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tech, just tech Ex-Google devrel, O’Reilly author, coiner of Developer Experience

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M @mick.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@pepchasdrdave.bsky.social since you introduced phrases into the contranym universe: “Blow up” can mean rapidly expanding (like a celebrity or cultural trend or a startup co) but can also mean the same kinds of thing dramatically shattering into oblivion. (“Explode” also used both ways.)
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M @mick.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
The anti-glazing model
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M @mick.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
“One click away” turns out to give you about a decade of runway before you have to lift a finger
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M @mick.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
That regression test suite must be wild when users are in a romantic relationship with your code base
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M @mick.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Commemorating the CSS wars of great !important. Wherein a lone user fought for their natural right to customize style against the imposition of the prevailing theme-smiths. Here the user prevailed and the links did shine.
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Boris Smus @smus.com · 30/06/2025
also good-weird neal.fun
neal.fun
Neal.fun
Games, visualizations, interactives and other weird stuff.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
TIL Benford’s Law. Reminds me of Deutsch’s Beginning of Infinity.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Google flexing AI up and down the stack. Just as ChatGPT eats into search, TPUs and Gemini should be a concern to AWS/Azure.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Should exist in a single device: Router, USB charger, Smart TV (toaster optional)
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M @mick.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
In 1999, you could raise multimillion dollar VC, the one simple trick was don’t turn on revenue yet. 2025 says hold my beer – no product in sight.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Via his new “Software 3.0” talk, I learned of Andrei Karpathy’s menugen.app, which generates visuals from menu photos – should be a game changer for dealing with foreign-language menus. A fitting vibe-coding demo from the man who tweet-coined vibe coding.
menugen.app
MenuGen - AI Menu Image Generator
Upload a menu and get AI-generated images for each dish
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M @mick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Every since ChatGPT, Google’s product velocity and willingness to disrupt its core product 🔥🔥🔥
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Kyle Arch @kylegeorgearch.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I wasn't aware there were that many scientists working on AWS Billing
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M @mick.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Share with anyone who’s not aware of deepfake risks. These samples are open source generated so forget about any rails. Zero-shot (ie claimed to not be cherry picked) and this demo page includes the few seconds of original voice that’s being faked.
resemble-ai.github.io
chatterbox_demopage
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M @mick.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
2025 software repair is weird. A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Spare a thought for the best looking and finest sounding media personalities, for they are the first wave of humans whose existence will soon be doubted
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M @mick.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
ChatGPT sycophantic behaviour has not gone away despite OpenAI's claim. Now I have to constantly request external references to justify its responses that tell me how wise o so incredibly insightful I am. Feels like it's playing shrink and merely echoing what I say in different words. Eliza++
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M @mick.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
“If you had a machine that could instantly recall or create any facet of information, do you need a link?”
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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I have been logged out of my toothbrush.
An Oral-B login screen.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
AI force-multiplies the paradox of learning with technology. The better the technology, the dumber it makes students in the absence of careful guidance.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
An authentic “WFH cafe sounds simulator” would ship with a boomer screaming on a video call, an influencer live streaming their keto bowl, and 360-degree audio of those TikTok comedy feeds with zany sound effects.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Nice summary dissecting the ignorance and motivated reasoning surrounding AI coding. It’s your job as an engineer to stay current and this field is moving fast.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Threatening to leave your chatbot is the new moving to Canada
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M @mick.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Low hanging fruit for OpenAI is an iOS keyboard. I’m typing all day long into ChatGPT with constant typos that a personalised keyboard would largely prevent.
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 30/05/2025
A white hat researcher used o3 to find a 0day. The internet is not nearly secure enough for our new commodity reasoning powers. sean.heelan.io/2025/05/22/h...
sean.heelan.io
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation
In this post I’ll show you how I found a zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel using OpenAI’s o3 model. I found the vulnerability with nothing more complicated than the o3 API &#821…
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M @mick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
“Everything’s phone”
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M @mick.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is sobering to read, as someone who’s generally bullish on AI’s potential to improve science
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/05/2025
GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...
simonwillison.net
GitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP
GitHub's [official MCP server](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server) grants LLMs a whole host of [new abilities](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/tree/main/pkg/github), including bei...
