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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 29/09/2026

Microsoft Edge has a "create QR code from this page" feature

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 15/09/2026

Jev: Fable-level model that doesn’t charge for output tokens because they’re too cheap to meter it’s not general though, it only makes decisions, doesn’t generate text, but input tokens are measured by the billion ($42/btok) typesafe.ai/blog/introdu...

Scatter plot titled "Average of 4 workflows: accuracy vs cost" comparing AI models from TypeSafe, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Fireworks across accuracy (y-axis, 40% to 80%) and cost per workflow in USD on a logarithmic scale (x-axis, $0.0001 to $1).
Data points are split into two categories: workflows (diamonds) and single prompts (circles). A frontier line highlights the most efficient workflow models—where no point is both cheaper and more accurate—connecting Jev (TypeSafe) at $0.0002 and 68% accuracy, luna (OpenAI) at $0.002 and 67% accuracy, terra (OpenAI) at $0.04 and 68% accuracy, and sol (OpenAI) at the top accuracy of 74% for $0.08. Single prompts (circles) and Anthropic models (opus 5, sonnet 5, haiku 4.5) sit below the frontier line, indicating higher cost for equivalent or lower accuracy.

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em @foremphasis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think its deeply weird to make up and use a slur for robots, and it doesnt really matter if they are "conscious". If they are its bad for the obvious reasons, if not then its still just cringe to revel in mock cruelty.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 25/08/2026

Stadia "negative latency" but make it LLMs

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 23/08/2026

Far and away the worst bond theme, also

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boneskull @boneskull.dev · 23/08/2026

sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/08... I agree with a lot of this, which is weird given my career building CLIs (but not TUIs). can’t think of a single one that I wouldn’t rather be a native GUI 😬

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Stop Making TUIs

It's time to stop drawing user interfaces with punctuation characters. Native UI is a completely solved problem.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 19/08/2026

the foothills of the singularity

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Carlos Scheidegger @cscheid.net · 09/08/2026

Nail this on the fucking doors of Those People. You know who they are.

A screenshot of an excerpt from the linked document. It reads:

Of course, LLM outputs are not entirely empty of meaning. They can reason through open math problems, after all, so synthetic text must convey some valuable suggestions and correct claims. But they often fail to comply with Grice’s rules of pragmatic communication because they are not engaged in a cooperative exchange. LLMs will generate extraneous filler, add irrelevant caveats, confabulate, and compress claims beyond easy recovery. To find a nugget of meaning, the user must sift through mounds of slop—and some simply won’t bother. They’ll serve the slop unfiltered to another party, who performs this interpretive labor themselves, only to discover that the underlying meaning does not exist. When someone expects me to perform their share of this interpretive labor, I get angry. Grice’s rules are, in essence, rules of etiquette—their unwarranted violation is rude.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 05/08/2026

Someone get Clausewitz on the blower

Iran is not seeking a "decisive military victory," according to Reuters.

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 03/08/2026

There are so many bad trends in tech, but maybe one of the worst is people who write (or used to write, pre-LLMs) code describing themselves "forward-deployed" when they mean that they work at a client site, based on wanting to emulate military jargon so it sounds like they're going to kill people.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 21/07/2026

I got your artificial intelligence right here

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apenwarr @apenwarr.ca · 19/07/2026

Alarmed at this trend of people finally realizing MCP is a pointless abstraction, then skipping right over publishing a regular boring API, and instead launching new CLIs for agents to use for some reason. It’s baffling.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 15/07/2026

Sounds to me like a profound failure of "formal training"

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Holland Oates @phinsphan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

Maps of US showing the number of post 8am sunrises and latest sunrises of year with permanent daylight saving time from
https://savestandardtime.com/maps/

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Now that we're a few weeks into the World Cup and I'm seeing some godawful Takes on global soccer I'm issuing a public reminder: It's fine to just shut the fuck up about things you don't actually know anything about

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

for Americans just getting into the game, remember, you don't have to wait four years to experience this sort of unhinged corruption you can watch international criminals buy teams to launder money week in and week out in league football

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 04/07/2026

I say such people have been "silicolonized."

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

in tears at the guy throwing down the kangaroo after that PK

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

We can have democracy or the Supreme Court

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 27/06/2026

I didn't know Hitachi had a federal practice; hopefully this campaign is generating some buzz.

Hitachi Federal. What's next for your agency?

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 14/06/2026

I see you've set the dial to "spicelord."

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 09/06/2026

It's everywhere they want to be.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 07/06/2026

The 90! 🫩 minute Amtrak trip from Baltimore to Alexandria has three phases: BAL - WAS Wait at WAS for a change of engines from electric to diesel WAS - ALX electrify everything who has time for this

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 05/06/2026

eyeing this domain for the thousandth time

Considering registering the domain fatalistcycling.club

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Grace 🏳️‍⚧️ @gemofamara.com · 04/06/2026

are you just going to do this for every generation

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 02/06/2026

I'm always surprised by what trips in the DMV are faster and cheaper on an ebike than getting on the Metro.

Capital Bikeshare ride from Alexandria, VA to Columbia Heights, DC. $5.25

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 31/05/2026

"Existing sandboxes and containers felt hard to use day-to-day" How so?

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 31/05/2026

Another trip to NY, another complaint about the pointless irritation of boarding @amtrak.com trains single file. It doesn't have to be like this!

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 30/05/2026

Emirates vs Qatar Airways lfg

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Yvonne Lam @yvonnezlam.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Tangentially, it continues to bug me that people are willing to structure information for machines that they weren't willing to structure for other people, e.g. coworkers.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 21/05/2026

I asked someone to stop doing this behind me before a concert and they reacted like I was the one being rude. Game's gone.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 21/05/2026

Shoestring, crinkle, waffle, curly, wedge, sweet potato

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David Neuzerling @md.neuzerl.ing · 21/05/2026

There’s a deeper skill that goes beyond specific technical expertise: can you articulate a problem you are facing with words such that others can understand it? You know the folks who just say “it’s not working” and give no details? They can’t prompt.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 21/05/2026

You should listen to the interview; Duke would be the centralized ownership in question and some of their peers have adopted distributed batteries because it makes business sense.

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Arsenal FC @arsenalfc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 16/05/2026

Prosecuting the Global War on Protein

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 15/05/2026

I think it really shines in the literate programming context, especially in scientific computing contexts e.g. quarto.org/docs/computa... the alternatives here are all way more painful to use.

quarto.org

Using Python – Quarto

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Kieran Doyle @kierdoyle.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Honestly, this happening is the best possible outcome for fixing corners this offseason.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 07/05/2026

If you already know that the lastest commits were moved by a force push and you know where to send me and you sent me here from the notification ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

"we went looking everywhere, but couldn't find those commits", or, GitHub anti rebase propaganda

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

you could not ask for a better crystallizing point indicator than Texas beating California if you want to have an energy transition, you need a permissive regulatory structure that allows businesses to build the energy transition is fundamentally a problem of building green energy infrastructure

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Ed @ed3d.net · 06/05/2026

a critical difference between woke 1 and woke 2 is the understanding that woo is something to be fought tooth and nail

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 04/05/2026

I agree, I'm mostly wishcasting about what it would be like if revdepcheck was a property of GitHub rather than an exercise in filling out cran-comments.md.

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 03/05/2026

It's nice to think about what it would be like in a world where the first couple of features described here were properties of the code host instead of... whatever it is we're doing. #rstats

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E. David Aja @edavidaja.com · 02/05/2026

Do you remember ChatOps?

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