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Overheard (OH):
- #GenAI is a force multiplier
- Sorry, did you say "force", or "fools" ?
#JCrete25 #JCrete #JCreteUnconf
Three video shorts about prioritization by me on the @modernswe.bsky.social Modern Software Engineering channel:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRut...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVAG...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=go4r...
ExerC#ising Your Mind
On the blog: my foreword to @stevelove.bsky.social's C# Brain Teasers book
kevlinhenney.medium.com/exercising-y...
This site by @avibagla.com is keeping track of every English word written on Bluesky—and every English word that has yet to appear. Like, until now, hovercrafts.
06.08.2025 19:27 — 👍 79 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 48
ExerC#ising Your Mind
On the blog: my foreword to @stevelove.bsky.social's C# Brain Teasers book
kevlinhenney.medium.com/exercising-y...
Lobby of a cinema where the large screen which is used to show clips and previews has crashed to an error screen.
Spectacular crash in cinema lobby!
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The Brutal Secret To All Prioritization Schemes
My latest video short for the Modern Software Engineering channel @modernswe.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/go4rW...
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The Brutal Secret To All Prioritization Schemes
My latest video short for the Modern Software Engineering channel @modernswe.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/shorts/go4rW...
Great film 👍
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I know people are down on AI, but what if I told you I just discovered an entirely new way to consume the day's news?
03.08.2025 17:39 — 👍 157 🔁 14 💬 12 📌 2
🔬 Real Browser Behavior Modern browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge all follow this exact logic — because they conform to the official CSS standard. If you try this: html Copy Edit <style> #box { color: red; } /* (1, 0, 0) */ .a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k { color: blue; } /* (0, 11, 0) */ </style> <div id="box" class="a b c d e f g h i j k">Hello</div> The result will be blue text, because the rule with 11 classes has higher specificity.
A problem with modern LLMs is that they are so convincingly anthropomorphic now that when they produce wildly incorrect responses like this one, my reaction isn't "oh, I found a bug", it's "you're a lying sack of shit!"... and that level of emotional reaction to a piece of code really isn't healthy.
01.08.2025 10:01 — 👍 33 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 1My month on Instagram:
Ankara · Bristol
instagram.com/kevlin.henney
A chrome crash screen on a train
A @kevlin.bsky.social spotted on the Caltrain
31.07.2025 15:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Infinity will certainly test that ♾️
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Message from the Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringslivs customer support chat reading "undefined has left the conversation".
@kevlin.bsky.social has left the building.
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31.07.2025 10:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0For reference, that place in hell is quite easy to specify: it's to download a manual, report a problem or order a part for each product in a room of infinite products without such details.
31.07.2025 10:14 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's a special place in hell reserved for product designers who choose not to put the product name, model number, etc. in a highly and easily visible location on the exterior of the product.
Doesn't matter if it's a car, a phone or a tumble dryer (yes, Zanussi, I'm looking at you) JFDI.
My month on Instagram:
Ankara · Bristol
instagram.com/kevlin.henney
I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future.
But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.
😯
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slurpee machine with one crashed screen
I'm drinking the Bios Crash slurpee I hope it crashes my bios I hope I blue screen
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A #kevlinhenney on BBC South Today weather bulletin last night, did feel for the poor weather presenter waiting for the 'hourglass' to go away. @kevlin.bsky.social
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A shop front featuring mainly screens displaying a BSoD spread across them al
An entire shopfront going for the Kevlin this morning in Liverpool @kevlin.bsky.social
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Betelgeuse is a binary! Maybe!
A second star has possibly been found orbiting the soon-to-be supernova. It still needs to be confirmed (despite a LOT of breathless articles saying it's real) but if it is it'll have implications for how we study Big B.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-second-s...
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With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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