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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I might! _why wrote the foreword for my book so it would be nice to go full circle. Main problem is I actually need to attend events.. 😅

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Need to test more, but initial vibe is Haiku 5.5 is especially good at Ruby compared to models of similar price/size. Well worth trying if you want to spend less/use less quota (but avoid "low" thinking).

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Reposted by Peter Cooper

ParadeDB @paradedb.com · 01/10/2026

Two weeks ago, @planetscale.com launched TIN. They benchmarked it against us, and it was very fast. So we spent those two weeks making ParadeDB faster without their tradeoffs. Today, we are faster than TIN. www.paradedb.com/blog/opening...

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PlanetScale Released Text Search and We Have a Lot to Say (Part I)

Two BM25 optimizations and benchmark configuration changes inspired by PlanetScale's TIN benchmarks make ParadeDB's text search faster without changing its document identifiers.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Might be kinda fun to see which LLMs prefer which in different languages! Settle it once and for all ;-)

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

So where did we get with the tabs vs spaces thing?

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It does get even more complicated, as the school was *chartered* 475 years ago, but a school has existed on the site since at least 1276. But it can't celebrate a 750th anniversary as that's just the earliest historical evidence.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Haha, I said something similar to Mrs C. To be fair, they are spending the day learning about the school's history and ex-students instead!

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Looks good to me, plenty of room for all my wires and old computers!

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

TIL there are no lessons at my daughter's school today as they're celebrating the school's 475th birthday.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Found a screenshot of my browser in 2004

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jev is very cool, but if your task is reasonably straightforward (and especially visual), the tiniest Qwen models are very good at it already and run locally. This is running real-time on my MacBook Air.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Exactly. It's all in their context, which doesn't make it into the piece. I'm not anti "AI writing" per se, but an editor would pick this up in seconds, bash it into shape and/or reprimand the author (as I was many a time 😅). That whole layer is often missing now.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My theory is LLMs do this because they have the entire story in context and will start from the middle because they already "know" the story and have no theory of mind for readers who don't.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Even the quote makes no sense in an opening paragraph. "the evidence"... for/of what? We have absolutely no context.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

An AI tell I'm increasingly seeing is something I'm calling "zero exposition". This screenshot is of the *first* paragraph of a piece and uses "this" without first defining what "this" even refers to.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I only do curated roundups and I've had plenty of bizarre replies. I'm guessing with your opinionated full articles you get some monster replies 😅

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

GTA 6 has taken so long that I've reached an age and temperament that I'm not even sure if I'll be bothered to buy it and might just watch people stream it instead 😂

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Spend £100s on vacation in the US with my British card: no problem. Get home and need to pay £3.50 for the Dartford Tunnel: full approval needed in my banking app 😏

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Well it took almost two hours and several goals, but SHA256 in 419 bytes of Ruby was fun to see as well:

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

👏 Good stuff. People should speak more. I don't do unsolicited advice, but I had similar issues and after an experiment based on some research I read, to my surprise I managed to eradicate the panic part through off-label use of a common med. Will share a brief outline if anyone is interested.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Glad you enjoyed it. You were the only Roman numerals algorithm expert, of a kind, I found for a sanity check 😄

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's not entirely novel. Based on Gimpel's solution in Algorithms in Snobol 4 (1976) but I think the transformation make it another novel entry (unsure on that front).

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

It's what my dad used to tell me too. "We only went so the old man could get his leg over." 😂

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

@tflangkaas.bsky.social Been reading your post about Roman numeral algorithms! What do you think about this? bsky.app/profile/coop...

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"to keep up with the posh family" I suspect they got their kid out of the house for an hour for.. *ahem* other reasons.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Cute recursive approach where the I*/IV/VI*/IX pattern is shifted up the letters based on where it has got to.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

The funniest Roman numeral generator (in Ruby) I've seen yet: def r(n)=n<1?'':r(n/10).tr('IVXLC','XLCDM')+(n%=10;n<4??I*n:n<5?'IV':n<9??V+?I*(n-5):'IX')

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Nice to see Ruby being represented at the World Cup final.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I'm indifferent to the policy as I'm not a kid. But I find it amusing the government's "think of the children" meddling might negatively affect teachers more than the kids.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The kids' school spent years rolling out wifi to every classroom, giving out money for every kid a tablet, moving schedules and elements of classwork to the devices, etc. Now the government's new ban on "smart technology" unwinds all of it 😂

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Dead people being physically present in Liberty Leading the People is kinda poignant, tbh.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

TIL up until the mid 1900s, artists could buy a paint made out of ground up flesh from Egyptian mummies and it was used in numerous famous artworks: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_b...

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Mummy brown - Wikipedia

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I did that for a bit, but some "British" stores drop-shipped from the EU leaving me with unexpected duties to pay. None of that with Amazon. Probably less of a problem in a big economy like the US though.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Where are the machines that power BlueSky located?

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Midjourney getting into body scanning is fine and dandy, but will you only be able to view your results on a public Discord channel?

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Back in 1987, Apple released an album called "The Apple Boogie" and handed it out at conferences. You can listen to it in all its glory here, including a weird parody of the Ghost Busters theme.. www.youtube.com/watch?v=chJH...

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Apple Boogie 1987 Mac Promo Album Cassette Tape (Apple Computers Inc)

YouTube video by martinradio

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

In other AI writing news, I just saw this at the end of a new JavaScript article:

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I love finding clearly AI-generated "tech news" sites so I can block them in future. $1m for a company that just received $12.5m in funding.. sure! 😂

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Hot take, but while Layla is a good song, the instrumental second movement is 100x better than the rest of it.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I used to eat pickle sandwiches a lot as a kid. Or if you wanna go really minimal, salt and pepper sandwich.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ah yes, I forgot about that, but I had seen it when you mentioned it before :-) I'll check it out properly! I probably should use it, but you know what being a dev is like.. 😅

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Soundbites is a good idea. Bring back the tumblelog! I've been considering creating my own since social media is largely a echoing void, though my metaphor was more like Star Trek "Captain's log" :-)

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yeah, when I joined (only ~60 days ago) you were one of the first suggestions of people to follow 😁 Your prowess on there is wild. I think I got more XP than you on ONE day so far 😂

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Oooh, it's extremely rare I load Discord (I'm old), but I'll do that later and see what's up :)

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I might get in touch with you! The more I dug into this bug the more interesting it got. I think it might deserve a full writeup as it has some really neat angles to it.

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

You got Gosu running on TruffleRuby?

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Peter Cooper @cooperx86.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Yeah, I have an idea I need to try. I wrote a GM synth in Go a while back which.... might... be portable to Ruby, and if it can render quick enough (big if!) I might be able to render .mus to something on the fly and play it simultaneously. But who knows 😂

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