The response to the #AI pull request and blog thing is SO considered and mature.
It doesn’t surprise me that a maintainer of something like a Python plotting library is an absolute legend with a huge brain and a PhD-level of competence in being a nice person who wants to make the world better.
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
Before I start I should clarify that this is a commentary on my own state of mind, not a direct criticism of what has been created. Given that…
My immediate reaction to this was “Ah good. A list of things I should avoid installing on my computer. Thanks!”
My other reaction was an expression of surprise and disappointment that this might have come out of a conversation with … HANK GREEN???
This is an amusing juxtaposition of things…
So… side project hosting moves and upgrades round 1 done.
Next up:
I need to upgrade the map game thing to Laravel 12 and Livewire and move server.
I need to upgrade the card game thing to Laravel 12 and Livewire and move server.
THEN everything will be modern and safe I can do fun stuff!!!
Turbo Admin needs some attention.
Oh, and I need to prepare a meetup talk for early March! EEK! That should probably be first.
Well, the Science Museum’s warehouse that's 15 minute's drive from where I live is FASCINATING.
It houses 300,000 items representing 90% of the Science Museum's collection (the other 10% is on display in exhibits).
Everything from the World's Fastest Milk Float, to Stephen Hawking's “voice” (and the entire contents of his office).
I’m having a nerdy science night out… Hey, Robot!!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000/116037194678687994
Data in URLs!!!
This is such a cool idea. I might have to steal it.
@davatron5000 I'd love to hear back if you use this. Do non-tech parents understand the mechanism for using it?
Oh the puns in my family.
My son and wife made a mixed-berry preserve today. As he's into coding video games I suggested this should be called:
"Game Jam"
After some thinking he decided this would be bad as it would taste of meat.
"Oh dear" I (accidentally!) replied.
Mark Kermode reviewing the Melania movie is BRUTAL. Hilariously done, but also maddening and sad.
“It’s a piece of handsomely-mounted, crypto-fascist propaganda.”
“The Trump family prepare to move into the White House, and then you realised it’s a heist movie”
“Basically corruption on a level never before seen. And then it gets really ugly.”
Isn't it weird that it's someone's job (presumably part time?) to judge Ski Jumping? Or "Big Air" snowboarding.
Can't imagine many people qualify for that role.
One of my VPS hosts (a wonderful UK-based company) recently encouraged me to move my VPS to their more modern platform. So I've spun up a new VPS and am manually migrating side-project sites/apps to it.
Most of these are Laravel. Some are fairly major upgrades.
And I'm reminded – having been away from it for a while – of just how nice it is to work with.
Sure it's not for everyone. But it has great docs, amazing tooling, and such a good developer experience.
This little app that puts a tiny teleprompter up by your Mac's "notch”/camera is genius.
But what I especially love is the way the website shows the product at work.
Very cool way to demo and grab atttention.
"I can ask my agent through my phone to go and book a pizza using DoorDash…this is the beginning of the agentic web. Everything will be agent-enabled.”
Were you paying ANY attention to the whole Humane Pin and Rabbit r1 things? Do you read ANY business analysis outside of Twitter posts? These companies need you on their walled-garden platforms. This is why APIs don't exist. What you want is an API, and they won't do that. They never have. That's not how their business works.
*sigh*
I’ve spent my last few evenings doing some simple Laravel/PHP coding. Writing forms by hand. Making sure the validation works well.
It feels good to make progress. And I learned a few things.
It was very chill and satisfying. 10/10. Would recommend finding something you enjoy doing and doing it well.
RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116003422672020580
I went: SURELY SpaceX doesn’t have 250B in cash, given how much it is presumably just burning building stuff?
Then: Oh, in STOCK?
And now I just don’t understand money any more. 🤷
Checking my facts: SpaceX made 8b profit last year! But sure it has huge investor debt to pay back.
Bonkers.
I'm in "a mood”… 😠
In my mind I'm combining thoughts from the excellent Technology Connections video on solar power (https://youtu.be/KtQ9nt2ZeGM) with my own thoughts about LLMs.
And I have realised that LLM tokens are oil: you buy them, and you burn them. You can only use them once. Then they are gone.
This makes it technology that is only really beneficial to the people who “drill" for the tokens.
It does not make sense. We become reliant on LLM tokens at our own peril.
Spend money on something that lasts!
“This is the pattern I keep seeing: ship fast, capture attention, figure out security later. Except later sometimes means after 1.49 million records are already exposed.”
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/
Madness. OpenClawnmoltfacebookbot or whatever it's called is utter madness.
Publishing a vibe coded app for others to use is madness when you don't know what you're doing.
This guy who built it has a history that suggests he DOES know what he's doing. He still messed up.
"I ship code I don't read” 🤷
This lo-fi ambient music mixer is very cool. Scroll right down. Probably best on desktop?
By which I mean… for a £20 pocket-sized keyboard it’s surprisingly good.
Way better than typing on a screen. But clearly not something you’ll type War and Peace on.
That’s an iPhone 13 mini in the photo, for the size comparison.