Reposted by James Finnie-AnsleyEddie Antonio Santos @eddieantonio.ca · 27/09/2026Reason #47 for why you too should maintain a Python package called "crimes": 011
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 15/05/2026But we don't spend all our time mindlessly cutting pieces of paper in half. We tend to read text on pieces of paper; and it would be nice if the paper sizes we use were amenable to an aesthetic text layout that is easy to read. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 15/05/2026"Oh! but you can cut a piece of A4 paper in half and still end up with the same length-to-width ratio!" I don't care. If I spent all my time interacting with paper by cutting it in half and ogling the resulting aspect ratios of the two new pieces of paper, then that might be a nice property. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 15/05/2026This is a hill I will die on: A4 paper is ugly. There is nothing you can do to the text on a piece of A4 paper to make it look nice. Single-column text is either too wide or has margins that are too large, and multi-column text has columns that are either too long or too skinny. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/05/2026No cap, we can cook by knowledge-maxxing and investing in cracked human assets to code-mog the competitors. BFFR, these goofy ahh jestermaxxing iPad kid sloperators are low-key mid 🥀 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/05/2026How I feel when a digital library downloads a .bib file instead of letting me copy and paste the BibTeX 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 30/04/2026How many more Microslop flopdates can GitDud handle before people really start looking for alternatives? 🥀 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 17/04/2026Rule #1 of live coding presentations: make the font larger, and then make it larger than that. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 16/04/2026Introducing the Velveeta™ AI Pump-action Cheese Warmer and Dispenser. Don't let the heat generated from those tokens go to waste with the Velveeta™ AI Pump-action Cheese Warmer and Dispenser. I am looking for $50 million in investment. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 16/04/2026At this point they could put AI in Velveeta™ cheese product and I wouldn't be surprised.rnz.co.nzKiwi founded shoe company Allbirds pivots to AIThe Kiwi-founded shoe company is changing its name to NewBird AI, with shares surging 700%. 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/04/2026That’s my last book sitting on the shelf, looking as if she were alive. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/04/2026Why is it that whenever I near finishing a book I can’t stop myself from imagining what it will look like on my bookshelf when I’m finished with it like I’m Alfonso II d’Este. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 13/04/2026Since nothing on the internet is sacred these days, I feel obliged to point out that this post was a joke.en.wikipedia.orgPoe's law - Wikipedia 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 13/04/2026AI is entering its legacy epoch. We are in a new era of quantum-resilient zero-trust blockchain-native encryption ecosystems that will fundamentally change the trust layer solutions for digital stakeholders. The future is in next-gen quantum distributed ledgers with end-to-end cryptographic agility. 210
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 07/04/2026Technical debt? Cognitive debt? Comprehension debt? How about “debt debt”: the debt we’re in because we’re just sitting around talking about how much debt we’re in while the gears of the machine grind unwaveringly onward. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/04/2026I’m always looking for more digital stores to add to drm-free.info. If you know of any drm-free digital media/software vendors please feel free to contribute to the project by making an issue or pull request (repo linked in site footer), or let me know of any stores I’ve missed and I can add them.drm-free.infodrm-free.infoA list of DRM-free vendors for music, books, and other media 021
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 01/04/2026Every year, Poe’s law’s chokehold on the internet only gets stronger. April fool, everyone – it’s only a matter of time until someone makes an AI Labubu Subway Surfer Trading Card IDE plugin for real. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20267/7 “Aw, shit, man, I thought you was a fucking moose.” — Ursula K. Le Guin 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20266/7 “Claire? They say I have beautiful eyes. Is it true? So lovely it seems that I may not close them at all. Not even at night to sleep.” — Jeanne in Penderecki’s “The Devils of Loudun” 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20265/7 "Yes, sir, only having suffered greatly, as I suffered, only thanks to that did I understand where the root of it all lies, understand what ought to be, and therefore see all the horror of what is." — Pozdnyshev in Tolstoy’s “The Kreutzer Sonata” 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20264/7 "If destiny had placed me on the throne, if it had been I who was queen, I would not have waited for the mob to come and snatch me from my palace. My death would have been felt across the entire universe. Three days before my death I would reveal to the people my intentions" — Lucile Duplessis 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20263/7 "... she smiled, no doubt, Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive. Will’t please you rise?" — Robert Browning 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20262/7 "Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return" — Oscar Wilde 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/20261/7 "On the contrary, it was painful and killed my best feelings. I begged God to give me strength to create and now too I ask God the same." — Galina Ustvolskaya 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 31/03/2026Here are seven inspirational quotes to use as epigraphs for your thesis: 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 26/03/2026Quotes from the middle ground: a couple of sticks together are alright. 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 25/03/2026Quotes from the middle ground: you can have half a cake and eat the other. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 25/03/2026malus.shmalus.shMALUS - Clean Room as a Service | Liberation from Open Source Attribution 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 09/03/2026If only there were a non-controversial podcast that I could listen to about this 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026It seems that the only way to get LLMs to do anything is to take the hard work of other people – nice to see that they are staying true to their origins. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026Maintainers have even started doing this to their own repositories for benign reasons like translating the codebase (in the case of ladybird), or as a cheap trick to change a repository's licence (in the case of chardet) 200
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026They have tried, unsuccessfully, to build a browser and a C compiler by throwing money at LLMs, and have now moved to taking other projects' test suites to build project clones. 100
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026I wonder if some weirdo is going to create an auto-cleanroom tool that uses LLMs to duplicate software using fuzzing to test byte-for-byte equivalent behaviour. They'll probably give it a stupid name like ClawdRoom or GPTFuzz or something. 200
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 04/03/2026The connect and disconnect notification sounds on my headphones unexpectedly changed. This might be enough to finally push me over the edge. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 28/02/2026Every time I see these stupid laundry capsules at the supermarket I think "Oh cool, they got C merch!" before I am bitterly disappointed when I realise what they are. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 17/02/2026Beautiful. The AI generated a touching photo of meemaw holding a bottle of Coca-Cola® and using her favourite VPN on her new Microsoft Surface Laptop®. Those were her two favourite things in the whole world. It’s just how I remember her. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 14/02/2026That feeling when you’re a supervised process amiright? #OTPMemes 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 12/02/2026I am being incredibly normal about the new barista at the café I go to 020
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 06/02/2026I love that having any accessibility options set in GNOME adds this little ghoulie to the top bar 110
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 28/01/2026COLD-HEARTED BREAKUP? Man seen across supermarket aisle already wearing wedding ring. More on this story as and when we have it. 010
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 24/01/2026Maybe they’re going to play 4d chess and try to reclaim the word slop 000
James Finnie-Ansley @jamesansley.com · 23/01/2026I keep on thinking about this tweet I posted on my (since deleted) Twitter... because, I didn't make a viral Tumblr post about a horse in 2019, but I did make a viral Tumblr post about a horse in 2023, and I keep wondering if I'm four years off and 2028 is going to be curtains for me 010
