for these situations, i think: - the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime - the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying - there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell

we need to make design fun again, in all facets of life not just digitally

gist.github.com/richhickey/e... This

This is absolutely how I feel trying to go down this rabbit hole yet again and finding it coming up short www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?

AI is great at making people believe things that aren’t real. I haven’t found anything else that it’s really great at yet.

It did some cool things for me, implemented thunderstorms really well with cool effects, but I'm not keeping it. It didn't do the reversing of the plow well at all and wouldn't fix itself. It broke the config menu multiple times. This isn't a complicated little app

I'm tapping out here I don't know if it's just Java, or my skill issues or it's just not that good, but what it's doing is absolutely so far from what I would do with the same instructions. From little security issues to just making up annotations library APIs and downgrading dependencies.

Got my Sunlu dryer setup on the AMS. Excited to see how this works out. #3dprinting

This For You feed seems great the few minutes I've used it. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I think I'm going to attempt yet again to do some agentic coding. My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too. What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?

Merry Christmas for those who celebrate!

This is a weird list I'm on...

noclip.website This is super cool

lastnight me: "So no school tomorrow we are all going to sleep in right" kids: "yea!" this morning me: "why are we up 20 mins earlier than normal" kids: *incoherent wild playing and yelling* where's this energy before school???

Cool... there's one in the House of Lords right now "think of the children we need a backdoor to ever device in the UK" bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...

www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv... What's next, if your house is not entirely transparent it is a hostile activity? People in the UK love to look down at the US decent into authoritarianism and ignore their own.

So uhh Christmas is like next week…. How the hell did that happen???

blah blah blah side effects bad now that's out of the way I kinda love Swifts didSet and willSet

My next leaflet, a little reminder to myself when I get stuck in an unnecessary planning rut for building new projects.

I'll catch-up one day maybe, today is not that day though 🥴

RSC users / the React team are definitely having a bad time the last few days. (this isn't meant as some own, more of a I feel for you all)

Facebook / instagram accts are next up on my chopping block

I've still not seen an AI tool that isn't just a tool to churn out more slop. What have you found legitimately useful? How has it improved or benefited you in whatever it's for?

A little bit about my new git setup.

Well the bottom fell out of my filament storage container, silica beads everywhere! I guess it’s time to get better at CAD and make some shelving 😂

I'm finding that taking multiple days to write blog posts and doing a few simultaneously really helps me actually not only write them, but I feel like make them better. If they are actually better is another question, hopefully get the git setup one published tomorrow.

This was interesting apparently I'm a mostly offline 9am poster anisota.net/harvest/trey...

I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3 I know, I know I'm really behind now. I'm playing catch-up today. So far the theme of this year is "I should have done part 1 the same way I did part 2" 😅 tangled.org/treybastian....

First time printing with a smooth build plate, a little funkyness but the smooth is nice. One for my sister in law

If you got nextjs or are using React Server Components, upgrade ASAP www.cve.org/CVERecord?id... A score of 10 on a widely used library is major!

I just completed "Gift Shop" - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/2 I know, I'm a day late! Part 2 gave me some grief until I realised what was happening at the end of the strings 😅 COBOL is fun! tangled.org/treybastian....

I tell everyone this and no one ever seems to listen to it. DO NOT DO ANYTHING PERSONAL ON A BUSINESS DEVICE Yes I mean... DO NOT TEXT YOUR PARTNER DO NOT CHECK YOUR PERSONAL EMAIL DO NOT MAKE A SHOPPING LIST IN THE NOTES APP Only use that device for work related activities...

I decided to do it on COBOL this year 👨‍🦳 #noai tangled.org/treybastian.... I've completed "Secret Entrance" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/1

hmm might be a bit boring and do swift, I've been enjoying swift

if European investors weren't so afraid of risk there could actually be a real privacy focused open source competitor to Apple / Microsoft / Google for personal computing. sadly, having been through it before myself, the risk appetite doesn't exist hence why most eu tech companies move to the US

There is something so satisfying about just making things that you know people will enjoy. No matter how little it is. I know every one of these little ornaments is going to make my friends smile a little bit when they see them and that's a huge win. #3dprinting

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you have seen Three inches of blood Streetlight Manifesto Reel Big Fish Manchester Orchestra Jeremy Messersmith

EMERGENCY I set up Polar today and started to set up Stripe Managed Payments and now I'm getting kicked off Stripe!! Literally nothing else has changed. Can anyone from Stripe or Polar help me out please? 🙏 🙏 🙏 Sharing is appreciated

I've finally done it, a leaflet blog post! I'm not someone who writes a lot so any feedback on how I can do better for the next one would be much appreciated.

Done, I'm fully off GitHub, I promise there's a write-up about this and why I did it coming soon™!

hmm what language should I do for advent of code this year? I did OCaml and Fortran last year. Only made it to day 9 😬 December with kids can be busy 😅

slowly but surely getting all of my public projects off of Github Winter Vibes is now moved over! No longer on Github Pages or Github wintervibes.treybastian.com tangled.org/treybastian....

For my first work of CAD, I made some Christmas ornaments for my Ultima Online guild. 😁 Almost ready to send out. I already have ideas to make next years better.

Sometimes modern life feels like death by 1000 cuts, and I just got by 1000th. Ugh! Nothing can be simple and straightforward anymore. AI is only going to make it worse.

every machine in my home lab is named after the Knights of the Round Table. every machine outside my network is far more descriptive <purpose><number> so git001, blog001 etc etc

don't sleep on the power of handwriting things down

thought about swapping my name servers on treybastian.com to a backup for my knot, but my neovim config is not that important 😅

I feel like pre smart phone internet people understood and still understand what trolling is way better than post smartphone internet people Everyone is just like “oh yea this person is 100% behind the idea that Brussels sprouts are in cahoots with the avocados to destroy Christmas, sounds legit”

Dan is on step 3 of the AI devs cycle. 1) hm ok maybe this can do things 2) holy crap I see the potential 3) ok, maybe this tool isn’t quite right let’s try something by else 4) maybe it’s me? 5) ok I can use it for SOME things 6) everything sucks I’m just gonna code again

I don’t get the incentive to play the multiple account reply game with yourself. The internet is so broken 🤣