The pattern Christophe identifies in his audit can feel familiar to anyone who's watched a great product get buried under its own feature list: linkedin.com/posts/christ...
Check the report summary in Christophe's original post and then read the full report: christophedujarric.com/saas-positio...
If we bought a few less bombs, we could probably afford nice things.
One thing I'd like to see from the next presidency would be to appoint a special commission to prepare a report on the actual cost to defend the United States from attack.
Not foreign wars.
Just the cost to defend this country.
It's just unreal how little thought or planning went into starting a new massive war in the Middle East.
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📣 WTD Amsterdam meetup on Thursday, March 5th ✨
Join us to get knowledge gems 💎 and meet a bunch of curious folks.
RSVP and more details:
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As a former technical writer, this gives me an unholy amount of joy!
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation External Inbox Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org> 5:43 AM (4 hours ago) to me Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village) IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
READ: Obama's speechwriter to a room full of Zionists: "Young Jews see powerful Israelis hurting weak Palestinians and think the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel"
Yes! They learned correctly! That IS the lesson!
mondoweiss.net/2025/11/sara...
Legislation in the US, sponsored by 22 members of Congress, calls for sanctions on Israel. This marks the first time that a resolution in Congress has explicitly called for sanctions on Israel.
The S in BDS is no longer a taboo in the US. Escalate BDS pressure now.
https://loom.ly/gSsMMig
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Hi there! 👋
Are you dealing with post-Halloween, pre-Sinterklaas blues? 😔
Join us this Thursday Nov 6th at the OBA Oosterdok Babel Café for a casual WTD Amsterdam meetup! ☕ 📝 ✨
Details and info 👇
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I bought that book because of your lightning talk! I don't even have a car. Great book!
Oh my goodness! Only because it's you! ❤️
I gave my first lightning talk ⚡💬 at WTD Berlin 2025 ✨
I stayed within my 5 minutes, didn't sweat too much or fart loudly or throw up on stage, and talked about a classic, evergreen combo: technical writing and metal guitar solo recording 📝 🎸🤘
#writethedocs
Also, I curate my own typos.
When AI goes off-script: tales from the docs pipelines. Talk by Marco Spinello at Bump.sh meetup hosted at Algolia HQ in Paris.
✨ Honored, happy, and excited to join Bump.sh meetup at Algolia HQ in Paris on Wed Oct 8th! 🤩
Sign up here (free, but limited seats): www.eventbrite.fr/e/scaling-ap...
Gowri is a fantastic host: she creates a safe and cozy space to chat about docs and herding cats (aka knowledge management).
Catch the full episode on:
👉 Apple Podcast- apple.co/2Y2MUHg
👉 Spotify - spoti.fi/3h93Tzf
👉 YouTube - youtu.be/fjxelbA5v9Q?...
👉 Blog - document360.com/blog/keeping...
📢 💬 WTD Amsterdam meetup on Sept 11: bring your AI docs questions and use cases! 🤖 📝 ✨
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Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli
The power trio I play guitar with published a very raw mastered album (hardly any eq, minimal levels, almost zero editing and post-production):
🔊 🎶 👇
spinello-band.bandcamp.com/album/bestyle
Bonus track if you download the whole album (free) ✨
Corny, tacky, tongue-in-cheek, as it should be 🤘😎 🪩
