I hope open source can make it through the current wave of LLMs to end up better on the other side
I don't know how to best approach it, but @npmx.dev sure is killing it!
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/i-hope-open-source-can-make
And apparently my POC syndication API has a bug in it, @astro should have been mentioned here!
Tracking different handles on every platform can be a pain when syndicating 😅
I haven't even officially launched https://indiepub.dev yet and I'm already out of date
Great to see Astro v6 come in for a final landing 🚀
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/i-havent-even-officially-launched-indiepub
After 5 months of big refactors, it's here! Environment APIs ready, CSP and queued rendering. Enjoy my features!
OK, not the *main* story of the day... but, the v6 major upgrade guide was a BIG part of Team Docs life for months.
A lot of us worked on it. I hope it works for you when you upgrade! (And if it doesn't... well, that's just an opportunity to contribute yourself!)
docs.astro.build/en/guides/up...
Why would that not be the case if I use my phone for work email, slack, on call support, etc?
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/im-always-surprised-by-companies-expecting (2/2)
I'm always surprised by companies expecting their employees to use personal phones for work.
There are serious intellectual property rights issues you run into using a work computer for personal projects.
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/im-always-surprised-by-companies-expecting (1/2)
Unexpected benefit when an LLM uses the same markdown as your public docs site:
Claude seems to almost always keep docs up to date automatically 🤖
indiepub.dev/docs is powered by @astro.build 's Starlight. With chisel pointed at the same markdown files every new features gets docs right away
What is it about discord that makes it so sticky in the open source community?
I've never liked it being a walled garden, but i also don't know of a better option with any
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/why-is-discord-so-sticky
Looks like I'll be self-hosting a package registry for https://indiepub.dev
That begs the question...how might I self-host an @npmx.dev instance pointed at a custom registry 👀
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/looks-like-ill-be-self-hosting-a
I'm pretty Sam Altman's answer to concerns over the defense contract is that #openai will simply solve alignment and build it right into the #ai model the DoD will use
🌶️ This one's definitely a hot take - that. won't. work.
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/sam-altmans-answer-to-defense-concerns
The future of software development, or the history of online poker
The future of software development is unknown, but the history of online poker has some pretty clear hints...and it doesn't look great.
🔗 https://tonysull.co/articles/the-future-of-software-development
Dibs on a new band name:
Synergistic Tendencies ™️
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/dibs-on-a-new-band-name
(Web)MCP is a waste of time. Just build for humans, ideally with something RESTful, and allow self-discovery and data schemas do the heavy lifting.
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/webmcp-is-a-waste-of-time
Stop building for #llms
Build for humans and understand that, if useful, LLMs will figure out how to read your docs and run `--help`
Your browser already has a full-featured accessibility tree. Use it!
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/webmcp-is-a-really-bad-idea (2/2)
🌶️ WebMCP is a really bad idea
Its not my job to support yet another API surface for LLMs to use, especially not in the frontend
I already try hard to support accessibility specs screen readers and similar
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/webmcp-is-a-really-bad-idea (1/2)
hiding behind the "lawful use" phrase
The executive branch has been given all the authority it needs to redefine what is lawful later... looking at you, Patriot Act
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/make-no-mistake-llm-providers (2/2)
Make no mistake, LLM providers are going to sign the Department of War's blanket "all lawful use" agreement
They'll claim to have gotten a deal preventing mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons, but they're simply
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/make-no-mistake-llm-providers (1/2)
models specifically
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/the-term-ai-is-frustrating (2/2)
It's frustrating that the term "AI" is used so haphazardly while we rarely even define it
Whether you think AI might lead to solving disease and poverty or will destroy humanity, you're likely not really talking about large language
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/the-term-ai-is-frustrating (1/2)
With great power comes great responsibility. And eventually that power would be handed to the likes of Skibidi Toilet.
i never could force myself to finish reading the Game of Thrones series
The Ned Stark storyline was interesting, but what the hell happened to the dragons?!?
Do you really expect me to read 800+ pages before they show up again?
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/game-of-thrones-dragons
The One True Theme
"We felt that it wouldn't actually help anyone for us to stop training AI models,"
Am I reading correctly that Anthropic already can't guarantee their own safety measures are adequate?
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge (2/2)
https://time.com/7380854/exclusive-anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge/
"In 2023, Anthropic committed to never train an AI system unless it could guarantee in advance that the company’s safety measures were adequate."
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/anthropic-drops-flagship-safety-pledge (1/2)
I've been chewing on how ATProto compares to the old IndieWeb POSSE approach
Right now I post to my website and it syndicates to Bluesky and Mastodon. Matching mastodon's API surface wasn't worth the effort, but I wonder if AT collections could bridge the gap more easily 🤔
The next architecture may very well be different, but LLMs will never handle this kind of problem.
Predicting the next word all will NEVER lead to any intelligent decision making. It will lead the next word, recursively until it "decides" its done and breaks the loop.
State of the Union tl;dr;
A house divided.
🔗 https://tonysull.co/notes/state-of-the-union-tldr-a
Oh I've wanted this kind of linting for years! One of this most common reasons I hear why people dislike CSS is how hard it is to know whether a particular style or class is used in the codebase
And I do get it, before tailwind was so common you did end up with append-only stylesheets out of fear
