Matt
@boggle.org
Nerd. I like dogs, birds, carbs, and about three people.
Lovely simple tool, you give it a url and it pushes the contents to your kindle.
So of course it needs a nagging AI chatbot.
So of course it needs a nagging AI chatbot.
September 25, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Lovely simple tool, you give it a url and it pushes the contents to your kindle.
So of course it needs a nagging AI chatbot.
So of course it needs a nagging AI chatbot.
As of today I am officially no longer in management. My title is now principal engineer.
Been having more fun the past few days than I had in the past few months.
Been having more fun the past few days than I had in the past few months.
July 22, 2025 at 10:14 AM
As of today I am officially no longer in management. My title is now principal engineer.
Been having more fun the past few days than I had in the past few months.
Been having more fun the past few days than I had in the past few months.
I used to enjoy TikTok. Lots of creativity. In the past few days my feed has been overwhelmed by AI-generated slop.
It is now no longer enjoyable. If I wanted to play whackamole with AI slop I’d go to work…
It is now no longer enjoyable. If I wanted to play whackamole with AI slop I’d go to work…
July 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
I used to enjoy TikTok. Lots of creativity. In the past few days my feed has been overwhelmed by AI-generated slop.
It is now no longer enjoyable. If I wanted to play whackamole with AI slop I’d go to work…
It is now no longer enjoyable. If I wanted to play whackamole with AI slop I’d go to work…
One of the two things I wanted from the next iPhone has been announced: call screening. If it makes it to Australia I will be a very happy camper.
June 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM
One of the two things I wanted from the next iPhone has been announced: call screening. If it makes it to Australia I will be a very happy camper.
My first reaction to this “Liquid Glass” thing Apple is doing is this: “oh, great, controls that are harder to see. Awesome!”
(I expect they’ll have some way make it easier to see under the accessibility options, so this isn’t as big a grumble as it may seem.)
(I expect they’ll have some way make it easier to see under the accessibility options, so this isn’t as big a grumble as it may seem.)
June 10, 2025 at 2:03 AM
My first reaction to this “Liquid Glass” thing Apple is doing is this: “oh, great, controls that are harder to see. Awesome!”
(I expect they’ll have some way make it easier to see under the accessibility options, so this isn’t as big a grumble as it may seem.)
(I expect they’ll have some way make it easier to see under the accessibility options, so this isn’t as big a grumble as it may seem.)
We’re trying to follow the news from LA from over here in rural Australia. Are there any major US outlets haven’t been captured or cowed by Trump?
June 9, 2025 at 12:38 AM
We’re trying to follow the news from LA from over here in rural Australia. Are there any major US outlets haven’t been captured or cowed by Trump?
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Hello from downtown LA, where the helicopters are circling and sayimg they got the protesters surrounded. Flash bang echoes. They're pushing protesters back
There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious
Let's do this
🧵
There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious
Let's do this
🧵
June 9, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Hello from downtown LA, where the helicopters are circling and sayimg they got the protesters surrounded. Flash bang echoes. They're pushing protesters back
There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious
Let's do this
🧵
There won't be a lot of pictures today for reasons I assume are obvious
Let's do this
🧵
What is marriage, if not a commitment to humour one another until death do you part?
June 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
What is marriage, if not a commitment to humour one another until death do you part?
A thing I notice a lot of press coverage of AI product announcements miss: this stuff is expensive to run.
If you replace search with Gemini or CharGPT then it’s much harder to make a profit, so they’re gonna have to be even more obnoxious. Or only make it available to the rich.
If you replace search with Gemini or CharGPT then it’s much harder to make a profit, so they’re gonna have to be even more obnoxious. Or only make it available to the rich.
May 31, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A thing I notice a lot of press coverage of AI product announcements miss: this stuff is expensive to run.
If you replace search with Gemini or CharGPT then it’s much harder to make a profit, so they’re gonna have to be even more obnoxious. Or only make it available to the rich.
If you replace search with Gemini or CharGPT then it’s much harder to make a profit, so they’re gonna have to be even more obnoxious. Or only make it available to the rich.
