Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeSarah Emily Duff @sarahemilyduff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026‘writing crystallizes previously half-formulated or unformulated thoughts, gives them form, and extends chains of thoughts in new directions’ As everyone has already said, this 2010 essay by Lynn Hunt is utterly wonderful:historians.orgHow Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHAWriting is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words. 14321
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdePaulo Gustavo @paulogustavo.net · 19/08/2026G1 publicou ontem uma notícia inventando uma personagem de Laura Cardoso que nunca existiu. Alucinação de IA entubada pelo repórter. A matéria foi reproduzida em vários sites e agora já aparece como sendo verdade em outras IAs. A internet morreu, só tem bot nessa porra 6655218
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“Ninguém deveria mais estar lendo código, assim como ninguém lia código de máquina” “Mas código de máquina não precisa ler mesmo, é sempre gerado de forma determinística” Bom dia 💜 3235
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeMaureen Chuck @irmagherd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026RIP Bonnie Tyler 5150221146
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeBoing Boing @boingboing.net · 07/07/2026China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.boingboing.netChina built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concreteThe Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing… 391163339
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Tava pensando nos chineses de 200k, 400 mil ta mto fora da realidade. 200
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Mas os chineses são excelentes também. O mercado americano de elétricos está inacreditavelmente aquém. 110
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeCharity Majors @charity.wtf · 15/06/2026I think AI is the best opening we've ever had to bring our engineering values to the mainstream, instead of the top single-digit-percent of teams it's always been. But nondeterminism will take more engineering discipline. Not less. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands...charitydotwtf.substack.comAI demands more engineering discipline. Not lessIf you lived through the shift from handcrafted server pets to immutable infrastructure, you should sense something oddly familiar about what's happening now. 911734
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeDodô @domingosjr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Segue a passos largos o momento Karma is a bitch do Luciano Huck: ONU acaba de divulgar o IDH 2026 e pela primeira vez na história o Brasil passa de 0,8 o que nos coloca numa posição inédita no rol de países com IDH MUITO ALTO. O maior culpado disso? BOLSA FAMÍLIA. g1.globo.com/politica/not...g1.globo.comPela primeira vez, Brasil ingressa no grupo de países com muito alto desenvolvimento humano; avanços foram desiguais | G1País chegou em 2024 com um Índice de Desenvolvimento Humano Municipal (IDHM) de 0,805. Dados são do 'Radar IDHM' divulgados nesta terça-feira (26) pelo Programa das Nações Unidas para o Desenvolviment... 101274438
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/05/2026A good cautionary tale for when someone claims that trusting data analysis done with an LLM is good because it’s “objective.” In this example, Copilot apparently decided to ignore the data it was given and just run with all the subconscious biases its (human-made) training data inevitably gave it. 361495471
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 10/04/2026something that wrinkles my brain every time I remember it is the fact that total eclipses are only possible on earth because the moon and sun appear to be the same size in our sky, due to the insanely, astronomically unlikely fluke that the moon is 400x smaller than the sun but 400x closer to us. 8474671289
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 03/04/2026More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕 231130403679
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeMar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 27/03/2026haha how silly… oh (from @twonks.bsky.social) 4551180
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeCara Jackson @carajackson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026"nearly a dozen leading models were highly sycophantic, taking the users’ side in interpersonal conflicts 49 percent more often than humans did — even when the user described situations in which they broke the law, hurt someone or lied." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/w...nytimes.comSeeking a Sounding Board? Beware the Eager-to-Please Chatbot. 066
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeRodrigo Vidal @rodrigovidal7.bsky.social · 05/03/2026Inspired by npmx, I built Nugetz — a modern way to search and explore the NuGet registry. The .NET ecosystem deserved a better UX. nugetz.dev 063
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeMaggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com · 23/01/2026I have Gas Town derangement syndrome and spent the last few weeks writing thousands of words on agent orchestration patterns; how they shift our bottlenecks and force us to ask whether and when we should stop looking at code maggieappleton.com/gastownmaggieappleton.comGas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at ScaleOn agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code 1629456
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeJuan Lopes @juanlopes.dev · 07/01/2026AIs não programam. Elas geram código fonte. Isso pode ser útil às vezes. Mas programar é outra coisa. pablo.rauzy.name/dev/naur1985... 0174
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeParis Marx @parismarx.com · 07/12/2025“computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills” tech won’t save us 720453
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeFelipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays. Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons. @nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her: pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...pathikablog.comHow Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored … 2846405
