Ingo Schommer
@chillu.com
Developer, Infosec nerd, Woodworker, DIYer, Cyclist, Urbanist, Wellingtonian. Works at runn.io, former silverstripe.org
Just heard the term “micro influencer” for the first time. Shoot me now
November 14, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Just heard the term “micro influencer” for the first time. Shoot me now
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Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Luxon thinks we need a "mature conversation" about selling state assets... But I don't think he really means that, because a mature conversation would look at the history of failure and the shortsighted focus on profit ahead of public interest.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
He wants a conversation where we agree with him.
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Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:
1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink
2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy
1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink
2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy
October 11, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Hope everyone learnt their stupid damn lesson from this:
1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink
2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy
1. taking money from the crazy toxic people will get you billboards everywhere, but also cover you in their stink
2. giving toxic money to people stupid enough to take it just gets you the worst candidates money can buy
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this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol
October 5, 2025 at 4:12 AM
this country is so funny: a series of welfare subsidies that end up in the hands of landlords and private childcare providers; a chronically unaffordable housing market; a publicly-owned electricity generation and retail racket; oligopolies in supermarket and telecommunication sectors lol
This shouldn't even need pointing out, but absolutely don't use coding agents without existing test coverage on anything with real world value. Some things don't change: Tests is how you move fast (on the long run)
AI agents being able to run unit tests is SUCH a massive unlock.
If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense.
And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...
If you're a dev who has utilized unit tests heavily: using a tool like Claude Code makes so much sense.
And if you don't yet use tests: with AI agents, don't see how you would not do it sooner or later...
September 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
This shouldn't even need pointing out, but absolutely don't use coding agents without existing test coverage on anything with real world value. Some things don't change: Tests is how you move fast (on the long run)
Linear's fancy pants local first sync engine is all the rage. But as tradeoffs, you're forced to archive tickets (no longer filterable/editable) and can't do even rudimentary fulltext search. Sounds like a functional regression to me?
September 30, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Linear's fancy pants local first sync engine is all the rage. But as tradeoffs, you're forced to archive tickets (no longer filterable/editable) and can't do even rudimentary fulltext search. Sounds like a functional regression to me?
Currently waiting for a cobbler to come back to his shoppe (he's got a little "back in 10" note on the door). Feels sufficiently retro 👞🫖
September 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Currently waiting for a cobbler to come back to his shoppe (he's got a little "back in 10" note on the door). Feels sufficiently retro 👞🫖
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ok the workflow actually feels sick. i love this
Livecoding melodic DNB music in Strudel
YouTube video by Switch Angel
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September 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
ok the workflow actually feels sick. i love this
I bought www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ *seventeen years ago* for 9 bucks, and have used it continously every day since then, with millions of keyboard actions in total. Now *that* is value.
September 19, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I bought www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/ *seventeen years ago* for 9 bucks, and have used it continously every day since then, with millions of keyboard actions in total. Now *that* is value.
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General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
September 18, 2025 at 12:05 AM
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
Starship has more horsepower than there are horses on earth (excluding donkeys).
September 9, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Starship has more horsepower than there are horses on earth (excluding donkeys).
Today I used a local MCP server to analyse database content generated by an LLM, driven by LLM generated code, using prompts originally written with LLM support, resulting in an LLM generated summary. Peak #ai 😂
September 3, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Today I used a local MCP server to analyse database content generated by an LLM, driven by LLM generated code, using prompts originally written with LLM support, resulting in an LLM generated summary. Peak #ai 😂
New political party, anyone?
August 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
New political party, anyone?
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". But also: Horses achieved self driving level 5 quite a long time ago 😂
August 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses". But also: Horses achieved self driving level 5 quite a long time ago 😂
Why LLMs aren’t replacing devs just yet: Recency bias and failing to identify omissions in context, difficulties forming mental models at different levels of abstractions during problem solving, knowing when to ask for help. Written by creators of an AI IDE. zed.dev/blog/why-llm...
Why LLMs Can't Really Build Software - Zed Blog
From the Zed Blog: Writing code is only one part of effective software engineering.
zed.dev
August 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Why LLMs aren’t replacing devs just yet: Recency bias and failing to identify omissions in context, difficulties forming mental models at different levels of abstractions during problem solving, knowing when to ask for help. Written by creators of an AI IDE. zed.dev/blog/why-llm...
