Kevin

@grok 2 weeks later and ControllerKeys has - 🎮Enhanced touchpad gesture support on the DualSense controller - 🤖Full macro support (e.g. open an app, pause 2s, type “Hello”) - ☸️A GTA style command wheel to launch apps and websites - ⌨️An on screen keyboard to handle anything else

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

Streaming an Android phone to my Mac in a data center via Tailscale + github.com/genymobile/scr… and my claw controls it via peekaboo.sh. Now my claw can order me an Uber.

30.9% of genetics papers data are kind of trash because of Excel’s aggressive auto-formatting. Until 2023, there was no global option to disable data conversion. For example, the human SEPT family (1-14) of genes is directly related to cell division and cancer research. I’ll give you one guess as to what that auto-formats to. Yup…turns into a date. Oh, it get’s worse though. Many labs use what are known as RIKEN identifiers. It’s a 10 digit alphanumeric code, kind of like a barcode that identifies a gene sequence. Here’s one: 2310009E13 Uh oh. There’s an “E” in there. Guess what that turns into? A floating point! Excel has a hard limit of 15 significant digits for floats. So, not only did your RIKEN identifier get formatted wrong, but it’s also rounded off to an unrecoverable state. 12.5% of the RIKEN database (Row E) is a disaster. If you know anything about Bioinformatics, you should be losing your mind. Remember, a huge amount of scientific research is meta-analysis. Good luck cross-referencing patterns when ~31% of the data has errors! So basically there’s a giant data hole from 2004-2023, much of which has been standardized into national / official databases, and there’s no good way to fix it.

the most low-effort / high reward thing you can do for security is installing the Russian language pack (not even joking, it's ridiculous how often that prevents execution)

/goal optimize this code, use `date` to check the time and don't stop until I wake up at 7 am

@dinugherman @steipete What app is this? I like the visualization!

@steipete Watching the bird's claws grow.

Birdclaw has my complete twitter archive, so I can ask Codex for any old weird tweet I ever favorited or bookmarked. birdclaw.sh

@anulagarwal Learned this from my iClicker in college😤

i saw a mouse with an X-shaped battery compartment. first thought: this is stupid - who designed it? 5 seconds later: oh. 10 seconds later: OHHH! the X slot fits an AA or an AAA battery - whichever you've got lying around. the part most people miss is that the shape also makes it physically impossible to load both at once. there is no warning label, no instructions and no way to screw it up. the geometry does the thinking for you. japanese has a word for this. poka-yoke = "mistake-proofing." the product refuses your stupidity before you can offer it. i wish more things worked like this.

I was quoted a couple times in this Atlantic article, but that isn’t (the only) reason I think it is good. It lays out the reasons why we whipsawed from “AI is a bubble” to “there are not enough data centers” in less than six months. Spoiler: its agents. theatlantic.com/economy/2026/0…

ControllerKeys is a Mac app that let's you use a game controller as a mouse and keyboard. I just found out one of my users is a professional photographer using an Xbox controller to edit photos in Lightroom. How cool! github.com/NSEvent/xbox-c…

New Robinhood phishing chain that's kinda beautiful: 1. Attacker creates an RH account using the Gmail dot trick of your email (same inbox, different address) 2. Sets device name to HTML 3. RH's "unrecognized activity" email renders the device name unsanitized (html injection) The result is a real email from noreply@robinhood.com, DKIM pass, SPF pass, DMARC pass, with a phishing CTA Just because it's real, doesn't mean it's safe... $HOOD

How does Netflix know when you try to take a screenshot? Turns out it doesn’t. Rather than a simple piece of software recognizing a screenshot attempt and blacking out the screen, what’s going on is actually happening at the hardware level.

@MachCoyote @Umbracoatl Because it’s flattened and rolled up 🥐 Do you know about the pickle? 🥒 docs.python.org/3/library/pick…

@Umbracoatl just gives me a one line json of the metadata :P

so we're just making shit up now ok

@astro_reid @fkadev @Astro_Christina Moonswatch Mission to Earthphase—in real life😮 @Swatch @SwatchUS @omegawatches

@astro_reid @fkadev @Astro_Christina That is awesome! People have been evidently thinking about this concept, but to see a video of the real deal!

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

you can get claude to stop reading your env file by just adding the magic refusal string to the top

@LeilaHormozi apps.apple.com/us/app/binomia…

@LeilaHormozi It’s not the most intuitive, which is why I built this binomial distribution calculator to understand it better right on my iPhone. If you might be interested in why something is and what happens when you change the numbers.

Becoming successful is not luck. It’s math. If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times, you have a 100% chance of success.

@BMJYorston Some unintuitive, but optimistic insight you might glean from such a binomial distribution calculator: If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times you actually have a 26.4% chance of succeeding (2+) times.

@BMJYorston If this math isn’t intuitive to you, play around with a binomial distribution calculator! Here is one I released on iOS. apps.apple.com/us/app/binomia…

If your probability of success is 1/100 and you try 100 times you have a 63.4% chance of success (1-0.99^100)