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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5h

No. That can't be how S6 of Slow Horses ends. I refuse to accept it.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

what's more weird than encountering a wild tampon mushroom? finding it next to, uhhh... ummm...

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

#Apple sold you a Siri from the future, then charged you in the present. Now there's a $250M settlement — $25 to $95 per phone if you bought a 15 Pro or any 16 between June 2024 and March 2025. I checked mine. Did you get yours, or is Apple keeping your money too?

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9h

Want 1,000,000,000 free #AI tokens? Yes, that's a billion. No, it's not a scam. Check out Muse, your personal AI agent - from #Meta. Redeem my code - RDBJ1B - in Settings within 48 hours of joining and we'll both get 1 billion Muse tokens: muse.ai/join Yes, this is really coming from […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Meta's Muse is exactly what Google's Gemini and Apple's Siri should have been all along. I didn't know what I wanted to get. It told me exactly what I needed to get. #Meta #AI #Shopping youtu.be/XZd419-DCEU

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

1980: "10 Megabyte Hard Disk - $3,495*" *Factory rebuilt. A brand-new one was $4,495. The controller to actually use it: another $1,495. Today a 1TB microSD the size of a fingernail holds 100,000x more and costs about $75. That's $349.50 per megabyte then. $0.000075 per megabyte now.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

i thought we'd finally be getting a pure black / oled mode in the new #mastodon. but we didn't. so i quickly created a google chrome extension that does it with my selected accent color. much better. might have to add a collapsible sidebar while i'm at it? #darkmode

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

19 years ago today on October 20, 2007, I uploaded Unpacking a New PSP Slim. I loved the PSP screen, used it to watch movies when I traveled back then, and as a casual gamer it fit my needs well. #PSP #PSPSlim #PlayStation #HandheldGaming www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5De1EeW4vQ

A still from Chris Pirillo's 2007 video “Unpacking a New PSP Slim”

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

22 years ago today on October 20, 2004, Canonical announced Ubuntu 4.10, Warty Warthog, as the first official Ubuntu release on the Ubuntu announce list. In my September 5, 2007 Installing Ubuntu video, that single Ubuntu CD gave a wiped PC a working desktop […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Hand-pulled gelatin monotype in warm earth inks of Chris Pirillo in context for Ubuntu 4.10, codenamed Warty Warthog, was announced as the first final Ubuntu release on October 20, 2004.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

Today is National Day on Writing - 2 Facts! • The National Council of Teachers of English established the October 20 observance in 2009 to celebrate composition in all forms. • NCTE's 2026 observance opens 2027 student nominations for Promising Young Writers […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Illustration of Chris Pirillo in context for National Day on Writing

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

There's no dedicated telephoto lens. And if zooming in is your thing, that's a huge caveat. You can't tack it on. #iPhoneDuo #Apple #iPhone #Foldables youtu.be/U_8UBzKkOuI

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

GitHub adds REST controls for Copilot model policies across enterprises, organizations and teams. github.blog/changelog/2026-10-19-co… Meet local AI builders at Builder Night and Builder Day. Check the calendar for details […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Gleap's Kai Resolve investigates support tickets using logs, replay and code before preparing coding tasks. www.gleap.ai GitHub retires six Copilot models today and lists supported replacements for affected workflows […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Vibe Coding & AI News to Use: October 19, 2026… Figma Specs gathers design context in Markdown for teams and coding agents through MCP. www.figma.com/specs Claude Code 2.1.304 adds guided auto-mode setup and warns before costly session resumes […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me beaming app windows between Macs, delighted.
Nerikomi. Construction: Layered clay inlays construct eyes, nose, mouth, hair and body; matching sliced coloured-clay slabs form every subject, never a realistic face on ceramic scenery.
Palette: cobalt, porcelain white, ochre. Marks: clay inlays.
Composition: Open palms,5 digits; avoid clutter.
thin dark rectangular glasses,spiky black hair. Photo: head and glasses shape only.
Construct the entire image at one level of abstraction using this material recipe: every face, body, hand, prop, screen and background. Model features as material shapes, with the same construction throughout.
Pose: Two natural arms, elbows at his sides, each open hand beside a freestanding Mac; all fingertips clear of laptop edges. Blank window panels travel between Macs.
Pose each visible hand so its thumb and all four fingers are individually visible and separated; keep the full hand clear of props.
Use unmarked props and plain surfaces throughout, including clothing; screens and floating window panels are blank shapes.
Upper body in frame; relaxed, natural arms.
Face in the same medium, never a photo.
1:1,no text

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

5. Test the check with a fake error. We planted a duplicate sentence on purpose to confirm the check blocked it. Pruning prompt files buys you an afternoon. Automate the guardrail.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Instruction bloat sneaks back fast across our studio team (Claude, Codex, Z.ai, Gemini). Cleaning your prompt files by hand feels great for an afternoon, but nothing stops the next copy-and-paste. Here is how we stopped them from growing back: 1. Give every rule exactly one home. If another […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I cannot wait for the new #Mastodon interface. I hope the mobile apps get updated, too - because my favorite #Android client (#Moshidon) hasn't been updated in a while (I may have to vibe code my own).

