I'm wondering what people would say about @murmel_social's new digest preview page: https://murmel.social/preview We redesigned the Top Stories to look exactly like what a person should expect to receive in their inbox. No more, no less.

"The most interesting and informative parts of a text are the parts of it that are not normal. And so normalization risks destroying that information before you can ever analyze it." A hype-free explainer of the fundamental particles that make LLMs work the way they do, and why they fail to […]

RE: https://muenchen.social/@diebayern/116120404413160633 One of those “only in Germany things.” You can get in trouble for initiating a snowball fight in the open. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Nobel laureate invents machine that pulls 1,000 liters of water from air daily Cool, how much does it cost, and when can it be shipped to my house? #solarpunk https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/omar-yaghi-water-harvesting-machine

Plenty of businesses failed before AI, and plenty will fail with it. The tooling may have improved, but reality is as harsh as ever. A bad idea with AI is still a bad idea, just shipped faster.

RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/116105448416859205 A very, very early version of Slackware around 2002-ish. It was the only one that could run decently on my super old, single-core Pentium at the time.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/116103889739220636 Says so much about the world we live in right now!

RE: https://chaos.social/@icing/116084439176339697 In simpler terms, it makes everything read and sound mid. Not necessarily a bad thing - often, mid is what you want in order to reach out to the masses. But don’t expect #llm to win a literary prize, unless you crank the un-mid knobs first.

Yeah, sure, you can use Claude Code to generate Go code for you, but has it ever occurred to you to ask it to generate tailor-made code generators that take your existing code and instantly give it superpowers? Case in point, type-safe URL routing, validation, serialization, sum types etc #golang

It's Go 1.26 release day! It brings a ton of performance and quality-of-life improvements, but I am so far the happiest about the improved `go fix` command. Just ran it on a couple of projects, and it found some good code candidates to be modernized […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

In a strange chain of events, I may become more well-known for my in-camera photography tools than for my other software. All in all, I am happy that I made someone's day, because they certainly made mine with this review! […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

One of the reasons I use Go for pretty much everything these days is that I’m extremely bored by having to deal with code deterioration, due to constant evolution and outside forces. As unappealing and verbose as most of my Go code looks like, I know most of it will still work decades from now […]

Tools like Claude Code showed the world that writing the code has never been the bottleneck. It’s one thing to have an idea and put together the code that gets it working. I have a hundred of those. It’s quite another, convincing even a single soul that what you’ve built is worth paying for […]

Here is your Claude Code pro tip for today. When in doubt, ask it to offer you options to choose from. This works great, because CC won't dive straight into implementing something you may not want. #claudecode #llm

Hot take: immutability in #programming is overrated. It's a constraint made for humans. A beautiful lie we tell ourselves. Under the hood, every single memory bit is flippable, CPU registers can be overwritten, files wiped away, etc. So, just embrace this beautiful mess, and write tons of tests.

I’ve somehow missed how in the past couple of days, what seems to be an instance of a heavily insecure cron running Claude Code requests, became the most overhyped thing on the Internet. Did I say full of security loopholes? Yes I did. #clawdbot

One of my recent collaborations with Claude Code - a tool that will inspect any #golang project, and produce a meaningful graph of the relationships between its packages and types. It can output a PlantUML diagram, or an interactive D3 graph. https://github.com/preslavrachev/diagg

"Creative writing that falls short, whether originating in a garret or in an Nvidia chip, 'writes' by selecting language units that commonly fit together, as recognised from published material available in the public domain. Familiar word combinations are assembled into almost convincing […]

“If the streaming era of film-making has a signature tell, it’s that things quite often have to be slowed down and explained to us over and over again like we’re a bunch of children.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/19/matt-damon-netflix-plot-explained-phones #netflix #cinema

Do I know anyone here contributing data to https://sensor.community ? I am interested in setting up a few sensors across Bulgaria, but due to some locations limitations (and my hardware knowledge), I am looking for some off-the-shelf solution, ideally battery-powered. Can you help me out? […]

You won’t hear this from a lot of ppl, but I’m so happy for finding a good deal on a Fenix 7 Pro, and moving back to #Garmin. Like, yeah, I love Apple products and think they’re all great, but the #Apple Watch is a toy. Not to mention that I think OLED watch […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pawelgrzybek/115908966998896318 When I’ve helped someone learn something new, I get reminded of why I’ve being doing this a long time ago. Many, many thanks 🙏

For someone who simultaneously enjoyed the reMarkable 2 and the iPad Mini, but was absolutely disappointed with the SuperNote Nomad, is the reMarkable Move a thing to remotely consider trying? #remarkable #supernote

Amazon being Amazon - locking down Kindles like Fort Knox, then leaving a root-privilege hole in the ad system because capitalism needs its slop delivered on time. 🙈 https://youtu.be/l4ZliC82RtA?si=Clrm6wlsn22f24_o #kindle #jailbreak

