Aslan French
@jcklpe.bsky.social
Designer working in civic tech.
"Datacenters in space" feels like a litmus test for how grounded a particular technology brother/sister is or isn't. I have trouble understanding the brain of the person who buys it. I'm no space expert but it just seems like the most dot connecting sort of BS.
February 11, 2026 at 5:00 PM
"Datacenters in space" feels like a litmus test for how grounded a particular technology brother/sister is or isn't. I have trouble understanding the brain of the person who buys it. I'm no space expert but it just seems like the most dot connecting sort of BS.
there really is nothing more dangerous than a dumb person with an LLM and no sense of shame.
February 9, 2026 at 8:42 AM
there really is nothing more dangerous than a dumb person with an LLM and no sense of shame.
Fallout season 2 started off really strong, but woof stuff really piled up as the season wore on.
I'm always wondering why the ostensibly cheapest thing, writing the story, always seems to fall through, when the expensive labor intensive parts of production always nail their mark.
I'm always wondering why the ostensibly cheapest thing, writing the story, always seems to fall through, when the expensive labor intensive parts of production always nail their mark.
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Fallout season 2 started off really strong, but woof stuff really piled up as the season wore on.
I'm always wondering why the ostensibly cheapest thing, writing the story, always seems to fall through, when the expensive labor intensive parts of production always nail their mark.
I'm always wondering why the ostensibly cheapest thing, writing the story, always seems to fall through, when the expensive labor intensive parts of production always nail their mark.
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Hot take: a fair number of things people use spreadsheets for could be better done with a regular doc.
You can put a table in a doc. But formatting text in a spreadsheet is a pain.
Most information that can be displayed in a table can be more easily read as a linear document.
You can put a table in a doc. But formatting text in a spreadsheet is a pain.
Most information that can be displayed in a table can be more easily read as a linear document.
January 28, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Hot take: a fair number of things people use spreadsheets for could be better done with a regular doc.
You can put a table in a doc. But formatting text in a spreadsheet is a pain.
Most information that can be displayed in a table can be more easily read as a linear document.
You can put a table in a doc. But formatting text in a spreadsheet is a pain.
Most information that can be displayed in a table can be more easily read as a linear document.
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Dudes Rock
January 27, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Dudes Rock
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Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
January 1, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.
I want opinions on how different programming languages handle concurrency, mostly from a syntax level. Give your hot takes.
January 26, 2026 at 4:29 AM
I want opinions on how different programming languages handle concurrency, mostly from a syntax level. Give your hot takes.
people will talk about turchin's elite overproduction thesis but where's the elite underconsumption thesis?
January 14, 2026 at 6:17 AM
people will talk about turchin's elite overproduction thesis but where's the elite underconsumption thesis?
I was exposed to these arguments in middle school because of a weird edutainment magazine my parents got me (Muse magazine!) : jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...
Interstellar Space Travel Will Never, Ever Happen
It's basically impossible and they know it.
jasonpargin.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:20 AM
I was exposed to these arguments in middle school because of a weird edutainment magazine my parents got me (Muse magazine!) : jasonpargin.substack.com/p/interstell...
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Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Thanksgiving Conversation Devolves Into Just Stating Things Dog Is Currently Doing https://theonion.com/thanksgiving-conversation-devolves-into-just-stating-th-1840069525/
I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...
Code the ultimate UI: A UX designer designs a programming language.
YouTube video by Austin Tech Live
www.youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
I gave a talk last night about my programming "art" project Enzo: www.youtube.com/live/v-LsF9h...
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there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
October 11, 2025 at 1:53 AM
there is mechsploitation everywhere for those with the eyes to see them
Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.
October 23, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Everything wrong with the agi framework in 2 simple sentences.
Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.
October 23, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Krita has a long ways to go as a graphic design tool.
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Our meetup next month features @jcklpe.bsky.social discussing Enzo, a programming language of his own design, join us! www.meetup.com/eff-austin/e...
October 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Our meetup next month features @jcklpe.bsky.social discussing Enzo, a programming language of his own design, join us! www.meetup.com/eff-austin/e...
I'm a ux designer and I designed and implemented my own programming language called Enzo.
September 9, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm a ux designer and I designed and implemented my own programming language called Enzo.
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Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
September 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Much like "crab", industrial music is constantly re-evolving from first principles basically anywhere where there's a bunch of metal and plastic laying about
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Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
They Might Be Giants (For Kids)
You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween
bsky.app/profile/ianb...
You sung "particle man" as a lullaby & think "Ana Ng" would have been your walk-on song. In the part of the city that used to be a suburb you put out lawn signs for WFP-endorsed candidates & eagerly point out anarchist stickers to your tween
bsky.app/profile/ianb...
They Might Be Giants KEXP set!!
September 1, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Tonight while delaying bedtime my toddler held a $10 Ukulele and strummed as he shouted "Triangle man! triangle man! triangle man! triangle man!" because he heard Particle Man once this morning and wanted to sing it.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
I'd be lying if I said this wasn't everything I hoped for about becoming a dad.
Everyone should be forced to read Wittgenstein for this reason. It would save this world so much trouble if we just strangled linguistic prescription in the cradle.
found a freak
August 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Everyone should be forced to read Wittgenstein for this reason. It would save this world so much trouble if we just strangled linguistic prescription in the cradle.
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I have one anti-talent and it's the total shutdown of my brain when I have to spell something over the phone. "It's B as in uhh Bichael"
August 10, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I have one anti-talent and it's the total shutdown of my brain when I have to spell something over the phone. "It's B as in uhh Bichael"
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the point of the Turing Test was not so much to set a test as much as a trap. Turing was "OK, this is the most objective way I can imagine to conceptualize intelligence. If a machine passes this [1] you must either accept the machine to be intelligent or revise the definition"
Since Turing's paper in 1949 there was an immense amount of philosophical discussion that the Turing Test is not particularly useful or important in judging the intelligence of a machine.
August 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
the point of the Turing Test was not so much to set a test as much as a trap. Turing was "OK, this is the most objective way I can imagine to conceptualize intelligence. If a machine passes this [1] you must either accept the machine to be intelligent or revise the definition"