Pro tip: add QR-code based sharing to your web or native app. Even if nobody else ever uses it, it will remove so much friction from your own multi-device debugging and testing workflows. Totally worth it.

FoC London returns in January! Come along :)) luma.com/qe8iexzs?tk=...

Currently: wondering about a 2x2 that has emergence and generativity as quadrants. What should go in the other 2 quadrants?

One of the things that makes humans intelligent is that we can create new tools and new notations to help us better solve problems.

Wow, just clocked that my talk for WIRED earlier this year broke 1 million views on YouTube youtu.be/ifrgBDOv5VY

You select against bullshit by adding a ground-truthing mechanism to the loop.

Currently: thinking about build then talk: medium.com/google-devel...

I like the vision of "keep Flickr pictures VISIBLE for 100 years" because it's different from a straight archive -- yes it's preserving for future generations, but it's also ensuring that we have a shared commons at the same level of accessibility as the rest of the web

Last week I joined Cloudflare. Just in time for one of the more memorable Tuesdays in the company's history.

GeistFabrik and AI-augmented software development at ARIA: blog.oshineye.com/2025/11/geis...

Blogging again: blog.oshineye.com/2025/11/expo... since I finally found a solution to: www.openradar.me/21785935

Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

Earthquake Prediction Flowchart xkcd.com/3165/

The first 90% is easy but the second and third 90% are painfully frustrating unless you have a workflow that converges.

A map of the "Post-Naive Internet" www.mozillafoundation.org/en/nothing-p...

We've got two lightning talks confirmed for next weeks London event: Building new tools for Science * Agnes Cameron will tell us about Malleable Knitting Software * Adewale Oshineye will share GeistFabrik, a Python-based divergence engine for Obsidian vaults. ~10 spots left if you want to join

Bottom line: The future of AI-driven discovery isn't just bigger models—it's smarter inference. By combining LMs with rational planning strategies, we can build agents that ask better questions, make better decisions, and collaborate effectively with humans.

One useful trick to improve answering accuracy is to use code generation. Code grounds reasoning in executable logic, not just vibes.

This in FT this morning 👇

Currently: Evergreen Specs.

#TIL that I want NSI more than ASI.

We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai...

Currently: thinking about the relationship between metis and coding agents.

Picard management tip: You're not supposed to come up with all the ideas yourself. Ask for suggestions.

It's looking like I've got several projects that need language detection as part of the workflow. It's been a few years since I've used that and I assume there's been some (possibly vast?) improvements. Anyone have a favorite library / model / etc they'd recommend? #MultilingualDH

An accompanying book, The Word for World, is edited by Sarah Shin and So Mayer and published by Spiral House. Visit the exhibition website for more details: www.aaschool.ac.uk/publicprogra...

Today, The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin opens at AA Gallery in London! Curated by Sarah Shin and Harriet Jennings, the exhibition presents a selection of Ursula's maps, including some that have never been exhibited before.

This talk is absolutely tremendous. AI, cellular automata, how to define intelligence, how life emerges from building blocks, symbiogenesis… Incredible. overcast.fm/+AAhjRoBRgM0

I have a theory that when designing a social simulation / generator, it can be useful to keep in mind a story you’d like your system to be able to organically generate. not every system should generate the same story but I have a short list of high-salience interesting stories I reach for. (1/2)

Yes! It originally comes from Graeme Ritchie's iconic 2007 paper which formed the basis for a lot of computational creativity thinking: homepages.abdn.ac.uk/g.ritchie/pa...

Currently: thinking about how one might discover Surprisingly Similar Documents using embeddings.

Whatever happened to Jon Kleinberg's work on "word bursts": www.newscientist.com/article/dn34...

Picard management tip: Break a complex, urgent problem into subcomponents, one for each of your lieutenants to solve.

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge. My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." - The Bitter Lesson (2019), by Rich Sutton www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...

the curse of decentralization nerds is they keep trying to build tools to do more decentralization instead of more tools to keep normal people interested in being on, engaging with, contributing to a platform that happens to be decentralizable

Prompt injection is when someone tricks an AI into ignoring its instructions. There's no easy fix because LLMs process all text as potentially executable. Grabbed promptinjection.wtf and threw together a simple site explaining why this matters.

#TIL the WHO's European Region contains a bunch of surprising countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

It is not possible to overstate how much of a time sink this could be for me…

A 1,000 episodes to explore Here's a map on my unofficial archive site, Braggoscope www.braggoscope.com/explore

i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

Second brain being turned into the first brain

It’s a computational notebook, where all cells are running all the time. Fascinatingly, the UI is the code, adorned with small widgets. I think legibility could be improved for other users, but this points to possibilities in other domains.

Currently: thinking about the end of the free performance lunch: www.cs.utexas.edu/~lin/cs380p/...

I'd bootstrap it with Google Takeout (plus parsers to convert the data into formats that serve my purposes) then keep it updated via event streams from every service I use.

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

Not just art. Talking. Writing. Editing. Designing. Coding. Thinking. Doing well at anything takes years of practice. Ceding that to a machine defeats the whole purpose of taking pleasure from one's chosen path in life.

Nobody ever got a promotion and a raise for adding less features than the other guy. Which is a shame.