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Tambem gostei bastante! E foi pessoalmente muito bom ver a Recife de meus pais (e a mitologia da minha infância - a perna cabeluda era um medo real!) 030
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Opa, obrigada Marcelo! Estou numa missão pessoal de ler todos os vencedores de Hugo ou Nebula de 1970 pra cá, são 102 livros ao todo. Mas leio sem pressa e sem pressão. John Scalzi tá na lista - ganhou o Hugo por Redshirts 110
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Nossa, achei Artemis também bem ruim. O único que gostei de fato dele foi The Martian. Minha sensação é que todos os personagens são iguais, rasos e insuportáveis 000
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 15/11/2025Lendo Project Hail Mary e repensando meu princípio de sempre ler livro até o final mesmo sem gostar :/ tá difícil esse hein. 200
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 15/11/2025SIM! Eu tive a sorte de ver sem spoiler nenhum, nem trailer, sabia nada da serie… e PQP O PRIMEIRO EPISODIO! Fiquei tensa dum jeito q perdi o sono, deu saudade da fase boa de Arquivo X sabe? 140
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeAdolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 09/11/2025AI in week 45, by @felienne.bsky.social www.felienne.nl/2025-45/?ref...felienne.nlAI in week 45Welke kennis doet ertoe? Is ongeveer genoeg? | what knowledge matters? Is more or less enough? 111
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeStealth40k @stealth40k.bsky.social · 17/10/2025Legendary Final Fantasy Composer Nobuo Uematsu says he’s never used generative AI, and never will. "I think it still feels more rewarding to go through the hardships of creating something myself." automaton-media.com/en/news/fina... 3544521610
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeNigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 07/09/2025It’s the Sete de Setembro – Brazil’s Independence Day – so it is only right that Coxinha, the emblematically Brazilian chicken croquette, is #RecipeOfTheDay! These, though, are mini versions, much more manageable for making at home. www.nigella.com/recipes/coxi...nigella.comCoxinhaAlthough a regular coxinha is more the size and shape of a bulbous, dumpy pear, these are mini versions, like fat little figs, and you can get a fabulous 70 of these emblematically Brazilian chicken... 251011201
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeJason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 21/08/2025BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really. Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are. This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...bloomberg.comWhy ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to MakeThe highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme 13589732956
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeScott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 17/07/2025I just wanted to say, I’m probably more proud of this Ted talk than just about anything I’ve ever done so I’m gonna be absolutely useless for the next couple of weeks as I promote the shit out of this because I want you to watch it because it matters in the moment we are in youtu.be/dVG8W-0p6vgyoutu.beTech Promised Everything. Did it deliver? | Scott Hanselman | TEDxPortlandYouTube video by TEDx Talks 79990271
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeHeitor De Paola @zitosilva.bsky.social · 27/06/2025Impressão minha ou a tradução pra português de The Alters usou chatgpt e esqueceu de apagar o prompt? (e sim, tá ruim o texto em português do jogo, várias traduções erradas ou imprecisas, frases confusas que não soam natural etc) 29640144
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeCBSoft 2026 @cbsoft.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Podem nos ajudar a chegar a 100 seguidores aqui? Dá repost, por favor. Somos o maior evento acadêmico em Engenharia de Software do Brasil, com participação significativa também de pessoas do mercado! 01820
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeMel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025I told you we’d be back 15674307112662
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeEmily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 11/06/2025This is incredible 48137214733
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 06/06/2025Tou indo pra gringa em julho, se quiser eu trago pra tu 👀 110
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 05/06/2025A cidade é por causa do meu nome 😅 bem, do Cardeal Arcoverde - o mais famoso membro da família, nascido na região. 110
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Ahhhh um classico! Mas muito mais complexo que clean code, serve mais como referencia (e li em 2010, nem sei o quão atual ainda é!) 020
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Hmm… Pragmatic Programmer ou talvez A Philosophy of Software Design. Mas sao livros mais “maduros” tambem 111
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeSimon Willison @simonwillison.net · 27/05/2025GitHub MCP suffers from the lethal trifecta for prompt injection: access to private data, exposure to malicious instructions + the ability to exfiltrate information Be really careful with this stuff: attackers can trick your "agent" into stealing your private data simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/...simonwillison.netGitHub MCP Exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCPGitHub's [official MCP server](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server) grants LLMs a whole host of [new abilities](https://github.com/github/github-mcp-server/tree/main/pkg/github), including bei... 313848
Roberta Arcoverde @rla4.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Meu pai sempre teve o sonho de percorrer caminhando os 250km que separam Arcoverde de Recife. Prometi que vou com ele ano que vem, quando teremos 70 e 40 anos de idade, ele e eu. Estamos chamando a empreitada de Santiago de Arcoverde (ou Arcoverde de Compostela). 4800
Reposted by Roberta ArcoverdeKath Barbadoro @kathbarbadoro.bsky.social · 18/05/2025i dont want to be a killjoy but we desperately need to make it socially unacceptable to talk about asking chatgpt things in regular conversation 13686851711
