G-J van Rooyen

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start

If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional.

One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

RIP Jane Goodall, by all accounts a wonderful woman who loved this Far Side cartoon

With the sad passing of Tom Lehrer, a flashback to the place where I heard one of his songs for the very 1st time more than three decades ago

Maine attraction!

Had a vampire marathon this weekend with my son: Nosferatu (1922), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), Nosferatu (2024). Highly recommended watching order 🧛🏻

Oh nice, I saw your tweet about that Robert Caro passage a couple of weeks ago. I was briefly intrigued and wondered where it came from, but things were a bit too busy to dig deeper.

The Power Broker is now in my library; really looking forward to start dipping into it

have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society

Out of interest, what was your takeaway from the jj experiment? I found it quite difficult to break my git muscle memory on shared work repos

Rereading an old fantasy novel from my youth. The protagonist names are all bouba; the villains outlandishly kiki

I switched to Arch a bit more then a week ago – 1st time with Linux as my main OS in more than a decade. Incredibly impressed by how mature, sleek, and customizable everything has become. And my entire Steam library is playable here now, with better performance than on Windows!

Not switching back.

Website for bank, insurance, airline, or buying tickets of any kind: Did you get that code I sent you

Me: Yeah, here you go

Website: Sweet, you're logged in

Me: Great is it cool if I go to the bathroom

Website: Yeah bro of course

Me: And you're not gonna log me out right

Website: Who is this

Screenshot of the "Gleam" section of the StackOverflow Developer Survey. Both "Worked with" and "Want to work with" are checked.

:fistpump:

Ek steel hierdie en maak dit "net hoed, geen stoet"

A `jj_prompt_info()` zsh function that generates a string with the current minimal commit identifier.

The prompt string I use in my `.zshrc` to just show the current minimal change ID. Since the working copy is always committed, no need to check for any uncommitted changes.

An LLM-generated prompt to give to LLMs. It describes the desired CSV structure, gives key instructions based on prior troubleshooting, and a clear description of the output artefact.

Love using plain chat as a scratchpad where I can back-and-forth with the AI until I get what I need (I've been desperate to turn my bank's old email statements into flexible machine-readable data for DECADES) and then just ask for a prompt that I can use in future or pass along to an agent

The word “login” comes from throwing a log attached to a rope with knots overboard a ship to see how many knots go by over time (see also, knots as speed). You’d then put that info in the “log book.” You’d “log in” on a regular basis. This wasn’t from 1959, it was likely from 1689! Etymology baby!

I think the git workflow bit is worth talking and writing about even more. This is definitely a topic I'll pick up with my team. I love how new tools can unexpectedly level-up old tools – thanks for pointing this one out!

"Speech is a clumsiness and writing an impoverishment," to quote Richard Rhodes somewhat out of context

I'm a huge fan of diagrams to communicate with an LLM. It feels as if the Mermaid syntax is so clear and uncluttered with formatting concerns (it just relates concepts) that it maps more directly to the model's own latent space than its translation into natural language would

This feels right out of Snow Crash. Read the wrong text and you might catch a serious mind-altering (or -destroying) neuro-linguistic virus.

(It's thrilling! Like a new frontier still waiting to be tamed)

I'm unsure why Putin is looking so pissed about this

Building TMT Mirror Visualization with LLM: A Step-by-Step Journey Notes from my Thoughtworks colleagues on AI-assisted software delivery

NEW POST

Even experienced developers fumble around when working with a new platform. Unmesh Joshi shows how using an LLM helped him learn how to use an unfamiliar toolset.

martinfowler.com/articles/exp...

I’ve never had someone take a honk as a conversation starter before but there we are

Guy nearly hit me in traffic, so I honked at him.

Next stop light, he pulls up next to me and rolls down his window.

“You got somethin’ to say to me?!”

“Yeah, I think you’re a shitty driver. That’s what the honk was for.”

Oblivion Remastered looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL. Can still vividly remember the anticipation 20 years ago, and the live reveal brings back all those feels

This court order is literature

An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen