I finally upgraded to iOS 26. It has Win8 vibes.

@electrosmith.bsky.social any guidance on whether you’ll be building more patch.init modules? Waiting list?

The first mistake everyone makes is linear extrapolation. We live in a non linear world, linearity is only ever a short run approximation. The second mistake is assuming permanent exponential growth. There are no exponentials in the real world. There is always a hidden constraint, somewhere.

Ishan is the real deal when it comes to understanding GPT youtube.com/watch?v=clqB...

So the big bookstore in town has more shelf space dedicated to baking bread than programming. And I can’t find any books on things like electrical engineering. I worry.

I'm in Seoul to talk about Flutter and Gemini CLI. This is going to be fun 😁

youtube.com/watch?v=Zyw-... TIL that Silicon Valley just invented what my Dad did for living. My Dad retired in the 90s.

Odd reality shift. I was chatting with a startup founder about how to improve the onboarding flow of his product. He pitched me a front end role. I realised I don’t want to do work that isn’t first and foremost about using AI to improve user experience.

This agrees with my experience. elma.dev/notes/ai-mak...

Silly question of the day: when did Americans stop being engineers? Go back to recordings of the 60s and the US called itself a country of engineers. Justifiably proud of what they built during WW2 and afterwards. Now? I see no pride in building stuff. Just to be fair, Australia is the same.

I can’t imagine what Silicon Valley is thinking right about now. I suspect the next round of startups are going to need to either master team work over zoom, or move to Canada. Eh! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I'm curious, what does it take to be able to say something like "Full Self-Driving (Supervised) is now available." I'm shook.

I’m still confused why everyone predicts exponential growth in the early part of the sigmoid adoption curve.

Y’know what I find weird? We are doing stochastic compute atop a deterministic abstraction build atop a stochastic reality. That deterministic abstraction is expensive, and I’d guess not needed.

One of the odd parts of going from pure software development to combined software and hardware development is the number of engineering trade offs explode.

Can someone please explain the concept of "Vibe Coding Certification" please

I’m using GenAI to learn electronics. It’s oddly engaging to have an unreliable tutor. I keep having to engage to figure out if I’m being told the truth or not. It’s waaay more fun 😎

I’m curious when people are going to realise that LLMs make engineers more valuable, not less.

As someone who is tooling around with a soldering iron, I can’t see how anyone builds electronics without easy access to parts out of China. Simple things like SMT resistors and capacitors.

I'm curious how bad it is going to get in the US before y'all taco out of the import restrictions.

You know, for all the noise about AI destroying education, I’m finding it quite useful for learning new things. There is a difference between “write my essay” and “critique my essay”

And this is why I like Zed: zed.dev/blog/disable.... For clarity, I like my AI as Gemini CLI, running in Zed’s in-editor shell window.

Vibe coding, a quick way to learn the power of source control? www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

I'm curious how long until "do not highlight any negatives" becomes standard boilerplate in academic text.

Very interesting presentation by @davefarley77.bsky.social on using AI professionally in software construction. I particularly enjoyed the differentiation between coders, software developers, and software engineers. youtube.com/watch?v=EPtU...

Key learning from the war in Ukraine is the most important defence pipeline is having a viable drone racing league.

Moving from markdown engineer to context manager.

I’m loving exploring MCP with Gemini CLI. It’s fun. It’s going to change lives. And long term, I don’t think AI is going to make us all redundant. Anyone who believes that, be they a line worker or CEO, has not spent enough time working with the tools.

One of my hobbies involves short production run electronics from small companies. European manufacturers are shipping kit. American companies, however, are all showing out of stock with no indication of when next batch will go on sale. Making America great again.

Fun way to push your understanding of LLMs. Pick a new hobby. Get your LLM chat bot of choice to explain everything. Ask lots of pointed questions. Get it to ELI5.

I have an odd bet. I think MCP is the model T of this new age. Any colour you want as long as it’s black. I’m intrigued to see the F1 cars.

I’m curious when the US will realise that framing everything in terms of America First is going to make them Nigel no mates.

There is so much to learn here

I’m feeling queasy at the new UI videos coming out of Cupertino. The whole glass refraction thing… can we tone it down please? And maybe add back the whole frosting thing?

I just backed M0SS-101: a virtual analog monosynth on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/and... Shiny!

Read the whole 🧵. This is bang on.

Two related thoughts are bouncing around my brain. MCP driven UI, and Business Rules as Markdown. Still figuring out all the implications.

It’s fun watching the NY Fed call the orange one an economic illiterate. libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2025/05/why-...

The LNP continues to flail. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

I feel I should change my title to Markdown Engineer.

I love the naivete of www.sigarch.org/the-academic... The claim that supporting academia "isn’t about sides or ideologies" is flat out false. Believing in academia, or expertise in general, is now a political act. It is no longer comonly accepted. This is an explicit goal of the Republican party.

The thing I find most head breaking is how people plot the future. Some do a linear extrapolation, others fit to an exponential curve. Neither of these methods work beyond the short term because the world is neither linear nor exponential.

I believe I said something about the f35 and tariffs: apple.news/AsBcQ89PDSai...

I suspect Trump just added enough risk to movie production to halt production of new films.

With advice like this the LNP is DOA. apple.news/Ae76PFKquTDi...

I’m amused that Trump aligned advisors think they can help Dutton get elected. apple.news/AiLOkkxiNTOe...

I’m curious when the 5d chess claimants will realise it’s just senility.

So the interesting thing about optimistic SciFi was the truly dystopian times it was made in. craig-russell.co.uk/blog/2024-10...

In unrelated news, companies using GenAI to manufacture content on Bluesky please eff off.

Something something leopards eating faces. www.perplexity.ai/page/openai-...