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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

curious what #developers are using for display on #Linux? I made the transition to #wayland from #x11 several years ago but the #remote access is still freaking frustrating. I've used #Gnome #RDP, #RustDesk, and others. #question #help

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

"Good things can happen; all it takes is years of sustained effort by a community of stubborn enthusiasts." - @danabra.mov (overreacted.io/open-social/) In my experience, good things almost always take much longer than we anticipate. It's a marathon, not a sprint.

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The protocol is the API.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Does anyone know when #spotify's "Create app" functionality for developers will be coming back? Currently it's disabled and says "New integrations are currently on hold..." Not sure how long it's been that way...but I've seen that become a semi-permanent state. :-/ #question #api #dev

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

For a moment in time we are immortal

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Proud of the Python Software Foundation for withdrawing its proposal for grant funding from the Nation Sciences Foundation due to onerous anti-DEI requirements: pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-... #dei #nsf #psf #python

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The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

- Legislation or court rulings that place heavier burdens of understandability, harm restriction, and copyright licensing that push up costs for AI companies. - An AI bubble bursts. #AI

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

- An inability to scale energy resources to meet AI demand resulting in skyrocketing prices making many tasks currently handed to AI too costly. - Consumption of AI slop results in deterioration of AI, valuable authorship disappears due to decreased opportunities for monetization. #AI

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

While I don't expect AI to "stop", I think it's interesting to contemplate what would happen if something ground things to a halt... For example: - Successful weaponization of major AIs by rogue actors that causes massive and apparently uncontrollable damage. #AI

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Technologies which seemed unstoppable have ground to a halt before... nuclear power (due to Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, etc.) user behavior tracking (due to Cambridge Analytica and policies such as GDPR, CCPA) financial industry (2008 financial crisis and resulting legislation) #AI

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

thought experiment: AI hits a major roadblock and becomes impractical for the majority of use cases. - How does industry pivot? - How do companies differentiate themselves from the competition? I know this seems far out but (see comments)... #AI #FutureOfWork #Innovation #BusinessStrategy

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

In addition it uses an "electric field" which apparently encourages cells to migrate in a way that facilitates wound closure. 🤔 #AI #medicine #health

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

I was surprised to see that the treatment it applies for anti-inflammatory is fluoxetine (better known as prozac), thought it had to be a mistake but confirmed in other articles that fluoxetine apparently has anti-inflammatory properties. #AI #medicine #health

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

It's interesting from an AI perspective because it uses a camera essentially embedded in a bandage to send rapidly collected images of a wound (continued over time) to an AI which evaluates the stage of the wound and how it is healing and which then has the device apply appropriate treatments. #AI

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Found this article quite interesting: news.ucsc.edu/2025…

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yeah, if it doesn't work reliably, then no matter how slick the UI and integrations it'll be too much trouble.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Yikes. Yeah, that is no good at all. Where you using one of the Supabase client libraries or directly interacting with the API?

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Interesting. This happens in both pgAdmin4 and through the local web sql editor?

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

I'm sorry to hear that! Can you tell me what some of the more major papercuts you encountered were? Would like to watch out for them myself

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I'd also love to hear from non-techies the same. What are the biggest pain points and what successful methods have you found in working with your technical team? (I have my own thoughts ;-) But I really value hearing from the wider community!) 3/3 #conference #question #communication #collaboration

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

For my fellow techies - I'd love to hear from you the biggest pain points and successful methods you've found for working with non-technical leadership. 2/3 #conference #question #communication #collaboration #tech

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

At an upcoming conference I'll be giving a lightning talk to entrepreneurial ecosystem builders on how leadership in companies can work effectively with their technical team. 1/3 #conference #question #communication #collaboration #tech

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METR @metr.org · 10/07/2025

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

"just do it" when the option for a faster, better way seems so close at hand.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I am a bit. I think a lot depends on how we use it. I find AI is quite good at certain limited scope activities but struggles with larger scope tasks...and I also find myself still trying to do larger scope tasks with AI (and wasting time). It's difficult to discipline oneself to

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Since you are a former soldier I figured you don't believe them because you know from experience...so I was asking why they lie? But if there is a different answer to why you don't believe them, I'd be interested in that as well.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

6/6: of there is a direct record, please no. Or let me paste it in and do the lookup immediately. I'm sticking with ClickUp at the moment, but one of these days when I magically get a large amount of free time, I'm going to write my own solution...I've only been saying that for a few years now. ;-)

