i am ai-influenced guy no. approx. 1,000,000 to be sharing this, but my favourite genre of ai thoughtpiece is Here Are the Serious Takeaways From This Deeply Unserious AI Project
maggieappleton.com/gastown
maggieappleton.com/gastown
Gas Town’s Agent Patterns, Design Bottlenecks, and Vibecoding at Scale
On agent orchestration patterns, why design and critical thinking are the new bottlenecks, and whether we should let go of looking at code
maggieappleton.com
January 27, 2026 at 11:15 PM
i am ai-influenced guy no. approx. 1,000,000 to be sharing this, but my favourite genre of ai thoughtpiece is Here Are the Serious Takeaways From This Deeply Unserious AI Project
maggieappleton.com/gastown
maggieappleton.com/gastown
"Using Claude Code to write code is like learning a language by reading alone."
charlesharri.es/stream/karpa...
charlesharri.es/stream/karpa...
Karpathy on Claude Code
The AI industry's second-most-listened-to thoughtleader tells us what he thinks about using coding agents.
charlesharri.es
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
"Using Claude Code to write code is like learning a language by reading alone."
charlesharri.es/stream/karpa...
charlesharri.es/stream/karpa...
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just published a fix for a bug in Tap that was causing over-fetching of repos when filtering based on collection
if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)!
you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest
if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)!
you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest
From what I saw it was doing it every rev change on a small test of just watching my repo. Was finding the matching call in PDS logs and inside of tap. Writing up a bit more details on that GitHub thread as well.
January 26, 2026 at 8:25 PM
just published a fix for a bug in Tap that was causing over-fetching of repos when filtering based on collection
if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)!
you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest
if you're using Tap, strongly encourage upgrading (to v0.1.4)!
you can upgrade to the latest by pulling ghcr.io/bluesky-social/indigo/tap:latest
aamon animations is going to have a "Field Day"
the president slowly physically decaying and manifesting what appears to be some kind of stigmata on his hand while becoming more insane and evil would be dismissed as a hacky writing device
January 22, 2026 at 9:14 PM
aamon animations is going to have a "Field Day"
Reposted by Charles Harries
Reposted by Charles Harries
I'm such a sucker for glazed brick floors
January 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM
I'm such a sucker for glazed brick floors
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the only way to stay sane while working in tech is to aggressively pursue hobbies and interests that are grounded in analog mediums and/or the natural world
January 21, 2026 at 5:43 PM
the only way to stay sane while working in tech is to aggressively pursue hobbies and interests that are grounded in analog mediums and/or the natural world
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If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
Actual Engineering Manager here.
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
Everyone talks about Vibe Coding, but I don't hear a lot about Vibe Debugging. My nightmare is that something burps out a mess of code and *no one is responsible for it*. If one of my people writes it... well they get to fix it. If no one writes it.......
January 19, 2026 at 10:25 PM
If your engineering culture is such that changes can be merged that no one is accountable for, then you have way bigger problems than whether PRs are being generated using LLMs
i started using claude code the other day and have been alternating between total vertigo (it works) and the sore-mouth feeling of having eaten too many skittles (it maybe does not work)
one thing i don’t see talked about a lot is the psychological aftereffects of exposure to AI “for work”. i actually don’t know if we know what they are.
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
i don’t mean psychotic episodes it triggers in some or the delusions etc.
i feel like i get some kind of… hangover of uncanny. like i ate plastic
January 20, 2026 at 10:18 PM
i started using claude code the other day and have been alternating between total vertigo (it works) and the sore-mouth feeling of having eaten too many skittles (it maybe does not work)
have you been poisoned by indecision over what note-taking app to use? have you tried sixteen different email clients?
here is my Official Advice: spend a bunch of money supporting all of the indie options, then use whatever came with your computer
charlesharri.es/stream/defau...
here is my Official Advice: spend a bunch of money supporting all of the indie options, then use whatever came with your computer
charlesharri.es/stream/defau...
Default apps, 2026
I love a default. I love not thinking about things and just doing whatever someone else has decided for me.
charlesharri.es
January 20, 2026 at 6:38 PM
have you been poisoned by indecision over what note-taking app to use? have you tried sixteen different email clients?
here is my Official Advice: spend a bunch of money supporting all of the indie options, then use whatever came with your computer
charlesharri.es/stream/defau...
here is my Official Advice: spend a bunch of money supporting all of the indie options, then use whatever came with your computer
charlesharri.es/stream/defau...
two thirds of the way through january and i am feeling Productive, safe to say that this is Definitely a trend i'll be able to keep up all year
i probably should post this at a time when people are actually on bluesky and not when everyone sensible is a-bed
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
i probably should post this at a time when people are actually on bluesky and not when everyone sensible is a-bed
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
charlesharri.es
January 18, 2026 at 11:42 PM
two thirds of the way through january and i am feeling Productive, safe to say that this is Definitely a trend i'll be able to keep up all year
i probably should post this at a time when people are actually on bluesky and not when everyone sensible is a-bed
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
i probably should post this at a time when people are actually on bluesky and not when everyone sensible is a-bed
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
Reposted by Charles Harries
I am going to be honest, this guy needs to be putting some of this into therapy instead of into writing. I find most of his stuff thought-terminating existential dread instead of actually working on strategy and structure to make positive change.
