# twitter com (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 15 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover twitter com. Page: Feed: --- ## [Introducing MobHunt: agentic mobile bug bounty hunting](https://ivrodriguez.com/introducing-mobhunt/) _2026-08-09 · Ivan's Blog_ tl;dr I built an agentic mobile security research system that runs the whole mobile bug bounty pipeline, from scoping a program to writing the report. Here is what happened when I pointed it at real programs. ## [(untitled)](https://notes.keithjgrant.com/notes/2026/07/just-a-test-of-my-new/) _2026-07-17 · Keith J. Grant: Notes_ Just a test of my new micropub server ## [This is my Xbox light. Just check this out ai is saying it’s a nebula. So weird. The camera is moving on its own and I zoomed in at first but then started automatically zooming in.](https://www.reddit.com/r/nebulas/comments/1uglxfg/this_is_my_xbox_light_just_check_this_out_ai_is/) _2026-06-26 · /u/yinglock · Nebulas · The future of Collaboration_ submitted by /u/yinglock \[link\] \[comments\] ## [Good Tokens 2026-06-20](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2026-06-20) _2026-06-20 · jdilla.xyz_ Shameless self-promotion Why isn't your codebase in English? Holden and I had a great time chatting with Kasey Klimes, who is really thinking deeply about how AI changes software development. Worth your time A colorized photo of Central Park during the Great Depression, New York (1933) pic.twitter.com/FIWjMvZON6 — Civixplorer (@Civixplorer) May 4, 2026 How Stealth Works If America's So Rich,… ## [Dissecting the Malware Injected Into My Own Ghost Blog](https://ivrodriguez.com/dissecting-the-malware-injected-into-my-ghost-blog/) _2026-06-19 · Ivan's Blog_ tl;dr: I had not looked at my blog in months and found a malicious script injected into every post through the Ghost Admin API. What it does, and how I removed it. ## [Amazon Limited-Time Deal: Save 26% on “LaTeX Graphics with TikZ”](https://pgfplots.net/tikz/) _2026-05-22 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ For a few days, the book LaTeX Graphics with TikZ is available at a 26% discount on Amazon.com. Here s the publisher s promotion link: packt.link/SJhg7 Take a look at TikZ.org for code examples, sample content, and readers reviews. If you purchase the color-printed book, you can also download the PDF version for free from packt.link/free-ebook/9781804618233 . ## [Andrews Plot](https://pgfplots.net/andrews-plot/) _2026-05-10 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ Recently on X, I saw an Andrews plot and decided to plot it in LaTeX. MATLABもStatistics and Machine Learning Toolboxも持っていないので、私はLaTeXで Fisher Iris Dataset の Andrews plot を描いています https://t.co/eKnGAvWpLL pic.twitter.com/1tXy5BxrfK — LaTeX.org (@TeXgallery) May 7, 2026 I took the data file iris.csv from GitHub , and this is my code: \\documentclass\[border=10pt\]{standalone} \\usepackage{pgfplots}… ## [Book thoughts: 2666](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/book-thoughts-2666) _2026-05-02 · jdilla.xyz_ It's moments like these when I wish I was reading books in a book club or an English class so I would be able to complain about them to other people. Instead I have you! This is the most divided I’ve felt about a book in the past 10 years (since A Little Life ). There is some absolutely intoxicating writing in this book. There are characters and scenes that I will probably never forget. The hint… ## [Good Tokens 2026-04-17](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2026-04-17) _2026-04-17 · jdilla.xyz_ This edition of Good Tokens is best enjoyed while listening to the Phil Collins version of You Can't Hurry Love . Shameless Self Promotion Introducing AgentCAD: About a month ago I became obsessed with the idea of a command line tool for creating CAD drawings as a way to empower coding agents (Claude, Codex, etc) to be better at designing 3D objects. The first version of it is here and I'd be… ## [Second Opinion with Dr. Dua Hassan](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/second-opinion-with-dr-dua-hassan) _2026-04-12 · jdilla.xyz_ Over the past several months, I've been collaborating with a friend of mine, Dr. Dua Hassan on her podcast. One of the things that I think is underrated about being a parent is the degree to which medical stuff with your