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@mandaris Never heard of this form on solicitation. I assume the idea is that when you get the offer you refer them to this person, right?

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Oof! It’s been quite the month. Just came off an 11 day work week, plus a double-barrel cold and Covid infection. Fortunately the weekend is here, so recovery can begin immediately.

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@lmika That said, I did apologise to Claude today when I interrupted it’s work while trying to adjust permissions.

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🔗 Platformer News: The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot:

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Being polite to a large language model can feel strange or even silly — roughly equivalent to thanking a toaster. And yet a recent paper from Anthropic lends scientific weight to the theory that chatbots work better when you’re nice to them.

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Looks like in this brave new world, we’ll all be saying thank-you to our doors. 😀

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🔗 Bubbles

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This is interesting: a community-ranked front page for independent blogs a.la. Hacker News (I think). I have my waries: I hope the voter pool is large enough to allow for a variety of topics and opinions. But I’ve already found some interesting stuff there, so could be promising.

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Interesting behaviour I’ve started to notice in myself when browsing repositories of coding agent skills: I now question whether a given Markdown file is intended for human readers or for agents. Use to be easy: .md are for you to read, source files are for machines. You can’t rely on this anymore.

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Closed a credit card account a few months back. Thought I had it all balanced but it turns out it was closed with a credit, a few dollars I can’t get because the account’s no longer accessible. But I still get a monthly paper statement reminding me of this fact. Not sure how I can stop them now.

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Two episodes away from finishing A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. At the big battle scene, that I just can’t commit myself to watch. 😐 Not ready to call it a “did not finish” though. I may get back to it eventually.

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🔗 Birchtree: Where did the MP3s come from?

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Not to make everything a comparison to what we’re living through now, but I do think that it’s notable that one of the most nostalgic, good-vibes products of many of our youths was fundamentally built on stealing from artists.

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Seems to me that the nostalgia comes from having media that you “own.” Maybe not in a purely legal sense, but certainly from a technical one. To be able to manipulate media as plain files on a file system, that you can move and play anywhere, is something that’s been lost with the move to streaming.

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The good news is that it’s still...

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It’s quite amusing seeing Markdown used in yet another domain that previously had to make do with ancient XML-based standards. Markdown is truly eating the world.

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🔗 Simon Willison: Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS

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Google released Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS today, a new text-to-speech model that can be directed using prompts.

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Oof! This looks like a pretty good TTS system. The example Simon gave was quite convincing. I had a play myself using Simon’s online tools, giving the model this prompt:

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Say dynamically: “[surprised]Wow, impressive! [neutral] Although I do wonder if this is worth the two cents I paid. Would be nice if I chose the right word to say. [mocking] Impression? [laugh] So cute!”

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(Some context, I wrote “impression” instead of “impressive” in my first test).

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Here’s...

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It’s been 21 months since I moved away from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. So far, no regrets. I am considering a smaller setup, just to keep the bill down a little (not that it’s expenseive, around €20.00 /month). And while I do have occasional wistful looks at the integration GitHub enjoys with...

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@alexandra That’s great news! Congratulations.

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This week’s earworm: an arrangement of Svalbard Theme, from Orion’s Belt by Anders Enger Jensen. 🎵

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@danielpunkass Yeah, this is how I mainly use these agents. It builds the tools for me to do the thing. It doesn’t do the thing itself.

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The grammar checker in my IDE is complaining about a missing article? My comment can’t be “if slice is empty,” it has to be “if the slice is empty?” Has the IDE ever worked with someone who writes code? 😛

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@collin You guys looking for Go developers? 😀

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Free idea for an online game. You’re given 60 seconds to read a post. While you’re reading, ads causes the page to reflow, video ads fly in covering the prose, and you need to do your best to dismiss them or deal with them. Then, at the end, the page blanks and you need to answer a comprehension question...

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Ultimate issue with such posts is that their purpose of existence changes over time. You make a post about seeing someone mentioning a tool, about you using that tool, and your opinions of it. And because’s in the moment, you don’t write about the tool itself. Why would you? You know what the tool does. The...

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Speaking about being disorganised, it took me forever to find the post I made a while back about a tool used for making animation. Didn’t find it in search, and ChatGPT was not help either. Eventually found it by searching for “.gif” in Micro.blog, as I knew the post had a Gif animation.

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Turns out the post...

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@netbacker.bsky.social Ooh, that’s an interesting use case. Might try it on a clone of my vault.

