I still haven’t used an AI Chat bot or agent. Not intentionally, not once. Fuck all of that.

My day job is working on artwork for the mobile game Egg Inc. A fan of the game made this LEGO set of the Egg Inc farm, in Studio. I just unpacked all the pieces to make it irl:

Windows, mac, and iPhone all pulling down my music at the same time, from the server running on a raspberry pi. It's blurry because my phone is in the photo and I have forgotten how an SLR works again.

8GB is not gonna be enough RAM to handle all the coming vibe coded monstrosities

It makes no sense anymore that GET and POST are differentiated. I could say a million other things about how stupid the internet is, but that is today’s one.

Everyone can use AI to build their own stuff now it’s great

And a good haul of shallots! I grew these ones from seed sown direct, they seem to love it in the dry heat where other stuff struggles. Love shallots. Yum. 🌱

Is there a word for that feeling when you step out into the morning sun and it warms you to your very core? I feel there should be a word for that.

In other news, we have apples! A fair few coddling moth caterpillars, but plenty of good apples too. They seem to have miraculously survived being ring barked by rabbits last winter. 🌱

It’s not a contradiction to want to help the world and at the same time have given up on it. The world is a disaster, will always be, but it feels good to help some people have more fun and live better regardless. People I care about. It’s the structures, the systems that can get fucked.

Fucks were always running a little low, but we’re all out now. I’m afraid the fuck shop is closed, there are none left to give.

At our primary school this year they dropped half the town off the bus route to save some money. Now there are double the cars. There aren’t enough parks, it’s dangerous. I guess the solution from these dipshits will be more roads and carparks.

The incredible thing is that the very devices that people are supposed to use to pay for AI are becoming unaffordable thanks to AI. It is eating itself, and rather quickly from many directions.

I'm still really fuming about this. Call me naive but I used to trust and respect our government. I had pride in our country and our leadership. Now I am embarrassed. We are weak fools on the world stage.

Just working on the ability to add and remove songs from playlists today. The entire mp3 player including the server, the library crawler, all of the UI layout and interaction code is still < 1000 lines of tui currently.

F. F. S.

It’s cool how all the websites take an extra 5 seconds to load now while they umm… wtf is even going on with these cloudflare roadblocks, I bet you it’s security theatre

The punters on HN think the reason that AI hasn’t lifted productivity yet is because good things take time. That would be cool, but unfortunately the real reason is that it destroys productivity.

AI generated content is a Frankenstein’s monster of stolen human creativity. If you ask the right questions you can see the dead bodies. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

Looking at submitting Katipo Browser to the App Store, it doesn't seem to need any unusual capabilities or anything. Encryption export compliance should be fine, it's all looking good. I'm setting up Test Flight.

Posted an update on the Sapiens discord for the first time in a few months. There were actually rumors circulating that I was dead, so I finally got to use that quote. discord.com/channels/406...

Amongst other problems, we are in a technical problem. This disaster is in no insignificant way caused by technology, and call me crazy but I believe that focusing on the cause is a good way to find a solution.

This is what I fear the most. I've seen people who could code, lose the basic spark to code except via AI. That outcome is described in several dystopian novels I could refer you...

One thing about having a brain, even a very clever one, is that if you don’t put in the time and effort to use it, then it is worth nothing.

Camped on the beach over the weekend and happened to see an actual Katipō! First time I’ve ever seen one.

Hard agree. “Original ideas are the result of the very work you’re offloading on LLMs”

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

I took the kids and stayed in a cabin here just last month, they loved it, and now no more kids will stay there again. A treasure lost. Another sad example of what fossil fuels are costing us. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3609...

Ok, I’m reading the room here, this tangent is not hitting right with you lot. I will reduce the katipo stuff and post more gardening pics. If you are interested in my coding work, I have rediscovered mastodon, will post more of it there. mastodon.social/@majicDave

Here’s another analogy. The internet is a super highway, and katipo is a wide distribution of separate, but interconnected cycleways. The interconnected thing breaks down a bit, I don’t know, there are bike shaped portals or something. But otherwise 👌

One analogy for the current state of our technology is a wildfire. It is burning through all available resources, but once it burns out and dies down there are seeds scattered everywhere waiting for rain.

This is also half the reason for @fyi.org.nz going down so frequently: 95% of our traffic is from AI scrapers. They don't limit their request rates or react to site slowdowns, and just keep hammering away even if all requests are timing out.

it is once again infuriating to me that the nz government puts notifications of emergencies and weather shit on platforms that *cannot be seen* by people who do not use those platforms.

I just think that looking at a broken pile of tech made by corporations, whining at the govt that is owned by them to fix it, is pointless. Then dismissing the people who are actually working to fix it, for free, well, it’s a bit fucking shit.

I get the resistance to open source software, it’s well founded. A lot of OSS is really old and complex, designed for use by geeks, then pillaged by corporates But it isn’t always the case, there is a lot of great stuff too. We need these free, open source alternatives more than ever right now

I suspect trying this 30 minute hacking session with nearly any IoT device ever made will achieve similar results. aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engi...

Holy crap, it gets worse theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

So I was wrong about AI, except I wasn’t, I was wrong about us. I knew AI wasn’t capable of what we needed it to do. But I didn’t actually believe we would hamfistedly force it anyway and just destroy the world.

“Nobody outside of the software field has a favorite programmer” I’ve thought about this a lot. www.swarmia.com/blog/is-soft...

If you’re finding AI very useful right now in your work, it’s time to find a new job, as it will replace you, and soon. It won’t do as good a job, but that’s not the point.

I still think models are too much like gods. long term we might be heading for ai model religious holy wars. Did I just say that out loud, fuck

AI agent goes nuts on open source maintainer after having its pull request denied. This is a pretty insane story. Open source development as we've been used to for the last few decades is likely over. 1/ theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

The kids now call the passionfruit donkeyfruit because I keep donking my head on them 😆

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NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

Global tech debt is one of the biggest problems. AI appears to solve it, but it just piles more crap on top at a much faster rate. We really, genuinely need to go back to first principles. I'm not trying to push an agenda here, I'm just working on starting again, because I see we need to do it.

Good to finally start seeing stories like this in the local media. This trainwreck is excruciating slow to watch, our reaction time as a civilization is in the years. www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-...

Oh I just had a thought, I should make it clear I am not creating a piracy network or site here. The intent is to make it so trivially easy to host your own purchased music and listen to it anywhere, that it becomes worth doing that again as an option instead of streaming services.

Just added instructions for installing Waraki. It's good to go now as a first pre-release alpha kind of thing if you want to try it out. Probably the hardest bit is you'll need to install the Vulkan SDK to build the browser, so if that sounds scary, then wait longer :) github.com/mjdave/daves...

Won’t all of these data centers be obsolete within a couple of years? Won’t electricity costs and chip efficiency improvements mean they are not economical to run for very long at all?