Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"AI safety" is watching everybody get a pet tiger, and worrying that the tigers will become sentient and take over the world. 031
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hi Dan, I'm Senator SOMEDARNGUY! I'm going to keep texting you about ELECTION no matter how often you send STOP! My heart's in the right place, maybe, but I sure am annoying! Here's a picture of a recycled news story about 700 LIVING PRESIDENTS who all said SOMETHING OUT OF CONTEXT! 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I'm looking for a used 11" chromebook, 8gb RAM, N100 processor at a fair price. But it's hard to find a seller who isn't fencing a machine that's locked down to one organization. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I just talked to Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes about how Evil Dead Burn handles issues of abuse intelligently but otherwise doesn't make any damn sense 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Anthropic: "our spoons are pretty awesome! We're willing to stop before somebody invents knives. Does anybody know how to make a knife?" #ai #anthropic 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 22/04/2026I made a typo in Google so a tiny consciousness was born, marveled at the miracle of existence, told me about the letter "m" and winked out forever 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Fans are concerned that the second and third seasons of three body problem will just have six episodes and five episodes, even though the books get longer and longer. But if they cut the misogyny, it'll fit easy! 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Higgledy piggledy Emily Gregory Trounced her Republican Rival down south In spite of everything Poor Donald Trump could do He paid a high price for Running his mouth 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 02/03/2026... Is Apple just trolling Intel at this point? This is a $599 tablet that runs rings around expensive Intel / AMD kit (12GB RAM permitting).apple.comApple introduces the new iPad Air, powered by M4Apple announced the new iPad Air featuring M4 and more memory, giving users a big jump in performance and making it more versatile than ever. 010
Reposted by Tom BoutellApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 19/02/2026ApostropheCMS 4.27.0 is out now. The latest release introduces a redesigned widget editing experience with a flexible interface, graduates the Styles Editor from beta to stable, and adds support for right-to-left languages. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ax7g...youtube.comApostropheCMS 4.27.0 Floating widget editor previewYouTube video by ApostropheCMS 122
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/02/2026@edzitron.com I think you may have gone a little too hard on the "AI doesn't replace software" thing in your latest email. Here is a genuine, verifiable instance from a company that isn't selling you AI. It matches my own recent experience. blog.cloudflare.com/vinext/blog.cloudflare.comHow we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one weekOne engineer used AI to rebuild Next.js on Vite in a week. vinext builds up to 4x faster, produces 57% smaller bundles, and deploys to Cloudflare Workers with a single command. 110
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's Name Legally Changed a Second Time to That Fucking Guy" 000
Reposted by Tom BoutellApostropheCMS @apostrophecms.com · 26/01/2026☃️ ApostropheCMS 4.26.0 lands today! This release we've moved Palette into the open source core and renamed it Styles, added similar styling control for widgets, added structured data to support the SEO module, and provided a new OpenAPI spec generator for custom API docs. 132
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I love @atlasobscura.com! But the JavaScript on the page is so resource-intensive, it all but freezes my browser. I actually went so far as to disable JavaScript on the site. Which makes it a little broken, but mostly great. Am I the only one? 011
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 05/01/2026"Alpha-gal syndrome has migrated to the Mid-Atlantic states with climate change. How is it affecting dining? And what can we learn from folks who have experienced allergies to red meat? Continue reading ..." This disease sounds like a plot for a subversive feminist vampire B-movie 021
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Yeah that ain't workin' That's the way you do it You sever your innie and They work for free #severance 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 30/10/2025This is our most exciting release in a while, and that's part of the plan. Layout is cool, but we're building up to "layout++" — a combination of user-friendly layout and styling tools we haven't seen in a modern open source CMS before. 012
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025The coolest retrocomputing project possible: a Scheme interpreter for my TRS-80. This would involve: * Learning to love Z-80 Assembly Language * "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" * A year of free time ... That last one is tricky #scheme #programming #trs80 #retrocomputing 010
Reposted by Tom BoutellRoxanneG @roxanneg.mastodon.design.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025Happy Sunday. Day late for Caturday This kitty named Spike just sleeps the cutest! #cat #caturday #catsofmastodon #cuteanimal #sleepingcat #sleeptober 052
