very reason.

22.04.2025 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Your Mum Does the Washing The world’s political and economic systems can all unite over one central tenet: your mum does the washing. Libertarianism: Your mum does the washing. You believe you did the washing. Egalitarianism: That one time yo

The world’s political and economic systems can all unite over one central tenet: your mum does the washing. β€œLibertarianism: Your mum does the washing. You believe *you* did the washing.” [kottke.org]

21.04.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

They're going to kill Libby and all your other library book reading apps, programs funded by Congress which the administration (and certainly not Elon or his teen Nazi psychopath goons) has no power to shut down.

Maybe a day to call all your reps again and to demand action

20.03.2025 16:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2466    πŸ” 1568    πŸ’¬ 54    πŸ“Œ 88

Credit to @harper.lol for his invaluable codegen workflow post, and to @coachtony.bsky.social for the conversation that kicked it all off.

harper.blog/2025/02/16/m...

17.03.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm interested in how LLMs can power different kinds of interfaces beyond chat boxes. There are lots of good examples around, but I suspect many more of us are going to have to get great at building them. Love to hear any feedback

17.03.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Building Resilient Interfaces for LLMs Exploring the challenges of working with LLMs and structured data to build intuitive interfaces.

With all the vibecoding hype, I spent some time exploring how straightforward it would be to get useful, structured data out of an LLM and build a proof of concept writing assistant. Turns out, not particularly...

17.03.2025 18:18 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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As expected, the Trump team is already deleting climate info from government websites. In anticipation, our team at Urban Ocean Lab created a permanent archive of 100+ key resources and published a permanent archive: www.urbanoceanlab.org/resource-hub πŸ‘©πŸ½β€πŸ’»

24.01.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9007    πŸ” 3926    πŸ’¬ 198    πŸ“Œ 157

This is the direction I wish Sonos was headed when they acquired Snips… missed opportunity, but so glad to see the OSS community picking up the slack!

21.12.2024 03:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@tim.fo Oi

14.12.2024 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What a show. Dan’s Canadian joy was just what I needed!

14.11.2024 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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