Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 22/08/2026Gave new Siri a PDF of the school schedule for this year and asked it to create calendar entries on our family calendar for days off. And … it worked. 020
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 20/08/2026When in Europe, always reminded why GDPR was felt to be needed. Every random hotel requires my birthplace, date of birth, passport number, phone, email, fingerprints, DNA sequence, and a recent drug test. OK, maybe not those last three, but the amount of data collected here is ludicrous. 010
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/08/2026Amusing to see financial analysis comparing SpaceX to early American railroads in a positive light. I mean, positive for society, yes. Not so great for investors. 🤣 But by all means, finance the next generation infrastructure build-out! 000
Reposted by Ethan JewettJohn Patterson @jasper07.secondphase.com.au · 07/08/2026 "Sophisticated readers can sniff out LLM-generated text, which inevitably hurts your credibility with them" 032
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 31/07/2026Listening to Zombie (Cranberries) in the car this weekend. 13 year-old: This is the bad version. Adults: What? 13 year-old: The 2025 remaster. [comparison ensues] You know what? The kid is right. The original version is way better. 140
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/05/2026Are there proposals to build data centers in the city of Minneapolis? 250
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/05/2026Apparently the full-court-press of LinkedIn AI-generated support for SAP’s new API Policy is *on*. The AI “influencers” are going for the Sapphire-driven SAP executive repost juice. 150
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/05/2026Just have to start to get comfortable with doing things for ourselves again. 030
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/05/2026Just used an em-dash in a message. Had to follow it up with an assurance that it was an organically made em-dash. I’m now anti-AI because I can’t just use an em-dash like a normal person. 240
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 09/04/2026LinkedIn is even more of a cesspool than it used to be. Wall to wall AI content that is obviously so. It’s a bit depressing when you see people you respect posting AI generated content that has none of their own voice. 230
Reposted by Ethan JewettEmily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 09/11/2025pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff. 13143594268
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 07/11/2025I think it’s worth noting that this is evenly distributed precinct level data. The dots are *not* the actual locations where the people who voted live. This probably results in artificially stark boundaries between precincts. I notice some people drawing conclusions based on this artifact. 130
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/08/2025I misspoke. I exhausted the *plus* allocation. Using it for data entry and requirements analysis. 000
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 11/08/2025ChatGPT Agent mode is proving to be really useful for certain tasks. To the point that I’ve exhausted the Pro allocation. 😬 320
Reposted by Ethan JewettMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/06/2025“I personally was pretty surprised, actually, at how efficient the government was,” Sahil Lavingia told NPR's Juana Summers.npr.orgFormer DOGE engineer says federal waste and fraud were 'relatively nonexistent'NPR's Juana Summers talks with Sahil Lavingia, who worked for the Department of Government Efficiency as a software engineer assigned to the Department of Veterans Affairs, about his experience. 22173292839
Reposted by Ethan JewettJelena Perfiljeva @jelenaatlarge.bsky.social · 12/06/2025If you missed my epic SAP EWM talk at ABAPConf in Vienna, the replay is available here: youtu.be/9TblU8tz8_4?... Presentation slides should be shared soon. Here is a taste. :) 0102
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/06/2025The Gödel posts on AI over on LinkedIn are killing me. Great minds over there interpret the incompleteness theorem to imply whatever they please - and specifically that computers (“formal systems” 🤣) can’t think or be conscious. Proof positive that humans hallucinate too. 000
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 27/04/2025AI/mind spiritualists are all up in my LinkedIn feed. They are so sure that humans are special. I’ve been a materialist for a long time. Human cognition is amazing, even awe-inspiring, but I don’t think it’s special. It has its faults as well as its close parallels in the natural world. 010
Reposted by Ethan JewettMekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 30/03/2025Hey, yall thought I was harsh when I said this over the years. I said what I said. Do you still think it's harsh now? Some of y'all think you are somewhat safe but you are not, because you are surrounded by unreliable people. It's better to have a smaller group that will not cash you in. 518041
Reposted by Ethan JewettPhillips (she/her) 🪓 @mizzpoppyseed.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Still a banger: harpers.org/archive/1941...harpers.orgWho Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson 021
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 30/03/20256. Biggest Polestar 2 design flaw remains the single cup-holder design. 🤣 7. Pilot assist & radar cruise control have been pretty solid. Only conked out once not due to rain/fog. I continue to be a bit unhappy with the level of oversteering. It does require constant supervision, but it helps. 000
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 30/03/20255. ABRP is pretty conservative about efficiency (estimates car is about 25% less efficient than it actually is). Means that I need to get more aggressive about state of charge. Only arrived at one charger under 20%, which is not the most efficient way to go. 100
