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Artemis II is almost there:
The Orion spacecraft is now in the lunar sphere of influence, meaning the moon’s gravity has more pull on the vehicle than the Earth. At 1:46 p.m. ET, the crew will surpass the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth by humans, which was set by the Apollo 13 mission at 248,655 statute miles from Earth.
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La Petite Ceinture du 12th arrondissement. Old abandoned rail line that circled Paris to connect separate train stations. 🚂
danielpietzsch.com/articles/automating-websub-requests-from-a-static-site
Filed my 2025 taxes today (electronically). Payments mailed (physically).Earliest in at least a decade, maybe two.Took a very conscious and deliberate effort to get here. Prioritizing, cutting or postponing anything non-urgent, iterating and improving systems year over year (especially in coordination with an accountant), collecting clustering materials earlier, and more.Completing these kinds of "required" tasks/projects sooner feels like it frees up mental (and emotional) bandwidth (not having them occupying daily thoughts) to dream, brainstorm, and make more creative things.
The Beans on Fire in Paris. ☕️
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Matt Mullenweg
• Matt
You call yourself a Christian engineer, but you haven’t given your life to Open Source? Huh. What license would Jesus choose? I don’t know if it’s GPL or MIT, but sure as heck it isn’t proprietary. Letting proprietary code dictate your life is like following a Bible you’re not allowed to read. Beware those who … Continue reading Easter Thoughts →
Amazing photo of astronaut Christina Koch in silhouette, hair floating in zero gravity, looking back at Earth. 🚀
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
"Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting “faulty” AI answers." Increasingly, incentive structures are asking them to.
In today’s update to Inkwell for Mac, there’s a new window for photos in blog posts. It’s particularly useful for Reading Recap thumbnails too, with a clickable permalink to visit the full post.
Simple, but I’m happy with how this turned out. Toolbar buttons, pinch to zoom, drag to scroll, etc.
Paris street from the Promenade plantée René-Dumont. 🚂
danielkossmann.com/homebrew-website-club-curitiba-meetings-2-through-7/
On the train, crossing into France.
There’s a fundamental problem with these tools beyond the capacity of any deployment strategy to solve: the tool requires expertise to validate, but its use diminishes expertise and stunts its growth. How does one become an expert? There are no shortcuts; there is only continuous hard work and dedication. I was once told of writing, great writers learn how to break the rules in new and ingenious ways by first learning the rules.
But how is a new developer meant to learn the rules if their day-to-day work is nothing but the babysitting of models? How will they gain the hard-won experience that allows a human in the loop to be a useful safeguard?
These models alter cognition in ways deleterious to human prosperity. In other words, for as much output as they provide, they take something important from us.
