The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...

Very relevant and very good. Thanks for sharing.

Such a great loss, and awful news. Sincere condolences to his family at this tragic time.

Copilot CLI invoking comedy roast skill

I built an agent skill that roasts me based on my work week (using GitHub, X, and WorkIQ MCP servers), and it cracks me up so much. 😆

"I've never seen someone so aggressively productive and yet so fundamentally unhinged at the same time."

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I'll be in Hong Kong this weekend for #AgentCon hosting a tournament to make the best Snake Game bot with agentic AI. Hope to see you there!

Dear astronauts, if you liked losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes, I can highly recommend a 13hr BNE-LAX flight with no Wi-Fi.

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Huh. I’ve been trying to use it with my partner and we can never get it to work before falling back to “just text me”

Has anyone actually tried to use AirDrop on an iPhone recently?

It is the exact opposite of a “magical experience”.

Thanks for trying it out!

Got a persistent server running for the CopperHead game. Asking a favour: try it out at aka.ms/copperhead and let me know how it goes?

We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats.

Just updated the CopperHead Snake game client/server to v4. A real fun way to test your vibe coding skills is to compete with other players in a build-your-own-bot tournament -- deets here: github.com/revodavid/co...

Hey Siri, do you really think it’s more likely I wanted to set a timer for 16 minutes instead of one for 60 minutes?

Cc @sajilicious.bsky.social

It’ll be back soon, if only as a static site so the links don’t break. TypePad, the blog host shut down with only a few weeks warning. Read the story of the rescue operation here: medium.com/@gcordidoa/m...

It should hopefully be coming back soon as a static site. TypePad didn’t give us much warning but we were able to download all the posts and images before it shut down.

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Devs: looking to up your GitHub Copilot game? In 60 mins, I'll be hosting an AMA with Aaron Powell, maintainer of the Awesome Copilot repo, your source of prompts, chat modes and more!

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🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published!

Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲

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simonw/codespaces-llm I found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable... and that token works as an API key for accessing LLMs in the GitHub Models collection, which …

You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link:

codespaces.new/simonw/codes...

Notes on how I got this working: simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/... - plus a detailed TIL on using devcontainer.json to configure Codespaces: til.simonwillison.net/github/codes...

Looks like something Simon Stålenhag would paint! Where is that?

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.

This @kashhill.bsky.social piece is wild and disturbing:

Consciousness exists in the observer’s mind

HMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity! hmmer.org

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

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Outstanding!

Hmm, looks like not yet, which is unusual. Maybe it’s because it’s only available as “latest” in OpenAI’s API, not a specific version number.