and they automatically moved mine to the EU 💙

Fastmail@fastmail.com · 3d ago

Fastmail data can now live primarily in the EU, on servers our own engineers set up in Amsterdam. Current customers can switch in settings; new accounts pick a region at signup. 

 Our CEO Bron's post walks through exactly what lives where.
www.fastmail.com/blog/fastmai... #Fastmail #Email

It’s not ideal but the solution to a lack of achievement at work (because the hard things are being done by AI) might just be to do hard things as a hobby. There’s really no other reason for swimming 10,000m. Or paint the kitchen. Or replace the downlights.

I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.

"The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." Bernard Avishai

I’m not pretty enough to do this meme on Instagram so… “I’m going out for 10k” “Ok, honey. Enjoy your run” “Run?!” #swimming

I'm a bit negative about the future of SaaS only partly because I can generally build most things myself. But it's also because every new SaaS out there is being vibecoded: there's no serious investment = no serious commitment = not going to stick around. Why not build it myself?

IF you have to ask a question like "Can I share your data with these random companies?" or "Can I track when you open our emails?" AND if the answer any sane person will give you is "No" THEN don't ask stupid questions AND just don't do it

Alternative view: If Claude is right about >90%* of the time in my domain (coding), and even when wrong it's mostly improvements and non-critical polish I'm making not catastrophic failures, can I trust it to the same level in a completely unfamiliar domain? * or 80%, or 70%. This still holds

Peter Tennant@pwgtennant.bsky.social · last wk.

Peter's Law of Chatbot Accuracy*: "everything you read that's produced by an LLM is absolutely true, except for the rare output about which you happen have expert knowledge". *Remixed from Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy, where the exact same rules apply!

this is a great argument that maybe we have the risks backwards

antirez@antirez.bsky.social · last wk.

The real AI risk is inside the labs (a reply to Amodei's post on open weight models): antirez.com/news/172

IDK who needs to hear this, but you shouldn't buy promises of utopian futures with abundance and UBI from dudes who spend a considerable fraction of their time figuring out how not to pay their taxes.

It’s called “Big Tech” not “Best Tech”. We should stop elevating those companies and founders as idols to strive for. They’re unworthy of that adoration.

I asked Claude to design a custom part to connect the cooker hood to the wall output—two different diameter pipes, offset vertically and horizontally. Then I sent the parts to my 3D printer. 👆 that's some living-in-the-future Star Trek shit!

People will complain that AI will write code we don’t understand. My position is that market economics* has long been driving complexity that couldn’t be sustainably staffed. The genie was out of the bottle, and AI can help wrestle it back 🤞 * mostly developer salaries and user expectations

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2w ago

I suspect once we figure it out agentic work in software will actually be a huge aid to codebase comprehension This is such a wildly unpopular thought right now but you know what I'm going to pre-register my belief in this possibility

I suspect once we figure it out agentic work in software will actually be a huge aid to codebase comprehension This is such a wildly unpopular thought right now but you know what I'm going to pre-register my belief in this possibility

Legitimate grounds for an emergency cabin depressurisation.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

To small crowds on airplanes, self-described evangelists are seizing the opportunity to share their faith with other passengers. Their messages are met with affirmations and amens. But there are also in-person protests, not to mention pushback online.

I know opinions will differ (including, 'meh') — but I think these are all absolutely beautiful examples of bank notes. There's a quick survey too to feed into a public consultation on them. 👉 www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknot...

As you get older, the price of a sedentary job is spending 1-2hrs a day putting your body through hell for free

In an age when software production is easier than it has ever been, it's noticeable when an organisation decides to produce a poor implementation of a feature. Yes, this is about GitHub Copilot 👀

Turns out the psychology of this software team is mostly forgetting you had pre-ordered the book so you pre-ordered it a second time 🤦‍♂️ I guess I was excited @grimalkina.bsky.social

…but if you're concerned, you can now purchase the optional rapid cabin depressurisation insurance

I wonder if this will be the age of selfish software: software that’s so easy to create but doesn’t have enough value to share or sell

Everyone seems excited by how quickly they can write software these days. Me too—it’s ridiculously fun and exciting! The difference is that they think there’s an opportunity to build a SaaS business; whereas I see no reason to ever buy what I can build myself (which is now most of things)

Essential Cookies Aren't Optional, So Stop Asking Permission for Them: One of the most common misconceptions about cookie consent is that websites need permission for every cookie they use. In fact, the opposite is true. https://mcgarrsolicitors.ie/2026/07/14/essential-cookies-dont-need-consent/

The shear unadulterated _fun_ you can create with AI these days, like this page for agents/devs to quickly log in as any local account

It’s not exactly what I’ve been wishing for but if this is what it takes to eventually rid the world of PayPal then I’m all for it

Silicon Republic@siliconrepublic.bsky.social · 3w ago

Stripe has made an offer to purchase PayPal in a joint deal with US private equity firm Advent International, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

Same exact feeling. Hand tool woodworkers love the making process; power tool woodworkers want the finished product. Neither is wrong. Not a perfect metaphor but I always come back to it.

Quick this year right? Brighton Ruby 2026's talks all on YouTube (for the first time). www.youtube.com/playlist?li...

Brighton Ruby 2026

My goodness it was hot. https://brightonruby.com/2026

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30 years of programming and I have never cared about the machine. I’m interested in the problems to solve, the system to architect, and the end product that people can use. The machines are just a necessary evil and, frankly, too much of programming is intolerable drudgery. Strong agree!

LaurieWired@lauriewired.bsky.social · 3w ago

I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers. As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can. I don’t get it, at ALL.

If you want to know what other #ATProto apps your friends are using: at-where.ideasasylum.com Runs entirely on public data so no authentication required. Very much just an experiment to answer the question of app-discovery in the #atmosphere

at-where — discover ATProto apps

Type your Bluesky handle. We'll scan the accounts you follow and show you which other ATProto apps they use — ranked by how many of your follows use each one.

at-where.ideasasylum.com

Good product developers + AI are the wizards, witches, and mages of our age. We can just conjure our ideas into reality, with little effort or fanfare. Not necessarily products, or even projects to share, but just software as a toy, an experiment, a thing to exist because we thought it should.

Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix

ALT: Keanu Reeves as Neo in The Matrix

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