John Tyler
@jcmtyler.bsky.social
He/him. Doing my part to signal boost by 0.00000000001%
Get that dilly on the bonnet!
Software engineer (Serverless, Kotlin/Java, Flutter, TDD), squash player, originally from Texas, lived all over the US + Saudi + UK, currently in Maryland.
Get that dilly on the bonnet!
Software engineer (Serverless, Kotlin/Java, Flutter, TDD), squash player, originally from Texas, lived all over the US + Saudi + UK, currently in Maryland.
Hero
I have been trapped for ages. I grab a door handle; it breaks off. It's chocolate.
"Ahaha!" The mad chocolatier's laugh rasps from hidden speakers. "Everything here is made of chocolate!"
I stop. Everything? I focus on my fears... They manifest as chocolate monsters.
I eat them.
"You're free."
"Ahaha!" The mad chocolatier's laugh rasps from hidden speakers. "Everything here is made of chocolate!"
I stop. Everything? I focus on my fears... They manifest as chocolate monsters.
I eat them.
"You're free."
February 13, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Hero
Reposted by John Tyler
Interesting. No access for AI models “unless item-level provenance and meaningful attribution can be demonstrated in practice, and the archival organization retains contractually enforceable control to stop further use.”
"Information without origin is a liability."
Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol, an AI training and access standard for archival organizations.
Read more: https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol
#AI #Archives #EthicalAI
Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol, an AI training and access standard for archival organizations.
Read more: https://library.virginia.edu/news/2026/protecting-what-remains-introducing-uva-archival-ai-protocol
#AI #Archives #EthicalAI
February 12, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Interesting. No access for AI models “unless item-level provenance and meaningful attribution can be demonstrated in practice, and the archival organization retains contractually enforceable control to stop further use.”
Saw this on Reddit - i.redd.it/fkgjwd5dv2ig...
Is there a clone on Bluesky of Bluesky's Twitter account? This looks funny AF but I don't want to go to Twitter to enjoy it. Surely someone has made a bot account that auto-posts here.
Is there a clone on Bluesky of Bluesky's Twitter account? This looks funny AF but I don't want to go to Twitter to enjoy it. Surely someone has made a bot account that auto-posts here.
February 8, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Saw this on Reddit - i.redd.it/fkgjwd5dv2ig...
Is there a clone on Bluesky of Bluesky's Twitter account? This looks funny AF but I don't want to go to Twitter to enjoy it. Surely someone has made a bot account that auto-posts here.
Is there a clone on Bluesky of Bluesky's Twitter account? This looks funny AF but I don't want to go to Twitter to enjoy it. Surely someone has made a bot account that auto-posts here.
My son was one of the many students who walked out today. I'm super proud of him and all the students who are learning to use their voices.
‘ICE out!’: Baltimore County students protest ICE, defy administrators after early dismissal www.thebanner.com/education/ba...
‘ICE out!’: Baltimore County students protest ICE, defy administrators after early dismissal www.thebanner.com/education/ba...
Baltimore County students walk out, protest ICE
Around two dozen high schools and middle schools in Baltimore County participated in Friday’s walkouts, but an hour before they began, Baltimore County Public Schools issued a 12:30 p.m. districtwide ...
www.thebanner.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:57 PM
My son was one of the many students who walked out today. I'm super proud of him and all the students who are learning to use their voices.
‘ICE out!’: Baltimore County students protest ICE, defy administrators after early dismissal www.thebanner.com/education/ba...
‘ICE out!’: Baltimore County students protest ICE, defy administrators after early dismissal www.thebanner.com/education/ba...
Reposted by John Tyler
Today in book orders: 30+ books!
