"Doesn't anyone read the fineprint?!" asks HN man on his first day on the Internet. No, no we don't.

This cat does not have to wrangle electricians and kitchen fitters. That bunny has the look of someone that does 😡

I need to do Just Enough electrician training to (not) be dangerous. I’m sick of having to rely on the most unprofessional professionals. We’ve been let down twice now trying to get a new line for the cooker installed, and now it’s delaying the kitchen install.

The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.

Send stupid cold out-reach emails? You better get good at answering the hard questions

Decision-making approach: Hats, Haircuts, Tattoos. 👒 Hats - try them on (low risk) 💇 Haircuts - live with the result a while ⚓ Tattoos - permanent By James Clear via Emily Webber: Decision making at the right level with Hats, Haircuts and Tattoos emilywebber.co.uk/decision-mak...

I'm so tired of being expected to read things that no one has bothered to write.

I love that one of the Irish Air Corps’ maritime patrol aircraft has the call sign “Kraken”

I'm pretty definite that if AI is going to write code, developers _cannot_ be on the hook for reading all of it and pretending we understand it. It's an accountability trap we cannot fall into so we need to build systems around us. Still don't know how I feel about this but…

hey so, @roomy.space is now generally available for real-world use! 🥳 make atmospheric group spaces for friends & community, chat in real-time, progressively structure emergent topics into evergreen threads and cultivate enduring knowledge.

Not a great economy alert! Wall Street Bets users think Palantir spiked today because The Onion story titled “Palantir Acquires Pentagon for $800 Billion” hit their front page. They’re guessing trading bots indexed the top post on the subreddit reddit not understanding source.

we're also hiring a full time engineer for Coop, @roost.tools's review tool! check out the code: github.com/roostorg/coop robust-open-online-safety-tools.breezy.hr/p/e87130d3ad...

I did this last week. It was pretty smooth—though a little slow—but proves immediately why ATProto is so powerful. Definitely a technology I'd like to see succeed

Podia hit PR #20000 after ~11.5yrs, though for the first few years we didn't use pull requests. Still, a nice milestone to have hit. Red = AI-adoption as it got good enough to make a difference

I feel like she, specifically, should know better

I didn’t like the questions but this is oddly accurate tbh AI is transformative but not as transformative as the companies want you to think It’s good. It’s bad. Go figure out which is which No silver bullet bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

“Do not speak to me of the Forbidden Knowledge, witch. I was there when they tried to teach crabs how to read.”

RDoc 8.0.0 is out now. This is the biggest RDoc release in years, and it brings together a lot of the Ruby documentation work I talked about at RubyKaigi. Also, RDoc now has a logo!

Great talk on the AI bubble, why it will probably pop, and what we can do about it. youtu.be/uWnUnMphmPM

"Human in the loop" — until the loop becomes a noose. Jessica Kerr on Still Burning: if you try to understand everything the agent did, you're stuck. Don't verify the work by hand. Make the agent build the thing that verifies itself.

Where’s your AI god to help now, programmer?

I especially love this diagram.

I ❤️ pretty charts

as promised, here is my post on AI and ethics. I think unilateral disarmament in the face of powerful new tools is neither wise nor effective. I think those of us in tech have a particular responsibility to engage, participate and build better solutions. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/make-ai-bo...

It's finally PREORDER DAY for The Psychology of Software Teams!!!!! Which means you are just a few clicks away from your own personal guidebook to being more human in tech 🥰 www.drcathicks.com#book

Much consternation from the inmates that the local feral cat has all the freedom

If you don't read, you can't manage If you don't write, you can't lead If you don't think, why the fuck are you here? I'm so bullish on AI-for-coding but AI-for-communication needs to get in the fucking sea

If you spot a data centre today, particularly outside the US, it’s there to support your Facebook feed, your Instagram photos, your YouTube videos, your Google searches, your iCloud photos, your Office365, and all the websites your currently use. New data centre builds might be driven by AI but…

If I cared a fuck what Claude thought about something then I'd have asked it. If I'm asking _you_ it's because I want and value _your_ opinion. Don't fucking respond with Claude screenshots unless you're admitting your irrelevance 🤦‍♂️

Someone just called the reflecting pool the "strait of warm ooze" and now my friends, I am dead.

You think this is about AI but I think it’s about social media

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

My superpower is being able to identify different members of the Corvid family beyond just “crows”: jackdaws, hooded crows, rooks, ravens. I was genuinely delighted to discover a territory of Ravens down the road, first time seeing them in the wild I am the least impressive incarnation of The Crow

The whole thing is stellar. Five stars. This book could be the "Accelerate" of the agentic era. It's one thing to have opinions, and entirely a different thing to have opinions **backed by research.** Anyone who cares about software should read it.

An Emergency Summer’s Day because we can’t plan when summer will happen so we need to make the most of it when it does

Irish strawberries at the farm shop. Nothing better!

"what if we just fix it"

Banning social media for under 16’s is functionally equivalent to requiring identity verification for anyone to use social media. It’s just that the former is acceptable to society and latter isn’t

If lawmakers are serious about protecting children, they should roll back age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that incentivise mass surveillance. Read my latest print piece for The Guardian 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The world doesn't need another blog post about AI, how it's changing software development, and the impending collapse of the SaaS industry and loss of our jobs. But, I guess I needed to write one anyway: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2026/06/20/s...

I recently heard @jessitron.bsky.social use the analogy of furniture in relationship to AI-coding: sure you can hand-craft a table but IKEA also exists for everyone else. open.spotify.com/episode/6Vua...

Lzzy and Joe from Halestorm doing an acoustic set in Dublin and bringing more noise than most bands could dream of. An epic gig. Stupidly good

The Muppets Christmas Carol

“Fable? Yes … that was what they used to call me.”

#update Good news! Bear now has an official CLI, Claude Connector, and MCP Server. Build automations, connect your favorite AI tools, or just ask Claude what kind of person your notes say you are. The door is now open. Read the full story: blog.bear.app/2026/04/bear...

the C in CVE stands for C

With summers like these, who needs winter? #ireland

Went to the pool a bit low on energy but it was ok because I’d printed out both a 3km and 5km session so I could choose the shorter one. Got to the changing rooms to discover I’d printed out the 5km session twice. Whelp. That’s my #fitness hack for today

What if, by trading 1% correctness, you could count billions of items all within kilobytes worth of space? Well that's HyperLogLog, and as a non-bit-enlightened Rubyist it was a trip figuring out how it worked and how to explain it. baweaver.com/writing/2026...

Well done article via @cassidoo.co’s newsletter this morning. I’ve pushed clients to remove those stupid share buttons for years, nice to have some metrics to back up my assumptions.