Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 11/09/2026almost certain that grok wrote this for him: it's just a hodgepodge of words that don't mean anything "command is service" come on 002
Reposted by Charles Harriesmatt @matt.evil.gay · 03/09/2026Piper got a new look thanks to @charlesharri.es! looks more inline with the current teal brand image 💖 more to come! 2353
Reposted by Charles Harriestierney cyren @bnb.im · 17/08/2026if your AI writing can’t hold up because it’s being fingerprinted maybe you shouldn’t be using it 3274
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 13/08/2026the one thing I remember the HP books doing well was dropping a little plot hint in a very obvious way, so that when All Was Revealed at the end of the book & the hint came to make sense, you felt very clever for having noticed it 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 10/08/2026the blog post of a guy who has filled himself with productivity candy & is pretty much regretting it charlesharri.es/stream/frict...charlesharri.esFrictionTrying to slow down. Boy this is a 30-year-old topic of conversation isn't it just. 010
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 29/07/2026i’m convinced that the revulsion against destructive digitisation is a purely aesthetic one. the physical media is not the important part! you just don’t like the idea of destroying books because you saw the bad guys do it on The World At War 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 29/07/2026Call me a typo because today has Charles feeling Harried 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 13/07/2026Parfait spoons are my favourite specialised utensil. Some things, especially sweet ones, just taste better on a tiny spoon: tiramisu, little cakes and custard, peaches & meringues. The Japanese have figured this out: you will never seen someone eat chawan mushi with a big spoon. 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 03/07/2026In Cambridgeshire for the first time: charlesharri.es/stream/elycharlesharri.esElyGetting dinner in Ely on a Thursday night. 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 20/06/2026nearly the longest day of the year charlesharri.es/stream/summercharlesharri.esSummerIt's finally summer. I can tell because I haven't needed to put a sweater on in like a week. 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 19/06/2026changing a tyre (well, a wheel) on a car: a practical atproto guide: sidetrail.app/@charlesharr...sidetrail.app 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 09/06/2026i've been writing about taking my dog for walks. also i want to see whether this standard site stuff is working charlesharri.es/stream/walki...charlesharri.esWalking Ghyll, 5 JuneMoving, slowly, into the peak of summer. Still windy, lots of flowers. 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 02/06/2026a small human is a HOMUNCULUS a small succubus is a SUCCUBUNCULUS 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 08/05/2026the trick to coping with this is to start identifying powerfully with the generated code (“i made this”) which coincidentally also forces you to take responsibility for it 100
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 29/04/2026i want to see the picture for the sentence “we invited the strippers, jfk and stalin” 000
Reposted by Charles Harriesdan @danabra.mov · 21/04/2026like yeah sure you hate it because it won and then a generation grew up who never wrote imperative view model syncing manually. and yes sure it’s weirdly fp. and yes biggest sin of all, it’s effortlessly composable which unleashed a proliferation of componentized junk. components were still worth it 3921
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 20/04/2026new product from anthropic: claude code for fell running charlesharri.es/stream/claud...charlesharri.esClaude Code for fell runningClaude is also a valuable companion, well, not on the moors per se, but at your desk before you go out onto the moors, to escape from Claude. 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 05/04/2026why are we still litigating this? new lines of code has not been a vanity metric since circa 2007; everyone agrees that code is a liability and that’s why we all share our prs that are like +13 -145,338 010
Reposted by Charles HarriesChad @chadtmiller.com · 05/03/2026created a new @teal.fm client that joins musicbrainz artist genre data with plays and syncs your bluesky followers, everything is a feed teal-appview-production.up.railway.app if you're interested in building appviews like this, come check out my workshop at #atmosphereconf 👋 912517
Reposted by Charles Harriesdan @danabra.mov · 07/03/2026having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering. 3058763
Reposted by Charles HarriesCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 02/03/2026had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane 733606442
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 15/02/2026i can’t believe that rubbish is going to be the hill i wind up dying on charlesharri.es/stream/now-r...charlesharri.esNow: RubbishWhat a load of rubbish. 100
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 12/02/2026so relieved to learn that it was OK to like infinite jest this whole time www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...theguardian.comNever mind the lit-bros: Infinite Jest is a true classic at 30Forget its reputation as a performative read for a certain breed of intense young man, thirty years after its publication, David Foster Wallace’s epic novel still delivers, says the Crying in H Mart a... 110
