# big thing — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover big thing. Page: Feed: --- ## [Thai pie recipe](https://loukidelis.com/2026/03/16/thai-pie-recipe.html) _2026-03-16 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ Thai pie is essentially Québécois tourtière pie with Thai aromatics. I came up with the idea because I wanted to make tourtière pie but did not have all of the spices required by this recipe. I did happen to have lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves, and so the thai pie was born. A just-baked thai pie ## [The saga of Photomatt, the man who tilts at digital windmills](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/the-saga-of-photomatt-the-man-who-tilts-at-digital-windmills/) _2026-02-14 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ What's the deal with Photomatt? Well, it's kind of a long story Where it started So, my familiarity with Photomatt, or Matt Mullenweg was when he decided to buy out Tumblr from it's previous owners (Yahoo!) through Automattic. It was truly a breath of fresh air. Mostly because especially towards the end it was not being managed well, and for a while it was all pretty good. The one thing that irked… ## [Age Verification and IPOs: Discord drama](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/age-verification-and-ipos-discord-drama/) _2026-02-14 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ Discord has been a thing of discourse in the few circles I’m for the past while. Mostly over the very pressing issues with regards to the recent general push towards online verification (in which you provide sensitive and potentially biometric data to providers or websites to prove you are who you say you are outside of the very common “give us your birthday so we know you’re not under 13”), and… ## [Education after ChatGPT](https://loukidelis.com/2026/01/04/education-and-ai.html) _2026-01-04 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ A few times now, I have heard people bring up Socrates' suspicion of writing in the context of the impact of AI on learning. As a defense of AI, the point is that people (even wise people like Socrates) have long been concerned about the impact of technologies on the human mind, and in hindsight these concerns usually look silly. AI fears may be partly a moral panic. Still, AI is having an impact… ## [Big Things Sloppin'](https://www.wavlake.com/album/f7a0320d-e0ae-496c-997a-c546694ab0b6) _2025-12-30 · eCash $aylor · Big Things Sloppin'_ [Listen](https://op3.dev/e,pg=c896a5a8-5397-5f43-ab79-1aecfbd3fbeb/https://d12wklypp119aj.cloudfront.net/track/5214c712-0490-41b5-8382-cb1b25f3b609.mp3) ## [Frontend State Beyond useState](https://loukidelis.com/2025/12/19/frontend-state-management.html) _2025-12-19 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ A breakdown of different strategies for managing state in client-side code. ## [Book Review: Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World](https://loukidelis.com/2025/10/09/book-review-cod.html) _2025-10-09 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ Atlantic cod. Public Domain, Link The fisherman of Newfoundland never thought that the cod stocks could run out. With the benefit of hindsight, their folly seems obvious, but as a fisherman in the 20th century, it would be hard to imagine the extinction of cod. Cod had been plentiful off the coast of Newfoundland since Europeans began fishing it in the 1490s (this book speculates that… ## [Book Review: Devil Take the Hindmost](https://loukidelis.com/2025/10/08/book-review-devil-take-the-hindmost.html) _2025-10-08 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ A reflection on the history of speculation by Edward Chancellor ## [CulinaryWiki](https://loukidelis.com/2025/09/30/culinary-wiki.html) _2025-09-30 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ A wiki for culinary knowledge. ## [Waiting For The Next Big Thing](https://loukidelis.com/2025/09/14/waiting-for-the-next-opportunity.html) _2025-09-14 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ I’m currently unemployed. I’m not lazy; I’m waiting for the next big thing. In the summer of 1998, I got an opportunity to talk with Jobs again. I said, “Steve, this turnaround at Apple has been impressive. But everything we know about the PC business says that Apple cannot really push beyond a small niche position. The network effects are just too strong to upset the Wintel standard. So what are… ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/M1Be62y8OfUc) _2025-09-13 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [Sourdough Bread Notes](https://loukidelis.com/2025/09/05/sourdough-notes.html) _2025-09-05 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ I compiled some notes for a friend to serve as a companion to the “Basic Country Loaf” recipe from Tartine bread. I thought I'd publish them here as well. ## [Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?](https://loukidelis.com/2025/08/10/ai-skepticism-part-2.html) _2025-08-10 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ I have been meaning to write a follow-up to my post about AGI with a second part. My intention was to document some examples of prominent people saying or strongly implying that AGI is imminent, to convince myself and my imagined readers that this view is pervasive. For example, here is AI researcher Geoffrey Hinton, often called the "Godfather of AI", speculating about AGI while veiling this as… ## [Adding Comments To This Blog With Bluesky](https://loukidelis.com/2025/08/08/blog-comments.html) _2025-08-08 · David Loukidelis’ Website_ Using pure Javascript and the Bluesky API to create cheap and simple blog comment support. ## [Considering a Carrd – what happens when you have a pile of websites to keep track of](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/considering-a-carrd-what-happens-when-you-have-a-pile-of-websites-to-keep-track-of/) _2025-04-27 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ I’ve been thinkin a lot about making a proper carrd , and torn between that and using antipixel buttons. I suppose I could just throw my hands up and say “well why not both?” The reason why not both is because that gets tedious, but all the same getting a carrd website also feels tedious. Q: Well golly, why do you have so many websites? A: I dunno?!?!? I have a main and a sideblog on tumblr, which… ## [Ricgomori and WEIRD ART: My Hypothetical thing](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/ricgomori-and-weird-art-my-hypothetical-thing/) _2025-02-23 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ A thing that I’ve always wanted to do but I’m not nearly as courageous / have the time and effort for is my unnamed Ricgomori project that is kind of about my OC of the same name. I would want to do it as a multimedia webcomic thing with some out there art styles, but my own personal critic is ever the Granted a lot of this comes from a strange place of being deeply inspired by other projects. I… ## [Longing and waiting: Wait for it](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/longing-and-waiting-wait-for-it/) _2024-12-22 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ I do think my one post a month speed so far is pretty good, and I think i'll keep it to that unless something else comes up that's compelling enough to make me post twice a month or more than that even. With the recent announcement of Okami 2, people brought it up as another big thing to wait for like Silksong and Half Life three. It made me really dwell on the kind of patience I have and how I… ## [Nintendo, Palworld, and Leaks Oh My!](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/nintendo-palworld-and-leaks-oh-my/) _2024-10-16 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ Thought of the Day: Palworld, Nintendo, and Patent trolling - Thursday September 19th, 2024 A big thing going around on the few other social media websites i'm on today is how Nintendo / Game freak has announced a lawsuit against the Palworld developers over Palworld. not for copyright infringement but over Patent rights for Patents they filed for After Palworld's release. It's interesting but… ## [End of Cohost thoughts](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/end-of-cohost-thoughts/) _2024-10-03 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ So, today is October 3rd, 2024. Cohost is in read only mode and will be up until the year’s end. I am a bit bummed out about the end of Cohost despite being a perpetual lurker. That being said, this is now my space for long-form thoughts and postings. It’s also rough because there’s lots of rough things going on in the world right now. Between Hurricane Helene and the destruction it’s wrought, the… ## [Hello World!](https://magichats.bearblog.dev/hello-world/) _2024-09-28 · magichats · MagicHats' Corner_ Hello world! This is me trying out having a blog. I can’t say I’ll be a frequent poster, but I’ll see if I can do maybe a couple of thoughtful posts every once in a while (Ideally at least a few times a month). I’m doing this because it seems to be the thing the people are doing these days for long-form thoughts on Cohost, and I kind of like this speed better than some of the other blogging…