Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Happy to report that the finder.com.au chat bot can be chipotle’d. 010
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026Yea. In my case I really really want people to learn stuff before an incident rather than us not knowing things when machines are crashing all around us 020
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/04/2026To paraphrase something I said in a talk at work this week: “yes, but only if you know that the process of writing that little script won’t teach you something that will be more useful later on” 100
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 23/04/2026I mean, you’re not wrong, although a fence never paged me 110
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 23/04/2026Rather than quitting tech to farm or run a cafe, I’ve decided that I’d start Chestertons Fencing. 240
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 16/04/2026I use Scroll Reverser with a Logitech MX Vertical over Bluetooth and it seems to work ok. OTOH, I’ve worn out a few scroll wheels so idk maybe it’s bad for me and I don’t realise. 010
Reposted by Daniel AxtensKara N. Slade @karanslade.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Psalm 10, ripped from the headlines. Getting my news from the Daily Office Lectionary. 14614
Reposted by Daniel AxtensMicah @rincewind.run · 04/04/2026Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal 181650523
Reposted by Daniel AxtensJosiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 04/04/2026Some kings threaten to rain down Hell on others. Only one went down into Hell himself to get others out. 1272
Reposted by Daniel AxtensSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 02/04/2026this is an incredibly thoughtful post 67914
Reposted by Daniel AxtensWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 20/03/2026I think I come down to the "you put your name on it, you vouch for it unconditionally, every word, regardless of LLM use" side of the debate rather than the "you should explicitly say if you used an LLM always" side. Too much potential to use the machine to dodge accountability 1231631
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 17/03/2026No-one has let me change my Australian constitution joke in decades 030
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 06/03/2026My usual approaches are useless here. I can’t build my own llm. I can’t look at the source or throw it in a disassembler - it’s just matrix multiplication. Even if I understood multihead attention properly, the weights do not have individual meanings in the ways I am used to from code or circuits 000
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 06/03/2026LLMs feel unknowable. I find this viscerally unpleasant. Yes, computers are unfathomably complex but each level follows predictable rules you can understand with reading, logic and trial and error. (Conditions apply.) Dunno how to understand X00 bn parameters. Perhaps at some level it can be done? 100
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 06/03/2026Uplink! Now that is a name I’ve not heard in a long time. I was a big fan of the games Ambrosia published on the Mac - put many hours into the escape velocity series as a kid in particular. I think I was a bit too young to really click with uplink but I should give it another go sometime 010
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 02/03/2026“Cautiously optimistic about <small area>, extremely scared about <large areas>” is an AI take I think I’m hearing more frequently from serious people. 010
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Hey grok, what’s the opposite of “go woke, go broke”? 010
Reposted by Daniel AxtensTom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 27/01/2026Donald J. Trump: "We're bringing back God" God: 39943
Reposted by Daniel AxtensHeliograph @heliograph.bsky.social · 26/01/2026#apropos #cops #lawenforcement 16415
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 18/01/2026youtu.be/Vly-YWB-gJ0youtu.beThe Herd - The King is DeadYouTube video by Elefant Traks 110
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026www.aldeka.net/portfolio/it... stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attach... 110
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 15/01/2026An image I would like for my work slack but which I have too much self-respect to generate with AI: sickos-yes.jpg but with Ferris the rust crab 110
Reposted by Daniel AxtensP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 13/01/2026Guy who went to mime school: that’s a video. That’s a picture. That’s an octet stream. 2556962
Reposted by Daniel AxtensDave Hemprich-Bennett @davehb.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Amid all the arguments back and forth about if the government should ban twitter or not I think we’re leaving out one of the key details: they should ban twitter because I would personally find it very funny 038272
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 11/01/2026Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems 211323
Reposted by Daniel AxtensBCP Minus Context @bcpminuscontext.bsky.social · 10/01/2026boldly rebuke vice 03617
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 03/01/2026Every once in a while I wonder about supply chains. Like what if we couldn’t make new (modern) computers for a decade or so? Or, idk, how are the medicines I take made - and where? 000
Reposted by Daniel AxtensAndrew Donnellan @andrew.donnellan.id.au · 22/11/2025on the job market, if you've got any leads for mid-level software engineering roles (in Canberra or remote), let me know! 041
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/10/2025I do remember it from the informatics camps! I don't think I ever observed it in the wild anywhere else. 020
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Were there problems with early VeggieTales? Sure. Do I still use the line "But I must go into the world and do noble things for the good of all" about once a week? Absolutely. 130
Reposted by Daniel Axtensupāsaka cattasallā @fing.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Pretty accurate summation of that teaching, for sure. 3879273
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Well Americans, if you want to try any more successful Australian governance arrangements, might I suggest copying this 1977 referendum? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Au...en.m.wikipedia.org1977 Australian referendum (Retirement of judges) - Wikipedia 010
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 07/06/2025People are using AI to refactor code, which suggests a collapse in the great computer art of horrifying single-use regexes 020
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Naww, you are very kind Kate! Also, yes, come work with us! 170
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 26/05/2025Ok we finally use enough rust at work that compile times irk me 2321
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Just, umm, don’t go too far in their back catalogue because (speaking as an Australian and an occasional Hoods enjoyer) the casual homophobia of the early 2000s is pretty bad. 000
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 19/05/2025Ooo I have been poking at this too and was also thinking of trying to actually get an (admittedly very small impact) PR out. Will be fascinated to see where you’ve focused 020
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Hardest bug I’ve worked on in my 3 years there has been a data race, so that checks out 020
Daniel Axtens @daxtens.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Come work at Fastly with Kate and me! It’s an opening on my team, and we do really cool stuff. 170
