Paal Kristian
@paalkristian.bsky.social
Software developer that enjoy spending time in the mountains around Bergen, Norway.
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GREAT example by Yuan
Games is actually a fantastic example of what happens when you remove the obstacle that everyone thought was the biggest hurdle in building a game: needing to build a game engine
Easier to build games… still very hard to build great games!
Games is actually a fantastic example of what happens when you remove the obstacle that everyone thought was the biggest hurdle in building a game: needing to build a game engine
Easier to build games… still very hard to build great games!
June 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
GREAT example by Yuan
Games is actually a fantastic example of what happens when you remove the obstacle that everyone thought was the biggest hurdle in building a game: needing to build a game engine
Easier to build games… still very hard to build great games!
Games is actually a fantastic example of what happens when you remove the obstacle that everyone thought was the biggest hurdle in building a game: needing to build a game engine
Easier to build games… still very hard to build great games!
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Outside of Google is there any large company NOT using Sonnet as their primary model for coding?
Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama
Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…
Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama
Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…
June 17, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Outside of Google is there any large company NOT using Sonnet as their primary model for coding?
Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama
Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…
Heard even Meta switched internally to it from Llama
Anthropic pulled off something pretty incredible by becoming the de facto coding model choice for most tech companies…
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Et historisk svik. Nå må alle ideer om at dette går over, om at man kan hviske eller smiske seg tilbake til normalen, vike for erkjennelse: en reaksjonær omveltning foregår i USA, og det er ideologisk fellesskap mellom Trump og Putin. 🧵
USAs Donald Trump stanser militærhjelp til Ukraina, melder Bloomberg
USAs president Donald Trump stanser all militærhjelp til Ukraina etter uoverensstemmelser med Zelenskyj, melder Bloomberg News.
www.vg.no
March 4, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Et historisk svik. Nå må alle ideer om at dette går over, om at man kan hviske eller smiske seg tilbake til normalen, vike for erkjennelse: en reaksjonær omveltning foregår i USA, og det er ideologisk fellesskap mellom Trump og Putin. 🧵
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Enig, og vi må ganske fort brette opp ermene for å kjempe igjen. Ytre høyre har fått enorm motivasjon og kampvilje, mens de fleste vanlige folk bare leser mindre nyheter og går på jobb som vanlig og håper at det går over av seg sjøl. Det kommer ikke til å gå over av seg sjøl.
Jeg tror det er et segment av vestlig prateklasse i Berlinmurgenerasjonen som mer eller mindre ubevisst tror det er en naturlov at ting blir bedre. De har sett årevis med mer demokrati og flere rettigheter for minoriteter, og ikke helt tatt inn over seg hvor mye KAMP som var nødvendig for det.
March 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Enig, og vi må ganske fort brette opp ermene for å kjempe igjen. Ytre høyre har fått enorm motivasjon og kampvilje, mens de fleste vanlige folk bare leser mindre nyheter og går på jobb som vanlig og håper at det går over av seg sjøl. Det kommer ikke til å gå over av seg sjøl.
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🇩🇰 Denmark will officially reopen the Ammunitionsarsenalet AMA ammunition plant in North Jutland, with the Norwegian-Finnish defence giant Nammo running the 350-year-old facility.
The Danish government will rush to get production lines running as soon as possible.
The Danish government will rush to get production lines running as soon as possible.
March 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
🇩🇰 Denmark will officially reopen the Ammunitionsarsenalet AMA ammunition plant in North Jutland, with the Norwegian-Finnish defence giant Nammo running the 350-year-old facility.
The Danish government will rush to get production lines running as soon as possible.
The Danish government will rush to get production lines running as soon as possible.
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Kall meg irrasjonell, men jeg blir faktisk fly forbanna når Sylvi Listhaug sier "politikere skal føle seg trygge i det offentlige rom".
Det var hennes parti, hennes politikere og hun selv som egget fram voldsomme hat-kampanjer mot MDG og spesielt Lan Marie Berg høsten 2015 og årene etter.
Det var hennes parti, hennes politikere og hun selv som egget fram voldsomme hat-kampanjer mot MDG og spesielt Lan Marie Berg høsten 2015 og årene etter.