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 30/03/20253. ABRP has been really helpful for planning, but is buggy as &@#% and pretty terrible UI for navigation. Better to use it for planning and then use your preferred app for navigation. 4. CarPlay is so much better than vehicle UI/apps. And Polestar has a good built-in system, relative to comp. 100
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 30/03/2025Polestar 2 (2024 RWD LR) roadtrip observations: 1. Really like the experience of enforced short breaks. I estimate about a 10% increase in travel time. 2. Charging has been a non-issue. Electrify America has been solid and the Tesla adapter works fine if needed. 120
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 23/03/2025Guess Becka forgot her Popper. They might want to read up on the “paradox of tolerance”. 🤷🏻♂️ 0100
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 08/03/2025You cannot effectively program if you are not capable of building a fully functional computer with a soldering iron and a breadboard. 🤣🤷🏻♂️ Kids these days! 👴 0100
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 07/03/2025Well, I guess this is one way to deal with existential angst. 🤔 000
Reposted by Ethan JewettJelena Perfiljeva @jelenaatlarge.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Someone at SAP: "Yep, great example, totally better than old stuff. Very clear." 351
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 03/03/2025I mean, better to use dependency injection, but test seams are so much better than random conditionals mucking up the code. 120
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 03/03/2025That’s filthy. 🤣 But seriously, this is what test seams are for, isn’t it? 130
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 03/03/2025@getmozi.bsky.social What would be really nice to help me bootstrap my use of the app (used for 2 months - only 3 people in my network): being able to add people who aren’t on the app. No contact info required - just a name and a city. Help me remember to reach out. 000
Reposted by Ethan JewettJacek Woźniczak @jacekwoz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025Playing with #SAPCAP and #HANA database schema changes.jacekw.devJacek Woźniczak - [SAP BTP Chronicles #3] CAP framework and HANA Cloud migrationsALTER TABLE t ADD (troubles) 391
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 26/02/2025I discounted @tailscale.com for a while because @liss.bsky.social was the only one I’d ever heard talk about it, and let’s be honest, many (most?) of his computing choices are kind of weird. But I did try it and it has unlocked a whole toolkit of options for remote computing. Really awesome product. 241
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 18/02/2025Ok, this is amateur hour. I’d expect nothing more from the owner of this monstrosity, but for the rest of you: 1. Don’t turn the wheels 2. Rock back and forwards to clear a long path 3. Only once you can get up speed do you turn out as you hit the end of the path you cleared 010
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 16/02/2025Molly White on the crypto de-banking sham. Really good, detailed overview. www.citationneeded.news/crypto-indus...citationneeded.newsThe crypto industry’s debanking smokescreenCryptocurrency companies have co-opted legitimate concerns about banking discrimination to fight regulation — and Congress is buying it 020
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 16/02/2025Backs up my running theory that bankers are at least as dumb as the rest of us. 000
Reposted by Ethan Jewettnilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 15/02/2025These dummies could have had a compliant corporate Dem with literal Uber lobbyists on her staff and instead they did school shootings and measles 552218384
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 15/02/2025Picking fights about which fights people are picking seems like the wrong fight to pick. If someone is inspired to fight a wrong, seems like we should support that. (About the Atlantic article, not you, to be clear.) 000
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 10/02/2025Looks like the national Dems interpreted pleas to do something to stop the destruction as, “Fire up the SMS SPAM engine again!” 000
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 05/02/2025Everyone talking about Jevons Paradox since they figured out that Deepseek’s efficiency gains actually matter. 🤣 010
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 05/02/2025IMO, resource usage from AI is going to go up - a lot. We should be thoughtful about how we use it, though we are not going to be able to stop frivolous uses along the way. The challenge is to mitigate the problems that comes along with it. 110
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 05/02/2025Is it worth it to make an image for your social media post if it’s important information and it will mean hundreds of additional people read it? 200
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 05/02/2025Put a different way, if I said that about car usage, or even air travel, that would be a bit ridiculous. Why don’t people see it as ridiculous when it comes to AI? 100
Ethan Jewett @esjewett.com · 05/02/2025How does “it’s never worth it” leave room for consideration? 🤷🏻♂️🤣 100
Reposted by Ethan JewettSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2025o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation - feed it a codebase, get back a detailed explanation of how specific aspects of it work simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o...simonwillison.neto3-mini is really good at writing internal documentationI wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have [extensive hand-written documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/authentication.html) for... 618216