Gareth Simpson
garethsimpson.bsky.social
Gareth Simpson
@garethsimpson.bsky.social
Music Supervisor.
I hate having web.whatsapp open - its like 1 gig of memory burning up in my browser. It reminds me quite vividly of this notorious BBC internal business system I was having to use around 2015 that literally crippled the BBC issued laptop I was using - nice hardware, terrible windows iso.
October 8, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Blue Sky lacks solid AI chat - I wish that stuff would leave the other site for here. Is AI manosphere only? They'll fuck it up for sure - do you even academia Bro? Typing this whilst getting debilitatingly rate-limited by Anthropic, just need spell check an email that is pretty concise rn
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Re: Charli XCX, Glastonbury. No special guests - if there had been then that would have been the headline - she wants a conversation instead. Lot of people surprised by the not bothering to lip-sync & autotune. I mean, brat? Puts to bed the question of why she wasn't headlining the pyramid stage.
June 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Mark Hoppus's claim about using ultrasonic drone signals to catch Saddam Hussein. Broadcasting time codes in the ultrasonic spectrum from drones to triangulate Hussein's location would require MASSIVE amounts of energy. Secondly, video compression codecs filter out ultrasonic frequencies.
April 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
100% of Google users like ...and the Beat Goes On by Scooter - can confirm, its a classic. There'd be no Brat without Scooter.
April 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Google Agentspace feels like a product there to protect existing SaaS unicorns from disruption. Executives in the Workspace ecosystem will love it, there employees less so. Just my hot take. I haven't used it- only see a product demo.
April 10, 2025 at 6:31 AM
RealPlayer is 30 years old! In the dial up days it was the only feasible way to stream audio. I recall in about 1997, Belle and Sebastian had a 30-second preview of every track they had released just up on there website - it was was mind blowing. I picked up some of the original EPs because of it.
March 22, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Can I just say - typescript - the tooling and ecosystem - complete mess - that is my perspective as somebody just walking into from python - all the struggles that users has with CommonJS and ESM have been digested and baked into the LLMs, so they struggle with it too.
March 19, 2025 at 7:08 AM
People of Bluesky. Replit is terrible. Please don't use Replit. Its just marketing hype. If you want to learn how to build systems with little coding knowledge, its Cursor for better or for worse. If you can code already Augment Code is the tool. Anything else is just X Twitter lies.
March 14, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Happy birthday Rupert Murdoch - 94 years young today.
March 11, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Claude 3.7 - both a blessing and a curse. It found an edge case I hadn't known about and provided a fix which worked straight off the bat. The downside is that its over engineering everything to hell and doing stuff I haven't instructed it to do.
February 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Love how Deepseek is now the new 'will it run Doom' meme.
January 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thanks Claude.ai - I was having mild AI anxiety and taking solace in what you think D major is has super brightened up my day.
January 5, 2025 at 12:08 PM
@brave.com.web.brid.gy - can you sort out this YouTube adblock nonsense?
December 20, 2024 at 8:25 PM
How much does it cost to get a College eduction in the U.S.A? And then your reduced to posting videos on YouTube to trouble shoot your syllabus?
SHARC DSP Chorus Demo & CrossCore IDE Frustrations (Analog Devices ADSP-SC589)
YouTube video by Lantertronics - Aaron Lanterman
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Kind of annoying that you can't upload CSV's or Json into ChatGPT 01 - you can sort of get around that via the App by 'side-loading' them through whatever ai-enriched fork of VSCode is trending that week. Still massively thinking about going full on Claude instead though - as OpenAI API's is fine.
December 7, 2024 at 1:08 PM
50% of creators contacted by Unesco using Meta platforms said they had a partial knowledge of the laws related to freedom of expression, defamation and copyright in their country. Survey of 500 creators -45 countries- mostly Europe and Asia. Respondents under 35 years old and up to 10,000 followers
Online influencers need ‘urgent’ fact-checking training, warns Unesco
Research shows six in 10 social media content creators do not verify accuracy of information before posting it
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:33 AM
I'm going to have a give up on my backend codebase and completely start again fresh. Being a n00b, I didn't even know the difference between CommonJS and ESM and all the tooling I've used was CommonJS. Thanks ChatGPT. Heart breaking.
November 21, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Something I do miss from twitter is my list of reliable posters on Web3 and AI tooling. Given that its such a shilly, engagement bait space I'm guessing the Xodus is going to take its sweet time until anybody reliable moves over.
November 19, 2024 at 7:57 AM
Great video here on how to delete your tweets - they are supposedly, used to train Grok - I mean its plausible, right - www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1-...
How to delete all your Tweets for free (tutorial)
YouTube video by Luca Hammer
www.youtube.com
November 18, 2024 at 8:59 AM
I’ve got a funny feeling that with the Trump administration incoming, IPFS might suddenly gain traction as a storage platform for activists. However, it’s a double-edged sword—I’ve long believed it could also be the perfect vehicle for blackmail.
November 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Reposted by Gareth Simpson
Wait till the Department of Government Efficiency gets into the AWS billing console
November 15, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Reposted by Gareth Simpson
"There's something a little bit special about paper."

I've got a few letters to show you...
Some of the letters the BBC sent me as a kid
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
youtu.be
November 15, 2024 at 2:23 PM
Reposted by Gareth Simpson
Leaving twitter won’t solve our systemic disinformation problems.

We need governments around the world to take it seriously and the UK could lead the way.

I’m not a huge fan of petitions but what else can we do?

Follow @mvtfwd.bsky.social for more calls to action in coming weeks
Petition: Create a public consultation on freedom of speech and disinformation
We believe that lies, fraud, and media toxicity threaten our way of life. We think new mechanisms are needed to preserve confidence. How else can people know what to trust?
petition.parliament.uk
November 13, 2024 at 2:42 PM
The way the AI music creation debate is playing out, WW3 could conceivably break out over a geo-political argument over who can pay musicians and composers the least.
November 12, 2024 at 9:26 PM