February 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Kall meg irrasjonell, men jeg blir faktisk fly forbanna når Sylvi Listhaug sier "politikere skal føle seg trygge i det offentlige rom".
Det var hennes parti, hennes politikere og hun selv som egget fram voldsomme hat-kampanjer mot MDG og spesielt Lan Marie Berg høsten 2015 og årene etter.
Det var hennes parti, hennes politikere og hun selv som egget fram voldsomme hat-kampanjer mot MDG og spesielt Lan Marie Berg høsten 2015 og årene etter.
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If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.
February 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.
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Når media til stadighet forteller at Trump ønsker mineraler verd 500 mrd. USD fra Ukraina, burde de tilføye at USA per 31. des. 2024 har allokert støtte til Ukraina for 122,81 mrd. USD (Kiel-instituttet): Trumps villedende narrativer bør bekjempes.
Kilde: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Pp...
Kilde: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Pp...
February 23, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Når media til stadighet forteller at Trump ønsker mineraler verd 500 mrd. USD fra Ukraina, burde de tilføye at USA per 31. des. 2024 har allokert støtte til Ukraina for 122,81 mrd. USD (Kiel-instituttet): Trumps villedende narrativer bør bekjempes.
Kilde: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Pp...
Kilde: www.vg.no/nyheter/i/Pp...
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Not even six hours apart.
February 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Not even six hours apart.
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Anyone saying that GenAI could replace software engineers don't understand how software is created (and operated.)
Tool innovations have always make the process of building software faster, cheaper: GenAI and AI agents will also do this.
But these are tools and efficiency gains.
Tool innovations have always make the process of building software faster, cheaper: GenAI and AI agents will also do this.
But these are tools and efficiency gains.
December 30, 2024 at 6:29 AM
Anyone saying that GenAI could replace software engineers don't understand how software is created (and operated.)
Tool innovations have always make the process of building software faster, cheaper: GenAI and AI agents will also do this.
But these are tools and efficiency gains.
Tool innovations have always make the process of building software faster, cheaper: GenAI and AI agents will also do this.
But these are tools and efficiency gains.
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So few large companies realize how powerful it is to support people when they are dealing with tough stuff, and what it does to culture.
From The NVIDIA Way by @firstadopter.bsky.social
Note NVIDIA is one of the very few Big Techs that never did mass layoffs.
These things can add up.
From The NVIDIA Way by @firstadopter.bsky.social
Note NVIDIA is one of the very few Big Techs that never did mass layoffs.
These things can add up.
December 15, 2024 at 7:14 PM
So few large companies realize how powerful it is to support people when they are dealing with tough stuff, and what it does to culture.
From The NVIDIA Way by @firstadopter.bsky.social
Note NVIDIA is one of the very few Big Techs that never did mass layoffs.
These things can add up.
From The NVIDIA Way by @firstadopter.bsky.social
Note NVIDIA is one of the very few Big Techs that never did mass layoffs.
These things can add up.
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According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now.
We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.
We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.
December 3, 2024 at 3:35 PM
According to Korean constitutional law, if martial law is declared in a state of non-war, the National Assembly can vote to make the president stand it down. The National Assembly is gathering now.
We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.
We are just now getting footage of inside the National Assembly.
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I posted the exact same question on Threads, X and Bluesky, asking what IDEs devs liked the most.
Despite having 10x as many "followers" on X, Bluesky, and a similar one on Threads, Bluesky is most definitely where the most humans respond to a technical post.
I love it here!
Despite having 10x as many "followers" on X, Bluesky, and a similar one on Threads, Bluesky is most definitely where the most humans respond to a technical post.
I love it here!
My biggest takeaway: the plurality of your audience is on Bluesky
November 26, 2024 at 5:41 PM
I posted the exact same question on Threads, X and Bluesky, asking what IDEs devs liked the most.
Despite having 10x as many "followers" on X, Bluesky, and a similar one on Threads, Bluesky is most definitely where the most humans respond to a technical post.
I love it here!
Despite having 10x as many "followers" on X, Bluesky, and a similar one on Threads, Bluesky is most definitely where the most humans respond to a technical post.
I love it here!
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Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section?
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
So cool! I just used this to add comments to my site and published an npm package to make it easy for anyone else to do it:
www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...
www.coryzue.com/writing/blue...
