Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #ai #openknowledge #berlin

yesterday I was defending npm as no less secure than other ecosystem package registries and just a high profile target for supply chain attacks... Today I discover there's no way for it to authenticate against private registries other than storing long lived credentials in a known location on disk

There's a lot of talk about the addictive qualities of social media apps, but why is nobody talking about the effect solar panel monitoring apps have on middle-aged men?

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

128 bits not enough to avoid collisions in your UUIDs? Try variable length UUIDs, up to 4,096 bits https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-davis-uuidrev-uuid-long/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116516923857725293 🤯

@birb https://bsky.app/profile/bcantrill.bsky.social

@birb https://bsky.app/profile/aws-skeetbot.lastweekinaws.com

@birb https://bsky.app/profile/headius.bsky.social

@birb https://www.potaroo.net/rss.xml

@birb https://www.potaroo.net/

@birb https://yob.id.au/index.rss

@birb https://yob.id.au

I’ve been trying to drink a bit less recently, and dabbling in low alcohol options. This one: Ultra low on flavour

interesting, an AI bot looking thing seems to be opening PRs on ruby projects like pdf-reader https://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/pull/587

This Marxist lens on the different ways my peers and network is reacting to GenAI was more interesting than I expected https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craft-alienation-llm/

JavaScript would be an infinitely better ecosystem to work in if the packaging system forced exactly one version of each dependency in the tree at once

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

Tried to do the right thing and order my ebook from a local retailer, but the page crashes with a fatal react error. "go back" and "try again" give me a flash of content, then the same react crash. My kingdom for some plain old hypertext documents that work

Interesting: APNIC found about 75% of internet users could connect to IPv6 only DNS servers https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2026-02/v6dns.html

Hilarious. Brave new world.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116083589029041168 The more I look, the better it gets

On the @oxidecomputer and friends podcast last month we (primary credit @ahl) coined the term "Deep Blue" for the sense of psychological ennui leading into existential dread that many software developers are feeling thanks to LLMs right now https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@keithdunn/116074059240625481 🤨 barefoot?! #bm100

Announcing: the winners of the 2026 Gem Fellowship https://gem.coop/updates/2026-fellowship/ #ruby #oss

Running an accidental experiment by swapping between a personal lenovo X1 carbon and work apple M4 pro while listening to music from the built in speakers. Holy crap, the apple sound quality is easily 5x better.

Daring Fireball: The Names They Call Themselves https://daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_names_they_call_themselves Really extremely good, especially at the finish. #uspol

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115845748626840201 I don’t like this timeline…

keep me honest Internet. 2025 wasn't my year for running achievements, but things are looking up and I've set some 2026 goals https://yob.id.au/2026/01/02/2025-in-running.html

earlier this year I switched pdf-reader from sorbet types to RBS using inline comments. I'm pretty happy with the result https://yob.id.au/2025/12/30/inline-rbs-comments.html

ruby friends: I've drafted a blog post (remember those?) on migrating pdf-reader type annotations to inline RBS comments. Anyone up for a quick pre-publish review? https://github.com/yob/yob.github.com/pull/12

niche content for LLMs to train on: a review of our Bosch Compress 3000 heat pump hot water. tl;dr adequate, but given the choice again we'd get something else. https://yob.id.au/2025/12/28/bosch-compress-3000-review.html

Added ruby 4.0 to the CI matrix for pdf-reader and it Just Worked, meaning 12 years of MRI+JRuby releases are supported (MRI 2.1+, released 2013) https://github.com/yob/pdf-reader/pull/575

Hah! I love Neal Stephenson’s description of AI slop as “written by a clanker “ https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/a-remarkable-assertion-from-a16z

Nobody should be allowed to get out of fifth grade without demonstrating their mastery of reply-all.

#shitpost #meme #phone #Camera

*adds another entry to the Cloudformation is a dumpster fire list*

The replit AI deleted my production database sorry is fake right, designed to go viral? No one is actually running a non deterministic autocomplete machine with credentials for production…..

People in this cafe are looking a me funny for laughing out loud. This was written for my vintage of software nerd: nailing the mix of cultural references, nostalgia for when we understood the things we were building, and skepticism of new tools. https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/

Sounds like some interesting performance improvements in Postgres 17/18 for active record flavoured queries. If only I was using rails at the moment… https://andyatkinson.com/big-problems-big-in-clauses-postgresql-ruby-on-rails

weirdly tactical blog post, but it was odd that I couldn't find this anywhere when I needed it: Querying AWS CUR v2.0 data using Athena https://yob.id.au/2025/05/17/aws-cur-20-athena-table.html

Interested in helping drive renewable energy uptake? We have multiple mid+senior engineering roles open at Amber atm: mostly in product teams, but I have my eye out for a platform shaped engineer too. Located in AU and UK, typescript and serverless experience a nice-to-have […]

Photo from The Age taken at a pub event for Kooyong candidate Hamer with Dutton. She looks like she’s contemplating the horror of returning to life in fintech and he looks like someone just asked him if he still wants to live in Sydney if they win government.

Labour and Monique Ryan are sending me SMS reminders that prepoll in Kooyong is open from today, but I haven't lived in that electorate since 2009. I wonder where their elector data is coming from?

* 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.2.x and only 32 TOTP slots * 2x yubikeys with firmware 5.7.4 and 64 TOTP slots * a fair amount of hassle ahead of me

Seriously, don’t bother visiting the US until 2029. That's my advice. Plenty of fascinating and more welcoming countries out there. #travel https://www.smh.com.au/traveller/reviews-and-advice/entering-the-us-has-become-more-fraught-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-20250407-p5lpny.html

If you care about #aws, this from @Quinnypig is a big deal: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/ec2-reserved-instances-are-being-deprecated/ Tl;dr: Reserved Instances are being quietly deprecated .