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@joshmock.com
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OSS nerd. JavaScript Stockholm syndrome survivor. Music collector. Leftist. Big fan of what BlueSky is doing, but microblogging is decidedly not great for my brain, so do not expect much from me here.

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joshmock @joshmock.com · 30/09/2026
An expert on the internet trying to tell me that my brain's reward system is fucked up. Ma'am, I spent the first 36 years of my life with undiagnosed ADHD and have been extremely online since the late 1900s, my brain's reward system never had a chance.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 20/09/2026
This is what I use zmx for. zmx.sh
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zmx - session persistence for terminal sessions
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 15/09/2026
Excited and proud that the project I've been leading at @elastic.co for much of this year is now available to the community. One of the most rewarding, "love it when a plan comes together" experiences in my career so far. www.elastic.co/search-labs/...
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Elastic CLI: One command for every API, built for agents
Elastic CLI gives every Elasticsearch, Kibana and Cloud API one shape: JSON in and out, schema validation, and allow lists an AI agent can't bypass.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 31/07/2026
who needs coffee when you can listen to Fucked Up's seminal experimental hardcore album The Chemistry of Common Life loudly in a good set of headphones? (I'm also drinking coffee) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wB3h...
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Son The Father
YouTube video by Fucked Up - Topic
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 18/07/2026
Listened to Bless the Martyr and Kiss the Child for the first time in years and I'm happy to report it still fucking rips.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 27/06/2026
Just saw this! Barn Owl - Ancestral Star Neko Case - Fox Confessor Brings the Flood Ethel Cain Jakob - Solace Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
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molly. 🏳️‍🌈 @mollymcdeath.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Our dearest friend @purplewitch11.bsky.social is abandoning us for Colorado because our state legislation is bullshit. You can help her on her journey find safety there. She’s heading out tomorrow 💔 Anything is appreciated!
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 26/05/2026
Pope condemning AI is good. Now apologize for the decades of priest SA coverups and we'll be square.
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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 15/05/2026
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Just incredible things from the VLC folks
DOWNI
ILLION
VLC
Robert Evans (the Only Rober... • 1d after days of grifters and con men at
CES we stumbled upon the booth for
VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them l'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said
"keep doing that"
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 12/05/2026
Khaki pants guy breaking the dress code! He must be their devil's advocate.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/05/2026
I'm obliged to tell everyone that my favorite album of all time, no hyperbole, is pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp right now. thiswilldestroyyou.bandcamp.com/album/tunnel...
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Tunnel Blanket, by This Will Destroy You
8 track album
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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 07/05/2026
"This skill should have been a script" is the new "this meeting should have been an email".
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/05/2026
It's astounding how often someone would rather vibe code their own OSS project from scratch well before contributing to (or forking!) a more mature solution that already solves the same problem. Like... did you even search the web before you started prompting?
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 03/05/2026
- mewithoutYou - The Soviet - This Will Destroy You - Powdered Hand - Stars of the Lid - December Hunting for Vegetarian Fuckface - Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Storm - Neko Case - Star Witness
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 03/05/2026
- Dillinger Escape Plan + Mike Patton - When Good Dogs Do Bad Things - Radiohead - How to Disappear Completely - Nothing - Hymn to the Pillory - Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine - Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City (live/full band version) cont'd next post...
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Spencer Sharpe @jspencersharpe.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Product, Engineering, Marketing
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 01/05/2026
PS Fuck the Supreme Court. What fucking year is it?
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 01/05/2026
Us Vim old heads played Vim Golf to see who could make an edit with the fewest keystrokes. Let's see who can get different models to solve Project Euler with the fewest tokens.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 01/05/2026
Tired: tokenmaxxing Wired: tokenminning
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 30/04/2026
The Zig project's rationale for their blanket ban on AI-assisted contributions makes a lot of sense to me - for them, time spent reviewing PRs isn't about the code, it's about growing new contributors for the future of the project simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/30/...
