Sony cameras definitely have a steep learning curve, but the worst fucking thing they did was probably putting the videos into a PRIVATE folder

Who remembers when web designers used Photoshop and it was the absolute stupidest tool for this job?

That feeling when you do this and it's more than zero ollama list | grep -iE 'abliterated|dolphin' | wc -l

GitHub teams be like: you want to add someone to a team? Sure let me list every single GitHub user starting with all the ones that do not belong to your organization

The integration of Linear with Slack is becoming really nice. Especially with proper use of AI in there. That's what you want to see emerging!

Wishing there was a Jon Wick who was obsessed with tracking down people who create side effects when you import their Python modules

Remember kids: if you're wondering why dry this old low-quality filament, the answer is that it will literally jam your printer in every single way that you didn't know was possible AT THE SAME TIME Just had to pull _every_ component on the filament path and unjam them one by one

Doing mechanical work with ADHD is 50% of the time going on getting distracted after reading the next instruction and 50% looking where you put that damn fucking tool

That is going to be a game changer! Most of my Django apps will reduce the time to execute `./manage.py` commands dramatically (I expect factors 10 or more on some projects)

Regular expression arithmetics. That's fucking amazing, I didn't know this was a thing. This will induldge me in my madness.

The year is 2025 and I have real-time system notifications when I recieve an email, and I didn't want them. Pretty sure I've been trying since 2002, but email clients were never too kind to me.

The timescaledb license would be great if they did sell the product, but given they don't unless you make very specific choices... Guess I'll go fuck myself with my DigitalOcean managed DB

Now all that's left to do is to find a syntax that is understandable

Pretty impressed that qwen:0.6b has functional tool calling. I can't get it to do anything useful, but it _does_ call tools.

In one yeaar, Chrome will essentially refuse to connect if there is no HTTPS. Funny to think that browsers used to _warn_ you about entering HTTPS websites, and e-commerce would put _only_ the checkout in HTTPS. security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...

When you send data over the Internet, it goes through a network of physical cables. If you follow the Ethernet hole in your wall you can land in any room in the world that has an Ethernet cable delivering Internet. Except for the last few meters happening in Wifi. That's ironic in a way.

It's like if when the ENIAC was released someone was saying "okay we're gonna cover 50% of US territory with computers and it's gonna do all the math in the world"

Tired: API access token Wired: API access Tolkien

Hope everyone's doing okay out there!

Is Daniel Jackson saying "yolo" or like "yol8"? I feel like this expression emerged too late for the debate to truely happen

Unpopular opinion: getting a ML scientist doing GenAI applications is like putting a mechanical engineer behind the wheel of taxi because they know how mechanics work

Tired: sending a letter to yourself in the future Wired: writing apology comments in your code for bugs you know you'll be causing in 3+ years

Cloud exists for a real reason, although my suspicion is that given the prohibitive margin of those hyperscalers and the ever-improving state of open source infra... There will be a breaking point, and it's not so far in the future.

The "body battery" indicator from Garmin is a mystery to me but I can clearly see the different periods of my day on the graph's slope (lunchtime quasi-flat, heated meeting goes down fast, etc). It'd be interesting to have the derived value in real time (or is it just the stress indicator?)

Security specialists don't want you to know this one weird trick.

Adapted for modern times. (you wouldn't believe how many tweaks it took me to convince LLM to just add two numbers and return the result)

Average API response times are often in the 200~1000ms, yet with all the modern modernism that we have you would expect it to be way below 100ms. That's truly sad, what are we wasting CPU on?

Spotify Lossless is interesting in the sense that despite considering myself not having the best ear I can now find new instruments that I've never hear before on tracks that I listened hundreds of times

Another colleague tells me she's trying to back off on AI use. Mainstream AI detox trend is near 🤓

Slack (and notifications in general) totally confuses importance and urgency. I don't want to read and deal with important messages right away. I want to do so in my own time when I can process it properly...

What is great with emails starting by "We're not just X" is that you can immediately identify that they exactly X and stop reading there

Claude Code (on API use) woke me up with about $100 spent for 30kLoC What is interesting is that what remains is 15kLoC, including quite a lot that were not written by Claude. So essentially out of 30kLoC produced, you'll keep only about 10 if you keep your codebase clean That's $10 for 1kLoC

What'd be fun is an entirely community-driven vibe-coded social network where every single post is analyzed and potentially taken into account by the AI in order to add/change features on the platform

Colors in argparse 🔥❤️

SvelteKit's reroute hook is 💯

Apple: we have full control over the hardware to provide the most seamless experience Also Apple: oh you just put your AirPods to charge? Now you won't have sound in Instagram for another minute or so

Is there a way to get Google to stop flagging your domain in the malware category for no valid reason at all? This happens every 3 days and I really don't see why... But that's definitely a problem

CSS' positiion: sticky is great but also... What the fuck

Bike maintenance products be like: super strong industrial performance with boron, nano-ceramics, UV dye and a million other chemicals. Also, 100% biodegradable. (Well "boron" sounds scary but apparently it's an important nutrient, so who knows)

I benchmarked --help on a CLI with the ref implementation for PEP 810 (lazy imports). Because my CLI moved imports into functions just before they get used, I got a speedup of x1.3. Then I moved all the imports to the top like normal, and got a speedup of x2.9! hugovk.dev/blog/2025/la... #Python

Is it the first major upgrade to the YouTube player in like 20 years?

Cool highlights of the lesser things that will probably actually change your life with PiThon 3.14

Anyone making adversarial clothing/makeup for protests?

Apparently I'm an idealist. Breaking news.

TIL about the bitter lesson, computers brute-forcing exhaustive datasets will do better than human-written algorithms. And obviously this idea is infused at Google, I'd go as far as to say that PageRank's success is already this idea at play.

The Amazon LOTR show made me angry because (amongst many reasons) they are humanizing orcs which are supposed to be literal pure evil and giving Sauron some kind of valid motive (which he doesn't have, he's just trying to flip a finger at God) Retrospectively, it's pretty much on brand

At least it's explicit 🫠

We were all wondering when Rust would attack JavaScript

CSS is getting scroll-driven animations. That's fucking amazing, finally! scroll-driven-animations.style