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I suspect that the public outcry over data centers powered by gas turbines would be far bigger if more people knew what they actually are: jet engines driving a shaft (and then, a generator) instead of pushing an aircraft.
Imagine a 747 at full thrust 24h/day in your neighborhood.
The wild experience of trying to log into Service A on a new device. You pick OAuth Provider B, but youโre not logged in there either, so they email you a link, so you open Email Client C, but to log into Email Client C you need a login code from 2FA App Dโฆ
Authentication has become an Ouroboros ๐
From "Baahubali - The Eternal War - Part 1" (Indian movie, 2027).
Co-produced with French animation studio Alcyde, and several "Arcane" artists.
Directed by Ishan Shukla ("Star Wars Visions" S2, "Schirkoa" Indian-French movie...).
Full trailer >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdUP...
MiniMax M2 is the new "most intelligent" open weights model (according to Artificial Analysis) - the MIT licensed weights are just 230GB and it appears comparable to Sonnet 4, while priced closer to Gemini 2.5 Flash. Notes here, including a new LLM plugin:
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/29/...
So that's DeepSeek, Qwen, Moonshot (Kimi), Z.ai (GLM) and now MiniMax all turning out frontier open weight models in China
The ai-in-china tag on my blog is pretty busy this year! simonwillison.net/tags/ai-in-c...
Sounds pretty similar to @scott.hanselman.com 's classic "Dark Matter Developers" post:
www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-ma...
Wrote down some thoughts on the online vs offline tech discourse and building from first principles:
marvinh.dev/blog/buildin...
I was watching a YouTube video about an obscure piece of hardware and the guy took a detour to cry about how the packaging for a tech product had non-white people on it, even though they couldnโt possibly be the actual audience for the product. I know the south asian founder/creator of the product.
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A tabby cat lying down belly up in a corner. Their arms and legs are straight out and their head is uncomfortably crammed in the corner of a wall
Me after cosplaying as an extrovert
24.10.2025 04:24 โ ๐ 324 ๐ 26 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 3
Not also available on Geoffrey's blog (the original was an essay-length tweet): www.geoffreylitt.com/2025/10/24/c...
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How Cloudflare Uses Racket and Rosette to Verify DNS Changes
Keynote presentation by James Larisch and Suleman Ahmad at (fifteenth RacketCon) October 4-5, 2025 UMass Boston
youtu.be/7Twlh-Opq5E
What caused the AWS outage that felt like it took down half the internet on Monday?
It started with a race condition in DynamoDB's DNS propagation, which ended up setting the dynamod.us-east-1.amazonaws.com DNS to empty.
A deepdive and more details: blog.pragmaticengineer.com/aws-outage-u...
Personally I see it as
Entire computing industry: *increasingly depends on a small number of centralised tech platforms*
Centralised tech platform: *fucks up*
Entire computing industry: "Why would DNS do this to us?"
repeat ad infinitum
At some point in my early 30s I learned not to get into public screaming matches with dickheads. I am this close to unlearning the skill.
24.10.2025 01:25 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Was literally thinking ~2 weeks ago how the era of JavaScript frameworks was so much more fun than what the industry is obsessed with now.
The JS era was democratic, anyone could invent, innovate.
The AI era feels like an oligarchy creating a tragedy of the commons.
more technologists should ask themselves โdoes this need to be solved with an appโ before embarking on Building
24.10.2025 03:34 โ ๐ 98 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 2
a very pretty shader experiment gone wrong (but also right in a way)
I SWEAR I wasn't TRYING to summon the demons of light please you have to understand
19.10.2025 23:34 โ ๐ 375 ๐ 15 ๐ฌ 17 ๐ 0just realized "propaganda" derives from "propagate"
22.10.2025 15:53 โ ๐ 133 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 10 ๐ 0welcome to linux, please pick your starter distro:
- difficult linux
- racism linux
- backdoored linux
- bloat linux
- slop linux
AT&T Long Lines
is one of the most monumental efforts that has zero cultural understanding
Love the fonts
14.10.2025 19:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A screenshot of a website mockup that borrows a little too liberally from henry.codes
Doing v4 of my personal website before I even pushed v3. But THIS TIME I WILL ACTUALLY GET IT OUT.
Currently just stealing all of the inspiration from @strange.website.
"Joining the OpenJS Foundation [โฆ] places Lit alongside other critical projects in the JavaScript ecosystem like Node.js, Electron, and Webpack. It's a recognition of the project's maturity, stability, and importance to the web platform."
lit.dev/blog/2025-10...
AI and Design Systems have been on my mind for quite some time. I decided to write down my thoughts on my ideal scenario for building from designs using AI tools and your existing Design System.
www.tonyward.dev/articles/des...
Watching the web world move on to AI when I can't even get teams to know when to use an aria-label or not or throw in a little more color contrast really just makes me want to melt into the earth. I know I complain about this stuff a lot, but it's pretty devastating to me.
14.10.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 32 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Spent a couple days turning this FPS into an FPS+RPG.
Items now stack up to a max count, with some items (like ammo) automatically being picked up if there is stack space available. Picking up more starts a new stack.
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
dark times described articulately by @baldurbjarnason.com
10.10.2025 20:37 โ ๐ 19 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
Robot from Laputa
Laputa...
#sketch
Good news for transgender people at MIT.
Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.
The latest from reporter S. Baum.
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