Tom MacWright
@macwright.com
26 days ago haha, sorry - I saw your talk! Should have said hi
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haha, sorry - I saw your talk! Should have said hi
speak for yourself, i've been hitting the gym
new blurb who dis
dotcom.press
a book's website is a nice place to riff on things you'll eventually print on the physical book (title, backcover/flap blurb, bio, etc.) AI Terminology #25: Softmax
↳ A function that converts raw model outputs (logits) into probabilities that sum to 1, helping the model choose the most likely next token. improved my TLD wiki and wrote about the 2026 round:
dotcom.press/archive/domainia
huge thanks to @case.bike for collecting the data behind the wiki! Ah, thanks for sharing! Guess I'll stick with left-justification since they've done the research. I didn't think of readability at e.g. 400% zoom (screenshotted here for reference) I wonder if their recommendation extends to printed books which are almost always fully justified w hyphens
I'm considering switching to `text-align: justify` with `hyphens: auto`... are there any gotchas? I don't like hyphens breaking up anchor links, but other than that? I'm leaning toward the visual balance being worth the looser text tradeoff
We're hosting an AMA with Amos (@fasterthanli.me) on Twitch.
Mon, April 20: 10am ET / 7am PT
Bring your questions about Rust, building, etc.
luma.com/lqxrgthf great work hosting! sorry i didn't swing by to say hi during the thing
the good: pretty easy to make super lightweight components with inline css and js. a+ for speed-obsessed web dev. the bad: super super hard to learn, very easy to mess up, generally quite bad error messages.
under the hood, been using webc for a few things on my blog, for the @observablehq.com plot chart on macwright.com/2026/04/05/i..., the theme selector, and youtube embeds.
i'd say it's 2/10 DX, 9/10 magic, technology that fills me with both joy and fear www.11ty.dev/docs/languag... finally posted thoughts about the atmosphere conf (along with an illustration and a bunch of tweaks to the blog) macwright.com/2026/04/05/i... just to serve mode.css to do light/dark/auto theme switching without having to put js on every page :/ it's super tiny but alas gist.github.com/tmcw/2015bda... it's satisfyingly large art irl, too
illo for an article i'm trying to publish. been in writing/editing/watercoloring/making-a-chart mode for three hours unexpectedly tonight. felt good to get in a ""flow state"", though the article still isn't what i want it to be.
ai agents filling out quarterly 360 reviews
stack-ranking subagents
doing bigger watercolors is better because you spend more time putting the paint on the paper
dark mode has been slowing my website down by more than a hundred ms 👿. netlify edge functions: not as fast as i'd hoped.
The fastest build is the one you skip
Changelog #0284
• Skip rebuilds
• Guardrails
• CLI enhancements
• Fixes and improvements
railway.com/changelog/2026-04-03-skip-rebuilds Wow! Looking good!
i really liked their original product but it ended up being kind of like replay.io, amazing tech that people don't value.
the all-time startup pivot champion is quirk i think clean!