Ben Taylor

Good luck!

Thanks heaps!

Ooh what’s the website for this, I’d like to attend in future!

Cool new grifting trick “instead of asking about the value, think about how much you stand to lose if you don’t adopt!”

My biggest frustration with the last 20 years of “agile methodologies” is that the ability to deliver has been replaced by the ability to do a bunch of rituals. I don’t care about the rituals, I care about the outcomes. Some of the rituals are good, but the dogma is so strong.

ME, IN TEARS: you can't just say every single part of a computer system is a file

UNIX, POINTING AT THE MOUSE: file

The DVD title screen to anchorman

Just bought a 2011 Honda CR-V, and this thing is a snapshot in time. It does Bluetooth calling but not audio. It supports MP3 CDs. It has an aux input. It has a DVD player on the roof that can transmit audio over FM, or via infrared (!!) headphones. Anyway here’s the DVD title screen to Anchorman.

Sorry I have only read The Hockey Dog All Stars - Coloring Book: Six great hockey dogs ready to be colored, it was good though 3 stars

great news! CONSPIRACY NATION is so far the best reviewed of my ... 8 books.

(Have you read CONSPIRACY NATION yet? Reviews on Goodreads helps other people who might like it find the book)

www.goodreads.com/bo...

I gave a talk a couple of weeks ago at MelbJS about how building MCP Servers is surprisingly easy. Here it is as a blog post:

runno.dev/articles/mcp/

The documentation we’ve written for Claude is some of the best documentation in our codebase.

Happy Birthday!!

Sometimes my phone tells me it’s someone’s birthday and I have no idea who that person is

YouTube video by nanovms [Unikernel Application Spotlight] Runno - A WebAssembly Sandbox for Running Code

this week on the unikernel application spotlight we check out runno - a webassembly sandbox that takes arbitrary input such as python/ruby/php - transpiles to wasm, runs it in node all under nanos - interesting stuff!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cx5b...

*taps the sign* rustforgeconf.com/register

Apparently yesterday I upset some people by noting that Y2K was a quarter of a century ago.

I apologise for the distress that the notion that Y2K happened closer to the Whitlam dismissal than to today has caused.

Introducing @runno/sandbox: A WebAssembly Sandbox for Running Code.

You could use it for running code generated by an LLM, or for testing code written by students, or for running customer functions on your own cloud.

runno.dev/articles/san...

runno/packages/mcp at main · taybenlor/runno Sandboxed runtime for programming languages and WASI binaries. Works in the browser or on your server. - taybenlor/runno

I spent the weekend sick in bed, so I finished turning Runno into a Code Sandbox MCP Server.

Now my Claude can write and execute code in a bunch of languages as part of solving problems.

github.com/taybenlor/ru...

runno/packages/mcp at main · taybenlor/runno Sandboxed runtime for programming languages and WASI binaries. Works in the browser or on your server. - taybenlor/runno

You can now run it yourself! See docs: github.com/taybenlor/ru...

Try the instructions here: github.com/taybenlor/ru...

Should have it up later tonight!

Me asking Claude to calculate 5**5 using Python. Then Claude writing that code and executing using Runno. Then Claude explaining how ** works in Python.

Me asking Claude to calculate the p75 of some numbers. Claude then writes Python and executes it to answer.

I’m sick this weekend so I built a Runno MCP server. Now Claude can safely run code to answer my questions.

I have a rant in my head that I want to turn into an article about representation systems, and how representing things in different ways gives you different affordances. Representing with code allows you to have an “idea” that can be executed by a computer. Which is cool. As you’ve demonstrated.

Code review bot leaving comments on a CPU cooler 3D design, in KittyCAD

When your 3D models/hardware projects are represented as code, it's easier for both humans and bots to do code review, switching between the 3D visuals and the underlying code. We turned code review bots into mechanical engineering review bots.

That’s insanely cool. Programming is so neat.

😂 it’s a timeless bit

How to Train your Dragon but it’s about transporting Dragons around the country on Trains.

I continue to appreciate that Clive can spend millions spamming us in texts, ads on socials and tv and basically not get anywhere

After the crowd boo’d Dutton, Albo said “No, what we do in Australia is we treat people with respect” #auspol

I really admire respecting the individuals involved in politics. It’s not a team sport, it’s not about characters, and shouldn’t be about cheap shots.