children just happens to you. Even the planned stuff — the 6 month and 1 year appointments — inevitably happens on a day when you're tired or distracted and there's less time,… ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/vCEzSx2ALYmq) _2026-04-12 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [How interesting is nebula for learning or decor?](https://www.reddit.com/r/nebulas/comments/1sihjd7/how_interesting_is_nebula_for_learning_or_decor/) _2026-04-11 · /u/LetShoddy3951 · Nebulas · The future of Collaboration_ I visited a decor shop to check nebula lights for my room setup two days ago. I wanted something colorful and relaxing. I also wanted something unique. But when I checked the lights I felt disappointed. Some looked dull and the colors were not clear. Some effects did not look smooth. I could not trust them. I could not pick one confidently. Then I visited another shop in the same area. Some lights… ## [Good Tokens 2026-04-02](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2026-04-02) _2026-04-02 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time Craft is the Antidote to Slop — Will Manidis is in my internet top 5. I hope I'm not insulting him when I say he has great taste (link: https://minutes.substack.com/p/against-taste) Backseat Software I am so sick of being interrupted for feedback. Speed Can Reindustrialize America Austin Vernon is also in my internet top 5. Fraud Investigation — Shorter patio11: Fraud is a policy… ## [LaTeX Beginner’s Guide: Ranked #1 New Release on Amazon – Now 30% Off](https://pgfplots.net/latex-guide/) _2026-03-28 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ The third edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide is now available with 30% off at Amazon, and is ranked as the #1 new release in Amazon’s Technical Writing category. Grab it as long as the Big Spring Sale runs! ## [LaTeX Beginner’s Guide, 3rd Edition Released (March 2026)](https://pgfplots.net/latex/) _2026-03-08 · book reader · PGFplots.net_ The third, improved, and extended edition of the LaTeX Beginner’s Guide was published this month, March 2026. Compared to the first edition from 2011 and the second edition from 2021, the book has been thoroughly revised. The code examples were updated to work with current LaTeX classes and packages as used in 2026, so everything compiles smoothly with modern distributions. This edition also adds… ## [I’m not sure all of you mean to be here](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/im-not-sure-all-of-you-mean-to-be-here) _2026-03-08 · jdilla.xyz_ I keep this blog mostly for myself, as a way of cultivating a habit of curiosity and creativity. I’m flattered that a small group of people (with impeccable taste!) visit it or have decided to subscribe, but I’m clear-eyed enough to know it’s not the most important place on the internet. When traffic spikes, I almost always know why. When someone signs up, I usually know who they are. Until… ## [(untitled)](https://notes.keithjgrant.com/notes/2026/03/my-kind-of-metroidvania/) _2026-03-05 · Keith J. Grant: Notes_ MIO: Memories in Orbit is one of the best Metroidvanias I’ve ever played. This is absolutely my favorite genre of game, and this one hits all the right notes for me. I loved Silksong, but it leans very heavily into combat. To the point that, because of the difficulty, I probably won’t replay it much. MIO, instead, leans much more into platforming. Though, paradoxically, it’s often platforming… ## [Good Tokens 2026-01-16](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2026-01-16) _2026-01-16 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time The Mundanity of Excellence . Excellence is a product of different kinds of work rather than different levels of effort. Technique (how things are done), discipline (doing things correctly, consistently), and attitude (how things are approached) are the things to focus on. “What we call talent is no more than a projected reification of particular things done: hands placed correctly… ## [(untitled)](https://notes.keithjgrant.com/notes/2026/01/stranger-things-stuck-the-landing/) _2026-01-03 · Keith J. Grant: Notes_ Wow, the Stranger Things finale is excellent. Extremely rare to see such an epic story stick the landing so spot on. The final season tied every earlier season together. One of the