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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Googling 'Mamdani Talmud' still brings up this monstrosity. Other people have explored it a bit and it is unclear if it is X or Google but in my view X or Google should be punished for this. Choosing to mash up a tweet and a reply should not be protected by section 230.

Google search result that shows a tweet from Mayor Mamdani with the text 'the talmud teaches that the best of gentiles should be killed' and other anti semitic nonsense

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We sold quail eggs and quail themed laser crafts at the farmer's market at the local Grange. We made more than our booth fee. But less than our booth fee plus our purchases :-)

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Someone snarky said Gavin Newsome peeked in high school. I think that is too harsh. I think he peaked with his righteous but stunt order to allow same sex marriage in 2004. Mostly it has been downhill since then.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Apparently there is a Fluff Fest and it is super wholesome and I am going to hell but I want to see the Sankey chart.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

People who I respect in 3 or maybe 5 domains are saying things that don't match my experiences so I am going to be silent and reflect and hope that reality 'collapses' in a way that makes it all make sense. I am pretty sure that my interaction on any of these issues would make anything better.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Merriam-Webster added 'Cuffing Season' to its dictionary. The Google AI summary accurately quotes wikipedia to define it, but then adds: "Would you like to know tips on how to spot cuffing season or ways to gracefully end a winter relationship?"

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Candy corn is one of the few honest manufactured foods. It is basically pure HFC in the form of the source of HFC.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I was part of the GigaPan project from 2008-2012. It was an amazing period of creative engagement for me. For the past 14 years I have made periodic efforts to display my images in a system that I control. In May, with Claude Code, I finally achieved that goal.

megazoomquilt.com

MegaZoomQuilt

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I made a demo hyper local map app to track water quality reports. I used @s.ly SuperPowers skill (for the system, blame me for the esthetics). clo-waterquality.com It is test data only for now. Feel free to make test reports. Read the about page for some background.

clo-waterquality.com

Test project for Clearlake Oaks water reports

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I am a few days late, but the Big Man show just delivered on an archivest/librarian fantasy/nightmare!

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I am older, by almost a decade, than yellow and red cards. What are you older than?

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

10,000 hours to become a world recognized expert seems like a bit commitment. But (for a long! time) I have thought about how many things where 10-100 (or fewer in cases!) hours can take us from ignorance to basic competence.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

You say 'one shot' and you created a profitable web site. I say 'one shot' and I ate a whole tray of rice krispie treats. We are not the same

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I read Get Shorty and a few years later the movie came out and I remember being impressed at how much Leonard had learned about writing novels to be made into films. Memory is imperfect but watching the film I kept appreciating how the film hit the beats of the novel

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I turned in my California absentee ballot at a polling station on election day. I got a text today from the Secretary of State that my ballot had arrived and would be counted. Counting all of the votes takes time.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

AI is like a good relationship. You don't need a harness, but it will make things better.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

The Kennedy Center has a feedback page. But it has a captcha that is never satisfied. I wonder if it is intentional, or just more Trump incompetence. www.kennedy-center.org/contact/web-...

kennedy-center.org

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I used to hit refresh and there would be no change because I was looking at the live server and I'd made changes on my local copy. I wrote up my little trick to help me keep dev and production straight. medium.com/@richgibson/...

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My localhost helper

The problem is always DNS, or caching, or being in the wrong directory or on the wrong server.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I just got CO2 laser safety glasses. They are really comfortable, can I also use them as regular sunglasses or will that be worse than no glasses?

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I read a lot of articles. I am annoyed when someone writes '...quietly changing.' It is 2026, nothing is quiet.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I'm having Claude help me to resurrect a site. It read one of my architecture files and said 'Elegant for 1998.' So I've got that going for me. Also, I had architecture files. Feeling chuffed with past-me.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

We were giants in those days, in our own ways.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

That feeling when its been a minute and you look at the carefully set up laser cutter, and it is not moving and cutting and shit because you neglected to click on 'Start' in Lightburn. Bad human, no pellets for you. (hah, I am autonomous, I get all of the pellets that I want!)

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Bruce Sterling calls AI text 'delvish' because of the use of the world 'delve' in AI text. And I would like Delvish to be the word that we select to describe AI text. bruces.medium.com/preliminary-...

