Reposted by David SmithJD Long @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com · 13/10/2026<takes a drag on a cig> yeah, this right here. 1424
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 10320321029
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. 010
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 · 15/09/2026I blew the alternator doing that in my Commodore as a kid. The smoke should’ve been a clue, in hindsight. 100
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's faster than I expected (at least via GH Copilot). I may have been waiting a bit longer than with Sol, but not much. It's cheaper than I expected: 1x (same as Sol and Sonnet). Given all that, I'll likely make it my daily driver from now on. 000
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's tasteful. Love the way the end result looks, and the captions it chose for the animation states. It's got real technical chops. I was surprised to find the animation is well-adapted for mobile, even though I didn't specify the requirement explicitly. The JS code is pretty compact, too. 100
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's powerful. I was able to one-shot this educational animation and get it running in about 10 mins. It's intuitive. Back-and forth conversations to refine the design flowed naturally. Final version took about an hour of my time. 100
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 · 23/07/2026I was doing it on an iPhone but the fact that it fails on a Mac too is just further proof. 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. 10558912288
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. 28632115
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 ... 332339585
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 24/06/2026But then you go on a stroll with friends to get actually good coffee, and then wander through a forest to a stunning lake with views of towering mountains (all this within 2 miles of the city centre) on a gorgeous summer’s day and you remember how special a city Seattle is. 340
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... 394868872
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 1825637
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 20/06/2026Right up there with the passive voice of “The Reflecting Pool Appears to Be Rejecting Its Makeover” 1191
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
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It’s a work of the Federal Government so it’s public domain and copyright free. Right? 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
David Smith @nonfamous.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Such a great loss, and awful news. Sincere condolences to his family at this tragic time. 020
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