greatest works of fiction I know. ## [Book Notes: In the Service of My Country](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/book-notes-in-the-service-of-my-country) _2025-12-24 · jdilla.xyz_ A biography of William Tecmuseh Sherman . Someone notify Henry Oliver : we have a late bloomer. I hadn’t realized how inconsequential Sherman’s career had been before the start of the Civil War. He was well regarded within the Army but saw no real action during the Mexican American War. He left the Army and was in charge of two banks that failed. The bank failures were largely bad luck caused by… ## [Good Tokens 2025-12-19](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-12-19) _2025-12-18 · jdilla.xyz_ In case this is the last Good Tokens of the year, have a great holiday season and end of 2025. See you in 2026! A message from my sponsor Christmas is just 7 days away. If you’re here, you already know about my dear friend Uri’s hit new game Person Do Thing , but out of love for the game and it’s creator, I have to say one final time, this is a perfect stocking stuffer and a great way to spend… ## [Never miss a game (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gpaxBxIujeRE) _2025-12-18 · **Sponsored**_ Follow any team; get an hour and one-minute web and email reminders. ## [Silksong is worth the hype](https://notes.keithjgrant.com/notes/2025/12/silksong-is-worth-the-hype/) _2025-12-16 · Keith J. Grant: Notes_ Silksong is the best game I’ve played in years. I would probably say in decades if it weren't for Outer Wilds, which skews the results. And no, it’s not too difficult. It is difficult, but Team Cherry can’t change that. An easy mode would rob this game of its soul. This game is almost a "Metroidbrainia", where the only way to progress is knowledge; knowledge of the enemies’ attack patterns and the… ## [Avoiding the feeling of failure](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/avoiding-the-feeling-of-failure) _2025-12-11 · jdilla.xyz_ In a previous post, I mused: “You’re not avoiding failure, you’re avoidng the feeling of failure.” KL asks : 'Can we unpack this into some actionable life hacks?' When I was in 8th grade, I decided not to tryout for the middle school basketball team because I didn't think I'd make it and I didn’t want to get cut. A couple of weeks later, I saw the group of guys that made the team. The best few… ## [Good Tokens 2025-12-05](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-12-05) _2025-12-05 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time Over regulation is hamstringing deep tech innovation . Real specific complaints, not just someone ranting about red tape. Noah Smith on housing : “The true homeownership rate for Millennials at age 30 is less than 35%; for Gen X it was around 45%, and for Boomers it was almost 50%.” Also Noah on drones and the future of war . Perhaps I need a Noah Smith Corner. How to get someone… ## [Meta: How I track things I learned](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/meta-how-i-track-things-i-learned) _2025-12-04 · jdilla.xyz_ In response to my 2025 Things I learned post, my friend Mark tells me “You should do a meta post on how you come up with this list.” Frequent readers of this blog probably know the answer to this already, but I’ll spell it out in more detail here. I’ve been very influenced by my friend / mentor Alex Komoroske who has an essential google doc called Bits & Bobs . I more or less have copied what he… ## [Things I learned in 2025](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/things-i-learned-in-2025) _2025-12-01 · jdilla.xyz_ I borrowed this concept from Tom Whitwell as a way of cultivating a habit of curiosity. My 2025 highlights: It was a year of exploration. I left Macro Oceans . I “interned” at Roo Code and got an early peek at how AI is changing software development . I had so many coffee chats. I launched a podcast about building with AI , built a an agent orchestration prototype and spent a lot of time hacking… ## [December Adventure 2025](https://adventurist.me/posts/00354) _2025-12-01 · Adventurist.me: Letters into the void_ I learned about December Adventure in the middle of December last year, which is probably quite typical. I don't think most people get the words out in sync with the hacking and so there is a delay. Obviously that didn't exclude me, it wasn't the spirit of the event after all, but I didn't have the capacity. I thought I would make an attempt at December Adventure this year. I've been trying hard… ## [【新刊案内】『TikZによるLaTeXグラフィックス』 – New TikZ book in Japanese](https://pgfplots.net/tikz-jp/) _2025-11-30 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ In November 2024, a translation of the TikZ book written by Stefan Kottwitz has been released by Asakura Publishing. ​2024年11月に、Stefan Kottwitz著のTikZに関する書籍の翻訳版が朝倉書店から発売されました。