Anthropic has Claude write a compiler. www.anthropic.com/engineering/... I'm reminded of Ken Thompson's paper, Reflections on Trusting Trust. users.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.... I don't know where I'm going with this, other than having to consider the ever increasing need to manage security risks.

TIL how to use jless to quickly navigate large JSON documents, find things, copy values out, and so on. It's pretty handy, check it out: jless.io

--and add in a few cross site tracking pixels, you can profile people SCARILY well. Stop using Google search and block the tracking pixels and the coincidences stop, isn't that funny

Introducing Ai2 Open Coding Agents—starting with SERA, our first-ever coding models. Fast, accessible agents (8B–32B) that adapt to any repo, including private codebases. Train a powerful specialized agent for as little as ~$400, & it works with Claude Code out of the box. 🧵

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

I was lucky to receive an advance copy of this book, and all I can say is if you’re a sci-fi fan, put this on your calendar for May when it comes out! What you’ll get: religion, politics, suspension pods, onions. (Set in Leckie’s Imperial Radch universe, but standalone - no prior reading needed)

LOVING the Skylight Social app for Bluesky. It's amazing, like the best of a Twitter and TikTok and IG feed all in one. This is how social media should be!! 😭

this Markdown file could have been a shell script.

You sweat in your basement for years writing a book, working that nobody will ever read it - or that they will think you are a complete raving idiot, but then you read an astonishing, soul-warming, got-everything review like this and suddenly you feel like your whole life is not actually a waste.

Oh, Kagi Small Web is a cool thing! Like retro internet, but with current websites. kagi.com/smallweb

This is pretty amazing: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L8O... If/when we finally get something like domestic robots, I wonder if companies like Disney will have an outsize role in figuring out how to make their appearance acceptable (something the various humanoid robot companies seem mediocre at)

For #blogvent day 19, I wrote about all you can do with .github on... GitHub! cassidoo.co/post/dot-git...

While your junior developers are painting the proverbial fences, they're missing out on learning opportunities you *could* be offering them that would ripen these "green tomatoes" much faster. codemanship.wordpress.com/2025/12/20/a...

The UCP has made 2025 one of the darkest years for Alberta’s democracy. Albertans can turn on the lights in 2026. By simply being Albertan. Let me explain. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

i stand by this statement every year

Take 5-10 minutes a day to learn about compilers during @matt.godbolt.org's Advent of Compiler Optimizations series on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-Bw...

L'esprit de l'escalier

Stunning footage from earlier today, when the new Kilauea eruption covered the USGS Webcam 3, which is situated in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater near the southern rim of the much larger Kilauea caldera. This *isn't* what the people of Pompeii saw. But it's not very far off.

Should try to do #blogvent but must resist the urge to tinker with my blog set up instead of just writing...

Considering an upgrade to your computer's Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with an Intel wireless M.2 2230 module? Be sure to check to ensure system interface compatibility with your motherboard first! #PCBuilding #Troubleshooting #WiFi #Bluetooth

New Blog Post 📝 Etymology in science usually stops at just photosynthesis, but I use it almost every single lesson. Here are a few stories of some of my lessons and the impact teaching etymology has made on pupil understanding and literacy. inquestion.co.uk/2025/11/28/e...

Have I got the mug for this guy CC: @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

Managed to make a Cacio and Pepe adjacent pasta dish (linguine with cheese and lemon and spinach) that turned out pretty good, aided by science! arxiv.org/html/2501.00...

I'm giving one of my favorite talks "Testable Architecture (Ya Gotta Keep 'em Separated" online at the Calgary Software Crafters meetup on Wednesday, December 10th at 6pm PST (7pm MST, 8pm CST, 9pm EST). Details and RSVP at www.meetup.com/calgary-sof...

Reminder to schedule a colonoscopy

lol

happy monday, taps sign⬇️

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

Yay but not until 2028... and also a SUV. I'd take a 6e if they were in Canada but alas

Deadly Delivery brings the comedic courier horror game to Quest and Steam early next month. Details here: www.uploadvr.com/deadly-deliv...

Rereading Seveneves and kind of want to play the Arker's orbital mechanics game.... but I would probably get just as sick as i did trying to play Eve: Valkyrie

github.com/CtrlSpice/ot... simple enough for local dev purposes.

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

🌿 NEW STORY DAY🩸 “Drosera regina” is about a woman whose body behaves like a carnivorous plant, attracting men whether she likes it or not. Read here: www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/dros... Listen here: tinyurl.com/drosera-regina Art by the talented @headfullopuddin.bsky.social

Residents of Calgary - North West: the recall process for Rajan Sawhney is getting off the ground soon! She voted in favor of Bill 2. Website is coming, but in the meantime here is the group page if you use FB. #FireTheUCP #RecallRajan #ableg

TIL about oklch and why some colours look very different on my macbook vs external monitor. oklch.com#0.8524,0.227...

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Kinda reminds me of crazy taxi

For the record, Elizabeth talks like this too. It's how you know they're compatible. Fan theory: Pride and Prejudice is the first autism romance.

3. Solar will not solve every problem. But the biggest problem is that our civilisation relies on digging up fossil carbon and burning it, which is destabilising the climate, which multiplies a lot of very unpleasant threats. Solar is part of stopping us needing to do that.

Excellent thread on the state of solar power adoption

I hope this comes to Canada. It would be cool to catch up with F1 , haven't followed it in like 10 years.

The Sprawl started this candidate list last November. Now it's complete. Bios of all 122 candidates running in the October 20 election (including trustee candidates), with links to their websites. Pass it along to anyone who needs it! #yyccc

Oooh new James S.A. Corey book coming out next year: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/james... I really enjoyed The Mercy of Gods am I'm looking forward to the follow up. Pre-order at your local bookstore!

🫠 automerge.org The new Automerge website is live!! The biggest (smallest) surprise? How fun it was to build the demo! Automerge is so robust, it withstood all our weird ideas — like using physics-driven particles to literally push changes between docs — and it just worked. Perfectly. Every time.

To commemorate the latest attempt to change Alberta license plates, let's look back at recent efforts to rebrand prairie political culture. Spoiler alert: All 3 of these premiers enjoyed much higher popularity ratings than does Danielle Smith. And all 3 failed. #ableg

Wtf no 🤮

I added three new tips to my article on "How to Read More Books". verraes.net/2012/12/2012... I've been growing that list since 2012!

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