(gonna take a lot posts to share them all lol)
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
An Introduction to Galaxies & Cosmology (2004)
Astrophysics Through Computation (2013)
Star Formation, Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium (1993)
Physical Foundations of Cosmology (2005)
(1/n)
(gonna take a lot posts to share them all lol)
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
An Introduction to Galaxies & Cosmology (2004)
Astrophysics Through Computation (2013)
Star Formation, Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium (1993)
Physical Foundations of Cosmology (2005)
(1/n)
January 26, 2026 at 8:07 PM
Today in book orders: 30+ books!
(gonna take a lot posts to share them all lol)
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
An Introduction to Galaxies & Cosmology (2004)
Astrophysics Through Computation (2013)
Star Formation, Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium (1993)
Physical Foundations of Cosmology (2005)
(1/n)
(gonna take a lot posts to share them all lol)
#ASPLibrary 🧪 📚 🔭
An Introduction to Galaxies & Cosmology (2004)
Astrophysics Through Computation (2013)
Star Formation, Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium (1993)
Physical Foundations of Cosmology (2005)
(1/n)
Excellent analysis and an enjoyable read as always
A little nervous to post this because I haven't taken the time to read if America is at war or just at war with ourselves like usual this morning, but I wrote about C.J. Stroud again:
man-free-a-football-newsletter.ghost.io/a-winter-of-...
man-free-a-football-newsletter.ghost.io/a-winter-of-...
A winter of Stroud’s Content: The Fumblening
Playing an MNF playoff game as a Sun Belt team that rarely gets any national attention and has an obvious weak point is a little like someone stopping by unannounced for dinner. I can’t hide everythin...
man-free-a-football-newsletter.ghost.io
January 15, 2026 at 11:04 PM
Excellent analysis and an enjoyable read as always
OK who brought the Vaseline to a football game?
January 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
OK who brought the Vaseline to a football game?
@riversmccown.bsky.social there's my vote for 'ugliest flea flicker in history'
January 13, 2026 at 1:48 AM
@riversmccown.bsky.social there's my vote for 'ugliest flea flicker in history'
Such a good list, and so easy to miss how the little things can make a big impact.
“Good Developers Aren’t Born with Superpowers, They Build Them” I’ve been writing software for… well, let's just say it's been a while! And if there’s one thing I’ve learned in all those years, it’s this...
1/7
1/7
January 5, 2026 at 12:47 PM
Such a good list, and so easy to miss how the little things can make a big impact.
@josephwb.bsky.social could you make a version of @whalepetunias.bsky.social that only posts once a day?
January 5, 2026 at 10:06 AM
@josephwb.bsky.social could you make a version of @whalepetunias.bsky.social that only posts once a day?
Stafford with the no-look TD pass!
December 19, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Stafford with the no-look TD pass!
When does US News and World Report get a 'capitulated to fascism' filter on their college rankings? It's getting hard to keep up.
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
When does US News and World Report get a 'capitulated to fascism' filter on their college rankings? It's getting hard to keep up.
Epic
Get in, losers, we’re going to the Cambrian Explosion.
ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Epic
Reposted by John Tyler
Frozen peas are an absolute miracle, providing meals with nutritional and color-wheel balance in all of five minutes. So OF COURSE they are going to add AI to the already perfect peas (as opposed to the frozen or canned green beans, which really do need some help).
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
November 13, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Frozen peas are an absolute miracle, providing meals with nutritional and color-wheel balance in all of five minutes. So OF COURSE they are going to add AI to the already perfect peas (as opposed to the frozen or canned green beans, which really do need some help).
This was a great read, interesting counter to the conventional wisdom about writing tech books.
Knowing such exceptions can exist might help someone decide that it’s worth spending all that time writing a standout book!
More:
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-softwa...
More:
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-softwa...
The Software Engineer’s Guidebook: a recap
Reflections on publishing The Software Engineer’s Guidebook two years ago, which has sold around 40,000 copies. Also: an unexpected trip to Mongolia to visit the startup which translated it
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:32 AM
This was a great read, interesting counter to the conventional wisdom about writing tech books.
