-xnomagichash
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Founder, investor, engineer. Shill for big Monad.
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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
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Shipping up to Gas Town.
January 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
Shipping up to Gas Town.
Big Bluesky commenter energy in this Cambridge billboard.
January 7, 2026 at 12:12 PM
Big Bluesky commenter energy in this Cambridge billboard.
Slopify: a Shopify clone where all the store items are AI generated.
January 4, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Slopify: a Shopify clone where all the store items are AI generated.
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
December 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
gen z sysadmins be like rm -fr
As a freshman 20+ years ago, my CS professor shared a quote: "Computers do exactly what you tell them to. The bad news is they do exactly what you tell them to." At the time this seemed obviously self-evident.
Now it's clear that in my children's time, this "truth" will become an anachronism.
Now it's clear that in my children's time, this "truth" will become an anachronism.
December 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
As a freshman 20+ years ago, my CS professor shared a quote: "Computers do exactly what you tell them to. The bad news is they do exactly what you tell them to." At the time this seemed obviously self-evident.
Now it's clear that in my children's time, this "truth" will become an anachronism.
Now it's clear that in my children's time, this "truth" will become an anachronism.
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The State of #Haskell 2025 survey is out! Please take ~10 minutes to fill this out and share it with friends/colleagues/coworkers, whether or not they are users of Haskell.
State of Haskell 2025
Hello everyone! The Haskell Foundation is reviving @taylorfausak’s State of Haskell Survey. It’s been a few years and so we’re doing it a bit differently, but the plan is to start doing this yearly a...
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December 10, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The State of #Haskell 2025 survey is out! Please take ~10 minutes to fill this out and share it with friends/colleagues/coworkers, whether or not they are users of Haskell.
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A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, December 8th, at 23:15 (14:15 GMT).
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate.
Here is footage captured by Aomori Asahi Broadcasting.
#earthquake
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate.
Here is footage captured by Aomori Asahi Broadcasting.
#earthquake
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake struck off Japan’s northeastern coast on Monday, December 8th, at 23:15 (14:15 GMT).
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate.
Here is footage captured by Aomori Asahi Broadcasting.
#earthquake
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued tsunami warnings for the prefectures of Hokkaido, Aomori, and Iwate.
Here is footage captured by Aomori Asahi Broadcasting.
#earthquake
Oh no, I just realized I've been writing Haskell for 20 years. I think I might be getting old.
December 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Oh no, I just realized I've been writing Haskell for 20 years. I think I might be getting old.
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there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
there's a certain personality that's very debilitating in modern life. 100 years ago, if you wanted to buy something, you'd go to five local shops and decide. now with the internet, you need to spend 1,000 hours so you can own the best version in the world like you're some venetian patrician
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happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
November 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate
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We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
November 1, 2025 at 12:31 AM
We have progressed from data collection to data analysis.
Look, I'm not an AI maximalist, and I do think we're in a bubble. But I think a lot of people misunderstand why engineering managers feel like AI is such a productivity multiplier.
In my mind, there's two things you shouldn't do to engineers you supervise: micromanage or assign throw-away work. 1/n
In my mind, there's two things you shouldn't do to engineers you supervise: micromanage or assign throw-away work. 1/n
October 29, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Look, I'm not an AI maximalist, and I do think we're in a bubble. But I think a lot of people misunderstand why engineering managers feel like AI is such a productivity multiplier.
In my mind, there's two things you shouldn't do to engineers you supervise: micromanage or assign throw-away work. 1/n
In my mind, there's two things you shouldn't do to engineers you supervise: micromanage or assign throw-away work. 1/n
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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
October 20, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage
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the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
July 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
the brain that can see a face in a wall outlet was always doomed to hear the voice of God in a markov chain
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The idiomatic Haskell program is twenty imports, six language extensions, and one line of Perl
the lines saved from haskell being such a terse language is offset by the amount of imports, and language pragmas you need to write
December 15, 2024 at 12:27 AM
The idiomatic Haskell program is twenty imports, six language extensions, and one line of Perl
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my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru
July 20, 2025 at 3:57 AM
my has wife asked me to stop my running Werner Herzog commentary during our Donkey Kong Bananza playthru
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X's head of product
July 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
X's head of product
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"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
June 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
"If your decentralised protocol is missing features, the market will add them with centralisation." — @goat.navy
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
*This*:
- is why why the web was captured;
- is why email became concentrated;
- is why ActivityPub, as defined today, isn't capture-resistant.
I was hoping Haskell would be a perfect fit for an LLM because types, but instead Claude bitterly complains about how tedious and repetitive pattern matching on GADTs is, and then marks every implemebtation as undefined when it doesn’t work the first time.
June 11, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I was hoping Haskell would be a perfect fit for an LLM because types, but instead Claude bitterly complains about how tedious and repetitive pattern matching on GADTs is, and then marks every implemebtation as undefined when it doesn’t work the first time.