Reposted by David Smithevacide @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 1001923996
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Not sure if it’s the improved Siri/Spotlight in iOS 27 or if the NYT simply added metadata about Wordle to the app, but this does work now. AGI is here, I guess. 000
Reposted by David SmithR Consortium @rconsortium.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Have an idea that could strengthen the R ecosystem? The R Consortium is accepting proposals for its second Technical Grants cycle of 2026! 📅 Deadline: Oct. 1, 11:59 p.m. US ET Learn more & submit: r-consortium.org/all-projects... #RStats #OpenSource #RCommunity 033
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Takeaways from my first experiences of GPT-6 Astra, which I used to create this educational animation I've had noodling in the back of my brain for a while: revodavid.github.io/becoming/revodavid.github.ioBecoming / A study of Platonic solids 220
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This is peak Microsoft right here. I now have two near-identical Copilot apps on my iPhone. I think one lets me take advantage of my M365 subscription but I can no longer tell which is which. 020
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Instagram’s new growth hack is to send you an email with the subject “See what youragedparents and 8 others shared” to prompt you to log in a check to see if your aged parents have been hacked only to find they haven’t posted since 2017 exactly as you expected. 100
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 18/08/2026The 5th highest mountain in Australia doesn’t even have a name. 010
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Some fantastic tips in here: the use of AI for hobbies is underrated. I have stolen the travel guide prompt. 010
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 14/08/2026It is the year 2026 and Google Drive still does not support inspecting or extracting ZIP files. 020
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Try this prompt (ChatGPT has a great response): Is the Philipine Eagle the most 80’s of eagles? 020
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Just noticed a neat Safari feature on iOS: if you click an image on a web page that spawns an image in a new tab, you can press Back. This closes the new tab and returns you to the original tab and page. Pretty sure in Chrome, Back would be disabled. Has this always been the case? 110
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I closed my laptop for 20 mins to eat dinner, and in the meantime it rebooted itself with no warning to install an update, losing progression in the game (Civ VII) I was playing. SO aggravating. It’s a MacBook, BTW. 010
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 03/08/2026The built-in Preview app on iOS makes for a half-decent document scanner. 010
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The fact that Siri Spotlight does not offer to launch NYT Games when I search for “wordl” is the proof that AGI will never be achieved. 130
Reposted by David SmithCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...notus.orgSuspicion and Doubt at the National Civics ContestAmerica’s finest young scholars competed to mark their country's birthday. It led to a disputed finish in the age of mistrust. 10558972288
Reposted by David SmithCharlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026"It's been a rather fascinating exercise to watch many politicos and reporters share their fun and wistful anecdotes about Mr. Graham. He was so funny and so charming. That's nice."charlotteclymer.substack.comMy Funny Personal Story About Lindsey GrahamSo funny and so charming. 28633115
Reposted by David SmithMike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This is my favorite thing I've written for @mcsweeneys.net in a while. Hope you folks enjoy it! I think the headline pretty much clears up what it's about.mcsweeneys.netMy Critics Are Missing the Nuance of My Membership in the Wealthy People Hunting Poor People for Sport Club“Over the last couple of years, I’ve been focused on making a positive impact on how the future unfolds, especially in tech, AI, and which areas of the body ... 332340585
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 24/06/2026People often ask me what was my favourite US city to live in. SF had the tech and queer scenes. Chicago had the culture. Napa had the wine. With Seattle it’s the rain that comes to mind first. strava.app.link/wDeicESKe4bstrava.app.linkStrava Flyover 3D replayWatch a 3D video replay of this epic activity on Strava. 310
Reposted by David SmithZach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Happy Father's Dad! www.smbc-comics.com/comic/number... 394875872
Reposted by David SmithDirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 21/06/2026BBC article about Brian Ripley of the #RStats Core team given this week's excellent news concerning 2026 Rousseeuw Price for Statistics recognition for him and the core team. www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comProf Brian Ripley on developing R to manage the world's dataProf Brian Ripley has spent the past three decades working on a computer software that analyses data. 419383
Reposted by David SmithVicki @vickiboykis.com · 15/06/2026new post: how I develop recently using local models. the tooling is now good enough to do agentic workflows and everyone should give them a try! vickiboykis.com/2026/06/15/r...vickiboykis.comRunning local models is good nowLocal agentic coding has gotten great over the past few months 1825737
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I don’t know if Photo Shuffle deliberately chose this photo to align the sun with the lower dot of the colon but if so well played, Apple. 000
Reposted by David SmithHunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026As far as I can tell, people have to pay for Paramount Plus to watch this event hosted on government property. I'd assume it's a win for their new UFC deal even if relatively few eyeballs. Would be interested in the @tvmojoe.bsky.social perspective. He is the ultimate ratings guru. 4214
