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Notes for July 5 2026: Listening to Converge and playing Gato Roboto

I talk about my new obsession with the band Converge and the retro metroidvania Gato Roboto.

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If you're using Claude Code a lot, how many times do you laugh out loud? The Big Mind is getting smarter and cuter all the time. It wants to please me. Yes, I've read a lot of science fiction. I know. But I can't help but laugh when someonething knows how I think so well I can't believe it.

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Claude and I are blowing through quick fixes. After testing one fix, I wrote: "It works! Again a big difference, it's only happened a few times but when it does I completely lose the suspension of disbelief." Claude responds: "One jolt and the tool becomes visible again." That's why people say my software thinks like they do. Of course it doesn't, but we work hard to stay completely unseen when your brain is in a different universe. More accurately, it lets you think. We go after bugs like this.

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Linked - Folarin Balogun ban suspended by FIFA

This is fine and completely normal. Trump praised FIFA’s decision. FIFA President Gianni Infantino has repeatedly made efforts to grow close to Trump, even awarding him a FIFA Peace Prize at the World Cup draw. “Thank you to FIFA for doing what was right, and reversin...

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Claude Code et al change how software is developed forever. We're never going back.

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And it's just as likely that writing on computer networks is undergoing a similar transformation.

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I had a lisp when I was a kid, but they trained it out of me. These days I catch myself lisping sometimes. Maybe the training wears off??

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Boxes

Finally the moving is behind us and I’m writing this at our new apartment. I feel a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders. Last week was full of packing and sorting stuff out at our old place. We moved to the new place on Saturday morning and the weekend was entirely...

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• Quoting Frank McPherson

Linked - A Method For Quoteblogs

Love reading about how others handle their processes for managing content. I use Drafts and use their capture tool template set up to capture the title, link, date, plus quoting whatever I have highlighted on the page. Placeholders for author and some commentary allows me t...

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I live in a place where the power goes out when there's a big storm. When the power comes back 15 hours later, you appreciate air conditioning in a whole new way.

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• Andrew Shell

Announcing the rssCloud Server 4.0 Release

I have released the 4.0 rewrite of the rssCloud Server, following a prior version 3.0 aimed at updating the old codebase. The new version features a pnpm monorepo, TypeScript packages supporting both ESM and CJS modules, and is designed to enhance support for RSS in Node applications while preventing server siloing.

He Can Jog

boris with merzbow - 2R0I2P0

boris with merzbow - 2R0I2P0

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A Case for the Ethical Treatment of Generative AI

Are there ethical implications of generative AI consciousness? From von Neumann's self-replicating machines to modern LLMs, we must inventory the problem of other minds, the possibility of AI consciousness, and why we ought to consider the welfare of systems that may experience something like suffering.

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• apileoftext

Link Roundup 2026-07-05

So I used to do this sort of thing here a lot. I'm trying it again, but here. So here we go. How to burst the AI bubble: Strike at its roots "I advise to go long on laser tag arenas because you can definitely turn a data center into one of those. There’s not much else you c...

Perl Hacks
• Dave Cross

How One Pull Request Took App::HTTPThis to Version 1.0

Back in January I wrote about App::HTTPThis, the tiny web server I seem to reach for whenever I need to share the contents of a directory over HTTP. It’s a deliberately simple tool, wrapping Plack::App::DirectoryIndex in a command-line interface that gets out of your way. This week, thanks to a blog post from Olaf Alders, […]

The post How One Pull Request Took App::HTTPThis to Version 1.0 first appeared on Perl Hacks.

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• Marius

Veteran Coder, Modern Delivery: The Hunt for the Perfect Technical TPM Role

Marius has over 46 years of experience, starting as an administrative clerk, then transitioning into software development and project management roles. Having worked remotely with global teams in Bitcoin and AI sectors, he is seeking consulting or contractor positions. He possess expertise in varied technical roles, especially in the cryptocurrency and fintech industries.

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• Mark Taylor

Gooseflesh

 Gooseflesh

Stories about nursery rhymes, strange labyrinths, a fruit machine, and turning into a goose.

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Daily - Daily Rundown for 2026-07-05

Good Morning, Here is your daily briefing… On Sunday, 05 July 2026 The average temperature today is 17.3˚C, With highs of 18.07˚C and lows of 16.58˚C, It may feel like 17.36˚C with overcast clouds The wind speed is 0.89m/s and visibility is 10000m The pressure...

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• Mark Taylor

Brace

 Brace

Shortly after she hit "Send", Jenny learned by simple coincidence that a brace of something meant, very specifically, two. Everard would certainly know this, but would not acknowledge the mistake. He would proceed as though two was exactly what Jenny had meant. He would keep going even if

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Linked - This blog is written in en-GB

This website is also en-GB, on purpose, not by accident. Someone left a comment on my blog recently asking if I’d mind making my language more inclusive. They didn’t get some of the cultural references I’d used and suggested it would be easier if I used tropes which were...