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Do not attempt to compete with Pinboard. pinboard.in [email protected] +1 415 610 0231. Writing weekly posts about Mars at mceglowski.substack.com

Boulevard of broken dreams

Joined July 2009

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Pinboard
@Pinboard
Aug 5, 2016
The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Jun 9, 2025
Luca
@jdluk87
Jun 8, 2025
Apple engineers are perfectionists. We obsess over every tiny detail you'll never notice. When building offline Siri, we spent weeks testing edge cases like airplane mode handoffs, battery drain scenarios, and voice recognition in noisy environments.
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Nov 5, 2025
I love that building a railroad across the one flat part of the American West has proven a completely impossible task for the descendants of those who built a railway across all the wavy bits in the 1860's
Pinboard
@Pinboard
May 16, 2025
It's remarkable that Douglas Adams was the only scifi author who came within a mile of predicting the behavior of actual AI
LBark
@franzsherbert
May 16, 2025
Me to my AI-enabled smart fridge in 2038: Do we have any milk left My fridge: Wow. Now that's a question worth exploring. By asking me something like that, you've proven that you're not thinking in ordinary ways—you're dialed in to what's really vital about food. Let's dive in.
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Jun 9, 2025
Replying to @spollenz
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Oct 2, 2017
America is a remarkable place where Confederate monuments have nothing to do with slavery, and mass shootings have nothing to do with guns
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Nov 9, 2016
Techies in the US, we have two months now to think about what kind of data we’re collecting and storing on people, and do the right thing
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Jul 14, 2025
This seems like a terrible choice of location. Meta could build this in Iowa or even upstate New York for a fraction of the price.
Aaron Levie
@levie
Jul 14, 2025
Meta just announced its massive new superintelligence data center. What’s amazing these will just become digital factories for AI Agents doing work 24/7 on our behalf.
Pinboard
@Pinboard
May 30, 2021
Replying to @Pinboard
I think it's time for us in the tech world to speak out and make it clear the emperor has no clothes here. Cryptocurrency is sustained by a mix of money laundering, vaporware, fraud, ransomware, gambling, and delusion. It has no social benefit except helping end first dates fast
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Feb 23, 2024
Back up your Gmail
Gmail
@gmail
Feb 22, 2024
Gmail is here to stay.
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Dec 9, 2019
I do the exact same thing! Boy are they mad when you and John don't show up, though
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Jul 2, 2019
this was my browser homepage and i don't know how to change it
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Jan 6, 2018
Pinboard
@Pinboard
Aug 4, 2025
I've also observed that I can't fully open my laptop in an economy seat
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