Independent notes on the machine age

Nate’s Software Editorial

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  1. PROGRAMMING

    Jerry Cain from Stanford University explains pointers and structs in C, showing a clever way to access struct fields. This series is one of the best resources online for C programming. x.com

    via tetsuo @tetsuoai

  2. CULTURE & OTHER

    Nvidia literally told where to invest: IP: $ARM Fab: $TSM $INTC Memory: $MU $SNDK $WDC Packaging: $ASX $AMKR $CAMT Equipment: $KLAC $LRCX $ASML $KEYS Networking: $COHR $GLW $FN $LITE $APH Servers OEMs: $DELL $SMCI $JBL Power Systems: $FLEX $VRT $ETN Power Electronics: $STM $ADI x.com

    via Lin @Speculator_io

  3. CULTURE & OTHER

    Accurate x.com

    via Elon Musk @elonmusk

  4. AI & AGENTS

    THE SUPER CYCLE PHASES Phase 1 was Semis: $NVDA $ARM $AMD $AVGO $INTC Next money rotates into the next layers: Memory: $MU $WDC $STX $SNDK Photonics / Optical: $NOK $LITE $COHR $AAOI $GLW $CIEN $MRVL Now it’s hitting Compute / AI Data Centers: $IREN $CIFR $WULF $CORZ x.com

    via Justin Banks @RealJGBanks

  5. CULTURE & OTHER

    software engineering is mostly asking "why is this like this" and slowly learning that nobody knows x.com

    via 10x Engineer @10x_er

  6. PROGRAMMING

    3 things often heard before disaster: - "hold my beer" - "i think we can make it" - "non-technical teams are now shipping production code" x.com

    via goosewin @Goosewin

  7. CULTURE & OTHER

    "Nothing from my end, thanks" x.com

    via The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter

  8. AI & AGENTS

    Claude code so freaking good lately, someone dropped a banger on it 😂 x.com

    via JNS @_devJNS

  9. AI & AGENTS

    Another week on the road meeting with a couple dozen IT and AI leaders from large enterprises across banking, media, retail, healthcare, consulting, tech, and sports, to discuss agents in the enterprise. Some quick takeaways: * Clear that we’re moving from chat era of AI to x.com

    via Aaron Levie @levie

  10. CULTURE & OTHER

    Retardmaxxing Boyd 🤩 x.com

    via John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad

  11. AI & AGENTS

    🚨do you understand what two Anthropic engineers just explained in 16 minutes. Barry and Mahesh built Claude Skills from scratch. here's the part nobody is talking about: > Skills are just folders. > folders that teach Claude your job. > your workflow. your expertise. your x.com

    via Kirill @kirillk_web3

  12. AI & AGENTS

    This 2 hour Stanford lecture shows exactly how Stanford trains it's engineers to build AI systems. It's more practical than every Claude tutorial & prompting threads you've seen. Bookmark & give it 2 hours, no matter what. It'll be the most productive thing you do this weekend. x.com

    via Roan @RohOnChain

  13. CULTURE & OTHER

    Sequoia’s @shaunmmaguire wrote a private hardware manifesto arguing that over the next 25 years, most of the money will be made in hardware: "Every software revolution is preceded by a hardware revolution." "To have the iOS App Store that enabled Uber, DoorDash, and all of x.com

    via TBPN @tbpn

  14. AI & AGENTS

    Alan Kay, pioneer of object-oriented programming and the graphical user interface, talking about agents and tools in 1990. x.com

    via Akshay Krishnaswamy @hyperindexed

  15. AI & AGENTS

    - grind leetcode for months - memorize patterns you’ll never use - clear the interviews - join the company - open the codebase - 47 microservices staring back at you - no documentation - ask AI “what does this even do” - ship anyway you are now a senior engineer x.com

    via sachin. @sachin2

  16. CULTURE & OTHER

    Se você trabalha em empresa grande, esse podcast com o ex-VP da Amazon tá elite demais. Quase 3 horas só sobre politicagem corporativa. Se você tá no começo da carreira ainda, isso aqui te coloca uns 10 anos na frente, sem exagero. x.com

    via Bruno Faggion @brunofaggion

  17. AI & AGENTS

    One of the most entertaining things about a language model trained entirely on Victorian novels, is that it thinks that it is *in* a Victorian novel, and so invents Victorian scenarios: x.com

    via Horse Nomad (Chicago-style) ⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker