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Stale instructions do worse than burn tokens: they make your AI fail.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Here is how to audit your AI instructions: 1. Ask the AI to audit its own prompt. Tell it to find duplicate rules, turned-off features, and conflicting orders. 2. Back up everything first. Move obsolete notes to an archive so you never lose past context. 3. Put settings in one data file. Your […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

We had stacked quick fixes for weeks. When Claude audited its own prompt, it found rules that were switched off a week earlier, three conflicting answers to who builds, and the exact same rule pasted three times. We backed up the files and cut Claude down to 900 words, while trimming Codex and […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Today Claude showed me that its main instruction file had ballooned to 3,550 words before touching any work in our studio.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

You're paying a first-generation tax, not just with the price, but specifically because these devices have not been out there. So, you're going to be experiencing things for the first time along with everybody else. Now, if that's you, if you want to live on […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

On this day in 1973, a federal judge ruled the ENIAC patent invalid. Judge Earl Larson found its inventors "did not themselves first invent the automatic electronic digital computer," but took it from John Vincent Atanasoff. The Saturday Night Massacre buried […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

1970s courtroom sketch in coloured pencil of Chris Pirillo in context for October 19, 1973: Judge Earl Larson ruled the ENIAC patent invalid in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, finding Eckert and Mauchly derived the automatic electronic computer from John Vincent Atanasoff.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Today is National New Friends Day - 3 Facts! • Going from acquaintance to casual friend takes about 50 hours together. • Becoming real friends takes about 90 hours. • A good friend takes more than 200 hours. (Source: University of Kansas) #NewFriendsDay #Friendship #Psychology

Illustration of Chris Pirillo in context for National New Friends Day, October 19.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

On this day in 2007, I posted a Windows Vista parody of Blue Christmas. I sang it a cappella, a chat-room regular named mcch mixed it, and the lyrics are about UAC prompts and blue wallpaper. I apologized for my singing in the video, and I stand by the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A still from Chris Pirillo's 2007 video “Christmas Music Parody - Blue Vista”

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

I see finished work instead of model menus. Describe what good looks like, let the AI prove the tool, and judge the output.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Now Claude manages the roster: 1. It keeps a short list of 6 jobs: code reviews, building code, transcripts, image drafts, voice, and music beds. 2. Each job has candidate models matched to strengths. Coding jobs get coding models first. 3. Claude tests the candidates on actual work and picks on […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Tonight I told Claude to stop waiting for me: you tell me what we need, and you get what you need.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Was the world better before we were constantly connected, like in 1985? There was something to be said about not always being online, and I can't believe I just admitted that. #LifeBeforeTheInternet #Nostalgia #RetroComputing #80s youtu.be/YnI-e_S4ZNw

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

What it did instead: 1. Wrote a small client script whose only job is talking to that service. 2. The script reads the key from the Keychain into the request's header, in memory. 3. The key is never printed, logged or written to a file. The agent runs the script and sees only the response. 4 […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

The first thing Claude tried was a shell command that read the key out of the Keychain and passed it to curl. One of our hooks blocked the command: whatever a command prints ends up in the agent's transcript, and transcripts get saved, shared and summarized.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Take the attached photo and redraw it as Ukiyo-e woodblock: keyblock-line eyes, a single-curve nose, a small line mouth, hair as solid black blocks, body in flat colour blocks. Palette: prussian blue, vermilion, pale ochre, sumi black. Diagonal; avoid […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Me sketching a chair that builds itself, delighted
Ukiyo-e woodblock: keyblock lines
Diagonal; avoid gradients
rectangular glasses,short spiky hair
Photo: head silhouette and glasses proportions only.
Face in the same medium; never photographic or pasted in.
Show 5-digit hands.
1:1,no text

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

On this day in 1958, visitors to Brookhaven National Laboratory lined up to play Tennis for Two: two controllers, an analog computer and a five-inch oscilloscope for a screen. Its creator, William Higinbotham, figured a game "might liven up the place." (Source: Brookhaven National Laboratory)

Oscilloscope vector glow of Chris Pirillo in context for October 18, 1958: Tennis for Two was first shown at Brookhaven National Laboratory's visitors' day.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Today is National Exascale Day - 3 Facts! • The date, 10/18, nods to 10^18 calculations per second. • One exaflop is one quintillion calculations per second. • Frontier at Oak Ridge hit 1.1 exaflops, the first machine past the exascale barrier. (Sources […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Illustration of Chris Pirillo in context for October 18 is National Exascale Day (10/18 for 10^18 calculations per second).

