Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaRadical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 1h"Nuclear War is Bad for Kittens" Poster spotted in York University in Toronto, Ontario 125472
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 22mOpen source: absolutely! bsky.app/profile/just... 161
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaGergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 7hThe last time building software sped up ~10x (early 2000s, the agile movement), a massive interest in automated testing followed almost immediately (unit tests, TDD, XP etc) Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following 11625
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaBloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14hE-trucks are booming in China. That's helping the country cut emissions, strengthen energy security and dominate another green transition sector. bloom.bg/4yiF9vH 📷️: Gilles Sabrié/Bloomberg 25325
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 9hMacron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.” 551182337
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 8hThis is also because very few cyclists use social media while riding. Car drivers stuck in traffic, on the other hand... 041
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaVisual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 23/09/2026🔎 Explore everything that’s new in the full release notes: aka.ms/VSCode/139 Happy coding! 💙aka.msVS Code v1.139New release 052
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaVisual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 28/09/2026🆕 Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now generally available in @code with GitHub Copilot! Built for everyday coding tasks, it matched Sonnet 5 in early testing while using fewer steps, tokens, and tool calls. ⚡️ Give it a try today! 🚀 github.blog/changelog/20...github.blogClaude Sonnet 5.5 in GitHub Copilot - GitHub ChangelogClaude Sonnet 5.5, Anthropic’s newest Sonnet model, is now generally available in GitHub Copilot. It is designed for well-scoped everyday work like building features and fixing bugs. In our early… 0115
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaVisual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 22h📣 GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available in @code with GitHub Copilot. Built for agentic coding and terminal workflows, with strong multistep coding performance and fewer tokens and steps in early testing. ⚡️ Give it a try today! 🚀 github.blog/changelog/20... 0102
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaVisual Studio Code @vscode.dev · 29/09/2026Why did VS Code choose Electron? 🤔 The team wanted a lightweight editor with the rich language support and debugging tools developers need, while keeping the same web technologies across platforms. 🍿 Watch The Story of VS Code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHL3... #vscode #storyofvscode 1133
Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 29/09/2026This is cute :) Slide from : AWS re:Invent 2022 - Revitalize your security with the AWS Security Reference Architecture (SEC203) www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFrj... 000
Reposted by Adrian Marius Popaevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Meta Muse appears to read your Apple messages and upload them to the cloud even if you explicitly tell it not to: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...appleinsider.com 1001907974
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaKelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 28/09/2026I hope we keep writing docs for people who want to understand and build things without using AI. 1430750
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 28/09/2026This year's record setting El Niño will impact many different parts of the world, with some experiencing severe drought and others flooding. In a new analysis at The Climate Brink, I explore what impacts happened during past events and which are most likely to occur this yeartheclimatebrink.comThe impacts of this year’s record-shattering El NiñoEl Niño will drive severe drought from Indonesia to the Southern Africa and northern South America, with wetter winters from the US Gulf Coast to Southern South America. 513661
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaDigital Foundry @digitalfoundry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026The latest phase of the Xbox Reset discussed on the latest DF Direct Weekly along with Halo going to Activision, Silent Hill Townfall tests, next-gen TFLOPs and a very nice 007 path tracing performance upgrade: youtu.be/19qyGXz5FUUyoutu.beDF Direct Weekly #283: Halo Moves To Activision, Next-Gen TFLOPs, Silent Hill Townfall Tested!YouTube video by Digital Foundry 0492
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaCloudflare @cloudflare.social · 28/09/2026With the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s global Workers platform, including upcoming support for Tokio async. cfl.re/4hlHSNC #BirthdayWeekblog.cloudflare.comSupporting native Rust in Workers with the new Emscripten target for wasm-bindgenWith the new experimental support for the Emscripten target in Rust Workers, many previously unsupported Rust libraries and applications can now be built and deployed directly to Cloudflare’s global W... 0175
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaVoidZero @voidzero.dev · 28/09/2026Vite+ 1.0 is here 🚀 A single `vp` CLI for managing your Node.js runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. Built on top of Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and tsdown. All with a single config. Free and open source under the MIT license. Start with `vp create` or migrate with `vp migrate`.voidzero.devAnnouncing Vite+ 1.0Vite+ 1.0 is here. One CLI manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. 213532
