Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis? | House of Saud
Is the current state of the US government, and its war on Iran, down to use and abuse of AI?
CommentBox.io - No ads. No Tracking. Just Comments.
I keep thinking I might like to add comments back to my main blog. This might be an affordable (or free) option.
Blogosphere - Frontpage of the indieweb
Kind of a "planet" site for personal blogs in genral. Could be a good place to find stuff to read and follow.
k06a/macpow: Mac Power Monitor
Neat-looking system monitor for macOS
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity
axios got hacked in a pretty major way, which is pretty major in that it gets used all over the place.
No, Copilot for GitHub wasn't advertising
Watching the "Copilot is inserting adverts into PRs!" thing do the rounds was kind of wild, because it obviously wasn't. It obviously was inserting what the team throught were useful tips, and it had been doing it for a wee while.
This comment confirms what I felt was the case there.
open-slopware
A database of software that some feel is "tainted" by AI. Seems to very much come from the "all code touched by AI is slop; no disagreement is allowed". It is, however, an interesting project to follow.
Periodic Table of Elements
Pretty cool periodic table of elements, on the web.
Lzon.ca. A personal blog, by a programmer and IT expert.
Interesting wander through one person's experience of the early days of modern AI.
in praise of BlogMore
Someone said nice things about BlogMore.
GitHub's advice on using personal accouns
It’s a bad idea to have different accounts for work and personal, on GitHub. Even GitHub themselves, in their documentation, suggest using one account for everything.
Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Nobody will pay attention, but this is a good call to calm the fuck down when it comes to going all in on agents.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
An interesting claim from a member of staff that doesn't quite fit what's said elsewhere.
FAQ: Privacy Statement update on Copilot data use for model training (Free/Pro/Pro+) · community · Discussion #188488
GitHub's FAQ on how they're going to start learning off people's interactions with Copilot.
JellyShell
Pretty much an effort to be social like we used to back in the BBS days.
Adults Lose Skills to AI. Children Never Build Them.
Doesn't say what I didn't believe to be the case anyway, but it's worth having to hand. Also something worth guarding against.
TeamPCP Supply Chain Campaign | Attack Timeline & IOCs
So this is... horrible.
TURBO.COM — 39,731 Bytes Deconstructed
I'm not 100% sure the content of this page is totally correct; it would be interesting to work through it and be sure. Interesting idea though.
Also... Turbo Pascal! <3
Places to Telnet
Got to love that BBS feel.
The Brutalist Report
Straight up text headlines, no messing.
PDP 11/34 Emulator
I never used one, but I'm pretty sure I've been in the same room as one (having once worked for a DEC dealership who installed and maintained various PDP machines).
Care: The missing ingredient
Someone saying that giving a shit is what matters when it comes to writing good code. I agree.
The Slow Collapse of MkDocs
Having run into the issue of mkdocs-material sort of spamming about Zensical when you use it, and wondering what the hell is going on, this is some great background on what's going on with MkDocs.
Glama – MCP Hosting Platform
Use this one (not so) weird trick to trick bots to admit to being bots when it comes to doing PRs.
Books for people who are or aspire to manage/lead team(s) of software engineers
If not a list for folk who want to go into software leadership positions, at least a list of books to better understand (and manage) folk who have gone into such leadership positions.
A sufficiently detailed spec is code
In agentic circles I am seeing a degree of cope where folk are saying that good software development was all about the spec all along, and all you need is the spec.
Really though? Really?
English to LinkedIn translation
Translate any English phrase into LinkedIn speak.
Thanks, I hae it.
How I write software with LLMs - Stavros' Stuff
One person's story of how they go about building software with LLMs; from the point of view of someone who has worked out that they don't care about the act or craft of writing code, they only care about the result.
I'm pretty sure I mostly care more about the act and craft of writing code and getting results, but it's interesting to read about this from their perspective.
humans.txt
Fun little thing to drop into the root of a site and reward people for discovering.
I beg you to follow Crocker's Rules, even if you will be rude to me
I don't think I agree, because I don't think it's this simple, but I can respect the idea.