@grantslatton.bsky.social - Grant Slatton

11 Feb 2026 15:58 +0000

New Post: Manufacturing as Maintenance https://grantslatton.com/manufacturing-as-maintenance

10 Feb 2026 21:38 +0000

New Post: Every Man a Microservice https://grantslatton.com/every-man-a-microservice

26 Jan 2025 10:16 +0000

you're into walkable mixed use urbanism because of some dutch youtuber i'm into it because

25 Jan 2025 19:01 +0000

During COVID, the rock climbing gym closed, so built this free-standing climbing pillar in our backyard

25 Jan 2025 08:20 +0000

can't recommend enough getting a banker's lamp for your office increased my IQ by 5 pts the vibe of working late completely changes erudite, scholarly, sophisticated

23 Jan 2025 19:50 +0000

At a cafe and two ~60 year-olds are telling each other about their physics "research" Both clearly cranks whose "research" is flux capacitor quantum dimension type stuff Men will literally invent fake physics before telling their bros they just wanna hang and chat

22 Jan 2025 18:33 +0000

if i ask GPT to list the countries on the Danube river sometimes it includes Moldova, sometimes not decided to get to the bottom of it probably training data with and without it included due to this weird history

19 Jan 2025 00:48 +0000

Built this record cabinet Sapele mahogany + white maple accents

14 Jan 2025 19:48 +0000

I know letting Amazon have my palm scan so I can pay with my hand at Whole Foods is probably The Mark of the Beast But it’s just soooo convenient Hope Bezos doesn’t wind up being the antichrist or I am cooked

10 Jan 2025 01:13 +0000

worked on a codebase once where the author had abbreviated all instances of the word "parameter" to "parm" made me want italian food every time i touched that repo

08 Jan 2025 21:09 +0000

honestly we’re so blessed that god made 2^10 so close to 10^3 allows estimating thousand = 2^10, million = 2^20, billion = 2^30, etc

07 Jan 2025 22:07 +0000

There are some languages that are *too* easy to rhyme in and it affects their music Spanish and Chinese come to mind It's too easy to write songs with trivial/elementary rhymes, don't have to work for it

06 Jan 2025 07:26 +0000

the elites don't want you to know this, but you can trivially pop out the crappy plastic wheels of your office chair and replace them with insanely smooth-rolling skate wheels honestly probably the best < $20 home office upgrade there is

05 Jan 2025 04:34 +0000

One of my favorite geography trick questions: You're traveling in the Panama Canal from the Caribbean to the Pacific What direction are you traveling? People say West, but it's actually East Panama is more squiggly than people think

04 Jan 2025 09:55 +0000

An interesting trend is that hardware is still improving exponentially, but the population of earth isn’t growing much So services that scale with the number of humans will become increasingly trivial In 2045, run all of Facebook on a single server, tinyurl on a raspberry pi

01 Jan 2025 23:44 +0000

New Post — A general algorithm for writing complex software https://grantslatton.com/how-to-software

31 Dec 2024 22:32 +0000

wish i was born earlier so i could get some trivial greedy algorithm named after me

30 Dec 2024 05:53 +0000

As a 90s kid with a stutter I was just glad to have some representation in cinema

27 Dec 2024 01:00 +0000

This little criminal tried to chase the mailman, only to be captured by grandma

26 Dec 2024 05:16 +0000

Me: So what's your specialty Astronomy prof: I study galactic collisions Me: Sounds exciting Prof: Not really since they take about a billion years

26 Dec 2024 05:15 +0000

when you teach a kid the rules of chess, they'll start by making legal but basically random moves junior engineers are like this if they ever read a book about "design patterns" too early they'll just apply them randomly — singleton here, factory builder there, etc

25 Dec 2024 19:28 +0000

New post! Bureaulogy, a new field on the study of bureaucracy grantslatton.com/bureaulogy https://grantslatton.com/bureaulogy

24 Dec 2024 04:45 +0000

i've practiced meditation for probably ~100 hours and gotten nowhere either i'm very dumb or already enlightened

24 Dec 2024 04:45 +0000

Humanoid robot butlers will be the thing that actually fixes the fertility crisis Raising kids would be way less stressful if you had zero housework to do

23 Dec 2024 19:14 +0000

friend is a medical illustrator few years ago, we were wondering when AI could do her job — getting the details right is important in this use case since then, she's been noticing more and more news articles and such using AI generated medical images note the 3rd forearm bone

23 Dec 2024 18:46 +0000

in my experience the best technique for being good at public speaking is to simply know the subject you are talking about extremely well it's only when you aren't confident in your mastery that you need the other techniques

22 Dec 2024 22:10 +0000

trialing: this is amazing erroring: wtf this sucks

22 Dec 2024 21:16 +0000

i get a tube of cinnamon rolls at the grocery store and put it right at the front of the refrigerator wifey next morning: "hey honey i have a surprise for you waiting in the kitchen"

21 Dec 2024 23:48 +0000

Most small businesses really aren't very well run, tons of low-hanging fruit Local diner got bought and taken over by a shrewd immigrant family They tightened the menu, installed streamlined ipad & mobile ordering, fixed the drink carbonation, etc Consistently 50% more customers now

21 Dec 2024 06:19 +0000

It's kind of funny that doctors still test reflexes by just hitting your knee with a little hammer We have all our fancy MRI machines and pulse oximeters But testing reflexes? Just give it a whack