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Age checks are extremely harmful and don't actually protect anybody (including children) www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Yesterday they reverse engineered Apple’s neural engine: github.com/maderix/ANE And today people are running the amazing Qwen3.5 accelerated on an m1, this is insane:

wrote a few words on why I think @npmx.dev might be going places

LLMs don't want you to know.

From yesterday 🌵

Gonna go see some dunes today 🐛

You can see some stars next to the full moon during the lunar eclipse! 🔭🧪 #astrophotography #lunareclipse

Lunar Eclipse from my deck in Tucson, Arizona

everything i've learned about clavicular has been against my will

that's just hitSlop. you only like it because it's Pressable

As a child, I thought the lesson of history was that the good guys always win. As an adult, I realized the actual lesson is that the winners declare themselves the good guys.

first they fed fighter jets to the sea, now they are feeding fighter jets to the air

the world is a rich and fascinating place i had never heard of the reverse boustrophedon writing system where alternating lines are upside down! why?

OH OH OH the zenith — the very acme — of $20 words is definitely boustrephedonically it means "as the ox plows" (left to right, then right to left) and is used mostly to describe certain writing systems that do that

lol, scotusblog guy got convicted while I wasn't paying attention? worst ever case of dunning-kruger, lol

Claude becoming the top app in the App Store is a warning shot. Eventually we will find out how it’s possible that Anthropic and OpenAI both claim they told the U.S. military that their AI can’t be used to kill people but while Anthropic has now been banned and OpenAI has a defense contract.

"It’s been a while, so quote this skeet with your favourite $20 dollar word." pellucid nacreous evince vertiginous i'd usually trot out "sesquipedalian" but you really just can't use that in a sentence

The government punishing Anthropic because they won’t agree to Claude being used to kill people is like punishing Glock because they won’t sell you a gun that shoots the person to your left 5% of the time.

I find I still do a better job than AI at deciding *what* to build, and where to go, but not *how* to do the work.

Life is full of Sisyphean chores -- laundry, dishes, cooking -- but the one I resent the most is that hair grows out of my face and I have to keep shaving it off. I get no utility out of this whatsoever. I just have to keep doing it until I die.

I think it’s hard to convey just how much you can change an image with literally just basic image editing sliders in e.g. the Photos app on iOS

So @zed.dev just updated their Terms of Service to include a minimum age requirement. As a former tween coder, what the actual fuck.

so why do CEOs make all that money, exactly? "good learning experience" aka "you fucking had one job and fucked it up, yet again"

YUP this is the inevitable end game for what jack welch (yes) called "the dumbest idea in the world," shareholder value: abstracting away the meat of business — the job of which is "to create and keep a customer" (peter drucker) — until there's literally nothing left. a puff of air.

Do you have any really weird or unexpected skills? E.g. know how to hone and use a scythe, I learned that as a kid.

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in the interest of science, here is the original and the edit. none of this is "ai." this is just editing. all extremely normal. nothing people didn't do to literal darkroom negatives/prints either.

This is the kind of content I’m here for 😂

just goes to show that learning german is a mistake… it robbed me from this joyous experience curse you, literacy!

sunset with the minolta chiyoko super rokkor 45mm.

“a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” the bush:

Priorities 🙃

we are not the only animal that beefs with other groups of the same species, and i think that’s beautiful

we are not the only animal that beefs with other groups and i think that’s beautiful

don’t uncritically repost people claiming “AI” the alleged “original” photo on the right is massively over-edited. roseate spoonbills don’t have dark edged feathers. they also don’t have a shadow around their edges hehe

don’t uncritically repost people claiming “AI” the alleged “original” photo on the left is massively over-edited. roseate spoonbills don’t have dark edged feathers. they also don’t have a shadow around their edges hehe

This spicy autocomplete is kinda useful, huh…

Things are going great I see! 🍿 www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

watching tv with rocco while i do my infusion he’s helping

At this point @eurosky.social has about half the active users of @blackskyweb.xyz… and they've just launched recently 😅 (Blacksky now has an AppView though!)

went to a disco-themed party with @marisamorby.com and steered directly into my inner scumbag

wow we ate ground beef and peppers and rice yesterday didn’t realize we were so on trend

decided to give @signal.org some walkin’ around money

team i'm FIRED UP about these gnarly gotchas with Anchor Positioning in CSS.

Do Trump & MAGAs not realize how incredibly humiliating it is for them that their big patriotic "put America first" somehow ended up meaning… basically following the orders of some other, 30 times smaller country?…

I don't know the history around Iran and Netanyahu. Why does he want this?

New blog post: External import maps, today! lea.verou.me/blog/2026/ex...

I still have no idea what the @npmx.dev team is planning tomorrow and I'm excited to find out what's happening while we're streaming at 9:30am Pacific. watch live here:

Have we started letting people use AI tools during technical job interviews yet?

