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Santa Cruz beach
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I just read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman, book 1 in the hit DCC LitRPG series. The series is at 8 books so far, will likely finish at around 10, and Peacock recently ordered a TV adaptation produced by Seth MacFarlaneโs studio.
More, review and links โฌ๏ธ in ๐งต
1/3
We bumped into another one of the Hearts in San Francisco statues, this time Downtown on the corner of Market and New Montgomery.
The picture isn't great, so you should check it (and the 99 or so others) out in person if you can!
More on: puf.io/socials/2025-...
One of the phases in Gemini generating a response just now was:
> Eliminating em dashes
I feel like a proud parent. ๐ฅฐ
(I regularly tell LLM tools to not suggest em dashes when I give it an article to review, and I guess the instruction stuck extra well in Gemini by now ๐)
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I apologize to the person who is pulling it from a backup tape for me.
I think this captures the current madness around AI pretty well...
I mean, the LLM based tools are wonderful and all, but seriously... don't forget to also take a few deep breaths folks. ๐ซ
A fascinating chart in GoodReads plots when you read a book vs when it was published.
I love seeing the drops at the bottom of the range.
I just really wish that either GoodReads used a logarithmic scale for the Y axis, or they'd let me exclude The Art of War from it. ๐ฅฐ
๐๐งซ Free Culture covers the history, early-2000s copyright landscape, and potential future of copyright and its impact on culture. Dated in places, but still a great historical snapshot.
My rating: โ โ โ โ โ (4 stars out of 5)
My full review: puf.io/books/free-cu...
\"She'd never mastered the talent for apologizing, but she appreciated it in other people.\"
- Terry Pratchett, Wyrd Sisters
Thoughts?
๐๐ช Just read and reviewed Mr. Kiss and Tell, the second - and so far last - Veronica Mars book. Familiar Mars territory: wealth inequality, crime across class lines, corruption, and Veronicaโs complicated love life.
Rating: 3/5
Full review: puf.io/books/mr.-kis...
I asked Codex to fix a broken daily internet speed test automation it had created, and it updated (extensively) a completely unrelated project we'd worked on a while back.
How are we supposed to trust agents and give them agency if they mix up basic project scope like that? ๐คท๐
","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5shvvsyaq3kfatc3novwud6/post/3mojsq4wmde2q","date_published":"2026-06-18T02:45:44+00:00","author":{"name":"Frank van Puffelen","url":"http://puf.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4df6cf8a2fa4219b0990c579e3f5cffd%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"puf"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-18 02:45","date_timestamp":1781750744,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92332839","content_html":"๐ยฉ๏ธ Lawrence Lessigโs Free Culture shows its age, but its core argument about copyright, creativity, and cultural freedom still lands. A good read for those who care about such things.
My rating: โ โ โ โ โ (4 stars out of 5)
My full review: puf.io/books/free-cu...
A cafe where I had coffee today also had the world cup soccer game on.
During the hydration breaks, the US station showed commercials while the Spanish-speaking station showed the field and replays.
I suddenly understand why FIFA now mandates these breaks in every game. ๐คโฝ๏ธ
","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5shvvsyaq3kfatc3novwud6/post/3moecrlbvas2v","date_published":"2026-06-15T22:16:54+00:00","author":{"name":"Frank van Puffelen","url":"http://puf.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4df6cf8a2fa4219b0990c579e3f5cffd%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"puf"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 22:16","date_timestamp":1781561814,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92234105","content_html":"I just typed Stack Overglow by accident, and now I just want that to exist and wonder what it would be. ๐ค๐๐
","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5shvvsyaq3kfatc3novwud6/post/3modsklxq3n2a","date_published":"2026-06-15T17:26:40+00:00","author":{"name":"Frank van Puffelen","url":"http://puf.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4df6cf8a2fa4219b0990c579e3f5cffd%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"puf"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-15 17:26","date_timestamp":1781544400,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"92171364","content_html":"If you squint carefully, there's apparently a news article hiding somewhere on this page.
Aan het einde van de oorlog (in Dutch only) tells the story of the final 24 hours of a concentration camp near the end of world war 2.
Hearing the same events told from many perspectives gives the story remarkable breadth and depth.
Easy four stars.
๐: puf.io/books/aan-het...
Gemini now has an option to import memory from other agents. ๐
It's a nice start, but what I really want them to do is to synchronize memory automatically, periodically, and between all agents.
Don't tell me to join *your* walled garden.
Instead, make them all interoperate.
Talk to me, fam.
I see more and more companies dropping the uppercase characters at the start of their sentences.
I hope they realize that lowercase sentence openers won't make their startup look like Linear or Vercel.
You can't borrow credibility by dropping caps.
","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5shvvsyaq3kfatc3novwud6/post/3mnx2a4u67q26","date_published":"2026-06-10T15:39:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Frank van Puffelen","url":"http://puf.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4df6cf8a2fa4219b0990c579e3f5cffd%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"puf"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-10 15:39","date_timestamp":1781105962,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91875967","content_html":"If you've ever wondered whether LLMs were trained on your code: yes, probably.
Here's how I found fingerprints of my own answers on Stack Overflow in ChatGPT's output.
","summary":"","url":"https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:r5shvvsyaq3kfatc3novwud6/post/3mnvnqdehnj2v","date_published":"2026-06-10T02:23:07+00:00","author":{"name":"Frank van Puffelen","url":"http://puf.io","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2F4df6cf8a2fa4219b0990c579e3f5cffd%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"puf"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2026-06-10 02:23","date_timestamp":1781058187,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"note":"","syndication":[]}},{"id":"91795619","content_html":"The number of questions posted to Stack Overflow about Firebase seems to follow a middlefinger distribution.
Just finished Aan het einde van de oorlog by Bert Natter.
A fresh take on a deservedly well-covered period of history. The story is told through dozens of perspectives, as events unfold over a single hectic day near the end of World War II.
โ โ โ โ โ
Tooth๏น Nail continues the Mutants๏น Modified book series by putting classic fairy tale characters into a late Victorian steampunk setting.
This time: vampires, gargoyles, and one of Cinderella's evil stepsisters as the protagonist. ๐งโโ๏ธ
Full review: puf.io/books/tooth-a...
๐๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line delivers all the twists and misdirections you'd expect from a Veronica Mars mystery.
Kristen Bell's narration, especially her Mac and Wallace voices, makes the audiobook worth it.
Rating: โ โ โ โ โ
Full review: puf.io/books/the-tho...
> . val.town is an amazing service and has the concept of inbound email โvalsโ. Vals are small chunks of TypeScript/JS attached to an email address that when emailed will run.
\nHow the heck is this part not in the main feature list, while outbound email is?!?
\nEmail is the original queueing system, and it still scales very well.
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