Jesse Chan-Norris

I was really confused that first hat read “Fax the Rich”

And we're out. Happy Hanukkah, all.

Happy seventh night of Hanukkah (from a friend's menorah)

Have yourself a color block sixth night of Hanukkah

Fifth night of Hanukkah lights

Happy fourth night of Hanukkah, all

Happy third night of Hanukkah

Happy 2nd night of Hanukkah

Chag sameach on this somber first night of Hanukkah.

ReActionView - A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb. A new ActionView-compatible ERB engine with modern DX - re-imagined with Herb.

If you are working with Rails + ERB and you have not yet installed ReActionView => you are missing a lot.

Just read this: "HTML-aware rendering with validation, reactivity, and built-in tooling for Rails applications"

reactionview.dev

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

A screenshot of Xcode showing a bunch of sheep running over the macOS window framing

It is nice to have a computer with some whimsy again. I've ported the esheep app from the 90s to run as a native app on macOS

github.com/orta/esheep-...

YouTube video by THE WACKIDS KILLING IN THE NAME - RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE // ROCK'N'TOYS SESSIONS #8 - THE WACKIDS

the anthem we need right now youtu.be/wdepf8H4Lgc?...

Prompt summarize Attachments image/jpeg: /var/folders/x6/31xf1vxj0nn9mxqq8z0mmcfw0000gn/T/llm_pdf_to_images_rw_qkmgz/page_001.jpg image/jpeg: /var/folders/x6/31xf1vxj0nn9mxqq8z0mmcfw0000gn/T/llm_pdf_to_images_rw_qkmgz/page_002.jpg Response This document outlines various types of political regimes and their characteristics: Democracy: A political regime where the government is accountable to the people and power is exercised directly or through representatives. It operates under guaranteed civil liberties, political equality, and periodic, competitive elections. Liberal or Representative Democracy: Features popular support and limitations on state power, with a functioning constitution, competitive elections, rule of law, and protections for civil liberties. It requires institutions like legislatures, courts, and political parties. Illiberal Democracy: Elections occur, but civil liberties and political rights are often limited, with the possibility of electoral processes manipulated by elites or authoritarian tendencies. Authoritarianism/Dictatorship: Characterized by the concentration of power in one or a few leaders, limited political pluralism, lack of democratic elections, and restricted civil liberties.

I built a new LLM plugin that can turn a PDF into an image-per-page for feeding into vision models, and in testing it found that GPT-4.1 mini hallucinates WILDLY if you feed it a blank white rectangle followed by a blank black rectangle simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/...

Law & Order: Organized Crime has the best theme music of all the Law & Orders

Partial list of things that always come in threes, that everybody knows always come in threes, never one or two, or four, yet we still find surprising:

1️⃣ Celebrity deaths.

2️⃣ USB port connection attempts.

3️⃣ Visits to Home Depot for a DIY project.

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but
2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but
3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So
4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

With tax day coming up on April 15, we want to make sure our community knows about IRS Direct File. It’s a free option for filing a federal tax return, and you can learn more about it at DirectFile.irs.gov.

This DIY project turns an iPod into a click wheel-powered Spotify player This kind of project is music to my ears.

Time to DIY www.theverge.com/circuitbreak...

Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

Amtrak was cool while it lasted.

https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/ceos-dismissal-signals-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-amtrak-analysis/

If Ukraine Loses Starlink, Here Are the Best Alternatives OneWeb, Project Kuiper, and IRIS2 could all, in time, replace Elon Musk's satellite communications system in Ukraine, but they will struggle to replicate Starlink's coverage and usability.

Redundant systems, single points of failure, etc. www.wired.com/story/starli...

The ongoing balance between “what if I vacuum up something precious” and wanting to hold the line on “if you don’t want to lose your precious stuff, keep it off the damn floor”

Levar Burton Hotline Bling meme, but he is interested and pointing in approval in both images. top text reads "sound sustainable infrastructure" and bottom text reads "sustained infrastructure sounds"

because people asked for it, we have a 12-hour track of nothing but the sound of clean water flowing from our treatment plant back to the environment. soundcloud.com/neorsd/water...

Can’t wait to see who made large crypto buys in the hours before the crypto reserve announcement

introducing tangled: a git collaboration platform built on #atproto

blog.tangled.sh/intro

7 yo taught me that a few weeks ago. I wonder if there’s some chess influencer making en passant TikToks that I don’t know about

@lesteph.com did a scrape of the whole site a couple of weeks ago - preserved.org.uk/18f.gsa.gov/...

I just assume that everyone has bad intentions these days

18F: We are dedicated to the American public and we're not done yet For over 11 years, 18F has been proudly serving the American people to make government technology work better. We are non-partisan civil servants. 18F has worked on hundreds of projects, all designed ...

18f.org since their site is definitely long gone now.