London continues pretty.

There's an industry-wide conversation we need to have about the amount of single-use plastic that powers conferences.

London being pretty

The AI universe I work in seems to exist in a total bubble isolated from seismic geopolitical events and it's really jarring. Or does every industry compartmentalize this way?

Instagrammers are a goddamn menace to society.

Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we are just spectators.

Openclaw is making its presence felt at AIE Europe.

I can't believe I nearly forgot it's Rex Manning day.

So alpaca.blue is now good enough that I am using it every day and not constantly shaking my fist at it. If you'd like to give it a shot please do! It's a combined BlueSky+Mastodon client that automatically cross-posts and shows you a combined feed of posts and reactions from both networks.

London is glorious today.

Live your life such that the New Yorker never publishes 5,000 words about how you're a huge liar.

What are we even doing here.

London weather is being uh... typical.

Hello, London!

Wild to me how much of Barcelona's gothic quarter is just a place where ordinary people live. America would have made the whole place a theme park.

A raft of new updates to alpaca.blue today, primarily some big refactors to improve performance and reliability. But also added alt text to images!

Gràcia.

My already distressingly limited Spanish is entirely flummoxed by Barcelona, where everything is in Catalan.

Hello from hospital de Sant Pau

We visited a corgi cafe. There was exactly one corgi, who saw us a promptly peed on the floor, I assume as a greeting.

Barcelona had many, many good dogs.

Our guide described this building as "bullet shaped" which is a polite way of putting it.

Barcelona is famously ambivalent about its huge influx of tourists and if another instagrammer tries to shoo me out of their shot I will start spraying Tourists Go Home on walls myself.

I don't really know what we as an industry are supposed to do about North Korea. No individual developer and few corporations have the resources to fend off a determined nation state attacker, but that's what we've got, permanently, all of us. https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116325133266593180

Many updates to https://alpaca.blue, including 5-10x performance improvements (mostly thanks to caching) and many, many bug fixes.

Barcelona is pretty!

It's weird to me that 13 years later npm's security is still primarily handled by third parties. But if Microsoft started charging to secure the registry tomorrow it would probably get yelled at; you can't be the steward of the registry and also try to profit from it, as npm Inc learned painfully.

Me, using the social media client I wrote and am solely responsible for: "this thing is a piece of shit, who wrote this?"

Barcelona history.

Barcelona is full to the brim with souvenir shops selling exactly the same range of "I heart DILFs" shirts and I do not understand who travels to Spain to buy a Tshirt in English that isn't even tangentially related to Barcelona? How is this a business model?

You can now cross-post images using Alpaca.blue! If you're already using it you'll need to disconnect and reconnect mastodon in settings to request the additional permissions.

Sup.

Okay! alpaca.blue is a combined BlueSky+Mastodon client (reads+posts). Now with significant usability improvements, visual improvements, and acceptable performance. Still working on: - Image and video posting - Thread viewing - General reliability (though it's much improved)

A big part of my experience of Barcelona has been being shooed out of the sight line of people trying to take photos for instagram. I imagine in peak season it's intolerable.

Lotta people I don't follow are big mad that I am reading their content, which I am not doing, because I don't follow them.

If you use both BlueSky and Mastodon, alpaca.blue is a single web/mobile client that will give you a unified feed of both! It can optionally de-dupe your timeline for people who post in both places.

https://zeitgeist.blue is a multi-social-network app that summarizes your feed for the last 24 hours to let you catch up with doomscrolling. Now with support for Mastodon!