Bezos wedding guest takes us through her extravagant goodie bag from the wedding 💗

LLMs excel at finding surprising “needles” in very long documents, but can they detect when information is conspicuously missing? 🫥AbsenceBench🫥 shows that even SoTA LLMs struggle on this task, suggesting that LLMs have trouble perceiving “negative spaces”. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2506.11440 🧵[1/n]

Off to #codegarden the annual #umbraco conference today! Looking forward to seeing the future of this CMS in the age of AI.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

This is a key reason to de-Americanise the tech you use, as much as possible (And yes, it’s almost impossible to do it completely - but it’s worth at least reducing, especially for services like email, messaging, health, anything personal)

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fun little detail on overreacted.io: the color of each post on the homepage is determined by the relative age of the post. so posts written around the same time have a similar hue

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

In light of Labour being a rabble of benefit-cutting shites, @laughablecomedy.bsky.social is hosting an online-only comedy show on April 30th to raise money for The Trussell Trust. Featuring me, Kate Cheka, Martin Mor et al. Buy tickets! Get jokes! www.ticketsource.co.uk/laugh-able/l...

I also do not understand the point of this ad or how it makes AI look good. Wouldn’t the restaurant move the reservation to inside if it’s raining that hard? Wouldn’t *he* asked to be moved inside if they didn’t? Why does no human have any agency in this ad? Was that stolen by AI as well?

don’t touch that it’s my emotional support bedside book I like to look at longingly while I scroll on my phone for an hour

Such powerful words. Biden quotes Eisenhower’s ‘military industrial complex’ & then christens what’s happening as the ‘tech industrial complex’. ‘The free press is crumbling…truth is being smothered by lies’

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🚀 @delba.bsky.social crushed it with an awesome talk on the future of UI development using React's #useClient directive, even though she couldn’t be with us in person! Check out how to optimize your web apps with better bundling and server-client harmony: hubs.li/Q02ZP3h20

That little countdown on 2FA apps stresses the shit out of me. I feel like I'm diffusing a bomb. If it gets into the red, I just wait. I can't handle the stress.

i bitch about it a lot but React Native is awesome. if you’re a native engineer you might feel skeptical, but it isn’t a lowest common denominator crossplatform abstraction. rather, i like to think of it as a scripting orchestration layer for platform views (which you can still write). like in games

I'm writing a blog post about my 4+ years of experience working with 50+ companies on [high-performance] data engineering projects. This is the last paragraph

my favourite typescript config

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