Adding Bluesky-powered comments to any website in five minutes
Long live the open web!
www.coryzue.com
November 25, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Want to use bluesky replies as your blog’s comment section?
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
`npm install bluesky-comments`
Built by @coryzue.com
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Every enterprise SaaS salesperson after leaving the Zoom
November 24, 2024 at 9:58 PM
Every enterprise SaaS salesperson after leaving the Zoom
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Outlined an AI research review article for December… I love traveling but I also can’t wait to be back on my computer 😅.
In the meantime, if you are curious how Multimodal LLMs work, I recently wrote an article to explain the main & recent approaches: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...
In the meantime, if you are curious how Multimodal LLMs work, I recently wrote an article to explain the main & recent approaches: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...
Understanding Multimodal LLMs
An introduction to the main techniques and latest models
magazine.sebastianraschka.com
November 24, 2024 at 6:54 AM
Outlined an AI research review article for December… I love traveling but I also can’t wait to be back on my computer 😅.
In the meantime, if you are curious how Multimodal LLMs work, I recently wrote an article to explain the main & recent approaches: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...
In the meantime, if you are curious how Multimodal LLMs work, I recently wrote an article to explain the main & recent approaches: magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/understand...
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Two charts reflecting Russia's state of the economy. The Russian Ruble is clearly losing value, with accelerating speed. This already happened when the full-scale war started back in 2022. Russia's primary countermeasure was to increase the base interest rate. That worked back then.
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Two charts reflecting Russia's state of the economy. The Russian Ruble is clearly losing value, with accelerating speed. This already happened when the full-scale war started back in 2022. Russia's primary countermeasure was to increase the base interest rate. That worked back then.
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I started a list bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 20, 2024 at 4:32 PM
I started a list bsky.app/profile/did:...
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I'm looking for the Bluesky accounts for individuals that work at frontier LLM labs - OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Meta AI, Qwen etc - or official accounts for those labs themselves
Anyone seen any? I found @ylecun.bsky.social so far
Anyone seen any? I found @ylecun.bsky.social so far
November 20, 2024 at 4:12 PM
I'm looking for the Bluesky accounts for individuals that work at frontier LLM labs - OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Mistral, Meta AI, Qwen etc - or official accounts for those labs themselves
Anyone seen any? I found @ylecun.bsky.social so far
Anyone seen any? I found @ylecun.bsky.social so far
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The AT protocol is pretty fun to work with. I'm working on a bot that will take my kindle highlights and post them to my profile every few hours.
#buildinpublic #golang #atprotocol
github.com/desertthunde...
#buildinpublic #golang #atprotocol
github.com/desertthunde...
GitHub - desertthunder/quotesky: bot to post to bluesky 🦋
bot to post to bluesky 🦋. Contribute to desertthunder/quotesky development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:59 PM
The AT protocol is pretty fun to work with. I'm working on a bot that will take my kindle highlights and post them to my profile every few hours.
#buildinpublic #golang #atprotocol
github.com/desertthunde...
#buildinpublic #golang #atprotocol
github.com/desertthunde...
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Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
November 20, 2024 at 2:34 AM
Some images from the Twitter years in a thread (since they are no longer accessible) 1/n
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An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently:
+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly
+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly
November 11, 2024 at 3:54 AM
An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently:
+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly
+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly
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the u.s. forest service will be run by saruman
November 13, 2024 at 3:42 AM
the u.s. forest service will be run by saruman
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Bluesky is building such that if future Bluesky sucks or fails, you can keep going without them.
This point is so important and completely ignored by the doomers insisting enshittification is inevitable.
This point is so important and completely ignored by the doomers insisting enshittification is inevitable.
The network should outlast the company
Bluesky is a PBC (public benefit corporation) with the mission “to develop and drive large-scale adoption of technologies for open and decentralized public conversation.”
From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.
From the start, our goal has been to build a decentralized social network that is usable by the mainstream.
November 13, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Bluesky is building such that if future Bluesky sucks or fails, you can keep going without them.
This point is so important and completely ignored by the doomers insisting enshittification is inevitable.
This point is so important and completely ignored by the doomers insisting enshittification is inevitable.