Trey Bastian
@treybastian.com
👋 Hi, I’m Trey – I make things in my shed
🖨️ I'm addicted to 3D Printing
🏃 I like to run
🖨️ I'm addicted to 3D Printing
🏃 I like to run
crap...
I was wondering just the other day why haven’t parents done a whole moral panic about AI image generation and now I’m realizing holy shit I’m the parent that needs to be moral panicking.
January 2, 2026 at 1:16 PM
crap...
Reposted by Trey Bastian
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
January 2, 2026 at 1:43 AM
the water thing about genAI is bullshit but the thing where it makes on-demand nudes and CSAM isn't and the thing where it talks you into killing yourself isn't and those seem pretty bad
It's January 2nd have you cleaned your laptop screen this year yet?
January 2, 2026 at 1:09 PM
It's January 2nd have you cleaned your laptop screen this year yet?
Reposted by Trey Bastian
for these situations, i think:
- the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime
- the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying
- there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell
- the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime
- the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying
- there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell
So we just accept this then? This is a legitimate use of technology going forward? This vile individual's account is just prompt after prompt asking Al to alter real-life images of women. The law needs to catch up with technology now - because we can't trust these tech companies to police themselves
January 1, 2026 at 12:59 PM
for these situations, i think:
- the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime
- the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying
- there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell
- the person who prompts it should be charged with a crime
- the company who owns it must be regulated to put reasonable prompt rejection to prevent someone from trying
- there are companies whose entire business model is this; they should be fined and jailed to hell
we need to make design fun again, in all facets of life not just digitally
December 31, 2025 at 5:24 PM
we need to make design fun again, in all facets of life not just digitally
This is absolutely how I feel trying to go down this rabbit hole yet again and finding it coming up short
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?
A very comprehensive and precise spec
www.commitstrip.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This is absolutely how I feel trying to go down this rabbit hole yet again and finding it coming up short
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?
www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/08/2...?
AI is great at making people believe things that aren’t real.
I haven’t found anything else that it’s really great at yet.
I haven’t found anything else that it’s really great at yet.
December 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
AI is great at making people believe things that aren’t real.
I haven’t found anything else that it’s really great at yet.
I haven’t found anything else that it’s really great at yet.
It did some cool things for me, implemented thunderstorms really well with cool effects, but I'm not keeping it.
It didn't do the reversing of the plow well at all and wouldn't fix itself. It broke the config menu multiple times.
This isn't a complicated little app
It didn't do the reversing of the plow well at all and wouldn't fix itself. It broke the config menu multiple times.
This isn't a complicated little app
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
It did some cool things for me, implemented thunderstorms really well with cool effects, but I'm not keeping it.
It didn't do the reversing of the plow well at all and wouldn't fix itself. It broke the config menu multiple times.
This isn't a complicated little app
It didn't do the reversing of the plow well at all and wouldn't fix itself. It broke the config menu multiple times.
This isn't a complicated little app
I'm tapping out here
I don't know if it's just Java, or my skill issues or it's just not that good, but what it's doing is absolutely so far from what I would do with the same instructions.
From little security issues to just making up annotations library APIs and downgrading dependencies.
I don't know if it's just Java, or my skill issues or it's just not that good, but what it's doing is absolutely so far from what I would do with the same instructions.
From little security issues to just making up annotations library APIs and downgrading dependencies.
I think I'm going to attempt yet again to do some agentic coding.
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I'm tapping out here
I don't know if it's just Java, or my skill issues or it's just not that good, but what it's doing is absolutely so far from what I would do with the same instructions.
From little security issues to just making up annotations library APIs and downgrading dependencies.
I don't know if it's just Java, or my skill issues or it's just not that good, but what it's doing is absolutely so far from what I would do with the same instructions.
From little security issues to just making up annotations library APIs and downgrading dependencies.
December 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
December 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM
I think I'm going to attempt yet again to do some agentic coding.
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
December 25, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I think I'm going to attempt yet again to do some agentic coding.
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
My goal will be to build something I've actually built before so I know the problem space deeply. I'll also do it in a stack that I used to build this before too.
