Funny seeing insights rediscovered. The second most interesting insight I had building at Google (this with the awesome Claudio) was if your fuzzer finds far fewer bugs but with executable, replayable test cases - more bugs got fixed. AI will get there too. Eventually.

Slightly late for April Fools - it's marinated a while. A while back I joked with @isaacevans.bsky.social and Daghan about a terrible idea: structural code search, but with CSS? Unfortunately I built it. CSSemgrep: www.linkedin.com/pulse/cssemg... A cursed tiny tribute to Semgrep.

I keep waiting for someone to dispute this result and keep going back to reread it even though it bugs me so much.... ... before realizing I'm confirming the result. www.science.org/content/arti...

I used to chase the "Vienna coffeehouse" version of university: small tables, big ideas, ok coffee. Mostly failed. But one night, someone asked: "So... what’s special about meat?" And we accidentally speedran today's AI debate years before LLMs. Part 1: www.linkedin.com/pulse/g%C3%B...

So I like HP. A lot. I think about Hogwarts as a security thingy & honestly it holds up alarmingly well: Polyjuice breaks auth, the Trace is noisy telemetry, and the Fidelius Charm is basically ocaps with some extra drama. www.linkedin.com/pulse/hogwar...

I think about names a lot. Names aren’t labels...they’re handles. Human names are messy & relational, myths treat true names as power, and ocap security makes it literal: hold the handle (key/token/secret URL) → you have power. www.linkedin.com/pulse/names-...

Quines say "say me" Inequ say "see me" Self-recognizing programs that read program text & ask: "Is that… me?" Starts as byte checks & spirals into mirror tests, regex narcissism & CS slamming an UNDECIDABLE stamp on dreams. www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-am-u... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

I translated Ezra Pound’s 14-word metro poem into a Perl one-liner with Unicode emoji—and it literally prints trees: a tiny experiment in what translation really preserves (spoiler: not the words). www.linkedin.com/pulse/ezra-p... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

I didn't realize today is National Nothing Day. Unfortunately, I didn't celebrate it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

I translated a nursery rhyme into JS & learnt with translating poems, you gotta choose what is load-bearing. From nonsense poems to haiku constraints to code-poetry... Translation: It's staged word magic + citations. Enjoy! www.linkedin.com/pulse/untran... #RecursiveRhymesOnReason

Fun with JS const _=new Proxy([],{get:(b,k)=>k=="_"?(console.log(b.join` `),b.length=0,_):(b.push(k),_)}) _.Humpty.Dumpty.sat.on.a.wall._ _.Humpty.Dumpty.had.a.great.fall._ _.All.the.kings.horses.and.all.the.kings.men._ _.could.not.put.Humpty.Dumpty.together.again._ jsfiddle.net/jnagra/vg79m...

Sometimes we don’t know yet, sometimes the answer doesn’t fit in the universe & sometimes we can’t ever know. Chaos, quantum dice, uncomputable monsters, Gödel’s ceiling - knowledge has weirdly beautiful limits. I wrote on things we cannot know: medium.com/@jasvir/know... Enjoy!

Do you think Pavlov's dogs like pavlova? Or are they just conditioned to think they do?

Ok this meteor shower is gorgeous. I find it oddly romantic that a comet exploded around this part of the solar system ages ago and now once a year in December as earth blazes through it, we get shiny pretty things in the sky. #GeminidMeteorShower

A joke for vexillologists - Is the US nervous about China because it's a red flag? 🚩

The sky is solid uniform white today! It's like they forgot to finish rendering the screen in a game.

Soooo... I had a weird dream about a silly made up puzzle then woke at 5am trying to think of ways to solve it. And have now spent 4hrs on it. How's your Saturday?

Thanksgiving feels like a good day to think about Dining Philosophers.

I think watching the World Cup Chess this year is the first time I've remembered the passionate enthusiasm sports fans have about about whatever their game is since maybe the 1990 rugby 7s. It's so crazy all over the place. So fun!

What's the fastest thing humans' have ever made? Is it Voyager? It's moving at such a small fraction of the speed of light. I guess we've made torches that make photons ...that move at the speed of light. But that feels like cheating.

BABA IS YOU AND UNREASONABLE

Why are so many world leaders so friggin cartoonishly evil? And not even in a fun Pinky and the Brain way. Just slimey evil. It might be reflecting our revealed preferences.