LaTeXで画像を作るための実用的な入門書。TikZにより数学、科学、技術論文に図や画像を簡単に入れられる。アイデアやデータを可視化してプロフェッショナルな図表やプロットを2次元でも3次元でも表示できるようになるために。 本書の内容 第1章 「TikZで始める」… ## [Orbitals](https://pgfplots.net/orbitals/) _2025-11-25 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ Playing with representation of orbitals Two lobes: %!TEX lualatex \\documentclass\[border=10pt\]{standalone} \\usepackage{pgfplots} \\pgfplotsset{trig format plots=rad, compat=1.18} \\usepgfplotslibrary{colormaps} \\begin{document} \\begin{tikzpicture} \\begin{axis}\[colormap/violet, view={40}{30}, axis equal, hide axis\] \\addplot3\[ surf, domain = 0:pi, domain y = 0:2\*pi, samples = 120, samples y = 120, z… ## [Good Tokens 2025-11-21](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-11-21) _2025-11-21 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time The GLP-1 rollout continues . The number of Americans taking GLP-1 drugs continues to grow substantially. There’s no official tally, but Circana believes that 23% of US households — about 30 million — had at least one GLP-1 user in September, suggesting there are tens of millions of users. By 2030, five years from now, it expects GLP-1 households to purchase 35% of food sold in the… ## [Good Tokens 2025-11-14](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-11-14) _2025-11-14 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time The Palace of Catalan Music The Goon Squad : Many respondents have been regular porn viewers since the fourth grade; few were older than twelve when they picked up the habit. This seems like an unsustainable equilibrium. The K shaped economy . Think old vs. young rather than rich vs. poor . Alaska experiments with voting by phone . Things I learned There’s been a 20% reduction in… ## [Code Faster with Clear Tutorials (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Mk9BfPyCojhb) _2025-11-14 · **Sponsored**_ Short, step-by-step coding videos you can follow along ## [🪦 Project Graveyard: Papagei Terminal 🦜](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/project-graveyard-papagei-terminal) _2025-11-06 · jdilla.xyz_ I’m trying to get better at building in public and at celebrating projects that end up as dead ends. Take this in that spirit. What it was Papagei Terminal allowed a user to spin up virtual machines like they were slack channels to make it easier to use \>1 Claude Code instance at the same time and make it easier to use Claude in --dangerously-skip-permissions mode. Here is an early prototype.… ## [Good tokens 2025-10-31](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-10-31) _2025-10-31 · jdilla.xyz_ A very happy 🎃 Halloween 🦇 to you and yours. Worth your time The most American Building . My grandfather slept in it while it was unfinished in between training stops in World War 2. My father took classes in it. I went to it on field trips. It’s a wonderful building. Preach, Nabeel, Preach . I wonder why “education” rather than “age” has been what has sorted our politics 🤔. On relationship… ## [Alain’s curve](https://pgfplots.net/alains-curve/) _2025-10-30 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ From mathcurve.com : Alain s curve (studied by Alain Juhel) is the projection of the intersection of the elliptical cone c²z²=a²x²-b²y² with the hyperbolic paraboloid cz=x²-y² onto the xy plane: So it makes sense to plot that xy projection as 0-level contour plot of a 3D surface. The equation (x² y²)² = a²\*x² + b²\*y² means plotting the zero level of f(x,y,a,b) = (x² y²)² = a²\*x² + b²\*y². Here s a… ## [Supra Podcast: How AI is changing the future of software development](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/supra-podcast-how-ai-is-changing-the-future-of-software-development) _2025-10-28 · jdilla.xyz_ I got to join Marc and Ben from the Supra podcast to talk about how AI is changing how software teams