Extremely timely gram.liten.app/posts/go-slo...

www.ivanturkovic.com/2026/02/25/a...

this is huge! it's a big lift just to do the backfill indexing, but even more to get it operational and chase down all the little product affordances. blacksky ships.

lol our ISP routing situation is SO BAD. i used it with a vpn and suddenly it worked thanks to @thomasfuchs.at who figured it out love to live in a house where we've got zero opportunity to get wired internet & must rely on a local point to point broadband provider

i'm trying to install homebrew and it isn't working …how

Is there a slow software movement? as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Congratulations to the @tangled.org team! It's exciting to see the next generation of social coding built on atproto.

Claude, is it a good idea to start a war of choice without sufficient munitions to defend against its conquences?

Is this reverse ADHD tax??? A parallel universe? I swear I checked like 5 times and saw NOTHING

they had to lock their Discord lololol www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/m...

i hate it & i'll never understand it

In my Data Engineering bootcamp, they had us use cursor to learn how to do pipelines using dlt I finished the homework quickly as it's due in a few hours. I feel like I learned how to use cursor and not dlt Now that the time pressure is off, I'm going to redo it w/o cursor

don't read stratechery.

📢 Practical TypeScript: Foundations to Fluency is now live! First two workshops are free, the whole bundle is $200. There's a 40% discount for one week only! Check out the home page to answer your burning questions like: "What? AI writes my code now..." www.epicweb.dev/practical-ty...

to shoot down 1 friendly f15 may be regarded as misfortune, to shoot down 2 looks like carelessness. to shoot down *3*…

PLC directories diverging because one decided to add a new curve type call it the filiokey

Watching @syntax.fm talk about Electrobun 📺 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmsl...

this is hilarious. You SAID we could style <select> now DAD.

A lot of people don't understand what the phrase "Strong opinions, weakly held" means in practices. It means having a perspective based on principles. Seeing evidence that renders that perspective obsolete. Changing your opinion based on those principles given the new evidence.

I’m working on the final part of Whimsical Animations, all about Canvas animation. There’s such fun examples in this part, from confetti geysers to fireworks displays. 😄 Here’s one of the smaller exercises leading up to the big stuff. 🚀

I have a work laptop and a personal laptop and they should be easy to tell apart, because they are different colors. Unfortunately I cannot for the life of me remember which one is which color.

I’m working on the final part of Whimsical Animations, all about Canvas animation. There’s gonna be so many fun examples in this part, from confetti geysers to fireworks displays. Here’s one of the exercises we build:

Looking forward to Trump winning the Nobel Peace Prize next year for stopping the war with Iran that he started.

[spends months building up a new daily routine] [forgets one day] [never does it ever again]

Replacing Python as the glue for direct to GPU ML tasks is nice, but what about DOOM 2 ways: - A C implementation (based on DoomGeneric) rendered into a GPU window. - A TypeScript port of DOOM that renders into the same kind of GPU window, using Electrobun’s WGPU APIs from Bun.

huge! congrats @tangled.org :)

Take me to the branch manager

In two months, OpenClaw now has more stars on GitHub than React accumulated in 13 years. Coupling this with the fact the top 3 apps in the App Store are Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, AI adoption is the biggest trend for both consumers and software developers.

Me making up choreography as a kid: Michael Jackson: the way you make me feel Me: *hugs self* Michael Jackson: you really turn me on Me: *flips light switch* Michael Jackson: you knock me off my feet nah baybehh Me: *falls to the ground*

what i find fascinating — and what nobody seems to have pointed out — is jill here is arguing that papers don’t matter. basically, “you thought we have responsibility, bc we have power, and impact? nah. we are both powerless to not publish lies and evil dreck, and it doesn’t matter that we do.”

Since many asked, the instructions from my CLAUDE.md were: 1. For modern web tech: Always use the most modern HTML, CSS, JS you can. If supported in every browser, even if it's only the most recent version, use it. Overshoot is intentional: “Most recent” as far as Claude is concerned is May 2025!

Interesting, looks like they haven't increased the prices of the iPad Air at all (even the versions with larger disks) www.apple.com/pl/shop/buy-...

they're gonna call it MAX+ I can feel it

they're gonna call it MAX+ I can feel it

AI writes and deploys the majority of the code at Anthropic which sounds impressive but the service uptime is terrible. I’d love to see a post-mortem from them about the past few weeks of availability issues.

I learned about Project Wallace (www.projectwallace.com) from @kevinpowell.co’s latest F1 video, and it's fun seeing the analysis for my own site! I really try to avoid nested styles, and happily it seems like I’ve done a pretty good job at that. 😄

Glad I’m not on X. There’s an appalling Anthropic vs. Pentagon debate argues national security overrides Anthropic not wanting their AI to make kill decisions. This ignores the obvious that LLMs aren't reliable enough for life or death decisions. They can’t even consistently summarize a blog post.🤦🏾‍♂️