Richard Gaywood

Tweet from ‘Gregory Mammal-Friend’ (@cat_beltane): “america is good at blasting off its own dick with a shotgun and as a yank i am utterly fascinated by britain's ability to carefully place its dick in a drawer and slowly but firmly push it closed for two years straight” 11/03/2019, 00:21

Well, er… happy seventh anniversary to this tweet, I suppose

Oh, no, I just mean, there's not a lot of hosted services to pick from, I think

I think for video calling you end up looking at self hosted WebRTC pretty quickly, and that's quite gnarly.

I talk to people outside.

That's fair. One might need to wait (or hope...) for another couple of steps of improvement before this becomes useful. I'm a massive nerd and so is almost everyone I know, so I will happily concede I have limited understanding of normal people's usage!

I am wondering about a world where business automation looks like centralised platforms with flexible APIs, and individual users/teams building on top of that to make hyper-custom tooling. They understand their own needs far better than any product manager could.

_padme meme_ and the lost revenue is more than outweighed by higher taxes above $75,000, right?

...right?

"I'm sorry to say this but you're either too stupid to work here or you were in on it"

Historical comparisons can be made to AppleScript, HyperCard, and iOS shortcuts

I have a very rough hypothesis that vibe-coding small plugins on top of a rich, pre-existing app is a very interesting space

Think of writing Excel VBA or Chrome extensions

a non-technical person with a good LLM can get a lot done in 500 lines of code

"it's a joke, not a documentary"

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Pieces of eight (bits)

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banker's dozen, surely?

FFFUUU— it was RIGHT there!

capitalist's dozen

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"i write my code with an llm" can mean anything from "it replaced some of my typing but none of my thinking" right up to "my one-shot prompts push straight to prod"

most swes are cautiously sticking to the lower end of this spectrum

a lot of outraged non-swes don't seem to know there is a spectrum

Gyres don’t widen for free

A rough beast? Slouching toward Jerusalem? In this economy?

watching halt and catch fire, where she effortlessly ascended from a supporting role to a main character through sheer watchability

The McRib is older than ciabatta.

"When I flick this switch, every car parked on the street gets 2 cm closer to my house"

“MAGA’s fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other people” is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision they’ve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.

Lionel Hutz: “THE PEACE PRESIDENT? NO,NEW WARS!”

Our investor class also fundamentally lack the theory of mind required to go “hmm, but what if the other parties to conflict don’t WANT to let Trump end the war.”

anthropic: I have made AI

tech nerds: you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got anxiety

knuth! bloody hell

Holy shit. These people shouldn’t be near sharp cutlery, let alone seats of power.

Mullin: “This is war.”

Raju: “You concede this is war?”

Mullin: “We haven’t declared war.”

Reporter: “You just said it’s a war.”

Mullin: *stammer

"average rpg writer has 3 good ideas a week" factoid actualy just statistical error. average rpg writer has 0 good ideas per d&d edition. Onepagers Howitt, who lives in england & has over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted