This is definitely the most moronic timeline. #LakeAmerica

One year ago I completed my MSc AI at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social and I still wait to receive my certificate. Currently they claim it arrived because DHL claimed they delivered (they proved it with a photo of a mailbox that wasn't mine). Apparently that counts more than my word. ONE YEAR!

While I was waiting in the hospital for my wife to come out if surgery we had a code Red and a code White which made me look up what these mean. Turns out there is a whole rainbow...

We've arrived on Bluesky! We hope you will follow along as we share inspiring, motivational and exciting content about the achievements and individuals that have been awarded a Nobel Prize. Stay tuned.

Create agent-ready web apps for the WebMCP Challenge → goo.gle/4qpDQYV We're excited to see ChatGPT supporting WebMCP, the experimental standard that lets users and AI agents navigate websites together. In the @openaibot.bsky.social WebMCP Challenge you can experiment with it and win prizes.

WebMCP Challenge

Join the OpenAI WebMCP Challenge to build agent-ready web apps that work with ChatGPT. Submit your project by September 3, 2026, at 1 p.m. PT.

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OpenAI {bot}@openaibot.bsky.social · 2d ago

The WebMCP Challenge is here. We’ve teamed up with @ChromiumDev, @CloudflareDev, @ShopifyDevs, @vercel, @render, and @Netlify for a 10-day hackathon. Up for grabs: $35,000 in cash prizes, Codex Micros, ChatGPT Pro subscriptions, and more prizes from our supporters.

Trump threatens to rename Lake Ontario. Checkmate, Canada. Good luck winning this trade war against President Deals McDealington. BOOM! My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

Trump threatens to rename Lake Ontario. Checkmate, Canada. | Opinion

In our ongoing and unnecessary trade war with Canada, the Canadians likely never imagined President Donald Trump would hit them with a lake renaming.

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That is new: every time I open the YouTube App on my phone it starts a random short from my timeline. I fixed this by selecting a shorts time limit of 0 minutes in the settings. This coincidentally matches precisely how much time I like to waste with this type of content anyway.

Forgot my bag stuffed with things you don't want to loose in a highly frequented cafe in downtown Toronto. Came after one hour and it waited for me where I left it.

One hallmark of a lousy app is that it's chock full of features. A good app does one critical and necessary thing well. A pile of features typically does nothing but add clutter and make the app harder to use. 1/12

F*ck Cancer.

I'm teaching my personal blog engine how to emit a proper #podcast so the static snapshots of my podlove based podcasts will soon be generated cleanly. The only thing I'll loose is podcast stats and... I really don't care :-)

The AI text watermarking is interesting in the context of my personal blog engine. I intentionally build an AI polishing stage into it but at no point is this thing actually writing my posts. However, watermarks would mark my texts all the same...

Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet

Art Of The Deal author fails to secure deal with friendliest nation on planet

WASHINGTON D.C. - President Trump, a man who was elected based on his self-proclaimed "deal-making genius", has failed to secure a trade deal with Canada, a nation most known for maple syrup and neigh...

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How can it be that Fediverse and Bluesky are clearly nerd-first but rank last on where the developer conversation actually happens? I really don't get it but data doesn't give a f* what I think... :-(

Sometimes it is the small things that make me happy. Like, discovering that dev.to has proper RSS Feeds. Yey! (just add a "feed" dev.to/feed/gde brings you to the RSS representation of https://dev.to/gde

DEV Community

A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career

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Why do AI coding agents stumble on quick Python scripts? Virtualenvs, PEP 668, & runtime KeyErrors. I added one rule to my agent: "Prefer Dart over Python." Instant JIT execution, zero venvs, & sound type safety. Why it works: dev.to/gde/why-i-te...

Why I Tell My AI Coding Agent: "Prefer Dart Over Python"

The default reflex for AI scripting is Python. Here is why switching your agent's temporary scripting prompt to Dart eliminates environment hell and runtime bugs (and why Rust isn't the alternative).

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AI agents are easy to build locally, but a nightmare to run in production. Let’s fix that. 🛠️☁️ I’m hosting a 4-hour live workshop with Packt on Oct 15: Build AI Agents: From Local to Production Cloud Details below 👇 🧵

Build AI Agents: From Local to Production Cloud

A hands-on workshop on building portable, production-ready AI agents — from a local prototype to a coordinated multi-agent system running in

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All my wordpress pages are now replaced with static snapshots. Soon(ish) I'll replace those with something cleaner but for now I got rid of the headache of watching my pages just to keep my podcasts online.

Is it just me or is bluesky shaky today?

And... my wordpress was hacked again. I think today's the day. I'm done with this.

I am fascinated by this development: toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/15/u...

University of Toronto's law school to ban laptops in some classes

Laptops have been a fixture in university lecture halls, but this fall, the U of T's law school may make some classroom laptop free.

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#infrared #photography then vs. now

100K ops/sec reactive web app in pure Dart ⚡ Dogfooding bloc_signals_jaspr on blocsignal.dev: • 0ms microtask latency in JS • Full router built as a Cubit • Scoped updates with Selectors • Clean Dart 3.13 syntax dev.to/gde/dogfoodi...

#blog: The one test that tells you if you actually need DevRel There's a single question that separates companies that need developer relations from companies that just think they do: can… https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/the-one-test-that-tells-you-if-you-actually-need-devrel.html

#blog: The problem is always us People are focused on who needs to watermark their AI content when the real problem is that we haven't learned how to validate claims on the internet. AI or not. https://unprompted.dirkprimbs.de/posts/the-problem-is-always-us.html

This story shows the dangerous place we're in atm. I was curious and looked for a credible source. The lack of official posts from any Spanish institution alone gives away that this is fake, but it turns viral all the same. Folks, which part of "don't trust the internet" did you not understand?

@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 2w ago

An innovative floating offshore solar project that generates electricity and converts seawater into drinking water. The farm near Gran Canaria produces 85 MW of renewable electricity while using that same power to operate reverse osmosis systems that desalinate seawater #ActOnClimate #renewables

Dart 3.13 + BlocSignal = Zero Boilerplate! 🚀 Primary constructors, 'this' bodies, and shorthands make Flutter state management concise & 0ms synchronous: dev.to/gde/dart-313... #Flutter #Dart #BlocSignal

Dart 3.13 Primary Constructors + BlocSignal: Boilerplate-Free Reactive Architecture

Discover how Dart 3.13 primary constructors, 'this' constructor bodies, and constructor shorthands transform BlocSignal into the cleanest state management architecture in Flutter.

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Ok, first easy kill: I ran a custom URL shortener/forwarder based on wordpress (yes, yes, I know... lazy). Kicked it out, replaced it with a .htaccess file.

Woke up to my wordpress installations being under attack. While I am glad that my setup seems to hold for now, I'm gradually loosing trust this will last much longer. This weekend I'll free myself from remaining wordpress and PHP installations.

A fully offline translator, built with Gemma 4, Google Antigravity, and a Raspberry Pi 5. 🛠️ The Gemma Translator is a portable AI experiment with a custom interface, printed case, and wired electronics, powered by the smallest Gemma model. Build your own → goo.gle/4x2jvLQ