Roland Tanglao

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ME:: Self hosting is difficult for geeks too. Most geeks should pay for managed hosting instead ; Neil Brown:: 'Self-host it' is not the answer because it's exclusionary

How to unfollow everyone in LinkedIn by running a JS script in your browser console ; Ton Zijlstra:: 2021:: Emptied My LinkedIn Feed

I would encourage Filipinos worldwide not to gate keep & judge the accents of Perlah, Princess & Trinity on The Pitt

ME:: flickr's URLs are still the best; Marcin Wichary:: Unsung heroes: Flickr’s URLs scheme

Go Oliver go! I coached Oliver when he was 5 or 6 at the Hollyburn Cross Country Ski Club and I'm super proud to humble brag he finished first in his age group 13-15 with a VERY fast time of 39:06 at the 2026 Payak 15km cross country ski 'event' on February 28, 2026) ¦ Zone4.ca

Eat. Sleep. Wakeup. Work :-) These words are some of the few I know in Tagalog :-) OPM:: YouTube:: Gracenote performs 'TAONG ROBOT (KAIN. TULOG. GISING. TRABAHO)' LIVE on Wish 107.5 Bus

Keir Archibald and Matthew Dormer developed a un-detectable magnetic driven bicycle, 'e-motor doping' is real 'I believe' :-)

Payak 2026 1:49, 3rd last in my age group :-) twas a good day :-) Results - 2026 Coast Outdoors P’ayakenstat (Payak) ¦ Zone4.ca

ME:: УSA: Broken Rich Crook Scene :-) aka 'No Rich Crook Left Behind' LOL ; Adam Serwer:: How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account - The Atlantic

ME:: tl;dr-ing: ATProto is the magical federated mesh. Best of federated + mesh worlds or worst :-) ? ; Paul Frazee:: Practical Decentralization ¦ Paul's Dev Notes

ME:: Broken 10th Avenue Rat Running Scene aka How drivers routinely break traffic laws and get away with it because the city of Vancouver and VPD traffic enforcement don't care about ensuring safety by enforcing traffic laws ; Nic Laporte:: YouTube:: How Did This Become Vancouver’s Busiest Shortcut?

“how many agents do you have running?” is 2026's tell me you are privileged without telling me you are privileged :-)

ME:: tl;dr-ing; Anybody who can write a spec i.e. a text file of requirements can create software with tests and you don't know have to know a programming language just how to write, it's expensive (although open source tools are improving quickly which will decrease costs) and super geeky because you have to configure lots of moving parts and not super great for large legacy codebases at the moment ; Anil Dash:: January 2026:: Codeless: From idea to software

Fare thee well Kathykins

ME:: Claude is so over :-) as if. It is so pre February 25, 2026 LOL . Haven't used Codex ; I have tried Claude Code super briefly. ; Manton Reece:: Developers who still use Claude are burning cash. Codex is good.

ME:: bring back the pre Reаgan/Thаtcher/Mulroney small c conservаtives, all the other 'conservаtives' are fаscists sad face ; Thomas Zimmer:: How Conservatives Gave Themselves Permission to Go MᗅGᗅ - Democracy Americana

ME:: $3913/month for a 4 bedroom and $2556/month for a 2 bedroom is about 50% too much to be 'affordable'; Anthony Floyd on Bluesky:: Want to live in Vancouver's 2010 Olympic Village? There's a 2 bdrm and a 4 bdrm available in my building

ME:: maybe I'll finally learn Scheme, NOT :-) Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly — Spritely Institute

ME:: followup to TerryB's filming bicycling video from May 19, 2024 I linked to previously Terry B:: May 21, 2024:: How to Film Cycling - YouTube

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Ocaml single file activity pub or something :-) NLnet; #Seppo!

ME:: I guess I'll have to read a non fiction book :-) to read about how Apple is terrible in China ; Miloš Miljković:: 📚 Finished reading: 'Apple in China' by Patrick McGee // Infinite Regress

ME:: I don't need a CD player :-) ; KLIM Discover Portable CD Player ¦ SD Card Reader – KLIM Technologies

ME:: tl;dr-ing just like AIDS, COVID-19 doesn't have a sterilizing vaccine aka cure in 2026 ; Laurie Garrett, author of the 1994 Pulitzer Prize winning book, 'The Coming Plague', in Foreign Policy Magazine:: May 2023:: The COVID Public Health Emergency Is Over. What Does That Even Mean?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Because there is no payment deficit, the new 15% tariffs imposed by The Convicted Criminal are also illegal ; Thom Hogan:: Weekly News and Commentary for February 16 to 23 ¦ Cameras and Photography

ME:: Reminder 88888888 that CSS + HTML is Turing complete on Chromium browsers, is this a bug or a feature :-) Could this work someday in Firefox ?!?!? ; Lyra Rebane:: x86CSS

How To keep up with OPM part 1: subscribe on YouTube to Wish 107.5, Cozy Cove

OPM:: Ena Mori:: Runaway Holiday Forevah :-)

Installed Rogers 5G Home Internet Ultimate plan, my upload speed has gone up 1500% (from less than 1Mb/s to 15MB/s or more on Telus's antiquidated DSL service). I want Telus Fiber but not available because accountants (?!?) see linked cosocial.ca thread :-)

ME:: I wonder if Mr. Kupperman is still predicting the guillotine will fall in 2026 ; Harris Kupperman:: August 25, 2025:: Global Crossing Is Reborn... - Praetorian Capital

