Do other parents enjoy helping their kids out on studying for spelling tests? How do you do things so that it is more enjoyable?

It is f'ing awesome to realize that something you'd been shooting intuitively around for years but couldn't get a handle on has a fully realized version. It is a little bittersweet too. Moreso when you see that the realized version has been around for decades.

You can't make this stuff up. Gnome was dying on a new linux machine because... *checks notes* the screensaver wouldn't start because a bluetooth library wasn't available.

I've spent some of today using local models to squish down verbose webpages to the things I actually care about for doing additional work. Then I notice Qwen code does "Fetching content from {url} and processing with prompt: {prompt}"... makes me feel seen and validated.

It's funny how Anthropic silently boosted usage available on Pro plans this week in the middle of the week AND changed the weekly reset to Wednesday from Monday. I presume it is because they released a new feature that chews through tokens like mad and they want people to fall in love with it.

Developers Log Supplemental. #AI (so you can ignore it if you like). Background food for thought... if you're billed by token... what motivation does an LLM provider have to reduce your token usage? To serve more with their current fixed capacity. Will that last?

Unstructured or poorly structured data? LLMs can be helpful for this! The cleaning code can be audited to help validate correctness (don't trust re-authored datasets). 13 minutes and $3.75 list price to clean that dataset. $0.43 per 1k rows. Not bad! Thanks for sharing @jeremy-data.bsky.social

I'm sorry, how the heck do they release The Mandalorian & Grogu movie on May 22nd instead of May 4th?

TL;DR the Zellij - terminal multiplexer is great (@zellij-dev.bsky.social). ZOMG... I had played around with screen and tmux way back in the day... but like my desire to play with emacs it was limited by my mental bandwidth/priority to pick up the key combinations.

I'm sorry, the ultimate complaint against Kimmel is *checks notes* he went on FCC regulated broadcasting and told lies? Um, look it's an evolving environment such that what's actually going on may not be very clear... and even if it was don't look at the AM dial y'all.

@anthropic.com you know what would be pretty nice? The ability for the user to set a cap on Claude code usage so that they have usage left over for other tasks. Of course, for driving upgrades that's probably wrong. But as a public benefit corporation I hope you might consider it.

Has anybody been able to make Gemini Flash 2.5 make two tool calls in a single response? I found it took me extra prompt development to get the calendar tool response to include much beyond the calendar entries themselves.

If you're interested in the AI space, but aren't familiar with the history and discourse on AI prior to 2010, the "AI winter", and/or don't always understand the perspective of @yann-lecun.bsky.social, then the rest of this post might be for you.

It's mildly interesting to consider that LLMs are perhaps a system for which the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is most true (i.e., language one speaks influences the way one thinks about reality). What to know: the 'voice' you ask these models to respond in will tend to also affect the content itself.

Arc is gone but Zen is nicer anyway: https://lifehacker.com/tech/zen-is-a-firefox-based-browser-with-arcs-best-features

Server Sent Events (SSE) for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) seems to me to be a pretty big over complication for the purposes of providing a streaming response. The need to maintain an open pingable host seems to bedevil a simple serverless context holder. Why is it this way?

The R folks didn't really give the Python folks enough grief about poor threading support in Python. The era is almost over though... labs.quansight.org/blog/free-th... Python leaves behind the GIL and @posit.co enters to offer paths with a consistent approach? It'll be fun to see what happens next.

One person's syntactic sugar is another's strychnine... and sometimes both at the same time for the same person.

Come on... it is kind of hilarious that LaTeX has this progression for text sizes... \normalsize \large \Large \LARGE \huge \Huge

I find that for the first time in my life I'm less than enthusiastic about open sourcing/publishing something. LLMs will scrape it and make my having shared it less valuable (to anybody other than LLM companies and their customers). Anybody else addressed similar feelings of reservation?

Does the loss of almanacs and encyclopedias mean that we can't remake the classic Carmen San Diego games? Are they teaching a skill that isn't as relevant anymore?

#dallas how degraded do we think tornado detection and warning are right now? Are things going to flow forward on autopilot right now, or do we need to exercise extra care?

When you see a headline you want to click, stop. Breathe. Ask yourself: why do I want to click this? What does that say about me? Do I like what it says about me? And, most importantly, am I likely to learn anything?

When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

I kind of miss the small blast radius of live journal. I feel like targeting on this and similar platforms is just so... insufficient. I want to follow public people... but I want to be able to share with curated subsets. This was something Google + or whatever it was called got right.

