Darian Moody
@darian.net
Dev! open source, local-first, llms, elixir, python & django. all sorts.
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Three potential candidates have submitted CVs with their website (great!) containing clearly LLM-generated blog posts.
Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.
Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Three potential candidates have submitted CVs with their website (great!) containing clearly LLM-generated blog posts.
Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.
Don’t do this. It shows an amazing lack of judgement.
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Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration.
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Universal Version Control
Industrial research lab working on digital tools for creativity and productivity
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April 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Our new research track is called Universal Version Control and it's about exploring how to bring the power of version control to every person, on every kind of document and every kind of collaboration.
www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...
www.inkandswitch.com/universal-ve...
Getting Cursor to analyse your codebase and write it's own Cursor .mdc rules.
a man stands in front of a sign that says opening mon - tue - thur fri-sat sunday
ALT: a man stands in front of a sign that says opening mon - tue - thur fri-sat sunday
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April 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Getting Cursor to analyse your codebase and write it's own Cursor .mdc rules.
Most developer CVs could be improved by switching from "here is a list of technologies I know" to "here are the features I am most proud of building".
March 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Most developer CVs could be improved by switching from "here is a list of technologies I know" to "here are the features I am most proud of building".
When you work with shared spreadsheets at work you realise the power of the common database is actually in it's ability to stop people changing data rather than making it easy to add it.
February 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
When you work with shared spreadsheets at work you realise the power of the common database is actually in it's ability to stop people changing data rather than making it easy to add it.
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"A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool." (Google AI co-scientist)
What an amazing use of AI! 🤯🤩🎉
"A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool." (Google AI co-scientist)
What an amazing use of AI! 🤯🤩🎉
AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
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February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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"A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool." (Google AI co-scientist)
What an amazing use of AI! 🤯🤩🎉
"A complex problem that took microbiologists a decade to get to the bottom of has been solved in just two days by a new artificial intelligence (AI) tool." (Google AI co-scientist)
What an amazing use of AI! 🤯🤩🎉
The rise of LLMs will only cement TypeScript & Python’s position at the top of the “what is most useful and hireable in the widest sense” list.
Most common tech stacks at early-stage, VC-funded startups in the US. This is how Coastal Recruitment sees tech stacks shared by startups. They are a recruitment co working w 100+ startups per year to place engineers from the first to ~no. 20.
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February 18, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The rise of LLMs will only cement TypeScript & Python’s position at the top of the “what is most useful and hireable in the widest sense” list.
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I can't figure out if Oracle is being a bully or just a clown with its latest response to the petition to release the JavaScript trademark.
I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others.
Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories
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I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others.
Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories
See the latest 👉 deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
February 5, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I can't figure out if Oracle is being a bully or just a clown with its latest response to the petition to release the JavaScript trademark.
I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others.
Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories
See the latest 👉 deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
I signed the open letter to them along with more than 1600 others.
Add your support 👉 javascript.tm/signatories
See the latest 👉 deno.com/blog/deno-v-...
January 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
@zahrataiba.bsky.social welcome 🙏 Happy to see you here.
January 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
@zahrataiba.bsky.social welcome 🙏 Happy to see you here.
Not enough people are talking about val.town.
It has replaced pretty much all diagram/prototyping tools for me because you can just…build the thing and play with it to see if it works.
It has replaced pretty much all diagram/prototyping tools for me because you can just…build the thing and play with it to see if it works.
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val.town
January 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Not enough people are talking about val.town.
It has replaced pretty much all diagram/prototyping tools for me because you can just…build the thing and play with it to see if it works.
It has replaced pretty much all diagram/prototyping tools for me because you can just…build the thing and play with it to see if it works.
I'm not sure the arguments for TDD live on in a post-LLM world. I always disliked TDD zealotry so this doesn't sadden me.
TDD was useful for defining interfaces upfront, but the people that decried any code written before tests were damaging to the whole movement.
TDD was useful for defining interfaces upfront, but the people that decried any code written before tests were damaging to the whole movement.
January 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
I'm not sure the arguments for TDD live on in a post-LLM world. I always disliked TDD zealotry so this doesn't sadden me.
TDD was useful for defining interfaces upfront, but the people that decried any code written before tests were damaging to the whole movement.
TDD was useful for defining interfaces upfront, but the people that decried any code written before tests were damaging to the whole movement.
I can’t remember the last time I lost code-related work.
And yet twice tonight I’ve lost progress with audio production.
