U.K. Weighs Social Media Ban Of Everyone Except Old Men Who Grow Big Vegetables https://theonion.com/u-k-weighs-social-media-ban-of-everyone-except-old-men-who-grow-big-vegetables/

No seriously they're stuck in a shit pub being yelled at by Fatboy Slim

Some heroes don't wear capes

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

I am fairly sure I know people who know San Francisco, please send me suggestions if you have them

Just enjoying this before the regionals kick in

more like Loser Orbán

also: a lot of tech people have always had a very narrow and reductive idea of what other jobs involve, a phenomenon that genAI has now extended to their own jobs

wait, fuck, this is gorillaz

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

A delightful site! youraislopbores.me

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer. 🧵 1/5

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

L + Ratio + Cope + Seethe + Send + Sync + 'static

every once in a while i am reminded that sudo has a logo, a fact which i had blissfully forgotten

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

“Every line of code is written without reason, maintained out of weakness, and deleted by chance.” Jean-Paul Sartre’s Programming in ANSI C

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

folks they are almost out of ai assistant names. there are not many left

Introducing the Cool S, For Her™

a perfect CVSS 10 😍

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

shapes in the sky

dudes rock

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

how to be a man

“c gets you close to the machine” is the kind of sentence that lands very differently after working in a factory you’re not supposed to be close to the machine! that’s where the finger munchers are!

So fun to watch programmers as they find out for the first time what happens when you employ programmers

I have just today discovered that podcasts can be chapterised, and that apparently @scwpod.bsky.social is painstakingly broken into chapters with often-joke names

I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.

"I'm gonna dump all my pent up angst and infodump material into a blog post about Itch/payment processing" I say to myself. It ends up like a million words, oops. but well, I got it out of my brain: voidfox.com/blog/payment...

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

it does not matter how good you make your game’s block/parry system; I will not use it. My defense is “punch more.” I cannot be taught

I scored 14/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media. Don’t know whether to be proud or ashamed to get halfway

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.

This morning I read the phrase "the nazification of grok" and I wished for an extended moment to be a medieval peasant with no knowledge of any of this. Just give me a wheelbarrow and a 40 year life expectancy

happy america day

Happy 50th anniversary to the movie Jaws. This is probably the greatest line in cinema history:

lol it was a null pointer

it turned out to be a bad year to work in international freight insurance, so i am on the hunt for a new staff engineering role tef.computer i work in the uk, but usually remote and in american timezones. postgres and dist-sys but i can sling json into any replicated log if needed

the ravages of age ------------------ patreon.com/nhoj