Found this article quite interesting: news.ucsc.edu/2025…

At an upcoming conference I'll be giving a lightning talk to entrepreneurial ecosystem builders on how leadership in companies can work effectively with their technical team. 1/3 #conference #question #communication #collaboration #tech

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

1/6: I've been using #ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other #productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons. It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁 #tasks

1/3 @discord.com the new defaulting to limited time for status is super annoying. I usually want to default as offline and defaulting to a limited time period is driving me crazy. The UI experience assumes one wants a limited time and unless one checks carefully one often #discord

The projects functionality in #chatgpt shows promise but lacks some basic functionality - e.g. sorting, reordering, nesting. Is anyone aware of code out there to manage / override the projects UI? I've some basic #vibecoding but haven't had great success. #ai #llm #question #code #projects

(1/6) when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic. I think the best I've read are: - David D. Burns' Feeling Good ( #CBT generally including #anxiety, #depression)

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

So over two weeks ago #OpenAI was ordered to retain all conversation logs from all users - including API users. 🤯 This is mind-blowing - I can't imagine most corporations are able to use OpenAI at all until this order is rescinded?!

New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...

1/4 "In Boston, between 1709 and 1713, townspeople protested vigorously and then took extralegal action when Andrew Belcher, a wealthy merchant, refused to stop exporting grain during a bread shortage in the city...he chose to export grain to the Caribbean, at a handsome profit, rather #history

fascinating #podcast from #StarTalk (Neil deGrasse Tyson) on the gut-brain connection and our #microbiome. #health startalkmedia.com/show/the-gut...

"I rejoice greatly that I find there is patience in my soul for quite a long time yet, that I desire no earthly possessions, and need nothing but books, the possibility of writing, and of being daily for a few hours alone." - Fyodor Dostoevsky, letter to N. D. Fonvisin, March 1854. #books #quotes

1/3 I'm reading The Lost Princess by #GeorgeMacDonald and in one paragraph he starts off by saying that there is a fire made of fir-wood and by the end of the paragraph refers to it as a peat fire.

This also destroy the research and innovation engine that powers our economy, health, national security, national competitiveness, well-being, and overall future. A dangerous and shameful act.

"We got hit with the new #tariffs for the first time this week. After importing $167k of inventory, we paid an additional $255k tariff. Yikes! That's literally more than our CEO got paid last year..." - Wyze Email (4/30/25)

I participated in a Stacks #crypto test a few years back and was granted a small amount of #STX for my participation. It's not much, but I was keeping it at #Okcoin. Recently I received an email informing me that Okcoin was rebranding as #Okx and what is odd is that I have to withdraw

thoughts on being #neurodivergent and/or #chronicallyill and attending a #conference. I love conferences but they also have a high cost for me: dev.to/davidshq/dif...

"While I am responsible for changing what I can, I have to let go of the rest if I want peace of mind. Just for today I will love myself enough to give up a struggle over something that is out of my hands." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 129 #serenity #boundaries #mentalhealth

I find it slightly annoying that the #Discord version on Linux is 0.0.xx and has been for-ev-er. 😆 You aren't following any of the versioning schemes I know! 😂

Under pressure from DOGE, nearly all the staff of the Defense Digital Service — the Pentagon’s fast-track tech development arm — are resigning over the coming month. The resignations will effectively shut down the decade-old program after the end of April.

"Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in. The attempts were 'near real-time'... "Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts..." www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

is it just me or did #ChatGPT get significantly slower after I upgraded to a paid account? 😂

this administration had no problems fishing andrew tate out of a romanian prison

NEW: I confirmed w/ CBP that the email @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social receive telling her to self-deport is real, not a scam. It's also is very weird and likely causing fear and chaos. I spoke w/ Micheroni—a US citizen and immigration attorney—about her experience. www.wired.com/story/homela...

We just shipped .NET Aspire 9.2! learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet... Lots of cool features in this release and a step towards deploying to a lot more places! We're also shipping a new aspire command line tool! #dotnet #aspire

Again, arbitrary & capricious.

Did you know if you are outside your home country and purchase something using #PayPal in a foreign currency and then download your transactions in a CSV from PayPal you get the transactions in the foreign currency?

"By prioritizing open-source development and collaboration, 18F also helped to make government IT more affordable. Making project code transparent meant that agencies could reuse the code and reduce the cost of duplicate development efforts." www.techdirt.com/2025/04/04/h...

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

There is this tight band, somewhat sensitive to pressure, 1-2" below my wrist (on the top side). Applying pressure to it for 15-30s seems to cause it to move. So, there's that.

The History Books Purged From the Naval Academy's Library 🗃️ open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

Simultaneously an attack on free speech, higher education, and the international students who subsidize American students

My friend from the NOAA lab that brings you the Keeling Curve wants that world to know that things are horrible inside NOAA.

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life." - Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124 #love #detachment #courage

This will go down as one of the darkest days in modern scientific history in my 50 years in the business. These are going to be huge losses to the research and public health community.

“We’re talking about doing something extraordinary here for the government to sentence people to what’s essentially slave labor, torture, prison in El Salvador based on nothing, based on having a flower tattoo...” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/u...

Go Tigers

Tomorrow I'll be giving a talk at a local #meetup on retro #coding using #qb64.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

@cursor.com.web.brid.gy is great at a lot of things, I use it + love it. It seems to really struggle with Windows #PowerShell (and wanting to always revert to using a Linux shell) and with #ETL. It may be the connection between the chair and the keyboard. #AI

I had GPT 4o make a meme for what it and other models do to me constantly:

I'd like 10 acres of largely wooded land, a tiny house I can use as an office and a walking path so I can get out into nature and exercise easily.

When the #AI #coding assistant you are using keeps writing poor code: "Please pay attention to what we've already discussed and don't reimplement the bad ideas you've tried previously." And when it insists on saying stupid crap: "I don't believe this, try searching the web." 🥴

I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong, but #AI seems to really struggle with writing tests for code. It's okay at first but as soon as the project starts growing it stumbles all over itself. And the AI is definitely writing most of the code I'm asking it to test without problem...but testing?

Building something and it's so hard to stop #coding. The ideas burn inside me.

Having #cursor write a scraping app for me. I 50% love and 50% hate AI dev. I find at the moment it seems safest for internal utilities of limited scope with obvious breakage.

Our article "Control Search Rankings, Control the World: What is a Good Search Engine?" has now been published as #OpenAccess at the Springer's AI and Ethics journal: link.springer.com/article/10.1... @admscentre.org.au @rmitcomputing.bsky.social @umbrellacorpn.bsky.social

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.