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The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription I find this post by David Wilson very relatable. David lists 16+ projects he's spun up with AI tooling, and concludes: I didn't mean to build most of these things. Usually the ...
Following Friday’s antics I have achieved a Slay the Spire 2 milestone. Ascension level 10 on all characters! The Silent was last to arrive. After many anaemic runs I finally got shivs working with two upgraded Afterimage. I’ve always played ...
To create a post like this one, I run an emacs function to create the markdown file. Then I pick an image to use. Then I run a script on that image to add date and weather info. Then I ...
Sundays are for stumbling upon a ruined church, squirrelled away among the hawthorns behind a currently active church in the neighbourhood. I was flabbergasted – I've walked past that churchyard a thousand times without noticing. In this case, I just ...
Anthropic defines “run-rate revenue” in two parts. Use the last 28 days of sales from customers charged on a consumption basis and multiply it by 13. Then, multiply the monthly subscription take by 12, and add the two together. — ...
A link is just a button that takes you somewhere when you click it right? style> span { text-decoration: underline; color: #44EEEE; } style> span onclick="window.location='https://xkcd.com/'">100% legit linkspan> span.link { text-decoration: underline; color: var(--link-color1); } 100% legit link Except that's ...
How we contain Claude across products A complaint I often have about sandboxing products is that they are rarely thoroughly documented, and in the absence of detailed documentation it's hard to know how much I can trust them. Anthropic just ...
I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline I've seen a lot of posts on forums from people threatening to quit their careers over AI. This is not one of those: Chad Whitacre is taking concrete steps, starting with this ...
My take on AI is, essentially, everybody who’s against it is too against it and everybody who’s for it is too for it. — Daniel Jalkut, via John Gruber Tags: ai, john-gruber
I love science and space flight as much as the next boomer, but my attitude has changed over the past decade. Now, when some billionaire's rocket "experiences an anomaly", I cheer a little.
You wake up, brew the coffee, open GitHub, and there it is. Another pull request on your open source project. Thirteen thousand lines added. No issue filed first. No discussion. Just "here, please review this for me." Over the past ...
Research: Running Python ASGI apps in the browser via Pyodide + a service worker Datasette Lite is my version of Datasette that runs entirely in the browser using Pyodide in WebAssembly. When I first built it four years ago I ...
Self-portrait (2021) - Linhof Master TechnikaPretending to use the Crown Graphic while taking a self-portrait using the Linhof Master Technika.
STATUS: Killing time until the deck stain arrivesTODO: I'm due for a water change in the reef tank. Don't feel like it.(Re)Watching: "Running Point" because my wife wants to watch it, too.LISTENING: "Sex Without Bodies" by Dave'
Ben Thompson, Stratechery:I think digital ads, particularly Meta-style ads that introduce you to things you never knew you wanted, a societal good.Thompson's and my worldviews continue to diverge.
Today's links Carneyism without Carney: Eh? Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Replacing pharma patents with bounties; USTR v cheap leukemia meds; Plutocrats x wealth segregation; Anonymous Analytics; Scott Walker sells off donors; Anonymization v metadata; Probably; ...
This weekend, I’m going to a not particularly good football stadium to watch assorted famous people play not particularly good football. No, not the average [team you don’t like] match, but Soccer Aid. Why isn’t there a Games Aid, huh? ...
Hey, you, I wanted to share a secret. I've got extraordinary results using DeepSeek v4 over the last week for programming tasks, especially Rust. I've done work that would have
North is left. (mirrored). 26x18 arcmin (0.3 arcsec/pixel) dt {color: var(--em-color)} Total exposure time:393 * 30 seconds = 3.2 hours. (across 2 nights) Exposure used in stack: 241 * 30 seconds = 2 hours. Telescope: C9.25 (230mm, f/10, fl=2300mm) Camera: ...
dickover — a modal panel, popover, or curtain presented by a website or app, deliberately obscuring its own content to frustrate the user with an unwanted, unnecessary, mandatory interaction; e.g. asking the user to accept “cookies”, subscribe to a newsletter, ...
A post I wrote in 2023, the closing of the canon, predicted that LLM answers would replace search results, dramatically lowering traffic to individual sites, thereby removing the incentives to even write along with building and maintaining websites. Unfortunately, this ...
The impact of generative AI upon PC gaming has proven controversial, which is my balanced journalist way of saying it’s been horrible. Players are widely repulsed by genAI material, developers and even some publishers are increasingly wary of its temptations, ...
⚠️ Slay the Spire 2 major spoilers! Steam says I’ve put 300+ hours into Slay the Spire 2 if that’s to be believed. I’m up to ascension level 9–10 on all characters. Except The Regent because that requires brain power. ...
The old (testing in Safari when you don’t have Safari), the new (::checkmark), the in-between (anchor positioning but with HTML), and more. What’s !important #12: Safari Testing, ::checkmark, HTML Anchor Positioning, and More originally handwritten and published with love on ...
Handsome Squidward(s) (2023) - Crown Graphic 4x5Ran across this one from 2023. I used the 4x5 Crown Graphic and a single strobe. Makes me want to shoot more large format. It's always fun and I like the look of it.
We've officially reached the papal stage of the AI debate
Release: datasette 1.0a31 Another significant alpha release, with two new headline features. Datasette now offers users with the necessary permissions the ability to both execute write queries against their database and to save stored queries (renamed from "canned queries") both ...
The most interesting thing about Anthropic's $65B Series H announcement is this line (emphasis mine): Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. ...
Day-one deep dive into mlxcel v0.1.0, a Rust-native MLX inference engine. Real M1 Max benchmarks vs mlx-lm and Ollama on Llama 3.2 3B and Qwen 2.5 7B, with architecture diagrams and an honest take on TurboQuant.
DuckDB-Iceberg now has a number of new features supporting Iceberg Tables and Iceberg REST Catalogs: `MERGE INTO`, `ALTER TABLE`, partition transforms, V3 support, and others!
Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.8 today. My favourite thing about it is this note in the release announcement: Users will find Opus 4.8 to be a modest but tangible improvement on its predecessor. There’s still more to be done: we’re ...
Release: llm-anthropic 0.25.1 New model: Claude Opus 4.8 (claude-opus-4.8). New -o fast 1 option for fast mode, for organizations with that feature enabled on their account. Default max_tokens for each model now defaults to that model's maximum output rather than ...
Tool: markdown-svg-renderer A slightly customized Markdown rendering tool with special treatment for fenced code SVG blocks - it both renders the image and provides a tab for switching to the code view. You can paste in Markdown or give it ...
Getting curl developers and related enthusiasts into a single room to hang out in the real world for a whole weekend once a year is awesome. We find inspiration, we share experiences, we learn from each other and we dream ...
