Einar W. Høst
@einarwh.bsky.social
I am a cornucopia of near relevant facts.
iOS update, yippee.
January 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
iOS update, yippee.
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If you have to defend yourself against allies, they’re not allies.
January 14, 2026 at 12:39 PM
If you have to defend yourself against allies, they’re not allies.
Thinking about how AI is currently used as deus ex machina by middle managers in every walk of life to support every hare-brained scheme they come up with.
January 14, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Thinking about how AI is currently used as deus ex machina by middle managers in every walk of life to support every hare-brained scheme they come up with.
Has Vimeo killed off a lot of old links to content?
January 12, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Has Vimeo killed off a lot of old links to content?
Oh yes the great Finnish movies "The unnowon solider", "The man without a pist", and "The whïte Reinbeer".
January 11, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Oh yes the great Finnish movies "The unnowon solider", "The man without a pist", and "The whïte Reinbeer".
Are there any funny movies without constant overacting and where the punchline isn't "and then the vicar's pants fell off"? That is, any funny movies that could actually make you laugh?
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Are there any funny movies without constant overacting and where the punchline isn't "and then the vicar's pants fell off"? That is, any funny movies that could actually make you laugh?
Am I right to understand that the US is banning Plato for being too frivolous about categories?
January 10, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Am I right to understand that the US is banning Plato for being too frivolous about categories?
In our house, coffee also goes by the name "life's sole comfort".
January 10, 2026 at 7:50 AM
In our house, coffee also goes by the name "life's sole comfort".
I’m going to do a talk on goodified architecture. It’s like architecture but the outcome is good as opposed to bad.
January 9, 2026 at 6:37 PM
I’m going to do a talk on goodified architecture. It’s like architecture but the outcome is good as opposed to bad.
Discussing abstracts for a conference and everyone loves these "the worst way to do X" talks but I'm like, aren't we all fully versed in that from our day jobs?
January 9, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Discussing abstracts for a conference and everyone loves these "the worst way to do X" talks but I'm like, aren't we all fully versed in that from our day jobs?
I just learned there's an AI code platform called Brokk, which translates to Hernia in Norwegian.
January 9, 2026 at 3:36 PM
I just learned there's an AI code platform called Brokk, which translates to Hernia in Norwegian.
"Journey with us as we dive deep down to the bottom of the evaluation heap."
January 9, 2026 at 12:46 PM
"Journey with us as we dive deep down to the bottom of the evaluation heap."
Developer, pointing to their giant brain: "But what if, hear me out, we made a good monolith instead of a bad one?"
January 9, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Developer, pointing to their giant brain: "But what if, hear me out, we made a good monolith instead of a bad one?"
Content is for someone else.
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Content is for someone else.
For a while now I've been feeling that my talks and blog posts are gravitating towards the topic "I'm tired".
January 8, 2026 at 5:47 PM
For a while now I've been feeling that my talks and blog posts are gravitating towards the topic "I'm tired".
Going to do more to shelter myself from idiot radiation in 2026.
January 8, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Going to do more to shelter myself from idiot radiation in 2026.
Clicking on a blog post to read, but upon being greeted by slop, I instead open my old copy of Hagakure and read "The Way of the Samurai is found in death."
January 8, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Clicking on a blog post to read, but upon being greeted by slop, I instead open my old copy of Hagakure and read "The Way of the Samurai is found in death."
Funny with all this talk about test-driven, behaviour-driven, domain-driven etc, when everyone knows that developers are driven by shame and vanity.
January 6, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Funny with all this talk about test-driven, behaviour-driven, domain-driven etc, when everyone knows that developers are driven by shame and vanity.
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January 5, 2026 at 12:24 AM
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" HAHAHAH OMG www.office.com
January 5, 2026 at 7:49 PM
"The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office)" HAHAHAH OMG www.office.com
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The "what else" argument is really something quite bizarre. The brain is a computer, because what else, a magic box?
Like a cat must be a horse, because what else, an elephant?
Like a cat must be a horse, because what else, an elephant?
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
The "what else" argument is really something quite bizarre. The brain is a computer, because what else, a magic box?
Like a cat must be a horse, because what else, an elephant?
Like a cat must be a horse, because what else, an elephant?
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Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
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Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
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December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
LLMs midwifing blog posts that should never have been written because the author had nothing to say.
December 22, 2025 at 11:40 AM
LLMs midwifing blog posts that should never have been written because the author had nothing to say.
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Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry
My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society
Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable
My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society
Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable
December 22, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Spending the holidays processing just how betrayed I feel by the software and web industry
My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society
Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable
My career has been fifteen years of hope and promise—some fulfilled, some not—followed by a decade where the industry stopped pretending and just looted society
Being a bit angry about it is quite reasonable