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Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

A question I get from students a lot that I'm not sure I can answer: Is there a place where people are discussing building sustainable/public interest/civic projects? As in talking about the challenges they face/sharing tips/recommendations, promoting their work to others to get extra eyes on WIP?

People once lauded for their desire to use technology to improve people's lives are now openly & persistently advocating for decimating public sector unions as well as replacing workers with generative AI trained on stolen works.

an evollution of 27, organoids now have DNA & absorb some mutations when eating h9.bees.free/genuary26/29... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary29

Genuary 30: oops all bugs, a collection of interesting glitches that accumulated throughout the month while working on other sketches #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary30

At the beginning of the month I thought the library was close to ready, but spending all month with it made me realize there are 2-3 big things I want to do before stabilizing the API. I also added a lot of features as I went, but most are poorly documented.

It's been fun sharing these & seeing everyone else's all month! my HTML-only #genuary28 will be the polished/updated version of the site & docs for honeycombs/h9.js, the library I've been using for all of these, but that'll probably be in a few weeks.

most of the work on this one was an experimental WebGL renderer backend, honeycombs/h9.js now has SVG, canvas, and WebGL renderers. h9.bees.free/genuary26/31... felt fitting to demonstrate w/ a return to one shape one color.

There is no path forward for democracy in this country where ICE is intact and those that led, funded, and supported it walk free. Dismantling this before it gets worse needs to be the highest priority.

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary9 hexagonal cellular automata with a circular food chain definitely more fun to watch the interactive than the gif: h9.bees.free/genuary26/09...

#genuary #genuary2026 #genuary10 infinite cycles of death & rebirth This one was really short since h9 already had a polar coordinate reference system built in. 7 variables and a 2-line draw loop! Code here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/10...

so many ways of being, but none of them seem to fit Prompt: Only Cubes #genuary12 #genuary2026 #genuary Interactive Code: h9.bees.free/genuary26/12...

h9.bees.free/genuary26/19... #genuary19 #genuary #genuary2026

#genuary #genuary21 #genuary2026 bauhausa26

#genuary2026 #genuary #genuary4 I'm using these prompts to iterate on h9, which is a mostly-SVG-based geometric drawing tool, so this one posed an interesting challenge. I decided I'd take the opportunity to try out my hardly-used Canvas backend and adapted a vector sketch to this pixelated look

Third prompt, fibonacci -- tried to use it for every decision in this quick animation: color, rotation, length, arcDegrees & speed interactive source here: h9.bees.free/genuary26/03... #genuary #genuary2026 #genuary3

Today's prompt was the 12 principles of animation. Focusing on slow-in/slow-out and bounce/stretch, I added some basic keyframe code to the variable system to get a nice bounce. The ellipse code was fortunately already done #genuary2 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/02...

I'm using Genuary to kick the tires/build features on an experimental drawing library I've been working on. Today's prompt: One color, one shape. (hexagons of course!) #genuary1 #genuary #genuary2026 h9.bees.free/genuary26/01...

I wanted something I could recommend to people that just want a reliable way to host static websites with minimal fuss & cost. I wound up writing a script to sync your static site with a low-cost CDN jpt.sh/posts/host-s... I'm now using it to host ~15 static websites for $1/mo without Google/MS/CF

Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

The protest march in Chicago - the second in only four days staged in opposition to the Trump admin's targeteting of Chicagoland for an immigration blitz - has stepped off from Congress Plaza and is heading north down Michigan Avenue. Hundreds of people have joined the march so far.

If you're someone that uses the default terminal setup that came with your OS & wonder why anyone *prefers* the terminal, here's the first post in a series on learning to like your terminal (through installing better software for it) www.jpt.sh/posts/like-y...

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Disable ChatGPT this fucking instant. Destroy it. JFC.

Qutting GitHub www.jpt.sh/posts/quitti...

You're so close dude. You are nearly there

I appreciate how short and to this point this is— and mostly sums up how GenAI makes me feel. www.tbray.org/ongoing/When... There’s also something particular about teaching in the current era of course, but I find the (direct) pressure is coming from companies mostly, not the students. Ask why.

If you are working on/considering a project that needs to do point-in-polygon lookup (e.g. what congressional district am I in?) I've been prototyping a tiny library to do this without a PostGIS server as quickly as possible. (Standalone rust binary with pre-loaded shapefiles.)

not the immediate issue, but no country will ever negotiate a stop to their nuclear program again. not after libya, not after today.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

I'm working with a few people hoping to put together a small cohort of (paid) civic/public interest fellowships this summer. If you work with an org that could use the help, or might be interested in mentoring, please take a few minutes to fill out this form: forms.gle/VcVbNULxaAgk... #civictech

idea for a sticker: this machine serves fascists potential uses I would never officially endorse: - put it on a Tesla - put it on surveillance tech - put it on your computer probably, it depends who you are, let’s have a conversation

I just finished teaching a course for the third year. I am trying something new & putting my Python course notes out under a CC license for anyone that might find them useful: www.jpt.sh/posts/map-py... These focus on using Python to work with real-world data, with a splash of general CS topics

I've been thinking a lot about what this moment means for civic tech and put some thoughts together here: www.jpt.sh/posts/third-... tl;dr is that I'd really like to start having conversations with others that are thinking about what needs to be build and how we're going to pay for it

Reminder that ipums.org has all the acs, census, CPS, NHIS, MEPS, and so much more. Bonus that it’s cleaned and harmonized in ways that make these data really easy to use in practice.

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

Republicans on the NC Supreme Court just blocked certification of a Democratic justice's election win. Her GOP opponent is trying to throw out 60,000 ballots cast in November, citing debunked far-right legal theories. This assault on democracy should be a national scandal.

I've decided to try being more intentional about sharing my course notes for the #python course I'm teaching this quarter. A few people had told me they'd found the older version that they found on GitHub useful, so I figured I'd mention it.

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Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

Doing my annual check in on the state of the new years glasses industry and things are looking rough out there

Joe Biden lost the election almost two months ago but he’s still calling himself President and living in the White House … and no one even complains! I guess Americans are fine with living under the iron fist of “Dictator Joe” 🤷‍♂️

“everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing”