working on 4 “characters” who are learning Git for the first time, to explain how Git branches work
trying to figure out if there are any major characters I’m missing (the idea is to give an example of how each of them might use branches, like Emilia might just be running `git push` to back up her thesis)
a talk where you fast-forward to your backup slides at the end and just give those
@chrisamaphone you may like (or not like!) this essay my student presented at oopsla yesterday ... 100% their ideas and work and initiative, totally outside my realm: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3840586.3843748
going to ISSTA (https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2026) tomorrow just for the day since i happen to be in town ... by total coincidence that was my first ever academic conference i attended exacty 20 years ago when i presented my first paper talk (and was scared as 💩 to talk as a masters student in front of everyone). what a different time
October 1, Oct the First be with you
who are these people who fill out super-duper long surveys? there must surely be a ton of responder bias here ... i just got this research survey that is the longest thing i've ever seen, like it was generated by an adversarial LLM to destroy humanity or something, but it seems like a real serious thing
periodic reminder that Wizard Zines has an educational use policy if you want to use them in your university courses! https://wizardzines.com/education/
yes finally got it! my prompt was just saying "operator" over and over again
prompt injection to get to a human operator when calling customer service in 2026
i want to start sending more no subject emails. feels like the ultimate flex
ugh this library wifi blocks ssh?
Today I'm proud to announce the public beta of Reciprocal Reviews, a platform for sustainable peer review by linking publishing to reviewing through review tokens:
Check out our newsletter for background on the launch and next phase.
https://reciprocalreviews.substack.com/p/reciprocal-reviews-public-beta-is
We'll be piloting in ACM Transactions on Computing Education soon.
i still have this CD and case!
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
RE: https://social.coop/@mako/117075915208833741
There's a little more than a day to submit to our @cscw workshop on free/open source and AI. (new deadline is 8/15). Hope to see some of you there!
load-bearing
load-bearing
i hit some weird LLM infinite loop when trying to get to a human when calling for medical appointment
happy star wars day, july the 4th be with you!
same with games too, was annoying when we lost the original floppy disks and CDs so great to have those personal backups!
wow so many of us were so diligent about backing up our purchased music collections in those days and only sharing those CDs with friends who also owned the originals!