Ben Thompson argues that while AI is obviously in a bubble, it will create long term benefits in the form of investments in chip fabs in the U.S. and power plants. This is similar to how we got dark fiber and train tracks as infrastructure out of the internet and railway bubbles.

Really REALLY important that everyone who enjoys #SpéirGhorm goes through these settings and toggles the switch to enable 'rude' posts. Tis a rare one of us who doesn't have a colourful tongue.

I love me some data, especially when most of it is green, but still got work to do on that pull through

Some of us GenX-ers never fell for the AWS trap. (but it’s fun to read others rant about it) www.theregister.com/2025/11/04/a...

AI generating a photo realistic image vs AI generating a line drawing of the same thing 🤣 (I’m sorry planet Earth but the LOLs were worth it)

Got my little app deployed last night. If you think Kamal + Hetzner is a replacement for Heroku then you really *really* have never understood the value of Heroku. Deploys are quite fast now but setting up Kamal is like "so you start with an already drawn owl, now…".

Give it a read: telebugs.com/blog/modern-...

There is more value from AI in software development when it's helping us _understand_ the code, not just generating MOAR of it. Glad to see things like Codemaps: cognition.ai/blog/codemaps

You think everything with an em-dash is the result of AI? Who do you think trained it to write that way?

You think everything with an em-dash is the result of AI? Who do you think trained it to write that way?

Strong agree on many points here, especially this:

My current experiment: converting the colourful weirdly-default AI styling into something closer to my vision. First: design a prototype with the correct styling in Lovable Next: Publish those pages Then: Tell AgentOS to use the Chrome MCP to access the prototype and extract the styling

Great book and the start of one of the best fantasy series I’ve read

Dynamic avatars don't have to be boring initials on solid backgrounds. Learn how to generate beautiful deterministic mesh gradient avatars in Ruby using ChunkyPNG that give each user a unique, colorful avatar based on their data. avohq.io/blog/mesh-gr...

The dumbest thing about that humanoid robot filling the dishwasher is that DISHWASHERS ARE ALREADY ROBOTS. If we wanted to improve the usability of dishwashers, we’d position them at a height old people can easily reach and make them self-loading.

Made Barmbrack this afternoon

Rum choices for Christmas cake. The one on the right is more expensive and supposed to be better but the Mantuano is fruitier—it’s basically Christmas cake in a bottle

Reject modernity, embrace tradition

Happy Samhain 🔥

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

Last week I wrote up a post about why I think you, a software developer, need to adopt AI: jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/24/w... I believe: - AI is inevitable - it's our job to be curious and understand new technologies …

Pretty sure we just saw a SpaceX launch passing over Ireland about 30mins ago

I've been using @briancasel.com's AgentOS to build a little workout/fitness tracker (the mid-life todo list every one builds). The way it layers up from a high-level product vision to a roadmap to feature specs to tasks really seems to improve the quality of the code. buildermethods.com/agent-os

The "hard-men" of Gondor were getting their shit kicked in until they were rescued by foreigners and a girl. The Shire was doing fine until they let a fascist demagogue ("Sharkey" aka Saruman) take over, close the gates, impose a bunch of thug-enforced rules, and despoil nature for profit.

I wrote my most personal blog post to date. It summarizes some of my personal feelings and experiences in the Ruby/Rails community. afomera.dev/posts/2025-1...

for context: the second edition of "Observability Engineering" starts off swinging with an opinionated chapter called "The Fundamentals of Building Good Software". which begs the question... what IS ✨ good software ✨? i'll drop my answers 👇 but curious to hear others.

Cats can’t read clocks and really aren’t a fan of daylight savings

If we want to transform the economy — and the well-being of Americans — we should focus on GLP-1, not GPT-5. www.profgalloway.com/americas-bes...

Me: hitting a new deadlift PB this morning Also me: Rate your performance? 8/10 My brain will never let me admit that maybe that was my best effort. I can always imagine I could do better

Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/...

Status pages everywhere show green, because Statuspage.io is ALSO down: customers cannot log in to update their status page and indicate the outage their eng teams know about!! So a fail for Statuspage to depend on an AWS region... or DynamoDB (that seems to depend one AWS region?)

I think I would say: A flawed but **useful** technology unfortunately promoted by morally-questionable people, manipulated by questionable financial mechanisms, with unaddressed societal-level externalities.

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

This is me commenting on not commenting on today’s installment of Ruby drama. I wish more people would do the same.

"Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials." Also experts, amateurs, people consigned to asylums for congenital lunacy, people who've never heard of submersibles before, a tortoise called Alan and literally anyone else hearing the vaguest description of it.

The Gruffalo contributes a core belief on mine: humans are “the scariest monster in the woods” and when people try to scare us with something else (like AI) they distract us from the real problems. AI can’t harm us but _humans_ with AI? Now that’s scary jamie.ideasasylum.com/2025/10/15/y...

Definitely not the first blog post inspired by a @monkchips.com comment, and won't be the last. Monkchips is the sand in my oyster that makes beautiful pearls. 🦪😆💕 (Still mean to circle back to the question of what it means to have good technical taste...) www.honeycomb.io/blog/disposa...

The best thing about AI as a pairing partner: it's like a slow dev I can guide but I can disappear for hours in meetings or go for a swim and it's just patiently waiting there, with all the context, ready to continue when I am. Solves the "what was I doing?" problem

Occasionally I do a deep dive of thinking about whether AI will really fundamentally eliminate the need for software engineers and my conclusion remains the same: it won't. Might change the employment curve in some ways but barring the big singularity or w/e I don't see it removing the job

I made something! Monomarks.at is an open social bookmarking tool along the lines of Pinboard or Delicious, and it's based on ATProto, because I was inspired by @danabra.mov's widely-read post. Log in with your Bluesky account to save bookmarks and browse links posted by the people you follow. 😎

I tried to explain why I don't believe the recent accusations toward my former teammates, as well as how the Ruby and Rails Infra team at Shopify operates and why it can be trusted. byroot.github.io/opensource/r...

This year I did 3.5km, 3.9km, 3.9km (the Gaelforce Trilogy) and 5km races which at the time I entered felt like a real stretch but as the year went on felt well within my comfort zone. Next year I'm contemplating 12km, 3.9km, 8km (the trilogy again), and 5km. Do I really want to do this? 😰

NVIDIA and OpenAi: Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“ @bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Bubble? Harvard economist Jason Furman says investments in data centres and software was 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025. Without it, US GDP growth was just 0.1% fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

We saw The Rock Orchestra at the weekend: a fun reimagining of rock/metal hits played with instruments not usually associated with such music the-rock-orchestra.com

We never needed while loops. The power was always within us.

This conversation with Des Traynor of Intercom is just a reminder that he's one of the smartest minds in product management. Also a joy to listen to two Irish lads talk tech and a proper pace. cheekypint.substack.com/p/des-trayno...

You need: - gem pgvector-ruby to enable vectors - gem neighbor to search vectors - gem rubyllm to encode texts and search queries Full implementation guide: blog.superails.com/ai-vector-se...

Humbling moment of the day: sprinting 2 lengths in the pool and hit a 1m10s/100m pace. That’s the same pace Olympians maintain for the 10km marathon 🏊‍♂️ 🥵🤦‍♂️

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