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mattgemmell@mastodon.scot 10 days ago

This is the most helpfully packaged box of screws I've ever seen, by a large margin. I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate whomever was responsible for such a triumph of utility and empathy.

Box of screws, clearly showing dimensions in metric and imperial, contents count, 1:1 scale of size, materials, appropriate driver bit, and suitable drills bit types and sizes, and wall plug size range, for each type of surface.
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Troggie@mendeddrum.org 13 days ago

Forgot to post these games I found in IKEA the other day.

A stack of video game boxes on a shelf with IKEA related versions as titles: PLATSA GO LEAGUE OF LAGKAPTEN CALL OF KALLAX WORLD OF MICKE SUPER MALM LEGEND OF BESTÅ SMASTAD Man FEKET ROCKET LACK BLÀHAJ Odyssey IVAR Infinate BILLY VS BILDS 2More IKEA related game titles: IKEA MODERN WARDROBE THE LACK OF US FIKA 24 RORTnite PAXMAN

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Russell Davies 19 days ago

Elevator

Wonderful talk from James. Grist for this mill.

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Simon Willison's Weblog: Blogmarks 26 days ago

Will the future of software development run on vibes?

Will the future of software development run on vibes?

I got a few quotes in this piece by Benj Edwards about vibe coding, the term Andrej Karpathy coined for when you prompt an LLM to write code, accept all changes and keep feeding it prompts and error messages and see what...
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phae@status.fberriman.com 1 month ago

Level up.

Photo of my new ikebana card stating I'm now a 1st class instructor
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Simon Willison's Weblog 1 month ago

Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

Building a SNAP LLM eval: part 1

Dave Guarino (previously) has been exploring using LLM-driven systems to help people apply for SNAP, the US Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (aka food stamps).

This is a domain which existing models know some things about, but which is...

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Simon Willison's Weblog 2 months ago

Quoting Laurie Voss

Is what you're doing taking a large amount of text and asking the LLM to convert it into a smaller amount of text? Then it's probably going to be great at it. If you're asking it to convert into a roughly equal amount of text it will be so-so. If you're asking it to create...

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undermanager@mastodon.social 1 month ago

I would see the hell out of The Golden Age of the Mug

Screengrab describing an exhibition at the V&A about ‘the golden age of the mug…’
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thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social 1 month ago

I hope this email finds you first, they won’t be able to complete the mission, right?

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panic@panic.com 2 months ago

🦠 We program a lot of things in this office but none quite as frustrating as our new sinks. yes, sinks.

the sink settings (!) are set with an infrared remote, which you have to place in front of the faucet IR sensor — virtually guaranteeing it immediately gets drenched in a spray of water. anywayyyy

A hand holding a remote control is activating a faucet, with water flowing into a sink below. The faucet has a sleek, modern design. The remote is being soaked.
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Phil Gyford’s website: Everything 2 months ago

[Link] Packaging a python library | ionel's codelog

Including benefits of an src layout, and lots of example configs/scripts.

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thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social 2 months ago

I hope this email finds you before Julian or one of his men spots you.

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philgyford@mastodon.social 2 months ago

STOP DOING DEV OPS ON PERSONAL SITES • PERSONAL WEBSITES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN CLOUDS • YEARS OF BLOGGING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for zero-downtime CI/CD PIPELINES • Wanted to put your website on the net ? We had a tool for that: It was called "FTP" • "Yes please orchestrate my deployment. Please provision horizontal scaling" - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what DevOps Engineers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the homepages & fan sites we built for them (This is REAL Ops, done by REAL Engineers) [Three images of network diagrams] "Hello I would like to containerize the application layer please" They have played us for absolute fools
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NSHipster 3 months ago

op run

.env files. If you’ve worked on a web application, you’ve probably seen one.

While they certainly get the job done, .env files have shortcomings that can create friction in development workflows.

We’ve touched on .env files in past articles about xcconfig files and secret...

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Simon Willison's Weblog 3 months ago

Finally, a replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

Finally, a replacement for BERT: Introducing ModernBERT

BERT was an early language model released by Google in October 2018. Unlike modern LLMs it wasn't designed for generating text. BERT was trained for masked token prediction and was generally applied to problems like Named...
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joel@monkeysthumb.co.uk 2 months ago

I am pleased with the recent switch I made to ghostty (ghostty.org/), as my terminal emulator. It just works.

The trigger for changing was that macOS Terminal.app still doesn't support true color, and this is required for most of the Helix editor themes.

An added bonus of switching is that now I can manage my terminal set up with a config file (rather than a set of preference panes).

Thanks to @mitchellh and everyone else who has contributed to ghostty's development.

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neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk 2 months ago

If you become aware of sites or services which, state explicitly that, due to the UK's Online Safety Act 2023 they are either going to shut down or attempt to geo-block UK users, please can you let me know?

It might be interesting to keep an "in memoriam" page, even if it is never going to be complete.

onlinesafetyact.co.uk/in_memor

#OnlineSafetyAct

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russss@chaos.social 2 months ago

@ireneista @mcc it's my strong and continuing opinion that national borders don't belong in OpenStreetMap.

One of the key tenets of OSM data is that it should be surveyable on the ground, and borders surprisingly often aren't.

(...also I'm an anarchist)

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thisemailfindsyou@mastodon.social 2 months ago

I hope this email finds you with an extraordinary amount of energy.

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adrianhon@mastodon.social 3 months ago

Lucy Prebble (Succession writer & exec producer) talked about this recently, "doing shows that feel like having a bath—where you just want to be in that environment for a long time," like watching The Beatles potter around in Peter Jackson's documentary. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03

She said, “Over the holidays, I was with my family and my nephews and nieces, and, like everybody, they now watch everything with the subtitles on—which I would never have predicted.” She realized that her relatives preferred to have more information available onscreen, to insure that they weren’t missing anything if their attention was divided. Prebble went on, “Like a wanker, I’m spending hours and hours on my stuff, carefully calibrating an actor’s performance in the edit, and they’re just watching it with subtitles anyway!” She observed this not in a spirit of curmudgeonly nostalgia but with an open, interested curiosity. “I’m thinking that now there might be a market for television or drama that’s the opposite of the grabby, ‘Something’s happening all the time, don’t look away!’ kind of thing—that Netflixy thing,” she said. She cited the example of “The Beatles: Get Back,” the Peter Jackson documentary about the 1969 recording of “Let It Be.” Watching that was more like listening to a chatty podcast: “You could wander away and come back, because there were lots of scenes of these incredible geniuses creating in a room together, but they were also being, like, ‘Shall we have some tea?’ ” It suggested to Prebble that she might want to experiment with “doing shows that feel like having a bath—where you just want to be in that environment for a long time.”
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