My whole life I heard "mechs down at nav gamma" as "mechs down as Nasgana"... which I just took to be a fantasy place name. #mechwarrior

My evolution from "I hate install disk copy protection, what if I lose or damage the disk" to "I love install cartridge/disk DRM because then I can buy (and get) old games at reasonable prices" strikes me as weird.

Over/under in Virgin Galactic being real about developing and releasing a Mach 3 jet? My gut reaction is that it is just thrashing vapor from a company in a bad spot.

When you want to know something specific to your company how often do you go to documentation vs search Slack? Is that for the best or not? Is being searchable and low cost to generate resulting in less high quality documentation?

The best part of working in tech is that there is always something new (to you). Today, I stumbled into overrides in the Chrome Dev Tools (developer.chrome.com/blog/new-in-...). Pretend that API gave me the answer I wanted... what does that look like?

Skeleton Crew is (so far) the best thing out of Disney's Star Wars since Mandalorian. A long time ago in a galaxy far far away it is the 80s and kids ride bikes with limited parental supervision resulting in adventure. Sure, it's for kids. But, good Goonies 'for kids' rather than Jar Jar

How is python packaging this ... erratic? I could swear I'm staring at a problem where the pip solver is coming up with different answers given the same local inputs. I've been beating my head against the wall for a few hours so PEBKAC is just as likely.

Maybe yes? Heck, it solves one of the problem current approaches have... they're searchable... and it is the wrong medium for durable authorship. See my other posts this morning about the importance of forgetting.

Does anybody know of an @obsidian.md plug-in for forgetting? If I've not opened a note in the past X days, archive it? Maybe forum.obsidian.md/t/obsidian-s... is a pre-req?

Atlassian: we have created JIRA Me: you’ve fucked up a perfectly good spreadsheet is what you’ve done. Look at it. It’s got anxiety. (Originally @julesfern.gay)

> this is one of the main drivers for ever new "To Do" apps: the existing app gets full because deleting is too hard, so we start fresh with a new app. The app isn't the point, the starting fresh is. Ugh too much truth for Sunday morning mp (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4228...)

My villain origin story: the Zoom Lens theory of attention (Eriksen & Yeh, 1985) reports a sig main effect in one condition and non-sig in another... and goes about interpreting it as an interaction to support their theory. Reanalysis shows not even a particularly noteworthy interaction effect size.

"What’s really behind Big Tech’s return-to-office mandates?" Managers and leadership who couldn't adapt to and thrive with remote.

Simple stats would suggest that with org size the stability of an estimate for expected output should improve. But, experience suggests that variability in achieved output often increases. Contention and coherence costs are part of it (codahale.com/work-is-work.... but it feels even worse than that.

Where are the people who do DevEx for real. Not just DevRel for some company's product... but the ones who smooth the path for other developers? Are these folks just off in internal tools teams or do you just need a regular developer who does this kind of thing as a side quest?

It is great when apps ask me for my email address and make me enter it twice to make sure I got it right. It's less great when they do a case sensitive string comparison. My mobile keyboard is pretty erratic on what gets capitalized.

The checklist manifesto forever will damage those who benefit from it into thinking it has broader applicability than it actually does. If the workflow splits enough you need an expert system. Interactive continuous variables integrated over the rest of the tree with base rates... yeah, right.

Some people seem really stuck on the idea that there is a single magic architecture out there that we're missing to make more general AI. Doubtless a sufficiently brute algorithm (and perhaps training data) can stand in for something with distinct parts.

I don't know who Ackman is. Why should I care who this person is? Is it worth looking up? Am I totally ignorant for the name not ringing a very bell? Keep in mind my bell for band recall is ... uh ... bad.

Is it kind of bizarrely on brand for Temu to run the same basic ad multiple times during the Superbowl?

I love paying for parking at my doctor's office. The machine always says "change is possible" which always seems like quite the inspirational statement from a kiosk.

Well that's the first time this app has been Twitter bad for having a conversation/learning stuff.

If "known events" are good enough and known early enough, then railroads should be able to fully document them prior to the reporting call coming in. The reporting call isn't a shield from independently collected info. Besides which... let's be real. Behavior is contextual & motivated.

It would be great if absolutely everybody can help this story go viral, and get higher-level media attention, to contribute to the social and legal utter annihilation of every cop, judge, and politician involved.

Realizing that two of my passions, Exploratory Data Analysis and Event Driven Architecture, are both EDA 🤯.