When it comes to #Python type checkers and LSPs, we had a lot of options for what to bundle in Positron, our data science IDE! 🤯 Read through how we evaluated Pyrefly, ty, Basedpyright, and Zuban, and what we ended up deciding to use by default: positron.posit.co/blog/posts/2...

last spirepost for a while. Finally beat the base game with new classes. The Regent feels doable, but I still haven't really figured out how to scale up damage with the Necrobinder. I think I got pretty lucky on the run. I'll wait for updates before trying ascensions

literacy has seen better days in this here website, huh?

"Amplification of Intention" It's not even a skill issue anymore to use it to write bad code. It's just that you have the choice to. We can and should have a conversation about the ensuing moral hazard. You still can express your intention to improve the code, and it will very often succeed.

no serious programmer would ever use a computer

I'm sure we are going to be normal about what's found inside CC's leaked source code, huh

VS Code relentlessly adding all of these non-optional badly implemented AI affordances together with Claude Code making _good_ coding affordances means text editors are much less central to my dev workflow at the same time that MS makes VS Code bad. Chances of reinstalling Emacs are looking good!

The NYT is being disingenuous here. The AMA has *always* said that gender-affirming surgeries should generally be reserved for adults. That's part of why so few kids get them! The AMA reiterated this position and the NYT is characterizing it as a policy change. It's not.

I’m never not bringing my guitar to a company offsite again. Perfect excuse to slip out of the crowd and go back to hotel room and practice! Extremely highly recommended

I’m truly not shaming anyone, but a good chunk of bsky is explained by it being possible that two people engage in kink while neither is aware that this is what’s going on Blocking isn’t personal, it’s just me not consenting to watching them go at it lol

It’s weird to me that all these things ring true: - Conway’s law is intuitive (you can read an org chart from reading the output produced by org chart) - Conway’s law likely applies to more than software - yet, it’s surprising that LLMs’s internals behave a bit like ours do under similar probes

Finished a run with each of the characters now. Died to the first elite with Regent (I completely messed up the resource system); died at floor 35 with necrobinder, and easily beat the game with defect (Voltaic and echo form, lmao) Clearly I need to learn the new play styles

If you’re of a particular age group and nerdiness, here’s the real good stuff: andreasjansson.github.io/win-3.1-back... Some of these are carved very, very deeply in my brain

been really awkward seeing all the great work Scoiattolo is doing mapping the structure of this pervasive fraud (going back a while) while also reading people saying these accounts couldn’t possibly be fake

irreparably loser behavior from whoever is making the calls on these marketing emails, i'm sorry

We spireposting for a bit - Annoyed that I couldn’t beat the Queen on my very first ironclad run, but that unlocked the Silent who did Silent things and beat the evolving thing with 600 block. Poison + blur + gambit + card draw + the quest item that doubles your last turn’s card. Spire 2 is great!

I love love _love_ developing in Rust, but wowee is the toolchain hungry for disk space or what I just realized I was short on disk space and found half a TB of rust build artifacts scattered all over my laptop

Machines have transformer layers but humans have hagoromo. The game’s not over yet!

Project Hail Mary is goooood. They really nailed the adaptation, you love to see it

Quarto v1.9 is out! We'll have an announcement blog post soon, but quarto.org/docs/download/ has the main highlights, including: - PDF accessibility in latex and typst - llms.txt support - third-party engine extensions Give it a whirl, and thanks!

Thanks, I hate it

You might have seen the news headlines saying "human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom". It sounded really interesting, so I decided to look into it. The reality left me very disappointed

Song that I would be most aggravated by? Dragostea din Tei Song that is most likely to legit make me lose my mind? Tangerine Dream’s Mojave Plan

Do I have a professional critic of some kind following me? I have an extremely basic question about your profession: how do you handle the fact that people you’re writing about can read it? As in norms, practices, etc. I’m genuinely curious about this!

Empire Games is such a banger of a book. This is my third reread or so, and I always find something new to enjoy and chew on in this whole series. Strong recommend

Post on Bluesky, wait 5 seconds, block the scam bot that reskeeted you, go on with your life

(up front: I'm extremely negative about genai for image, audio, and video, but _not_ about code specifically, so feel free to ignore me) What fraction of "gamers don't like genai" is "genai made GPUs too expensive for gamers to buy"? (independently of picking a "and that's good/bad" valence)

How much money did they put into this again?

Got us.

been feeling kinda stressed lately so I made a little prototype is this anything

And here I was, thinking the NYT was no longer capable of competent evil and was relegated to modern stupid evil. It is execrable to call Ehrlich's work "premature".

here's the spiciest take I have with using LLMs for code in march 2026: the most dangerous thing they amplify is our lack of good judgment. not theirs. yours. and mine.

I’m about through S1 doing a TNG rewatch and I keep saying this out loud at every episode. It’s super wild

I do not understand how I did not realize how horny Star Trek TNG was when I was growing up.

Pouring a moderate amount of malt liquor on the kerb for one of the all-time great Basically Pleasant Bureaucrats.

Oh wow, RIP Habermas, the best of the Frankfurt school’ers and by a wide margin

(whatever, it's saturday, you get saturday posting) dude alcohol is so much harder on my body than thc, it's not even remotely funny

Very cute. And the same argument of course also works if you ask when |tails| first outnumber |heads|. But then, to really bake your noodle: how do you not get that the value should be 1/2, by symmetry, since we start with S_0 = 0? :D

Ok so for any given movie director, what’s the quality you think they ascribe to all of their characters? Eg: Tarantino thinks all his characters are cool Coens think all their characters are stupid Reiner thought all his characters were good people

Ok, this one wins. What is even happening here.

Even better, put a train in a vacuum tube there, let gravity do its thing, and not only you get from Hormuz to the US in 42 minutes, but also to any other place on earth in the same total travel time! (no, you can't really but yes, you would really)

Pitch an unnecessary sequel “” We don’t even have to hire Geena Davis or Susan Sarandon, what good fortune!

I’m the lead of the Quarto project. We work hard to make it easy for people to use. It *thrills* me that LLMs got so good that they can take over much of the labor required. We’ll always work hard to make it easy for people to use Quarto. But less total human frustration is good, actually!

"We realized we were making ourselves deeply vulnerable to a class action suit that absolutely would have wiped us out financially so we're going to find a way to do this without actual human names attached."

Spufford fans - Nonesuch is out. anyone with impressions so far?

Michael @mkearnsphilly.bsky.social ) and I wrote a blog post about our experiences using AI for research, and our thoughts on what these developments will mean for research, publication, and education: www.amazon.science/blog/how-ai-...

This is such gross behavior. Good lord, if you work at grammarly, yell at the relevant product manager, then quit. How the fuck are they even considering a remotely acceptable product? Let's make this a standard case study for ethics classes in CS, forever. Seriously, who greenlit this garbage?

Who needs PowerPoint when you have Quarto and @emilhvitfeldt.bsky.social's extensions?! I wanted to make an image-heavy presentation. Usually, I'd reach for Keynote. But Emil shared quarto-revealjs-editable, which let me stay in Quarto land 🥰 Thanks, Emil! Find it here: github.com/EmilHvitfeld...

Oh is this happening? The administration gutted state capacity to disrupt it, and smeared the very ethical researchers quoted, who have for years done nonpartisan work to address this problem. The deranged ketamine addict running X fell for Shellenbullshit about “censorship”. And here they are.

low-grade abuse is such a mindfuck of a thing to experience when you realize that's what's going on, welp