Daniel Jalkut
@danielpunkass.punkitup.com
š¤ 3723
š„ 247
š 1808
Founder of Red Sweater and punkass of lore.
https://redsweater.com/
If there is some kind of award for knowing the most about D&D without ever actually playing it, I would like to apply.
3 days ago
1
10
0
As a suburban, atheist dad, the closest I get to religion is when it somehow rains right after I put down fresh grass seed.
4 days ago
0
8
0
I am so good at vibe-coding purpose-made web sites, I sort of wonder if there is a market for vibe-coded sites. It does take a little technical and aesthetic acumen to get it right.
4 days ago
1
2
0
A library with a librarian was the first large language model.
4 days ago
1
6
1
My take on AI is, essentially, everybody whoās against is too against it and everybody whoās for it is too for it.
8 days ago
17
189
61
People who are skeptical or worried about AI, including the Pope, sometimes come across as if there is something we can do about it. There are many technologies that canāt be undone. When fire was invented, the Pope might ask āletās slow down adoption of fireā but it wouldnāt work because ⦠fire.
8 days ago
3
1
0
Every time I go back to Twitter I realize that not only is it as unredeemable as ever, itās somehow worse than the last time I checked it. What a shit show.
8 days ago
3
14
2
This ā80s-era coffee mug has never been more apt.
9 days ago
1
45
6
Always be fixing little things. Even if it takes you 7 years to get around to it.
github.com/sparkle-pā¦
12 days ago
1
0
0
Iām out to see an exhibit of aging hipsters in Boston. Oh and Belle & Sebastian are playing it.
14 days ago
0
0
0
Just posted Black Ink 2.4.7 with bug fixes affecting clue visibility, UTF-8 preservation, and more.
redsweater.com/blog/4274ā¦
14 days ago
0
0
0
Whenever I unsubscribe from a mailing list, and the confirmation message says āWeāll miss you!ā, it makes me extra glad to have parted ways with such a saccharine, insincere business.
14 days ago
0
4
0
āOnline Only.ā Really? Costco DOESNāT want to share the luxurious sheen of this CASKET in stores? š
14 days ago
0
0
0
Seeing as AI is being used in virtually every intellectual pursuit on earth, it stands to reason itās being used to aid in things like electrification and fuel efficiency, among many others. Every extent to which AI helps reduce the widespread use of oil is a credit against its own energy use.
16 days ago
0
3
0
I got tired of both Claude and Codex failing to fix a bug that I thought would be easy for either of them, so I had to step in and do it myself. kisses biceps still got it ā¦
17 days ago
2
9
0
Thirty years ago today, I was hired as a full-time employee at Apple Computer, Inc.
bitsplitting.org/2026/05/1ā¦
21 days ago
1
9
0
Just saw a man walking down my block with one kid on his shoulders and one kid walking next to him. I know EXACTLY what his partner wanted for Motherās Day.
23 days ago
0
7
0
Billion dollar idea: a streaming service aggregator that automatically signs you up for any service that hosts a show you want to watch right now, and quietly unsubscribes you after the shortest possible subscription interval. āWatch what you want, when you want, pay as you go.ā
26 days ago
0
3
0
What do you call a marginally qualified candidate who gets hired on the strength of their open source activity? Repo baby.
26 days ago
1
4
0
Everybody has been talking for years about how declarative programming is the future, but nobody anticipated it would mean declaring, āClaude, make me an app.ā
27 days ago
1
3
0
If mifepristone caused erections we would not be in this situation. Politicians only fight against women's health, never against men's.
about 1 month ago
1
7
1
Jay Zās āEmpire State of Mindā is so good that I can sit through a whole YouTube video even after suffering 110% exposure by street merchants in Times Square.
www.youtube.com/watch
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
The greatest practical downside to agentic AI in programming is the unpredictable delay between request and response. When I worked at Apple in the late ā90s, we would start a build at night to be sure it was fresh in the morning. During the day we would play video games while waiting.
about 1 month ago
1
2
0
AI offers incredible powers to people today who ALREADY know how to do their jobs. The real risk, IMO, is that a whole generation will never learn how to actually do the jobs.
about 1 month ago
0
8
0
I just left the sheet music to āLinus and Lucyā on the piano and now I hear intermittent attempts to play it.
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
Something itās taken me many years to learn, even after growing up in a progressive town (Santa Cruz, CA) is that people youāre standing up for are usually pretty lenient about the bozo moves you might make while standing up for them.
about 1 month ago
0
2
0
Inspired by my kidās impromptu crossword creation, I decided to take another stab at construction myself. Now my kid is test-solving it. Iāll submit it to the NYT first because of course I want that glory, but then Iāll see if anybody else wants it!
about 1 month ago
0
1
0
I admit I was anxious to post about my discomfort referring to trans or non-binary kids in the company of their parents. I thought that people who have a much harder time living a life where their identity is constantly challenged might find my concern too trivial. Iāve had good feedback so far. š
about 1 month ago
0
4
0
Be right back. Just placing seashells on a beach spelling out that we should ā86ā ā and by 86 of course I donāt mean kill, because that would be the stupidest interpretation ā the Supreme Court justices who voted to eradicate the Voting Rights Act. And I know we CANāT 86 them, but still. Seashells.
