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@pepchasdrdave.bsky.social since you introduced phrases into the contranym universe: “Blow up” can mean rapidly expanding (like a celebrity or cultural trend or a startup co) but can also mean the same kinds of thing dramatically shattering into oblivion. (“Explode” also used both ways.)

The anti-glazing model

“One click away” turns out to give you about a decade of runway before you have to lift a finger

That regression test suite must be wild when users are in a romantic relationship with your code base

Standards for standards

Commemorating the CSS wars of great !important. Wherein a lone user fought for their natural right to customize style against the imposition of the prevailing theme-smiths. Here the user prevailed and the links did shine.

also good-weird neal.fun

TIL Benford’s Law. Reminds me of Deutsch’s Beginning of Infinity.

YouTube video by Parachute Adams Portlandia - New Phone w/ Kumail Nanjiani

Younger Kumail closing the sale is a classic youtu.be/UcRTXAyBOcY

Google flexing AI up and down the stack. Just as ChatGPT eats into search, TPUs and Gemini should be a concern to AWS/Azure.

Should exist in a single device: Router, USB charger, Smart TV (toaster optional)

In 1999, you could raise multimillion dollar VC, the one simple trick was don’t turn on revenue yet. 2025 says hold my beer – no product in sight.

Via his new “Software 3.0” talk, I learned of Andrei Karpathy’s menugen.app, which generates visuals from menu photos – should be a game changer for dealing with foreign-language menus.

A fitting vibe-coding demo from the man who tweet-coined vibe coding.

Every since ChatGPT, Google’s product velocity and willingness to disrupt its core product 🔥🔥🔥

I wasn't aware there were that many scientists working on AWS Billing

Don’t get me wrong, there’s amazing upsides here for education and entertainment. Just be aware that with open source AI this good, mass imitation is on the way.

Share with anyone who’s not aware of deepfake risks. These samples are open source generated so forget about any rails.

Zero-shot (ie claimed to not be cherry picked) and this demo page includes the few seconds of original voice that’s being faked.

2025 software repair is weird.

A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.

Definitely keeps things exciting

Spare a thought for the best looking and finest sounding media personalities, for they are the first wave of humans whose existence will soon be doubted

ChatGPT sycophantic behaviour has not gone away despite OpenAI's claim. Now I have to constantly request external references to justify its responses that tell me how wise o so incredibly insightful I am.

Feels like it's playing shrink and merely echoing what I say in different words. Eliza++

“If you had a machine that could instantly recall or create any facet of information, do you need a link?”

An Oral-B login screen.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

My own approach to learning has been to double down on research before consulting the oracle, which takes some discipline but is ultimately more conducive to long-term retention.

In journaling and summarising, that’s the time to use LLMs for reality checks and clarification.

As with calculators and Wikipedia, so too with LLM chatbots.

Unworldly potential to leapfrog earlier ways of learning. Personal, patient, tutoring for every individual. But equally, the capacity to annihilate every active neuron by answering the question before the user even thought about it.

Realistically, parents and educators are too slow to adapt. They are just now getting to grips with smartphones and social media.

The 5 year old who grew up with them is now an adult.

Too little, too late.

AI force-multiplies the paradox of learning with technology. The better the technology, the dumber it makes students in the absence of careful guidance.

100% and also UX. I get the appeal of a real-time helpdesk, but the product is so unwieldy for any discussions spanning more than a few minutes.

Low, anecdotally. The percentage of non-fans who think fans are under that illusion is far greater.

An authentic “WFH cafe sounds simulator” would ship with a boomer screaming on a video call, an influencer live streaming their keto bowl, and 360-degree audio of those TikTok comedy feeds with zany sound effects.