Matt Hughes 🇨🇦

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If no to ANY of the above: do not advise!

This is a thought provoking, bite sized little piece that boils down to, "don't give feedback on EVERYTHING, because not everything matters! give feedback on things that have impact."

I think it's a *great* exercise for the feedback-giver to think through the impact they want their advice to have.

I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.

Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."

Are you reading in a dark & chilled room this week? or relaxing by the pool with your fave beach reads?⛱️

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So I've found that saying to the robot: "See that last commit? go do that to all the other controllers" is a really good use of the LLM. Assuming you have good test coverage you can use that to keep it on the rails as it goes.

Hillel is a fantastic teacher. I got into TLA+ because of his writings

Got my copy of Logic for Programmers today

It was so good!

YouTube video by Amazon MGM Studios Project Hail Mary - Official Trailer

Oooh Project Hail Mary movie
youtu.be/m08TxIsFTRI?...

I think the approach described seems pretty reasonable, and is worth a read if you are getting started with trying to use LLMs to write production software.

"Most importantly, you'll understand why writing your own tests remains absolutely sacred..."

"When Claude writes tests, it just verifies that the code does what it already does, *not what it should do*"

There are other things it points out you should never let an LLM do, like database migrations.

This article covers some interesting ground on using LLMs (well, it's Claude specific, but generalizes I think) for production software development.

diwank.space/field-notes-...

This makes it much easier to copy links into my notes with usually reasonable titles!

A bookmarklet solves it:
```
javascript:(function(){var o,t=window.location.href,a=document.title;o="[["+t+"]["+a+"]]",navigator.clipboard&&navigator.clipboard.writeText?(window.focus(),navigator.clipboard.writeText(o).catch((function(o){alert("Error: "+o)}))):alert("No Clipboard API!")})();
```

I use org-mode in Emacs for my notes and often have to copy in links to sites requiring authentication. org-cliplink doesn't work so well in that situation, because it loads the page in Emacs to get the title for the link text, and of course can't authenticate.

people ask me how to make an org or an event (Pixelles, Polaris, Kitfox, etc). over time, it's become clear the steps can't be broken down past
1 - decide on a goal
2 - figure out how to reach that goal
3 - find a trusted collaborator
4 - take it slow, it's a marathon

(anecdata to follow in thread)

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This was certainly the feeling i got the last time i agreed to do a survey (which is rare). Refused to continue after it became obvious.

Firefox inactive tabs is my "Read Later" tool of choice

I'm still mad about it but have decided that I'm going to deal with it by buying the cheapest bulbs from now on

One agentic coding tip I'm using is asking the agent to prefix its responses with an emoji to confirm it has read a certain file.

It's good - when I see certain emojis I know for sure that it has certain rules files in context.

Picked this up from Llewellyn Falco at Craft Conf 🧠

You can get one too.

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a great pyrenees opens his mouth to accept a breakfast burrito from his person.

a screenshot of Max’s journey from his GPS collar app. it shows he went 5 miles across 2 hours and took 17,000 steps.

an iphone screenshot with all the notifications from his GPS collars tracking his adventure. he left home at 11:39pm and arrived at the store a little after 2, but waited there until 7:30.

max lays on the floor at his house and looks up at the camera with some side eye. he does not look remotely contrite. maybe just a little sleepy.

This is Max. He snuck out in the middle of the night and walked 5 miles to get a breakfast burrito from a store that gave him one once. They hadn't opened yet when he got there, but Max was found the next morning thanks to his GPS collar patiently waiting outside for his well-earned snack. 14/10

Here's apple doing a better job integrating cloud native linux than linux distros. Again.

I have a thought experiment I like to consider when tech execs say AGI will lead to a golden era of radical abundance as AI solves every human problem.

Imagine if every government, corporation and individual had the genie from Aladdin’s lamp. Would we live in a golden era of radical abundance?

Just finished The Incandescent by @emilytesh.net and really enjoyed it! Definitely worth checking out!

The professional regulator, APEGA, did a professional practice review on the water main break in Calgary. The engineers at the City of Calgary are awesome & they didn't do anything wrong. In the late 60s & early 70s there was bad pipe; in 1974 Calgary bought some of it. www.apega.ca/docs/default...

For any North American folks having FOMO about @localfirstconf.com, there’s a new conference on sync engines as app architecture! SF in November syncconf.dev

GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information

Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...

it feels a little hyperbole to call chatbots the death of ux, but at the same time, it feels like directly interacting, manipulating data will be supplanted by the world's least interesting text adventure game