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(I am already fed up with people writing about Opus 5.5 being good at videos)

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TL;DR Plz don't write about Opus 5.5 being good at videos. But I would love to read more about how *you* do "actually providing creative steering for a few hours/days[/months?]" so well? 🙏

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5) "The topic I'd much rather write about is the potentially vast gulf between something like this and something where a human actually provided creative steering for a few hours/days." So err... this is exactly what I *thought* I was asking you to write more about.

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4) I assumed these videos were down to the "Thoughtful Human/agent Interaction → Actual Quality Stuff" thing that makes me thing (2) 👆. But then I did this bsky.app/profile/dann...

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Ok so 1) "the real magic is not in wishing things into existence through the machine oracle, but in providing constraints" I agree 💯 2) You seem to be better at those constraints that 99% of other people I see. 3) Hence my "plz write more stuff about how you work" above.

Danny Smith @danny.is · 28/09/2026

As a fan of both Astro and Atproto, this is cool

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alasdair @alasdairc.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

beef is negative food. you turn 1000 calories of feed into 100 calories of beef and a whole lot of methane and cow shit. ai does produce more food than the beef industry (zero)

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 27/09/2026

Rubber dingy rapids bro

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This also convinces me we need behavioral science inside of everything we do next with technology to achieve its promises 🤷‍♀️ I hope to survive in tech long enough to keep doing it

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Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just seen it's Wikipedia's 25th birthday. The greatest website online, and possibly the internet's greatest fruit

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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"why would I deceive you?"

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 26/09/2026

The prompt and Claude's explanation of what it did is here: danny.is/notes/genera...

Generating a video for Astro Editor with Opus 5.5

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 26/09/2026

WTF. I just one-shotted this with Opus 5.5 in the astroeditor.danny.is repo.

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Or alternatively: I’d love you to write more detailed stuff about how you make things 😉

Every time you post something like this I find myself wanting to skim the transcript.

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How did it make these out of interest?

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My goodness is Opus 5.5 an improvement over Fable or previous Opus models. Both in terms of speed and actually responding in intelligible English.

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I’m trying to avoid a days-long rabbit hole where I build a bunch of feeds myself to solve for this.

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Same question for AI thoughts with much more emphasis on “quality” obvs.

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Has anyone got good Bluesky feeds/lists for surfacing quality Atproto content with a reasonable signal/noise plz 🙏

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Err. I guess I need to fix my OG image generation 😂

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I added a fun little feature to articles on my website the other day. You can write in the margins and your notes are saved in local storage danny.is/writing/marg...

Adding annotations to articles on this site

Readers can now scribble notes in the margins of articles on this site. How it works, the handwriting typeface I chose and how much JavaScript it costs.

This also means my #astrojs website's now page includes the books I'm currently reading, pulled straight from my PDS at build-time. danny.is/now

Screenshot of the book section of my now page showing "Currently reading" And six book covers

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Thanks! The implementation was 99% Claude with "use HTML popovers and CSS anchor positioning plz" instructions.

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I just moved my books collection from Goodreads to @bookhive.buzz and wrote a bit about how I cleaned up the data from Goodreads and pulled in some Audible stuff too. danny.is/writing/book...

Getting my books onto BookHive

How I moved my reading history off Goodreads and onto my own AT Protocol data with BookHive, and had Claude Code clean up 389 books along the way.

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I just added a calendar view to my website. I still find it amazing how little code was needed to do this. Modern browsers are awesome. danny.is/notes/calend...

A calendar view for my writing

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jviide.iki.fi @jviide.iki.fi · 23/09/2026

Claude Code explaining why it changed three files.

A pale fish (?) with a large round sac. A Wikipedia-style caption reads: "The horngus of a dongfish is attached by a scungle to a kind of dillsack (the nutte sac)", followed by citation [77].

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 21/09/2026

I use and love Handy, which was originally made because CJ broke a finger and couldn’t type. handy.computer/about

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About Handy

Learn about Handy - the free and open source speech to text application

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~paul @paulvall.dev · 21/09/2026

naur said it in 1985, the real product of programming is the theory that forms in the minds of the people who built it. code is just a lossy artifact of that theory. ai made code cheap. it did nothing for theory. we're shipping artifacts faster than anyone can rebuild what they mean.

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Martin Calladine @uglygame.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Giving Jim Ratcliffe a platform to discuss government policy is like inviting a toddler to address the British Medical Association conference on the amount of sweets he should be allowed to eat before dinner.

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Here's a chart from the post.... quite a change in a single generation.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Matthias Ott @matthiasott.com · 18/09/2026

Screw the narrative. Don’t believe the scare. The Web will never die. Love seeing you all sharing and publishing content on here – and on your personal sites and newsletters! 💚✊

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Scott Riley @scott.is · 18/09/2026

honestly wild how many truly fantastic folks are out of work and then there’s just absolute reams of mediocrity spilling out into this hellscape of an industry every single day. it’s like not a single tech company has made anything good since 2021.

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zeldman @zeldman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

“Let me make it clear: without people at the top of their game sharing their experience and knowledge—regardless of whatever ‘game changing’ technology is in place—we are pulling up the ladders and committing our industry to stagnation and death.” bell.bz/youll-miss-p...

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You’ll miss publishers when they’re gone

Ever since Piccalilli started to get traction, I’ve always seen CSS-Tricks, Smashing Magazine and A List Apart (among others) as peers. We all help each other behind the scenes and importantly, back…

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/09/2026

👏 Angela Rayner: "Nigel Farage's sugar daddies made their money in crypto, but there's nothing cryptic about their motives." ⚠️ "They know full well that a Reform government will act in their interests" 💷 "If Farage will do you a cameo for £70, just ask yourself what he'd do for £ 70 million."

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Hassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 13/09/2026

It’s about this bsky.app/profile/bren...

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Danny Smith @danny.is · 13/09/2026

I’ve been laughing at this for a while now