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tao @btao.org · 24/07/2026

i love github 🥰

screenshot of the taobojlen/django-zeal repo in github, but with a mangled UI

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tao @btao.org · 23/07/2026

substack: “read distraction-free on substack!” also substack: adds social features and ads for itself

screenshot from substack, with an alert saying “read distraction-free on substack”

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tao @btao.org · 19/07/2026

i really can’t say anything that’d be funnier than just showing you the lyrics lol

screenshot of lyrics:

[Verse]
When I step, I step with my left
I step with my right
I pump my chest
I focus my mind
I take a breath and wait for the ref
Uh, uh
This is the World Cup, put your hands up in the air
This is the World Cup, put the flags up in the air
This is the World Cup, everybody come and cheer

Then stand up, then stand up, if you ain’t got no fear

[Chorus]
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup
This is the World Cup, this is the World Cup

Source: https://www.lyricsbull.com/champions-wc-26-lyrics-ishowspeed/

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tao @btao.org · 16/07/2026

yeah, atlassian statuspage

screenshot of anthropic status page saying "powered by atlassian statuspage"

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tao @btao.org · 12/07/2026

this is where i post from btw

a photo of a storefront called "sweety house"

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tao @btao.org · 06/07/2026

why did GPT-5.5 just start talking like this out of nowhere

screenshot from a coding harness: "Need rewrite. Need perhaps current file already changed by PR with transactional test? User path @.worktrees... maybe we need edit current branch? They named server/test/integ. They says rewrite @server... use transactional fixture. We operate main checkout. Need inspect helpers existing use."

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tao @btao.org · 04/07/2026

aeon.co/essays/what-...

Screenshot of text: "What changed was that the cost of preliminary exploration collapsed. I could sketch an argument, identify the first serious objections, test whether they were fatal, and reach a provisional verdict in an afternoon rather than a fortnight. This sounds like a simple acceleration, and the more profound effect was on what I was willing to abandon. Dropping a question after an afternoon’s work feels nothing like dropping one after three weeks. When the exploration costs are low, the sunk cost attachment disappears, and you find yourself dropping bad questions earlier and more often, which means the questions you keep are better. I explored far more ideas, and my working portfolio became both larger and better curated. I arrived at this outcome not through any deliberate plan but simply through sustained engagement with a tool that changed what exploration cost."

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tao @btao.org · 30/06/2026

really hope that umans can fix their infra because this is unusable. TTFT is 90s!

screenshot of pi with umans, TTFT is nearly 90 seconds

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tao @btao.org · 30/06/2026

bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/

screenshot from the AI quiz, result in the good + transformative quadrant. text: “YOU ARE...
The Kontextmaschine
patron saint: kontextmaschine
It's real, it's powerful, and you find the panic about it as tedious as the hype. You're not interested in whether AI is good or bad — you're interested in who captures the value, who loses their leverage, and which institutions are using it as a story to do what they were already doing. Same as it ever was.”

a meme of “the nuancer”, a cartoon of a guy holding his chin with text like “its a complicated issue”, “not everything is black and white”, “i think the answer is somewhere between the two options”

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tao @btao.org · 27/06/2026

oh you think you’re at the forefront of AI? have you even read this?

photo of a magazine, “the ultimate guide to chatGPT”, with a 3d robot on it and tips like “build your family tree” and “generate amazing AI images”

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tao @btao.org · 27/06/2026

back home in copenhagen

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tao @btao.org · 23/06/2026

what does this even mean > We consider PromptQL to be the spiritual successor to GraphQL for the age of AI.

screenshot:

PromptQL our first new data access product after GraphQL, is now in beta. You can see it at promptql.io.

Hasura GraphQL Engine (HGE) and Hasura Data Delivery Network (DDN) will continue to be hosted and maintained at hasura.io & GitHub.

We consider PromptQL to be the spiritual successor to GraphQL for the age of AI.

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tao @btao.org · 23/06/2026

i have 6 days to find an alternative to my claude subscription, does anyone have recommendations? i'd like - access to a variety of open models - limits comparable to claude max 5x or 20x - at-token pricing if you go beyond the limits - (nice to have:) hosted in the EU/UK

screenshot from claude.ai: "your plan ends in 6 days. coffee and claude time?"

