StevenJV

Two threes in a row.
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Also today: Connections in 5 and finished The Mini in 45 seconds. All before coffee. Are you impressed?

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

AI phrase of the day: “indirect prompt injections”

www.wired.com/story/poison...

Oh dear, do I really want to listen?

I keep seeing lists like "Life-Changing Books To Re-Invent Yourself."
*sigh* If I'm not invented by now, there's no point in trying to do any re-inventing.

Fresh, local, and predictable: How “indoor” farms are solving food’s biggest problems BrightFarms’ greenhouse-grown produce offers a blueprint for a more resilient, nutritious—and delicious—food chain that looks more like just-in-time manufacturing than traditional farming

greenhouse-grown produce moves food production closer to retailers and consumers, meaning fresher food to you www.fastcompany.com/91372475/fre...

People in the U.S. who are democrats are members of the Democratic Party. Please, can we stop copying the republican’s use of “democrat party.” en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democra...

So true.

Pick a book off the shelves at tea-time (or is it teatime?) and give a 40-word synopsis, a pitch why I might want to read it. Every day, a different book, every day a different genre. Video could just be the book sitting next to a steaming cuppa, or on days you’re comfortable you with the book. 📕

What are your thoughts on dedicated testing teams vs testers within the team vs software engineers owning the testing?

I’ll try to set aside time for a blog post, but I’m def a proponent of integrated teams where everyone is responsible for product quality.

Remember, if you don’t let doctors count the sick people then there is no pandemic.

Ooh, I can hear the fussing again today.
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I Know When You're Vibe Coding I shouldn’t have to care about this. I don’t want to care about how someone’s code gets into the IDE. Whether you wrote it by hand, copied it from a forum…

"We’re back at this stage, rushing to push out the next piece of software because we think that speed is the greatest virtue.
But people want a good cup of coffee, even if they have to wait a little bit for it." #programming
alexkondov.com/i-know-when-...

Refreshing to see someone else correct folks! 🤣

YouTube video by Walt Disney Imagineering We Call It Imagineering | On With The Show! | Disney Live Entertainment

From #Disney: the latest episode of We Call it Imagineering youtu.be/Xsrad7a9878?...

Yes, along with general ‘logical thinking and discovery’ instruction/discussion. Sometime in years 5,6,7, if not earlier.

@garethlpowell.bsky.social i just finished Stars and Bones. Ch. 40 reminded me a bit of the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey. #book

also me, multiple times each day.

When you strip away humanity

My understanding is that the LLM is ephemeral; the only way it knows “context” is that everything is (re-)sent every time.

Death by sterio.

Typed,
Hand-written,
Smoke signals

Oh, they’re going to fuss about #wordle today.
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Continually impressed with your progress and commitment to sharing it. Bravo!

As promised (hopefully useful to someone, sometime): Using FluentAssertions with JObject
steven.vorefamily.net/2025/07/22/u...

FluentAssertions’ Should().BeEquivalentTo() wasn’t exactly doing what I expected. Blog post tomorrow. #programming

Job, or summer camp? 😁

Explaining the “Strava Tax” Why 10.00 miles on your device became 9.99 miles on Strava

Devices round up. Strava rounds down. Always run an extra .15mile/250meters. #running stories.strava.com/articles/exp...

The best technical manuals have coffee-cup rings on the pages.
The best auto repair books have grease fingerprints.