TFW you've been watching some observability dashboards and notice auto-refresh got turned off

JFC Oklahoma you fuckin cowards. Now every Jesus-freak right-wing student who can't get a passing grade for a bunch of bible quotes masquerading as an essay is going to file a 1st amendment complaint. You gonna suspend the whole Biology department for teaching about evolution? (Don't answer that)

We obviously need some stronger regulations on environmental impact of data centers. But with this administration?

I didn't check to see if @siracusa.social was named in the article

Random weird thing: Apple Pay is only a direct payment option in Starbucks app without an account. When you create your account the option disappears... and the experience gets worse. I deleted the account

I can't imagine AOL employees are happy about this outcome

Hard to imagine how the government being shut down could be much worse than the government we’ve had over the past 9 months.

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

👀 "the US experience is peculiar. Young Euro area workers have record low unemployment. In the UK, the young persons’ unemployment rate has fallen steadily. Employment by young Japanese workers is near all-time highs. It seems implausible that AI uniquely hurts the prospects of younger US workers."

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

I'm concerned that my first thought was: Does @siracusa.social know about this?

For 20 years Mozilla has developed one of the most useful tools for web devs. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/blog/m... Congrats to the MDN team on an awesome milestone. I'm happy that we've played a small part in its history and I'm excited to see it continue to be at the core of every web dev's job.

Pre-sleep thought: My hotel room has a mini-fridge, empty, but running. Opportunity for removing mini-fridges to save energy? Or at least make a smarter mini-fridge?

Seen in Slack: it is working due to a litany of absolute HACKS! One person's hacks is another person's temporary fix

Congratulations to Figma for filing for an IPO. Regulators blocking the Adobe deal must have felt bad in the moment but this is a better outcome. Stay independent and get rich on your own terms.

"We're all going to die anyway" - Ancient Republican Proverb

What reason could I possibly have to use such a browser? techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/p...

Google released Agent Development Kit, a framework for building agent workflows with everything we expect from an agent frameworks. I recreated my ToolAgent quasi-framework using ADK. I could expose my mock tools, add ReAct planning, and switch between different LLMs. It worked out really well. 🎉

I finally got around to exploring local LLMs. It was easier to set up than I expected. I tired a few different models of different sizes. The smaller ones didn't have enough "reasoning" ability to work as agents, but the larger ones did a pretty good job. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/04...

I took some time to experiment with MCP Client and Servers. I converted my ToolProvider system to become an MCP Server and made an MCP Client from my ToolAgent. I use zero dependencies on other frameworks, just to see how the protocol works. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

This is pretty interesting. After building something similar (WebAgent), I can understand what the code is doing. I also exposed Playwright as "tools", but I didn't realize Playwright has a a11y snapshot feature to get a reduced set of elements. Very handy. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

With the new ToolAgent framework, I refactored my web automation agent into WebAgent. The Playwright-based automation actions are now tools used by the agent. I had to stop sending the entire HTML content of the page to the LLM 😱 starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

I'm still exploring ("playing") with using LLMs as Agents. I refactored the code into a tiny framework. Have I become that which I wanted to avoid? Maybe 🫠 More tools and a benchmark system allowed me to really improve the agent success outcomes. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

BREAKING: The head of the $42 billion federal BEAD program that aims to bring broadband internet to rural and unserved areas has left the Commerce Dept. He sent a departing email warning of "deeply negative outcomes" for people if the Trump admin shifts $$ from fiber internet to Musk's Starlink:

I spent some time adding "planning and reasoning" improvements to my LLMs as Agents project. I introduced a "Reasoning & Action" (ReAct) strategy that allows the LLM to "think out loud" and improve its outcomes. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

I finally updated my Apple Watch from a Series 1 to a Series 10. Other than short battery life, the Series 1 was working fine. I am looking forward to the extra features of the Series 10.

Great breakdown of how the "WoeMeter" from the latest Severance episode was built: make3.co/work/woemeter @adafruit.com ESP32-S3 Feather spotted!

Continuing my exploration of using LLMs as agents. I spent some time adding a read/write set of tools to tool_agent. I used appointment booking as the scenario. It worked better than I thought. Checkout some of the interesting exchanges and the updated code. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

I wanted to get some hands-on experience trying to use LLMs as agents, so I started working on some very simple examples. Simple, bare-bones prototypes help me get a better understanding of what's happening. I use @simonwillison.net LLM library and Playwright. starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2025/03...

Really hope I get to use "marshmallows are for team players" sometime

"Green Lantern: Extended Cut" is on HBO Max and I'm honestly tempted

“You can’t be a performance expert without also being an images expert” A quote that has been living rent free in my head for years, thanks to @gri.gs

Unprecedented. The Sonos app update that customers have been complaining about for months has led to the CEO resigning because “they let far too many people down.” He’s being replaced by Tom Conrad, founder of Pandora and former head of product for Snap and Quibi.

After playing around with ATTiny85 and getting I2C working, I made some simple PCBs to make prototypes easier.

Preparing for a drive to Toronto. Spending a few days at HQ. (as long as the weather allows)

Dropped some 🔥 new gear! Sleek panel-mount USB-C, MicroSD, and DC connectors, plus sewable power jacks for your builds. Vibrant 1.14" Color TFT Display—absolute vibes for your next project. Level up! Go get some! 🚀✨ www.adafruit.com/new #electronics

My talk at FOSDEM got accepted! Join me in the Mozilla devroom on Sunday Feb 2nd, 15h00 to hear about crash reporting and analysis: "The most fun you'll ever have dealing with Firefox crashes" fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

Weekend fun: Trying to use I2C to connect an ATTiny85 to an 128x64 OLED or 16x2 LCD and failing miserably.

wild, the Webview CG stood up a version of Caniuse for webviews called Caniwebview. even has Baseline and Web Features support! caniwebview.com/news/2024-10...

I was playing around with 3d printing "suspended" objects using "strings", and it was trickier than I expected. Thankfully I found a short Tinkercad tutorial.