Xander

Do you want your ideas and viewpoints to influence the noosphere or not? 😤

I'm absolutely thrilled to have written this article for @longnow.org. It's about AI and time: how we got here, and what we can do now, when all of the pace layers are disrupted at once by an influx of new minds. longnow.org/ideas/attent...

running any php on a website right now is basically the equivalent of double clicking big_titty_mpreg_charlie_kirk.exe after downloading it from napster and turning off your antivirus

I wrote about the exponential curve of the last 30 months of AI development: www.oneusefulthing.org/p/30-months-... And I asked Opus 5.5 to create the ultimate response to the test I use for all AI image generation models (make a picture of an otter on a plane using wifi), and it made this video.

really not quite sure we are ready for a model that is: 1. this ridiculously cheap to run 2. has effectively zero guardrails around taking advantage of vulnerabilities regardless of scope or outcome 3. is actually pretty darn capable

“The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. ... ‘That is extremely in the ‘this should not be possible’ category,’ Valdorda said.”

Its extremely dangerous cognitive offloading to use ai but its totally fine to get all your information about the world from randos on social media.

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Reading the comments on this post and most of these people should probably decamp for a Mastodon instance somewhere.

It's kinda sad people hacking on atproto invariably elicit disdainful snark from 90% of the Bluesky userbase. Apparently people seriously think that another heaping spoonful of sarcasm will one day consign LLMs to the fate of NFTs.

Software isn't dead, it just smells funny.

Remember when we had awards for websites? Do people still do that? 🤔

Experimenting with web components to craft audio interfaces in the browser. Obviously inspired by earlier versions of Traktor and VSTs I've used over the years. github.com/xsynaptic/so...

Not crazy about job applications that require you to sign up for their product halfway through. Feels like a gratuitous growth hack.

Fun post to chance upon as I close in on that 52 week mark 😬

This is what I've been working on since January. I'm really pleased with what we've built, but most of all I'm proud of the open source community that we've built around it. It grew quicker than I could ever have imagined, and there's no way we could've shipped such a good product without them

Every time I see "[oh-my-zsh] It's time to update!" I'm thinking "hmm, I wonder what sort of supply chain attack is possible through this channel..."

One metric by which I evaluate any social media platform is how much I learn from spending time there, either lurking or interacting.

Any idea how long the X suspension appeal queue might be these days? It's been six weeks since I reactivated an account over there only to be immediately shut down for "inauthentic behavior" 🤔

“Everyone’s afraid the studio doesn’t need the artist anymore, but it’s the artist that doesn’t need the studio” A little edgy for using a living person, moreso on the heels of Paul Schrader’s awful approach, yet it makes its point quite well, & I think that’s the point.

Tired: LLMs as a plagiarism machine 📠 Wired: LLMs as a kipple machine 🖇️

Still on the job hunt and sometimes the process feels like something out of another geological era. Yes, we're still being subjected to leetcode challenges and pre-hooks React bug-hunting! I was prepared for no AI assistance on this last application but no TypeScript in a clunky old IDE was painful.

It's funny how quickly "enshittification" came to mean simply "things getting worse" and not what Cory Doctorow originally meant when he coined the term. I guess that's the enshittification of enshittification?

Bluesky desperately needs a "mute America" feature.

I've really warmed up to Takumi as a Satori replacement. Migration was nearly painless, no more janky CSS subset with unexpected layout quirks, non-Latin character output is way less hassle, it's twice as fast for most of my projects, and it also works nicely in a dynamic environment. Recommended!

Sätteri has reached 2 millions weekly downloads, that's a lot of people trusting me! I'm scared!

I've been logging build duration, page count, and other metrics on one of my @astro.build projects for months now. Out of curiosity I charted the results; Astro 7 and the new Rust-based markdown compiler Sätteri had quite an impact on build times! (Note the log scale.)

Spinning up another Bluesky account specifically for following tech and web dev discourse, sharing what I learn, building in public, and that sorta vibe 🦋