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaUlrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 26/09/2026Mikhail Fedorov, until recently Ukraine’s defence minister launches “The Army of Robots”. This is the promo video. In his LinkedIn post he writes “Make robots fight instead of people.” 1110325
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJonathan Cooper @jonathan.gameanim.com · 26/09/2026Pragmata - Diana facial capture, rig and hair system. 38920
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaMeeting C++ @meetingcpp.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Book of the Day: Programming: Principles and practice using C++ (3rd edition) by Bjarne Stroustrup meetingcpp.com/mcpp/books/b... #cplusplus #cppmeetingcpp.comBjarne StroustrupProgramming: Principles and Practice using C++ (3rd Edition), aka PPP3, is an introduction to programming for people who have never programmed before 021
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaAnton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The school notebook of the 14-year-old boy killed by Russia in Kyiv today. The Russian strike killed him in the middle of the day, in his own room. His desk still had the notebook with unfinished homework. 36684327
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaESA Earth Observation @esaearth.esa.int · 25/09/2026Can you spot the boat traffic?👀 Venice's story has always been written on water. In this IRIDE image, boat wakes criss-cross the Venetian Lagoon while shifting shades of blue reveal changing water conditions. Beyond the city, wetlands and salt marshes support wildlife. www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 0229
Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026What You Need To Know About Russia's New Geran-4 Drone www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYaj... #ukraineyoutube.comWhat You Need To Know About Russia's New Geran-4 DroneYouTube video by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 020
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaD.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine. 2648521691
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaLee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Two Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-fold www.ecoticias.com/en/two-minne...ecoticias.comTwo Minnesota solar farms turned the ground beneath their panels into habitat, and native bee abundance rose more than 20-foldMinnesota solar farms planted with native flowers saw native bees rise 20-fold, with bees also pollinating nearby soybean fields. 8445991684
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSimon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The shower hair graph remains one of my favourite dataviz out there. In reality the visual shows the paths of 800 unmanned bicycles being pushed until they fall over. Science is beautiful. Source: buff.ly/2n3Q7mx 08521
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 24/09/2026There’s a guy in Denmark with 15 cars (probably a sorry Toyota dealer) who I think would like to get into that deal as well. 3125
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaDoug Parr @dougparr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Fuel cost of running an electric vehicle vs petrol was always significant, now factor of 9 for diesel New EVs inevitably flow into second-hand market where ££ savings are made by all societal segments UK Govt plans to dilute the mandate for EVs will stop that www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-evs... 14218
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Gasoline prices in the US are soaring. EV sales should be booming. They're not. Policy rollbacks have left the US trailing China and Europe just when drivers need an alternative most. 1517654
Reposted by Adrian Marius Popakate conger @kateconger.com · 24/09/2026The latest update in the rogue A.I. saga: OpenAI agents that were supposed to be performing mundane data requests for things like health data, historic photos and wait times at theme parks resorted to hacking attempts when they couldn't access the data they wanted www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/t...nytimes.comOpenAI’s A.I. Tried Breaching Four Other Targets, With No Prompting (Gift Article)In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said. 11308144
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaUNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 24/09/2026⚡ OpenAI is giving Ukraine access to its Daybreak tool to protect power plants and hospitals from cyberattacks. united24media.com/world/openai...united24media.comOpenAI Gives Ukraine Daybreak Cyber Tool to Defend Critical Infrastructure From CyberattacksOpenAI will provide Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation access to the Daybreak cyber defense program and GPT-5.6 Sol to protect key infrastructure. 14517
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaChristian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We went from "Humans code" to "LLMs code but humans need to verify the code" to "LLMs code but its unclear whether humans are required to verify, up for discussion" and now I am hearing "In the future why should humans even pretend they could be smart enough to verify what AI will code". 2121
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaGuillaume Laforge @glaforge.dev · 24/09/2026Text-to-speech has reached a whole new level of quality and personalization. With Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, you can design custom voices from text prompts, steer delivery nuances (whispers, pacing, emotion), and clone voices. And you can do it all in #Java! 🧵👇 152