Are you telling me the one friggin night that I, a resident of the desert that always has clear skys, has a solar flare and the northern lights in the sky happens to happen - I also have clouds and rain?!? Universe - you're an ass.

You know we just don’t talk enough about the positive aspects of pollution. Like pretty sunsets. 😛

Nothing i have is planned. And a lot is coming. Things are going to be messy. I mean they've always been messy but I know it now.

Ok yes since I got apparently recognized - I was at IIW tonight. That still doesn't make Identity cool.

Every time I think I have a handle on how awesome @racket-lang.org is, I accidentally come across something they did a lustrum ago that is even more awesome. I think it's going to take all evening to digest how cool this is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5Ha...

I wonder how many people knew Dumbledore liked candy enough to choose it for his passwords. Near as I can tell there's ~150 candy mentioned in @harrypotter.social - that's about 8 bits. Dumbledore talks about far fewer - about 3bits. Dumbledore - more like dumbledumb amirite?

I wish there was a post from Google that would explain to me, a mildly technical person, why they wrecked chromecast - was it a legal issue that forced their hand, some technical problem, incompetence - I expected it from Google but am sad to have been so right.

Every once in a while you have to ask yourself, given the nonsense, why am I here and not there.

I worry I'm just contrarian. I worried about AGI a decade ago & now find myself groaning internally about *how* people complain about it. Reminds me adults complaining "there's data" that "comics & calculators are making kids dumber". At least I've learnt to be mostly quiet.

I am going to hate MCP when I look at it, aren't I? I mean - I haven't and I will. But I just know I will hate it. I hope I'm wrong.

I was promised a storm. I got merely wet...as an islander, SF's understanding of a "downpour" continues to surprise me two decades in. It's too wet to be outside. But it's also not wet enough to be outside.

Yeah it hallucinates. But instead of complaining, what if realized that was a feature and find use cases when a little hallucination is not merely desirable but phenomenal?

I miss the simplicity of old Browsershots - "here's a url, give me a grid of screenshots". I had a tiny template which changed bgcolor of the page based on pass/fail. You could eyeball 100s of browser/version/OS at a glance. New "dashboards" comparatively suck. What do you use?

A tshirt has 4 holes - when I turn it inside out, I sometimes pause in wonderment that no matter which one I use, the outcome is the same When you turn a tshirt inside out, which one do you use most? * Any (why think about it?) * Bottom (I'm normal!) * Neck (I'm a rebel!) * Only sleeves (my peeps!)

It's hard to convey how frustrating it is seeing people take away the wrong lesson from the npm worm & knowing it'll harden (heh) the wrong approach to addressing issues like it. And to anyone wanting to ask me what I am doing about it - sadly nothing - I'm busy elsewhere.

The number of times I hear about a soon to be amazingly successful company who "merely" recreated anycast & DNS but badly is too damn high. It would be fine if all they did was give it some much needed UX sugar but when they break its nice properties is when it hurts my soul.

It took me a second to work out the whacky way PetSmart sorts fish tank sizes - but that there is only 1 30G & over tank but 11 40-54G tanks...seems wrong.

I too am considering starting every reply in a conversation in real life with how many seconds I have spent "thinking". Incidentally, I thought for 6 seconds before crafting this message.

Did you hear that X just killed Y? Here's why?

Of course there's 3I/ATLAS - the Ramans always do things in threes.

The modern day version of that high school “drop an egg without breaking it” contest is going to be “drop a Tardigrade on a moon without killing it”.

I just realized that "jelly bean" is a spoonerism of "Billie Jean"! Brace yourself for a whole new genre of songs. Jelly bean is not my candy She’s just a bean who claims I’m the one But the sweet tooth’s not my cavity Just a lil snack travesty...

It'll be funny to me if they brought out some kind of danger metric based on deaths per car to curb autonomous vehicles and had to ban humans from driving.

When it doesn't just hallucinate but makes me wonder if I am hallucinating too! I definitely did not type index.htmll!

I’m trying to be objective but I still don’t understand why so many of y’all think that meat is better than silicon.

As I often tell web servers I talk to, listen 0x505249202a20485454502f322e300d0a0d0a534d0d0a0d0a ...

I do sometimes wonder how much of openai, gemini and anthropic core is now vibe coded. ...and what that means.

...a little problematic how often I find myself writing prose on various command lines rather than commands because I've gotten so used to everything being an LLM. This bodes badly for me.