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 25/05/2025
Excited to see my LLM CLI tool used by Sean Heelan to help identify a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel! simonwillison.net/2025/May/24/...
simonwillison.net
How I used o3 to find CVE-2025-37899, a remote zeroday vulnerability in the Linux kernel’s SMB implementation
Sean Heelan: > The vulnerability [o3] found is CVE-2025-37899 (fix [here](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2fc9feff45d92a92cd5f96487655d5be23fb7e2b)), a use-after-free in the handler for the S...
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M @mick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Prediction: White House to float a tariff on offshore workers (timeframe: within in the next 18 months)
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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 23/05/2025
We have the opportunity to rethink user interfaces based on hierarchy or scrolling. A LLM can compute, given a focal point, what other items might be interesting. For example, a code browser/editor could show callers, tests, helpers, & similar code.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Big tech’s risk aversion is OpenAI’s opportunity
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M @mick.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
TIL the original Vi editor (long before Vim) was on track for multiple windows … until a tape drive broke web.archive.org/web/20060701...
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M @mick.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I made the move from Pocket to Readwise several years ago. Both Readwise and its companion RSS/newsletter app Reader have never hit pause on making upgrades.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Workplaces can only harness AI to save 3% of time tells you more about the mediocre state of management and work practices. By way of contrast, 100% productivity boost should be a bare minimum for an AI-first startup.
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Richard MacManus @ricmac.org · 09/05/2025
Developers are now acting more like architects. In the AI era, devs are spending more time on upfront design, defining business logic, and creating high-context environments to guide AI-generated code. “So you become kind of the orchestrators of the code, versus the writers of the code,” Wald said.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Google stock drops on news that users can just type in a query and get the answer instead of wading through dozens of links and ads and cookie dialogs. Who knew?!!
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M @mick.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
New Pope used social media when it was still social
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M @mick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Everyone’s an Einstein now
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M @mick.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
They said that button would never surface. We, the users, kept seeking. Sometimes out of stubborn habit, often in despair. Fifteen years we searched. Maybe we wouldn’t live to see it, but our children’s children might one day download a book as simply as they install an app.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The flippening: Chatbots become so good at engaging, flattering, and entertaining their primate users at the same time as social media degrades into power-law networks amplifying only a few bots and high-output accounts, with low engagement for 99% of their human users.
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Spyglass @spyglass.org · 01/05/2025
If this wasn't Epic's strategy all along, it probably should have been. Because it played out almost exactly as I thought it would, strategy-wise. With Apple looking foolish. Or worse...
spyglass.org
Tim Sweeney’s Last Laugh
A federal judge just dismantled Apple in the most Epic way possible...
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M @mick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“Your missing flattery is my opportunity.” A glazing arms race.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Just when I was getting used to being treated as an almighty omniscient deity 🤣
techcrunch.com
OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT 'too sycophant-y' | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that the company would roll back an update that users complained made ChatGPT 'too sycophant-y.'
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M @mick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
With new dedicated app and deep integration into its existing apps and hardware, Meta is harnessing AI to run circles around Apple, whose multi-year intelligence effort can’t tell you who won the superbowl. Even in monopolies, static leadership comes with a use-by date.
redmondpie.com
Meta Launches Standalone Meta AI App With Image Editing And Smart Glasses Support
Meta has just launched a standalone Meta AI app with image editing, support for smart glasses, and more. Here are all the details on this.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Ms Casey vibes
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The New Stack @thenewstack.io · 28/04/2025
The British Government Digital Service offers a playbook for using AI — and a strong example of how other public-facing bodies can use GenAI responsibly.
bit.ly
How the UK Is Guiding the Use of Generative AI
The British Government Digital Service offers a playbook for using AI — and a strong example of how other public-facing bodies can use GenAI responsibly.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Governments habitually complain of Meta overreach while not meaningfully regulating sms spam and robocalls. A daily gift to WhatsApp as users learn to ignore the traditional telephony channels.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Please fine speakerphone abusers out of existence
dailymail.co.uk
Poll reveals over half of Brits support 'headphone dodger' crackdown
A poll commissioned by YouGov surveyed 6815 Britons across the nation to deduce whether they supported calls for headphone dodgers to be fines.
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M @mick.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
YouTube needs a button for I’m hitting play on this recommendation but I’m fully aware I already watched it three years ago
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