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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I hope you find my AI Slop vs Your Codebase GIF worth a chuckle.

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My sky my sky my sky is on fire 🔥😎

A view on San Diego over the ocean and La Jolla with a red sky

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sssh OSX is telling me something. This is not a new "bug" around since May. See github.com/openai/codex... just one of many "CLOSED" issues on this problem. SWE at its finest I guess? We can "fix" this by bypassing gatekeeper - codexdown.com/en/codex-mac... Also I hate seatbelts don't you?

OSX Dialog saying Codex.app was not opened and moved to trash because it contains malware. A bit disturbing wouldn't you say?

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here is the start of the Asimov inspired stuff that likely is the safety theater we are currently witnessing

Don’t run the bot if you can’t keep it safe

The softly should not make destructive changes limit resource use and and refuse actions it can’t know the consequences of

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For giggles I pulled my copy of a 30 year old book on web bots and agents from my library. You might be surprised by its guidelines for bot use are pretty solid on and mostly ignored by modern folk. The laws are modeled on Asimov and from a simpler time of the web

A book on Internet agents from 1996 that people in 2026 might want to pull some gems from on how to behave

6 laws for web bots that are common sense and informed by ai folks basically control your bot and respect the wishes of others

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

The Jungle 3.0 By Not Upton Sinclair The year is 2026 and the jack booted thugs known as FDA food safety inspectors have finally been defeated! Huzzah. Much rejoicing was heard across the land from all those not in the morgue, ICU, or on the toilet with explosive diarrhea. The End?

The fda to end food safety inspections inspections

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Great. We have now have services to bypass bot defenses people put up. How dare them! This is like introducing “Bust your doors down” for when people want to keep you out you can just “Bust their doors down !” Don’t let pesky locks keep you from taking what you want! Order today!

Bad words in my brain about a firm that wants to keep bots scraping you when you try to keep them out. You know assholes.

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Hey anybody up for some Tranya ? It’s only 10456 Quatloos during happy hour. #startrek

Clint Howard in Star Trek TOS drinking some Tranya.

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

But did you see our code velocity number? it’s over 9000!!!

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

annoyance as a social service - yep checks out perfect acronym too. Funny enough in Feb I fired up the old code slop engine to make a jokey simulation of your very point. Using slop tech to dunk on slop tech seems satisfyingly appropriate 😏 cyberviber.ninja/demos/reply-...

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

As 2025 comes closer to a close let us remember how it started. It told us what to expect and it sure did deliver.

CyberTruck on fire in front of
Trump building on 1-1-2025

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Fake it till you make it - Ai edition

Ai doing what Ai does as is in making up stuff when it can do what it asks

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

What Google Chrome is up for sale? I gotta get in on this. I’ve always wanted to own a browser. Ok so my best and final offer is 100 Trillion Dollars. I’ll throw in some priceless Ape jpegs as a sweetener. Ha ha I now have totally destroyed your crap low ball offer Perplexity!

A 100 Trillion Dollar bank note from Zimbabwe. It’s worth nothing

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sadly JS framework marketing+job market melted brains so hard Web devs became like chemists against atoms with semantic HTML enhancing upwards & other web fundamentals thrown out as old fashioned rather than foundational. Foundation first, fashion second, but fashion we admit helps you get hired.

Progressive enhancement approach which favors htmx but likely you can teach without as I have myself as this is just progressive enhancement

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

kea truly are cheeky birds and they’ll even rip your backup or open it up by the zipper to take stuff out. It’s kind of inspiring this guy went after our gear moments later on the Milford Track. The guides warned us, but typical yanks we just had to experience it ourselves. Have a great time!

A Kea about to get into our backup when we stop watching him

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Well yeah. 😝 After Casey’s nonsense cheerleading I think will consult this relic from the 1990s I own for giggles and see if people can guess what quote is OpenAi fantasy and what is 1997 fantasy. 🤪

A book about AI agents from the late 1990s

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Thomas A. Powell @tpowell.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

A shot today of an on brand mural for local San Diego county brewery Booze Brothers - Drink like a fish

A wall mural at a San Diego brewery where a beer is poured in the mouth of a rainbow trout.

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