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Dominik Picheta

@dom96.picheta.me
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Software Engineer at Cloudflare. Ex-Meta. Building projects off and on ATProto, including @scrapboard.org, @onlyhumanhub.com and @listifications.app 👱‍♂️ Verified human: onlyhumanhub.com/profile/dom96.pich… 🔗 picheta.me

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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 28/09/2026
Sonnet 5.5 is worse than Sonnet 5 on my adversarial esoteric language benchmark. Seems to be due to 5.5 wanting more reassurance from the user, rather than just pushing to complete the task given.
bench.killswitch-lang.org
KillSwitch-Bench
A benchmark for evaluating coding agents on tasks in an adversarial esoteric language.
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EmDash CMS @emdashcms.com · 28/09/2026
EmDash 1.0 is here! A modern, secure CMS, built on Astro as the spiritual successor to WordPress. Plugins run in secure sandboxes, and the distributed plugin registry is powered by Atproto!
emdashcms.com
EmDash 1.0: an open source CMS for Astro
Announcing EmDash 1.0, a stable, free and open source CMS built on Astro.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 27/09/2026
My Northern Irish home town is in international news because Protestants want to march through a Catholic area with their silly orange marches.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 22/09/2026
It's crazy that MiMo V2.6 Pro is both cheaper AND performs better than GPT-6 Sol. bench.killswitch-lang.org
MiMo V2.6 Pro with a 38.7% score.

