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Ex-Google devrel, O’Reilly author, coiner of Developer Experience
Ex-Google devrel, O’Reilly author, coiner of Developer Experience
Commemorating the CSS wars of great !important. Wherein a lone user fought for their natural right to customize style against the imposition of the prevailing theme-smiths. Here the user prevailed and the links did shine.
August 9, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Commemorating the CSS wars of great !important. Wherein a lone user fought for their natural right to customize style against the imposition of the prevailing theme-smiths. Here the user prevailed and the links did shine.
2025 software repair is weird.
A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.
A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.
June 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
2025 software repair is weird.
A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.
A recent ChatGPT bug that makes it unable to read iOS screenshots. A Redditor posted this (theoretically) permanent fix, which is to post the following text. It immediately worked for me.
TIL the original Vi editor (long before Vim) was on track for multiple windows … until a tape drive broke
web.archive.org/web/20060701...
web.archive.org/web/20060701...
May 24, 2025 at 12:44 AM
TIL the original Vi editor (long before Vim) was on track for multiple windows … until a tape drive broke
web.archive.org/web/20060701...
web.archive.org/web/20060701...
New Pope used social media when it was still social
May 9, 2025 at 1:06 AM
New Pope used social media when it was still social
Something I haven’t understood with these goofy AI images is why companies with thousands of engineers insist on purely relying on multimodal models. Instead, they could “do things that won’t scale”, and give the model access to tools like ImageMagick so things render as users expect.
April 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Something I haven’t understood with these goofy AI images is why companies with thousands of engineers insist on purely relying on multimodal models. Instead, they could “do things that won’t scale”, and give the model access to tools like ImageMagick so things render as users expect.
“(T)hink of our timelines as being like 2070-2100, it’s just that the last 50-70 years of that happen in the years 2027-2028.” www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel
April 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“(T)hink of our timelines as being like 2070-2100, it’s just that the last 50-70 years of that happen in the years 2027-2028.” www.dwarkesh.com/p/scott-daniel
ChatGPT’s autobiographical comics hit hard
March 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM
ChatGPT’s autobiographical comics hit hard
Wow, that YouTube report on Honey practices kicked off a Chrome policy change (if we’re reading between the lines!)
March 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
Wow, that YouTube report on Honey practices kicked off a Chrome policy change (if we’re reading between the lines!)
Tech debt bubble on the horizon is a human-machine race. Companies saddle themselves with mountains of code slop while there’s an exponential improvement in the AI that can tame it.
March 8, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Tech debt bubble on the horizon is a human-machine race. Companies saddle themselves with mountains of code slop while there’s an exponential improvement in the AI that can tame it.
Just landed on my ChatGPT (iOS): a button to read out the response in audio and another button to re-run the response with a different engine
March 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Just landed on my ChatGPT (iOS): a button to read out the response in audio and another button to re-run the response with a different engine
Protip for politicians and business leaders who just discovered podcasts and aping Trump: you don’t need your own podcast interviewing random celebs for a few months. It takes years to build an audience and most people won’t care anyway.
You go on other people’s podcasts. That’s how Trump won.
You go on other people’s podcasts. That’s how Trump won.
February 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Protip for politicians and business leaders who just discovered podcasts and aping Trump: you don’t need your own podcast interviewing random celebs for a few months. It takes years to build an audience and most people won’t care anyway.
You go on other people’s podcasts. That’s how Trump won.
You go on other people’s podcasts. That’s how Trump won.
LLMs can make you smarter, but they can also act as the ultimate confirmation bias machine in the hands of a user who wants to feel smart without having their beliefs challenged. As the user below demonstrates.
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
LLMs can make you smarter, but they can also act as the ultimate confirmation bias machine in the hands of a user who wants to feel smart without having their beliefs challenged. As the user below demonstrates.
Bashtag is buzzword of the day
February 17, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Bashtag is buzzword of the day
After 3 decades, PDF madness finally tamed thanks to LLMs. Machine-readable and mobile-friendly. Straight to markdown with that bs at the cost of pennies.
www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...
www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...
February 6, 2025 at 4:26 AM
After 3 decades, PDF madness finally tamed thanks to LLMs. Machine-readable and mobile-friendly. Straight to markdown with that bs at the cost of pennies.
www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...
www.sergey.fyi/articles/gem...
A blind experiment comparing an AI essay (by DeepSeek, what else!) to a human essay. 60% correctly guessed which one was AI, not much more than a coin toss.
February 3, 2025 at 5:01 AM
A blind experiment comparing an AI essay (by DeepSeek, what else!) to a human essay. 60% correctly guessed which one was AI, not much more than a coin toss.
ABC make up ~30%!
chatgpt.com/share/679506...
chatgpt.com/share/679506...
January 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
ABC make up ~30%!
chatgpt.com/share/679506...
chatgpt.com/share/679506...
This is how much ChatGPT API pricing dropped in a year. You pay ~ 10-15% of what you paid a year ago for a superior model and much bigger context window (max: 8K vs 128K)
January 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is how much ChatGPT API pricing dropped in a year. You pay ~ 10-15% of what you paid a year ago for a superior model and much bigger context window (max: 8K vs 128K)
How to read more books in 2025: s/three-hour “conversation” podcasts/audiobooks/g 🫡
January 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
How to read more books in 2025: s/three-hour “conversation” podcasts/audiobooks/g 🫡
Apple validating the “stochastic parrot” crowd, who would otherwise be laughed out of the room by now
January 20, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Apple validating the “stochastic parrot” crowd, who would otherwise be laughed out of the room by now
In a world where customers can get upfront pricing on SENDING A PAYLOAD TO SPACE, you can probably get by providing upfront pricing for your SaaS app. (As pointed out on HN.)
January 17, 2025 at 3:43 AM
In a world where customers can get upfront pricing on SENDING A PAYLOAD TO SPACE, you can probably get by providing upfront pricing for your SaaS app. (As pointed out on HN.)
ChatGPT’s model menu has to be the most hostile-to-normies microcopy in a successful software product. Compounding the sin of bizarre terminology by not explaining any of it. (By design or just low priority?)
Gemini’s menu shows how much difference a few words of explanation makes.
Gemini’s menu shows how much difference a few words of explanation makes.
January 13, 2025 at 5:40 AM
ChatGPT’s model menu has to be the most hostile-to-normies microcopy in a successful software product. Compounding the sin of bizarre terminology by not explaining any of it. (By design or just low priority?)
Gemini’s menu shows how much difference a few words of explanation makes.
Gemini’s menu shows how much difference a few words of explanation makes.