operate. Three things I took away from this conversation. First, is that there are some things that AI doesn’t change. At the end of the day, you’ve still got to define the problem, define the approach, define the details . AI changes the tools, the artifacts, and the process, but it doesn’t… ## [Book Thoughts: Becoming Trader Joe](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/book-thoughts-becoming-trader-joe) _2025-10-24 · jdilla.xyz_ Similar to Shoe Dog — and different in the way that Nike is different from Trader Joe’s. Three things I want to take away from this book: Joe was incredibly structured in how he thought about problems. He wanted to have a retail store where he paid people well which required him to have goods that had a high price per amount of space they took up. He was willing to cycle through lots of weird… ## [Good Tokens 2025-10-24](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-10-24) _2025-10-23 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time The Alpha Terrace Historic District in Pittsburgh, PA. One of my dream places to live. My guilty pleasure on YouTube right now are videos claiming Ancient Egyptians had access to advanced technology that allowed them to machine vases out of hard stone . I’m agnostic as to whether or not this is true, but I can’t look away! A second thing that makes these videos delightful is that… ## [FreeBSD with uefi on qemu amd64](https://adventurist.me/posts/00353) _2025-10-16 · Adventurist.me: Letters into the void_ All the information on using uefi with qemu seems to aged out as projects have been abandoned. On FreeBSD (around 15-beta2) we need to get the uefi edk2 firmware, which is packaged: # pkg install qemu edk2-qemu-x64 This will provide three images, one of which we need to give to qemu with the bios option. $ pkg info -l edk2-qemu-x64 edk2-qemu-x64-g202308\_5:… ## [Good tokens 2025-10-10](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-10-10) _2025-10-09 · jdilla.xyz_ A message from my sponsor Person Do Thing is on Amazon. You’re here so you know Uri already, but I’ll just say that my family loves this one and that it makes a great gift for the person in your life that loves games. Worth your time The Resonant Computing Manifesto . See if you see anyone you know 😉. The universe as an evolving organism . I have no idea whether or not this is true, but I really… ## [Slop is a choice](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/slop-is-a-choice) _2025-10-09 · jdilla.xyz_ 2025 is the year of slop. Meta has made an infinite slop machine. So has OpenAI . If this isn’t bad enough, our jobs have been invaded by workslop . The implication behind all of this is that slop is the fault of the LLMs or their creators. But for a moment, I want to ask you to consider… is this true? I don’t dispute that we’re seeing a lot more AI generated slop than we were 2 years ago… but I… ## [Mike Judge asks good questions about AI shovelware](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/mike-judge-asks-good-questions-about-ai-shovelware) _2025-10-09 · jdilla.xyz_ Mike Judge has a great piece poking at the AI hype where he asks essentially, “If these tools are so great, where is the explosion of AI created stuff in the world?” The whole piece is worth a read, but one of the most interesting things to me about it is the data he brings to bear on the question. He looks at: iOS app releases Android releases Domain registrations Steam releases Public GitHub… ## [Sympathy for the Devil](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/sympathy-for-the-devil) _2025-10-02 · jdilla.xyz_ The Power Broker by Robert Caro deserves its reputation as a masterpiece. One of the best books I’ve ever read and up there in my pantheon of non-fiction books with Breaks of the Game and What it Takes . Reading this book from the perspective of 2025, I think Robert Caro got Robert Moses wrong. 