Justin Smith
@justintemps.dev
Building for the web @ilo.org. Raised in Texas, adopted Italian, living in Switzerland. Open Source and Social Justice. Forza Roma, sempre.
Instead of saying “spreading misinformation” let’s just go back to saying “lying”. I think that would help.
December 15, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Instead of saying “spreading misinformation” let’s just go back to saying “lying”. I think that would help.
My theory is that no one has ever knowingly eaten an oatmeal raisin cookie.
December 13, 2025 at 9:46 AM
My theory is that no one has ever knowingly eaten an oatmeal raisin cookie.
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What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
December 3, 2025 at 9:29 AM
What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.
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"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
November 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"writing code to solve a problem" used to have "understanding the problem" as a prerequisite. but vibecoding allows solution-shaped objects to be produced without any of the hard-won understanding. beware of solution-shaped objects.
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i switched back to writing code by hand in my hobby project for an interesting reason... it's really psychological but when the AI gets stuck (e.g. the problem is too tricky to debug without good tools and atm it requires a human, or something got too messy), i get a mental freeze digging into code
November 23, 2025 at 3:57 PM
i switched back to writing code by hand in my hobby project for an interesting reason... it's really psychological but when the AI gets stuck (e.g. the problem is too tricky to debug without good tools and atm it requires a human, or something got too messy), i get a mental freeze digging into code
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It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
November 20, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It’s good to explain that the CDC is lying and vaccines still unequivocally do not cause autism, even if it just reaches one person on here who has doubts. But the fight is out there, not in here; and the time to let go of the information deficit model of science communication was decades ago
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Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad
Can we agree that writing code is 100 times more fun than reviewing code and that, now that AI agents are writing most of the code, we've essentially automated the fun part and left ourselves the bullshit?
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Can we agree that writing code is 100 times more fun than reviewing code and that, now that AI agents are writing most of the code, we've essentially automated the fun part and left ourselves the bullshit?
At the tender age of 45, and after having lived in a co-op for 3 years in college, I think I may have just discovered the Grateful Dead.
November 16, 2025 at 11:37 AM
At the tender age of 45, and after having lived in a co-op for 3 years in college, I think I may have just discovered the Grateful Dead.
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Type stripping is now stable.
Enjoy 🌞
Enjoy 🌞
November 12, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Type stripping is now stable.
Enjoy 🌞
Enjoy 🌞
If there were a mobile phone whose sole differentiating feature was a laser focus on delivering the best mobile web experience possible, I would abandon my iPhone tomorrow without thinking twice. Please someone build this phone.
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 PM
If there were a mobile phone whose sole differentiating feature was a laser focus on delivering the best mobile web experience possible, I would abandon my iPhone tomorrow without thinking twice. Please someone build this phone.
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ladies and gentlemen...we got him
October 30, 2025 at 7:10 PM
ladies and gentlemen...we got him
If Google is just going to tell you the answer to your query instead of sending you to an actual website, how is it supposed to make money? Why would you pay for Google Ads at this point? Are they just giving up on revenue from Search?
October 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
If Google is just going to tell you the answer to your query instead of sending you to an actual website, how is it supposed to make money? Why would you pay for Google Ads at this point? Are they just giving up on revenue from Search?
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It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles
Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"
It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now
But this is how they get front pages
Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"
It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now
But this is how they get front pages
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 AM
It bothers me to no extent that the media plays how Klarna whistles
Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"
It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now
But this is how they get front pages
Klarna wants to the headlines to say "AI-enabled Klarna"
It would have halved its workforce without AI because it overhired 2x in 2020-21 and never corrected till now
But this is how they get front pages
There’s like a consensus at a fairly high level that refereeing errors are a necessary part of soccer and we should just embrace them. romapress.net/taylor-comme...
Taylor comments on infamous Europa League final
Anthony Taylor, referee of the controversial 2023 Europa League final between Sevilla and Roma in Budapest, gave an interview to the BBC in which, for the
romapress.net
October 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
There’s like a consensus at a fairly high level that refereeing errors are a necessary part of soccer and we should just embrace them. romapress.net/taylor-comme...
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To all the Intel doubters out there.
Only Intel will have a consumer CPU using Gate-All-Around (GAA) on IFS's 18A in 2026 - not AMD, not Apple, not Qualcomm.
