Not having a dislike button was a mistake All the ways to engage with bad takes now involve spreading them The only winning move is to block and ignore.

Writing database queries is too close to the metal. Best practices don’t work! It’s time to make SQL enterprise-scale with utility classes. tailwindsql.xyz

Last thing a guy stuck in a garbage truck heard:

Much to think about

Had an idea last week to make a tool that shows what answers a model can give for a given prompt. Used this downtime day to explore the idea and the results are fun. This isn't sampling, it deterministically enumerates the search space. Prompt was: "In what year was Barack Obama born?"

Cursed Cunningham's Law: The fastest way to get help from an expert is not to ask a question, but to claim an LLM outperformed the experts.

Oh neat, the best youtube channel ever just joined bluesky 👀

adding AI hacker to my resume

For me, the first google search result for "nano banana" is Wikipedia. It's comforting to know that Google doesn't SEO their own product

I'm good at code and terrible at UI design. It's very annoying that LLMs are also good at code and terrible at UI design

who's out there drinking cloudflare's lava lamp juice again

Today I learned: React was first implemented in Standard ML, an even less popular cousin of OCaml, before it was ported to JavaScript

Why hasn't laying off workers and replacing them with AI resulted in software becoming cheaper?

Personal observation: I've encountered more non-tech people using Deepseek than Claude. I don't think many non-tech people have even heard of Claude.

"Does vibe-coding need to involve an LLM?" is a question I am now pondering

Liked computers, avoided computer science because of the dot com crash, ended up working with computers anyway

Best part about Bluesky is that stuff like this is doable

If you arrange all the integers alphabetically, the first one is "eight", and the last one is "zero"

"The incentive gradient was clear: sanity was expensive, and extremism paid dividends. We talk a lot about polarization as if it were a disease that infected society, but we’re missing a key data point: polarization is a growth hack, and it works." www.joanwestenberg.com/p/how-to-sta...

I read the caption first and thought the illusion might be because the y-axis was on a log scale, but it's not! My brain was bamboozled regardless.

I posted a question about cloudflare on hacker news, and got this really lengthy reply from the CEO. Cloudflare is operating on a different level

Out of curiosity I've checked out the Discover feed, and it has become good? It's serving me a lot less political posts than my For You feed right now

CloudFlare is down. I like that CloudFlare tells you that it was CloudFlare that messed up. That's a nice touch.

The internet is a wonderful source of inspiration, but a terrible source of truth

❌ Solar panels ✅ Thermonuclear fusion harvesters

So tempted to get a Stanford degree and memorise leetcode so that I can work at Google and fix the YouTube Music app

This X screenshot blocker has significantly improved the quality of my feeds. If I wanted to see tweets, I wouldn't be on here! @xblock.aendra.dev

There is an image labeler that hides (or blocks if you prefer) screenshots, and you can mute posts with links. Not single built-in features though. bsky.app/profile/xblo...

PSA if you think a news article is dumb, DON’T share it. That just makes the problem worse

Apple is worth 391 Garfields

More like us-east-none AM I RIGHT?

I try to be clear about what form of AI I'm talking about. I was chatting with someone about their experience with "AI", and then I realised they were referring to Bixby

TIL we have 4 different types of horsepower, including a metric horsepower.

Slightly diminish a band: The Beatless

I like Jetbrains tools, but it is brave of them to increase subscription prices, right when AI-powered dev tools like Cursor or Claude Code are gaining market share.

Finally figured out how to integrate Claude Code with ChatGPT

*Checks words we haven't seen* I am kurfuffled that no one has used freebooties on this site!

Google Maps had trouble deciding if I'm using the light theme or the dark theme, so it chose both

350B rows in is a bit late to realize this Clickhouse gotcha: "Due to historical reasons, UUIDs are sorted by their second half. UUIDs should therefore not be used directly in a primary key, sorting key, or partition key of a table."

A cool concept when coding is the idea of "code locality" or "locality of behaviour". Roughly speaking, it is how much of the surrounding code do I need to understand, in order to work out what a function does. htmx.org/essays/local...

macOS has a builtin command-line tool `screencapture` to capture screenshots programmatically I finally found a use for it: scanning QR codes from the terminal.

Whoever set today's Connections must be feeling pretty pleased about themselves

This is a headline that will never be topped

Just making a note to self that I got much better discussion saying "what do you think" instead of "here's why you're wrong." There's probably a lesson here.

Fun game a reader sent me: www.word.golf

I was looking up MCP servers for mobile simulators. On the first result, the first few example prompts were basically "leave a fake like and comment on a video" and "leave a fake 5-star review on an app" 🤦🏻‍♂️ AI folks really aren't fighting the allegations here huh

As a fan of algebraic effects, Context Parameters in Kotlin is a very exciting feature. It's probably the closest we'll get to a mainstream implementation of algebraic effects. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out in the real world.

Naming things doesn't have to be hard. Just look at Python's copy2(), the replacement for copy() docs.python.org/3/library/sh...

i still kinda want reddit for bluesky. is anyone working on this

My favourite piece of Rust-lang trivia: The bit of code in the Rust compiler that unescapes '\n' into the newline character does it by mapping '\n' to itself! Nowhere in the rust compiler is it explicitly defined that '\n' maps to the newline character 0x0A. github.com/rust-lang/ru...