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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 19h

"Signing doesn't reserve a username, an account, or a place in line. This is not a petition to any government, agency or company." So what *does* it do? Who is being petitioned?

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sure there's good history in there but I find the AI writing incredibly off-putting. Feels like a shell of what it could have been.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The CEO referenced in the headline is VIDIZMO’s CEO Nadeem Khan, not Garrett Langley from Flock.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Maybe some engineers view it that way, but I definitely know a lot who don't and are depressed about the whole situation.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the image has transparency you can't just stack them because it'll create a weird "shadow" effect once they both load in.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I can only envision using this with a data: url, otherwise I don't really see the point since usually the latency is as big of an issue as the actual download time (and progressive image formats already kinda solve the latter anyway). But I would use it for that.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The customers who made off-site backups didn't lose any data.

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Jake Archibald @jakearchibald.com · 14/09/2026

This is a great article. I've always been sus about the hype around JPEG XL, as it never stacked up when I actually tested it with web use-cases. giannirosato.com/blog/post/ca...

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The case against JPEG XL | Gianni Rosato

Investigating JPEG XL's place as a Web image codec.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm not really clear on why Apple's solution requires a cloud step; I guess we'll get more details on that when it launches? But of course the question for any system like this is whose key is it signed with and how is it protected. You can build your own but nobody will trust your signature.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Honestly I'm shocked to hear that you prefer Zoom over anything, I find Zoom's interface and general ethos completely baffling.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I love the presentation, but I'm skeptical of the claims about destination dispatch being worse than traditional systems.

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This one isn't a scam unfortunately, you can tell because the QR code goes to recaptcha.net. support.google.com/recaptcha/an...

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

This is a convenient option for those of us that requested the novelty 6-foot drivers license and have grown to regret it.

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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026

Yesterday, WIRED learned that Madison Square Garden was suing us for our accurate reporting. We stand by our work. That’s why we’re removing the paywall from two of the MSG stories they don’t want you to read, making them free for everyone.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"traps you in a driverless car and kidnaps you" Good thing that's not at all what happened? They just parked the car and told police where it was. The passengers could have gotten out at any time.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I saw an AI-sounding summary of my Windsurf article that was something like "the author argues that % code written isn't a good measure because developers do more than write code", which is true but not the point of the post. I tried some LLMs and they summarized it fine though so idk what happened.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

"Before Google" would be 1997, and only ~30% of U.S. adults used the internet then, so I think most people of any age don't remember that internet.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

That page transition effect is extremely cool.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

From the docs it doesn't sound like it's really the same type of thing as Angular, etc.?

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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 17/06/2026

CSS field-sizing is newly baseline, meaning you can make various form fields size to their contents, without needing JavaScript.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

I mean, you can't have a conversation with yourself. There are a couple forums I still use but they're much quieter than they used to be.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

You can definitely configure CloudFront to use Sec-CH-Width (or whatever) as part of the cache key, but it would defeat the value of the CDN if every request has different header values and therefore has to hit the origin again. I think lots of other http cache servers and services would be similar.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I think he just means they have DRM that makes it hard to do without using a capture card or something

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

"Caching *servers* (and even edge nodes) can know which resources are available" Often they don't though, right? I know there are fancy image CDNs but I'm thinking more about stuff like CloudFront where it just caches repetitive requests based on the URL and headers.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Personally I hate this sort of thing, because I use unique emails per site and if I accidentally put the wrong email in I end up with two accounts. But I know most people are not like me.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Does this create challenges on the caching side? If every request is sending a slightly different size hint then there's no way for a caching server to know that two requests will return the same response, right?

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The point is if the knicks lose they get to keep all the money from the bar tabs, which would cover the $5000. It's the same thing as the mattress guy.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Weird that the website is so broken on mobile since it's a mobile app.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Amazon and Bose both already make that, but they're basically just earbuds. The camera is the reason people buy the Meta product instead of those.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Seems easy to be mislead by the relative numbers. The absolute chart shows CS as still having better job outcomes than average. Agree that people shouldn't pick majors solely on job predictions though.

Chart showing recent US university graduates in full time enjoyment as a percentage. The line for computer science has decreased since 2015 but is still slightly above the "all graduates" line.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

BetterDisplay seems to be a requirement to make Macs play nice with... most monitors. Great program, but an insane state of affairs that basic display settings require a paid, closed-source piece of software.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I looked again and I still have no idea what you're referring to. You could tell me of course, but if you're just here to send eyeroll emojis I guess don't let me stop you.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What more is it? I read pretty far into the article and it seems to just say over and over that it downloads Gemini Nano, it definitely downloads Gemini Nano, here's proof that it downloads Gemini Nano...

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I think you might've replied to the wrong post? Or I'm not understanding how your reply relates to the above conversation about uninstalling Android apps.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I think pre-installed apps are stored in the system partition, so they can't be erased for security reasons, but disabling them is functionally the same (and it does remove any update data).

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Where is the data harvesting? The whole point of having a local model is to process data on-device instead of sending it elsewhere.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Been seeing a lot of this phenomenon lately where a pretty normal software behavior is described in alarmist terms. I agree there should probably be a consent prompt given the unusually large download size, but all auto-updating software "writes files to disk without asking".

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

What kind of phone do you have? Even on a Pixel you can disable the Chrome app and install a different browser.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's the same as if someone was driving a car on the trail; I agree they shouldn't do that but a new e-bike regulation can't really stop them, it's an enforcement issue.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I believe you that that's happening, but if they're going over 20mph without pedaling then by definition it's not an e-bike, it's a moped that requires registration and is likely illegal to ride on those trails.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

E-bikes already have to be speed limited by law.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I think it's the worst kind, which is something meant to be taken simultaneously at face value and as a sort of double-ironic overstatement of your own position. They know it's ghoulish, and they think it's funny.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Odd to see stuff like this being rushed to market vs when web devs normally have to ship their own solutions for many years before browsers implement natively (html2canvas, MathML, etc.)

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

The weirdest thing to me is that Bitbucket used to be competitive, but they never added half the features to the cloud version and now the self hosted one is deprecated. Just making their product worse for no reason.

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William O'Connell @william-oconnell.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

"Oh that's, still there huh?" I still can't believe they killed App Runner but left EB. The beanstalk is eternal.

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