“FOMO: missing out on art, beauty, and truth” - a talk I would like to develop and give

> It's just a tool Tools have affordances. A chair affords sitting on it. Buttons afford pushing. To put it crassly, guns afford pulling the trigger with the barrel pointed away from you.

bentsai.org/posts/thinki... “Human thinking often washes the dishes, then goes for a walk.”

"AI race" is a thought-terminating cliché. Race to what? Race to do all the R&D for someone else? Race to kill the most people? Race to break the last functional app? Race to set the most stuff on fire, including money?

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

I highly recommend both Bike and Taskpaper - the sense of deliberateness in the design decisions in both apps is just 🤌 There is something about how the native feeling of Mac-assed apps just doesn't compare to anything else. In gaming, it's called "game feel". Both Jesse's apps have it.

I wrote about AI and programming. About the identity challenges we are facing as programmers and the potential erasure of craft. There's a fun little easter egg in the header as well :) hojberg.xyz/the-programm...

I wrote about my plain-text-based note and task system, featuring TaskPaper bentsai.org/posts/text-i...

This project looks so cool internet-janitor.itch.io/decker

It should be called COUNTERFEIT INTELLIGENCE

Mic drop from @abeba.bsky.social at UNESCO Digital Learning Week

I wrote about how deceptive it is to speak of AI as people bentsai.org/posts/its-a-...

My drawn statement on Ai as standalone from my now finished minicomic as syllabus for new liberal studies class! As promised this is shareable, printable - all from my site, feel free to make use of it, cite me & let me know how it’s received. Share away all here! spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

LLMs perverts the concept of an author and destroys the link between the author and the message.

Coding with ai has similar vibes as gambling and superstitions. Also gives devs a sense of power and control that you don't get from mentoring humans.

A very cool example of what's possible with the Kinopio public API: morgan's (ampersand.pm) Kinopio Glue app collects all their todo cards with tags across all the spaces in a specific group and creates a website running on a mac mini hooked up to tailscale

Keeping up appearances | deadSimpleTech deadsimpletech.com/blog/keeping...

"You can't trust your own instincts or judgement about LLMs and chatbots because they trigger a number of cognitive biases and psychological "effects" that short-circuit our judgement." Every word of this post is so good https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/

Who is more foolish? The fool, or the fool who uses ai?

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

@davidthewid.bsky.social great talk today! It’s refreshing to hear someone speak critically about AI and gives me hope that there are better ways to deal with its immense harms

- Not just making it look good but figuring out how it works - two halves of design: making the right thing and making the thing right - Making the right thing is about connecting the product to user needs, goals, expectations - making the thing right is about making sure it’s usable for everyone

@odannyboy.bsky.social I’m giving a talk next month to CMU MSE students who are working on their year-long capstone projects. The title is “What every software engineer needs to know about UX”. What items come to your mind for that? :)

Two years ago, I wrote a paper examining the concept of power in Apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, using it as a lens to understand how power is used by Christian nationalism. It helps me to revisit it to make sense of what's happening in the world. bentsai.org/pages/the-po...

@coffeegeek.com I’ve seen you talk about americanos a bit. Can you extol their virtues because I can’t get over feeling like I’m just watering down a perfectly good espresso :)

It began with a hilarious malapropism by my son, trying to say Saquon Barkley. He said Saquon Broccoli. That led to... George Pickles Jaylen Waffle Ja'Marr Cheese In the National Foodball League Some questionable ones: Kenny Pancake TJ Wok What else you got?

“More than 800 ‘potential vulnerabilities and biases’ were uncovered by a Pentagon effort to spot problems with using large language models in military medical services, officials said Thursday.”

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

I splurged a bit and got Ugmonk’s daily and weekly Analog systems. And a 15 minute hourglass. Today is day 1—let’s see how this goes. Every system I adopt fails sooner or later ;)

App idea: a social todo app where things happen in public. But you can use it with private, sensitive things because there is translation layer that changes tasks and their details into unrelated, fun things. Then you can build a story around the public things. “Cook elderberry”, “Barter with Otus”.

Hi @hiro.report can you recommend a habit/progress tracker system or app? (we seem to share a lot of the same interests and aesthetics, so I figured I’d ask directly;) )

I’ve been adjacent to D&D all my life. I had the 2nd edition guides growing up, always knew people who played. But I’ve never sat down to play or even fully grok what it is like. Now I’m thinking about playing some with my kids but not sure where to start.

I’ve been pulling and drinking espresso all year and love it. The only problem I have is that it doesn’t last long enough. A routine I’ve been using is starting the day with a shot, and then brewing a pour over to sip on in the afternoon. #CoffeeFeed

I have a confession. The only spearheading I’ve done in my life is on my resume. And that was over decade ago now.

I had this thought while eating some delicious facaccia bread from a local bakery. Jesus says in Matthew 4:4, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” That implies that bread *should* be a regular part of my diet, right?

As a decaf drinker, I’m excited by this. A chance to taste the same batch of coffee with three different decaffeination processes. Already ordered a kit for myself. #coffee #coffeeFeed #decaf youtu.be/2t7Ba8Vr9HY?...

My son couldn’t fall asleep for an hour complaining about his belly hurting. And it was because we let him eat candy. So see kids, we mean it when we say don’t eat too much candy, it will make your belly hurt.

I tore my Achilles 7 months ago and got it surgically repaired. Today I graduated from physical therapy—praise God for the speedy recover!

Faith and reason are intertwined faculties rather than contradictory approaches to understanding reality. The book of Hebrews sets faith against sight, not reason. Faith acknowledges there is an unseen reality. Regardless in the end, we need an intervention from outside the system.

@schlage.town @jinjin.bsky.social fyi, I made this page about my favorite coffee shops in Pittsburgh: leaflet.pub/350aa44c-b08...

Sometimes people ask what are good coffee shops in Pittsburgh. I made a list of my favorite ones. What do you think? leaflet.pub/350aa44c-b08...

I’d normally be ranting about a broken algorithm, but it's delightful that YouTube keeps serving me this performance of the Sibelius violin concerto by Hilary Hahn. I've probably listened to it a dozen times now, and I enjoy it every time. youtube.com/watch?v=J0w0...

The Bible has been helping me make sense of this world. I appreciate how plainly Psalm 49:9, 12 states: > No one can pay enough to live forever and not rot in the grave…Even though people may be very rich, they don’t live on and on. They are like the animals. They die.

gibberish.awful.systems/fasterandwor... A cynical take I find myself mostly agreeing with. > A fundamental attribute of User Experience design is its inability to change the underlying product.

I want this too

I see Teenage Engineering are making ridiculously covetable things with buttons again

Insights

From time to time, I think about the first joke I read on twitter. It was something about the last bag of trash being removed from its box, and the bag saying to the box, you have carried me all my life, and now I will carry you to your death. does anyone remember that?