Brendan LeFebvre
@brendanl.net
Solutions Engineer at Qt Group, helping you create beautiful digital experiences.
MST3K - Babylon 5 - retrocomputing - ePub
MST3K - Babylon 5 - retrocomputing - ePub
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all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
August 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
all the best windows software in history is called something like "joe's thing doer". it does the thing and nothing else and is available on a html website in plain text and takes up under a megabyte of space and uses default windows ui elements and will work until the heat death of the universe
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Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
January 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ok, quick thread on why DeepSeek is blowing up assumptions about LLMs and maybe the whole (U.S.) AI industry. DeepSeek is an AI lab funded by a Chinese hedge fund, their AI code is open source, meaning freely available to use, which most big U.S. models (aside from Meta’s) are not. That’s the start…
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The open web is coming (back) #openweb #opensocial
Have another big post today on the importance of Bluesky/ATprotocol/decentralization, but also hoping to get people to understand the path forward is taking control over their own social media experience... www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/e...
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
Disclosure: I’m on the board of Bluesky, so feel free to take as many grains of salt as you want in reading it, though all of it applies equally to other decentralized social media ecosys…
www.techdirt.com
January 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The open web is coming (back) #openweb #opensocial
Wheels down in Vegas for CES! Excited to represent @qt-project.org at their booth this year
January 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Wheels down in Vegas for CES! Excited to represent @qt-project.org at their booth this year
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Test to see who buys more copies of the book, Twitter or BlueSky
Get the book Residues: Time Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture for only $17 here with the BlueSky coupon:
leanpub.com/residuality/...
Get the book Residues: Time Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture for only $17 here with the BlueSky coupon:
leanpub.com/residuality/...
Residues: Time, Change, and Uncertainty in Software Architecture.
An introduction to Residuality Theory, fusing Software Engineering and Complexity Science to produce new methods for designing software.
leanpub.com
December 3, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Test to see who buys more copies of the book, Twitter or BlueSky
Get the book Residues: Time Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture for only $17 here with the BlueSky coupon:
leanpub.com/residuality/...
Get the book Residues: Time Change and Uncertainty in Software Architecture for only $17 here with the BlueSky coupon:
leanpub.com/residuality/...
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I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
December 8, 2024 at 2:18 PM
I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them
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Reposted by Brendan LeFebvre
it's zine sale time!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF
print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF
print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT
wizardzines.com
November 29, 2024 at 1:51 AM
it's zine sale time!
from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF
print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT
wizardzines.com
from now until the end of the day on Friday, all my PDF zines are 50% off with the discount code WIZARDPDF
print zines are 30% off with code WIZARDPRINT
wizardzines.com
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PSA: if you are cooking a frozen turkey - it should be in the fridge now.
November 24, 2024 at 2:23 PM
PSA: if you are cooking a frozen turkey - it should be in the fridge now.
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Today in 1988 MST3K premiered!
November 24, 2024 at 11:59 AM
Today in 1988 MST3K premiered!
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Calling the 9th month “september” is technical debt
November 20, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Calling the 9th month “september” is technical debt
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i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between
November 21, 2024 at 11:53 AM
i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between
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In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
November 20, 2024 at 9:39 PM
In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)
More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky