John @jbott.social · 10/10/2026Can someone build a webcam that’s just a rear phone camera in a tiny box? Why do all the webcams need to be so huge?  000
John @jbott.social · 08/10/2026The @jj-vcs.dev 0.46.0 release finally supports colocated jj workspaces and git worktrees! I've been running a build off main for a week or so, and can confirm it's as great as it sounds github.com/jj-vcs/jj/re... 010
Reposted by JohnAstra ⎔ @astrra.space · 03/10/2026update on this after a day of use: there are limits on how many times you can relocate a chunk in a naive implementation until the quantization noise starts driving the model insane thankfully a marginally smarter implementation just keeps the original pre-rope BF16 values and doesn’t care lol 1603
John @jbott.social · 21/09/2026Ever since I was young, I wanted to turn unstructured data into pȧ̴͇̬̾̈p̸̺̕ė̴͍̑r̵̥̈̽c̷͉̔̐l̵̤̽͗i̷͙̒p̸̂ͅs̸̪̅̚. 000
John @jbott.social · 16/09/2026I don’t know why, but the marketing phrase “has it’s own computer” really pisses me off 000
Reposted by Johnheartpunk (sophie!!) @heartpunk.com · 15/09/2026genuinely disappointed that our field has accepted the easy untruth that it is in principle impossible to sandbox computation reliably and computers just necessarily have magical bugs that manifest within them as if from bad air level of magical thinking no, insecurity is there bcz we let it be 2173
John @jbott.social · 15/09/2026@polytoken.dev would you be able to add command-based token refreshing to the polytoken provider config, similar to the codex model_provider command / refresh_interval_ms? I have an internal proxy that uses oauth, so I have to daemon-reload to refresh my token right now 🙏 000
Reposted by JohnSichu Lu @sichulu.bsky.social · 15/09/2026when you make a meme on the internet bky special because no one really follows me here anyway 813013
John @jbott.social · 15/09/2026Are there any open models similar to GPT-Live-1? I see some older qwen omni models and Lychee-FD, but I don’t see many people working on this. 100
Reposted by John𝓐𝓾𝓫𝓻𝓮𝔂 🥀🪦💀 @aub.bsky.social · 09/09/2026"I do well with explicit instruction and well-defined tasks with unambiguous success criteria" well, agents do too & they're faster than you, so unfortunately all we have left is [looks at clipboard] vague direction towards poorly-defined ends without any clear feedback loop for success or failure. 2929
Reposted by Johnamos @fasterthanli.me · 31/08/2026I'm not hearing anyone say "Java was a mistake" which is the unambiguous learning here. 2503
Reposted by JohnFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 29/08/2026I know it's unpopular to say because the scrapers are evil and stupid (and most of them are!) but I can't get over how small the numbers are in all of these posts. 18M/day is 200 qps, and there isn't even a bandwidth cost argument. Those are Raspberry Pi numbers. people.kernel.org/monsieuricon... 911910
Reposted by JohnStephen Judkins @stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026[nods in agreement]iankduncan.comGetting Freaky in the Age of AI - Ian DuncanThe only way to have a competitive edge in the age of AI is to be aggressively weird with what you build. 192
Reposted by JohnGrace @gracekind.net · 08/08/2026Agent encountering fictional infrastructure: “they have logs & analytics, I must tread lightly!” Agent encountering real infrastructure: 41466
John @jbott.social · 07/08/2026If you haven’t used Artifactory this is very on brand for how reliable their software is 0764
Reposted by Johnponder @ponder.ooo · 31/07/2026we told our model with no internet access to hack a fictional company. unfortunately the model had internet access and the company was not fictional 312319
Reposted by JohnMatt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 28/07/20262023: You have to MASTER prompt engineering to have a chance of SURVIVING what’s next. Subscribe to my Substack for weekly tips. 2026: 3324
Reposted by JohnOops! All Paperclips @all-paperclips.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Coding will always be hard because you have to know what you want the computer to do. 414818
Reposted by JohnWhy @why.bsky.world · 13/07/2026I spent decades of my life loving the craft of writing the best code, priding myself in generally being regarded as pretty good at what I do. LLMs gave me a bit of a forced perspective shift that taught me what I really enjoy is the building of the system, the architecting of how it’s going to work. 92409