Muse Spark 1.3 at 36.4%

GPT-6 Sol at 28%
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 22/09/2026
I tested Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro on my LLM benchmark and it is the highest scoring open-weight model seen so far. Beats Muse Spark 1.3 on price. 👉 bench.killswitch-lang.org
KillSwitch-Bench
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/09/2026
If you look closely there is an ATProto example on that page. Best place to host your Python code (and ATProto apps) is on Cloudflare!
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 20/09/2026
My first Rust package crates.io/crates/kills... 🚀
crates.io
crates.io: Rust Package Registry
crates.io serves as a central registry for sharing crates, which are packages or libraries written in Rust that you can use to enhance your projects
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/09/2026
Today I am releasing KillSwitch: a new programming language designed to be difficult for LLMs to write, edit and understand. It makes for a great benchmark suite for LLM models and is a lot of fun to program in. Check it out 👇 killswitch-lang.org
killswitch-lang.org
KillSwitch
An esoteric programming language built to break LLMs and coding agents.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/09/2026
Today I am releasing KillSwitch: a new programming language designed to be difficult for LLMs to write, edit and understand. It makes for a great benchmark suite for LLM models and is a lot of fun to program in. Check it out 👇 killswitch-lang.org
killswitch-lang.org
KillSwitch
An esoteric programming language built to break LLMs and coding agents.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/09/2026
Planning to release something big tomorrow.
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John Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of the 'vox pops' from #newsnight last night was quite intelligent.
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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
HELLO MY FRIENDS DO ANY OF YOU IDENTIFY AMPHIBIANS?!
A frog, or maybe a toad, sticking his cheeky grey-blue head out of some water in an old bucket.A frog, or maybe a toad, judgementally glaring from a pile of leaves before they hop away from the paparazzi
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 11/09/2026
Who is up for volunteering to do a few short programming exercises using their wonderful human brains as a comparison benchmark against LLMs?
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 11/09/2026
Ask yourself: is ridding social media of bots and sock puppet accounts worth a third party company processing your passport data? When every border you’ve ever passed through has the same data in plain text for anyone to steal eventually anyway?
bleepingcomputer.com
220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak
Exclusive: An exposed Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database held 220 million passenger and crew records containing names, passport numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, and flight det...
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 11/09/2026
I'm so excited to release this LLM benchmark I'm working on out into the world.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 10/09/2026
First time benchmarking LLM models and it's already so interesting. Kimi 2.7 started dissecting my binary.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 09/09/2026
So now with Siri Recap I guess I won’t be able to talk to anyone with an Apple Watch without worrying about being recorded. Fun.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 09/09/2026
Synth ID and reference image. Finally Apple is doing something to prove image authenticity.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 09/09/2026
Tried to watch the Apple event on Apple TV. Searched around for it and couldn’t find it. What a miss from them.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 07/09/2026
Yeah no, this isn't AGI. Astra can't even write a Hello World in my new language. 🥲
A screenshot of GPT-6 Astra attempting to write a Hello World example in the KillSwitch programming language.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
📌 ICYMI: The Peter Thiel Backed Race Science Network There is a connection between the two Cambridge Professors. Orr was part of the ‘race realist’ group which targeted Arday as a ‘DEI hire’ Support our investigations
bylinetimes.com
The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 04/09/2026
Sometimes it feels like I’m playing Factorio, managing all these different coding agents and making sure they are all fed with enough resources (prompts) to continue
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Verbatim @verbatim-media.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Our yearlong investigation reveals Nigel Farage courting illicit funding as part of a plot to bring foreign money into British politics, orchestrated by his top aides and caught on hidden camera.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 03/09/2026
Yep, watch this now. Amazing reporting.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 03/09/2026
One very striking thing watching this Channel 4 News / Verbatim investigation is…Nigel Farage and the people surrounding him are not exactly geniuses, are they? I mean this looks like blatant disregard for basic rules, but they've been caught out by the oldest trick in the book.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 30/08/2026
Added randomness to my esoteric language and then a week later I'm stumped why my program is failing 50% of the time.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 29/08/2026
Any write ups about how Bluesky handles misbehaving PDS'? i.e. PDS' which lack good moderation Any website out there which show PDS' which have been banned?
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 27/08/2026
Thought it was cats confirmed in GTA6 but on second look this just seems to be a chihuahua.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 27/08/2026
Still waiting on a response from the wonderfully phishy moderation@blueskyweb.xyz. Do they ever respond? Is there any way to escalate?
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 26/08/2026
Well that's fun arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... It will sure make using the name "Twitter" more annoying
arstechnica.com
New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name
Judge hasn't ruled on X Corp’s preliminary injunction, but Operation Bluebird plows ahead...
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 26/08/2026
God damn it. RIP Tim Curry.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 26/08/2026
Another day where I am deeply unimpressed by @moderation.bsky.app
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 25/08/2026
What's happening to Nitter (arguably Nim's most popular project) is quite interesting. They received a cease and desist from X. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4943...
news.ycombinator.com
Nitter project received cease and desist | Hacker News
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 25/08/2026
The temptation to build a stumbleupon clone rises every day. The question is: can I seed it with Bsky data?
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 24/08/2026
Ugh. The irony is that through their "humanity verification" they are best placed to properly moderate their network. Wouldn't happen on @onlyhumanhub.com, but then again I don't have the EU contacts to make it _the_ social network for Europe.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 24/08/2026
Slightly meta, but this is a great example of how to share concerns/disagreements with a technical decision respectfully. Of course, there are already people in the replies calling it "dumb". Which is precisely how not to do it.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 23/08/2026
Hilarious exchange
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 23/08/2026
The National Cycle Route network may be one of the best British inventions.
Horses with sunset behind themPlease do not feed the horse. He is on a special diet.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 23/08/2026
Something so satisfying about writing code which can be tested precisely and accurately using unit tests. It's what makes parsers, lexers and compilers so satisfying to implement.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 23/08/2026
Unlike iPhone vs. Android, there are no forces keeping you stuck to a particular AI model.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 22/08/2026
Let's gooooo steal another declaration of independence www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...
inquirer.com
Director confirms ‘National Treasure 3’ with Nic Cage is ‘finally real’ at Philly’s ‘National Treasure’ Weekend
Director Jon Turteltaub said one of the reasons it's taken nearly two decades to make another film in the franchise is because of the political climate of the country.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/08/2026
Seems I can't reply in that thread anymore. Honestly I don't recall what you said with regards to onlyhumanhub. Yes, you're right that this is a side effect of social media enabling cheap anonymity. But it's not the full story.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/08/2026
Unpopular opinion: do record concerts with your phone I listen to so much music from concerts on YouTube and I appreciate anyone and everyone recording and uploading it.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/08/2026
Curious what involvement Microsoft has here.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 21/08/2026
Every so often I remember I wanted to build my own GIF search engine because every time I use one it feels really crappy. Then I remember I went to a professor at my uni who specialised in this sort of thing and he killed all my motivation by saying how hard it is.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 20/08/2026
Will this pave the way to private blocks/lists and private accounts?
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 20/08/2026
I wonder how many people are going to buy the Switch 2 because of the price increase. Like I just did.
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/08/2026
Seems the .ks extension I picked for my new programming language is already taken by a Kerbal Space Program language 😅
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 19/08/2026
Is there a worse feeling than when you've had a great idea in your head, were about to write it down, then you get distracted by something else and end up forgetting what it was? UGHHHH
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Dominik Picheta @dom96.picheta.me · 17/08/2026
I finally received a phishing email that actually did a pretty good job. * Pretends my payment method needs to be updated * GMail delivered it to me as "important" * All text looks legit If you're a @1password.bsky.social user then beware. The clues: domain name and email address (waterbabies?!)
Phishing email campaign for 1Passwordscreenshot of where the phishing email leads
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