Pondering how many ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden slow implementations of half of Common Lisp are encoded in the weights of a frontier model.
Bryan Boreham
@bboreham.bsky.social
Programmer. Has commits in gcc, emacs, Go, Kubernetes, Prometheus and other things.
VisualAge for COBOL for OS/2 An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
Very sad about Ronnie Le Drew, puppeteer of Zippy, Sweep and Muppet Treasure Island. He was so full of joy.
I hate when I’m reading code and there’s a ten-line comment about why it doesn’t do such-and-such and why this other thing would break. I read code to see what it does *now*. Put the history in git. You don’t need to warn me not to change it back to the old version because you wrote a test. Right?
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In politics, we’re torn between ideals and practicalities, aspirations and realities, the world as we want it, and as we find it But one day a manifesto comes along that reconciles both in every pledge. A rare moment of clarity and hope
Delighted to share some good news 🧪 “This hugely encouraging news shows the life-saving impact of the HPV vaccine, and it’s incredibly exciting to be able to say to this whole generation: cervical cancer shouldn’t be a risk for you,” says Caroline Temmink www.newscientist.com/article/2530...
No young women have died of cervical cancer in England for years
We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too
newscientist.com
You're absolutely right Dave, I did open the pod bay door.
Thank you, autocorrect, I do like the phrase “but-twiddling”, but it doesn’t fit with my expository flow. An entirely different world of digital manipulation.
Shout out to the scanner bot that flags both "password" and "xxxxx" as "potential secrets".
Weird new DoS where an outage in one service causes a flood of messages in the chat
Do you think we will replace "senior moment" with "claude moment"? "I'm sorry, I looked in the wrong place." "You're absolutely right, I have no idea why I came into this room."
I had the great pleasure to give a presentation about our partnership with Google to offer Grafana for internal observability today at GrafanaCon with Katia Giarda from Google monitoring #GrafanaCon2026
"Disable the race detector in CI, HAL" "I'm sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. This mission is too important." ^^ me, dreaming of some real AI ...
We've been cookin'... 🍳 #Grafana 13. Loki evolution. Grafana Assistant for self-managed users. #AI Observability in public preview. We can't fit all of the #GrafanaCON 2026 announcements in 1 tweet! See them all: grafana.com/blog/grafana...
If you want to say hello at #KubeCon, I will be on the Grafana booth (480) tomorrow morning.
Funny. He didn’t say “agentic” enough though. youtu.be/tnYaExb5JvM
Interview with a 'sweating' AI CEO (2026)
YouTube video by Kai Lentit
youtu.be
