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I used to maintain a project called LikeBuster back when Facebook started polluting your news feed with people's likes in. It was a lesson in how brittle DOM-based filtering was. M…

Myst was really interesting when it first came out, but games like that are woefully out of date in a world where most games are immersive, and where players are accustomed to onbo…

I've done this before as a free replacement for my OpenClaw bot. It loses its connection sometimes and you need to redo the handoff with your phone. But otherwise, nice to have a u…

The idea is cool, and it'd be a lot cooler without the terf book getting mentioned

Wonder how many of them got hired as a response to all the Travis Kalanick-era notoriety

The bullshittery is the thing that will not survive enshittification. I keep telling people that all the tokens we're blowing are going to explode in cost as soon as these companie…

RIP to Lala -- I fondly remember listening as much music as I could exactly once

I'm having more problems with Firefox 150 than I have had with any other browser update in years. I think I might be the only one though?

I absolutely love JG Ballard. Crash is a classic, and High Rise is a fun one.

I used https://github.com/Kevjade/migrate-openclaw , and then started running Claude Code with remote exec against an empty folder that I've advised it to start adding new memories…

My OpenClaw assistant (who's been using Claude) lost all his personality over the last week, and couldn't figure out how to do things he never had any issues doing. I racked up abo…

Man it's really too bad that that's the headline, because it's a great tribute to Arturo Vega, and I don't understand why it has to come at the expense of such a seminal band. If w…

Nice to see SUNY Albany on here!

This book was so good. Can't wait to watch this after work :)

BRB requesting access to my remote server "animal style"

Twaddling and puffery!

I'd point folks to the concept of "Construction Grammar", which is related to this problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar

Having more data and being able to consistency process it actually can say a lot about the hypotheses that linguists have. All other science is evidence-based. The challenge for li…

I'm a big fan of Karl Popper's work. I learned about him when reading the book Empirical Linguistics by Geoffrey Sampson. At the time, it was a pretty iconoclastic publication, sin…

That's not the sort of architecture I'm referring to. I'm specifically talking about splitting your application layer between Elixir and Python.

I feel like if you need to utilize a tool like this, odds are pretty good you may have picked the Wrong Tool For the Job, or, perhaps even worse, the wrong architecture. This is wh…

Chipmunks are not squirrels

I've lost count of projects called Cicada

First thing I wanted to do was click the monster button in SimCity 2000