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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 24/08/2026

IBD are advertising an interview with @edzitron.com on Reddit, but they're clearly going for a meme template with the image they are using. This is hilarious. Great marketing.

A blonde female hostbstares blankly at her guest who has his fingers locked together poised to lay some truths down

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 01/07/2026

If wrestling is fake explain THIS

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 08/06/2026

Basically Gen AI token allocation in a nutshell.

Lil Chen is asked by horse to pick a card, she picks one and horse reveals she has to pay $30. She begrudgingly pays horse.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 08/06/2026

All I see is this guy writing the diary. Sad no bidding yet.

A picture of Barry Weiss from Storage Wars

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 25/05/2026

The exciting part 2 in the HR trilogy, the defining 3 episodes of Voyagers whole run.

The starship Voyager. The text reads Neelix goes to HR.Again.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 25/05/2026

Wise words from Future Biff

Make like a tree and get the trek outta here

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12/04/2026

Finished up at the Green Dragon for a drink. The pub is beautiful inside with a real thatched roof

The Green dragon Inn where we had a cup of Amber Ale

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12/04/2026

We got to go inside one of the hobbit holes. They are quite big inside (scaled up slightly for humans). The detail is insane.

Study with desk, chair and seed collection

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12/04/2026

All the different hobbit holes are unique and themed around a specific family with clues as to which family they are

Hobbit hole with a red door. All the veg is real (including that pumpkin)

This hobbit hole was smoking fish with a real fire

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12/04/2026

Hobbiton was great yesterday, the Shire is amazing and so detailed. Some highlights!

A hobbit hole with a blue door, chair and table outside

A hobbit hole with a yellow door and rocking chair outside

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 10/04/2026

Beach was pretty empty today. Son was boogie boarding all day in amongst the surfers 🌊🏄🏄‍♀️🏄‍♂️

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 03/04/2026

This is amazing. A dev on Mastodon is going through the Claude code leak and appraising the code. To say the code is bad would be an understatement and shows just how much of a grift all this AI BS really is. neuromatch.social/@jonny Some highlights attached!

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an
ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.
it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.

and what if i told you that if it passes a page range to its pdf reader, it first extracts those pages to separate images and then calls this function in a loop on each of the pages. so you have the privilege of compressing n_pages images n_pages * 13 times.
this function is used 13 times: in the file reader, in the mcp result handler, in the bash tool, and in the clipboard handler - each of which has their entire own surrounding image handling routines that are each hundreds of lines of similar but still very different fallback code to do exactly the same thing.
so that's where all the five hundred thousand lines come from - fallback conditions and then more fallback conditions to compensate for the variable output of all the other fallback conditions. thirteen butts pooping, back and forth, forever.

holy shit there's another entire fallback tree before this one, that's actually an astounding twenty two times it's possible to compress an image across nine independent conditional legs of code in a single api call. i can't even screenshot this, the spaghetti is too powerful

alrighty so that's one of 43 tools read, the tools directory being 38494 source lines out of 390592 source lines, 513221 total lines. I need to go to bed.
This is the most fabulously, flamboyantly bad code i have ever encountered.
Worth noting I was reading the file reading tool because i thought it would be the simplest possible thing one could do because it basically shouldn't be doing anything except preparing and sending strings or bytes to the backend.
I expected to get some sense of "ok what is the format of the data as it's passed around within the program, surely text strings are a basic unit of currency. No dice. Fewer than no dice. Negative dice somehow.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 27/03/2026

Reminds me of "Thing Explainer"

The book cover of "Thing Explainer". It has various diagrams with words explaining what each part does

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 25/03/2026

From now on, all the tech bros are "Unfaithful Tomato's" to me.

Faithful Tomato (Proverbial idiom)

Being an unfaithful tomato is a proverbial way of speaking that refers to a broken or unreliable person who does not keep agreements or promises. It can also be meant that this person has not answered a letter or has not contacted the speaker for a long time through visits or the like.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 06/03/2026

They also sell these now. So theres that.

Percy Pig cake sold as a "cake sandwich" with percy pig sweets in it

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 25/02/2026

Wait. Surely new Mock the Week isn't going so badly @daraobriain.bsky.social is doing a side line in Mining careers in New Zealand already!

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 17/02/2026

AMP is a curse that needs to die. These buttons are insidious.

A button on the guardian that switches content over to AMP instead of using the open web

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 15/02/2026

The soundtrack for work today: Hudson St by Agnelli & Nelson. Still an absolute banger of an album 25 years later.

The album cover for Hudson Street. A yellow taxi cab is parked in the road while people walk by on the crossing

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 16/01/2026

Poor AI bros, what grift will they move to next, once this whole thing collapses //cc @edzitron.com

Duckduckgo pole asking if people are in favour of AI with a current 96% opposing it.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 16/01/2026

Listening to Trance Music while I work, pretending its the late 1990s / early 2000s all over again. #GetOutYourGlowSticks #HereComesTheDrop

A picture of my digital audio player (DAP) playing Paul Van Dyk

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 03/01/2026

At a Farmers market, surrounded by breweries and amazing scenery. New Zealand Rocks

Shoppers eating, drinking and being merry in the farmers market

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 17/12/2025

Like this but with more AI related nonsense probably.

A blue screen of death with a message wishing you a Happy Christmas from Microsoft while pushing AI for no apparent reason as per usual.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 09/12/2025

Got my shiny new EDGY Certification. Enterprise Design thinking really helps support Service Design thinking. Would recommend to other designers looking to expand their skills. www.enterprise.design

Enterprise Design Language Foundations Certification

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 06/12/2025

Also in Auckland we have kapiba-ramen: heartofthecity.co.nz/dining/japan...

A capybara, with a pig on its head. On top of the pig sits a chicken

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 14/11/2025

What 7th circle of hell UI interface is this

A burger menu with another burger menu stacked on top.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 10/11/2025

Am I doing it right grifters?

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 30/10/2025

Been loving my Hi-Fi Walker H20 Pro. No more dumb notifications and other crap distracting me from music and disconnecting from online. If you own your own music, I would recommend a DAP (Digital Audio Player)!

Hi-Fi Walker H20 Pro. A music player known as a DAP

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 06/10/2025

"a great game from a great firm"

The loading screen for one of the many Star Trek games on the ZX Spectrum.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 05/10/2025

...this other game Starfire. Their artwork is clearly a straight copy of the Enterprise and they didn't care at all 😂

Starfire a game for the zx spectrum. A space ship strongly resembling the Enterprise from Star Trek avoids incoming missiles

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 05/10/2025

Its funny how back in the 80s, computer games were so small they could fly under the copyright radar. This spectrum game is called "Starship Enterprise" and you are the last commander of the Federation. They lifted everything and erased the nacelles on the artwork just in case 😂

A picture of a copy of the Enterprise from StarTrek being attacked by unknown space ships. Its missing the nacelles to avoid copyright.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 26/09/2025

#UI #IconDesign Why does the lightbulb icon on #confluence look like a lady dropped her trousers down? #cantUnSee

Multiple stamp icons in the Confluence board, with the lightbulb icon highlighted

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 25/06/2025

My childhood was a lie 🫣 🗞️

Paperboy the arcade game. There is a picture of the arcade console and four screenshots of the classic game.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 14/06/2025

If you love thinky sci-fi with an 80s feel.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 12/06/2025

I love how the old, brutalist #architecture of the original building is devouring the modern grafted extension. Nom Nom Nom.

The old archive building enveloped in concrete is standing strong against the flimsy, sleek modern extension.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 11/06/2025

Ugh Blaze Skyfire. I heard he hangs out with these loosers

Mic and Mac star in Global Gladiators an Amiga platform game from the 1990s.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 29/05/2025

For some reason I got the same answer as you, but with added sass.

Dumb Google AI responds to the question "is it 2025?" With "No, its 2025".

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 26/04/2025

Intense game of Everdell. Really want to win this one!

Cards are placed on the Everdell board. Resources hoarded next to each square

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 23/04/2025

It really does seem to think everything prompted is real, regardless of how silly you get. Gonna slip this in my next meeting somehow...

AI overview

Droopy doopies" is a British slang term, often used humorously, which generally means "fancy" or "boujee." It's a playful way of referring to something or someone that is perceived as being somewhat ostentatious or over-the-top in a positive way.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 05/03/2025

The most important questions in #Daredevil Born Again 1. Why does Kingpin set the cutlery backwards? 2. Based on his cutlery Kingpin appears to be starting with the main course and working outwards to the soup course?.

Kingpins bizzare cutlery arrangement in Daredevil born again.

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 04/03/2025

Work those piggies harder!

15.17m is displayed as my high score in Sty Scraper

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 28/01/2025

I love Kiwi signage. Local councils in the UK could take notes 😂

Local council sign reads:

Why are you dumping rubbish here?
Option 1. I am a jerk
Option 2. I don't care about the community
Option 3. I think other people should pay to clean up after me.

Don't be a tosser, dispose of your rubbish responsibly

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 11/01/2025

I am loving our new otterman

A Rhino shaped otterman sat in-front of our chair

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Vincent Pickering @vincentp.me · 11/12/2024

Anyone else's kids always making art in the butter or just mine? 😂

A block of butter with a face carved into it and a funky hair style.

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