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 · 12/09/2026But how will we power our Holly Hobbie Easy-Bake Ovens now? Won't someone please think of the ovens? 001
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 · 10/07/2026Until recently he also didn't get involved in land wars in Asia! 010
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 · 16/06/2026(See punchline! I'd link it but he's stuck rebuilding his site, so no permalink pages for comics atm) 010
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 · 01/06/2026Interesting. When I heard about this, my first thought was that it might be subconsciously similar to being reluctant to date a man who has a child. But the dog thing totally blows that out of the water. Dogs are way more of a child like project than cats. 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 · 13/04/2026Clothing swap? Disheveled and all upside down in the cabin? 000
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 · 06/04/2026(silent prayer of thanks that someone else splained it so I can resist the urge) 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 01/04/2026I was handed this book as a racy read. I wound up finishing it for the world building. I'm a sucker for alternate history and I thought the alternate religious history was gutsy subject matter. 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Not that there isn't some hilariously underbaked writing in the Silmarillion. "And he was a vampire." 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Apparently inventing movies and shows out of the endnotes of Lord of the Rings and taking it on the chin when the writing is inferior is cheaper than paying them their share then negotiating for the rights to the Silmarillion 020
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Nine times out of 10, the accounting trick is giving people a cut of the net, which somehow is always a loss. Said that off the top of my head, let's Google: yep, that's what happened 081
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 · 28/02/2026There really are important, verifiable things going on that are very "replace X with Y quickly & well" shaped. I mean I know you were mostly going after the very dumb idea of companies replacing every SaaS they use with AI. It still makes sense to focus on your competencies. 010
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 · 27/02/2026An HTTP server in raw sockets... that tracks with the study I read this morning showing that Claude tends to recommend "from scratch" development first and foremost, but oh and by the way here are the frameworks it does recommend when it doesn't just throw them all out 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026"Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's Name Legally Changed a Second Time to That Fucking Guy" 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 20/02/2026I'm just worried he can do the appeal to the middle thing while simultaneously being a creepy ass card carrying Curtis Yarvin loving royalist. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I dunno. He's said and done many unpleasant things. But this is also true: I've heard him on podcasts without knowing it was him at first, and thought, "that guy is making his case really well, great NPR voice." Then really tuned in and said ohhhhh that's not good 120
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Such a story re: the 1820 royal divorce controversy! Thank you for sending me to Wikipedia. Would be curious to see more of the graphic satire now that I'm read in 010
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 · 19/01/2026There's no ship like a no-ship, like no-ship that I know 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 16/01/2026I'm concerned about the Ed Zitron bubble in which only the early adopters will get their $10 worth before the AI bubble pops 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Point of information: I live in Philadelphia. The statement is real and I agree with it — but the sheriff does not police the streets. She handles sheriff sales and serves warrants. Here is a statement on it from the Police Commissioner. Very different position www.facebook.com/phillypolice...facebook.comPhiladelphia Police DepartmentA Statement from Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin J. Bethel 010
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 · 02/01/2026I don't know, the Obamas were pretty fetching. So were the Kennedys. But they are right up there in that rarefied company. 010
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 · 03/12/2025It sounds like, at least officially, this is going to be a thing where flock can ask individual users' permission to share videos to "help with investigations." While this does sound like opt-in, I get that their track record sucks. 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025And here I thought you were talking about smartphones. 100
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Waldorf education has its flaws, but this sure seems like a good time for saving hard truths for age appropriate stages and focusing on handwork 000
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025This year we needed some help to make Thanksgiving happen and we were coming from far away, so we enlisted Whole foods catering and picked up all the sides in the morning. Worked out great. Just a minor suggestion, I'm with Chris on the big strategic points. 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 23/11/2025Okay, someone has finally trumped Washington Governor Gary Locke's appearance with the Presidents of the United States 010
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025I must say I'm impressed with the John Quincy Adams joke. That's some research. 000
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
Tom Boutell @boutell.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Somebody found a way to one-up Peter Thiel, who straight-up called Greta Thunberg the antichrist 020
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 · 15/10/2025While my mother has always been liberal, she doesn't approve of f-bombs. So I knew something special was going on when she insisted I immediately watch South Park. 010
