I am older, by almost a decade, than yellow and red cards. What are you older than?

10,000 hours to become a world recognized expert seems like a bit commitment. But (for a long! time) I have thought about how many things where 10-100 (or fewer in cases!) hours can take us from ignorance to basic competence.

You say 'one shot' and you created a profitable web site. I say 'one shot' and I ate a whole tray of rice krispie treats. We are not the same

I read Get Shorty and a few years later the movie came out and I remember being impressed at how much Leonard had learned about writing novels to be made into films. Memory is imperfect but watching the film I kept appreciating how the film hit the beats of the novel

I turned in my California absentee ballot at a polling station on election day. I got a text today from the Secretary of State that my ballot had arrived and would be counted. Counting all of the votes takes time.

AI is like a good relationship. You don't need a harness, but it will make things better.

The Kennedy Center has a feedback page. But it has a captcha that is never satisfied. I wonder if it is intentional, or just more Trump incompetence. www.kennedy-center.org/contact/web-...

I used to hit refresh and there would be no change because I was looking at the live server and I'd made changes on my local copy. I wrote up my little trick to help me keep dev and production straight. medium.com/@richgibson/...

My localhost helper

The problem is always DNS, or caching, or being in the wrong directory or on the wrong server.

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I just got CO2 laser safety glasses. They are really comfortable, can I also use them as regular sunglasses or will that be worse than no glasses?

I read a lot of articles. I am annoyed when someone writes '...quietly changing.' It is 2026, nothing is quiet.

Transphobes are assholes.

I'm having Claude help me to resurrect a site. It read one of my architecture files and said 'Elegant for 1998.' So I've got that going for me. Also, I had architecture files. Feeling chuffed with past-me.

We were giants in those days, in our own ways.

That feeling when its been a minute and you look at the carefully set up laser cutter, and it is not moving and cutting and shit because you neglected to click on 'Start' in Lightburn. Bad human, no pellets for you. (hah, I am autonomous, I get all of the pellets that I want!)

Bruce Sterling calls AI text 'delvish' because of the use of the world 'delve' in AI text. And I would like Delvish to be the word that we select to describe AI text. bruces.medium.com/preliminary-...

Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling

Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect

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This was my opinion then. It is far cooler and cyberpunk than my current opinion. Thursday 6/8/2000 One could be excused if one thought that programming was a glamorous career. In fact, it is suited most for deviants, misfits, and the criminally insane.

That feeling when you have a bit of adaptive tech and you are in a new/old space and swing an arm around and you bump into your own adaptive tech is sublime.

person 1: I used AI to solve a problem that has bedeviled me for twenty years. person 2: have you considered that llm is literal slavery? If you are anti ai perhaps try a different argument.

Moment of zen watching this video and having him reference Code and Other laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKG...

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION | Decoder

YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel

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One does something when one codes with Claude Code, I've decided to call it 'cloding.'

I wrote a functional prototype of a tool to help you rate your bluesky feed by showing skeets to rate, add comments, and save. The idea is create a corpus to learn from, and create a better feed. This is an experiment in how the ui might work. feedrater.com fastapi, htmx, atproto, sqlite3

Weird internet, ftw. "I get it. They’re building a multi-million-user network; I’m just a guy who wants to see the internet get weird again. But I can’t help but hope they eventually set this thing loose." Report on the Atmosphere conference, by David Imel davidimel.substack.com/p/bluesky-is...

Bluesky is doubling down

Let's see if a feed-builder is it.

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@northbaypython.org Are there any Friday night plans?

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: https://northbaypython.org/ (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]

I love this paper, and how the workflow of Claude Code works with how I approach dealing with the command line. Lots of little pieces strung together. From Everything-is-a-File to Files-Are-All-You-Need: How Unix Philosophy Informs the Design of Agentic AI Systems arxiv.org/abs/2601.11672

From Everything-is-a-File to Files-Are-All-You-Need: How Unix Philosophy Informs the Design of Agentic AI Systems

A core abstraction in early Unix systems was the principle that 'everything is a file', enabling heterogeneous devices and kernel resources to be manipulated via uniform read/write interfaces. This pa...

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Maybe this marks the spot where the tide breaks in our right wing fever dream. "with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." HST Fear and loathing in Las Vegas www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live

Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

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I wrote about getting lost in the Czech republic on a bike trip in 2006, and how we all need a personal data repository to help us connect with our spatial data. (picture of a young woman lifting a heavily loaded bike over fallen trees) medium.com/@richgibson/...

Getting lost in the Czech Republic

More on the theme that Maps Tell Stories

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Hofstadter talked about translation, and sentences like 'this sentence is hard to translate into French' loses meaning when it is translated into French. I just ran into this Hindi sentence. “C shuru karo. Sab C se hi shuru karte hain.” By someone quoting their instructor.

I wanted to see an F35B do a vertical landing. Youtube suggested 'f35b landing on Queen Ettlizabeth' I was disappointed to learn that there is an aircraft carrier named Queen Elizabeth.

I dreamed I was next to a fellow with locks flowing in the wind, and all around him people were singing 'let it blow' (from Frozen). A hand reached up and snatched at his hair. Everyone gasped and stopped singing because nothing was going to blow on that bald dome.