Sunday run day was cold, wet, windy, and brilliant up on #exmoor #trailrunning

Jesus Christ, AI journalism is so bad right now. Exhibit one, Gizmodo is raving about an article that 'proves' LLMs have a "mathematical limit" and can't possibly do tasks that are too complex. Let's look at the actual paper, shall we? gizmodo.com/ai-agents-ar...

This from @daniloc.xyz is so damn good at explaining why AI agents are exciting for people who love to build stuff. It has many great insights, not least of which comparing agents to octopi and that puts me in mind of "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...

The aurora was strong in North Devon last night. It was the first time I've seen it down here!

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Scenes You Seldom See From the Private Eye archive. Issue 1120, November 2004.

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

Most teams don’t see the impact of "AI" code generation on systemic outcomes because THEY'RE NOT LOOKING. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/30/t...

Britons living in rural areas support banning trail hunting by 50% to 35% Most rural Britons say hunting has little to no importance to rural communities socially (51%) or economically (58%) yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

These magical winter days on #exmoor are amazing for #trailrunning It feels like you could be a time traveller here with lonely valleys and big meaningful skies

Andrej Karpathy is worried about keeping up with software engineering practices

He's laid out a beer selection, crisps, and a mince pie for Father Christmas. Apparently the plan is get him to relax and fall asleep here

Comics like these are the real reason my kids aren't old enough to read SMBC yet. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/anythi... PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Just fancy that! Time Person of the Year. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Dog viciously mauled by a tiger. #cats #kittens #caturday

THREAD. My parents' cat Bridget vanished. As the weeks dragged on they became ever more worried, so to distract himself my dad began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up at some of art & music's most important moments. I've collected his work here...

It's Santa landing on your roof!

This week, I gave a talk to the Montevideo Salesforce Developer group on AI for devs. Why good engineering is more important than it ever; The organisation/personal impact; What fast cheap code is good for; Centaurs, reverse-centaurs, and centaurtaurs. youtu.be/bX1VYfKFGxM

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Low winter sun for a bit of #trailrunning fun #northdevon

last one @b3ta.com christmas memes

The Thing (1982, John Carpenter)

The Perks of Being A Hundred Wallflowers is about a teenager with the superpower to turn into an army of shy people. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hundred PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Everyone always laughs nervously when I show this slide, but - seriously - don't make things that are creepy and weird. Don't purchase tools that are creepy and weird. Don't get free licenses to see how they work, just in case. Don't take meetings with the people who make them.

An unfortunately large number of people in the Computer Touching industry think their job is exclusively about touching computers when it's actually about Solving Problems via computer touching. Having a new kind of computer that solves even more problems when you touch it is good actually!

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

As someone who criticised the government back in January for not having a clear growth strategy it is good to see Torsten set out in plain language what the govt’s strategy is and how it hangs together. This is much better and clearer communication.

November, Hergé.

It’s Budget Day! The OBR publishes its latest outlook once the Chancellor has completed her statement in Parliament. My all-time favourite cartoon on the subject, by @mooseallain.bsky.social:

As my colleague Chris Giles put it: "The economics of this is pretty simple. 1. You should be a billionaire if you're worth it 2. Probably, no one is 3. If you're not worth it and a billionaire - you've got your money from rent exploitation - which should be stopped/taxed"

And now…the gallery. www.infinitebacon.com

at AI Engineer Summit workshops the MCP session started, 30 min later Claude Code SDK session started and there was a mass migration over to Claude SDK it’s the future..

there are friends and treasure in the forest #art

just in case nobody has done it before

The 1000 yard stare of a dog who did not want to be bathed. She did look punk, and she did get treats, so not all bad

NEWS! Children in Need celebrates raising less than half the amount Michelle Mone still owes the government for faulty PPE

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Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/conspi... #smbc

"Tax tapas" 🎯

AI is everywhere, but what does it mean for Salesforce developers? Join us on 25 Nov as @aidanharding.bsky.social covers thriving with AI and Keir Bowden dives into fine-tuning LLMs. Thanks to Mason Frank International and RocketPhone.ai for supporting the #TrailblazerCommunity.

“So we asked ourselves: how could we make the common bicycle heavier, more dangerous and, ultimately, reliant on electricity” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Of all the AI concerns, the one about wanting to replace management with algorithms is the most monkeys-paw-ish. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/boss PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

All the weather from sunshine to hail on #exmoor today #trailrunning

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”