“I'd love to run GNUStep on my Linux machine simply because The NeXT heritage brings with it the only sane keyboard shortcut / keybinding system on the Linux desktop.” — terhech.de/posts/2023-3...

This might be the first hot take on how technology tells us how to live our lives, destroying our ability to make human decisions. The technology in question is the sundial. From a 3rd century BCE Roman adaptation of a Greek play, as discussed in Kerr’s “The Ordered Day” (It isn't wrong, though)

A sensible desktop Linux package manager wouldn’t let you install Qt apps in a Gnome env or vice versa — it just doesn’t work.

genuinely, just fucking use signal at least for DMs and small groups

Here are a couple more impossible cylinders: A heart/infinity symbol and a cardioid whose reflection is not reversed by the mirror.

today i learned that if you don't end a C file with a newline, the compiler is free to steal your apes

I still feel like people post fewer links here than they should. Go forth into the big wide internet and return with morsels for us to click.

When everyone's exhausted the serif font design trend we'll need to go harder: d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/brochures/ra...

I've always wanted better tools to read and navigate—not edit!—source code. For example, it's incredible to me that there is no iPad app that does LSP features plus bookmarks, navigation tree, etc. Maybe now that LLMs made it more people's job to read code, we'll get good code reading tools?

It seems the entire current tech stack will be the x86 (awful but who cares) for the post-human layer of programming.

It still seems fairly distasteful to have bots pretending to be human and to have feelings

Life is a Metroidvania

getting increasingly stressed that I've only got a single lifetime to work on all my projects

a gentle criticism that modals like this are not the user experience of a social network that is friendly to hyperlinks

We are about to go from micro services running on the cloud to monoliths running on the desktop.

I want a service where I can get stuff printed in those snappable nuclear launch code protectors. Guest WiFi password? Here, snap this. Want that burrito recipe? Snap. Where are we meeting later? Snap.

opus 4.6 is a significant step up at my openscad benchmarks

So the chances of an open source Opus quality model is high and once we get there thats the viability floor for coding AIs

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

one thing the web should have evolved by now is a portable non-centralised way to verifiably assert "I am the owner of <email address>" because this is clearly necessary for loads of things and approximately nobody does a good job of implementing it

Googling for “a world without apps” has great contrast in its top two results: 1. An Apple WWDC intro equating a world without apps to a literal apocalypse 2. A keynote from Michel Beaudouin-Lafon arguing we should abolish apps in favour of a substrates-oriented computing

We really need the Mozilla of LLMs to emerge before it is too late.

just learned that linear b is in unicode. who needs emojis when you have TRIPOD AMPHORA 𐃦 and WHEEL-LESS CHARIOT 𐃍

Playing as Godot, finally arriving. Just as Beckett intended, thanks to AI.

Look, I didn't spend hours and money building the most perfect and arousing keyboard to let a machine write and code for me.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression. CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school? DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town. C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name? DR: Now look

Has this ever happened to you?

Some early space ring scenes #threejs #procgen

That feeling when you're reading a book and something is mentioned casually in passing that you would gladly read another book on

Pretty cool project on /r/localllama - they take human written text and sloppify it 10x with 4o-mini, then train the model to de-slop by reversing the transformation

“Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” — antirender.com

me: How should I invest my savings to avoid the AI bubble? tech friends: What bubble? non-tech friends: What savings?

Hmm, I don’t love KDE soliciting donations though notifications. There’s a whole stack running under there, they just happen to control the most user-visible layer.

ultimately, i think trying to make rules against AI contributions is a futile effort. trying to sus out whether AI was used or not is wasted motion. the contribution & review tooling must simply evolve to accommodate.

I don’t get Cursor’s Agent Trace; we have detailed attribution though version control. What we need is a more flexible identity system that doesn’t rely on email addresses (in the case of git) so that we can add agents as commit authors. agent-trace.dev

Given that agent harnesses are so much better and the new interaction pattern seems to be kick off tasks and check in on them as needed I wonder if it’s viable to run local models on a cluster of Raspberry Pis. Slower sure but tokens per watt napkins out at about 1/3 of a GPU.

These are accurate, but also only paint half the picture. The other half is that there are certain aspects to agentic-first engineering that have enormous impact on the quality of the end result, and, ironically, these are the same as with traditional engineering.

Emoji is neoliberal, not working class. We have 👮 police, 🏦 banks, 💹 stocks go up, 👔 office necktie, 🏛️ government, ⚖️ law, 🤴👸 royalty but no wages stub, no union card, no "on strike" sign, no pink slip. there's a levitating businessman emoji 🕴️ but no picket sign.

Claude wrote this short about what it would do if it had the power to do something about Grok. Just thought it was an interesting generation.

Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵

Last week I lost my job. It took me a while to process... If you or your company needs an experienced full stack developer who understands how the web works, knows modern tech, communicates well, please reach out. My CV: pawelgrzybek.com/cv/ I'd appreciate if you could share. Thank you.

I wanted to explore if we can build something like Claude Cowork in the browser that can work with the user's file system safely running programs against them. We can get a very long way: aifoc.us/the-browser-... Feedback and critique appreciated.

Orchestration isn’t the future of AI, that’s classical thinking. It’s a stepping stone until it gets rolled deep into the models.

Charming story about an inventor who made every driver's life just a little better--the guy who thought up the little arrow by the gas meter that tells you which side of the vehicle the gas cap is on. archive.is/qptKP

AFAICT Claude Code doesn't use LSPs for high-level code nav/docs/refactoring, just lots of grepping and text fiddling. Looks like there's an MCP server for them but not that heavily used. Really feels like that would be a huge boost.

the local government theory of everything

Configuration Files 3MiB Indie Games 372MiB Terminal: 228 MiB Cargo Target Dir 263.7GiB CLI Tools: 212 MiB someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my m2 drive is dying