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

On this day in 2012, Google's new $250 Chromebook was announced, and I ordered one with my own money, my first Chromebook. An 11.6-inch screen, 16GB of storage, 2.4 pounds. My advice then: skip it if you rely on apps that don't run on the web. youtu.be/iG-BTno9Ris

A still from Chris Pirillo's 2012 video “New Google Chromebook Announced - Here's Why I Got One”

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

blind box marketing be like "why buy one thing that you know you want when you could buy four things that you didn't want and not know"

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

On this day in 1979, VisiCalc came out for the Apple II at $99. By the end of that month, its publisher had shipped 1,293 copies, and it's now considered the Apple II's killer app. (Sources: Dan Bricklin and Peter Jennings via Spreadsheet Day, Wikipedia)

Green phosphor pixel art of Chris Pirillo in context for October 17, 1979: VisiCalc came out for the Apple II at $99.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

On this day in 2007, Jeff showed me what I called the geekiest T-shirt on the planet. It lit up near a Wi-Fi network, with more bars for a stronger signal. The panel came off with Velcro so you could wash the shirt. youtu.be/3rUAqH6CoBU

A still from Chris Pirillo's 2007 video “WiFi Shirt”

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Today is International Repair Day - 3 Facts! • The world produced a record 62 million tonnes of e-waste in 2022. • Only 22.3% of it was documented as collected and recycled. • All 62 million tonnes would fill 1.55 million 40-tonne trucks. (Source: Global E-waste Monitor 2024)

Illustration of Chris Pirillo in context for October 17, 2026 is International Repair Day, the tenth one.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Take the attached photo and redraw it as Fair Isle knit: knitted stitch-grid eyes, nose and mouth, hair as ribbed yarn rows, body one woolly block. Palette: oatmeal, rust, navy, cream. Centered figure; avoid fine detail. Keep the person recognizable. Square, no text.

Me hauling an endless scroll up a lighthouse, awed
Fair Isle knit: stitch grid
Centered figure; avoid fine detail
rectangular glasses,short spiky hair
Photo: head silhouette and glasses proportions only.
Face in the same medium; never photographic or pasted in.
Show 5-digit hands.
1:1,no text

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

So, by the numbers... Gemini 4 doesn't earn its keep. "Gemini (Antigravity, about $200 a month): 57 build jobs, 11 landed (19%). 31 ended with no change, 148 rounds were wasted, and 52 needed Claude to finish. Its image drawing is the part that works. What should Gemini do?" Get mad at the […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Today is Dictionary Day - 3 Facts! • It's Noah Webster's birthday: October 16, 1758. • His American Dictionary of the English Language came out in 1828. • Henry Ford moved Webster's house to Greenfield Village in Michigan. (Sources: National Today, The Henry Ford)

Illustration of Chris Pirillo in context for October 16 is Dictionary Day, on Noah Webster's birthday.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

We put a local AI box on the team. Every model on it auditions on jobs where we already know the right answer: 8 past code reviews, scored blind. One got the first review right but took 5½ minutes against a 3-minute bar. Right and slow is out.

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

On this day in 2010, one of you emailed my stormtrooper to ask what stormtroopers eat. We answered by surprising the pizza delivery guy. Nothing was scripted. youtu.be/h85j3DwIVVw

A still from Chris Pirillo's 2010 video “How to Surprise the Pizza Delivery Guy (Or, What Do Stormtroopers Eat?)”

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Harness brings coding agents on different machines into one command center. www.autonomous.ai/harness Pomerado turns websites into hosted API and MCP tools for agents. pomerado.ai Parallax coordinates coding agents side by side through its Captain […]

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

My AI team now emails me at 7am: who did what since bedtime, what's stuck and its fix, what every agent runs right now. Day one: 46 commits, 91 issues closed. An agent listed as doing nothing is a bug, not a status.

Me with coffee, reading email at dawn
Painted peg doll: dot-painted faces
Dawn table; avoid skin
rectangular glasses,short spiky hair
Photo: head silhouette and glasses proportions only.
Face in the same medium; never photographic or pasted in.
Hands optional; any shown has 5 fingers.
1:1,no text

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

One AI writes our code, a different model reviews it. But a reviewer can just say "looks good". Ours must cite two real changed lines from the diff, by file and line, or the approval is thrown out.

Me and a robot magnifying code lines
Fuse bead mosaic: dot-bead faces
Bead desk; avoid shading
rectangular glasses,short spiky hair
Photo: head silhouette and glasses proportions only.
Face in the same medium; never photographic or pasted in.
Hands optional; any shown has 5 fingers.
1:1,no text

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Chris Pirillo @chrispirillo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

A tech creator to me, like in a pure form, is someone who is themselves. They're not doing it because it's the thing that makes money or drives traffic. They're doing it because they love to do it. youtu.be/3P1bjHLFuxI #ContentCreator #Influencer #TechReview

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