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Dan Minshew

@newswim

Trying to understand people and computers.. general do-gooder @OpenAustin, @TechmillDenton 🧗‍♂️

 Austin, TX
github.com/newswim
Joined January 2013
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Just another real, durable, load-bearing object earning its keep.
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Amjad Masad
@amasad19 Oct 2025
Convinced that the Atlassian design team are wizards.
Levin Stanley (@levinstanley) profile pictureLevin Stanley
@levinstanley18 Oct 2025
A visual design experiment built on @Replit. UIs in sci-fi movies were the inspiration. A galactic radar listening for signals across the stars with simulated data. Designed to test how far design and code can merge into something beautiful. See it for yourself: galaxy-radar.replit.app
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“Disruptive Innovation” would be a pretty sick metal band
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@tldraw14 Nov 2023
(can't believe this works)
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It's not cool that the Google founder is now flying airships full of a nonrenewable, increasingly rare resource, right?
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Very approachable article on implementing a CRDT
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Dave
@dmvaldman29 Sep 2023
I was curious if I could practice my Russian with ChatGPT-audio. Yup. Speakers move between languages effortlessly.
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Lexi is a treasure
Alexis King (@lexi_lambda) profile pictureAlexis King@lexi_lambda13 Aug 2023
sat down and wrote the “how do I read type systems notation” overview I wish I had when I was learning about type systems langdev.stackexchange.com/a/…
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Please remind me to never check Twitter.
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Euclid + JWST means pretty much non-stop interesting STEM content.
Signal Processing (@DSP_fact) profile pictureSignal Processing@DSP_fact4 Jul 2023
Decoding Euclid destevez.net/2023/07/decodin…
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How many ppl got today’s Wordle on the first guess?
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I wish I was a smart person
Aleks Kissinger (@AleksKissinger) profile pictureAleks Kissinger@AleksKissinger16 Jun 2023
Chyp is an interactive theorem prover (ITP) for string diagrams. You type terms and it draws pictures. It handles all the category theory bureaucracy automatically, thanks to the magic of hypergraph rewriting (CHYP = Cospans of HYPergraphs). github.com/akissinger/chyp
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Building a legacy means a completely different thing if you’re a software engineer…
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amazing resource to visually learn the node.js event loop: builder.io/blog/visual-guide… highlights in 🧵:
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A few MidJourney shots in the style of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_… of the titles of our most recent papers (top few from drmichaellevin.org/publicati…).
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Image from Michael Levin (@drmichaellevin)
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I have a bunch of sketchy interface ideas for using language models as epistemic rubber ducks, aka. reflective thinking partners🐥 They've been sitting in Figma for 8 months gathering dust! They all felt too obvious to me to be worth sharing... maggieappleton.com/lm-sketch…
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of language models

maggieappleton.com
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Prathyush@prathyvsh29 May 2023
It amazes me to no end that symbolic mathematical equations and biologically embodied patterns can be isomorphic! Here is an amazing environment to play with Turing patterns from Karl Sims: karlsims.com/rdtool.html
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From a real life, published scientific paper..
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The paper: fermatslibrary.com/s/venus-i…
Fermat's Library | Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor annotated/explained version.

Fermat's Library | Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor annotated/explained version.

Fermat's Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers.

fermatslibrary.com
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It’s time to talk about union busting: @CodeforAmerica leadership has unilaterally stripped our colleagues of union protections and canceled negotiations. Stand with workers and sign onto our petition: bit.ly/cfawu-solidarity ✊
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