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaAarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026”The plans include ramping up renewable energy from 55% to 80% of electricity generation by 2030, with an additional 12GW of onshore wind, and a target of 215GW of solar energy by 2030.” It’s good to keep in mind that transport uses a fossil fuel called oil. www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comGermany pledges to phase out fossil fuels for first time with target of 2045Campaigners say plan marks notable shift away from oil and gas as previously pledges were only for carbon neutrality 1247
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSébastien Roblin @sebastienroblin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Great analysis of options to stand up a dedicated counter-drone squadron, landing in favor of the L-39 as the most efficient option (the available turboprop aircraft not being fast enough to keep pace with jet-Shaheds.) Poland's new FA-50s could prove of unexpected value to this mission too... 0143
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJustin Bronk @justin-br0nk.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Russian forces pose a greater, albeit better understood threat to Western air capabilities than pre-2022, and Chinese counter-air capabilities are on another level entirely. Long read by me on the key changes to track since 2020: www.rusi.org/explore-our-...rusi.orgThe Evolution of Russian and Chinese Air Power ThreatsRussian and, particularly, Chinese capabilities now pose greater threats to Western air power than in 2020. 15518
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaLorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam 20513114
Reposted by Adrian Marius Poparobin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...tribunemag.co.ukWarning from Germany: It’s Socialism or BarbarismFascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope. 14583232
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaPhilip Jägenstedt @foolip.org · 23/09/2026This is the best explanation of the interplay of specs, tests, and implementations that I've read. The point of both specs and tests is interoperable implementations, but that doesn't mean that implementations are always right when they agree. 1116
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Fascinating new figures confirming old EVs with a lot of miles on the clock are much more reliable than their petrol and diesel equivalents. www.businessgreen.com/news/4536166...businessgreen.comStudy: High mileage EVs more reliable than petrol equivalentsAnalysis of 47.4 million MOTs finds electric cars are around 25 per cent less likely to fail than petrol models as mileage climbs 38559173
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaGus @gusthema.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm glad that the slowdown of AI development finished today with the release of Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna! Now that all the safety issues are fixed, we can continue to move forward! 0405
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 13/09/2026This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...simonwillison.netGenerating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT WorkHere’s a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that … 10956
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 22/09/2026Put together some notes on Jev and the new category of system one aka decision models simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/...simonwillison.netJev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision ModelsLast week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling “System One models” (I’m with Maggie Appleton, I think “decision models” … 1613117
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 23/09/2026Big model release today - I wrote about Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna - plus comparison grids of pelicans by the different model families at different reasoning levels simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/...simonwillison.netClaude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price warYesterday was Grok 4.7 (pelicans) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro (more pelicans). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna. It’s … 1312810
Adrian Marius Popa @mapopa.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Seems that now in Europe we have access to Muse spark , good for open source or hobby projects 100
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaTony Tassell @tonytassell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026EU companies are now helping Chinese rivals expand in in their home market Europe - partly to learn to how to be competitive, writes Joe Leahy in this column as.ft.com/r/ff462fb4-1...as.ft.comWhy EU companies are helping their Chinese rivalsMany multinationals seem to be adopting an approach of ‘if you can’t beat them, join them’ 165
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaJaap Burger @jaapburger.eu · 23/09/2026"Volkswagen itself appears to have been surprised by this momentum. Management had based its 2026 production planning on a slower ramp-up" As a happy (electric) VW driver, I can confirm that the built-in navigation system has a preference for dead-end streets and keeps trying to turn around. 6362
Reposted by Adrian Marius PopaMichael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026FT: "“I had thought that it was perhaps only towards 2030 that China would get up close to 40 per cent,” said Eskelund. “That of course also means that the imbalances are growing very, very considerably.”" www.ft.com/content/51c4...ft.comChina’s share of global container exports soars to 40%Rapid rise underscores economy’s reliance on trade and threat to trading partners, EU chamber says 22911