One thing I kind of wished someone'd told me a few years ago, is that using a pointer-first approach to #golang structs is just fine. You won't stop the world, and you won't make a mess either. In fact, you reduce the decision fatigue immensely this way […]

‪Happy new year! Dear friends of photography, help me pick my best photo of the past year. I’ve designed a funny challenge, where you pick one of two photos in a series of five rounds. Let the best one win: https://pollunit.com/polls/t6twtibihzqdwrmxwzttsg #photography

Everyone, absolutely everyone: Go has everything we need, don't change the language anymore! The sum types proposal thread: hold my beer! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644 #programming #golang

Кризите ни мотивират да действаме. https://preslav.me/bg/2025/12/09/krizite-ni-motivirat-da-deistvame/

Woke up this morning, thinking, what could possibly make people abandon #linkedin for a more open, federated alternative? Will it be a catastrophic Microsoft mistake, or a form of losing trust? As of now, it still seems like LI has filled a vacuum left after the demise of Twitter, and is strong […]

Let's talk photography. Yesterday, I decided to use one of my possibly last days in Munich, to go and experiment with my Wild Pastel LUT. All the photos were directly with the LUT applied. I used the HARD settings, where I would have probably benefited more […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Бях написал този текст преди време, но нещо в него все ми убягваше. Чудех се, да го споделя ли, да не го споделя ли? Събитията през последните няколко дни, на които и аз, макар и от далече, се радвах и бях съпричастен с всички в България, на които все още им пука, ме накараха просто да го […]

If I've accidentally invented a way to turn people's Notion exports into beautifully laid out e-books (that also look great in print), would anyone bother to use it? Asking for a friend 👀 --- #notion #ebook #selfpublishing

One door closes, another one opens up. — #iphone #photography #moving

in case anyone wants to train the most fucked up language model imaginable https://huggingface.co/datasets/tensonaut/EPSTEIN_FILES_20K

Stop calling it a Rust issue, OK? It's an error caused by human negligence and miscommunication. Like most bugs. End of story. --- #rustlang #programming #cloudflare

Is it just me having been around proper digital cameras for too long, or is the state of modern iPhone cameras really kind of meh? I made the huge leap from a 2019 iPhone XR to a 16 Pro a few weeks ago, and have been trying since to get anything decent out of the camera(s), but it's just not […]

Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog. We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here […]

With Al the hype around LLMs, it pains me to see how terribly neglected other ML tools have become. Classifiers, in particular. Yes, you can use an #llm for classification, but it’s about the same as using a chainsaw to cut your salad. It’s terribly inefficient. A well-trained text classifier […]

"…#RSSfeeds have been considered to be uni-directional, or outbound. A new blog post gets published somewhere, and, thanks to its #rss feed, it immediately appears on the screens of millions of readers subscribed to receiving updates from that feed. This is exactly where tools like #feedle […]

They are both looking for the same thing: cheap dopamine. #doomscrolling

It's amazing how such an old and dusty Mac app can be so effective in keeping you away from doomscroll black holes. It does so well, because it blocks them at the system's hosts level. A 10/10 recommendation! https://selfcontrolapp.com/ #apple #productivity

I rarely use LinkedIn, but like many others, I sometimes have to, to publicise some of the public-good stuff I'm doing. One thing that annoys me about trying to see what others are doing is the apparent lack of a chronological order option for the timeline. I just found an article that explains […]

Finally, someone who’d talk about the (few) beauties of having #adhd, not just about how freaking tough it is to live with a mind split in a thousand directions.

For times like these, when you'd think the world is going nowhere, I've set up this @feedle #rss feed search. There is so much going on in health, but we are so deep in 💩reading about politics that we don't even notice it. I am adding more feeds here from other #science disciplines as well.

"The last days of social media might be the first days of something more human: a web that remembers why we came online in the first place — not to be harvested but to be heard, not to go viral but to find our people, not to scroll but to connect. We built these systems, and we can certainly […]

One of the most powerful lessons about life, I learned while growing up: Things are never too early. Neither are they too late. They are both. At the same time.

Sometimes, I think it's not worth it to keep writing this draft. I'm just way too harsh to Python, and it probably doesn't deserve it. --- #programming #python

Updating to the latest version of #macOS Sequoia (15.7.1) rendered my favorite keyboard useless. It's one of the longish USB keyboards that came with iMacs around 2010-2011. I never got along with the slimmer versions. Why would it even stop working? It's a […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Believe it or not, but my faithful #Mac 's disk is almost empty. That's what you get when you work on a gazillion software projects all at once. This is where I found a tool called GrandPerspective super helpful. It helped me create a tree map of my Projects […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@preslavrachev/115434094964652016 Aaand, it was gone, before I could even say “Start!” Thanks to the one who bought it from me. I hope, it makes you productive, and you find more use out of it than I did.