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ponder @ponder.ooo · 24/09/2026

plenty of people run llm based agents with powerful models and do not end up hacking anyone. this is not an ai alignment problem, it is an openai being routinely criminally negligent as a company problem

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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sometimes a drug trip is a profound experience where you realize that you’ve been carrying pain in your heart for years, that you can forgive yourself. Other times you come up with a concept called “gay money” (money that’s gay) and you text your friend “gay money” days later. Both are healing. ❤️‍🩹

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 23/09/2026

It is incredible. cosigned.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 23/09/2026

me when I discovered self hosting

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dan mentos @danmentos.com · 22/09/2026

[job interview] interviewer: so god killed all your kids? job: that's right

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 23/09/2026

And like the harms caused by the collapse of skilled physical labor and explosion in unfettered capitalist growth (child labor, factory slums, extremely dangerous working conditions), history will remember the collapse of knowledge work for similar harms (depression, high unemployment, etc.)

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 03/09/2026

Interesting: what were they going to do? Secure the capacity from y’all, do abunch of distilling with the increased rate limit, never pay up? do you not require some upfront capital to secure a contract of that size?

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 01/09/2026

We're looking for guests to join Open Source Ready, our podcast about open source software and the tech landscape - who would you like for us to talk to? www.heavybit.com/library/podc...

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Open Source Ready | Heavybit

Exploring the evolution of open source software and its impact on the Tech landscape.

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Andrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 31/08/2026

Every dollar that goes to this shit is money not going to deserving projects in the Linux ecosystem. DHH has been open that his goal is to turn Linux into an environment that excludes minorities. Omarchy is the software arm of a fascist project. Do not fucking collaborate with them.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 27/08/2026

📼 We recently open sourced and announced cassettes for tapes: our free and open system for managing, querying, modifying, and doing whatever the heck you want with your AI session data!!! Long live open and free AI systems! papercompute.com/blog/cassett...

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The Anatomy of a Cassette - Paper Compute Blog

tapes captures your AI agent data, and a cassette is a small service that adds your own capabilities on top of it, served through the tapes API. This post walks through building one end to end: the AP...

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 24/08/2026

Years and years latter, it's still an easy way to manage your projects - so happy @mrbobbytabl.es and @castrojo.bsky.social have been willing to shepherd the project to continue to be sustainable and useful for all! Cheers!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 24/08/2026

Back in 2019, I wanted a way to bring Kubernetes Prow style chat-ops to many of the Pivotal and Cloud Foundry projects I was working on. It quickly became a popular lite-weight alternative to Prow at Pivotal and within Microsoft and Red Hat.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 22/08/2026

Then, when you put it in the kiln to bisque fire, it explodes because you didn’t take the time to wedge air bubbles out, you didn’t let it dry leather hard, you fired too high a temp, or you used clay with impurities. yes, with AI, just like pottery, requires a a lot of planning and thought.

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spacecowboy @spacecowboy17.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I finally looked into why the For You sqlite db file has been growing to be quite large - 589GB. To prevent the unlimited growth I regularly delete likes older than 90 days. The size of the "ratings" table should be stable (there are ~20M likeds per day). Turns out another source of growth is...

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 21/08/2026

Become ungovernable. Write C.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 21/08/2026

If you have a beefy macbook, the new qwen 3.8 is really really good at only 27b params.

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Тsфdiиg @tsoding.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Soviet Union in C

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Jorge Castro 🇵🇷 🦖 @castrojo.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Man dude. I have no words.

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bdougie @bizza.pizza · 09/07/2026

My OpenClaw was spending $80 a day to read my email. One config line brought it down to a few dollars. Wrote up where the money went and how observability made the fix obvious: briandouglas.me/posts/2026/0...