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:32 PM
I am going to be honest, this guy needs to be putting some of this into therapy instead of into writing. I find most of his stuff thought-terminating existential dread instead of actually working on strategy and structure to make positive change.
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formats over apps
A Social Filesystem — overreacted
Formats over apps.
overreacted.io
January 18, 2026 at 7:05 AM
formats over apps
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If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
August 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.
hey look at me go, second weeknotes of the year. are two weeknotes a trend? can i keep this up another fifty times? like & subscribe to find out
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
Now
Getting back into the rhythm of things, setting a routine, not getting bogged down by snow.
charlesharri.es
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 AM
hey look at me go, second weeknotes of the year. are two weeknotes a trend? can i keep this up another fifty times? like & subscribe to find out
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
charlesharri.es/stream/now-2...
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while it’s true that a lot more people are going to be able to build their own personalized software, i do not believe that most people are going to *want* to build their own personal software or even have the vision/skill/time to do so effectively
As a software developer who spends his days building a link-saving app and his nights telling everyone that in the very near future people will be able to easily build their own software to solve their personal problems — this is my existential crisis coming to life.
January 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
while it’s true that a lot more people are going to be able to build their own personalized software, i do not believe that most people are going to *want* to build their own personal software or even have the vision/skill/time to do so effectively
people think that labour is a moral good because all of our moral goods emerged from labour. but the opposite is not true: you are not improving the condition of humanity by punishing yourself with Extra Labour
i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
I've been sitting with the discomfort here a bunch, and to me this is it, right? What is being suggested is that I engage in an act of self-flagellation (resolving thousands of lines of merge conflicts by hand) because the richest man in the world uses some of the same underlying tech to peddle CSAM
January 11, 2026 at 9:42 AM
people think that labour is a moral good because all of our moral goods emerged from labour. but the opposite is not true: you are not improving the condition of humanity by punishing yourself with Extra Labour
macos dock icons in dark mode generate such potent mental angst in me: what are you, dim grey Blocks, you gross & utterly un-Lickable things, you Hateful Squircles: i just wanted to know whether Reminders was open
January 9, 2026 at 9:16 PM
macos dock icons in dark mode generate such potent mental angst in me: what are you, dim grey Blocks, you gross & utterly un-Lickable things, you Hateful Squircles: i just wanted to know whether Reminders was open
the real debate is “spaces around emdash” vs “no spaces around emdash”
i’m team em dashes for life
the actual tell of most AI content is just that it doesn’t have anything to say and is boring to read
people who can’t tell good writing from bad writing by content shouldn’t have any sway over how we write
the actual tell of most AI content is just that it doesn’t have anything to say and is boring to read
people who can’t tell good writing from bad writing by content shouldn’t have any sway over how we write
I write my posts myself, not with AI. I had to take all the em dashes out because I was too worried people would think it AI generated 😔
January 7, 2026 at 10:15 PM
the real debate is “spaces around emdash” vs “no spaces around emdash”
i like go because it makes me feel like a serious developer, but holy smokes some of these functions are longer than ernest hemingway’s seminal 1952 novella “The Old Man and the Sea”
January 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM
i like go because it makes me feel like a serious developer, but holy smokes some of these functions are longer than ernest hemingway’s seminal 1952 novella “The Old Man and the Sea”
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i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on
January 7, 2026 at 3:09 AM
i bought the domain ohhh.lol a while back just because and the other night i noticed it gets like 100-150 unique hits a day from people typing it in their posts and group chats where it tries to load the url preview. so i hope this annoys some people while they're trying to get their mack on
we have a wifi-enabled kettle; it is not connected to the wifi & we use it like a regular kettle
world.hey.com/jason/the-bi...
"Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little."
world.hey.com/jason/the-bi...
"Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little."
The big regression
My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby. It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. You know, the one...
world.hey.com
January 7, 2026 at 7:37 AM
we have a wifi-enabled kettle; it is not connected to the wifi & we use it like a regular kettle
world.hey.com/jason/the-bi...
"Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little."
world.hey.com/jason/the-bi...
"Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little."
“thyme is never thyme at all”
—willie morgan, bashing pumpins
—willie morgan, bashing pumpins
January 5, 2026 at 8:14 PM
“thyme is never thyme at all”
—willie morgan, bashing pumpins
—willie morgan, bashing pumpins