So nobody has done Hell's Bells the #soundtrack for the Odyssey, the sacking of Troy yet?

No no no @evernote.bsky.social you don’t get it. I’d rather pay someone $200 to manually extract and migrate all my notes than continue the subscription. Customer since 2014. Congratulations

Like many, I have too many open tabs on my browser. A new trend I spotted with myself was that among them too many were tabs with conversations with LLMs I'd come back later to. I never did. Bye bye tabs

"Inventing #ELIZA - How the First #Chatbot Shaped the Future of #AI" is out from #MITPress and it is open access. Link to PDF direct.mit.edu/books/book-p...

A nightmare and a revelation about my #LLM sadness managing.blue/2026/07/11/s...

software calligraphy – part 2

As a systems administrator I am used to stitching together other people’s code and systems to produce a working outcome within given constraints. Which means, the rise of agentic coding shoul…

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So if anyone had bet on Balogun’s red card, do the bookers pay or not?

At the #GRNOG 20

About a month ago I had a conversation with a friend about LLMs at work. This is a story I told him then managing.blue/2026/06/25/s...

software calligraphy

or What objecting to LLM agents teaches you about you (sometimes) There was a small positional game that I’ve wanted to implement for some years, long before the LLMs and their agents became …

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I wrote something about open-weight models that has been on my mind for quite some time managing.blue/2026/06/21/o...

Open Weight models and soft power

I see Open-weight AI models as a form of digital soft power. When an entity releases their models for free public use, they aren’t doing this operating under an altruistic motive; they’…

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I wanted to scribble some lines on top of a jpeg image. For some reason Preview did not allow this. Enter jspaint.app - I loaded the image, drew the lines, done. Thank you.

JS Paint

Classic MS Paint in the browser, with extra features.

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Unsubscribed from python-announce, python weekly, golang weekly, postgres weekly.

I had to work with meshcore-cli to help a friend with his #meshcore #repeater managing.blue/2026/06/07/a...

adventures with meshcore-cli

I have a good friend who is into meshcore. Seeking to expand the network he participates in, he asked me if I could host a repeater on the rooftop, to which I agreed. He also gave me a little compa…

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Today the Linux Foundation is announcing the intent to form the Tokenomics Foundation, which will be a sister organization to the FinOps Foundation.

If you ever liked "MIT Guide to lockpicking" you will enjoy Act 3 from this episode. www.thisamericanlife.org/750/the-ferr...

The Ferryman - This American Life

Getting from Point A to Point B—with expert assistance.

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Lots of people run an AMA. I want to run an AMN(othing)

With all the agentic workers being deployed here and there, I wonder how soon we will start reading thought leaders about the leaderless organizations, as the agents, working as a hive will be the one collective leader.

I've been confusing my neighbor Don with frontier-lab links for months, pre-training walls, leaked moat memos, and what investors see in OpenAI's $850 billion valuation. So he came over and we made an episode about it. New podcast episode is out: corecursive.com/the-pre-trai...

The Pre-Training Wall and the Treadmill After It

I've been confusing Don with frontier-lab links late at night for months. Ilya Sutskever told a NeurIPS audience that pre-training as we know it would unquestionably end. There's only one internet, a...

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Long before google decided to ship the 4GB model to your Chromes I was trying to figure out a usage from Microsoft's BitNet, as it was marketed as a model for "the edge". I was met with scepticism with people I discussed this. Now I feel somewhat vindicated.

I just returned to an email conversation after 17 years :)

One of the kids was watching #HandyManny and now I cannot stop thinking that LLM agents are like Handy Manny’s tools. We are like Handy Manny discussing with the tools and directing the repairs.

I am never buying an HP printer ever again

6*7 = 42; now you know what #sixseven means. I'll show myself out

IIRC the Butlerian Jihad started because a robot thought the same as Sam Altman.

I have to admit that every time I read #Codeberg, I hear #Goldberg

A book and a personal story that lasted 36 years managing.blue/2026/02/18/p...

Programming Languages: An Interpreter-Based Approach / Build, Prove, and Compare

There was a book (An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming) by Tim Budd I read due to an assignment about SmallTalk. Budd had his own SmallTalk implemetation (A Little SmallTalk). Going throu…

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So many people talk about bottlenecks, so few have read Goldratt's "The Goal"

Today is European 112 Day 🇪🇺 📞 112 is the single emergency number across the EU It’s free, works for all emergencies, and in many countries, help is available in multiple languages. One number. All emergencies.

If you have ever attended a #GRNOG, please fill in the form ripe-ncc.typeform.com/NOGparticipant

Google made everyone think they're a doctor, LLMs make them think they are lawyers...