Looks like splashing out on Welcome Tour was warranted (he lies to himself).
Thoughts
Short-form. Sometimes half-formed. Posted quickly.
September 2026
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Since I spent a bit during the steam summer sale to build up my Library, I’ve spent about £300 to that’s it. No monthly charges. Multiple choices of where to buy my games. I’m never going back dude. It’s a massive money saver.
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Also, my games just look and run so much better man. Like compared to the base PS5 it’s literally not even close.
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Furthermore the issue I have is that PS Plus is not worth the price. I can simply no longer go back to being charged monthly to play with my friends. Attached shows I much I spent on Sony over the past few years, mostly PS Plus. It adds up. I would rather front £2000 for hardware than this.
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Better screenshot to show I’m not lying.
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Also, isn’t hunters gathering supposed to be live service?
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AI discourse on the internet is a warzone right now.
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If people are shipping bad quality stuff, it’s because they’re not reviewing or understanding what they’re shipping. This is 100% human behaviour and not to do with the tool.
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The difference between using Bluesky with an active blocklist and without is night and day.
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The paint.net developer being dogpiled for what is objectively a very cool technical implementation using an LLM to assist left such a sour taste in my mouth that I started looking for way to filter out my discover section.
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It’s okay to be sceptical about AI, but what frustrates me about the online discourse is just how binary and lacking nuance it is.
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AI - specifically LLMs - are such a valuable tool for software development. Not only am I shipping better quality stuff than I did before it, I’m also learning so much.
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Of course, this wasn’t for free, there’s a certain amount of rigour and testing. I don’t merge any code that I don’t understand what’s it’s doing, it’s just that the decision making has shifted upwards.
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Anyway, Bluesky for me is a platform where I hoped to connect with like minded people who like to build high quality stuff (no, not AI slop), but what it is right now is a hate fest of people who don’t actually understand the process of building software.
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Hence the block list to the rescue! You don’t have to love AI, but you do have to be emotionally intelligent enough to have basic conversations without devolving into shouting matches, and perhaps some curiousity about this paradigm shifting technological advancement.
August 2026
June 2026
May 2026
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What a clear and simple explanation. Shamir, for those who don’t know, is the “S” in RSA.
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Great read. I agree with all of it. As a customer, Apple’s products have always been reliable, but I haven’t had a reason to go out of my way to purchase any of their hardware or services since I last bought the iPhone 15 Pro.
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Jira is Turing Complete.
I remember wondering if this was the case after using its automation capabilities at work. An absolute nightmare to deal with as a user, though.
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Writing an audio driver in Rust using AI assistance is awesome. Opus 4.7 never fails to amaze me, and has taught me some neat tricks. I’ve also taught it a thing or two about my principles for writing good software. We work well together.
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I'm using DeepFilterNet (github.com/Rikorose/Dee...) to facilitate the noise suppression and its default parameters are quite aggressive for my needs.
Tuning the atten_lim parameter from the default (60) to 25 has made a huge difference.
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Finally got some free time yesterday to play Saros. Enjoying my time with it a lot.
I was a bit surprised by the difficulty of the second biome, until I realised I was activating “Eclipse Mode” each run and it was cranking up the difficulty. Classic.
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So it turns out you need Eclipse Mode to finish the biome. There are two paths before getting to the boss, and the second path is locked behind it. I like that design.
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news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4820...
GitHub’s source code has been stolen, and it looks like the culprit is a poisoned VS Code extension. The rate of supply chain attacks feels like its increased tenfold in the last 7-8 months, perfectly coinciding with the rise of more capable AI models.
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I shudder to think about the consequences of not getting on top of the increase in supply chain attacks. Once events like this start to become “normalised”, we risk total loss of confidence in package ecosystems.
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The discourse around AI, particularly its effect on building software, has me wanting to share thoughts on social media again. It’s just that hard to ignore fascinating conversation about fundamental paradigm shifts.