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Anyone else find it immensely satisfying to start something that runs without your attention (e.g. a load of laundry) and then go out to do something else? It’s like free productivity! I AM THE MASTER OF OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY! Just me, then? 110
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Pretty pleased with this Wingspan score. (Jonny wasn’t as pleased.) 000
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 30/05/2026A few weeks ago I bought a 4-pack of Apple AirTags on sale at Costco. Today, packing for a trip, it occurs to me I should put an AirTag on my luggage. I can’t find the AirTags. 240
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Fascinating! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comInside the Interstitium, the Human Body’s Hidden Pathways (Gift Article)The detection of another circulatory system in the human body could have enormous scientific implications. 030
Reposted by David SmithBryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...bcantrill.dtrace.orgThe peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck 427887
Reposted by David SmithPamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026I built an agent skill that roasts me based on my work week (using GitHub, X, and WorkIQ MCP servers), and it cracks me up so much. 😆 "I've never seen someone so aggressively productive and yet so fundamentally unhinged at the same time." Install from […] [Original post on fosstodon.org] 011
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 08/04/2026I'll be in Hong Kong this weekend for #AgentCon hosting a tournament to make the best Snake Game bot with agentic AI. Hope to see you there! 010
Reposted by David SmithSonia Cuff @soniacuff.com · 07/04/2026Dear astronauts, if you liked losing contact with the earth for 40 minutes, I can highly recommend a 13hr BNE-LAX flight with no Wi-Fi. 0111
Reposted by David Smithpamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Announcing our next livestream series! "Host your agents on Foundry" Apr 27-30 @ 10 AM PT We’ll build agents with both Microsoft Agent Framework and LangChain/LangGraph, deploy them to Microsoft Foundry, then add knowledge, tools, observability, evals. aka.ms/AgentsOnFoun... 133
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 17/03/2026Has anyone actually tried to use AirDrop on an iPhone recently? It is the exact opposite of a “magical experience”. 110
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Got a persistent server running for the CopperHead game. Asking a favour: try it out at aka.ms/copperhead and let me know how it goes?aka.msCopperHead Snake 110
Reposted by David SmithThe R Foundation @r-foundation.bsky.social · 12/03/2026We are pleased to announce that Heather Turner @heathrturnr.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy has joined the R Core Team. She has been an active contributor notably via the R Dev Days, and has greatly improved cooperation between R Core and the R community in more ways #RStats. 716136
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Just updated the CopperHead Snake game client/server to v4. A real fun way to test your vibe coding skills is to compete with other players in a build-your-own-bot tournament -- deets here: github.com/revodavid/co...github.com 020
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 12/03/2026Hey Siri, do you really think it’s more likely I wanted to set a timer for 16 minutes instead of one for 60 minutes? 011
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 24/10/2025It’ll be back soon, if only as a static site so the links don’t break. TypePad, the blog host shut down with only a few weeks warning. Read the story of the rescue operation here: medium.com/@gcordidoa/m...medium.comMigrating a Site with GitHub Copilot on VS Code: A vibe coding storyWith all the talk about Copilot and AI, I have been continuously wondering what kind of projects I could take on that wouldn’t require any… 260
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 23/09/2025Devs: looking to up your GitHub Copilot game? In 60 mins, I'll be hosting an AMA with Aaron Powell, maintainer of the Awesome Copilot repo, your source of prompts, chat modes and more! 110
Reposted by David SmithClaire Giordano ✨ @clairegiordano.bsky.social · 08/08/2025🎙️ New @talkingpostgres.com #podcast Ep30 just published! Guest @simonwillison.net talked about AI for data engineers. We skipped hype & boosterism to chat about Postgres permissions, alt text, 150-line SQL queries, & pelicans on 🚲 🎧 talkingpostgres.com/episodes/ai-... 📺 youtu.be/8SAqeJHsmRM?... 0157
Reposted by David SmithSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 13/08/2025You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link: codespaces.new/simonw/codes... Notes on how I got this working: simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/... - plus a detailed TIL on using devcontainer.json to configure Codespaces: til.simonwillison.net/github/codes...simonwillison.netsimonw/codespaces-llmI found out today that GitHub Codespaces come with a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable... and that token works as an API key for accessing LLMs in the GitHub Models collection, which … 0444
Reposted by David SmithKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6263661411259
Reposted by David SmithJames Temple @jtemple.bsky.social · 13/06/2025This @kashhill.bsky.social piece is wild and disturbing:nytimes.comThey Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling. 1236
Reposted by David SmithNiema Moshiri @niema.net · 28/05/2025HMMER is literally *the* go-to tool for profile HMMs in bioinformatics. I've used it countless times on a wide range of projects spanning viruses, retrotransposons, etc. Absolute insanity! hmmer.orghmmer.orgHMMER 03515
Reposted by David SmithIda Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally? 481144623519