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Yesterday, Google released a new report estimating the environmental footprint per Gemini query.
That's very welcome, as lack of any transparency from big tech companies has been a big problem. I hope others follow suit.
I wrote about on this on Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-footpri...
That's very welcome, as lack of any transparency from big tech companies has been a big problem. I hope others follow suit.
I wrote about on this on Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-footpri...
What's the carbon footprint of using ChatGPT or Gemini? [August 2025 update]
A new study from Google suggests its Gemini LLM uses around 0.24 Wh per text query. That's the same energy as using a microwave for one second.
hannahritchie.substack.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yesterday, Google released a new report estimating the environmental footprint per Gemini query.
That's very welcome, as lack of any transparency from big tech companies has been a big problem. I hope others follow suit.
I wrote about on this on Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-footpri...
That's very welcome, as lack of any transparency from big tech companies has been a big problem. I hope others follow suit.
I wrote about on this on Substack: hannahritchie.substack.com/p/ai-footpri...
Performing an ancient task (kneading bread by hand) alongside a very modern one (hands-free interactive convo with ChatGPT about Mixture-of-Experts LLMs and use cases for Reranking Embeddings)
August 22, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Performing an ancient task (kneading bread by hand) alongside a very modern one (hands-free interactive convo with ChatGPT about Mixture-of-Experts LLMs and use cases for Reranking Embeddings)
This is the kind of quality and big picture climate journalism that NZ needs
To quantify the policy shift in my story on the Zero Carbon Act today I dug through multiple reports, addenda, and leaned on the Parliamentary Library - trying to track what’s happening. I’ve put some links to the key documents here open.substack.com/pub/kirstyjo...
A Hollow Act
What remains of Jacinda Ardern’s “groundbreaking” climate law?
open.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is the kind of quality and big picture climate journalism that NZ needs
“Hey Siri, add salted cashews to the shipping list”. …
“OK, I’ll play a commentary track in German for that one album you bought on Apple Music a literal decade ago and haven’t listened to since”
“OK, I’ll play a commentary track in German for that one album you bought on Apple Music a literal decade ago and haven’t listened to since”
August 18, 2025 at 6:32 AM
“Hey Siri, add salted cashews to the shipping list”. …
“OK, I’ll play a commentary track in German for that one album you bought on Apple Music a literal decade ago and haven’t listened to since”
“OK, I’ll play a commentary track in German for that one album you bought on Apple Music a literal decade ago and haven’t listened to since”
So many AI enabled startups stating “we’ll never train on our data”. I wonder how many of them will walk that back once discovering the limits of Gen AI and rediscovering how traditional ML works…
August 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So many AI enabled startups stating “we’ll never train on our data”. I wonder how many of them will walk that back once discovering the limits of Gen AI and rediscovering how traditional ML works…
After redesigning, the professional designers at work are gradually converging back to my v0 supported PoC design for this AI feature. I'm officially a vibe designer 😂
August 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
After redesigning, the professional designers at work are gradually converging back to my v0 supported PoC design for this AI feature. I'm officially a vibe designer 😂
As usual, @simonwillison.net nails it: "MCP outsources security decisions to your end users". Being in charge of security at my work, I struggle to balance the need for AI experimentation with the security need for everyone to be a threat modeling expert now 😬
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...
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August 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
As usual, @simonwillison.net nails it: "MCP outsources security decisions to your end users". Being in charge of security at my work, I struggle to balance the need for AI experimentation with the security need for everyone to be a threat modeling expert now 😬
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/b...
Today’s achievement was closing all browser tabs on my phone. It’s one of these days when you gotta take the little wins.
August 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Today’s achievement was closing all browser tabs on my phone. It’s one of these days when you gotta take the little wins.
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under a national government, we must suffer the economic failures of labour; when labour is in charge, we are merely reaping the benefits of national's wise stewardship.
a vote for labour is the only way to benefit from national's wisdom
a vote for labour is the only way to benefit from national's wisdom
July 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
under a national government, we must suffer the economic failures of labour; when labour is in charge, we are merely reaping the benefits of national's wise stewardship.
a vote for labour is the only way to benefit from national's wisdom
a vote for labour is the only way to benefit from national's wisdom
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Are your contributions to an online community 10-20x median participation? Maybe you should try talking less & listening more.
July 17, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Are your contributions to an online community 10-20x median participation? Maybe you should try talking less & listening more.