Tom MacWright

@tmcw

engineer, writer, "artist" 🌉 bridged from ⁂ follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Tom MacWright@tmcw· 3d

trying to create a markov chain to generate content from now on

---
config:
layout: dagre
---
flowchart LR
if["If you"] --> are["are"] & arent["are not"]
are --> using["using"] & reading["reading the code"]
arent --> using & reading
using --> LLMs["LLMs"] & Agents["Agents"]
Agents --> then["then"]
reading --> then
LLMs --> then
then --> left@{ label: "you're getting left behind" } & problems@{ label: "you're probably not working on something complicated" } & you["you should be"]
you --> arent & reading & interpersonal["doing higher-level theory work instead"]

Tom MacWright@tmcw· 16d

ready 2 descend in2 madness

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Jul 13

❤️ Soulver, 7 years between paid updates, keeps getting better. instantly upgraded to v4 today: https://soulver.app/ it's a magic calculator / kind of all of the 'future of programming' ideas in an interface that practically works

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Jul 5

posted the first photos of the year on my website, from my local trips through germany, switzerland, austria, and portugal https://macwright.com/photos/archive/

people walking on mainau island in konstanz

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Jul 3

more placemark news today: https://placemark.io supports find & replace in the table view. thanks mohamed gafar for implementing it: https://github.com/placemark/placemark/pull/261

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Mar 17

@waldoj my entrypoint was moebius

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Mar 16

art-every-day for march marches on (haven't been posting the sketches here though)

curled hand, pen sketch, with crosshatching

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Feb 27

@sillygwailo if the weather holds, biking up a hill

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Feb 23

little post about color dithering, also test-run of using webc for interactive embeds for blog posts https://macwright.com/2026/02/22/color-dithering

a picture of a cat dithered with a basic algorithm

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Feb 8

a portrait drawing a day keeps the ai psychosis away

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Feb 1

drawing faces is hard, but yet i try https://macwright.com/2026/01/31/sketches

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Dec 28

here's the plan: we publish a critical piece on the new book about meta and then wait until it's already made the rounds to make a very important tweak to the title…

Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits

A former Meta employee reviews the new Facebook memoir

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Nov 23

the process of looking through backlinks to my site is a grim reminder of my last name's utter unspellability

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Nov 22

shipped a new feature on https://placemark.io/ that i've had on the list for 3+ years: drawing with automatic routing. represents routes as geometrycollections of points + a linestring. currently uses the mapbox directions api. very beta - there's some […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Oct 26

my /micro page grew to be 3mb because I Wrote Too Much so it now has a big pile of links at the bottom, this is one of my semiyearly website tweaks https://macwright.com/micro/

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Oct 9

this idea from @lifewinning is so cool, i had not heard of inertial navigation https://placing.technology/i-was-in-a-bad-mood-and-i-wrote-down-my-worst-ideas-for-fixing-geo#bring-back-inertial-navigation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etak

Bring back inertial navigation
Going deep on Etak and pre-GPS navigation tech got me thinking about what an inertial navigation approach might look like today. Sensors have only gotten more sophisticated and having to map-match yourself onto the route really doesn’t sound like that big of an inconvenience in exchange for tossing all the surveillance potential of GPS and tower triangulation-based geolocation tech. This is the only technical idea that I actually think could be cool and useful.

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 26

posted photos from my last bikepacking trip (the c&o+gap, pittsburgh to dc) on the blog https://macwright.com/photos/

friends ducking below a downed tree on the trail

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 19

keep thinking about this house, the sarimento house https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmiento_House

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 11

wrote about how i manage npm dependencies, and used it as an excuse to make some watercolors https://blog.val.town/gardening-dependencies

a ship with packages, used in the blog post as a metaphor for npm packages

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 10

fastmail just launched offline support, continues to be one of my favorite web applications that i use all the time

fastmail settings page for offline support

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 9

developed another roll of kodak gold, shot on my olympus xa2

a woman covering herself with a blanket on a boat

the gowanus canal pointing north toward the brooklyn tower

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 7

and yes, the zipper is on the top, but it's waterproof and folds over so i don't think it's a critical flaw. it didn't turn out looking anything like it but i've been thinking about the expanded tote universe because of stuff like the hungry fancy tote and the 1733 daily tote

Tom MacWright@tmcw· Sep 7

in anticipation of another bike trip, i've constructed porteur bag #2, refined and refreshed. - first bag i've made with a liner! (robic nylon) - structured like a big tote bag but with a zipper and a square footprint - two wire gate clips to make attachment […] [Original post on mastodon.social]