The 2025 BNEF factbook [1] on zero-emissions commercial vehicles is great, but in its analysis of Dutch zero emissions zones (first pic) it does miss the impact of the *enormous* spike in diesel sales last year (second pic, [2]) of people buying them before […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

You know there's a lot of growth when you have to double-check that you're not looking at a cumulative graph 📈 https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xf53ujprnmfktaxb77fztor6/post/3m255lrmox22r

Ember’s Electrotech Revolution deck (100+ slides!) makes for some very inspirational Sunday-morning reading: https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/the-electrotech-revolution/

Great talk from Manuel Spierenburg (Big Data Republic) at PyData Amsterdam this morning: “Should Captain America sti host your data? A call for open, EU-based data platforms.” Sharing the slides in 4 toots. First, the status quo: 80% of Dutch companies with >250 people are on US clouds

added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet

Damn, the TNW conferences during the last few years before Covid were how I met the first tech people I knew in Amsterdam. Big bummer. https://www.threads.com/@jeremyburge/post/DOo0KpWCOeg

skinniphone looks pretty good not gonna lie

The previously sensible advice to never use ChatGPT for search needs to be rethought - GPT-5 in thinking mode is shockingly good at running searches now https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/

This is an INSANE decision by the E.U. “By signing up to mutual recognition of vehicle standards with the U.S., the E.U. has waved the white flag on road safety. This is not a technical detail – it is a political choice that puts trade convenience ahead of saving lives.” This will kill people.

Today is the day that I experimentally learned about The Norway Problem. I will now be throwing my laptop and all YAML files that have ever been created into the ocean, thank you for your understanding. (https://hitchdev.com/strictyaml/why/implicit-typing-removed)

@imyke hi Myke! My partner and I are visiting London soon for two weekends (with a trip to the Lake District in between) and we’ll be celebrating an important work milestone my partner just passed. I’m looking for a special place for a celebratory dinner, preferably a set menu / fine dining kind […]

Would someone on a Mastodon instance in Minnesota be able to view/follow @[email protected] Bluesky accounts? I think yes, right? https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115074911065658663

My kingdom for a “don't show link previews on this message” switch on Slack

Maybe uncommon on Mastodon, but it is possible to believe both these two things: 1) LLMs are incredibly useful. In two minutes, I can prompt the agent in my IDE to do a task that would take me an hour; it goes off and iterates on it for ten minutes while I answer Slack messages; after 1-2 […]

Fascinating observations on EVs from David Fickling: - High adoption rates in developing countries - EVs pencil out unsubsidized - Oil & gas are ~1/3 of all imports to In India and Pakistan - Switching half of India’s car fleet to EVs could eliminate its […] [Original post on mastodon.energy]

@bert_hubert hey Bert, ik heb vanavond je DNA praatje bij WHY2025 gekeken en ik vond m echt super!! Heb m aan heel veel mensen doorgestuurd :)

Owl-flavored integers https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/subliminal-learning

Congratulations to @john and the rest of the @index Ghost team for launching their 6.0 version! "The social web turns your Ghost publication into a networked social profile that people can find, follow, like, reply, repost and interact with from anywhere —bringing network effects directly to […]

Great read in general, and one small web nerd detail I like a lot: the links to IBA pages for cocktails have a distinct, more subtle, formatting that's different from the regular links https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail

Ever since last year's version of macOS and iOS, I can only search for emojis in Dutch even though my preferred languages are English and Dutch, in that order. So to get 😉, I can't type "wink” (which gets me stuff related to shops, probably due to the word […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Totally their favorite backpacks, is how I read this the first time https://mastodon.social/@verge/114948007656715509

Accidentally opened Instagram Reels and the first three videos in the feed were all AI slop: - a fake Dutch reporter in front of a scene of dozens of elderly people racing their walkers into a sink hole - a plus-size lady diving into the sea and causing a yacht to sink - a hairy airplane with […]

