Jim Gilliland

@neclimdul.bsky.social

Trying a new Android launcher which lead me to starting fresh organizing. Taking a different approach. Generally I organize for convenience. Use it often, bottom right, etc. New approach, that's reserved for what I want to use often. Single purpose apps.

Something that's been bugging me "LLMs are great at understanding context and human speech" Also "You need 100k of bespoke prompts to explain what Google could understand using a sitemap"

while on the subject of phone chargers, I feel it's worth asking how well-known the whole "pocket lint buildup" think is with USB-C because when people say their port broke I often wonder whether it's actually just in need of some scrapey scrapey with a sewing pin.

it’s hard not to see the “agentic” future as an illustration of vc’s stunted vision of the future. not more creative freedom, not new access to voices and ideas, rather the opportunity to simulate the true dream of capital: managing an army of makers whose work becomes yours.

New tab news feed suggested I "Add this instead of mayo on grilled cheese." It was butter... First of, sure mayo would work fine as the fat on a grilled cheese. But who is using mayo and never thought to use butter on bread.

So my att internet is down. I'm happy to report they've added more steps to the login so it's even slower than the last time I logged in. Also, app access multi page tutorial I definitely read since I'm trying to get to the troubleshooting wizard.

Dear Lowes, Every time I've opened a webpage for 2 months I've seen you targeting me to buy a new Fridge or try your new AI assistant. I'm interested in neither and at this point after me not interacting with several thousand ads I think that should be obvious. Thanks, Jim

A weird UI design I've started seeing in a lot of places is when you drag a mouse over text left to right to select it, it drags some sidebar out over the content blocking you from selecting. Like, I get mobile first design but did no one use these applications?

Y'all, I don't think I'm human anymore... I couldn't make out a captcha, literally some letters overlapped in ways that it could have been multiple things and it was the third captcha I'd filled out. So I tried the audio and it was just noise! 6 aliens talking over each other, nonsense, noise.

Microsoft seems to have a new feature when opening documents. If you accidentally click on a giant spreadsheet and it takes forever you might click "close". But Microsoft has you covered! it _cancels_ you closing the document and pops up a helpful toast message with "Document still loading"

Windows users: An update? Don't ever bother me or update my computer again. Linux users: Lets run updates while I get my morning coffee. also Linux users: Lets see if there are any updates while I grab lunch. also also Linux users: I'm heading to bed. Let me run any pending updates.

I'm sure I'm not the first one to wonder this but, unless you're a networking wizard, IPv6 addresses can identify specific devices behind a NAT. And IP addresses are already generally sensitive PII you have to be careful with how you store. Does that mean IPV6 addresses need extra care?