David Humphrey

Nice anecdote from the Tailwind team about using AI for a refactor:

> But even with all this effort, the results were honestly so inconsistent that I'm absolutely certain that reviewing + polishing all of the work done by the robots took more time than if we just did every single block by hand …

Fascinating response from Gemini 2.5 today:

"Your goal is to own this weight for クリスプ(crisp) sets of 12 reps with zero swinging. Lead with the elbows"

No Japanese anywhere in the prompt. Also, this seems to be some kind of transliteration of an English word so why bother at all? So many questions!

My wife ordered a peach salad *in* peach season and it came with canned peaches. This is clearly criminal negligence, right?

I keep my ssh keys in 1Password, which helps with this

@carnage4life.bsky.social you are consistently one of the most interesting and thoughtful voices in my timeline, and I wanted to say ‘thanks’ for all the time and care you put into it. It’s appreciated by me, and I’m sure many others.

Trail marker on a tree that has been cut, laying beside the trail

“Source code comments”

Travel, Activities in Woods Restricted to Prevent Wildfires

On the loss of the woods news.novascotia.ca/en/2025/08/0...

We are doing a Hackathon! 💻 Together with senior editor @nhcooper123.bsky.social , we'll be discussing and testing a protocol to check whether published data/code is actually reproducible... (1/2)

Banijay Art Welcome to Banijay Art – your home for powerful art shows and compelling stories from the worlds of culture, history, and the human experience. From intimate artist profiles to captivating exploration...

Spent the weekend binge watching old episodes (new to me) of “Portrait Artist of the Year UK” www.youtube.com/@BanijayArt

Really wish I could paint

New from me at TVO on yesterday's decision on bike lanes. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

NYC’s Urban Textscape Analyzing All of the Words Found on NYC Streets

An analysis of every word that’s visible on NYC’s streets (from 18 years of Google Street View Data). “The data is astonishing; it feels like sifting through the city’s source code. For example, here’s all 111,290 matches for ‘pizza’, on a map.” [pudding.cool]

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at vlt technology inc.. | Darcy Clarke We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at vlt technology inc.. based here in Toronto at our HQ. If you love JavaScript & open source this may be right up your alley. Please share...

We're looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our team at @vlt.sh based here in Toronto 🇨🇦 at our HQ. If you love JavaScript & open source this may be right up your alley. Please share if you know anyone who would be a great fit.

www.linkedin.com/posts/darcyc...

#javascript #nodejs #packages

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

@jerthorp.bsky.social thought you might enjoy this!

youtu.be/hCQCP-5g5bo?...

And when you find one, geneticks.ca/about-geneti... is amazing for helping to understand what’s happened. Can’t wait for the Lyme vaccine…

“Project Hail Mary” was a fun read

My fav place!

Jason ✨👾SaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

Got Web Push Notifications working for a PWA on iOS, which was something I never thought I'd be able to write. However, in so doing I also learned that Apple doesn't support the `image` property, so it's text-only.

Maybe in another 5 years. So much needless pain making web stuff work on iOS.

From the OpenAI community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the OpenAI community

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I...

Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

lol, if I include "Canada" in my system prompt, Gemini Pro sprinkles in some "eh?" to make me feel at home.

My god look at Canada

I have always loved the Tour de France

In other news, computer science applications were down about 27% Y-o-Y in Ontario univerities this spring.

Great article about Wasm at 10:

“In these 10 years, we have seen claims that WebAssembly will replace JavaScript, Docker, Linux, and several minor deities”

“Wasm works well where isolation is needed between different program parts written by different people”

queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?i...

Extract from the Australian Financial Review article: “The junior solicitor used Google Scholar to do the citations for a schedule to the firm’s application because they did not have access to physical or electronic copies of the real documents that were in the firm’s office. The junior solicitor had used Google Scholar during their university studies but had not previously encountered this problem. When FNLRS identified the issue, the junior solicitor attempted to replicate the result, but Google Scholar produced different results each time. Murphy concluded “it seems likely that the false document citations arose through generative AI, possibly associated with Google Scholar. The capacity of generative AI to ‘fabricate’ or ‘hallucinate’ information is now widely appreciated.” Murphy ordered Massar Briggs Law to personally pay the costs of the respondents, primarily the state of Victoria, on an indemnity basis but the exact amount is not specified in the ruling. Murphy did not deem the matter appropriate to refer to the Victorian Legal Services Board. The justice found the “use of AI in the preparation of two court documents has given rise to cost, inconvenience and delay to the parties and has compromised the effectiveness of the administration of justice””

Apparently Google Scholar might be using GenAI.. according to this Australian Federal Court decision 🤔

www.afr.com/companies/pr...

Spent my whole career trying to explain to people how English Lit + CS was a natural fit…not any more!

Spent a bunch of time playing with the different FLUX.1 Kontext models and apps on Renovate

replicate.com/black-forest...
replicate.com/flux-kontext...

Such a mix of "this is amazing" and classic uncanney-valley.

You know this is going to get nailed at some point, but I don't think that's today

A project is not really done until there is a blog post that covers it taras.glek.net/posts/stupid...

OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.

This is clever george.mand.is/2025/06/open...

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