… beyond the imposed burden of reading vacuous bullshit, the language we consume has such an influence on the language we produce. I’m really glad good people are thinking about this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I have some hope there’s a growing sense that publishing LLM generated prose should be regarded as witless and inconsiderate; reduced to the domain of grifters and spammers.
The next cultural step is to avoid and protect ourselves against *reading* LLM generated prose, because…
“the spectrum” goes from thomas the tank engine to starlight express
No wonder there's so much growth/noise in the opinionated Heroku-ish one-stop-shop platform market…
For a long time, the foundational AWS services – stuff you'd interact with for almost every use case – remained fairly simple.
Not only are they getting more complex, but everything suffers incidental complexity from surrounding pieces, e.g. Organisations, IAM Identity Centre, CloudWatch Logs, etc.
I really want something more like Concourse, though without all the distributed systems complexity… I should check out Dagger again, see how that's going.
So much seductive pluggable-programmable-modular-flexible incidental complexity – that is incredibly difficult to avoid! – for a system that should be as simple to read, write, and drive as possible. 😬
The GitHub Actions beta happened to ship while my team was reviewing candidates for our new CI platform. It was too new to consider, so I didn't need to dig into it…
… until this year. And yikes it gives me serious ops and security heebie-jeebies. Practically every feature is a supply-chain risk?!
🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?
surely not #ThePitt methodically introducing the rest of the night shift in the form of absolute badass actors worthy of their own show surely not
I really think "give AI total control of my computer and therefore my entire life" is going to look so foolish in retrospect that everyone who went for this is going to look as dumb as Jimmy Fallon holding up a picture of his Bored Ape
There’s no such thing as the history of science (and this is a blog post about it)
(inspired by a great 2017 article by Lorraine Daston)
williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/t...
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librsvg might be a useful reference… it maintained C API/ABI compatibility through progressive migration to Rust, and comes with lots of great blog posts and presentations by Federico gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg
RØDE is smashing it. The RØDECaster Video and Video S were cool, but the RØDECaster Video Core is *such* a great idea. And they've made it compose well with software control, or RØDECaster Pro for deeper audio production and control. rode.com/en-au/produc...
While the irrational exuberance crowd is over-indexing on utility-priced non-deterministic chaos, there's a quiet thread of more sensible and pragmatic enthusiasm ticking along in the background, using coding agents within more secure, rigorous, deterministic systems.
Do they have any hope of fusing the SNL style with UK humour? [first sketch: UnderAge] lol, okay, yes. #snluk
there are some that i could survive, but i'd know why they were doing it, and that would make me very cross
(Yikes, Sam Ruby's blog is just revolting slop now.)
So, @nikomatsakis.com's “Rust Project Perspectives on AI” [note: mostly about LLM-assisted coding] consultation and documentation is great project/social support work, and a great insight into OSS project challenges. nikomatsakis.github.io/rust-project...
Timeline of TV & Film Industry Consolidation by @usefulcharts.bsky.social is also a timeline of the USA turning its back on regulating industries and preventing monopolies. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSNT...
Ha, now that's a classic in my world. 😆 bsky.app/profile/jean...
Heh, it's the "Ugh, is this AI?" reflex making its way from slopped text and images to economic analysis. 😆
They're unreasonably effective at things like judgement, taste, caring, and not over-fitting. 😆
i really enjoyed both 😆 thank you
Back when I was travelling (too much) for conferences and whatnot, I had a personal travel agent… sounds extravagant, but she ran a small business, was a travel enthusiast, knew how to get great deals, and loved solving weird travel problems and constraints. It was amazing. Huge brain relief.
Great thread – thank you! I suspect you might have added to more than a few to-read lists.
@jmoiron.bsky.social Discovered your blog via the Wirth article, read a few more entries – righteous anger, solid opinions, very agreeable – and then a Connections mention…! 🤯 Had to double-check you were American. Anyway, some appreciation from afar.
I thought you might appreciate this acquisition.
I've been on a Breton War of Succession curiosity bender, and discovered your minigraph while seeking alternatives to "extremely dad areas" Hundred Years' War material. It's great! (Thomas Dagworth nicked his mattress?! Amazing.)