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Yikes. And this after a piece with ludicrously false equivalence between the two front runners in the Brazilian election, it's not a great look

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 9h

Interesting. I've been using Netlify for so long but recently nick-barreto.com I'm hosting through Vercel. Bunny looks good though. It looks like it might need more config but at the same time it offers more flexibility

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David Barnett @davidmbarnett.bsky.social · 13h

In case you missed it - though I'm not sure how you would, as I was an absolute bore about it - my fourth folk horror novel TWISTED PIKE was released yesterday: www.canelo.co/books/twiste...

canelo.co

Twisted Pike by David Barnett | Canelo

Paperback and Ebook

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

My favourite bit is how they vibe coded it so badly that solved problems like HTML validation are handled by using regex. It's almost too perfect and example and I'm curiously digging in more to try and verify it

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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 · 29/09/2026

The whole "breaks containment" narrative itself is such an absolute fiction in itself. It's not like we haven't for decades had ways to completely block network requests entirely when we want to. I guess "I didn't set up an appropriate environment for my tests and they broke" doesn't make the news

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

*…pitched it to ME. Typing is hard okay

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

Someone pitched it to as 'it's just like Ready Player One' which did not land the way they thought it would…

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

Thanks. It feels like a big change but in a lot of ways I can't wait. There's a whole lot more still to do!

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

So come January I’ll be offering consultancy on technology strategy and am eager to help the industry more widely in this area. And if you’d like to know more; talk about technology and/or publishing, I’d love to hear from you. www.nick-barreto.com/contact

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Nick Barreto

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

I have some exciting things brewing, but in the immediate term exactly the ways in which I gave Canelo a unique advantage are all the more important now than they were a decade ago.

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

Now, as a part of DK and Penguin Random House, Canelo is set up well for the future, and in the best hands it could be. For me, it is time to move beyond into new challenges.

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

Over 10 years ago Iain and Michael and I started a new publisher to prove that digital publishing shouldn’t just be an afterthought, and it always had technology at its core and as its competitive advantage. I’m immensely proud of everything we built, published and everyone we’ve worked with.

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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...

terriblesoftware.org

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.

twitter.now

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 · 26/08/2026

For the Folio Society specifically I'm not as familiar. I assume those editions actually exist alongside the original editions and the rights aren't exclusive to them. Maybe then they have a deal with the publisher and not the rights holder. Or it's for a book out of copyright

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 26/08/2026

That's broadly correct. You can't publish something without an agreement to do so. A contract setting out what rights, for how long, and what royalties, etc. It is no different from any other publishing deal.

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 25/08/2026

What do you even need teeth for if you don't eat? Might as well cut that out too and save even more. Just ingest a nutrient rich slurry

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

Your skill in a particular area is like a muscle. If you stop using it and let an LLM do the work, it will get weaker. Continually training is how you stay consistent and get better.

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

I saw someone else make the comparison with weightlifting and I think it's very apt. Training to lift heavy weights is the point. That's how you get stronger and better at it. Yes, you could use a pulley to get all those weights off the floor more easily. That's not what training is for.

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

Which is a win for them for sure, but it's certainly still worth underlining quite how important it continues to be to have experts in the know handling anything. As competent as Claude models are, they still can't be left alone to make decisions

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

It's interesting though that actually it took longer than expected and needed a bigger team of engineers more properly overseeing it

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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

All of which is to say what anyone with any critical thinking already knows. AI tools can have their uses. But don't let them do the thinking for you or make any decisions. Because they absolutely can not do that well

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

You'd think they'd try very hard to avoid any perception of that happening. Which they probably are. But it's still not looking good. Which is not a good sign at all

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

Instead it looks like Bun is turning into a vibe coded mess at scale

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

If it worked it would be a huge deal. A massive calling card for what AI can do for software development.

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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-...

tipiirai.com

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...

notesfromthecircus.com

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...

canelo.co

David Barnett | Canelo

About the author David Barnett

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 16/08/2026

This is very burned into my brain forever. With the world cup as an exception due to bring Brazilian i.kym-cdn.com/photos/image...

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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 · 10/08/2026

It's almost like certain views are explicitly amplified for a particular agenda!

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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 · 07/08/2026

Noted. Luckily I am within a reasonable margin of error for that!

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Nick Barreto @nick-barreto.com · 07/08/2026

-taking notes- yes ok I think I can do that...

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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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