Honey B. Stinger

AI's Dial-Up Era It is 1995.

Excellent level-headed take on where we're at in the AI hype cycle

www.wreflection.com/p/ai-dial-up...

Two matching sets of pattern pieces showing the front and back. Interfacing is sew in and is a different colour

Different view

5 pattern pieces including front facing, and under collar

Close up of 3 pattern pieces

Had some time and inspiration to sew interfacing pieces together. Slow but steady

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models: Claude can now use Skills to improve how it performs specific tasks. Skills …

Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...

Encountered two `z-index: 2147483647 !important;` declarations today

We had an outage because Qwen 2.5 refused to do anything for a prompt that was modified to add a table of markets with Taiwan and China as separate countries. Wouldn’t do the SA task without a disclaimer that Taiwan is an integral part of China added. Not a sex thing but censorship is insidious

Are you a non-Black person pissed at Bluesky leadership and feeling a little jealous of all the good vibes coming from Blacksky?

There are Blacksky adjacent options for you! Here’s info from the Blacksky migration guide!

docs.blacksky.community/migrating-to...

YouTube video by Databricks Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound AI Pipelines

If you've been trying to figure out DSPy - the automatic prompt optimization system - this talk by @dbreunig.bsky.social is the clearest explanation I've seen yet, with a very useful real-world case study www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9Zt...

My notes here: simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/d...

Feeling chuffed, ended the week with a work win. Parts of a system came together and it started working as designed

📝

Neat ideas on a different type of social media

The visual essays on samwho.dev are a treasure

👆 is required reading for those delivering apps over the web. Great distillation of what @infrequently.org has been talking about for years

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“Client-side web development is perhaps best conceived of as influence-oriented programming. Once code has left the datacenter, all a web developer can do is send thoughts and prayers”

The pattern piece likes to roll up in a tube and doesn't lay flat

Taping the edges of the curly pattern piece down in preparation for cutting

The pattern piece is now cut out. Close up of a corner. Two edges have tape.

Also used tape to straighten out a curly pattern. That's a satisfying application

Crisp corner from tape on thin tracing paper

Put tape on the corner of the pattern before I cut it out. I think this will make more durable corners. Not certain if it'll mess up transferring the pattern to fabric.

Plain and gridded paper

Pain tracing paper

Gridded paper

I like the plain tracing paper over the gridded version. Way more legible

Praxis

Woman explains how she and friends use shared bank account for group trips to alleviate stress of splitting bills Kim Brindell explained how they came up with the idea.

> Each of the women contributes $20 dollars per week to the shared account, to be used for any and all travel expenses later, including airfare, lodging and dining.

White women invent West African susu (savings club / Rotating Savings and Credit Association).

abcnews.go.com/GMA/Travel/w...

Pattern paper with tape on the paper as points to affix the tracing paper

The tracing paper affixed to the pattern

Got a nice system to secure tracing paper to patterns. I put down tape on the pattern piece that I affix the tracing paper to

#sewing

Lighting panel on a desktop with a tube light underneath. On top of the lighting panel is a sewing pattern and tracing paper

Improvised a tracing table from lighting panels

#sewing

The horizontal strip is cut! Used a fancy electric fabric cutter

A vertical view of the strip. Hopefully it'll be enough for the project

Illustration of pattern pieces laid on top of a folded piece of fabric

An old fitted sheet that will be the source material for the prototype. The bottom has 2 mountain top cut outs, that used to be the corners of the sheet. The top is missing pieces from another project

Rough approximation of the width needed to fit the pattern layout

Going to cut a horizontal strip. The black measuring tape shows the doubled width of the previous measurement.

Scrounging some fabric for the coat project

Illustration showing the pieces of the Foreman pattern, numbered 1 to 11

The pattern pieces have been transferred to tracing paper

The pattern pieces have been cut out

Reviving my sewing hobby
Going to try to build the Merchant & Mills Foreman jacket
Will be making two sizes
Wish me luck

A list of #accessibility features and assistive tech I use daily:

• Page/browser Zoom & OS-level Zoom.
• High Contrast Themes (in VSCode)
• Reduce transparency (macOS)
• Dark theme (macOS)
• Larger cursor size (if you try this it becomes hard to go back to the OS's default size)
• Eyeglasses 👓

dashboard of slice showing how many records are indexed and links to other slice things like lexicons, record explorer, code gen, and sync.

lexicon page showing an input to paste in a lexicon definition and press submit

sync page showing collections from your lexicon ready to sync

codegen page showing a generate client button, below the generated typescript for a slice which includes methods for interacting with your lexicon records

Excited to share some new stuff I've been I've been working on. It's an appview for building appviews called Slices. A slice reads your lexicons, indexes your records from the Jetstream, does backfill and provides a typescript client to interact with your lexicon .listRecords, .searchRecords, etc

Vibe coding used to be staying up until 2am only to figure out your code was missing a semicolon 😤

hypermedia I was introduced to the concept of the Memex after my post about super-apps. It’s a fascinating view of the future from the late 1940s and early 1950s. Vannevar Bush presented a vision of an informati...

I've been thinking about hypermedia and hyperlinks might evolve with LLMs.

aifoc.us/hypermedia/

It feels like there is a lot of opportunity how links work and the value they can provide people.