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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 29/09/2026

There's a thread over on Mastodon where someone so very easily talked Muse into hacking itself so they could look at the innards and it is absolutely exactly as bad as you'd expect, if not worse how poorly put together this thing is

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's never "AI agent breaks containment, cures cancer, does a bit of tidying up and puts the kettle on", is it?

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 28/09/2026

In big personal news, I’ve resigned and will be leaving Canelo at the end of this year.

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Matheus Lima @terriblesoftware.org · 17/06/2026

AI made everyone on your team faster. So why are companies slower? Because "faster" usually means offloading the real work to whoever comes next. terriblesoftware.org/2026/06/17/y...

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You Got Faster. Your Company Didn’t.

AI made you faster. But you’re not more productive; you’re outsourcing the slow part to everyone else

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 27/08/2026

twitter.now is a new social network claiming X abandoned the trademarks when they changed their name. I'm finding this very amusing.

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Twitter - The Square Is Back

The public square is back and better. Visit twitter.now. Not affiliated with X Corp.

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 22/08/2026

That Bun rewrite that was looking questionable just the other day is out now. From the responses I'm seeing Anthropic actually did deliver a lot of what they were promising

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 19/08/2026

A lot of important context to that last repost. Anthropic bought Bun in 2025. So this is probably the most high profile case of a big project being entirely rewritten in a new language, but they're letting Claude Code go at it with few guardrails.

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David Bushell 🪿 @dbushell.com · 19/08/2026

lol i mean, this is a lot software nowadays and it's massively concerning when you think about it... but also lol tipiirai.com/writing/bun-...

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Bun 1.4 Rust rewrite is not looking good • Tero Piirainen

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

There. I've said it. Again.

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 18/08/2026

I find myself reaching for this metaphor often lately. These tools have a use but don't confuse them for something they aren't. www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/llms-are-u...

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LLMs Are Universal Translators, Not Universal Thinkers

Or: Why the AGI Skeptics Are Right But Missing the Deeper Point

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Folk horror, sir? Yes, got it on tap. What's your poison? Let's see, we've classic remote, sinister village, that's our Withered Hill, very popular. Seaside is it, sir? You'll want the Scuttler's Cove. Gritty northern post-industrial horror? How about a Scratch Moss? www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

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David Barnett | Canelo

About the author David Barnett

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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com · 10/08/2026

Some more context on this fuckup: mastodon.social/@colincornaby/11706… > BOTH projects were generated using Claude. So you have two people - both generating the same app from the same training data - having a public throw down over who copied who. Kind of embarrassing.

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

With seven weeks to go to the publication of TWISTED PIKE you've just got time to comfortably read the first three books in my folk horror series. www.canelo.co/authors/davi...

A line-up of David Barnett's folk horror novels WITHERED HILL, SCUTTLER'S COVE, SCRATCH MOSS and the forthcoming TWISTED PIKE

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 08/08/2026

uncovered.ink is 'tinder for books'. I'm so happy this exists. I've built a prototype for this about 3 times over the years but never had enough time to get it properly off the ground. Finding something new to read online is hard. And I think this could really help

uncovered.ink

Uncovered.ink · Judge a book by its writing

Read first pages blind. No cover, no name, no hype. Find out what you actually fall for.

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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Just donated. Please give what you can to protect this unique collection.

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 06/08/2026

Been mostly on mastodon for the last few years, but there's definitely a different crowd here. Space for both. I think I may have forgotten how to post

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