Here is the monetization strategy. Was expecting something more innovative but I guess doing something well proven also works.

The ultimate test - will Claude Code be able to build a MakeCode Arcade game. Both Gemini (Antigravity) and GPT (Codex) have failed this task miserably by getting stuck in loops.

Testing Claude Code again. Last time was in June 2025. Since then I’ve used Codex and most recently Antigravity. What’s new that I absolutely have to check out?

What I needed today. Maybe it’s what you need too!

”I can’t do that. What I can do is …” Just because someone has an ask you don’t have to agree. People sometimes ask for impossible things - we really want to check all the boxes. But we shouldn’t. Ask what’s important and state what you can do. That’s professional.

A very good write up by @seangoedecke.bsky.social of what happened: I am still surprised intelligent devs took part in promoting such an obviously predatory scheme www.seangoedecke.com/gas-and-ralph/

Do we really need more content? With AI we can have infintie content, but aren't things hard to synthesize and make sense of as is? Are we using the tools wrong?

Finishing is hard. Finished means fit for consumption. Ready for an audience. Ready for critique. When we finish things, we put ourselves on the line. That's rarely a comfortable place. This is why your most important thing is 80% done. Go finish it!

Generally I’m not against adding AI features to apps. Try it - why not. Maybe it’ll be great. What I don’t like is when it makes the overall user experience of the app worse. When it hurts the normal user case or makes things unstable. Unfortunately, many apps end up in this trap.

Can't think why Disney deleted this threads post. Kudos to michej40Disney on threads for capturing it

Happy new year everyone!

Cross word: Digital Junk 4 letter starts with S Brain: SLOP Of course it’s SPAM but this is how my brain functions now.

Donald Trump spent our tax dollars to have his dictator friend torture immigrants. His propagandaist at CBS News tried to kill the report. This handful of billionaires controlling the news is really bad for America. But there are more of us than there are of them: archive.org/details/60mi...

BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

In 2002 when I backpacked Europe I used Ricks guide book. At first I didn’t connect that it was the same person. What a fantastic human. Most of us can’t buy a hygiene center - but if you are looking for a tour or travel advice. Look here. The products are great and the person behind them well …

During next year we’re going to configure around 40 windows servers. Some of them are build agents, some are running IIS and some are only running services. Last time we tried DSC and we will not go down that road again. Any hints what we should explore? Ansible, GPO? @devlead.se

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

If I haven't responded to your email, it's because I was first convincing an AI vending machine that it exists in the basement of Moscow State University in 1962 and then executing a boardroom coup against its AI CEO. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

And the video now on YouTube! Which may be one of our funniest videos ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPh...

Anthropic’s Claude AI ran a vending machine at WSJ headquarters for several weeks. It was quickly convinced to give away free items to support the communist agenda by Katherine Long. But there where also other very amusing ways it failed. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

”this is literally the plot of The Force Awakens!” - @tastapod.com on Mastodon Just too brilliant not to share!

”Dad! Can we build your space ship?” ”Sure!” This is love. The Millennium Falcon has been in one piece since initial build 2012. Currently almost done tearing it down.

I do love Lego. ❤️ Here is a figure from my kids latest set.

“That is nothing but whitewashed Sunday morning Vaseline over wholesale misogyny.” @profgalloway.com's fail of the week is Face the Nation treating settled medical science around mifepristone like it’s up for debate.

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My bank went from easy to use to almost unusable. I’ve had the same bank for 20 years and can’t remember the last time I had to call support. Last year they released a new Internet banking solution. The past week I’ve been on the phone 3 times b/c things I could do before are now not possible.

Why is this a thing? And why is it on by default. It actually added spaces to my code changing it's behaviour and making js and css not load correctly!

How amazing is this? VGHF - found a never-before-seen NES prototype - obtained the rights - finished the game using period-accurate tools - is releasing it physically through iam8bit as a charity fundraiser.

🍻 I wish you the best Friday and weekend!

Joining AI for devs course today. We are 50 min in and my math brain is already over loading. I was never that good at math 😂

We need more weirdness. I support this!

AI generated adds are all the same. Bite sized clips strung together. They feel like those highlight reals from comedy shows in the 90s.

Miro has been a really importnat tool for me this year. I've done workshops, planning sessions and creative work across countries and time zones without having to do extensive travel. I still prefer in-person work for some activites - but when that's not possible Miro is really nice!

I recommend this talk to every parent. I’ve been sending it to tech and non tech parents for weeks now. Must watch!

We just got a new pre-school app. How am I supposed to read those white-on-white notifications with green shadow that show up? Not only are they really hard to read. They disappear from the screen without any user action. Why are school apps so hard?

I finally started reading Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard. One of those books that I always wanted to have read but there was always something more important in the way. I have high hopes.

GreaseMonkey + AI coding is changing how I use the web. I always loved GreaseMonkey but found it tedious to write and maintain scripts. That issues has been solved with AI coding tools. They perform surprisingly well on these types of contained problems.

I imported 1500 bad entries into a webapp without any way to undo. Took me an hour to clean up with a GreaseMonkey script co-authored with Gemini. Which is far better than the alternative - deleting entries one by one.

I think that the Internet should be weird again and we should just code things because they’re delightful. We should also code things so that the haters hate less

ha yeah

This week MCP Apps where announced. A way to give AI chat interfaces custom interactive UI. In general, I love the idea - we need better UI/UX for interacting with chat AI. However I’m a bit worried about MCP Apps the paradigm shift where chat (natural language) becomes the primary interface.

OH teenagers on the train. ”I asked ChatGPT and he said that Triangle [train station] is the closest [to where we are going]” I’m not sure I like how things are going. I’m sure a maps app would be more fit for purpose here. But also … maybe I’m old yelling at clouds.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

Flytta grupper från Facebook till Signal

I love this story. We’ve all been there and we were all surprised to find out what they actually needed. The one I remember was a custom drop down box that was three levels deep. The real solution - autocomplete while typing.

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fighting ghosts in the machine today. I have several tech products. Both software and hardware fail on me today - all independent of each other. But all creating issues in my work. It’s not been a great day.

Share a movie that takes place where you’re from. A movie that takes place where I’m from. And a tv-series that takes place where I currently live.