Bike chain trouble on the way to work

See also: business software https://whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/please-i-beg-of-you-do-not-use-ai-in-your-business-communications/

"reading this felt like seeing beloved grandparent start talking about how 5G is a CIA bioweapon and how reptilians control the world." 🤣

🤮 this is not what I wanted to be reading for breakfast just before going to work with the LLM operators. At least there is some sanity in the comments

https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/an-inconvenient-truth-about-ai/

Read a funny post that spent a few paragraphs talking about the problems of proprietary software and why open source is the way and then segued into to find out how to make this better, buy our book! And I don't think they were being deliberately ironic.

guy has a trillion dollars, 0 friends, and has never landed a joke. I know a pact with the devil when I see one.

Oh yes, the brave new world:

https://github.com/pallets/click/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+ai+spam

Honestly, at this point I'm starting to consider whether I should be filing bug reports at all, given that every one of them is likely to trigger a flood of LLM junk.

#NoAI #NoLLM

Re: https://mastodon.social/@infrastory/116636194889810356

Meanwhile, the UK looks at what Japan did with bullet trains and...

Turns out, no, the thermal flask that supports carbonated drinks will not survive a shakey hour cycle across town in my backpack. By pure luck it was lying on my waterproof coat though, which meant my lunch/bag was largely unsoaked.

✋ GitHub Pro status
👉 Donates to Forgejo

Spending far too much time this evening figuring out how to get my 300 yen for returning a Sodastream cylinder (switching to Drinkmate). Printed out the form at conbini, scrawled my details on it, ordered a collection from Sagawa.

LinkedIn: As my mentor always said. Work like a dog, sleep like a cat. I have deep gratitude in receiving this wisdom.

Mastodon: As my cat says. Work like a cat, sleep like a cat, just be a cat. Scratch your boss. Walk around the office screaming. Take a dump just outside of the bathroom. Gratitude is for wimps. PET ME!

Japanese honey bee on a Japanese hydrangea.

I've often learned to write better code by working with constrained machines like microcontrollers and I credit my ability to write efficient programs in the first place to my experience working with the constrained resources of 1980's microcomputers. But I haven't really experienced such an immediate and direct result from such things like I did yesterday switching back-and-forth between #golang and #zig

https://jasongullickson.com/innovation-through-constraint.html

Lovely clear night tonight and nobody about

Faster horses, etc.

But consider that cars are far too overused. They're bad for the people using them, despite the perceived convenience, and worse they are bad for the other people who have to deal with all the car users.

The same applies to AI I think. Most of the time, it's probably not necessary. Occasionally, fine. But most people are going to completely overuse it to the detriment of everyone.

Did the equivalent of sending a Japanese business email addressed to Mr. Adam yesterday... twice. It's cute when i get them, but I should know better than to make that mistake myself. Was replying from phone while busy with work, is my excuse.

Michael Gove on HIGNFY, this better be a train wreck 👀

Opened a large sliding window to let a sparrow stuck in the coworking space out today, to which it duly availed and let out a little chirp as it flew away.

Not sure it understood I was helping it more just took advantage of the situation.

TIL mudguard doesn't work