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Matt Layman @mblayman

Python/Django, Go, Lua developer Organize @pythonfrederick SaaS dev on https://t.co/fmuI1PAKq9 | https://t.co/rQdSFpu6pm mattlayman.com Frederick, MD Joined May 2010
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Matt Layman @mblayman

3 hours ago

I'm working through the tutorial of a really famous Python library (like, super famous). I'm totally shocked by how much the tutorial has jumped the shark in terms of complexity. It went from "totally reasonable" to "holy💩! this is the most complex and esoteric feature possible." To me, it's a great example of why the beginner's mindset is useful. A project *needs* people who are less experienced and not fully steeped in the project. Without that, you risk turning a tutorial into an incomprehensible reference document disguised as a tutorial. Progressive disclosure of concepts is a good thing, and it's hard to get right.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

12 hours ago

Over 30 years later, I finally beat Donkey Kong Country. Great game.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

5 days ago

This `mise oci` feature seem potentially very powerful for platform teams. 🚀 I could see a team building a standard OCI image that different organization repos use so that there is consistency in what tools and tasks are applied during CI or whatever. mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/mise…

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a week ago

@jdxcode @DanielLockyer yeah, the appeal is having this in a single tool. I'm using mise already and this feature lets me consolidate config and simplify my setup.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a week ago

The video title is definitely click-baity, but I think it's useful to hear the opinions of others with plenty of experience. Lots to learn, even for someone who also accumulated a plenty of experience. youtube.com/watch?v=OkXuLN…

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scum @scumitchell

7 months ago

@htmx_org htmx4 αlpha 3 has dropped

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a week ago

@jdxcode @DanielLockyer Wow, I'm very excited about this! mise was already awesome and, if it can clean up all custom symlink hackery that I had in my dotfiles repo with a simple config, I'm even more enthralled. Thanks and keep up the good work! 😁

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Matt Layman @mblayman

2 weeks ago

i loop you loop we loop

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Matt Layman @mblayman

2 weeks ago

Interesting observation from Cloudflare's CI with AI orchestration post: > It turns out that telling an LLM what not to do is where the actual prompt engineering value resides. Without these boundaries, you get a firehose of speculative theoretical warnings that developers will immediately learn to ignore. blog.cloudflare.com/ai-code-review/

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Matt Layman @mblayman

3 weeks ago

As someone who has been a "Brent" before, this sounds pretty great: stack72.dev/the-first-step…

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Matt Layman @mblayman

3 weeks ago

have grug brain. grug brain good. grugbrain.dev

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Matt Layman @mblayman

3 weeks ago

I saw The Sheep Detectives today with my family and in-laws at the theater. I thought the film was surprisingly touching and witty. I really enjoyed it.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

4 weeks ago

I'm reading through a GitHub Actions config file on a Saturday (because I know how to have a good time! 😅). This actions file is for Swamp and it's an adversarial review for PRs. It has cool techniques that I had not considered much before like making heavy use of GH Actions template variables and using the `gh` tool to update the PR with its findings. I'm really impressed by what is here and it looks like a useful tool or pattern for other projects to adopt. What I'm not clear about is the AI cost involved for this kind of review. github.com/systeminit/swa…

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Nikita M. @meln1k

4 weeks ago

last night I was testing the hypothesis "if I give the agent the right tools and close the feedback loop, even a smaller model with a closed loop can outperform a stronger model that relies on human-observed feedback". my setup was the following: deepseek-v4-flash (opencode-go sub btw), bevy (rust game engine), and pi coding agent. The goal was to build a flappy bird clone first, then add a space-invaders like mechanic where the bird shoots lasers from its eyes. I did some small scaffolding, and added a pi extension that had 3 tools: getState, adjustClock and sendInput. The tools talked to a json http endpoint embedded in the game binary. The agent could read the important game state, adjust the clock so game logic advanced in lockstep with its reasoning, and send inputs to control the game. I have to say that because the game time was a first-class knob for the agent, it turned into a unbelievably strong way of closing the feedback loop. The agent was running the game, adjusting the json output endpoint, discovering bugs and quickly iterating. I would say it is much much more effective than using a frontier model but monitoring the output myself and giving the agent directions based on the observed results. So the practical learning from the experiment: do whatever you can, but close the damn loop.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

4 weeks ago

In particular, I like Tessl since it seems like an interesting way to score skills and give them some kind of quantitative assessment.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

4 weeks ago

I like the level of rigor applied to evaluating the quality of an AI skill. These are some interesting tools that I may explore adding to my own toolbox as I author personal skills. I particularly like the idea that skills function somewhat like code because of how they are added to the context for LLMs. stack72.dev/skills-are-con…

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a month ago

I am deeply impressed by this. I don't know if it's the nature of what I'm working on vs. what Dan is doing, but I'm struggling to understand how to exhaust a weekly quota in 10 minutes on personal projects. All I can think is that at massive amount of AI inference is kicked off in parallel simultaneously. I'm really curious about what this looks like and what kinds of requests are happening. "Ambitious" is the best word that comes to mind as I think about what must be going on.

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Dan Luu @danluu

2 months ago

What do people like for token-intensive workflows for personal projects? With a semi-autonomous workflow, I can exhaust a week's quota on the $200/mo codex plan in ~10 minutes of my time. If I'm in the loop, I get ~10x(?) the productivity per token, but it's time inefficient and

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htmx.org / CEO of #Schizophreniamaxxing (same) @htmx_org

a month ago

@aarondfrancis “There’s only one thing I hate more than lying: skim milk. Which is water that’s lying about being milk.”

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a month ago

@dansult @JamesTimmins 🤣

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a month ago

It's weird to see the hammer problem manifest in someone else. I listened to a developer on a podcast and he was praising a design pattern to a level of near absurdity. Nearly every problem was a nail for this shiny hammer. What made me bristle so much at this? It was the lack of considerations for the negative tradeoffs. The dev's description for when the pattern *didn't* hold was shockingly weak, as if the design pattern could walk on water. I'm all for having great and powerful tools in my toolbox, but I think there is need to be clear headed and know, with precision, when a design concept is not appropriate.

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Matt Layman @mblayman

a month ago

@cmuratori great game, well done

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