Boris Smus 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦

Introducing Alloy, a local-first AI workbench. • Own your history & memory: everything is plain text. • Orchestrate: parallel agents, swap models mid-thread. • Flow: riff to co-create with an AI & triggers as proactive monitors. No lock-in, BYO-keys. smus.com/alloy-local-fi…

@aboodman Intrinsic motivation > extrinsic motivation (recognition) > extrinsic motivation (money) > no motivation

I spent a lot of my career being overly motivated by external recognition. It’s still something I have to consciously avoid.

I realized today why there’s so much churn in the js community.

📣 #UIST2025 Student Innovation Contest (SIC) is now accepting submissions on PCS! This year’s theme is “The Future of Feeling: Exploring the Frontiers of Multi-Modal Haptics.” 🔗 details: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ 🗓️ deadline: July 18, 2025

The UIST 2025 Student Innovation Contest is ON! Design visionary new ways to interact with multi-energy haptics. Think XR, AI, robotics, storytelling, wellness—your creativity, no limits. Submit a 2-page proposal by July 18 at: uist.acm.org/2025/sic/ @ACMUIST @TheOfficialACM

ps. get fucked elon

Authoritarian LLMs typically ship with a censorship layer which rejects unwanted queries, but how many minds are being subtly shaped without noticing? DeepSeek lavishes praise on Mao while slamming Ai Weiwei. smus.com/large-and-oppr…

hi webdev friends, anyone have experience building client-side video editing tools with webcodecs? please hmu boris@smus.com

Horsing around with invention.cards ift.tt/WDngVXb

Invention & Discovery Cards work complete ift.tt/jgimyb8

John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv ift.tt/IRbkO21

Use of Weapons by Iain Banks ift.tt/oZ2dSkz

@LMSacasas qq: wtf are you still doing on twitter?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Kind of wild that our standard email terminology still refers back to "carbon copies."

@tim_minto How'd you do? nonprophetspod.wordpress.com not so well

Turns out that putting your absolute-certainty faith in a 13 parameter model built on a few dozen observations is not a great idea.

Unintended Consequences of False Equity ift.tt/maODL7e

psa: get off hellsite

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut smus.com/books/when-we-…

Seattle Public Schools accountability problem ift.tt/A41BlxN

Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami ift.tt/KVhLx7m

Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel ift.tt/8L4DcZh