Einar W. Høst
@einarwh.bsky.social
I am a cornucopia of near relevant facts.
Bob: Did you just ask the chatbot to tell me to go fuck myself?
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.
February 2, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Bob: Did you just ask the chatbot to tell me to go fuck myself?
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.
Ed: I believe I did, Bob.
A short blog post where I propose a radical new heuristic to be applied before replying to things online: ask yourself if the original poster could already know.
einarwh.no/blog/2026/02...
einarwh.no/blog/2026/02...
Ask yourself if they could already know
einarwh.no
February 2, 2026 at 1:11 PM
A short blog post where I propose a radical new heuristic to be applied before replying to things online: ask yourself if the original poster could already know.
einarwh.no/blog/2026/02...
einarwh.no/blog/2026/02...
All O'Reilly book covers should feature pictures of depressed and/or distressed owls until technologies drastically improve their relationship with existence.
February 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM
All O'Reilly book covers should feature pictures of depressed and/or distressed owls until technologies drastically improve their relationship with existence.
iOS update, yippee.
January 20, 2026 at 8:04 PM
iOS update, yippee.
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.
Reposted by Einar W. Høst
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
Reposted by Einar W. Høst
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?