As well as some daily thankfulness I’m trying to share good things that I have or come across.
Yes, yes, this is a very normal social media thing to do. But I’ve not done it much, despite being someone who bookmarks about 5 cool things every day!
Part of my attempt to recognise & share good stuff!
I’ve also, for some reason, been contemplating water a lot lately. This weird molecule that life depends on so much. There is so much of it and yet it is so precious.
The excellent book “Hidden Systems” made me think more about it today.
https://www.hiddensystems.net/hidden-systems
#thankYouToday for water!
Today I’m grateful (#thankYouToday) for my daughter’s taekwondo class. The instructors are so brilliant and it’s a wonderful community thing as well as good for her.
Here’s my Puzzmo profile link if you want to follow/connect:
Puzzmo is an excellent puzzling app. I’m super happy to be a Puzzmonaut. This looks like a great time to try it out!
(I thought it was independent but it’s owned by Hearst! TIL)
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:p5ode5bkf6vjtt6ahtssuxui/post/3mxrgegqg622d
One more #thankYouToday to make up for that rant.
I got a Nebula subscription for my birthday and it’s been wonderful.
I got it to support Tom Scott and his delightful “England” series. But my whole family are binge-watching Jet Lag, and I’ve enjoyed the chaotic comedy of Abolish Everything too.
Friends, we have a super-efficient way of encoding this that needs no cloud-based inference.
This can work tens of times faster, offline, zero cost.
Allow me to introduce you to… “programming”!
🤪🙄
Having done my thankfulness… 😆
Today I saw another classic example of ridiculous LLM use. A “skill” that contained a bunch of plain English instructions:
– ask the user to make this choice
– store the choice as “something”
– if “something” is this then do this thing
Sort of a #thankYouToday (perhaps I need a different tag?) is for the BBC’s “13 Minutes” space history podcast. Real quality radio about the race to space and beyond. Every series has been massively interesting and very well produced and story-told. This season is about the Hubble Space Telescope.
Today I’m reading about how ICANN works and, while TLD’s are a bit of a racket really, my #thankYouToday is for the un-seen, back-room work that makes the internet work. It truly is an amazing, global endeavour and it’s been a privilege to grow up alongside it.
Wait, what? All the supermarket fridges are on the internet?
This needs to be immediately followed with:
#thankYouToday for kind, generous friends, that accept me as I am, encourage me, and welcome me into their home.
#thankYouToday for swimming and hot chocolate with my kid, and some much-needed new clothes (with style advice from the same kid!)
Did some writing… it’s a bit personal, but it seems important and it might resonate with some.
"Things are over-happening. I've been wallowing. It's time to re-focus.”
Might just make this my new bio!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dvvvi2lfda3eq46zikkozitb/post/3mxgfji7zd22g
They continued with the script.
A few minutes later I started asking if they used their own AI tools and if it had given them any idea of how likely I was to convert. If their AI saved time then was it worth talking to me?
They totally missed the joke.
I bailed after 10 mins.
2/2
Oh. I didn’t tell you. I had a very fun not-a-sales call the other day for an AI automation platform for business. Sometimes I play along a bit to see what happens.
A few minutes in I declared that the thing I most wanted to automate was blocking of cold sales calls.
1/2
Ah yes. The middle of winter. The BEST time to be planting seeds out. 😆
This is not good. Curl is EVERYWHERE!!
Long chat with my wife tonight about what on earth my career looks like right now.
Pretty sure there’s a correction coming at some point. But what’s left after the correction is what’s important. And that’s crystal-ball stuff.
I’m lost. But clinging to the things I have and am good at.
Like, sure, I’ve built some dumb shit in my time. But I was thoughtful and learned my craft while I was doing it. These people burned the planet, created slop and learned nothing! This is not fun or interesting. It’s probably irresponsible.
3/3