Simple Machines xkcd.com/3239/

I think there are two things people continuously underestimate when it comes to using AI for development work: 1. How much nontechnical people are incapable of describing what they need due to their lack of understanding of what can and can't be done (specification and requirements description)

Havana, Cuba (2022) #havana #cuba

Finally made the move to switch my phone's OS to GrapheneOS. Pretty well developed, sleek, and good control over apps with no annoying/extra/unnessary pre installed app. #grapheneos #opensource #privacy

Historic district of Charleston, South Carolina

Central courtyard fountain, known as "El Paraguas" (The Umbrella), at the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.  #mexico #mexicocity #ElParaguas

these people watched breaking bad TV show and decided to go for the underground tonnel for real, I guess 😐

my side side project this week was to find a way so I don't have to continuously search my inboxes for various information. ended up over-engineering a solution via a RAG system with Thunderbird add-on fully developed and run on my home server

Command lines, servers, databases, Git, cron jobs, these aren't exclusively data science tools, but they're tools I use every day. I wrote a short post from my own experience. Might be useful if you're earlier in your career and wondering what the day-to-day really looks like.

Claude Code source snapshot that became accessible on March 31, 2026 through a source map exposure in the npm distribution: github.com/instructkr/c...

Sunny day in Amsterdam, Netherlands, featuring the Vrouwe Fortuna statue #amsterdam #cityphotography

📈 #Markets "Nouriel Roubini predicted that US President Donald Trump is more likely to escalate his war in Iran to obtain a win than back down and risk worse consequences on the economy and international order."

someone in 1988 thought about self lubricating chains 🫡

Seen walking down West Broadway in Manhattan #nyc #manhattan #graffiti

Neptune's Finger, located near the Arch of Cabo San Lucas in Mexico.

"All the Same" by Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao at Fukuoka Asian Art Museum #art #contemporaryart

Malachite butterfly (Siproeta stelenes) resting on a yellow marigold flower.

“Practice any Art: music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money & fame but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.” IAN McKELLEN / KURT VONNEGUT

Renaissance Hall within the Masonic Temple in Philadelphia.

A handmade paper-mache creature mask likely represents a fantastical animal like a goat or deer. #art #paper-mache

The Rolling Stone Interview: Alysa Liu The Olympic gold medalist on dropping out of figure skating, thinking for herself, and her triumphant return to the ice. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Streets of Cartagena, Colombia

A contemporary artwork, titled 'Out Beyond Right Doing and Wrong Doing There is a Field I Will Meet You There", by the Iranian artist Nafir, who paints portraits directly onto traditional Persian rugs. #art #graffiti

Goat's Horns with Blue by Georgia O'Keeffe.

Pretty amazing map of New York City. Click on just about any location for a street level view from the 1940s. 1940s.nyc/map#14.16/40...

The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!)

Sculpture Primavera (Spring) by Cuban artist Rafael San Juan, installed in Havana, Cuba, looking out toward the sea.

Saint Jerome Writing by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Dwejra Bay on Gozo Island, Malta.

Peace Statue by Seibo Kitamura, Nagasaki Peace Park in Japan

mural in Reykjavik, created by English artist D*Face as part of the Wall Poetry project

Chihuly's Boat

by Andrew Loomis

#Italy #Florence

when I'm asked to come up with a hypothesis with a very limited data

my AI call assistant had a conversation with an AI recruiter, which changed its character from the first response to the second. #aislop

Given the current status of international affairs, there could be a completely updated version of Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start The Fire" song.

Iranian people when faced by progressives and liberals in the West and asked to explain why they are asking Trump to attack their own country?

Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá

#bogota #colombia #mural

40% of Americans didn’t read a book last year. Congratulations to the 4% who read 50 or more though.

Everything is Connected and Everything is Complicated.

books I read in 2025

some Christmas lighting in Medellin, Colombia

Botero museum in Bogota

Check out this blog post from @clairemkbowen.bsky.social showing how federal data shape your entire day—often without you even noticing. Federal data are everywhere! It’s the invisible infrastructure powering daily life and the big decisions that shape our futures. #statssky

Olmo 3 is notable as a "fully open" LLM - all of the training data is published, plus complete details on how the training process was run. I tried out the 32B thinking model and the 7B instruct models, + thoughts on why transparent training data is so important simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/22/...

A few photos from my trip to Maine in September.

Hooray for an introvert!