PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026All Star Wars is bad, Andor is good. it’s a paradox 130
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 06/10/2026AI literacy for kids is like training children how to talk to office coworkers before teaching them critical thinking. 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Working on bikes is interesting because you can buy an old bike for €150, or you buy all the same parts separately and assemble it yourself and get it for as little as €600. 020
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PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 25/09/2026they do a very good salt and vinegar and just plain salt. Good crisps. You take ballymaloe relish out of the Christmas gift hamper, use it once in a turkey sandwich, then put it in the back of the fridge for the next 11 months. 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It’s actually bothering me the way the memories and frames of reference keep resetting. I feel like I’m still waiting for it to start. 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Half way through this, what a coincidence. 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I was so obsessed with this character appearance that I reencoded the episode into an 11MB video file that would play on my iRiver mp3 player so I could microdose it in the bathroom of my first office job. 1321
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026OR it’s an LLM buy-in that closes off the need for 20 juniors (sorry) 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I am uncomfortable 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026My iPhone updated and now the autocorrect is so bad. The great thing about hyper complex layered tech is that you’re working in a constant state of paranoia that shares the same brain space as conspiracy theories and religious anxiety. “_Did_ this get worse? Am I just tired?” 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Someone on twitter was saying the culture in there is very much “the ceo read somewhere that React is slow, now we’re dropping React”. I understand the dislike of the shim, or the appeal of native elegance. But the cost of the switch feels like you’d need a really good reason. Maybe they have it! 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026My kid got on my video call and told all my new coworkers they were boring. 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 11/09/2026We had a long chat about this in work—I was interested in their Helix thing that seemed to formalise approaching things the way most careful devs would have been trying to keep LLMs on a leash. Still not sure that impetus to escape react native holds weight but it’s interesting 111
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Good morning m.youtube.com/watch?v=igIT...m.youtube.comPhilip Glass - heroes (aphex twin remix)YouTube video by Jan Fiedler 011
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 06/09/2026evolving to not taste good is an under-appreciated achievement if you ask me. 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I don’t mean to be alarmist, but I‘m guessing there’s a not insignificant chance that our President might take the opportunity to kill Donald Trump. 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“And then she signed the letter: Matalie Portman.” 0642
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 01/09/20262006: Read Sheldon Brown on bottom bracket tapers. 2026: Read AI paraphrasing Sheldon Brown on bottom bracket tapers. 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Erotic tick check. 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Can you imagine living with a man who is haltingly strumming/mumbling the entirety of “Emily” downstairs while you try to get the kids‘ teeth brushed. 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Finally bought a replacement capo and god forgive me im playing Joanna Newsom again. 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My Odyssey review: I get that Nolan is a semi-naturalist or whatever but I was really looking forward to seeing more impressive cows. 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026My Odyssey review: could have used a bit more CGI on the pigs ahhh 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026See also: The Survivalist (2015). You’ll spend the whole movie in horrible suspense over a small plot of vegetables. 001
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 20/08/2026There’re perhaps only a half dozen movies that attempt to truly depict life after society breaks down. They’re all harrowing. 100
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 05/08/2026I haven’t listened to a podcast or seen a YouTube video in 3 weeks and I can feel my brain healing 040
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Holiday homes are kinda strange because someone will leave the worst shampoo you’ve ever smelled in your life and you’ll wash your hair with it for the next four summers. 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Instantly recognised this. you made such nice pages 100
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 21/07/2026I bought a 2011 Honda Fit a few months ago! So easy to park. 000
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PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Today on the day that the odyssey comes out I’m going to a place with no cinemas for 4 weeks 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 17/07/2026when I feel like I’m too fond of the source—like an adaptation is going to bother me if it skips something—I just… skip the adaptation. 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Any time I try to do conscious posture correction it feels like I'm pretending to have muscles. 110
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 10/07/2026We didn’t need the letter J, and including it was a mistake. 121
Reposted by PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePierK Queue @kingoftheghosts.bsky.social · 09/07/2026I rate myself highly on the self-assessment every year in order to force my boss to explain why he thinks I deserve a lower mark. This past year the new boss just gave up and left all my high ratings intact. Performance review is psychological warfare. 241
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 07/07/2026notes.piercegleeson.com/spacial-refr... Complaining about technology makes me feel like it’s 2014 again.notes.piercegleeson.comSpacial Reframing and the purpose of a family photographHow do you write another article about what smartphone cameras should be allowed to do to your photos? 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 25/06/2026notes.piercegleeson.com/faking-for-f... Something a bit esoteric about how AI has sucked all the fun out of pretending online.notes.piercegleeson.comFaking for fun in the Misinformation AgeSome thoughts about my very old relationship with presenting untrue information online. 120
Reposted by PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePierPiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026notes.piercegleeson.com/is-it-even-p... Another one. I tried to apply Betteridge's law to this blog post and got confused by the double negative.notes.piercegleeson.comIs it even possible to write a novel without using AI?We are all living with the research tools that Google will allow us. 011
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 22/06/2026notes.piercegleeson.com/is-it-even-p... Another one. I tried to apply Betteridge's law to this blog post and got confused by the double negative.notes.piercegleeson.comIs it even possible to write a novel without using AI?We are all living with the research tools that Google will allow us. 011
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 16/06/2026It is true that postqud.shop is the official Irish domain registry. 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 16/06/2026I literally can not tell if any of this is legible or parsable 100
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Does this work? I got tired of not writing so i made a little blog for, like, Internet opinions. notes.piercegleeson.com/researching-...notes.piercegleeson.comResearching on a post-reality InternetSearching for material truth in a system that will tell you whatever you want to hear. 281
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Uff some of these macOS examples look like things I’ve left in cheap, small websites and felt bad about. 010
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My four-year-old thinks it’s okay for her to shout at me but mean for me to shout at her, interesting 030
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Have Apple lost it? (Apple have lost it.) 020
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Watching Mission Impossible, muttering “Don’t do it, Ethan,” every time you see him get an idea 000
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Josh it’s all I’ve got left 100
PiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePiercePier @pierce.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Yes, I cut myself constantly while carving and they’re great for closing very clean, deep wounds. 110