So has anyone seen a scam where an ERC-20 token is presented as ETH in the UI of Atomic Wallet?
(A friend got scammed. Thought there was a tiny bit of money left. Nope. It’s a valueless token.)
(A friend got scammed. Thought there was a tiny bit of money left. Nope. It’s a valueless token.)
May 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
So has anyone seen a scam where an ERC-20 token is presented as ETH in the UI of Atomic Wallet?
(A friend got scammed. Thought there was a tiny bit of money left. Nope. It’s a valueless token.)
(A friend got scammed. Thought there was a tiny bit of money left. Nope. It’s a valueless token.)
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Regent parrot siblings - bright eyed, fuzzy and gorgeous
🤩💚🧡💚
🤩💚🧡💚
May 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Regent parrot siblings - bright eyed, fuzzy and gorgeous
🤩💚🧡💚
🤩💚🧡💚
All-day planned power outage. This is how I discover the electricians configured our solar + battery setup to only provide backup to the lights…
May 16, 2025 at 1:52 AM
All-day planned power outage. This is how I discover the electricians configured our solar + battery setup to only provide backup to the lights…
This reminds me of a Dotcom I worked for back in 2000. CEO exhorted everyone who bought shares at the pre-float price to hang on to them.
Guess who did not do that?
Guess who did not do that?
📢 In March, after a steep decline in Tesla’s share price, Elon Musk told employees, “Hang on to your stock.” The chair of Tesla’s board, Robyn Denholm, has not heeded his advice.
Tesla’s Australian chair made $306 million selling shares as profits fell
www.smh.com.au
May 14, 2025 at 7:29 AM
This reminds me of a Dotcom I worked for back in 2000. CEO exhorted everyone who bought shares at the pre-float price to hang on to them.
Guess who did not do that?
Guess who did not do that?
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Eliezer wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in 2010, spurring the forum LessWrong, where Roko proposed a dumb thought experiment called Roko’s Basilisk, and Grimes tweeted about “Rococo Basilisk” which was SO FUNNY Elon fell in love, got dumped, and is destroying the world as revenge
May 14, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Eliezer wrote Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality in 2010, spurring the forum LessWrong, where Roko proposed a dumb thought experiment called Roko’s Basilisk, and Grimes tweeted about “Rococo Basilisk” which was SO FUNNY Elon fell in love, got dumped, and is destroying the world as revenge
Sendgrid’s automatic filtering appears to be going haywire. We’ve been suspended three times so far, the most recent after they advised they’d exempted us from it…
May 14, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Sendgrid’s automatic filtering appears to be going haywire. We’ve been suspended three times so far, the most recent after they advised they’d exempted us from it…
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Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...
May 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...
I did not have “first serious First Nations leadership candidate for a major Australian federal party is a MAGA/culture-war loon” on my #auspol bingo card.
May 11, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I did not have “first serious First Nations leadership candidate for a major Australian federal party is a MAGA/culture-war loon” on my #auspol bingo card.
So I saw an ad from Apple for their photo editing stuff, and gave it a try on my iPad.
It does not appear to do anything that Google’s “magic erase” can’t do on an older iPhone, but is limited to only the latest devices because “Apple intelligence”.
It does not appear to do anything that Google’s “magic erase” can’t do on an older iPhone, but is limited to only the latest devices because “Apple intelligence”.
May 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
So I saw an ad from Apple for their photo editing stuff, and gave it a try on my iPad.
It does not appear to do anything that Google’s “magic erase” can’t do on an older iPhone, but is limited to only the latest devices because “Apple intelligence”.
It does not appear to do anything that Google’s “magic erase” can’t do on an older iPhone, but is limited to only the latest devices because “Apple intelligence”.
