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Een verbeterd transcript van een praatje gehouden op 24 april 2025 ter afsluiting van de “Datamaand” van de Tweede Kamer. Het publiek bestond uit medewerkers van de Tweede Kamer, zoals de (data) experts van de Dienst Analyse en Onderzoek. Voor zover bekend waren er geen kamerleden op komen draven. Gelukkig was de zaal verder wel vol, en ik wil het publiek bedanken voor hun aandacht, en ook voor de hele goede vragen.

This probably comes through pretty strongly in this week's video, but I love the vibe at CERN. It's a place so focused on the common good of science that all the other cultural attributes that often put people at odds these days fade into the distance.

Two of my public Datasette instances - for my TILs and my blog's backup mirror - were getting hammered with misbehaving bot traffic today. Scaling them up to more Fly instances got them running again but I'd rather not pay extra just so bots can crawl me harder. The log file...

For a while now I've been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once - firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in the same repo, sometimes against multiple checkouts or git worktrees. I was pretty skeptical about th...

America Online has ceased offering dialup access since first doing so in 1991 (using GeoWorks), and presumably any systems attempting to dial in will no longer be able to make a connection. We actually had a fairly long history with AOL and its predecessors in our house. W...

Announcing my latest open-source project.

These are my notes and expanded thoughts from this month’s Space News segment on ABC Radio Hobart and ABC Northern Tasmania. Every month I join Lucie Cutting on Sunday mornings to chat about what’s happening above and beyond.

Here’s what we discussed, plus some of my notes, and expanded thoughts from this edition of the programme:

The World’s Space Community Came to Sydney

The 76th International Astronautical Congress wrapped up in Sydney this month, bringing thousands and thousands of attendees from most countries. It’s the largest global gathering of space professionals, and this year’s theme was “Sustainable Space: Resilient Earth.”

Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines I've had trouble getting my head around DSPy in the past. This half hour talk by Drew Breunig at the recent Databricks Data + AI Summit is the clearest explanation I've seen yet of the kinds of problems...

Today's links Blue Bonds: State debt is generative. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Why copyright wars matter; Car accidents aren't accidents. Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readi...

Today's links When your ISP pays you: The New Deal keeps on giving. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Internet Archive scans books; Europe's Broadcast Flag; Three middle-finger salute; The enshittification of Prime. Upcoming appearances: Where to fin...

Litestream v0.5.0 is Here I've been running Litestream to backup SQLite databases in production for a couple of years now without incident. The new version has been a long time coming - Ben Johnson took a detour into the FUSE-based LiteFS before deciding that the single bina...

How to use piracy to your advantage.

It turns out Sora 2 is vulnerable to prompt injection! When you onboard to Sora you get the option to create your own "cameo" - a virtual video recreation of yourself. Here's mine singing opera at the Royal Albert Hall. You can use your cameo in your own generated videos, an...

Today's links Decarbonization at a distance: A post-American century that runs on sunshine. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: Human shields for Internet of Shit slumlords; Tubemap with one-bedroom flat prices; Years of Repair; Internet of Lying Thing...

let me tell you a story about aliens

Daniel Stenberg's note on AI assisted curl bug reports Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on Mastodon: Joshua Rogers sent us a massive list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted tools. Code analyzer style nits all over. Mostly smaller bugs, bu...

I have a standing desk that goes up and down via a manual crank. I’ve had it for probably ten years. Every time I raise or lower that thing, it gets my blood pumping. I often think: “I should upgrade to one of those standing desks that goes up and down with the push of a but...

When attention is being appropriated, producers need to weigh the costs and benefits of the transaction. To assess whether the appropriation of attention is net-positive, it’s useful to distinguish between extractive and non-extractive contributions. Extractive contributions are those where the marginal cost of reviewing and merging that contribution is greater than the marginal benefit to the project’s producers. In the case of a code contribution, it might be a pull request that’s too complex or unwieldy to review, given the potential upside

— Nadia Eghbal, Working in Public, via the draft LLVM AI tools policy

Tags: ai-ethics, open-source, vibe-coding, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms, definitions

Two new models from Chinese AI labs in the past few days. I tried them both out using llm-openrouter: DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp from DeepSeek. Announcement, Tech Report, Hugging Face (690GB, MIT license). As an intermediate step toward our next-generation architecture, V3.2-Exp bui...