What tooling should I use? Cursor? Claude Code? Something else?
Merry Christmas for those who celebrate!
December 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Merry Christmas for those who celebrate!
This is a weird list I'm on...
December 22, 2025 at 10:30 AM
This is a weird list I'm on...
lastnight
me: "So no school tomorrow we are all going to sleep in right"
kids: "yea!"
this morning
me: "why are we up 20 mins earlier than normal"
kids: *incoherent wild playing and yelling*
where's this energy before school???
me: "So no school tomorrow we are all going to sleep in right"
kids: "yea!"
this morning
me: "why are we up 20 mins earlier than normal"
kids: *incoherent wild playing and yelling*
where's this energy before school???
a man in a tuxedo holds a cup of tea
ALT: a man in a tuxedo holds a cup of tea
media.tenor.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:43 AM
lastnight
me: "So no school tomorrow we are all going to sleep in right"
kids: "yea!"
this morning
me: "why are we up 20 mins earlier than normal"
kids: *incoherent wild playing and yelling*
where's this energy before school???
me: "So no school tomorrow we are all going to sleep in right"
kids: "yea!"
this morning
me: "why are we up 20 mins earlier than normal"
kids: *incoherent wild playing and yelling*
where's this energy before school???
Cool...
there's one in the House of Lords right now "think of the children we need a backdoor to ever device in the UK"
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...
there's one in the House of Lords right now "think of the children we need a backdoor to ever device in the UK"
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...
December 18, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Cool...
there's one in the House of Lords right now "think of the children we need a backdoor to ever device in the UK"
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...
there's one in the House of Lords right now "think of the children we need a backdoor to ever device in the UK"
bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s...
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
What's next, if your house is not entirely transparent it is a hostile activity?
People in the UK love to look down at the US decent into authoritarianism and ignore their own.
What's next, if your house is not entirely transparent it is a hostile activity?
People in the UK love to look down at the US decent into authoritarianism and ignore their own.
Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog
It's the latest blow to encryption in the UK
www.techradar.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv...
What's next, if your house is not entirely transparent it is a hostile activity?
People in the UK love to look down at the US decent into authoritarianism and ignore their own.
What's next, if your house is not entirely transparent it is a hostile activity?
People in the UK love to look down at the US decent into authoritarianism and ignore their own.
So uhh Christmas is like next week…. How the hell did that happen???
December 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
So uhh Christmas is like next week…. How the hell did that happen???
blah blah blah side effects bad
now that's out of the way I kinda love Swifts didSet and willSet
now that's out of the way I kinda love Swifts didSet and willSet
December 16, 2025 at 9:52 AM
blah blah blah side effects bad
now that's out of the way I kinda love Swifts didSet and willSet
now that's out of the way I kinda love Swifts didSet and willSet
My next leaflet, a little reminder to myself when I get stuck in an unnecessary planning rut for building new projects.
Just do it
Seriously... just do it, what can go wrong?
treybastian.leaflet.pub
December 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
My next leaflet, a little reminder to myself when I get stuck in an unnecessary planning rut for building new projects.
I'll catch-up one day maybe, today is not that day though 🥴
I just completed "Lobby" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/3
I know, I know I'm really behind now. I'm playing catch-up today. So far the theme of this year is "I should have done part 1 the same way I did part 2" 😅
tangled.org/treybastian....
I know, I know I'm really behind now. I'm playing catch-up today. So far the theme of this year is "I should have done part 1 the same way I did part 2" 😅
tangled.org/treybastian....
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2025
adventofcode.com
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'll catch-up one day maybe, today is not that day though 🥴
RSC users / the React team are definitely having a bad time the last few days.
(this isn't meant as some own, more of a I feel for you all)
(this isn't meant as some own, more of a I feel for you all)
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
RSC users / the React team are definitely having a bad time the last few days.
(this isn't meant as some own, more of a I feel for you all)
(this isn't meant as some own, more of a I feel for you all)
Facebook / instagram accts are next up on my chopping block
December 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Facebook / instagram accts are next up on my chopping block