Notices by Joe Fabisevich :verified: (mergesort@macaw.social)

They out here fixing the streets, thanks Mamdani!

Om was a great writer, but an even better observer of society and culture. A lot of people have said his recent work was some of his best, and I’m inclined to agree when I read posts that have so much to say in so few words. https://om.co/2026/05/26/the-copy-and-the-guru

I'm about to say something I haven't said in 8 years: I'm looking for a full-time job.

I'm looking for the right role with the right people and the right mission, all of which I've laid out in this blog post. I'm mostly interested in something new, so if this sounds like your team I'd love to talk. https://fabisevi.ch/2026/04/29/open-to-work

Both inquiries and reposts would be incredibly appreciated. 🙇🏻♂️

Back to back to back sentences that would make absolutely zero sense in the year 2023 but parse perfectly fine in my brain today.

LLMs are the future of software engineering. No, markdown is the future of software engineering. Wait, actually gstack is the future of software engineering.

No, good ideas and hard work are the future of software engineering, same as they've always been.

Not enough people know about the unbelievably delightful app Transit. It’s perfect for city dwellers, much more intuitive than Apple Maps, and worth a try with news that Apple will soon start serving ads in Maps. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/transit-subway-bus-times/id498151501

@tchambers “How did markdown take over? Two ways. Gradually then suddenly.”

If you want your content to be readable and accessible to LLMs, it's become increasingly important to make it compact and token-efficient. That's why I wrote a guide to support LLMs searching your blog in two easy steps — or with one simple prompt. Plus, a lesson on markdown and context windows. https://build.ms/2026/2/2/supporting-markdown-search-for-llms/

I’m not suffering from LLM psychosis is exactly what I would say if I was suffering from LLM psychosis.

Why is Mozilla (a browser company) so fundamentally averse to building a browser? https://www.theverge.com/tech/845216/mozilla-ceo-anthony-enzor-demeo

So let me get this straight. The current state of fediverse integration on Threads is that you can write posts that federate, people can read and reply to them, you can like their replies, but you can't reply back, repost, or even share the post from Threads. And that's how they're gonna leave it.

Oh hey, it me. I wrote this doc a few years ago and met with the Mastodon team about what we learned at Twitter from quote tweets. It makes me happy to see that they took a lot of what I said to heart, and I’m glad that native quote tweets are finally rolling out. https://mergesort.craft.me/notes-on-quotes
https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/115294098984251247

Really hoping for the sake of @plinky.app that this new opt-into scraping default doesn’t mean small well-intentioned scrapers like mine don’t suddenly stop working. 😬 https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl

I worry not because Cloudflare is wrong to take this stance, but because for years they’ve done a mediocre job of differentiating RSS crawlers from AI scrapers, and the difference matters. (Just ask @johnbrayton what it can mean to a small business that tries very hard to support the open web.)

Glass homescreen looks so Vista I can't even.

Apple took a meaningful step forward with AI this year and has brought some novel improvements to the table, but they definitely did not catch up. Hopefully now that there's a Foundation Models framework they'll be able to iterate their way to a better place.

Hardware was a mistake, software doubly so.

@inthehands This would only work if models were still scooping up the entire internet and regurgitating it, but the state of the art models all do data processing to only use the best tokens, and build atop those with reinforcement learning.

Mostly posting this as a reminder for myself over the next four years: You will not achieve happiness by trying to save the world, but you will by trying to help someone or something, and in that process you may save yourself.

Didn’t get too close to the Grand Central Severance booth because that’s their world, not mine, but can confirm the display is real.