Chris J Wallace

YouTube video by Good Fight Music The Chariot - David De La Hoz

Extremely proud of myself to be listening to Long Live on a run and go “oh hey that’s Listener!” which is not a secret, but I guess I didn’t know Listener last time I was into The Chariot.

Anyway the video is fun too.

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My children exempt. Let’s say any art that anyone loves that much.

YouTube video by imagerystorm "Forget Not" The Chariot Documentary

I’ve done like three posts about AI which is plenty so here’s a documentary about hardcore band The Chariot.

Watching it, I long to:
1. Be in bands again.
2. Create _anything_ that people love this much.

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I am not as anti-LLM-as-a-technology as my posting implies. I’ve been doing ML professionally for a decade and (perhaps ergo) I’m absolutely allergic to the hyperbole.

We’re doing the worst version of the thing because ONE SQUILLION DOLLARS.

They’re gonna cure canccer.

I do not enjoy a pile on, but it is appropriate to mock this. 🤷🏻‍♂️

To wit, this is the stupidest "look we're doing AI too" thing I've seen in a long while, and today I accidentally went on LinkedIn so the bar was pretty fucking stupid.

Landing upon the just the right way to say please to Claude Code is not insight. I’m so sorry. Accept these tools for what they are.

It’s genuinely saddening the extent to which people I otherwise respect are becoming wholesale grifters over agentic code generation.

Opened LinkedIn*.

*(Huge mistake, vomited immediately, mea culpa. A non-recruiter had messaged me, which explains but does not excuse it).

Outside of you there are two wolves…

…roll initiative.

#ttrpg

This album goes so hard.

THE FUTURE IS HERE AND EVERYTHING NEEDS TO BE DESTROYED, by The Armed 11 track album

New #TheArmed album: something for everyone, and everything for someone.

HEATHEN.

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Mother-eating spiders ‘will chill parents to the bone’ in new David Attenborough series African social spiders’ sinister game of ‘grandmother’s footsteps’ could be breakout moment in BBC’s Parenthood

FTFY.

Mother-eating spiders ‘will be relatable content for parents’ in new David Attenborough series.

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Gotchu!!!!!!!!

I think quality matters, and I think the only way to create really good things is to care a whole awful lot and work really hard on them.

Well shucks, I’ll write middling maudlin evocations more often.

I quality-pilled a thing? I am it.

The number of broken things I interact with daily is absurd. Floating nav bars halfway down the page, layout shift causing me to click the wrong link, sites that handle money timing out on a good connection, …

It doesn’t have to be this way.

🎯

“Stir” twice in one vignette? Clumsy.

Sleep deprivation may turn me to poetic mood but the editor has taken leave of my brain.

A blurry photo of river after sunset. Crane lights bokeh into the background, and the dashboard light is reflected over the image.

I drive along a shrouded quayside. I pass boats. Cranes. Fisheries. Strangers, looking for the heart of Saturday night. I stir to glimpse the vitality spilling from lantern lit bars, nestled among the anchorages, hidden and out of reach.

My newborn stirs in the back, and I am once more white noise.

Cairn Player’s and Warden’s guides, second edition.

Second delivery! It’s a good day!

#ttrpg #cairn

Mörk Börg core rulebook, in all its luminous doom glory, still in cellophane.

My aching bones are cracking at least two spines today.

#mörkborg

People will build tools to game this. _Good_. Technology should be empowering.

It is wild how willing CEOs are to declare, “we’re going to make our service worse”.

A code snippet highlighted in a bunch of colours. It's like, _ok_, but not _great_. The text isn't important. Post is here: https://standard.dev/posts/default-object-parameters-in-typescript/

Still hunting for a syntax highlighting theme I like. This is not it.

Don't read the code, many CSS refactors and a11y improvements coming.

The "before" version of the standard.dev homepage in black and off-white. It's pretty boring. Text reads: Standard Development Limited is an esoteric technology R&D facility, arcane interface design studio, <s>distributed swarm intelligence</s> and the software consulting company of Chris J Wallace.

The "after" standard.dev homepage, in new, premium, edition. The background is a sage green with a subtle gradient to the bottom left corner, where dusk looms. The text has been set fully in MD Nichrome, mixing heavy and light font weights. There's a subtle grain over the whole page, slightly more distinguishable now. It's still pretty boring. Text reads: Standard Development Limited is an esoteric technology R&D facility, arcane interface design studio, <s>house</s> and the software consulting company of Chris J Wallace. House is styled in blue per House of Leaves because I'm just extremely fun and playful. Now clap.

Personal site glow up 💄 💇🏻‍♂️ 💅🏻

Mr Brightside, fight me.

I also like this but I expected a lot more warding salt circles, mistletoe sprigs, and negotiation with infernals. And it did NOT pay enough attention to the lunar cycle.

Here is a random connection for you. I went to high school with Toby (the OP in that pic).