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Jonathan Lipps

@jlipps.com
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Technology, philosophy, music, theology. Engineering @playstation, @appium. jlipps.com

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Laurie Voss @seldo.com · 13/09/2026
I have been writing this post about the economics of open source, on and off, for 13 years. I wasn't expecting to end up at "Microsoft should send corporations a huge bill" but nothing else we've tried has worked. seldo.com/posts/nobody-pays-for-ope…
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Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to. | Seldo.com
Thirty years of voluntary funding schemes haven't paid open source maintainers because asking doesn't scale. The real money already flows — to JFrog, Docker, Sonatype — at the registry layer. The fix: registries charge companies for supply (they already do), then route a slice automatically to the maintainers who make that supply worth having.
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Gol Olímpico @gololimpicomx.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New single. 05.14.26.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 16/04/2026
My new frame for AI use is that it is primarily about trading mastery for power.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 14/01/2026
Just realized that AI chatbottery is, at the individual and collective level, nothing more than a very real, albeit supremely sophisticated, Pool of Narcissus.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 07/01/2026
Unbelievable! dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 20/11/2025
Had to upgrade to macOS Tahoe for work. Wow this liquid glass thing is so bad. Different apps can have different degrees of roundedness in their corners? WTF Apple? (Pic shows the Music app on top of Slack)
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 06/11/2025
Aprovecha esta mixtape curada por nuestro propio Gol Olímpico, en que ando descubriendo muchas bandas mexicanas/latinoamericanas. Me hace sentir como tenía 16 años otra vez, ¡gracias @gololimpicomx.bsky.social!
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 19/09/2025
@hypervisible.blacksky.app did I miss you talking about friend.com at some point? That product video… I don’t understand how this does anything but spark revulsion and sadness. Is it a hoax maybe/hopefully?
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Friend
Your new roommate is waiting.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 16/05/2025
Love to see this kind of “AI free” colophon info for PlayDate games on the catalog from @panic.com! (My 7yo and I still working hard on our first game that we hope to submit eventually!)
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 11/04/2025
✂️ Snipping this for when I inevitably have to make a speech to the parent-teacher association at my kid's school when AI comes to the classroom
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 11/04/2025
Sometimes you just want a faster horse. rakhim.exotext.com/but-what-if-...
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But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext
But what if I really want a faster horse? | exotext
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 02/04/2025
Wow, pico.sh is so cool!
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hacker labs · pico.sh
Open source and managed web services leveraging SSH
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David Burns @automatedtester.co.uk · 27/03/2025
We are getting started at #seleniumconf #appiumconf! @maaretp.bsky.social , @jlipps.com and Puja Jagani
Maaret standing for the State of Union talk with a slide behind her that says “We really like each other “
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Gol Olímpico @gololimpicomx.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Our second single, "casa, como ningún lugar hay," is out now. Links in comments.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 18/02/2025
I helped make this song! Check it out! More songs coming soon.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 12/02/2025
What is the most cursed programming language and why is it cmake?
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 12/02/2025
Contemplating making a personal pledge to never use AI to summarize something an actual human being actually wrote using their own words without AI generation. A sort of "I see you, other human" pact.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 10/02/2025
I am so glad thebullshitmachines.com exists. "Now consider style. Good writers exhibit a powerful sense of rhythm; LLMs do not. Good writers plan out paragraphs and sections like generals plan campaigns; LLMs ramble and natter. Good writers are surprising; LLMs are designed not to be..."
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INTRODUCTION
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 01/02/2025
That’s right kids. Don’t let the machines create for you. The deepest and most meaningful essence of your person is imperiled if you do.
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Matt C @mattcivico.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
You could be listening to @jlipps.com singing a Christmas story in two parts. splendourhyaline.bandcamp.com/album/hallel...
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Hallelujah Sings the Choir, by Splendour Hyaline
2 track album
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
Forget the 'soul' bit, it doesn't have humanity. Using GAI like this is actively erasing yourself and demeaning yourself with the idea that AI is better than you are. You're dehumanising yourself. Plus I'd kick off if any tattoo artist did this to me.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 05/11/2024
Should I cancel all my work meetings and descend into US election despair-wallowing rubberneckery?
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 04/11/2024
*Me opens up bsky* oh good, science, tech criticism, programming, language, nerd stuff. Because this is the stuff I follow and care about. *Me opens up X* bad US politics, strange far right or (rarely) far left stuff, all of Elon's shitposts. Literally nothing I've ever followed or engaged with. 🤷‍♂️
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 01/11/2024
Love finding little humorous in otherwise supremely dry and technical writing! This one from the (quite impressive) author(s) of learncpp.com.
A paragraph on friend functions in c++ with an author's note making a joke about actual friendship.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 25/10/2024
Am doing a bit of a learning dive into modern c++. The last c++ version I worked with in any real detail was c++98. A lot has changed in the last 25 years!
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 25/02/2024
Aesthetically, Generative AI tools are for those who want to play life on Creative Mode instead of Survival Mode. Make whatever you want, no challenge necessary.
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 05/01/2024
Here're some thoughts on "sharing" via social media as anxious identity establishment. Tell me what you think. blog.jlipps.com/2024/01/comm...
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Communico, Ergo Sum – Re:Creation
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Jonathan Lipps @jlipps.com · 04/01/2024
Every time I see a new app (most recently www.rosebud.ai) that makes creating things "easy" because of AI, I want to somehow ensure that I consume only creative content made by people using only non-AI tools. Give me the "AI free" certification label already!
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