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 08/02/2026ok all 32 of you have been clamoring for it: here's my treatise on how to write good application logs: charlesharri.es/stream/how-t...charlesharri.esHow to read and write application logsWriting logs is important: they are the story of how your application is doing what it does. 001
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 08/02/2026this is stunningly bad english for a newspaper employee: “can for many years ahead publish”? “difficult decisions have been taken”? barely grammatical, sounds like siri autocomplete 011
Reposted by Charles HarriesLeonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 05/02/2026This quote from a Reform UK councillor sums it up beautifully. Cross-boundary moral outrages, exported online and sold (especially, but not exclusively) to generations that grew up before the internet, are such a central feature of radicalisation today. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne... 19362130
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 03/02/2026this has got to be the worst stephen colbert impression ive ever seen 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 31/01/2026ai turns things which would have taken hours into things which take minutes or seconds instead and i just don't do most of the things which would have taken hours, because i don't have hours ai makes these things no more possible, only more doable charlesharri.es/stream/ai-lo...charlesharri.esAI lowers the effort barrierWhat is the value of AI, to me? I am posting this on a Saturday night to keep me off Bluesky where I've been doomscrolling all week. 100
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 31/01/2026i kinda see this like “thinking”: you could argue whether or not emitting long streams of tokens into context represents actual cogitation vs. a simulation — but in practice, it’s thinking 010
Reposted by Charles Harriesold roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 30/01/2026homowack room 317, mamakating, new york, 1977 721933
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 29/01/2026oh i thought he meant they were raiding theatres, which struck me as farfetched because no one would be there to see that new movie about the presidents wife 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 29/01/2026the number of cars abandoned on the side of the freeway always weirds me right out whenever i visit the states, it always feels like the drivers musta got raptured or something 000
Reposted by Charles HarriesSiobhán @shibbi.me · 28/01/2026A lot of people heard about book burnings as a kid, and internalized “books are sacred” rather than “the suppression of knowledge is evil”. 29620
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 27/01/2026i am ai-influenced guy no. approx. 1,000,000 to be sharing this, but my favourite genre of ai thoughtpiece is Here Are the Serious Takeaways From This Deeply Unserious AI Project maggieappleton.com/gastownmaggieappleton.comGas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code 010
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 27/01/2026"Using Claude Code to write code is like learning a language by reading alone." charlesharri.es/stream/karpa...charlesharri.esKarpathy on Claude CodeThe AI industry's second-most-listened-to thoughtleader tells us what he thinks about using coding agents. 000
Reposted by Charles Harriesdaniel holmgren 🫠 @dholms.at · 26/01/2026just published a fix for a bug in Tap that was causing over-fetching of repos when filtering based on collection if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)! you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest 38625
Reposted by Charles Harriesbrennan @brennan.computer · 21/01/2026I'm such a sucker for glazed brick floors 3264
Reposted by Charles Harriesdame @dame.is · 21/01/2026the only way to stay sane while working in tech is to aggressively pursue hobbies and interests that are grounded in analog mediums and/or the natural world 57514
Reposted by Charles Harriesmuttzi @muttzi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs 110517
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 20/01/2026i started using claude code the other day and have been alternating between total vertigo (it works) and the sore-mouth feeling of having eaten too many skittles (it maybe does not work) 000
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 20/01/2026have you been poisoned by indecision over what note-taking app to use? have you tried sixteen different email clients? here is my Official Advice: spend a bunch of money supporting all of the indie options, then use whatever came with your computer charlesharri.es/stream/defau...charlesharri.esDefault apps, 2026I love a default. I love not thinking about things and just doing whatever someone else has decided for me. 110
Charles Harries @charlesharri.es · 18/01/2026two thirds of the way through january and i am feeling Productive, safe to say that this is Definitely a trend i'll be able to keep up all year i probably should post this at a time when people are actually on bluesky and not when everyone sensible is a-bed charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...charlesharri.es 000
Reposted by Charles HarriesCat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I am going to be honest, this guy needs to be putting some of this into therapy instead of into writing. I find most of his stuff thought-terminating existential dread instead of actually working on strategy and structure to make positive change. 2231929
Reposted by Charles Harriesdan @danabra.mov · 18/01/2026formats over appsoverreacted.ioA Social Filesystem — overreactedFormats over apps. 72976205
