Steve Knoblock
@saturn5.bsky.social
I write haiku, have too many books and develop software.
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Haven't been to a library in a while? Need a refresher?
It’s called a Public Library! Here’s how it works…
Let’s start with the basics: A public library is publicly-funded institution that provides access to information through materials-lending…
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February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Haven't been to a library in a while? Need a refresher?
I have to laugh at how I get notifications from my weather app of predictive changes. I will get a notification saying “Rain will be ending in ten minutes” or the like. I look out the window it’s dry as a bone. I fear this is how the AI era will play out for everything.
February 4, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I have to laugh at how I get notifications from my weather app of predictive changes. I will get a notification saying “Rain will be ending in ten minutes” or the like. I look out the window it’s dry as a bone. I fear this is how the AI era will play out for everything.
It’s likely AI agents operating over the network will replace the web.
January 24, 2026 at 3:09 PM
It’s likely AI agents operating over the network will replace the web.
One thing I don’t understand is, why is the acceptance of vibe coding, using an AI tool to create and maintain a software application so rapidly adopted when for decades we have been told that generating programs from tools was a bad thing?
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 PM
One thing I don’t understand is, why is the acceptance of vibe coding, using an AI tool to create and maintain a software application so rapidly adopted when for decades we have been told that generating programs from tools was a bad thing?
I was at a Bee Safe renting a storage unit. There were two computers side by side each with a person. The woman made a change in my account. The other woman was surprised by how it updated on her screen.
January 20, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I was at a Bee Safe renting a storage unit. There were two computers side by side each with a person. The woman made a change in my account. The other woman was surprised by how it updated on her screen.
I don’t know what to call it, but I’ve been thinking about something I call “theory of environment,” which is similar to theory of mind. It’s what you expect other people to know about their environment. My dad used to expect everyone to be aware of what is going on and his intention, he wanted🪡
January 14, 2026 at 9:13 PM
I don’t know what to call it, but I’ve been thinking about something I call “theory of environment,” which is similar to theory of mind. It’s what you expect other people to know about their environment. My dad used to expect everyone to be aware of what is going on and his intention, he wanted🪡
A crisis in creativity is arriving at the station, it’s been coming for a long time. Will we accept the reality that the limits of being human limits the space of creative works to those humans find compelling? Will creativity split into traditional forms for humans and novel forms for trans humans?
January 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
A crisis in creativity is arriving at the station, it’s been coming for a long time. Will we accept the reality that the limits of being human limits the space of creative works to those humans find compelling? Will creativity split into traditional forms for humans and novel forms for trans humans?
I saw a post go by saying essentially that building an app using an LLM isn’t programming.” I’ll accept that for sake of argument. The goal of computing has NEVER been programming.
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I saw a post go by saying essentially that building an app using an LLM isn’t programming.” I’ll accept that for sake of argument. The goal of computing has NEVER been programming.
The secret to opening jars is to open them slowly.
January 7, 2026 at 10:40 PM
The secret to opening jars is to open them slowly.
The early word wide web was fun. We navigated the darkness and emptiness of the infinite web looking for discoveries. Our earliest websites were often records and sources for others made from our discoveries. Navigation ruled the web.
January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The early word wide web was fun. We navigated the darkness and emptiness of the infinite web looking for discoveries. Our earliest websites were often records and sources for others made from our discoveries. Navigation ruled the web.
There seems to be a return the ideals of vocal and musical virtuosity. I also notice a greater attraction to melody and clarity in songs. I notice young people marveling at how vocalists in popular bands of the 60s could be so much less of a good vocalist as their favorite vocalist now.
December 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
There seems to be a return the ideals of vocal and musical virtuosity. I also notice a greater attraction to melody and clarity in songs. I notice young people marveling at how vocalists in popular bands of the 60s could be so much less of a good vocalist as their favorite vocalist now.
The book I am currently reading and one or two of the books I have just been reading all have obvious proofreading errors. The errors are typical of the ones missed by a spell check program. It’s sad that there is no real proofreading nowadays.
December 24, 2025 at 3:35 AM
The book I am currently reading and one or two of the books I have just been reading all have obvious proofreading errors. The errors are typical of the ones missed by a spell check program. It’s sad that there is no real proofreading nowadays.
I am reading The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 AM
I am reading The Dating Game: One Man’s Search for the Age of the Earth by Cherry Lewis.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
On page 222, it says “Little did Marie Curie know when she started her investigation of Becquerel’s mysterious ‘uranium rays’ just what it would eventually lead to.” In reference to the atomic bomb.
One of the signs of enshitification is products with features that don’t really work. They appear to be there but they actually are not there.
December 16, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One of the signs of enshitification is products with features that don’t really work. They appear to be there but they actually are not there.
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Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
What DocumentDB Means for Open Source
Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
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December 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Available through the MIT license, the schemaless data store supports multiagent session history, memory and collaboration.
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New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
December 5, 2025 at 5:22 PM
New: ALA and @aaslala.bsky.social welcome the reintroduction of the Right to Read Act by @reed.senate.gov and Rep. Adelita Grijalva!
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
This legislation would help ensure that all students have access to a school library, staffed by a certified school librarian. More: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...
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Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going?
Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Inference will be an obsession, WebAssembly has promise, and observability and infrastructure will get more complicated, said a panel at #KubeCon + CloudNativeCon.
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
By @hjoslyn.bsky.social
In the early years of search engines, a big question was on my mind: Will the Google type of search engine succeed or will the other kinds of search engine succeed in dominating web search?
December 5, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In the early years of search engines, a big question was on my mind: Will the Google type of search engine succeed or will the other kinds of search engine succeed in dominating web search?
The future is probably an AI chat notebook with everything in it, your email even.
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The future is probably an AI chat notebook with everything in it, your email even.
I notice that the AI summary in a search engine results frequently contains some information that almost never shows up in the indexed websites. I think it’s giving us a glimpse of what’s behind the paywall in published books.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
I notice that the AI summary in a search engine results frequently contains some information that almost never shows up in the indexed websites. I think it’s giving us a glimpse of what’s behind the paywall in published books.
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Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
Attenborough’s latest extravaganza is packed with such high drama it’s like Game of Thrones … if Cersei was a hyena. If only it hadn’t been bumped down the schedules because of Strictly
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November 9, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Kingdom review – David Attenborough never fails to make nature awe-inspiring
I am so frustrated with the piece of sh!t software the iPhone notification system is.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
I am so frustrated with the piece of sh!t software the iPhone notification system is.
The Tokyo subway is so clean you could eat off the floor. When I was there I was tempted to do it.
October 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
The Tokyo subway is so clean you could eat off the floor. When I was there I was tempted to do it.
Vibe coding may increase the usage of strongly typed programming languages.
October 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Vibe coding may increase the usage of strongly typed programming languages.