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I think I’m done using AI generated images to enrich my blog posts

Main reason being it’s very obvious when it’s AI and I think it diminishes the quality of a post

Taggart (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange) Attached: 1 image What's going on here? The matplotlib maintainer this story is about correctly notes that all the quotes from his post in the article are made up. https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02...

did you see that the plot thickened

tl;dr Ars Technica might've posted AI-hallucinated pull quotes in their coverage infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1...

Finished UNSONG. I’m grateful Scott Alexander wrote it, it was wonderful

At least on the same level as Terry Pratchett or Douglas Adams. Some of those scenes in the book will be stuck in my head for the rest of my life

Mark of pride that my boss (who is very hardware-savvy) had a moment of disbelief when I told him how many hosts are operational in my homelab

The LLM trying to figure out how many parens nested inside my elisp it is before generating an invalid s-expression

Sorry, son. I cannot play with you right now. Daddy is ralphing on claude

Landing page with all the relevant details: log.hew.ing

Background post explaining more in-depth: log.hew.ing/background.h...

Code repositories: codeberg.org/hew

Today I'm open-sourcing an internal tool I've been refining for a few years that helps manage changelogs and release notes

It's called hew, there's a spec and reference implementation, and it's open for collaboration if you're interested 🪓 (links to follow)

A very merry product manager day to you all

People talk about yearning for freedom from parental responsibilities but never the little things you miss during childhood. The little notes around the house. The snacks they make and share. The surprise un-flushed turds that jump scare you in every bathroom

Great news! I’ll be at FOSDEM. You can find me floating 35 meters above the venue covered in pitch and ash singing a song that will rend the earth in twain when the moon is at its zenith. Please toss me up cool stickers if you have any

Alright well Musk is planning on manipulating the information environment even more so I guess I’m here now

There is absolutely room to use them effectively as many senior software people are; but they're skilled woodworkers in a newly-stocked garage full of power tools rather than reclining on a sofa running the Ikea assembly line by remote

This is an ice-cold take but I think the boring answer is the right one: if you intentionally offload all decision-making to an LLM when writing software, you'll almost by definition get worse at making good software decisions as your skill atrophies

I have inadvertently become a part-time toy manufacturer now that my sons have learned I can create plastic Pokémon figurines at-will with my 3d printer. Send help

forget greenland. This is the news that is Important to Me

Pharmacist at Costco thought my “birds of prey wearing sunglasses” shirt was cool

Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy Can you imagine the disruption to the 2026 economy without compensating policies?

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439 Days, 8,369 Miles, and 2 Kids with an Electric Vehicle A review of the new, electrified, horseless carriage of the future.

I blogged about our ~1 year experience of owning an EV

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DONE

To monitor my backups, I had to first invent the universe Building distributed object storage for timeseries data for distributed scraping for ZFS replication metrics.

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Vibe coding doesn't make programming labor disappear

Vibe coding transmutes programming labor into code review labor and engineering management labor, both of which are (in my experience) more labor-intensive than programming

I tasted a wagyu steak for the first time last night and maybe it was better not knowing what exorbitantly-priced steak tastes like

The Bernie/AOC rally exceeded the maximum venue capacity in _Idaho_ last night

nice little elisp function to rename an LSP symbol by choosing a new case for it

The latest Severance episode is at least on par with the season 1 finale as one of the greatest episodes of television

For the sake of broadening its reach, I'm participating in the economic blackout today

Got emacs to read remote .envrc files asynchronously before starting my language server, feels good man

I didn't know that a follow-up experiment to the double split experiment found that you could sort of un-collapse the wave??? wtf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum...