De-slop the text you shouldn't be writing anyway. A Claude skill to remove all the AI patterns from AI-generated text. blog.stephenturner.us/p/deslop
Some before/after:
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just saw my first `curl | claude` instead of `curl | bash`
and you thought the arguments over piping to bash were contentious...
Beware the IDEs of March
RIP Frater Imperator. I think
One more new blog post for the week!
ππ» Evaluating Claudeβs dbt Skills: Building an Eval from Scratch
rmoff.net/2026/03/13/e...
The Pitt would make a great radio play π«£
"Covid will be over in two weeks. Gone by Easter"
"We're signing a health care plan within two weeks"
"Theyβre dying, Russians & Ukrainians. I want them to stop dying. Iβll have that done β Iβll have that done in 24 hours"
Based on his record, this isnβt ending anytime soon.
A humorous concept product render of an Apple-branded physical keyboard with only three keys: βAllow once,β βAllow alwaysβ (the largest, center key), and βRejectβ satirizing the frequent tool permission prompts that Claude requests from users during agentic tasks.ββββββββββββββββ
Got this new keyboard, lmk what yaβll think.
I really liked Elixir when I was using it. The Beam VM is very cool.
youtu.be/dKaZ89SkVYY?...
youtu.be/ZOutBmRai2M?...
Orthopedic Boots on the ground
so I tried the prompt ("can you use whatever resources you like, and python, to generate a short 'youtube poop' video and render it using ffmpeg ? can you put more of a personal spin on it? it should express what it's like to be a LLM") with Opus high in CC, and, uh,
yeah. (flashing lights warning)
myth: LLM-assisted coding means everyone is forced to use The Popular Framework forever
reality: agents will happily migrate your entire app to The Good Framework
inertia is a powerful drug but we are entering a world without moats, plan accordingly
strawberrybrowser.com/blog/react-t...
If NodeJS is relevant when 2100 happens, we've failed.
Spring forward... Fall back... whatever.
Can we just pick ONE & stick with it once & for ALL?!!! β°
I think this gap is EXTREMELY real in a business sense and yet there is also the revealed other thing here which is a great deal of people in the world will never be remotely of interest to SaaS, and we know it, and those people still have needs suited to software
First question they ask when Universal Healthcare is brought up though.
Obama: Every day you wake up to things you just didnβt think were possible. Each day weβre told by those in high office to fear each other. Everywhere we see greed and bigotry being celebrated, and bullying and mockery masquerading as strength.
Impeachment, conviction, and removal only work when Congress has a spine.
South Dakota's "Meth. We're on it" campaign
I'll always remember Kristi Noem for the "Meth. We're on it." campaign.
βYouβre a U.S. senator!β
Bernie stops Noemβs replacement from literally trying to fight someoneππ½
This should go great
I wired up a powerline status bar for #ClaudeCode with the statusline plugin.
gist.github.com/tjhanley/01f...
Yesterday they reverse engineered Appleβs neural engine: github.com/maderix/ANE
And today people are running the amazing Qwen3.5 accelerated on an m1, this is insane:
SlateDB 0.11.0 is out! We had 5 new RFCs, 10 new contributors, and 3 new language bindings. This is a big release with a bunch of improvements and new features. π§΅
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC44...
I feel like most TypeScript projects are not setup for this design... in my experience on the projects i've joined is that they are basically Rat Kings
Have we started letting people use AI tools during technical job interviews yet?