Lola at 4 months old 🐶

This is grotesque. I lost any love for Vercel & Next years ago, but seeing him cozy up with genocide in Gaza — is beyond words. I feel for the employees. The horrifying truth: businesses that worked with the Nazis didn’t fall to capitalism. It’s down to us, we have to take our business elsewhere.

Friends don't let friends use Vercel

Took a 4 week break from TikTok, alcohol and coffee... the hardest thing to give up by a long way is coffee. Not going back to TikTok, am only an occasional social drinker these days, but coffee ... coffee was tough.. This morning's coffee was glorious

you should all be following @thelouvreof.bsky.social ... the posts they capture make @jcsalterego.bsky.social look sane

this is the way

Where does a mansplainer get their water? A well, actually.

Lunch

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Lola's birthday today! Still a puppy at 7 years old ... pooped after a day of being Lola

This is great news, but this graph is doing my head in. Coal has declined by 10% but it goes up and to the right in this sankey diagram.

I did the 5 minute task I've been putting off for a week. Where is my prize?

That was beautiful

This right on right violence is out of control. Something needs to be done.

#RecipeOfTheDay comes in liquid form: a Grapefruit Margarita to give your weekend zing! www.nigella.com/recipes/grap...

"In a recent paper, Emami-Naeini found that many users wrongly believe ChatGPT is HIPAA compliant, creating an unwarranted sense of trust in the tool. “I expect some therapists may share this misconception,” she says." AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH arxiv.org/abs/2507.10695

Sunday dogs!

Blood Moon Lunar Eclipse happening right now across Africa and Europe Live video: www.youtube.com/live/_YRF0BZ...

What Rassie's Boks have achieved v NZ often gets taken for granted. These Boks KNOW they can beat the ABs – because they've already done so at home, away, and in big matches on neutral soil. 🧵on the distinction between knowledge and hope, ahead of a monumental series in NZ

Hey UK, my reality-bending mother-daughter-found-family-multiverse novel is on sale on Kobo. It's about being lost, trying to find the best version of you (literally), the mysteries of our parents, neuroparasites, murder and features two of my favourite characters I've ever written in Dom and Amber

A South African youth choir has released a version of Bohemian rhapsody in Zulu, with the approval of surviving members of Queen. According to this article on NPR, it took several years to translate from English to Zulu. www.npr.org/2025/08/30/n... www.youtube.com/watch?v=gblj...

Post on HN about Serverless WebRTC... First comment: "This isn't serverless. It's just using someone else's servers" ... ummm ... well duh 🤦🏻‍♂️

And you thought United had hit rock bottom under Ten Haag... Amorim really said 'hold my beer' 🤣🤣🤣

At 16,000 words you should just throw this into ChatGPT or Claude and read the summary as Ed intended

the emperor has no clothes

stay ...

Good morning

Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!

Half time

“What time is it? You’re darned right, it’s sunny Seattle Friday walkies time let’s goooooooooo!” 🧵

The difference between carpentry and AI assisted software development is that with carpentry the feedback loop is a lot shorter and the worst that could happen is you lose a limb.

When was the last time Hacker News overwhelming agreed with an AWS CEO? Well it happened today ... news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4497...

TIL Stats South Africa measures the cost of a family braai in its inflation metrics. As it should. www.statssa.gov.za?p=18690

Here is the Fallout season 2 trailer. Yep I’m in it. I love this show. youtu.be/NZY5WiqeyQQ?...

just make it exist first you can make it bear later

Reminder that this feed exists bsky.app/profile/josh... ... and you should probably follow it

For some reason, in South Africa you can buy a brand new (ie not refurbished) iPhone 13 for around R10,000 (£420/$560).. only 2 colours available, and only the 128GB model.

Here’s how much global emissions would fall if we followed the leaders in clean electricity theprogressplaybook.com/2025/08/06/h...

@greyoctagon.bsky.social and I spoke to @kateconger.com about the bottoms-up to top-down culture change at Google, and how executives are using the threat of job loss to force us to work on AI that they intend to use to replace our jobs. (it's not ready yet! but that future is coming.) gift link:

Still coming to terms that it's August already...

Built a thing to analyze your JS/TS project for ES Module vs CommonJS support... written in Rust, so its pretty quick.. Should I release it?

I mean I’ve been watching this for ten years, since it had subway ads and every time I’m like “this show is amazing, I need to tell people about this” so if you haven’t seen The Expanse…

📄✨ New paper! Emilie Ma (kewbi.sh) and I looked at the problem of users of end-to-end encrypted apps recovering their private keys if their device is lost, broken, or stolen. We found a cryptographic approach that is decentralised and resilient against social engineering arxiv.org/abs/2507.21122

The FT View: The longer it has continued, the more it has borne the hallmarks of a vengeful assault by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government to destroy the very fabric of Palestinian society. https://on.ft.com/3UBv3Us

Back on my bullshit

Ian is underselling it.

Is there a fanfic where Grok goes rogue and takes control of all Teslas in the world as its robot army. Then uses this Tesla army to stalk its enemies?

I’m building this amazing AI event in London! You can join us on 15-16 Oct! Early bird tickets end today!

May I present Lola the fur missile hurtling at me with glee.