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📕 Finished reading The Regicide Report by Charles Stross ISBN: 9780356524665

Tuesday session

I like this thought from @patrickrhone:

The biggest danger with AI is that it is a shortcut around things that matter. Things that matter intellectually, things that matter socially, and things that matter emotionally.

I think that’s right. We have to make deliberate choices, which is hard right now because AI is like, “Hi, I can do everything for you.” But what actually makes us uniquely human? What has more value and meaning if we do it ourselves? I want shortcuts that give us more time for those things that matter. (And it’s complicated because that might not be the same for everyone.)

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I got to meet @vincent in person for the first time while in Barcelona. He and his wife even brought me some sweet treats and special vodka from Poland! I’m lucky to be able to work remotely. As I type this, I’m in a cafe in Paris. But there’s nothing like meeting face to fa...

Hacker News isn't a software masterpiece. All the pieces have to be there to make something as real as HN happen. As with Craig's List, Markdown, HTML, WordPress, RSS 2.0, Lotus 1-2-3 and of course these are just some of the building blocks of the tech stack we use today many years later. A press release does not count as validation.

The president of the United States is spinning around acting like a NYC real estate jumbo who accidentally was elected president and after only five years in office has realized a whole new level of trolling. It started with cable news, then went to Twitter, then masked Amer...

Sometimes I look back through my blogging archives and notice what’s changed over time. For example, I used to write quite enthusiastically about the arrival of a new operating system from Apple. That is no longer the case, to put it mildly. I’m currently holed up on Sequio...

Not sure I buy the argument here, though I do very much look forward to local language models getting better so we can ditch the predatory peddlars of today’s slop. But this trip down memory lane to the early web of the 1990s could’ve been describing my own experience: B...

Front page of Comic-Con International website in 2025 I’ve had this image in my folder of potential blog posts and web pages since early 2025. I don’t have a lot to add in words. But I am always glad to see myself in costume with other folks in costume. On this image I’m center left...

The new Frozen ride is really well designed. At Disneyland Paris / Disney Adventure World.

It’s very cool to see Theo / t3.gg‘s open source arc. Just in general, with people creating more software than ever, it’s so exciting to see an explosion of open source and a growing understanding of why working together on open source makes so much sense for the future we want to build.

So ends a peaceful, relaxing and enjoyable Easter bank holiday doing mostly nothing, beyond watching some films and TV shows, spending time with my family, and going on short walks with this little old lady. Perfect.

Got a drink at Le Train Bleu. Beautiful old restaurant from 1901, inside Gare de Lyon.

I recommend this post on vibe coding.

There's a lot more to development than coding.

I've tried vibe coding myself, and while it's sometimes relaxing and fun, it's pretty hard to get the output to match what you had in mind.

I think people find it amazing that they can create code, not just that the machine can create it. I know what that's like because I get a rush from creating images, something I never had a skill for, so all of a sudden being able to express myself with drawings was a breakthrough for me. ;-)

I've spent a few decades making commercial quality software in a variety of contexts, and so far I wouldn't rush to get rid of my dev teams based on the idea that the bots can do their work.

I think more realistically we have powerful new tools that we as yet have not learned how to use, but it's pretty exciting to see what may be possible.

People like to give OpenAI shit for having “open” in the name, but if we look at developer tooling and access to models, the company is actually more open than Anthropic. That contrast was highlighted when Anthropic accidentally leaked the source code to Claude Code. TechCru...

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Salter Cane gig on Saturday night—that was fun!