about 1 month ago
1
0
0
A very modern social challenge is learning about your kidās friend being trans or non-binary, and wanting to respect their pronouns, but not sensing any buy-in from the parents. Iām always wondering if theyāre misgendering their kid āfor my sakeā or, because they donāt know yet, or worseā¦
about 1 month ago
0
2
0
Unbeknownst to me, my son (17yo) learned enough about crossword construction to make a puzzle, print it with MY APP, and leave it as tribute on the table, waiting for me when I returned home. Very good for somebody who has never had any training or practice, as far as I know!
about 1 month ago
3
13
0
If youāre a parent who, for whatever reason, is lucky enough to have a piano in your home, the sweetest sound imaginable is the sound of your kids playing the piano.
about 1 month ago
2
9
0
No idea how likely to be true this is, but I thought it was interesting that AI knowing so much about a particular framework or technology might extend its lifetime, regardless of future frameworks' merits.
bsky.app/profile/mā¦
about 1 month ago
1
4
0
reposted by
Daniel Jalkut
Robert Reich
about 1 month ago
Tim Cook donated $1M to Trumpās inauguration. He fawned over Trump and gifted him a 24-karat gold plaque (as Apple lobbied for tariff exemptions). Apple donated to Trumpās White House ballroom. And it removed ICE tracking apps from its stores following a demand from the DOJ. Remember this.
376
11270
4301
Iāve had great experiences with Appleās āExpress Replacementā in the past, but now that Iāve been waiting 10 days for a replacement, with no updates, Iām wondering if other people havenāt had the same stellar service I used to enjoy.
about 1 month ago
1
1
0
Assistant TO the regional CEO.
about 1 month ago
0
5
1
Not surprising, given the number of times we agreed about it on Core Intuition, but I agree 100% with
@Manton
ās judgment of acceptable semantic versioning. The only one I suck it up and defy (holding my nose) is ā2.1.10ā.
www.manton.org/2026/04/1ā¦
about 2 months ago
0
0
0
As my oldest son gets ready for college, I'm thinking about the fears surrounding going out on one's own. Having to, all at once, pay all the bills while hoping for some relief. He's lucky to have a backstop in me/us, but so many kids don't. College should be universally funded.
about 2 months ago
1
7
0
The biggest marketing coup in the AI era is Anthropic calling its agentic, command-line tool, āClaude Code.ā Itās a diversely capable model that can be used for ANY matter of tasks, but calling it ācodeā made it feel like the perfect choice for coders. OpenAIās Codex doesnāt hit the same mark.
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
AI skeptics often express a fear about how it might do something bad without you knowing. You canāt ātrustā it. Itās absolutely, 100% true. But the question of whether you trust it or not is entirely in your hands. You CAN review every word, code snippet, etc., before it does it. If you choose to.
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
The utility that Claude built for me features a tmux (terminal multiplexer) managing orchestrator that dispatches all of my download plugins to do their thing, and monitors the result. It lets me dive in to their logs, connect to the live tty, or kill the pertinent process.
about 2 months ago
0
0
0
That statements downloading workflow is an example of a pattern in my use of AI: ask it to build the necessary tools for me to do what I want, with my private data, when I want. Donāt ask it to DO what you want. Ask it to AUTOMATE doing what you want.
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
For years Iāve been grappling with the problem of maintaining a local archive of all the digital documents that used to naturally archive themselves by showing up on paper. I got Claude to help me orchestrate the whole ...
https://danielpunkass.micro.blog/2026/04/14/for-years-ive-been-grappling.html
about 2 months ago
1
0
0
My kids have been incredibly successful so far. Iām sure they could have done ābetterā by somebodyās standard, but I never wanted to stress them out. They enjoy doing well, and many times that means getting an A, but sometimes it means getting a B. They are perfect.
about 2 months ago
0
9
0
I ājustā got back from the ACPT: Americaās crossword tournament. It takes a while to sink in, because itās a surreal experience living, eating, drinking, and most importantly SOLVING in the midst of so many amazing crossword enthusiasts. Even the celebrities there are accessible. So cool, so nerdy.
about 2 months ago
0
7
0
@darthbluesky.bsky.social
Thank you for favoriting and reposting. It's this little guy. He's the cool sax and piano player now :)
about 2 months ago
1
10
0
My 14yo started with violin in 3rd grade, switch to saxophone in 4th grade, but took piano lessons on the side. Those only lasted a couple years, but thanks to his commitment to the sax he joined the middle school jazz ensemble. Now heās playing Dave Brubeck riffs on piano while I write this. š
about 2 months ago
4
278
5
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about āAmericaā (the USA) is that people as diametrically opposed as the staunchest conservative, easily labeled a fascist, and the staunchest liberal, easily labeled an anarchist, find common ground declaring the United States as the country they are most loyal to.
about 2 months ago
0
0
0
In some countries, announcing you have a better espionage tool than the government might be considered an act of insurrection, but I hope that is not the case here.
about 2 months ago
0
0
0
If Anthropic has really developed an LLM that can suss out security weaknesses better than any other AI, the US government would be foolish to continue shunning them. Oh, right, it is foolish.
about 2 months ago
0
4
0
Load more
feeds!
log in