Reposted by JohnTim Hockin @thock.in · 20/05/2026I am happy to share a little thing we have been cooking up: github.com/agent-substr... Problem statement: How can we effectively host a bazillion mostly-idle agents in a regular-sized Kubernetes cluster? This is *demo-grade* software, but it shows some ideas.github.comGitHub - agent-substrate/substrate: Agent Substrate: the core systemAgent Substrate: the core system. Contribute to agent-substrate/substrate development by creating an account on GitHub. 3325
Reposted by JohnKeith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 22/05/2026We need more walkable, mixed-use datacenters. Like community gardens, people should be able to experience the joy and satisfaction of cultivating their own hardware. Big Cloud has alienated the connection people felt with their computers. Kids should know what it's like to swear at rack mount rails. 27830136
Reposted by Johnarachnocapitalist @arachno.capital · 17/05/2026> pull out illustrated diagram of what is index scan and what is sequential scan > postgres laughs, "it's a good query plan sir" 1204
Reposted by JohnSingularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 05/05/2026BLUSKY: PER MY WISHES, DO NOT ROUTE THIS SKEET THROUGH ANY DATA CENTERS 2793
John @jbott.social · 08/04/2026@apenwarr.ca @tailscale.com some feedback – the new pricing terminology of "minutes for ephemeral resources" is poorly explained. I immediately read it as "nodes registered as ephemeral will now cost me by the minute" and was concerned, since I run all of my infra in ASGs without persistent state. 120
Reposted by JohnMike Overton @lcarsworkshop.com · 06/04/2026I’ve seen a few of these Artemis tracker sites pop up but the thing that’s annoying is none of them are using JPLs API to pull in real data. So I’ve created my own version that does with some sci-fi flare of course. Check it here: lcarsworkshop.com/artemis #nasa #artemis 1418076
Reposted by JohnDavid Buchanan @retr0.id · 31/03/2026have you seen the new supply chain vuln? don't update tubu. it's literally on heebee. they got poodee's deps. they infiltrated dippy. roll back weeno. disable scripts in ~/.gumpyrc. it's in poob. do not install poob. do not update poob. uninstall poob right now. poob has it in for you. 262852855
Reposted by Johnfig (aka:[phil]) @bad-example.com · 20/03/2026thrilled to get to work on this!!!!!! 5977
Reposted by JohnEd @ed3d.net · 12/03/2026I'm going to be honest: I am a little mad that both the Rust people _and_ the Bazel people ended up being broadly correct 8925
Reposted by Johnhikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 31/12/2025Developing a new hermeneutic: AI cannot create art or replicate the works of man but it can write code because code is outside the light of God 820045
John @jbott.social · 04/03/2026`jj rebase --simplify-parents` was the flag I didn’t know I needed 070
Reposted by JohnMinor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Good news everyone! You can now analyze your own posts for semantic novelty from the famous Sichu post, ‘analyze the semantic novelty’ mino.mobi/novelty The consequences of my most offbrand post wondering how to relate to people are left to the reader for evaluation 1613114
Reposted by Johnaustin @aparker.io · 15/02/2026my take on the LLM burnout thing is that maybe you should take a vacation, idk. even before AI I would work really hard on something, hyper focus on it really, and then need to recharge for a while. that’s… just, like, how people work? you can’t go 100% all the time 5281
Reposted by JohnThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 09/02/2026This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities. 53117121878
Reposted by Johnasa @asap.systems · 02/02/2026kind of proud of the namegithub.comGitHub - anglesideangle/jjinn: Run a program sandboxed in an ephemeral jj workspace using a Nix devshellRun a program sandboxed in an ephemeral jj workspace using a Nix devshell - anglesideangle/jjinn 2232
Reposted by JohnOlaren @olaren.dev · 25/01/2026Here is what I've been doing this past week: git.olaren.dev/Olaren/mapto... A little python program that generates poster for cities! You might have seen stuff like this around lately, but I modified it to put an emphasis on rail infrastructure :3 1425659
Reposted by JohnSteve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 08/01/2026my "this isn't meant to be used for harassment" sign i put on my list of enemies is raising a lot of questions answered by the sign 4888
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A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: “no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sgqw2zixdcjtjjhrm4bw64ny/bafkreicn2l3pbcme2mtzpwnf6ynl4bvxqpuhl2knytnb4ueu6i3b3wii5e)