My notes on Anthropic's substantial essay about how they built their multi-agent research system, which has finally talked me around to taking multi-agent LLM prompt engineering seriously https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/14/multi-agent-research-system/

Some amazing photos in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/photography/archive/2025/07/photos-china-solar-power-energy/683488/

I was here! Definitely worth a listen. The link in the original post is broken, so here's an @overcastfm link instead: https://overcast.fm/+AAt9WWg1FnE https://mastodon.social/@dedependance/114829577926761922

Electrostate vs. petrostate https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114801894321183777

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

“Close reading… you can fuck anything up with a good close reading.” ~ @Mer__edith at De Dependence in Rotterdam, speaking about the value of a literature degree in the age of big tech

@bert_hubert kijk nou eens, Radio Kootwijk met daarboven een levensechte cloud!

A funny post to see federated to Mastodon :) https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DK-BydcJHkF

If the title of this blog post makes you angry, give it a read ;) https://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/

“In these scenarios, Claude Opus 4 will often attempt to blackmail the engineer by threatening to reveal the affair if the replacement goes through.” https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/114566928238700928

@simon hey, I think there's a small bug in your RSS feed: whenever I click the title of an article in my RSS reader (NetNewsWire) to open it in my browser, “#atom-everything” is appended to the URL — I guess it got there from the header of a specific article or something? For example […]

Anthropic's Hannah Moran finally addressed the elephant in the room at this conference when she subtly dropped "Agents are models using tools in a loop" during the intro to the "Prompting for Agents" workshop https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/22/tools-in-a-loop/

Right The 6️⃣0️⃣ stations I investigated during my #crosschannelrail project have now all been mapped out and categorized Interactive map 👇 https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/crosschannelrail-corridors-stations_1231642#6/48.269/4.296

Nice balanced piece from Dutch bank Triodos about how they weigh the benefits vs. the negative externalities of (home) batteries. These add up to a net positive societal impact, so they’re investing in (some) battery projects. Article in Dutch […]

Here's a follow-up by someone with a whole lot more credibility than myself or Andy: Hannah Ritchie is "Head of Research at Our World in Data, and a Senior Researcher at the University of Oxford" and runs a high quality sustainable energy blog […]

Such a great read. I was following this space super closely from 2018 - 2021, since a lot of my MSc coursework involved implementing RNNs, LSTMs, etc. and I was writing about it for my newsletter. This piece really captures the vibe of that time and the voices of the people who were active in […]

“I started a spreadsheet, which is what middle-class professionals do when faced with systemic problems — we quantify things, as if converting human suffering into Excel cells might render it more manageable.” Via @gvwilson […]

I'm glad somebody out there is brave enough to push back against the "personal ChatGPT usage is terrible for the environment" message https://andymasley.substack.com/p/a-cheat-sheet-for-conversations-about?utm_campaign=posts-open-in-app&triedRedirect=true "If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times […]

"Instead of letting Russia blackmail you with your dependence on their fossil fuels, why not become dependent on *our* fossil fuels instead, so that *we* can blackmail you?” https://mastodon.green/@akshatrathi/114416277096459384

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

types of terminal programs

Hear me out: do OCR on all images posted to Mastodon and then match the detected text against my timeline filters, so that screenshots of tweets about topics I muted don’t fall through the cracks.

Gotta hand it to Amazon: I powered up my Kindle Paperwhite for the first time in over five years, and after waiting for the battery to charge from a full drain, it mostly just worked. Took no more than a couple of minutes to buy a new book, download it, and start reading.

Amazing to see how much stuff is being built for and by the open web https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/114184796729622844

Allle cloud/soevereiniteitsmoties zijn AANGENOMEN. Inclusief ".nl weer in volledig Nederlands beheer".

Probably an unpopular opinion on here, but for me: seeing the first GPT models do things like taking a paragraph of text and rewriting it as if Shakespeare wrote it, and seeing the first GANs do style transfer from a Van Gogh painting to some random picture I took out my window. Blew my mind […]

Please enjoy each GPU equally. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114150590329962061