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

5/6: Umm, no. I want to see an actual ticket please. I don't want to have to talk to a #chatbot to see it. Chatbots really are great for a lot of things (during the free trial of ClickUp I found the chatbot quite helpful in learning how to do things without searching through docs) but this sort

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

4/6: been instructed to view the ticket status is by opening the chatbot, telling it I want information on my ticket (pasting in the ticket ID) and after doing all that I get this #tasks #chatbot #productivity

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

3/6: The UI acts as if the change was successful but a page refresh reveals the change didn't save. But the real reason I wanted to post wasn't about #ClickUp particularly but about #chatbots in general. They verified that my issue was an actual bug and created a ticket for it but the way I've

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

2/6: For example, right now I have some recurring tasks that will not allow an update to their due date manually. If I set a new date it resets back to the original date. Even more concerning is that this isn't clear from the UI. #tasks #productivity #clickup

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

1/6: I've been using #ClickUp for a few months now...and like every other #productivity tool I've used over the last number of years it has its pros and cons. It's got a lot of features but sometimes pretty basic features don't "just work" - and that makes me unhappy. 🙁 #tasks

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Looks like it should redirect to support.discord.com/hc/en-us/com... probably?

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

3/3 Also, the inability to set time limits (and offline) on mobile is a bit maddening. P.S. The help article says to go to feedback.discord.com to provide feedback but that just redirects to support.discord.com (where the article pointing to feedback.discord.com exists). #discord

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

2/3 doesn't notice a time limit has been set. Please either revert this change or add a settings option that allows us to say what we want the default to be (e.g. invisible) and then we can manually change it to be online if we want it to be. #discord

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

1/3 @discord.com the new defaulting to limited time for status is super annoying. I usually want to default as offline and defaulting to a limited time period is driving me crazy. The UI experience assumes one wants a limited time and unless one checks carefully one often #discord

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Strange to me, but they only show a few projects at a time, you have to paginate through them and the API grunts about auth. I see some projects on github, etc. but I'm not seeing anything focused on projects particularly. #ai #llm #question #code #vibecoding #chatgpt #projects

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The projects functionality in #chatgpt shows promise but lacks some basic functionality - e.g. sorting, reordering, nesting. Is anyone aware of code out there to manage / override the projects UI? I've some basic #vibecoding but haven't had great success. #ai #llm #question #code #projects

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(6/6) My #question is, are there #books you've read that you'd considered "must reads" on psychological / #mental #health? Not just mental illness, but mental health?

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(5/6) In addition one might include Joel Fuhrman's Eat for Life (I'm reading it now, I originally read Eat to Live) for nutritional health (which affects psychological) and David Allen's Getting Things Done (still one of the most influential books I've read on productivity).

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(4/6) The latter two are both more things I extract from the #books rather than the books themselves and both are couched in ways that make them not ideally suited to the topic...but still the best I've found.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(3/6) Peter Rutter's #Sex in the Forbidden Zone has also been instrumental in forming my understanding of the unhealthy ways romantic interest manifests. Anne Wilson Schaef's Co-Dependence: Misunderstood--Mistreated is the best I've read explaining how "being good" can oftentimes actually be bad.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(2/6) - Sue Johnson's Hold Me Tight (romantic/marital #relationships) - Peter Kramer's Against #Depression (on why depression is not a creative gift or sign of moral incompetence, biological underpinnings)

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

(1/6) when it comes to #psychology and #mentalhealth I've read a decent number of #books on the topic. I think the best I've read are: - David D. Burns' Feeling Good ( #CBT generally including #anxiety, #depression)

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I'm also shocked that #OpenAI does not have a huge banner informing users that it is currently retaining logs of all conversations - even if the user has opted out! 🤯🤯🤯😬😬😬 Am I missing something here?! arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats

OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

So over two weeks ago #OpenAI was ordered to retain all conversation logs from all users - including API users. 🤯 This is mind-blowing - I can't imagine most corporations are able to use OpenAI at all until this order is rescinded?!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 31/05/2025

New benchmark just dropped: SnitchBench by Theo Browne tests if LLMs will snitch on you to the authorities if you feed them incriminating documents and a tool that lets them send email, as seen in the Claude 4 System Card Turns out they pretty much all will! simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/...

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How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM

A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card—which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to …

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

4/4 - Gary B. Nash, "Social Change and the Growth of Prerevolutionary Urban Radicalism" in The American Revolution (ed. Alfred F. Young, Northern Illinois University Press, 1976), pg. 11 #history #quote #politics

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Dave Mackey @davidshq.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

3/4 would not listen to pleas from the community could be forced through collective action to subordinate profits to the public need." #history

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