FYI. AMD is expected to release their next generation server CPU using GAA on TSMC's N2 in 2026.
Only Intel will have a consumer CPU using Gate-All-Around (GAA) on IFS's 18A in 2026 - not AMD, not Apple, not Qualcomm.
FYI. AMD is expected to release their next generation server CPU using GAA on TSMC's N2 in 2026.
October 10, 2025 at 5:45 AM
To all the Intel doubters out there.
Only Intel will have a consumer CPU using Gate-All-Around (GAA) on IFS's 18A in 2026 - not AMD, not Apple, not Qualcomm.
FYI. AMD is expected to release their next generation server CPU using GAA on TSMC's N2 in 2026.
Only Intel will have a consumer CPU using Gate-All-Around (GAA) on IFS's 18A in 2026 - not AMD, not Apple, not Qualcomm.
FYI. AMD is expected to release their next generation server CPU using GAA on TSMC's N2 in 2026.
Microsoft is on the verge of realizing Artificial General Intelligence, and yet somehow Word has gotten worse than it was 30 years ago when I was using it to write high school essays on Windows 95.
September 26, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Microsoft is on the verge of realizing Artificial General Intelligence, and yet somehow Word has gotten worse than it was 30 years ago when I was using it to write high school essays on Windows 95.
Commenting out flags in bash. This should be added to the syntax.
September 26, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Commenting out flags in bash. This should be added to the syntax.
If you want to call yourself a “Data Scientist” that’s fine, but I think you should have to come to work in a lab coat.
September 24, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If you want to call yourself a “Data Scientist” that’s fine, but I think you should have to come to work in a lab coat.
I think a fundamental flaw in the way we think about a lot of things, from engineering to health, is this idea that "hacking" is good and that if you can "hack" something, it's somehow been improved. But a hack is just a shortcut that always comes at a cost.
September 9, 2025 at 7:46 AM
I think a fundamental flaw in the way we think about a lot of things, from engineering to health, is this idea that "hacking" is good and that if you can "hack" something, it's somehow been improved. But a hack is just a shortcut that always comes at a cost.
Google Zero feels like a broken deal.
The old understanding was simple: publishers provide data, Google sends traffic.
But with Google Zero, the traffic stops flowing. So the question is: why should publishers keep feeding Google their content?
The old understanding was simple: publishers provide data, Google sends traffic.
But with Google Zero, the traffic stops flowing. So the question is: why should publishers keep feeding Google their content?
September 4, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Google Zero feels like a broken deal.
The old understanding was simple: publishers provide data, Google sends traffic.
But with Google Zero, the traffic stops flowing. So the question is: why should publishers keep feeding Google their content?
The old understanding was simple: publishers provide data, Google sends traffic.
But with Google Zero, the traffic stops flowing. So the question is: why should publishers keep feeding Google their content?
The ILO is the only UN organization where American companies have a constitutional right to vote. ILO standards impact US companies’ bottom lines and American economic security. If the US cuts funding, it effectively silences a key voice for US business worldwide. www.forbes.com/sites/kriste...
Why US Businesses Need The International Labour Organization
The pocket rescission to withdraw funding from the ILO would have major implications for US businesses.
www.forbes.com
September 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
The ILO is the only UN organization where American companies have a constitutional right to vote. ILO standards impact US companies’ bottom lines and American economic security. If the US cuts funding, it effectively silences a key voice for US business worldwide. www.forbes.com/sites/kriste...
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
August 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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The are lots of erroneous assumptions people make about what AI adoption has changed. But NONE ARE MORE WRONG THAN:
"AI searches replace Google searches!"
Nope. In fact, the exact opposite is true. 👇
"AI searches replace Google searches!"
Nope. In fact, the exact opposite is true. 👇
August 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The are lots of erroneous assumptions people make about what AI adoption has changed. But NONE ARE MORE WRONG THAN:
"AI searches replace Google searches!"
Nope. In fact, the exact opposite is true. 👇
"AI searches replace Google searches!"
Nope. In fact, the exact opposite is true. 👇
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It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.
July 30, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It has taken medical science 200 years to advance humans to the point where people are so healthy and living so long that they can deny that science and medicine is what got us here.