Airports are special places. So many stories start, end or take place in airports...
Returning from a short trip to Dublin. Last time I was here, it was nearly 30 years ago. Ireland has a special place in my heart.
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I've spent some time in bsky.app and exploring the ATproto ecosystem (atmosphere). I'm impressed by the range of apps that use the protocol in one way or another. And I also bumped into some interesting, like-minded folks who are building stuff there.
I'm thinking of the best way to integrate this blog with ATproto.
I'm @vrypan.bsky.social if you want to connect there.
Debating anti-LLM zealots and toxicity is a huge waste of time and energy. Just wait and they will become irrelevant; they have a short expiration time.
Z80 has turned 50. My Amstrad CPC 128 had a Z80, it was where I learned assembly. I can't help the nostalgia for a time when young me was discovering the beauty of being able to control my computer at the lowest level, to read and write directly from and to the video RAM, to jump around memory addresses. Locomotive BASIC (Amstrad's version of BASIC), and Turbo Pascal (when I booted in CP/M) were nice, but the empowerment of writing code in assembly was a class of its own. Today, I ask AI to write most of my code; we've gone such a long way...
bckt v0.7.5 is out, with lots of performance improvements
that make a huge difference for blogs with a large number of
posts. Get it here or
upgrade with brew upgrade bckt.
SPACEX price bellow IPO opening price.
polyagency: the practice of engaging in or being open to using multiple AI agents concurrently.
Bloatware is not a recent invention but recently, I see so many products "just like X, but with 100 more features". Now that AI agents make it cheap to add features, removing them is the real value.
Testing ActivityPub