  18. AI & AGENTS

    Wanted to share a personal project I've been working on: I love classic literature, and I'm also taking an AI class here at UIUC, so I trained an LLM from scratch on Victorian lit from 1837 to 1899. This is Mr. Chatterbox, the Victorian Gentleman Chatbot: huggingface.co

    via Horse Nomad (Chicago-style) ⚔️ @Nomads4Pritzker

  19. AI & AGENTS

    🚨 BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a full offline survival computer with AI, Wikipedia, and maps built in. Project N.O.M.A.D. is an open-source offline survival computer. Self-contained. Zero internet required after install. Zero telemetry. Everything runs locally on x.com

    via Alex Prompter @alex_prompter

  20. AI & AGENTS

    If you think AI film can’t be art then explain this. x.com

    via Charles Curran @charliebcurran

  21. AI & AGENTS

    > be anon > studies probability theory since 14 > gets into MIT > recruited by Jane Street > 2 years, $350k/yr, 80hr weeks > discovers people bet on 15-min BTC markets > realizes he’s been training for this his entire life > builds Poisson + Kelly model in one weekend > loads x.com

    via Rossium @rossium

  22. AI & AGENTS

    Holy shit. I'm now running a Sonnet 4.6-level LLM. Local. Private. No rate limits. 100% Free. That was way too easy. x.com

    via toli @tolimarchuk

  23. AI & AGENTS

    Do you understand what just happened? Qwen dropped small models you can run on a $600 Mac Mini. Locally. No internet. No subscription. No company controls your access. Go do this right now: Download LM Studio Search Qwen 3.5 Grab the MLX versions Load them You now have x.com

    via Tuki @TukiFromKL

  24. AI & AGENTS

    Do you understand what this means? Are you aware how much the world just changed? You can now run frontier intelligence on a potato Your $600 Mac Mini can now run unlimited super intelligence for free. No authoritarian AI companies can cut you off Do this immediately, no x.com

    via Alex Finn @AlexFinn

  25. AI & AGENTS

    As someone who builds institutional level quant systems for prediction markets, this is the closest thing to a quant desk simulation I have ever seen publicly shared. Runnable code for every model. Read it before someone takes it down. x.com

    via Roan @RohOnChain

  26. PROGRAMMING

    someone vibe coded a 3d city where every github developer is a building more commits = taller building. more repos = wider base. lit windows = recent activity x.com

    via Om Patel @om_patel5

  27. CULTURE & OTHER

    My other takeaway from Cloudflare rewriting Next.js in Vite is that it was possible largely due to Next.js’ comprehensive test suite, so for job security, it’s best us software engineers band together and agree no more writing tests x.com

    via Ashley Peacock @ashleypeacock

  28. AI & AGENTS

    Whenever I ask people what all the unprecedented amounts of software they can write with AI, they are writing is doing with I get replies that remind me of the Oscar Wilde quote: "The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." x.com

    via Samo Burja @SamoBurja

  29. AI & AGENTS

    having coworkers is crazy it’s like claude code but they prompt themselves x.com

    via Hayden @haydenbleasel

  30. AI & AGENTS

    why are people still paying aws prices for gpus there's marketplaces where datacenters rent out idle gpus at market rate vast .ai is the main one. same A100 that's $4/hr on aws is 50 cents here. use cases: - train your own models instead of paying openai per token - run local x.com

    via caiden @imcaiden

  31. PROGRAMMING

    Things I’m thinking about in 2026: * The risk/reward of a mediocre hire is worse than it’s ever been * I don’t really want more code writers, I want one of two kinds of engineers * The first is the architect. Someone who can design for scale. * The second is the product x.com

    via staysaasy @staysaasy

  32. CULTURE & OTHER

    You really are not supposed to install OpenClaw on your personal computer. It needs to be on its own separate computer, Mac Mini or otherwise. It must have its own phone number — one that you install on your phone as a dual eSIM so that you can receive its 2FA SMS codes. It must x.com

