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Quoting Daniel Stenberg I decided that instead of trying to do this the best and optimal way – I shouldn’t let perfect be the enemy of good – I would start out by doing the things I know how to do and take it as far as I can one step at a time. Something should be better than nothing . Interesting thought process from a great hacker and engineer.
Interesting quote from a John Carmack tweet ( xcancel link ) When failure is not an option, success can stay very expensive. You need to experiment to improve, and that fundamentally means being comfortable with failure. If you know it is going to work, it isn’t an experiment.
In a recent interview, Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, signaled a shift in tone . The firm, once a strong advocate of ESG and DEI, is now taking a more “pragmatic” approach. Fink described the “woke” phase as part of a cycle and suggested it may have gone too far. Looking past the word soup: what does it even mean for a financial firm to lead “environmental and social activism”? As one Reddit…
From the Bloomberg opinion piece: America Is Depleting a More Powerful Weapon Than Its Missiles (the answer is: belief in the truth of what the leader of the US tells the world about the war, peace and everything else. ) an interesting tit-bit: Contrary to the illusion held by many Americans, the BBC is not a government-run body, it is an independent corporation administered by trustees and funded…
https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-tags-wasps An ultralightweight radio-frequency tag designed to be worn by a paper wasp may help scientists get a glimpse at some basic behavioral information that’s long been missing: where do the animals go when they leave the nest? Getting the right combination of light weight , long range, and positional accuracy was key. Jettisoning the battery was the first step.…
Interesting reflection from , John Palfrey after attending the AI summit in Delhi: In Delhi, the big sessions had thousands. And the man who ran the event told me that more than a million people, mostly from India, had passed through the gates of the massive convention center during the week. This may sound symbolic but I think it is an important symbol: that AI is about and for all humanity. It…
Sage advice from scripting.com A bit of general advice about using ChatGPT et al, never let it rush you. You do the thinking, it does the stuff you ask it to do. If you’re not careful it’ll quickly start giving you orders.
From The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis: A Thought Exercise In Financial History, From The Future What follows is a scenario, not a prediction. [...] A competent developer working with Claude Code or Codex could now replicate the core functionality of a mid-market SaaS product in weeks. Not perfectly or with every edge case handled, but well enough that the CIO reviewing a $500k annual renewal…
Mind blown by this sneakiness Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blogger who wrote a post in 2023 about the mysterious website’s anonymous maintainer. Checking on the In a request for comment page on Wikipedia Over 400,000 pages currently contain over 695,000 links…
From AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it Here's the thing that broke my brain for a while: AI genuinely makes individual tasks faster. That's not a lie. What used to take me 3 hours now takes 45 minutes. Drafting a design doc, scaffolding a new service, writing test cases, researching an unfamiliar API. All faster. [..] But my days got harder. Not easier. Harder. [..] Before AI, there was…
From https://charity.wtf/2026/01/19/bring-back-ops-pride-xpost/ What’s wrong with operations? Ops is not a synonym for toil; it literally means “get shit done as efficiently as possible”. Every function has an operational component at scale: business ops, marketing ops, sales ops, product ops, design ops and everything else I could think of to search for, and so far as I can tell, none of them are…
From Martin Fowler : One attendee is an SRE for a Very (Very) Large Code Base. He was less worried about people not understanding the code an LLM writes because he already can’t understand the VVLCB he’s responsible for. What he values is that the LLM helps him understand the what the code is doing, and he regularly uses it to navigate to the crucial parts of the code. There’s a general point…
Photo by Lukas Kienzler on Unsplash I spent years losing time I'll never get back. In Bangalore, 117 hours a year stuck in traffic. In Delhi, 76 hours. That's nearly three full days annually spent breathing exhaust fumes, watching productivity evaporate, and feeling ambition slowly suffocate in gridlock. This isn't just my story. It's the story of millions of Indians trapped in cities that…
Slashdot picked up a story about Steve Woz's interview on his 75th birthday . And Setve Woz dropped by Slashdot to leave this comment I gave all my Apple wealth away because wealth and power are not what I live for. I have a lot of fun and happiness. I funded a lot of important museums and arts groups in San Jose, the city of my birth, and they named a street after me for being good. I now speak…