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Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect, by Bruce Sterling

Preliminary Notes on the Delvish Dialect

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

This was my opinion then. It is far cooler and cyberpunk than my current opinion. Thursday 6/8/2000 One could be excused if one thought that programming was a glamorous career. In fact, it is suited most for deviants, misfits, and the criminally insane.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

That feeling when you have a bit of adaptive tech and you are in a new/old space and swing an arm around and you bump into your own adaptive tech is sublime.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

person 1: I used AI to solve a problem that has bedeviled me for twenty years. person 2: have you considered that llm is literal slavery? If you are anti ai perhaps try a different argument.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Moment of zen watching this video and having him reference Code and Other laws of Cyberspace by Lawrence Lessig. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RKG...

youtube.com

THE PEOPLE DO NOT YEARN FOR AUTOMATION | Decoder

YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One does something when one codes with Claude Code, I've decided to call it 'cloding.'

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I wrote a functional prototype of a tool to help you rate your bluesky feed by showing skeets to rate, add comments, and save. The idea is create a corpus to learn from, and create a better feed. This is an experiment in how the ui might work. feedrater.com fastapi, htmx, atproto, sqlite3

Skeet by Mara Wilson showing prototype UI for feedrater, with a thumbs up and thumbs down, edit a note, and save the skeet.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Weird internet, ftw. "I get it. They’re building a multi-million-user network; I’m just a guy who wants to see the internet get weird again. But I can’t help but hope they eventually set this thing loose." Report on the Atmosphere conference, by David Imel davidimel.substack.com/p/bluesky-is...

davidimel.substack.com

Bluesky is doubling down

Let's see if a feed-builder is it.

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Christopher Neugebauer @fedi.chrisjrn.fyi · 24/04/2026

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: northbaypython.org (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]

social.coop

Original post on social.coop

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I love this paper, and how the workflow of Claude Code works with how I approach dealing with the command line. Lots of little pieces strung together. From Everything-is-a-File to Files-Are-All-You-Need: How Unix Philosophy Informs the Design of Agentic AI Systems arxiv.org/abs/2601.11672

arxiv.org

From Everything-is-a-File to Files-Are-All-You-Need: How Unix Philosophy Informs the Design of Agentic AI Systems

A core abstraction in early Unix systems was the principle that 'everything is a file', enabling heterogeneous devices and kernel resources to be manipulated via uniform read/write interfaces. This pa...

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Maybe this marks the spot where the tide breaks in our right wing fever dream. "with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." HST Fear and loathing in Las Vegas www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...

bbc.com

Hungary election: Viktor Orbán concedes with opposition on course for landslide election win - follow live

Hungary's prime minister has been ousted after 16 years in power, with Péter Magyar set to be the country's new leader.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

I wrote about getting lost in the Czech republic on a bike trip in 2006, and how we all need a personal data repository to help us connect with our spatial data. (picture of a young woman lifting a heavily loaded bike over fallen trees) medium.com/@richgibson/...

medium.com

Getting lost in the Czech Republic

More on the theme that Maps Tell Stories

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Hofstadter talked about translation, and sentences like 'this sentence is hard to translate into French' loses meaning when it is translated into French. I just ran into this Hindi sentence. “C shuru karo. Sab C se hi shuru karte hain.” By someone quoting their instructor.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I wanted to see an F35B do a vertical landing. Youtube suggested 'f35b landing on Queen Ettlizabeth' I was disappointed to learn that there is an aircraft carrier named Queen Elizabeth.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

I dreamed I was next to a fellow with locks flowing in the wind, and all around him people were singing 'let it blow' (from Frozen). A hand reached up and snatched at his hair. Everyone gasped and stopped singing because nothing was going to blow on that bald dome.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

"Google now prioritizes intent and AI-powered understanding over strict keyword matching" Like, fuck you Google. I put words in quotes. And you didn't respect my use of your syntax. Quotes mean 'exact match' but you have decided that this doesn't matter? Fucking burn Google to the ground.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The phrase 'all you need to know about...' may be true but it is trite and rhetorically weak.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Minor annoyances, when the new exhaust blower for the laser is loud enough that sometimes you think that you hit 'run' and a bit later you stand up and realize that no, the laser did not receive that signal. Kenneth. Kenneth. What's the frequency?

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

I've used ChatGPT as a code assistant. Last night I stayed up until 3 am with Claude Code. I only stopped because I was exhausted, and out of tokens in my 4 hour window. Just asked ChatGPT something, and it is being especially healthy...it knows it is on a short leash.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Murdock "Upright citizens usually volunteer information to the police." 2026: ACAB, even Murdock.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

I just started with Claude Code. It is powerful, and as others have observed, exhausting! I think that when we exhaust the 4 hour window of tokens that we should consider that to be Claude telling us to take a break.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I think that saying 'that tells you all you need to know about [subject]' [almost?] always reflects lazy and incomplete thinking. But also, I might just be an old man yelling at clouds.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Bell pepper in the streets, jalapeño in the sheets.

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Rich Gibson @richgibson.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Was the Coinbase ad made with a Video Toaster?

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