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My OpenClaw Was Spending $80 a Day to Read My Email

My OpenClaw chief-of-staff agent was burning $80 a day in Anthropic API costs. The fix was one config line, and the only reason I found it was observability.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 08/07/2026

A “backrooms” sequel but set in the .node_modules

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 05/07/2026

Required reading. Seeing the way DevRel has twisted into this grotesque form of marketing and conference-led-sales is really sad. I would argue that DevRel, maybe now more than ever, is incredibly important. We (developers) are an especially capricious bunch: we must be shown the way.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 05/07/2026

Will miss seeing you online: cheers and goodluck!

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 05/07/2026

> We must demand that AI labs open source their models ... We must demand that local inference, agents, and workflows be open and free. We must preserve the right to build with intelligence without asking permission. If I am not free now, when?

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 27/06/2026

I’ll be in San Francisco all of next week for AI eng world’s fair: find our booth, hit me up for a coffee ☕️

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

If you are looking for a job that is fully remote and also not evil, DuckDuckGo is hiring for several positions: duckduckgo.com/hiring

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DuckDuckGo is Hiring!

Join the team at DuckDuckGo! Find out about our company culture, hiring process, and open positions.

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Jon Cartwright @jon.gvg.io · 22/06/2026

All future consoles may cost a bare minimum of $1000 but at least you can ask chatgpt if it's raining outside

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Riverboatjack @riverboatjack.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

"If I am to flower into something other than myself, I would rather rot into nothingness as I am." - The Reflecting Pool

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Wouter de Bres @wdeb.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Good humans, I wrote a book. Took me 10 yrs. Share it with anyone who wants to understand the minds they're designing for and the mind they're designing with. 40 chapters free to read. 📘 productdesignpsychology.com ❤️

Book cover of ‘Product Design Psychology’

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alice @alice.mosphere.at · 19/06/2026

nix and rust are a psyop by Big Trans Women to sell more Disk Storage

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Matthew Gault @mjgault.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

look upon my works ye might and despair, for I have constructed a thinking machine using naught but goats and grass from Age of Empires II

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If AI Is Sentient Then So Is ‘Age of Empires II’

“The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily."

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Cameron “Inevitability Enjoyer” Suey @cameronsuey.com · 16/06/2026

A video game studio should be allowed to make a bad game and gain some institutional knowledge without being gutted, skinned, and melted it down into glue every fiscal year.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/06/2026

Game failure? Layoffs Game success? Layoffs Game delayed? Layoffs Game delivered? Layoffs Game announced? Layoffs Game unannounced? Layoffs Game good? Layoffs Game bad? Layoffs Game AI? Layoffs Game no-AI? Layoffs Game hated? Layoffs Game beloved? Layoffs Money cares more for layoffs than games.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 02/06/2026

Do not misunderstand me: maintainers and their projects owe no one anything - corporations that have consumed and consumed without giving back have created the tragedy, refuse to bolster engineering efforts, and need to make provide support

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 02/06/2026

At some point, an important open and free project stops being “just a project” and becomes a public good needing the same care and planning as other widely used/distributed utilities: we’ve yet to expand the open source model to encompass that.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 02/06/2026

What you’re describing is the tragedy of the commons. I remember working on upstream kubernetes at VMware and leadership was all too willing to pass off burden onto other maintainers or companies because ”free as in puppy” and Google, Red Hat, or some other corp owned that part of the stack

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 02/06/2026

the problem is not that it’s free software (free to fork, free to study, free to modify) run by a rag tag group of maintainers - the problem is it’s the literal backbone of all modern digital infrastructure and should be considered “too important to fail”. So yeah, when rsync vibes, it’s concerning.

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Neovim @neovim.io · 01/06/2026

#neovim repository has reached 100K GitHub stars. Thank you all for the support 🙏

A screenshot of GitHub user interface that shows that Neovim repository has 100003 stars.

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John McBride @johncodes.com · 29/05/2026

I always find it fascinating reading the source code / std library for said language I’m learning - like, reading the Go source is pretty eye opening and tells you a lot about how to structure a package

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