Emil Sit

What are your best LLMs, prompts, tools, extensions for summarizing video content? #genai

sharing the starter pack for those of you local to other places:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e

The Middle Years-Math Style 2025, a project from Mrs. Fitzhugh Help me give my students another year of access to the practice from the program, Maneuvering The Middle. I have diverse classes with kids from all cultures and backgrounds. The Maneuvering the Mid...

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A Universe of Possibilities, a project from Ms. Rangel Help me give my students a library area to encourage them to develop reading skills while feeling comfortable. Allowing students to have an area where they can ready while enjoy will help them with...

Every year I give a little to help increase STEM and literacy — it's a tiny investment in growing critical thinking in our population. Will you help me complete this library in Texas via @donorschoose.bsky.social? www.donorschoose.org/project/a-un...

Ordered a Pela Case for an old phone. Didn’t like it and wanted to return. The undocumented handling fee is 60% of the cost of the case! How perfectly enshittified.

Curating the best @astro.build websites of 2024 for a special edition Astro Weekly dropping this Sunday.

Who do you think deserves a spot on the list? 🏆

Too Many Democrats Don't Understand Voters At All An opposition party in the grip of fatal delusions.

Democrats think people make future voting decisions on whether they think the opposition is reasonable and measured, rather than whether they're pissed off at the party in power. That couldn't be more wrong.

On AOC's snub and how you run an opposition:

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/too-many-d...

I compared how to add post content to the RSS feed in:
- Hugo: gohugo.io/templates/rss/ = here are some power tools, good luck
- Astro: docs.astro.build/en/recipes/r... = paste and tweak this specific code
- Eleventy: www.11ty.dev/docs/plugins... = can you find it in the sample?
Winner: Astro

Substack is at it again “Why on earth would you brag to your users that you've partnered with a bunch of protofascists?"

“There is no such thing as a perfect place on the internet. But it’s possible to avoid the ones that aren’t even pretending to try to be better. The best time to leave Substack was a long time ago. The second best time is now.”

My latest:

Recommendation algorithms are probably more important for helping writers with less external exposure trends.google.com/trends/explo...

that’s super interesting, because i didn’t have that experience at all. i wonder how much of the difference between our experiences comes down to the fact that my newsletters are somewhat more niche? (and thus, in my mind, not likely to benefit much from a broad recommendation algorithm)

I’d love to see a platform economy that allows us all to make a decent living while never compromising our values, but that’s not the internet that’s been allowed to be built over many decades — while these hypercommercialized platforms were cloaked in the bullshit libertarian narratives.

Network effects make things hard. At least don’t call your newsletter “a Substack”. www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/d...

Bluesky's use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person (Ernie Smith/Tedium)

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Bluesky has an impersonator problem Cryptoscammers tried to trick me using fake profiles of tech personalities. I am not alone.

There is also straight up impersonation. www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/11/1...

So, Bluesky Has An Extortion Problem An apparent extortion scheme lit up Bluesky the other night. It raises some important questions about whether Bluesky is up to the task of moderation.

But, domain verification is also a vector for abuse (naturally). Be careful out there. tedium.co/2024/12/17/b...

really cool to see city-wide adoption for bluesky, like @boston.gov has done

i'm especially interested in the Boston feed they created because this is a way for govts to share updates with their constituents directly through social media, without a company's blackbox algorithm interfering

Bluesky! Who are some
independent and freelance journalists who are doing fantastic work out there? Send me your recs!

There’s @propublica.org of course. For tech/crypto-world coverage @molly.wiki. See also @parismarx.com

How to verify your Bluesky account - Bluesky Here's how to verify your Bluesky account by setting your website as your username.

Oh cool, you can use your domain name as your handle on BlueSky. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

I just wanted to add full text to my RSS feeds in my Hugo powered static site. Now I’ve read 30m of forum posts, RSS and Atom specs, and I’m still not sure if I’m doing this right.

What is a great book (or other long-form writing) you've found helpful learn more about quantum computing, as a software engineer?

(With Google's Willow announcement, this space is becoming interesting to pay attention to!)

Definitely an upgrade! UniFi has been very reliable for me and management UI has improved a ton over time too

There is so much innovation in the space of managing developer tools and keeping them neatly targeted to projects without conflicts! In just this thread learning about mise, asdf, pkgx.dev and devenv.sh. People have moved on from just nodenv and virtualenv. Whew.

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