Finally, Trump does something good for the planet. He just didn’t mean to Households and businesses will continue to feel the aftershocks of a global crisis pulsing through our economy for as long as we depend on fossil fuels to power it.

www.smh.com.au/environment/...

The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying Questioning the frame of inevitability in use of AI

new acko post! acko.net/blog/the-l-i...

completely unreasonable thing to do but somehow feels essential

AI-upgraded Notepad now exposes Windows users to critical exploit A critical remote code execution vulnerability found in the AI-upgraded Windows 11 Notepad has fueled renewed criticism of Microsoft's forced AI feature creep.

The AI features added to Notepad created a critical exploit vulnerable to loading a compromised txt file.

The fix is part of Patch Tuesday, so update your systems.

AI is not a feature I ever desired in Notepad. I should look into some alternatives...

another valid approach is to write your own whole system.....

Isn’t it just as easy/informative to plot it on a stretchable x axis and eyeball?

holy crap BWV903 fugue. did they have forte fortissimo back then?

You cannot predict how a complex system, be it organizational or software, will behave. Put another way, a metric-focused analytical approach to improvement or control does not work and never will work.
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DWARF support for macOS and Linux by joelreymont · Pull Request #14369 · ocaml/ocaml DWARF v5 Debugging Support for OCaml Native Compiler This PR adds DWARF v5 debug information to the OCaml native compiler, allowing proper source-level debugging in GDB and LLDB. What's Impleme...

One of the many joys of using AI for programming is the creation of huge PRs on complex topics that the authors barely understand, but still suggest "because they work". Here's a great example from #OCaml github.com/ocaml/ocaml/...

Kudos to OCaml's maintainers for handling this so gracefully.

AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...

i usually hate it when business types come up with business neologisms for the noble art of shirking.

but i think i'll let them have "workslop". when your coworker gives you AI work pseudo-product that saves time for him (consistently a him) and takes up yours instead.

hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

GitHub - skeeto/impatient-mode: Impatient html mode. See your changes in the browser as you type Impatient html mode. See your changes in the browser as you type - skeeto/impatient-mode

#javascript is actually quite good if you treat it right. github.com/skeeto/impat... is awesome for small projects

AI slop attacks on the curl project - Daniel Stenberg YouTube video by Daniel Stenberg

youtu.be/6n2eDcRjSsk?...

GitHub - jdf-id-au/cocoagain: Core Graphics + MetalKit — Common Lisp REPL Core Graphics + MetalKit — Common Lisp REPL. Contribute to jdf-id-au/cocoagain development by creating an account on GitHub.

Should have started thirty years earlier #commonlisp github.com/jdf-id-au/co...

In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

“Some of us aren’t creative enough to brainstorm without ChatGPT!” Well then maybe you should sit this one out.

This is certainly the tism talking but I find so much joy in curiosity and the process of learning that the idea of wanting to outsource thinking to a machine is unfathomable to me

That’s the fun part! Why wouldn’t you want to do that?

The rise of Whatever This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of eve...

“polite lying daydream machine” eev.ee/blog/2025/07... The rise of Whatever / fuzzy notepad

please change to anything but spotify. like there’s a bigger shift that it’d be nice if people did with actually owning music again but the lowest effort thing you can do today right now is just change to literally any other streaming service. playlist converters exist.

After all decades of wrestling with OOP patterns, Pure Functional Programming Bullshit and realizing that you just wanna write code - Dumb, Imperative, Straight to the point code - I feel scammed. I feel lied to. I wanna sue all the Best Practice preaching Shitty Book Selling mfs

Everyone Is Using A.I. for Everything. Is That Bad?

i just find this so bizarre. searching through texts and doing the reading for myself is how i actually think through ideas! trying to put together a sentence is how i figure out what i actually want to say!

Submarines do not swim. Automobiles do not gallop. Telephones do not speak. Cameras do not paint. Computers do not think.

Oh dear this C reimplementation of some core app logic might end up more concise than #clojure (admittedly with some codegen so not quite fair)

The Era Of The Business Idiot Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...

excoriating! www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...

[iOS][globalization] Implement CompareInfo.Version for hybrid globalization by Copilot · Pull Request #115762 · dotnet/runtime Issue Currently, CompareInfo.Version throws a PlatformNotSupportedException on iOS/macCatalyst when running in hybrid globalization mode. This implementation provides the Unicode version informatio...

github.com/dotnet/runti...

The Copilot Delusion Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...

deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

I wonder if anyone has gone full babashka repl in place of bash…

Love regulation or hate regulation: it is clear from this case that Apple CANNOT self-regulate

The ONLY reason Apple cannot ban web links + claim 30% on all web payments (that have nothing to do with Apple infra!) is the US regulator

Think about this

I love the completions but yes it’s jarring to break away from the ancient conventions (particularly when still administering other systems still on zsh/bash). What made you switch?

The Ultimate Recreational Programming Experience™

Every 10-20 years, a breakthrough technology promises non-developers to finally create software without needing to hire programmers.

So far, every such technology resulted in the need for more devs… expert in this NEW technology (or knowing how to fix it up).

Every. Time.