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Why does dot prompt you for credentials for e.g. GitHub vs using Oauth?

I do appreciate being able to have a conversation with a LLM about what my forest goblins would use as a flux for glazing pottery fermentation crocks. (wood ash, though it requires a better kiln)

Ended up with a bottle of apple jack somehow so now I’m mixing American trilogies

Classic don’t threaten with a good time.

The most stressful part of leading an engineering team these days is knowing that no matter how many people you have working on security and how good they are, it isn’t enough.

Have the team onsite this week. 3 separate people 3D printed custom fidgets. Though only one of them was in the shape of clickable dumpster fire

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“Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion” by @tkingfisher.com is coming out on Tuesday, which means I need to play Baldur’s Gate sometime between now and then.

My brother turned 45 today. I was trying to think of what advice I have for 45, and the only advice I really have is that the elapsed time between 45 and 50 is measured in weeks if not days.

Blog post: Managers are Catalysts, laughingmeme.org/2026/09/14/m...

The AI alignment question is interesting: if we can align AI with human flourishing than presumably we can also align techbros with human flourishing.

Hanging out at the coffee shop in Hudson Valley eavesdropping on the PE guys fantasizing about being able to retire early to do way more meditation and psychedelics.

Puppy!

NEW | California just reached a world-first solar milestone Over HALF (51%) of electricity generation across the whole month of May came from solar power. Battery storage is the big difference maker, enabling California to push the share of solar generation to this level.

I made coffee today without the grounds … twice. Hoping for a better tomorrow.

Appreciate Ed writing this post on why you can reduce human code review, and grounding it in the history that our code review standard today is weird and new and not grounded in data. www.eqengineered.com/insights/age...

Came in rooting for Spain, but damn Martinez! It’s like he plays for a higher league than the rest of the mere humans.

@simonwillison.net for your recent app, you might find this Wikipedia page of AI tells useful: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

I wonder, if you polled people, how much extra they would pay each year to have their city *not* be covered in thick, choking wildfire smoke for days at a time. I wonder if that might give you more insight into "willingness to pay" vis a vis climate change than asking in the abstract.

Does your mayor offer to babysit so you can have a date night?

I keep hearing folks talk about the loss of flow state with agentic coding, and as a long time exec agentic coding is the highest flow state activity I’ve done in a decade+.

OH: “Also programming is an activity which clearly happens far from God’s light and as such getting a machine to do it isn’t an abomination”

You know it’s hot when the ice cream truck overheats

Reminder that 13 years ago today Google Reader was killed.

Google shutdown Reader 13 years ago today and I’m still mad.

Blog post: Recent blog post by David Bessison LLM and math introduced two concepts useful for thinking about software: canonization and the Overhang. laughingmeme.org/2026/06/30/c...

Strange phenomena being in the Bay Area in nominally liberally coded environment and encountering folks who just assumed that consensus reality was that Mamdani was terrible and that of course I agreed.

Spent the weekend in the Bay Area talking with 100+ technologists, and thinkers about AI — and my takeaway is the primary challenge, limitations and existential risk in the tech is that folks are accepting the ways in its accelerating wealth inequality.

Back at this same event with the same people, 21 years later.

At my sister’s house there are only two rules

@simonwillison.net spotted in the wild

S day! Also Q day

And since I'm posting about AI on main, recent blog post: laughingmeme.org/2026/05/22/t...

A 100 years ago we slipped "engaging tuna blasters" into status reports to see if anyone was reading them. Today Claude tried to add a random DuckDb/parquet dependency to a simple sqlite backed app, and I'm sure it was just checking if I was paying attention.

Inspirational Skeletor means those Master of Universe trailers hit different

Now that someone has built this I can cross this 9 year old todo off my list!

NYC Century ride is returning! nyccentury.org