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Another useful use of Claude Code, especially for us Obsidian users that can’t keep their notes in order. Launch it in your Obsidian vault and ask it “what was I thinking when I made this paricular decision?” 😀

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@patrickrhone Keep your English Eyes on the road. 😉

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I wonder if Zuck would be okay with staff using an LLM to interact with Meta. 😏

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TIL that moon towers, a thing I saw in an episode of Rick and Morty that I thought was completely fictional, are actually a real thing, or at least were. I guess Rick and Morty live in Austin, Texas. 😏

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@jason They’re everywhere around here.

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@vincent Congratulations!

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Kind of validating to see coding agents having just as much trouble with code generators for gRPC schemas as I do (it’s means these gRPC tools kinda suck).

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@lmika Anyway, congratulations to the people of Hungary. Hope the transition of power goes smoothly. 🇭🇺

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Bit sad that it’s come to the point that news of someone conceding their defeat in an election is worthy of the exclamation, “wow, really?”

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@Miraz Yeah! Stepping away from a problem, even for a few minutes, is hugely underrated.

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@hotdogsladies.bsky.social You absolutely should care about the day you got into Bob Mortimer. He’s an amazing comic. I really like his work.

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This is why I think the whole crunch culture is fucking stupid. People need rest. Without it, you spend more time doing things badly, because the tunnel vision that comes from working 10’s of hours straight means you’re not open to the possibility that the problem might be elsewhere.

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Whoever said that a good night sleep is all that’s needed to solve a problem is absolutely right. Was facing a problem last evening, decided to call it a day, took a look at it this morning, and fixed it. Wasn’t even that good a sleep.

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@lukebouch Hmm, there may have been a small boost, but nothing really noticable. It’s hard to say based on my travel patterns. Being quite close to public transport, I, and probably most people around me, would probably be using it already to get into the city. It’s nice not to pay, but we would’ve been paying for it already so the incentive to switch isn’t there. It’ll be those that don’t have great access to public transport where the benefits of this would go the furthest; but they’re not close to public transport, so taking advantage of it would be difficult.

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@jtr Yeah, I wouldn’t say these barriers are the most effective deterrent to fare evaders. I’ve seen plenty of people jump them at my station, even in the presence of PTV staff.

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@lukebouch Oh, it’s just for this month of April. The state government made public transport completely free to encourage people to use it and save petrol.

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The month of free public transport has introduced an interesting problem. A completely open barrier does not provide a way to force people in a particular direction. So PTV staff have to make do with alternatives for controlling flow, like directing people manually, or paper signs like these.

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When you deploy your service to the wrong environment, Dev instead of Test, you know it’s time to call it a day. Just be glad I didn’t accidently deploy to Prod. 😬

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@mandaris Yeah, probably an example of such an assumption is, in terms of a hammers, “see the claw on the end? That’s used to drive the nail in.”

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Now that coding agents can produce code in reasonably working order, the real source of problems will come from the human’s miss-understanding of how the code should work. If the human has some bad assumptions, and conveys that information to the agent, then things could quickly get quite messy.

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@JohnPhilpin Yeah, maybe niche is not the correct word here. I took the point to mean applying self-imposed restrictions on what you choose to a single topic. Simon Willison posting about Kakapos is a good example, considering that he also covers AI, Python, quotes, tools, etc. If one were to categorise the whole as a single topic, then yes, I would agree that that is niche.

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@JohnPhilpin Ah, touché. I suppose as long as you can sustain writing about a particular topic, regardless of how niche it is (depending on how you define niche), then it’ll work out.

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@manton Nice video. Not sure if you ever watched the TGV cab-ride videos on YouTube. There’s something mesmerising about them.

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@jarrod It’s actually surprisingly hard to get this information from Google Photos. The best it could tell me is that I’m at 10,000+ photos (which includes videos). That’s probably about right.

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@jayeless Really? Not one? That’s interesting to know. And yeah, I have heard of a few crossings that have been removed simply by closing the road. Not sure that was feasible where this crossing is, given how busy the road is and the distance between the alternatives. The next crossing in both directions are in separate suburbs.

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@jarrod Hmm, that could explain the occasional crashes I saw with my home server Mac Mini. I had the schedule a weekly reboot to avoid that from happening.

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@TheRealChadwick Yeah, I’ve never been a great fan of how various services deal with dot-points with code blocks. I wonder if it’s the need to support a Markdown-like typing experience (dot-points with code blocks don’t work great in Markdown either).

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@lmika No spoilers, but I thought @gruber’s answer to this question was a good one.

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@manton Looks amazing.

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