Brendan LeFebvre

all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe

Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…

The open web is coming (back) #openweb #opensocial

Wheels down in Vegas for CES! Excited to represent @qt-project.org at their booth this year

Residues: Time, Change, and Uncertainty in Software Architecture. An introduction to Residuality Theory, fusing Software Engineering and Complexity Science to produce new methods for designing software.

Test to see who buys more copies of the book, Twitter or BlueSky

Get the book Residues: Time Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture for only $17 here with the BlueSky coupon:

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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

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it's zine sale time!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF

print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT

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PSA: if you are cooking a frozen turkey - it should be in the fridge now.

A grid of 4 photos each of 1 of the 4 MST3K hosts and their bots. In clockwise order Joel, Mike, Jonah, and Emily. Each in a brightly colored jumpsuit.

Today in 1988 MST3K premiered!

Calling the 9th month “september” is technical debt

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.

So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)

More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

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