These software synths are meant to be creative tools and yet they make you fearful of experiments in case you forever lose which exact combo of buttons you twiddled.
And yet twice tonight I’ve lost progress with audio production.
These software synths are meant to be creative tools and yet they make you fearful of experiments in case you forever lose which exact combo of buttons you twiddled.
January 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
I can’t remember the last time I lost code-related work.
And yet twice tonight I’ve lost progress with audio production.
These software synths are meant to be creative tools and yet they make you fearful of experiments in case you forever lose which exact combo of buttons you twiddled.
And yet twice tonight I’ve lost progress with audio production.
These software synths are meant to be creative tools and yet they make you fearful of experiments in case you forever lose which exact combo of buttons you twiddled.
Can’t believe we actually got the butler from Ask Jeeves
December 31, 2024 at 3:51 PM
Can’t believe we actually got the butler from Ask Jeeves
TIL Atuin sync is backed with Elixir.
No real surprise it works incredibly well.
No real surprise it works incredibly well.
genuinely think Elixir is slept on, so many problems that we spend time solving elsewhere just don't exist
December 29, 2024 at 4:20 PM
TIL Atuin sync is backed with Elixir.
No real surprise it works incredibly well.
No real surprise it works incredibly well.
Yes. And the only way to fix that is learning new things again, which will be fun - I promise.
Adaptation strategies that aren't going to work as standalones: denial, disinterest, lack of curiosity, rage, anger, cynicism. They're tempting (and common). Denial is especially interesting - most "But LLMs are terrible" post I've seen merely convey the author's ignorance or lack of skill
December 27, 2024 at 11:38 PM
Yes. And the only way to fix that is learning new things again, which will be fun - I promise.
LLMs, great for pasting in club promoter listings and asking what genres to expect.
I don’t know why electronica is so collectively bad at putting that info on the flyer.
How to avoid a house night 101.
I don’t know why electronica is so collectively bad at putting that info on the flyer.
How to avoid a house night 101.
December 27, 2024 at 7:51 PM
LLMs, great for pasting in club promoter listings and asking what genres to expect.
I don’t know why electronica is so collectively bad at putting that info on the flyer.
How to avoid a house night 101.
I don’t know why electronica is so collectively bad at putting that info on the flyer.
How to avoid a house night 101.
Agreed
“LLMs are bad”, “LLMs give you junk”, are all just various forms of skill issue.
“LLMs are bad”, “LLMs give you junk”, are all just various forms of skill issue.
General consensus in the replies and quotes of this seems to be that the entire concept of "AI skills" is a joke - how hard is typing text into a chatbot, really?
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
I will continue to argue that it's genuinely difficult, and that the challenge in using these tools is widely underestimated
No, they're not caught between anything. Stop it. The fact that AI may be used or useful in future jobs does not create a single dilemma at all for college students in how to actually complete their coursework. This is all nonsense & excuses for not doing the reading & learning how to think & write.
December 26, 2024 at 5:28 PM
Agreed
“LLMs are bad”, “LLMs give you junk”, are all just various forms of skill issue.
“LLMs are bad”, “LLMs give you junk”, are all just various forms of skill issue.
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What I’ve been calling “carbon leverage”:
“if AI helps bring forward the electrification of heating, transport and industry by a single year, that would more than offset any negative climate impact from its own relatively limited power demand.”
“if AI helps bring forward the electrification of heating, transport and industry by a single year, that would more than offset any negative climate impact from its own relatively limited power demand.”
What happens when techno-optimism meets energy system realism? My latest for @BloombergNEF is a long read on AI, called The Power and the Glory. So that's Boxing Day sorted!
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Liebreich: Generative AI – The Power and the Glory | BloombergNEF
This year will go down in history as the year the energy sector woke up to AI. This is also the year AI woke up to energy. Is the data center power frenzy just the latest of a long line of energy sect...
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December 26, 2024 at 9:21 AM
What I’ve been calling “carbon leverage”:
“if AI helps bring forward the electrification of heating, transport and industry by a single year, that would more than offset any negative climate impact from its own relatively limited power demand.”
“if AI helps bring forward the electrification of heating, transport and industry by a single year, that would more than offset any negative climate impact from its own relatively limited power demand.”
We chose the best weekend to visit family in North Wales.
I can tell you it’s a “little bit windy”.
I can tell you it’s a “little bit windy”.
December 7, 2024 at 11:46 AM
We chose the best weekend to visit family in North Wales.
I can tell you it’s a “little bit windy”.
I can tell you it’s a “little bit windy”.