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The Zig project's rationale for their firm anti-AI contribution policy
Zig has one of the most stringent anti-LLM policies of any major open source project: No LLMs for issues. No LLMs for pull requests. No LLMs for comments on the …
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 28/04/2026
loljk turns out that I picked the wrong llama.cpp package out of the ~25 available on the AUR. switched to a different one and now Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct is running. it's slow, but at least it's not crashing on startup.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 28/04/2026
Spent several hours over the weekend trying to get local coding models working with Pi on a 5 year old Thinkpad with a 4GB VRAM Nvidia GPU, and all I learned is how quick and easy it is to create an OpenRouter account.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 28/04/2026
Can't argue with science.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 15/04/2026
Happy "Almost Forgot To File My Income Taxes On Time" Day, America.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026
Some of the coolest ones are the ones that aren't published yet, so dig around!
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026
Cautiously optimistic and regularly experimenting with ways to get an on-device experience that's as good as the big players offer. I've been working on several extensions and wrappers for Pi here. github.com/JoshMock/the...
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GitHub - JoshMock/the-agency: a coding agent harness
a coding agent harness. Contribute to JoshMock/the-agency development by creating an account on GitHub.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026
btw, I blogged about AI coding again a few weeks ago and forgot to tell literally anyone about it. joshmock.com/post/2026-sp...
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On using spec-driven development and agent swarms
Initial experiments in search of the elusive order-of-magnitude productivity boost.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 11/04/2026
When the AI bubble pops and we have to remember how to write code again, at least we'll have a lot of good advice in our now-useless system prompts to remind us how that works.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/03/2026
OSS is used to build the models, and OSS code is consumed to train the models, and OSS is used to consume the models, all of which makes building OSS easier, diluting the value, and often the proposition of high quality, of OSS.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 13/02/2026
Interestingly, Pi, the underlying agent SDK that OpenClaw is built on, is the first one I've played with that has actually clicked for me. It's simple enough that I don't worry about it doing something I can't understand, and thus can't correct.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 12/02/2026
TIL my employer's endpoint security scanning agent is already flagging OpenClaw as possible malware on company laptops. A true infosec nightmare.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child
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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 09/02/2026
Not the first time I hear this. Brace yourself for a wave of "agentic burnouts", in particular among ADHD people where the continuous dopamine fix resulting from agents producing stuff leads people to endlessly keep feeding them.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 09/02/2026
I'd say a solid 1/3 posts on my insta fyp have an LLM-generated caption. You can always tell because it goes into a little too much detail, and often subtly misses the actual point of the video, instead giving a Wiki-style summary of the primary subject.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on body cameras, sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even when officers kill. (Published 2023)
propublica.org
How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage — even whe...
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Dan Holt @danielsholt.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 07/02/2026
I've put a dumb amount of effort into building an immutable desktop setup with a declarative config that didn't require me to learn Nix, but I fear I'm running out of energy to resist.
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The president and all his rancid enablers really demand the creation of a new word that means “shocked but not shocked, but still shocked, but also totally NOT shocked, yet somehow still shocked, also always appalled, forever and eternally appalled by the endless abhorrence, and now I scream.”
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/02/2026
In retrospect, I should have guessed that accelerationism would dramatically change the way software is built.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/02/2026
Thanks I hate it.
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Thomas “Scary” Fuchs 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 30/01/2026
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself 2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt 2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 05/02/2026
I want to see studies that compare multiple implementations of the same software spec: entirely by a coding agent, "hybrid" vibe coded by an experienced dev, and entirely coded by hand.
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The Needling @theneedling.com · 02/02/2026
Six More Weeks of Wet Season Predicted as Geoduck Squirts All Over His Shadow: tinyurl.com/mu6br7ye
Bearded man in black top hat holding a giant geoduck squirting water onto a rainy beach's sandy shore as a giant crowd behind him cheers
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 26/01/2026
Move fast, break things, vibe code the spec implementation.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 24/01/2026
Top post on Lobste.rs today with this one! A riveting discourse, where most people got what I was after and one accused me of "discursive dishonesty." 🤷
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Lobsters
A computing-focused community centered around link aggregation and discussion.
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joshmock @joshmock.com · 23/01/2026
Dusted off the old blog to write a quick thought about putting an `AGENTS.md` or `CLAUDE.md` file in your repo. joshmock.com/post/2026-ag...
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AGENTS.md as a dark signal
Is an AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md file in a repo a sign of possibly poor code quality?
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 12/12/2025
Today in “Dudes Rock”: A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
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