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Yesterday David Sacks wrote a tweet and within a few minutes people did, what they usually do, and they asked Pangram if it was AI. And Pangram said it’s entirely AI generated. To which David replied that these AI detectors ...
Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents
The View from the Office. I met up with Phil Rosen, co-founder of the Opening Bell Daily newsletter and host of the show, Full Signal, at Felix Roasting Co. just off Park Avenue and 49th. Felix Roasting is probably the ...
I’ve got Netlify Analytics turned on for a few of my websites. I use it send myself a little daily digest that alerts me when folks link to my writing, be it an individual sending me a few referrals, a ...
Three reasons why “AI” companies like Anthropic are fearmongering: It’s free advertising. Big news outlets like BBC News are running press releases unquestioned. “CEO Said A Thing!” Journalism (see image below) They want to get ahead of and control regulation. ...
I finished the two remaining Yukito Ayatsuji books: The Labyrinth House Murders The Clock House Murders Neither were as good as the Mill House. Labyrinth House was entertaining enough, Ayatsuji has fun messing with the reader. Clock House is long ...
Sundays are for realising that after playing The Blood of Dawnwalker, you've developed a craving for blackcurrant juice. There's none in the cupboard, so you venture out to get some, floating across the rooftops as a trail of mist as ...
I pulled the trigger on an underdesk treadmill. Basic research suggested GoPlus is a decent one. I was hoping it would be $300-400 USD. Turns out this one is just $119.99. So cheap it had me a little worried, like ...
This is an RSS-only post, thank you for subscribing :) I keep buying domains! When will I ever learn? Domain prices are increasing (again) because why wouldn’t they? Sub-domains are free! Host your side project on a sub-domain! Then if ...
Today's links LLMs are real, AI is fake: No, it didn't "go rogue." Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why 9/11 Means We Must Support My Politics; Blogs x 9/11; Jimmy Wales v Britannica's EiC; Hollywood astroturfs ...
I’m a big fan of these September weekends where I wake up and my bedroom has neither the humidity nor the ambient temperature of an Eden Project rainforest-o-dome. Autumn was previously my third favourite season at best, but I think ...
There’s so much talk about new ways of working with agent engineering supported workflows. New models are independently creating new metrics and transformations, finding gaps in the business data, reviewing the SQL they write, and verifying everything works with your ...
Cool to see RubyGems in Reuters and the WSJ! We did it, everybody! https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/cyberattack-by-rogue-ai-swarm-stokes-fears-of-out-of-control-agents-473a0352
This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral. In particular one where an employee put his personal probability of that happening above 10%. Which made me go to the Wikipedia page of P(doom) and ...
I'm excited to announce that native histogram support for Kubernetes metrics is graduating to Beta and is enabled by default in Kubernetes v1.37! Native histograms (previously introduced as Alpha in Kubernetes v1.36 under KEP-5808) bring high-resolution, low-cardinality observability to Kubernetes ...
On August 31st, 2001, I landed in Sarajevo. The Army was a much different place before 9/11. We were still on that post cold war high, where the US was on top of the world. Our tactics were still based ...
A person adds a purple upgrade to a branching skill tree rooted in nature, with a bow, shield, book, and tools on its branches/images/evolution-litrpg-header-v2.webp/images/evolution-litrpg-header-v2.webp Ok, this will be a crazy and long one, but if you're into evolutionary biology, AI ...
Today's links Inefficiency is bad, actually: Now, "resiliency" on the other hand… Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Canada's DMCA; Socialism x Pledge of Allegiance; Hate the player and the game; Making Light's 9/11; 9/11 survivor registry; ...
Because no-one entirely likes their job, I should be upfront about my issues with newly launched Early Access darling Wardogs, the mass-scale multiplayer shooter in which I’ve just found employment. Its "Play like you used to" tagline and Halo 3-aping ...
I’m a good 50/50 split on music and podcasts while I’m driving. So lots of podcasts! I love them! I use Overcast, and it’s got a decent CarPlay app. So I see this screen a lot: It shows 3 podcasts ...
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I’ve spent the last week in Arizona. When I was packing I almost forgot to bring along my Arizona driver’s license, which was unceremoniously cast to the bottom of a drawer. I can’t help but feel something like disgust when ...
I’m closing down Attic but my Croissant project is staying online! It’s moving to a sub-domain: croissant.dbushell.com What does that mean? If you’re using the Tauri macOS app then nothing changes. If you’re using the PWA you’ll see a notice. ...
My AT Protocol side project Attic is closing down! Attic will go offline 31st December 2026. If you have bookmarks the best way to export them is to save the RSS feed from your bookmarks page. Otherwise, use a service ...
I had the pleasure to discuss and analyze the workflow of none other than Benn Stancil, legendary writer and storyteller in the data space and beyond, who started writing back in 2013 (with a seven-or-eight-year startup break in between). This ...
My ARSE® process for building apps with coding agents: [A]mbitiously create by handing an agent a HUGE task to do over hours/days [R]age at your computer as you uncover all its stupid decisions [S]culpt the app by fixing things in ...
A URL is a technical thing: a hostname, a path, a port, an origin, some query parameters, etc. But a link is a cultural thing: an invitation, a citation, a gift, a shortcut, a connection. All from a simple idea: ...
In Kubernetes, resource allocation has historically been a static decision made during a Pod's initial scheduling and placement. With the graduation of the core in-Place Pod resize feature to General Availability in v1.35, application developers and cluster operators gained the ...
The nasal greenhorn strategy gamer understands "strategy" to be about mastery of space by means of clanging offensives, shining shieldwalls, and brute attrition, but the true Napoleon of Drag-Select knows that strategy is always, primarily, the mastery of time. I ...
I didn’t think, when I saw the other day that Swedish furniture sellers IKEA had commissioned a group of modders to stick an advert for their wares in Skyrim as an official Bethesda-approved Creation, that I’d now be sitting here ...
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The metadata lives ...
You'd expect a game called Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists to be on the depressing side, but this choose-your-own-adventure RPG anthology from the designers of King of Dragon Pass is an absolute tonic. It's a witty procession of Orphic descents, ...
