Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional. One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

With the sad passing of Tom Lehrer, a flashback to the place where I heard one of his songs for the very 1st time more than three decades ago

Had a vampire marathon this weekend with my son: Nosferatu (1922), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Nosferatu (2024). Highly recommended watching order 🧛🏻

have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society

Rereading an old fantasy novel from my youth. The protagonist names are all bouba; the villains outlandishly kiki

Website for bank, insurance, airline, or buying tickets of any kind: Did you get that code I sent you Me: Yeah, here you go Website: Sweet, you're logged in Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom Website: Yeah bro of course Me: And you're not gonna log me out right Website: Who is this

Ek steel hierdie en maak dit "net hoed, geen stoet"

Love using plain chat as a scratchpad where I can back-and-forth with the AI until I get what I need (I've been desperate to turn my bank's old email statements into flexible machine-readable data for DECADES) and then just ask for a prompt that I can use in future or pass along to an agent

The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!

This feels right out of Snow Crash. Read the wrong text and you might catch a serious mind-altering (or -destroying) neuro-linguistic virus. (It's thrilling! Like a new frontier still waiting to be tamed)

I'm unsure why Putin is looking so pissed about this

NEW POST Even experienced developers fumble around when working with a new platform. Unmesh Joshi shows how using an LLM helped him learn how to use an unfamiliar toolset. martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

I’ve never had someone take a honk as a conversation starter before but there we are

Guy nearly hit me in traffic, so I honked at him. Next stop light, he pulls up next to me and rolls down his window. “You got somethin’ to say to me?!” “Yeah, I think you’re a shitty driver. That’s what the honk was for.”

Oblivion Remastered looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Can still vividly remember the anticipation 20 years ago, and the live reveal brings back all those feels

This court order is literature

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Why vim uses hjkl for movement, ESC to change modes, and why ~ represents the home directory in Unix. It's all thanks to the beautiful ADM-3A terminal that was born in the same year as me! catonmat.net/why-vim-uses... #retrocomputing #vim #neovim

This is terrible. The 50% (!!) US trade tariff on Lesotho, who mainly manufactures jeans for brands like Levi's and Calvin Klein, risks wiping out half of their exports. www.news24.com/fin24/econom...

The Frog and the Scorpion From a Rational Point of View existentialcomics.com/comic/596

Excellent.

@thorstenball.com Empire of Pain was a terrific read. Keefe's ability to make a work of journalism and contemporary history read with the suspense of a spy novel is simply incredible. Even the afterword and "About the Sources" have plot elements!

I'm always tempted to stare intensely at them, nodding along as they talk. Scrawl a note and hold it up to them: DID BOB CLEAR THIS WITH LEGAL??? WHAT ABOUT HR????

I quite liked this short post on "vibe coding"vfrom @simonwillison.net. It captures both the joy and the limitations of the approach.

Claude when I write "but it doesn't work, does it?"

Sounds like C. S. Lewis didn't use MX Blues andynaselli.com/the-collect...

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social Feels as if I'm seeing leaders doing the PW Botha finger quite a lot recently duckduckgo.com?t=h_&q=pw+bo...

OUTSIDE of you, there are MILLIONS of wolves

I was looking for something exactly like this, and then HN delivered the news. Send any file from your computer directly to anyone else's computer #p2p via your browser (and WebRTC, so should go through firewalls). Transmitted files do not touch any server, only sender and receiver. file.pizza

What I adore about South Africa's constitution is how clear it is to understand. E.g. §2 sets out the powers of the President (Hi, Uncle C! 👋) and it's just so simple, direct, and democratic. The Prez has no authoritative powers (we've had enough of that). The director conducts, the orchestra plays.

I have the somewhat unusual problem that, if I leave the doors of the Octoco Group's registered office open after dark (even for a few minutes), large frogs creep in and nestle underneath the antique reed organ

Every mind-bending TV show:

It also turned Rand Merchant Bank into "R&B", so maybe that's a nice musical genre for some vibe marketing by FirstRand

The notetaking AI for my meeting transcribed Standard Bank (probably with an Afrikaans accent) as "Stunner Bank" and I think @standardbankza.bsky.social should just lean into it and rename

Good morning. Locking in.

Lies aside, do these people even realise that a measles infection can completely reset your entire immune system, making it forget every other pathogen you've been exposed to? This isn't a benign germ. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I mean, sure, yes, you *could* use a debugger, or you could just do what I do which is print a lot of debug statements and then record a video of your application running and your debug statements being printed and then go frame-by-frame through the video to see what happened.

Always great when a new episode comes out! Although I devour audiobooks while running, driving, or doing chores – I only follow two podcasts (but never miss a single episode) The one is @acquiredfm.bsky.social; the other is @yminsky.bsky.social's Signals and Threads. Highly recommended.

Gleam is one of the nicest new languages IMO. A lot to like, especially in the syntax, and their emphasis on UX with the LSP is admirable

With the USA screwing around with South Africa, totally feeling this too. 😅🇿🇦

@thorstenball.com I'm a Keefer now. Just finished "Say Nothing" which was fascinating; this was an excellent recommendation. Now started with "Empire of Pain". Gripping stuff.

What a cruel thing to say to a nation, though - "nobody has ever heard of you". Who is "anybody" then; only people in your own self-centered circle? That's not unlike saying Columbus "discovered" America (to the utter surprise of the people who already lived there)

I still have to visit! We've traveled close by, but I've never been into beautiful Lesotho. My parents honeymooned there, braving spectacular Sani Pass. My studies were sponsored by the engineering firm that built the dams in the Highlands - water is their biggest export www.bbc.com/news/article...

Love it that one of my very favourite scenes from Ferris Beuller's Day Off is relevant again today 😂

So far, probably my best attempt at articulating how my mindset around LLMs has shifted: Treat them as pipes — you pass stuff in, you get stuff out — instead of oracles out of which you pull answers.

Well, according to the instructions on my shaving foam can I should spit into the palm of my hand and then tip a cigarette into it. After applying the paste to my cheeks I can shave. Not sure where the shaving foam factors into this