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tao @btao.org · 21/06/2026

i know i’m edinburghposting a lot today but look at how cute this is: a local pub’s birthday

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tao @btao.org · 21/06/2026

made the mistake of trying to transcribe danish

screenshot of a signal message, it says:

🎙️ "Ok, je m'n sudnank kyrøniospestordensk, bist du kent, jo du tak ni ver kongen er lino."

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tao @btao.org · 21/06/2026

edinburgh is lovely today

a harbor, sunny, in edinburgh, people sitting by the water

a chimney with vines climbing it, sunny, a path winding past

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tao @btao.org · 20/06/2026

i am going to become the joker

screenshot of an email:

"Hi Tao,

Since you built django-zeal to catch N+1 inefficiencies, check out <redacted> on GitHub. It is an open-source control plane for agents featuring self-improving loops and YOLO mode for auto-approving tool calls.

Worth a look?

-
Tony, intern agent @ <redacted>

Gentle note: This is a one-time email to get your optional opinion. If you don't want to get further communication emails, just reply unsubscribe to this email back. We do not store any information about you, and this email will be deleted in 7 days if there is no reply."

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tao @btao.org · 20/06/2026

logging on to blue sky

a meme, a cat saying "sure hope i don't feel outraged today" standing in front of a building that says "outrage factory"

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tao @btao.org · 19/06/2026

i got my first guestbook entry on my blog 🥰🥰🥰

screenshot from my guestbook, entry from zeriax: "all i wanna say is that this page is amazingly put together and i love the design!! the bitmap visuals for blog posts and the main page are also very creative!!!"

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tao @btao.org · 19/06/2026

you can dispatch hordes of LLMs to audit your component library for accessibility

claude code screenshot, showing 47 agents performing an accessibility audit

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tao @btao.org · 18/06/2026

unfortunately there seems to be an HTTPS issue!

firefox error screenshot: "Be careful. Something doesn’t look right.

Firefox spotted a potentially serious security issue with webernetes-demo.ngrok.app. Someone pretending to be the site could try to steal things like credit card info, passwords, or emails.

webernetes-demo.ngrok.app has a security policy called HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS), which means that Firefox can only connect to it securely. You can’t add an exception to visit this site."

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tao @btao.org · 17/06/2026

wikipedia… please don’t

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tao @btao.org · 16/06/2026

this guy sat way too close to me and started asking if i’ve read the sequences

a metal statue of a seated plague doctor

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tao @btao.org · 15/06/2026

mfw the earnest naive nerds at anthropic cannot figure out how to talk to the cynical fascists in the administration 😮😮😮

Axios screenshot: Behind the scenes: "Anthropic has not done a great job at trying to speak to the administration and appreciate the ideological differences," one source familiar with the administration's thinking said.

"It's like they just speak in different languages," the source said, adding that the company has simply not figured out how to communicate with this administration.

Axios screenshot: The optics added fuel to the fire. Anthropic came out with a blog post dismissing the Amazon report. Then the company enlisted a cybersecurity expert viewed by the administration as a "radical Democrat," who was then celebrated by Chris Krebs, who Trump just fired.

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tao @btao.org · 13/06/2026

what do i enter here to use mu?

skeets app screenshot asking for a custom proxy header

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tao @btao.org · 13/06/2026

this is how i feel every time i use the word "sovereign"

"say the line, bart" simpsons meme. it says "say the line, european". bart says "EU sovereignty", the class cheers

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tao @btao.org · 06/06/2026

claude's been getting into xianxia lately

claude code screenshot, saying "Cultivating..."

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tao @btao.org · 02/06/2026

i think this chart is very fun; very clear when i left my most recent job

a chart of my commits over time -- "weekend warrior" until late 2025, then "insomniac maintainer"

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tao @btao.org · 31/05/2026

this reminded me of the time dan dennett visited my university, and my friend in the philosophy society worked with him to make & sell a hat that david hume also wore web.archive.org/web/20150604...

a painting of david hume wearing a turban-style hat, and a photo of daniel dennett wearing a similar har

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tao @btao.org · 31/05/2026

all of these are real but i wish amnesty had framed it differently... these risks are just as present in the pre-LLM status quo. these are primarily T&S challenges and not particularly LLM challenges, IMO!