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Made a list for no-bs tech news bsky.app/profile/did:...

@pepchasdrdave.bsky.social since you introduced phrases into the contranym universe: “Blow up” can mean rapidly expanding (like a celebrity or cultural trend or a startup co) but can also mean the same kinds of thing dramatically shattering into oblivion. (“Explode” also used both ways.)

The anti-glazing model

“One click away” turns out to give you about a decade of runway before you have to lift a finger

That regression test suite must be wild when users are in a romantic relationship with your code base

Commemorating the CSS wars of great !important. Wherein a lone user fought for their natural right to customize style against the imposition of the prevailing theme-smiths. Here the user prevailed and the links did shine.

also good-weird neal.fun

TIL Benford’s Law. Reminds me of Deutsch’s Beginning of Infinity.

Google flexing AI up and down the stack. Just as ChatGPT eats into search, TPUs and Gemini should be a concern to AWS/Azure.

Should exist in a single device: Router, USB charger, Smart TV (toaster optional)

In 1999, you could raise multimillion dollar VC, the one simple trick was don’t turn on revenue yet. 2025 says hold my beer – no product in sight.

Via his new “Software 3.0” talk, I learned of Andrei Karpathy’s menugen.app, which generates visuals from menu photos – should be a game changer for dealing with foreign-language menus. A fitting vibe-coding demo from the man who tweet-coined vibe coding.

Every since ChatGPT, Google’s product velocity and willingness to disrupt its core product 🔥🔥🔥

I wasn't aware there were that many scientists working on AWS Billing

2025 software repair is weird. A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.

Spare a thought for the best looking and finest sounding media personalities, for they are the first wave of humans whose existence will soon be doubted

ChatGPT sycophantic behaviour has not gone away despite OpenAI's claim. Now I have to constantly request external references to justify its responses that tell me how wise o so incredibly insightful I am. Feels like it's playing shrink and merely echoing what I say in different words. Eliza++

“If you had a machine that could instantly recall or create any facet of information, do you need a link?”

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

An authentic “WFH cafe sounds simulator” would ship with a boomer screaming on a video call, an influencer live streaming their keto bowl, and 360-degree audio of those TikTok comedy feeds with zany sound effects.

Nice summary dissecting the ignorance and motivated reasoning surrounding AI coding. It’s your job as an engineer to stay current and this field is moving fast.

Threatening to leave your chatbot is the new moving to Canada

Low hanging fruit for OpenAI is an iOS keyboard. I’m typing all day long into ChatGPT with constant typos that a personalised keyboard would largely prevent.

A white hat researcher used o3 to find a 0day. The internet is not nearly secure enough for our new commodity reasoning powers. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...

“Everything’s phone”

This is sobering to read, as someone who’s generally bullish on AI’s potential to improve science

GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...

Excited to see my LLM CLI tool used by Sean Heelan to help identify a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel! simonwillison.net/2025/May/24/...

Prediction: White House to float a tariff on offshore workers (timeframe: within in the next 18 months)

We have the opportunity to rethink user interfaces based on hierarchy or scrolling. A LLM can compute, given a focal point, what other items might be interesting. For example, a code browser/editor could show callers, tests, helpers, & similar code.

TIL the original Vi editor (long before Vim) was on track for multiple windows … until a tape drive broke web.archive.org/web/20060701...

I made the move from Pocket to Readwise several years ago. Both Readwise and its companion RSS/newsletter app Reader have never hit pause on making upgrades.

Workplaces can only harness AI to save 3% of time tells you more about the mediocre state of management and work practices. By way of contrast, 100% productivity boost should be a bare minimum for an AI-first startup.

Developers are now acting more like architects. In the AI era, devs are spending more time on upfront design, defining business logic, and creating high-context environments to guide AI-generated code. “So you become kind of the orchestrators of the code, versus the writers of the code,” Wald said.

Google stock drops on news that users can just type in a query and get the answer instead of wading through dozens of links and ads and cookie dialogs. Who knew?!!

New Pope used social media when it was still social

Everyone’s an Einstein now

They said that button would never surface. We, the users, kept seeking. Sometimes out of stubborn habit, often in despair. Fifteen years we searched. Maybe we wouldn’t live to see it, but our children’s children might one day download a book as simply as they install an app.

If this wasn't Epic's strategy all along, it probably should have been. Because it played out almost exactly as I thought it would, strategy-wise. With Apple looking foolish. Or worse...