David Humphrey
@humphd.bsky.social
Walking in the woods. Coding in the browser.
A great and funny read on what Canada is gearing up for now that Trump’s negotiators made an offer we literally could never accept.
Deb Chachra@debcha.bsky.social · last mo.This explainer out of Australia is genuinely useful background and analysis of what happened with the Canada-US trade deal last night. Note that it is extremely and delightfully sweary. Also there’s an appended glossary of Australian slang. ifloz.substack.com/p/king-carne...
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born https://lobste.rs/s/grynsa #practices #culture
The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
baldurbjarnason.com
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't https://lobste.rs/s/qzvvbv #networking
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
sschueller.github.io
I love seeing LLM slip-ups like this, today from Gemini: "This gives a scent of what else is there..." Imagine how grammatical, typographic, and other language errors are happily baked into the weights.
The magnitude of the FAFO moment coming for the "we don't read any of the AI code we ship to prod!" crowd is going to be a sight to behold. Unfortunately, we are all going to be watching it as affected users of these systems
Documentary about Open Source in Ukraine and around the world https://lobste.rs/s/unmf9w #video #culture
Documentary about Open Source in Ukraine and around the world
youtube.com
This article has been bouncing around in my head for the past couple of months, but I finally sat down and wrote it.
Polypane. Browser for web devs@polypane.app · 9mo agoNot All Browser APIs Are "Web" APIs There's JS APIs in your browser that are little more than facades for cloud services. You might be sending your users' data to them. polypane.app/blog/not-all...
I can't believe how often I hit this ridiculous rate limit just by browsing to things on GitHub's web site--many times this week. The downfall and neglect of GitHub is hard to watch and brings me no joy.
The Lobste.rs RSS feed@lobsters-feed.bsky.social · 9mo agoHow Github monopoly is destroying the open source ecosystem https://lobste.rs/s/seun8j #vcs #culture
I missed this piece by @dkthomp.bsky.social which makes a much deeper case for a thing I said to @blaine.bsky.social over the summer. Instagram shouldn't be understood as falling to be a social sharing app. It should be seen as a very successful Pocket TV. www.derekthompson.org/p/why-everyt...
Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
derekthompson.org
I'm grading my open source students' work, and I loved this description of what it's like from one of the students: dev.to/jongwan93/es...
Escaping Localhost
For a long time, my development life existed within the predictable world of my local machine. I...
dev.to
Seeing a lot of what I'm calling "AI Ennui" with my students. Different from the usual end-of-term burnout and apathy, it's become increasingly hard to get students to be students (read, write, engage with learning). Blaming AI is too easy, but it's fundamentally different from anything I've seen.
Wild to see upgrade docs being given as a prompt for your LLM agent to do... www.prisma.io/docs/ai/prom...
How to upgrade to Prisma ORM version 7 | Prisma Documentation
Step-by-step guide for migration your app to use the version 7 of Prisma ORM
prisma.io
Another day, another reason to love OpenRouter.ai. Student API key leaked into a public GitHub repo and we get a security email from their support team, which have already found it and disabled the key. Fantastic
OpenRouter
A router for LLMs and other AI models
openrouter.ai
I never cease to be underwhelmed with the average case for AI image generation. Everyone showing images of Nano Banana generating whiteboard images of papers. I try and it fails to do anything 3 times, then creates one about random AI stuff vs. the biology in the paper itself. Cool but useless?
I continue to bet on OpenRouter.ai Today I'm writing my LLM programming course notes on using embeddings and they add embedding models: openrouter.ai/models?fmt=c... Then I get an email that they're doing their own TS/Python SDK: github.com/OpenRouterTe... Every week they ship great stuff
OpenRouter
A router for LLMs and other AI models
openrouter.ai
@pomdtr.me what do you think of pocketbase.io? Reading their docs made me think of smallweb
PocketBase - Open Source backend in 1 file
Open Source backend in 1 file with realtime database, authentication, file storage and admin dashboard
pocketbase.io
Interesting Claude Sonnet 4.5 hiccup, where it complains about bits of its own system prompt when reviewing a document I share "Token budget directive at top: The <budget:token_budget>1000000</budget:token_budget> appears to be a system prompt artifact that shouldn't be in student-facing materials"
Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.
404 Media@404media.co · 12mo agoBREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more. 🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
I have always loved the old Canadian bills, and especially the birds they portrayed. I thought I'd seen them all, but apparently I missed the 1,000 bill with its pair of Pine Grosbeaks on the back.
📊 Fixed a few bugs in Venz this morning ☕ New to Venz? It's the easiest way to create SVG charts from all sorts of data, such as hyperfine or mitata test results or just lists of numbers (and optionally labels). Create shareable URLs. Check out the examples at try.venz.dev/about → try.venz.dev
Venz
Easy and accessible dataviz
try.venz.dev
Tonight I integrated an LLM into every part of the request/response life-cycle of the the browser to see what I could do. aifoc.us/interception/ It was a lot of fun, in the demo linked I can rewrite a web page as before it's rendered by the browser to give me just a summary of the contents.
interception
This is a very quick post. I had an idea as I was walking the dog this evening, and I wanted to build a functioning demo and write about it within a couple of hours. While the post and idea started th...
aifoc.us
Our Rowboat tool is about instantly seeing what's in a dataset, so we added a Chrome Extension that lets you open random datasets from all over the internet. Right click, poof! 0.2 seconds later we see what this dataset actually looks like. No workspace to set up, no waiting for the app, no db.
