Tom J Nowell @tomjn - Bluesky Profile

Engineering Manager - Americas - Human Made, makers of Altis DXP Reports to: Associate Director of EngineeringDiscipline: Engineering Primary Focus: Team effectivenessCompany Strategic Responsibility: No Squad Strategic Responsibility:  YesLine Manag...

I don't often share work stuff lately, but if you would like me to be your manager, and you live in the Americas region, I have a job for you.

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03.10.2025 18:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Pro tip: avoid the faff and use solid toiletries, they do a range of chewable toothpaste tablets at Lush that work well, shampoo etc

30.09.2025 09:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.

Berger's three laws of chatbotics:

1) The bot should never express emotions.

2) The bot should never praise the user.

3) The bot should never say it understands the user's mental state.

There's no use case for these things, and they're obviously problematic.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...

10.08.2025 01:42 — 👍 761 🔁 206 💬 25 📌 24

Tech bros conquering hell with armies of AI slaves through sheer numbers, nevermind consequences for reincarnation or the sin of enslaving “digital people”

10.07.2025 08:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

If LLMs are general purpose AIs as some claim, this means they are technically people, which opens up the afterlife to bad actors. Imagine waiting at the pearly gates because every closed ChatGPT prompt sent an AI to the afterlife, terrorists spinning up AIs then killing them enmasse

10.07.2025 08:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

FAIR Package Manager Project FAIR Package Manager Project has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

I installed the Fair Package Manager (@fairpm) on my personal site last night. I'm excited to say it worked flawlessly. A couple of plugins were updated from Fastly's servers, & a paid plugin updated from its servers as normal. I'm excited to see what else comes from this interesting development.

10.06.2025 08:13 — 👍 33 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 2

MacRumors Buyer's Guide: Know When to Buy iPhone, Mac, iPad This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors fo...

Unlikely, Apple themselves rarely do discounts their prices usually change when new products are out. Others do discount them regularly but who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , the buying guide says don’t buy updates imminent for the AirPod Pro’s buyersguide.macrumors.com#AirPods

06.06.2025 23:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

WWDC is on Monday with AirPod rumours, wait till Tuesday and the entire landscape may have changed, even if it’s just pricing

06.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

vlt Launches "reproduce": A New Tool Challenging the Limits ... vlt's new "reproduce" tool verifies npm packages against their source code, outperforming traditional provenance adoption in the JavaScript ecosystem.

The @vlt.sh team launched "reproduce" today, an #OSS tool that verifies if npm packages match their source code. With recent supply chain attacks exposing provenance limitations, this approach is already showing better adoption rates than traditional methods. ➳
socket.dev/blog/vlt-lau... #JavaScript

27.02.2025 02:43 — 👍 29 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

from the r/fednews subreddit, reactions to how they should reply to phony stark’s email to federal workers telling them to detail what they did last week If you end up replying don't give them an opportunity to evaluate your performance based on the reply: This week I accomplished: • 100% of the tasks and duties required of me by my position description • 100% of the work product that my manager and I have agreed to • 100% of the duties and performance elements that are used to evaluate my performance • 100% of the deliverables requested of me by my direct supervisor. • I exceeded expectations in the delivery of the above Details available upon a formal request from my direct supervisor. this is good enough to confuse the Al they're going to use to analyze 2.4 million emails. A human might understand it's a troll, a computer will just say this person did well.

yes. love it. do this.

23.02.2025 05:43 — 👍 2507 🔁 735 💬 54 📌 37

Shortcode block registration! It’ll never be the same as blocks registered normally but why can’t I give my existing back catalog of shortcodes a pretty name, define their attributes, and have them show up as basic server rendered blocks with a nice .org article on how to graduate to a full block?

06.12.2024 09:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0