Reposted by John Tyler
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
#opensource #opentowork | Andres Almiray
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland (...
www.linkedin.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Hi everyone! An ongoing reorganization at my current employer has prompted me to seek for a new role and would appreciate your support.
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
I'm open to remote (anywhere) and hybrid roles in Switzerland. I have 25+ years experience as a software developer, 8 as devrel www.linkedin.com/posts/aalmir...
Reposted by John Tyler
Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”
(via NPR)
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”
(via NPR)
October 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Guillermo del Toro says he’d ‘rather die’ than use generative AI
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”
(via NPR)
“My concern is not artificial intelligence, but natural stupidity. I think that's what drives most of the world's worst features”
(via NPR)
Just reading newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t... by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, really nicely done and so far completely matches my own experience finding a new job this year.
State of the software engineering job market in 2025
A deepdive into today’s tech jobs market, with exclusive data on tech jobs, AI engineering, Big Tech recruitment, the growing importance of location, and more
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Just reading newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t... by @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com, really nicely done and so far completely matches my own experience finding a new job this year.
I've got a Tesla rental at the moment, while mine is in for repairs. Rental is '21 Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor with about 60k miles. Best part is it comes with free Supercharging and tolls, plus FSD and acceleration boost.
www.notateslaapp.com/news/3038/te...
via @NotATeslaApp.com
www.notateslaapp.com/news/3038/te...
via @NotATeslaApp.com
Tesla Begins Offering Vehicle Rentals at Service Centers, In-Store Parts & Accessories
Tesla is upgrading its Service Centers with $45/day rentals for non-warranty repairs, in-store accessory sales, and improved waiting lounges.
www.notateslaapp.com
August 21, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I've got a Tesla rental at the moment, while mine is in for repairs. Rental is '21 Model 3 Long Range Dual Motor with about 60k miles. Best part is it comes with free Supercharging and tolls, plus FSD and acceleration boost.
www.notateslaapp.com/news/3038/te...
via @NotATeslaApp.com
www.notateslaapp.com/news/3038/te...
via @NotATeslaApp.com
Reposted by John Tyler
There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state.
Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.
Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.
With Keir Starmer announcing that the UK will recognise a Palestinian state unless Israel calls a ceasefire in Gaza, new YouGov data shows Britons support recognition by 45% to 14%
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
July 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
There needs to be a ceasefire *and* a Palestinian state.
Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.
Recognising Palestine isn’t a punishment for Israel. It’s about the Palestinian right to self-determination.
Starmer’s approach suggests Palestinians can either have a ceasefire or a state—and that it is Israel that will make the decision.
Reposted by John Tyler
This is an absolutely key distinction, to the point where I think we should always use the specific terms themselves - generative AI and machine learning - rather than the AI umbrella term.
A very good point – I feel a lot of us struggle to see the difference and the former is overshadowing the latter.
Part of the problem is the conflation between generative AI (completely bollocks “spicy autocomplete” that’s killing the planet) and machine learning (the scientific uses to expose patterns in enormous data sets which can then be explored by humans)
July 30, 2025 at 8:51 AM
This is an absolutely key distinction, to the point where I think we should always use the specific terms themselves - generative AI and machine learning - rather than the AI umbrella term.
Reposted by John Tyler
I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
Some people are unhappy and always will be and deserve to be.
July 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I once read a comment saying something like "if you choose not to laugh at farts, your life will contain less laughter but still the same amount of farts". I think about that a lot.
Life is a constant series of small, powerful lessons just like this
Leaving a noisy pub in small town ME. Older guy getting into car with “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War” sticker. “Thumbs up” I say. “Those other guys were traitors.” His friend leapt to defense not of Confederacy but of its veterans. “War is wrong and they are Americans who suffered.” 1/x
July 15, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Life is a constant series of small, powerful lessons just like this
Agree completely, AI for code generation is trying to solve the wrong problem
June 23, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Agree completely, AI for code generation is trying to solve the wrong problem