Brian Hicks
@brianhicks.bsky.social
Programmer and maker and general tinkerer. https://bytes.zone
I do not know if we have or have not reached peak AI. I do, however, notice that my garbage company is hiring for a "Staff Engineer - Agentic AI."
Why didn't the eagles just fly Odysseus straight to Ithaca
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
Just got my site working on a new VPS host, only for the whole host to experience a crippling DDoS for 14 hours yesterday and another one ongoing today. What luck!
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
Nicolas Fulghum@nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 4w agoSolar's sharp rise continues. As of April 2026, global solar capacity now exceeds 3 terawatt. 1 gigawatt → 1 terawatt: 20+ years 1 terawatt → 2 terawatt: 33 months 2 terawatt → 3 terawatt: 19 months
as if the red card shenanigans weren't bad enough, now the NYT says Trump is playing???????
haaah… Argentina has a defender named Paredes? World Cup scriptwriters are getting lazy. 😆
I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses
our pool is bigger than skyscrapers bigger than cars bigger than the moon! you can tell, at night! the moon falls all the way in you can see it at the bottom our scientists are working on a way to extract the moon from the pool and unlock its resources (cheese, footprints, discarded flags)
The point is not to write the best book ever objectively in the history of mankind. The point is to write the best book that can come out of YOU & hope it clicks in some way that others see it. There is no YOU in writing you produce with AI!
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sure you can *center* a div, but are you really *celebrating* the div?
Wrote entire books about how people who believe fairies live in gardens are idiots only to fall in love with a calculator that calls him smart
Matthew Sheffield@matthew.flux.community · 3mo agoIn totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9
doing a side project where I mostly use gen ai to see how it's going now not unrelated… swearing at the computer a lot more recently. Wonder what's going on there.
is anyone I know using tangled? It seems super cool but I'm pretty hesitant to run my own nixos CI workers again. 🥴
since I no longer pun on blue sky, i am forced to find puns in the wild and beam them to you
Somehow managed to force Zod to behave like a decent form validation library? Huh! Only problem is that the error messages show up pretty aggressively (the form is covered in 'em as soon as you open it.) gist.github.com/BrianHicks/d...
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WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: i’ll have the jello GEOFF: i’ll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ
It has happened more than once that a Man has told me he is training an AI model of himself to give people access to his thoughts without him having to be present. It's only a matter of time before I tell such a Man that I already have too much access to what is going on in his brain, thank you.
The replies include some creative wrong answers like “duck on a buck,” “quack on a rack,” “elk is the shelf,” and my favorite “gander on an antler” 😂
Shecky@shecky.bsky.social · 4mo agoTired of the old "elf on a shelf" nonsense? Canada GOTCHU.
Every year, hundreds of people walk silently through the streets of Minneapolis… looking at the windows of the houses. It's the Wedge Cat Tour: the residents put the cats in the window and the crowd stops to admire them. Yes. This exists. 😹
i'm sorry but the moon is a complete boondoggle that should never have been put up there in the first place. we still have to send repair missions up there a hundred-plus years later all because taft was trailing in the polls and decided to learn magick. i don't know why he thought it would help him
