NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.
I made coffee today without the grounds … twice. Hoping for a better tomorrow.
Appreciate Ed writing this post on why you can reduce human code review, and grounding it in the history that our code review standard today is weird and new and not grounded in data. www.eqengineered.com/insights/age...
It is Now Possible to Remove Humans From Many PR Reviews. A Deep Dive into When, Why, and How. By Ed Lyons — EQengineered
After more than a year of saying, “You must read the code” it seems impossible we could stop doing this. Yet the most advanced agentic developers have found that excellent new models and techniques ...
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Came in rooting for Spain, but damn Martinez! It’s like he plays for a higher league than the rest of the mere humans.
@simonwillison.net for your recent app, you might find this Wikipedia page of AI tells useful: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.
I keep hearing folks talk about the loss of flow state with agentic coding, and as a long time exec agentic coding is the highest flow state activity I’ve done in a decade+.
OH: “Also programming is an activity which clearly happens far from God’s light and as such getting a machine to do it isn’t an abomination”
Reminder that 13 years ago today Google Reader was killed.
Blog post: Recent blog post by David Bessison LLM and math introduced two concepts useful for thinking about software: canonization and the Overhang. laughingmeme.org/2026/06/30/c...
Canonization and the Overhang
David Bessis’s “The fall of the theorem economy” is ostensibly about LLMs and the pursuit of pure math, and I found it fascinating in its own right, even while I’m not qualified to evaluate a number o...
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Strange phenomena being in the Bay Area in nominally liberally coded environment and encountering folks who just assumed that consensus reality was that Mamdani was terrible and that of course I agreed.
Spent the weekend in the Bay Area talking with 100+ technologists, and thinkers about AI — and my takeaway is the primary challenge, limitations and existential risk in the tech is that folks are accepting the ways in its accelerating wealth inequality.
And since I'm posting about AI on main, recent blog post: laughingmeme.org/2026/05/22/t...
The Importance of Tools and the Hedonic Treadmill of “Feels like Magic”
Claude Code felt like magic when I used it for the first time (14 months ago?). And then it felt like magic again when the models got good at code at the end of the year.
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A 100 years ago we slipped "engaging tuna blasters" into status reports to see if anyone was reading them. Today Claude tried to add a random DuckDb/parquet dependency to a simple sqlite backed app, and I'm sure it was just checking if I was paying attention.
The frustrating part of this of course is there is a better and cheaper approach using solar, battery, and light grid interconnect that would improve the infrastructure for the region without killing people. Killing people has to be your goal to go this way.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3mo ago“Each of the [currently 46] types of turbines xAI is operating have the potential to emit more than 2,000 tons of NOx pollution annually, a group of chemicals that contributes to asthma-inducing smog.”
Inspirational Skeletor means those Master of Universe trailers hit different
Inspirational Skeletor@skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 3mo ago
Now that someone has built this I can cross this 9 year old todo off my list!
kottke.org@kottke.org · 3mo agoHandy app: “Point your camera at anything (a dress, a paint swatch, a flower, your kid’s drawing) and What Color Is This? names the color instantly.” I like the increasingly specific color labels (e.g. blue to light blue to Tiffany blue). [apps.apple.com]