    via Ben Badejo @BenjaminBadejo

  33. CULTURE & OTHER

    A surprising amount of “tech leadership” is just being the adult in the room when everyone wants to work on shit that doesn’t matter. x.com

    via Steve Huynh @ALEngineered

  34. CULTURE & OTHER

    I got a local HVAC company mentioned by ChatGPT in 72 hours. No SEO. No backlinks. No waiting months. Here's exactly how: Most people think LLMs pull from: • Google rankings • High DR websites • Old established brands Wrong. LLMs pull from recent, structured data that x.com

    via Boring Local SEO @boringlocalseo

  35. INFRA & SYSTEMS

    The best Docker setup I ever saw was at a company doing $30M ARR. One Dockerfile, one docker-compose for local dev, plain ECS in production. No Kubernetes, no service mesh, no drama. Boring works. Boring scales. Boring lets you sleep at night. x.com

    via Branko @brankopetric00

  36. PROGRAMMING

    As a Frontend Developer, Please slap yourself if you cannot clearly explain at least 10 of the following : Hydration Partial hydration Islands architecture Streaming SSR Concurrent rendering Time slicing Reconciliation algorithm Fiber architecture Virtual DOM diffing complexity x.com

    via SumitM @SumitM_X

  37. AI & AGENTS

    Claude: “I estimate this will take 1-2 weeks to complete” Me: x.com

    via Rhys @RhysSullivan

  38. AI & AGENTS

    look real hard at the green box every category under 10% on this chart is a department still running on manual effort and tribal knowledge. that’s where stress lives that’s where budgets live turn one of those workflows into a repeatable AI agent that’s vertical saas 2.0 x.com

    via GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

  39. PROGRAMMING

    "How's vibe coding going?" x.com

    via Alex Cohen @anothercohen

  40. AI & AGENTS

    Okay so Google's Pomelli is awesome - Feed it your website so it can build brand DNA - Prompt it to create any marketing material you want The photoshoot feature is something you would previously have to pay thousands of dollars for. All done instantly in one prompt x.com

    via Josh Kale @JoshKale

  41. CULTURE & OTHER

    A open secret is that all cameras are basically the same. Just look at the sensor. Leica SL2-S? IMX410 Sony a7 III? IMX410 Lumix S5II? IMX410 BMCC6k? IMX410 Same photosites…but they still manage different feels. The processing pipeline is where it gets interesting. x.com

    via LaurieWired @lauriewired

  42. AI & AGENTS

    double espresso + good playlist + claude code x.com

    via gaut @0xgaut

  43. AI & AGENTS

    LLMs process text from left to right — each token can only look back at what came before it, never forward. This means that when you write a long prompt with context at the beginning and a question at the end, the model answers the question having "seen" the context, but the x.com

    via BURKOV @burkov

  44. AI & AGENTS

    How to finally become the 10x engineer: Add WarCraft 3 sounds to Claude hooks to get alerts when it finishes a task or needs permission. x.com

    via Jorge Castillo @JorgeCastilloPr

  45. AI & AGENTS

    Figma has come to Claude Code design has been freed LET"S GOOOOO x.com

    via Avid @Av1dlive

  46. CULTURE & OTHER

    Locked in so hard now I'm getting merge conflicts in projects where I'm the only contributor x.com

    via jitesh💙 @Jitesh_117

  47. CULTURE & OTHER

    Make a copy of your default browser profile and point Playwright to that copied profile. x.com

    via Matt H @MattHProgrammer

  48. CULTURE & OTHER

    Creative geniuses may be the right amount of crazy. Reduced latent inhibition—difficulty filtering irrelevant stimuli, linked to psychosis—predicted higher creative achievement when paired with high IQ. IQ appears to transform a cognitive deficit into a creative advantage x.com

    via William Meijer @williameijer

  49. AI & AGENTS

    how Anthropic's marketing team uses claude code x.com

    via Robleh @robjama

  50. AI & AGENTS

    It's pretty incredible how much of how I work has changed in just the last two weeks. We rolled out an AI chatbot inside Slack (OpenClaw), hooked up a bunch of tools via MCP and APIs, and now I basically just chat with AI to knock out entire projects. I can also do a lot more x.com

    via Alex Cohen @anothercohen