Charles Barnes
@chkb.net
STL proud | Righteously Indignant | Infrequent Blogging Technologist
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ngl this is working better for me than adhd meds
second vibe coded PR. this one looks trivial but it actually started more complicated (i had separate .dark.svg and .svg files exported from Excalidraw). then i asked it to look at how Excalidraw actually handles dark mode export, it read the source and stole the exact CSS filter value
Add automatic dark mode for local SVG images by gaearon · Pull Request #865 · gaearon/overreacted.io
Summary
Local SVG images in blog posts now automatically get dark mode treatment using Excalidraw's proven color inversion filter. This provides a seamless workflow where you can export light m...
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June 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
ngl this is working better for me than adhd meds
I was actually writing about this very thing. It's just such a nuanced topic and "The Internet" hates nuance.
June 3, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I was actually writing about this very thing. It's just such a nuanced topic and "The Internet" hates nuance.
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The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'...
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'...
May 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'...
Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.
Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'...
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Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 27, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Video of a student in my town who wrote a political op-ed being grabbed off the street by government agents bsky.app/profile/pale...
Reposted by Charles Barnes
New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
META: Unauthorized Experiment on CMV Involving AI-generated Comments
[r/changemyview](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/) is a popular (top 1%) well moderated subreddit with an extremely well developed [set of rules](https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/wiki/rules...
simonwillison.net
April 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
New AI ethics scandal brewing... turns out a team at University of Zurich had dozens of undisclosed AI bot accounts debating with people on /r/ChangeMyView from November 2024 to March 2025 simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
Made a new site using Jekyll. I wrote about the design process here.
chkb.net/coding/jekyl...
chkb.net/coding/jekyl...
How I Built This Site
I use my personal website as a place to market myself and exhibit my eye for design. I always spend an inordinate amount of time on it and this time is no different.
chkb.net
March 18, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Made a new site using Jekyll. I wrote about the design process here.
chkb.net/coding/jekyl...
chkb.net/coding/jekyl...
Yeah this is my ultimate problem with this article, its sort of Antithetical to the point Alec is making.
Despite the title, it's almost saying "This old 'field-ready' computer system doesn't actually work, lets use LLMs instead" Which introduces a new set of problems.
Despite the title, it's almost saying "This old 'field-ready' computer system doesn't actually work, lets use LLMs instead" Which introduces a new set of problems.
March 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Yeah this is my ultimate problem with this article, its sort of Antithetical to the point Alec is making.
Despite the title, it's almost saying "This old 'field-ready' computer system doesn't actually work, lets use LLMs instead" Which introduces a new set of problems.
Despite the title, it's almost saying "This old 'field-ready' computer system doesn't actually work, lets use LLMs instead" Which introduces a new set of problems.