Ryan Robitaille

RⱯBBIT: Where reactive feedback loops are king, data flows like a game engine, and the future... finally looks like the future. From street-level Data Hackers to high-rise Corpos, craft the perfect datascape. In this world, everything is data.

People shopping for a drill... ...don't NEED a "drill"... ...they NEED a hole.

Unpopular opinion among "tool builders" (including myself at points): Don't build a tool so "people can solve problems w it". Solve a problem first & then work backwards it refining the tooling of the method. Solving meta / "pet" problems first can be a trap.

Have a ton of windows open and accidentally pasted an error log into a chat window with my sister instead of Claude. "WTF is this?" lol

Metallica’s Cliff Burton with his signature banger ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’. We’ve all seen the Day On The Green footage so let’s try something different with this Metal Hammer Fest, Germany, 1985 footage. It’s a vision any way! RIP Cliff, bloody legend!

github.com/chiphuyen/snif… is really cool. Attendees of the Claude Code event a while back all got 3 months free of Claude Ultimate. Turns out I used $512.79 on using Claude code to generate Kotlin bindings to the Claude API. Creating bindings for Llama was much cheaper at $178.12…

1/ It's time to bring back "designed in California, made in California.” Today, at @reindsummit, @ashleevance and I introduced Solano Foundry, the largest advanced manufacturing park in America, an hour north of Silicon Valley. Built by @CAForever with @JLL. 🧵

TFW Grok suggests you look for inspiration in your own library from a few years ago - and even low-key makes you feel guilty for not updating it.

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When a late night casual convo with Claude about "opsec" goes dark (as a Python function no less).

The best part of a Zyn - is removing it.

Tesla's Robotaxi Service Area Expansion Let's not lose the significance of what's been done here... Steven Mark Ryan proposed an unconventional, humorous shape for the expansion of the Robotaxi geo-fenced area in Austin. Just 17 days later, Tesla implemented an expansion that…

Bread in the freezer and Peanut Butter in the fridge? Straight to jail. Right away.

If you’re old enough to remember the pre-Internet Before Times, you’ll realize that so much of the supposedly advanced Internet is actually skeuomorphic and legacy: PDFs mimic paper forms, web/app design echoes the columnar/titular layout of newspapers, e-commerce feels like…

Fix my unit tests.

These circles are not moving nor changing size or shape

Still mad about this 26 years later.

Model smart at words and pictures, but break easy like twig in storm. Need much glue to work good. Tree make system stack like rocks, easy debug, add safety net. LM drunk less when boxed in tree. arxiv.org/pdf/2404.07439