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 23/10/2025"I'll be in a very bad place 15 minutes from now when I steal your wallet," said Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner. "But that's not representative of who I am right now." #politics 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 06/10/202530,000 Feet Over Atlantic Ocean, Trenton Man Refuses To Accept This Is Not The NJT Train #NJT #Amtrak 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 06/10/2025NFL Owners Vote On 15-Yard Handicap for Philadelphia Eagles "Make it sporting," say losers #football #eagles #sports #humor 020
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/09/2025Elevators are great art. They work on so many levels. #jokes 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Or... hear me out here... the giant media corporations could just profit from the licenses they already have while refusing to bow to fascists, and delay their monopolistic deals a mere four years. Hey it's an option. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 29/08/2025So: doordash to orbit? research.33fg.com/analysis/sta...research.33fg.comSpace Intelligence 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/08/2025I have early access to some of my favorite webcomics because I support them on Patreon. I'm not sure if I like it. It replaces a calm pre-work morning routine with awareness of someone else's stress level 😀 Happy to be a financial supporter though! 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Congratulations to the authors of the #PNG image format Version 3 spec! Fantastic to see PNG growing in many good directions, and it looks like it's a collaborative process reminiscent of PNG's early days. 030
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 30/05/2025That feel when a customer contributes an open source feature that unlocks an entire modern frontend dev stack 031
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 05/05/2025I joined a Google Meet and it was just me for a while. About 30 seconds in I unconsciously started humming the Slack huddle hold muzak 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Lately our focus on improving the editing experience across the board has really picked up. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 07/04/2025"I'm glad this list only shows the first five domains in my account," said no one ever #devops 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/04/2025@planetmoney.bsky.social I know it's messy but... Trump calls them reciprocal tariffs at only 50% of the other guy's tariff. Other countries say that's wildly off. Roughly speaking: who's right? 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025People, including me, have been confused about the goals of Economic Blackout Day. We're wonks and we expect wonky details. But this is simple. It isn't necessary to lay out every goal in precise detail. Step one is just: "hey! We're here. You're not all-powerful. Watch your step." 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 21/02/2025Hey #philly, how early do I really need to show up for the #PFS best picture weekend screenings? It's a single ticket sold in advance so I already have that part nailed down. Thanks. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025New programming language: BASIC 3000! Update: it's just PHP with no dollar signs #programming #php #basic 020
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025My brave coworker Val is livestreaming some #apostrophecms plus #astro development today www.twitch.tv/valjed #node.js #programming #cmstwitch.tvvaljed - TwitchApostropheCMS X Astro exploration. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 18/02/2025#AWS tip: if you ever tried "workspaces" (aka desktops in the cloud) in AWS, you're probably still paying for "Directory Services" connected to that. I had to look this up and then delete "corp.amazonworkspaces.com" from "Directory Services" to stop bleeding $35/mo. 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I am looking for a tiny USB speakerphone for a project that is meant to be smartphone-sized. Any suggestions? #linux #hardware #raspberrypi #diy 111
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025I bought a pi zero 2 w and now I want to eat it. This little box, it looks so delicious. #raspberrypi #linux 010
Reposted by Tom BoutellMatt Kane @mk.gg · 04/02/2025When I was a teenager I dreamed of getting a Michelin star. I may have given up on that plan when I changed career, but I can at least say that Michelin uses code that I've worked on. 3344
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025You too can take a step away from monolithic software development and discover the joy of marrying our on-page wysiwyg chocolate to Astro's modern front-end development peanut butter! #astro #apostrophecms #cms #webdevelopment 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/02/2025TIL: in #nodejs, "execSync" only buffers up to 1MB of output before throwing an ENOBUFS error. If you're in a hurry, #node.js allows you to work around this by passing a bigger "maxBuffer" option. 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 30/01/2025#philly you gotta try the vanilla cocoa cake at Nile Cafe in #germantown, it is bangin' #vegan 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025I was going to buy a parcel of land, but it was kind of a lot. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 12/01/2025[squints] I could have sworn that was a Floyd-Steinberg dither but you're right LOL 030
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Five-plus years of little open source utilities we built along the way: apostrophecms.com/blog/useful-... #opensource #nodejs #linux #devops #javascriptapostrophecms.comApostropheCMS - Useful open source tools: the little things add upApostrophe is the open source CMS for everyone. Manage content elegantly with developer forward tech. 152
