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Got a little too into making poppies for this reflection on great WWI novels and digesting the horrors of the war.
maggieappleton.com/in-memoriam
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I had to ask Claude for the gist of the twist at the end before reading, because itâs labelled a âthrillerâ and I am too soft to read anything truly horrifying. But itâs not that kind of thriller. Sort ofâŠ
How is everyone managing their agent SKILL.md files? Is it just chaos?
Global skills, repo-specific skills, keeping them in sync between machines, figuring out which ones you have installed, authoring new ones. What are we doing?
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No 12 hour autonomous agent runs for designers who live in the tight feedback loop đ
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All our current coding agents are single player. We're trying to scale up individual productivity, but creating tons of alignment problems in the process.
We have no good tools for...
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\nOne Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment: maggieappleton.com
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Talking about how we need realtime, multiplayer, collaborative agentic dev tools. Not isolated, single player terminal instances.
And showing one we've built at @githubnext.com!
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\nAfter an unexpected flood of messages from my kidâs nursery about the âEaster bonnet competitionâ deadline, I have now learned this is a thing.
Very camp. Very British. Itâs giving Victorian children with more access to crafting supplies than expected.
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\nObsidian & Claude Cowork are doing all the house management and renovation tracking that I don't have brain space for right now.
I ramble at Claude about things we need to fix in this very old and rundown Victorian we recent bought and it makes plans.
Works great - both just operate on markdown.
God grant me the wisdom to understand the internal logic of the credit system
We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves
From the README of OpenAIâs new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...
Whatâs everyoneâs physical labour backup career?
Iâm thinking family photographer. Maybe interior designer?
Iâm not good at either of those things⊠yet. But I reckon I could make it work if all white collar jobs melt down into the GPUs.
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I am a stochastic Bret Victor parrot.
The meta-machine continues to grow of its own accord
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","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zos5kmlm4vle7b4xntem6sat/post/3mdzprgymg22w","date_published":"2026-02-04T10:58:14+00:00","author":{"name":"Maggie Appleton","url":"http://maggieappleton.com/","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fmaggieappleton.com%2Fog.png%3Ftitle%3DMaggie%2BAppleton","_microblog":{"username":"maggieappleton.com"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-02-04 10:58","date_timestamp":1770202694,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"82835877","content_html":"Someone pointed out dark mode didn't work on my website (a huge oversight!).
Claude implemented dark mode in <10 mins. But the diagrams in my latest post still looked weird since I designed them on light backgrounds.
But they're SVGs so it was easy to prompt a bit more and get dark/light versions
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Now renamed to \"the feeling of computing\". More context on the name change: feelingof.com/the-name/
I handed over running it to @todepond.com, @mimireyburn.bsky.social, and Chee. They're doing great â same energy and wild demos as always
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\nGas Townâs Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale: maggieappleton.com
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Also features this banger John Updike quote: âcelebrity is a mask that eats your face.â Unsurprisingly about Sheryl Sandberg.
Strong recommend. Not the exaggerated tell-all I expected. Much better.
@lukas Ha! Have to quickly post all my weird interesting takes before this platform becomes a real thing
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