What the extremists who’ve been running the Coalition keep forgetting is that Sky After Dark is not representative of the majority. We’re a very middle-of-the-road country, and you’ve gotta appeal to the majority, not just your base. #auspol
May 4, 2025 at 4:24 AM
What the extremists who’ve been running the Coalition keep forgetting is that Sky After Dark is not representative of the majority. We’re a very middle-of-the-road country, and you’ve gotta appeal to the majority, not just your base. #auspol
“No, it’s the children who are wrong”. www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Andrew Bolt says it was the voters who were wrong as Sky News commentators grieve Dutton election loss | Amanda Meade
News Corp commentator blames Liberal party for allegedly shying away from culture wars as Peta Credlin in furious agreement: ‘we didn’t do enough of a culture war’
www.theguardian.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
“No, it’s the children who are wrong”. www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
What I want from an iPhone 17 Pro:
Better telephoto. Better sensor and maybe periscope lens.
Call screening as per Pixel phones.
None of this requires “Apple Intelligence”. None of it is untested or new tech at this stage.
Better telephoto. Better sensor and maybe periscope lens.
Call screening as per Pixel phones.
None of this requires “Apple Intelligence”. None of it is untested or new tech at this stage.
April 16, 2025 at 6:19 AM
What I want from an iPhone 17 Pro:
Better telephoto. Better sensor and maybe periscope lens.
Call screening as per Pixel phones.
None of this requires “Apple Intelligence”. None of it is untested or new tech at this stage.
Better telephoto. Better sensor and maybe periscope lens.
Call screening as per Pixel phones.
None of this requires “Apple Intelligence”. None of it is untested or new tech at this stage.
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It is an ongoing bugbear of mine that Australian political parties are *still* not subject to the Privacy Act or the Spam Act. Lovely to chat with @veronicalenard.bsky.social for SBS News alongside Tegan Cohen about this frankly unjustifiable exemption
Politicians, Privacy, and You
As the Federal Election approaches, the major parties have already had criticism for their data habits, with accusations of harvesting voter data from postal applications. Despite public debate, polit...
www.sbs.com.au
April 9, 2025 at 6:19 AM
It is an ongoing bugbear of mine that Australian political parties are *still* not subject to the Privacy Act or the Spam Act. Lovely to chat with @veronicalenard.bsky.social for SBS News alongside Tegan Cohen about this frankly unjustifiable exemption
I’m really not engaging much with the Australian election - unlike almost all of my life.
Short of one party turning out to be a bunch of alien lizard pedos my broad preference flow is wildly unlikely to change.
I have become what i always regarded as a bad citizen.
Short of one party turning out to be a bunch of alien lizard pedos my broad preference flow is wildly unlikely to change.
I have become what i always regarded as a bad citizen.
April 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I’m really not engaging much with the Australian election - unlike almost all of my life.
Short of one party turning out to be a bunch of alien lizard pedos my broad preference flow is wildly unlikely to change.
I have become what i always regarded as a bad citizen.
Short of one party turning out to be a bunch of alien lizard pedos my broad preference flow is wildly unlikely to change.
I have become what i always regarded as a bad citizen.
Gadget prices in the US are going to hit similar numeric values as they are in Australia. But our currency is much weaker.
(Though, hm, weaker USD might actually make the raw numbers lower here.)
What a self-own.
(Though, hm, weaker USD might actually make the raw numbers lower here.)
What a self-own.
April 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Gadget prices in the US are going to hit similar numeric values as they are in Australia. But our currency is much weaker.
(Though, hm, weaker USD might actually make the raw numbers lower here.)
What a self-own.
(Though, hm, weaker USD might actually make the raw numbers lower here.)
What a self-own.
We provide access to GH Copilot for those who want it, because some of our people have found it moderately helpful.
But there is no world in which we would require it.
But there is no world in which we would require it.
My company forced us to use GitHub Copilot as some kind of efficiency measure. I spent a good three hours today trying to tweak a couple lines of code while it gave me confidently wrong suggestions on what to do. I finally gave up and found what I was looking for on my first Stack Overflow hit.
April 5, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We provide access to GH Copilot for those who want it, because some of our people have found it moderately helpful.
But there is no world in which we would require it.
But there is no world in which we would require it.