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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 56m

neither disc nor disk feels right

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

the chatgpt electron app is two gigabytes installed

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

useful little thing i made from the parliamentary data APIs (h/t @fantasticlife.bsky.social) and the GOV.UK content API brandburner.github.io/eventwire/#/

brandburner.github.io

EventWire — legislation that may affect GOV.UK content

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

no shade to Jev but every project ive tried to introduce it to has claude like "nah, this gives us nothing we dont have and its results are no better than chance"

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

now codex is proactively making me eval tooling to do 'human review' before it continues development i feel unusual

Screenshot of said tooling: Legal basis review to match legislation to government guidance

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

fabula's complete graph of classic Doctor Who now features cross-episode (and cross-season!) thematic links and conflict arcs. Say hello to storylines. fabula.productions/explore/doct...

fabula.productions

Fabula

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

when people post dreadful takes on linkedin i honestly don't know anymore if they really mean it or are just doing good linkedinning

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

is bsky really this relentlessly milquetoast or am i just in the wrong room

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

is there a mobile-emulating web browser for Mac desktop so you can see the what it looks like on mobile, but on your computer? that must be a thing

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

much as i tire of the 'it's not this, it's that' llm trope, today's "That's UI garnish, not a feature" is 💀

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

someone should make an llm token 'surge protector' for those times when claude code decides to fan out a dozen full-strength opus agents to overthink a walnut

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slop enjoyer @slop.guru · 29/03/2026

it’s on jooble dude just log in to bebee

two buttons on a website:

“apply on jooble”
“Apply on bebee”

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

"description_of_involvement": "Peri strips off the swimsuit and shorts in transit and emerges in a vibrant red catsuit recovered from salvaged supplies, the synthetic fabric clinging closely to her form and standing vivid against the battered observation window and flickering consoles." 🫣

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

playing with www.remotion.dev and given an open brief, Opus 4.6 made this lovely thing.

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

"canonical_name": "Barbara and Ian's Metallic Lizard Fossil"

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

wassup nerds: a narrative knowledge graph of all 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation fabula.productions/explore/star... #knowledgegraph #contextgraph #startrek #llm

fabula.productions

Star Trek The Next Generation | Fabula

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

all those "Hi it's Chad from Blancmange, I noticed you haven't used Blancmange in a while..." emails might land better if they included any details to help me remember what product this is

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

If you like stories, graphs and television from simpler times you may enjoy this project that is coming together at last. fabula.productions

fabula.productions

Explore Narrative Graphs | Fabula

Explore interactive narrative graphs from iconic TV series.

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"I'd love to be able to do what you do. Is there a Medium post I can read?"

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

credit where credit's due to the web typogapher of www.cia.gov/the-world-fa...

cia.gov

The World Factbook - The World Factbook

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I wrote a paper on exactly this in college and Opus 4.5 drops like its nothing

Radio as primordial soup: fair cop. I was modeling TV comedy and forgot that Radio 4 is where British comedy goes to gestate. The [:ADAPTED_INTO] relationship capturing the Radio → TV → Film "golden path" is essential domain knowledge I missed.

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

this might be some sort of achievement

OpenRouter Wrapped message tells me I routed 1.1B tokens in 2025

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

giving claude code system access is quite a thing

claude code configures a local media servers and suggests movies for download

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Airplane (1980)

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

eventually a designer will realise that a 2-line text entry box is not an ideal UI for prompt work.

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

object_7acb67ec2204 — \"President Bartlet's Requested Roast Beef/Pastrami Sandwich.\" owner = President Bartlet, filling specified as roast beef or pastrami, functions as focal point of a ceremonial/domestic exchange (Charlie / Mrs. Landingham).

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

❌ "Wesley helps with the investigation" ✅ "Wesley connects nuclear vibrations to Elway Theorem, suggesting inter-dimensional transport"

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

working without AI feels a bit like working offline used to

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

im not hating claude's spicy takes

Adding vectors risks:

Over-engineering a system that already works
Creating a "fancier hammer" when you need better nails
Introducing opacity where you currently have explainability

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

hows your evening going

$The source entity is an implanted, failing cardiac device inside Picard. Four potential duplicates included two object-like implants, one surgical procedure (event), and one unrelated Borg implant. Plan: Evaluate each pair independently using name-variant heuristics, object-vs-event ontology rules, possession/context clues, and narrative/function comparisons. Execution & decisions:\n- Merged source with 'Picard's Early-Model Cardiac Unit' because descriptions align as the same implanted device (same role, location, and surgical target). Kept source UUID as surviving and synthesized a canonical name and enriched description to capture both technical and surgical terminologies.\n- Kept separate 'Picard's Replacement Heart' because that is an external spare implant prepared for transplant and functionally distinct from the installed failing device.\n- Kept separate 'Picard's Cardiac Replacement Procedure' because it is an event/process, not a physical object.\n- Kept separate 'Borg Cranial Assimilation Implant' because it is anatomically and functionally distinct and belongs to a different narrative category (Borg tech).\nValidation: Ensured pairwise independence and internal consistency (only one MERGE, surviving UUID chosen consistently as source_entity_uuid). Potential weaknesses: If source text later clarifies that the 'replacement heart' label was used interchangeably for the implanted unit rather than the external device, the KEEP_SEPARATE decision for object_20827fb030ca would need revisiting. Confidence levels: MERGE (high), KEEP_SEPARATE decisions (high) given current embedded_contexts and canonical descriptions." }$

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

i just typed 'json fields' and suddenly 2009

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Claude: The new data filter is working well! Me: there are zero results Claude: The filter is working better than expected!

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

this thing I made *in keynote* years ago was, on reflection, way too good for the thing I made it for

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Just when you thought you had Object boundaries nailed down, along comes "The Picard Manvouver".

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Mike Atherton @brandburner.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

amazing when claude opus just knows what to look for without being told

${ `query`: ` MATCH (e:Event) WHERE e.key_dialogue[0] CONTAINS \"Have I that right\" OR e.description CONTAINS \"two wires\" RETURN e.title, e.description, e.key_dialogue ` }$

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