David Smith
@nonfamous.bsky.social
Developer Relations for AI at Microsoft/GitHub. he/him
Some fantastic tips in here: the use of AI for hobbies is underrated. I have stolen the travel guide prompt.
Hadley Wickham@hadley.nz · yesterdayI'm leaving for vacation next week, so I thought it might be fun to share some of my non-work uses of AI. See my weird and wacky uses at: tidydesign.substack.com/p/ai-outside...
It is the year 2026 and Google Drive still does not support inspecting or extracting ZIP files.
Try this prompt (ChatGPT has a great response): Is the Philipine Eagle the most 80’s of eagles?
Just noticed a neat Safari feature on iOS: if you click an image on a web page that spawns an image in a new tab, you can press Back. This closes the new tab and returns you to the original tab and page. Pretty sure in Chrome, Back would be disabled. Has this always been the case?
I closed my laptop for 20 mins to eat dinner, and in the meantime it rebooted itself with no warning to install an update, losing progression in the game (Civ VII) I was playing. SO aggravating. It’s a MacBook, BTW.
The built-in Preview app on iOS makes for a half-decent document scanner.
The fact that Siri Spotlight does not offer to launch NYT Games when I search for “wordl” is the proof that AGI will never be achieved.
This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
Suspicion and Doubt at the National Civics Contest
America’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust.
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"It's been a rather fascinating exercise to watch many politicos and reporters share their fun and wistful anecdotes about Mr. Graham. He was so funny and so charming. That's nice."
My Funny Personal Story About Lindsey Graham
So funny and so charming.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.
My Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club
“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ...
mcsweeneys.net
People often ask me what was my favourite US city to live in. SF had the tech and queer scenes. Chicago had the culture. Napa had the wine. With Seattle it’s the rain that comes to mind first. strava.app.link/wDeicESKe4b
Strava Flyover 3D replay
Watch a 3D video replay of this epic activity on Strava.
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BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Prof Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's data
Prof Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data.
bbc.com
new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...
Running local models is good now
Local agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months
vickiboykis.com
I don’t know if Photo Shuffle deliberately chose this photo to align the sun with the lower dot of the colon but if so well played, Apple.
As far as I can tell, people have to pay for Paramount Plus to watch this event hosted on government property. I'd assume it's a win for their new UFC deal even if relatively few eyeballs. Would be interested in the @tvmojoe.bsky.social perspective. He is the ultimate ratings guru.
Ted "Cis is not a slur" Delphos@tdelphos.bsky.social · 2mo agoWhat kind of ratings do we think he is going to get (btw also what kind of ratings do MMA events normally get? How do they compare with like baseball games? I really have no idea)
Anyone else find it immensely satisfying to start something that runs without your attention (e.g. a load of laundry) and then go out to do something else? It’s like free productivity! I AM THE MASTER OF OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY! Just me, then?
Pretty pleased with this Wingspan score. (Jonny wasn’t as pleased.)
A few weeks ago I bought a 4-pack of Apple AirTags on sale at Costco. Today, packing for a trip, it occurs to me I should put an AirTag on my luggage. I can’t find the AirTags.
I built an agent skill that roasts me based on my work week (using GitHub, X, and WorkIQ MCP servers), and it cracks me up so much. 😆 "I've never seen someone so aggressively productive and yet so fundamentally unhinged at the same time." Install from […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
I'll be in Hong Kong this weekend for #AgentCon hosting a tournament to make the best Snake Game bot with agentic AI. Hope to see you there!
Dear astronauts, if you liked losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes, I can highly recommend a 13hr BNE-LAX flight with no Wi-Fi.
Announcing our next livestream series! "Host your agents on Foundry" Apr 27-30 @ 10 AM PT We’ll build agents with both Microsoft Agent Framework and LangChain/LangGraph, deploy them to Microsoft Foundry, then add knowledge, tools, observability, evals. aka.ms/AgentsOnFoun...
Has anyone actually tried to use AirDrop on an iPhone recently? It is the exact opposite of a “magical experience”.