1 Yes, he was obsessed with power. Yes, he ruined neighborhoods and destroyed communities with highways… ## [Good Tokens 2025-10-01](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-10-01) _2025-10-02 · jdilla.xyz_ Best enjoyed this week in a sunny corner of a park Worth your time If you’ve ever wanted to buy a life sized dinosaur, now is your chance . Someday my son is going to find out I had this opportunity and didn’t take it and will never look at me the same way again. The Quiet Ones by Nikunj Kothari. An ode to the people that do the little things to make a company or a team effective. Illiteracy is a… ## [Good tokens 2025-09-26](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-09-26) _2025-09-25 · jdilla.xyz_ This week’s episode is best paired with a hot cup of coffee and Wild Ways by Josh Ritter playing in the background. Last episode was too LLM heavy, for which I apologize. I’ve done my best to group all of that into LLM corner so as not to let it overshadow everything. Worth your time Uri says we should not allow 18 year olds to sign long term contracts . So, so many thoughts here. 1. I remember a… ## [Levels of problem solving](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/levels-of-problem-solving) _2025-09-25 · jdilla.xyz_ I'm blatantly stealing this from Matt Holden who taught it to me, but I think about it all the time and I want a reference page to be able to point myself and others too. When working on a team, there are three levels to work on: Level 1: Agree on the problem to be solved Level 2: Agree on the approach to solving the problem Level 3: Agree on the details Many disagreements happen when you skip… ## [Book thoughts: Passport to Magonia](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/book-thoughts-passport-to-magonia) _2025-09-25 · jdilla.xyz_ This is a book with a handful of big ideas: 1. There are considerable similarities between the UFO stories of the 1950s and 1960s (then current, the book was published in 1969) and the stories of fairies / angels and demons / other mythical creatures from before the space age 2. Those similarities are interesting even if you don’t believe that UFOs come from extraterrestrial life 3. Even if these… ## [Breather surface – a pseudosphere like a flower](https://pgfplots.net/flower/) _2025-09-21 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ Inspired by Juan Carlos on X: #mathart #parametric #surfaces https://t.co/kY3gJxHvd1 pic.twitter.com/GbZ16Yyw5U — ∞ 𝕁uan ℂarlos (@jcponcemath) April 21, 2025 A Breather surface is beautiful, a pseudosphere famous in differential geometry and theoretical physics. A parametrization is here . I plotted it with pgfplots and TikZ in LaTeX, and colored it like a flower, using the colormaps… ## [Good Tokens 2025-09-12](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-09-12) _2025-09-11 · jdilla.xyz_ Shameless self promotion Matt Holden and I are doing a YouTube show about building with AI called --dangerously-skip-permissions . The first episode is “How did we get here?” . Matt and I have been having 1:1 conversations for more than a year now about what tools we’re using and how we’re using them… and now we’re having those conversations in public. I especially enjoy the way that Matt is able… ## [Good tokens 2025-09-05](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-09-05) _2025-09-05 · jdilla.xyz_ Worth your time Replacing lawns with wildflowers 💐. When I’ve made it, I won’t tell anyone, but there will be signs. Cate Hall on how to increase your surface area for luck , which is one of the biggest things I learned from Henry Oliver’s book on Second Acts . Cate is quickly rising up the list of people whose work I rush to read. Along the same lines: How to Get Ahead in DC . “Even the context… ## [Strange attractors](https://pgfplots.net/strange-attractors/) _2025-09-01 · stefan · PGFplots.net_ On X (Twitter), Juan Carlos aka @jcponcemath posts math content frequently. I saw hist post about the Aizawa attractor , a spherical-shaped attractor made from 6 parameters (a, b, , f). Three equations generate a trajectory from an initial point. I plotted the motion trajectories with Lua and pgfplots based on Juan Montijano, Mario Pérez, Luis Rández, and Juan Luis Varona, Numerical methods with… ## [Good tokens 2025-08-21](https://www.jdilla.xyz/post/good-tokens-2025-08-21) _2025-08-22 · jdilla.xyz_ Things I learned A group of kangaroos is called a mob . A group of jaguars is a shadow. Worth your time Adding an age check reduced online porn traffic in the UK by 47%. Whether or not you believe it is right, I believe it is unlikely that ten years from now people will be unable to get porn online without verifying their age in some way. What kids say about getting off their phones . Freedom is…