Hao Jingfang:: January/February 2015:: Folding Beijing - Uncanny Magazine

OPM:: Hulaan by Janine: I like every version :-)

'AI' Howlers:: google gemini 'ai' search made up a non existent 'tabulate' function in mlr

Updated without-link-blogthis.rb to point to checkvist of drafts :-) and to blog created date

So non diverse Silicon Valley: no indigenous people, no latinos no filipinos, no african americans etc :-) (oh well the journey to Claude Code is interesting to the geek inside of me who's been writing code since 1977 despite my 2026 skepticism and cynicism about our industry) ; YouTube:: How Anthropic Built Claude Code (w/ Boris Cherny)

How To count semi-colon delimited Thunderbird Support Forum tags for Thunderbird Desktop using 'mlr' aka 'miller': use '--explode' with the 'nest verb' to make 1 row per tag and then count the rows with non null tags

ME:: read all 4 of these posts ; Adam Mastroianni:: The Decline of Deviance ; Nikita Jamjoshi:: The age of AI Face; Jia Tolentino:: The Age of Instagram Face ; Lisa Abend:: How Kinfolk Magazine Defined the Millennial Aesthetic…and Unraveled Behind the Scenes; Alex Murrell:: The age of average

ME:: I like JPEGs for images not for my writing :-) Just say no to 'semantic ablation' :-) ; Claudio Nastruzzi:: Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous • The Register

ME: tl;dr-ing; Mark Zᑌckerberg, the CEO of TikTok, etc are dictators ; FB, Tiktok, Twitter, etc have to be regulated ; Amanpour and Company:: YouTube:: Maria Ressa: on Trᑌmp 2nd Term: “Narrative Warfare & the Breakdown of Reality”

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Try 20 mins of moderate cardio before important tasks, hyperactivity: strength or high intensity, impulsivity interval training: Martial Arts or Yoga; Dr. Tracey Marks:: How One Workout Can Improve Focus for the ADHD Brain

Updated without-link-blogthis.rb to point to my blog post about it :-)

Happy Lunar New Year :-)

Even if you don't like Chinese food, read 'Invitation to a Banquet: The Story of Chinese Food, 2023' by Fuchsia Dunlop #HighlyRecommended

ME:: Marcos Sr. (and I am 99% sure Jr. isn't a force for good either) was evil and so was Enrile ; Kirby Araullo:: Enrile dies at 101. Martial Law architect. His logging makes every typhoon deadlier today. 🇵🇭 - YouTube

ME:: tl;dr-ing: (LOL i think it's more like 6 months! 1. learn more sentences in context (100 per day) 2. read sentences with translations (save audio files and play them the next day in the background) 3. Memorize vocab with mnemonic association Test yourself immediately 4. speak aloud a lot ; Mikel Telleria:: Speak any language in 3 months (Daily routine for fluency) - YouTube

ME:: Thanks Khelsilem for the excellent writing. I will gladly pay if you switch to another platform like Ghost. Or Patreon. ; Khelsilem:: Dear Subscribers, Thank you!̓

ME:: Probably Wrong Prediction:: We'll still need software developers until we get a breakthrough which will happen before 2050 or before i die whichever comes first. Today's tools are just not up to the task of replacing software developers. Wastefully (perhaps with local models not destroying the environment) augmenting humans, yes :-) Replacing humans no :-) Stephan Schwab:: Why We've Tried to Replace Developers Every Decade Since 1969

ME:: too over the top and expensive for me but looks like a fun setup! TerryB:: My Complete Livestream Setup for IRL Bicycle Rides - YouTube

ME:: you can learn ANY language if you have time, enthusiasm and a source of quality understandable written and audio material aka 'input'. Sure you won't be perfect but nobody cares unless you're a diplomat so have fun with it :-) ; Steve Kaufmann on YouTube:: Is German really that hard to learn? - YouTube

Best printing recognition with a stylus on Boox 7 GO II? Use Nebo, Good Notes or forget about it and upgrade to some other device with a better stylus?

ME:: In Vancouver (and probably all of BC), 33% whipped containers go in the mixed containers bin and are therefore not eligible to get the 10 cent deposit back ; Return-It:: Milk Container Recycling in British Columbia Frequently Asked Question

When will the first Winter Olympics have a Canadian of Filipino heritage as a prominent reporter? 2030? 2034? 2038? My bet: 2034

ME:: tl-dr-ing; Office time is for socialization, conversation and collaboration but it's not productive solo time and that's fine; office 1 day a week (or more) for those more who have the LUXURY of a nearby office plus remote the rest is probably best and for those who don't have an office nearby how about. a 1 week onboarding with 1 more more colleagues at a nearby office or coworking space within a year of joining?; Harold Jarche:: sleepy subversion

ME:: of course Art can just be words :-) Dan Sinker:: Foundational Texts: Jenny Holzer's Truisms

ME: tl;dr-ing: Since the days of the analog world-wide telephone system and probably long before that :-) we have had systems that nobody knows how the whole thing works; Lorin Hochstein:: Nobody knows how the whole system works – Surfing Complexity

ME:: go coffeegeek go! ; Mark Prince, Natia Simmons, Allison Gainey, Zuzanna Kaminski:: Silence is No Longer an Option: Why Coffee Geeks Must Reject Fascism - CoffeeGeek

Matt Brooks-Green and others:: How to learn to write a language with ChatGPT. Write some text, scan it and then use this prompt: Transcribe what I've written here, provide feedback on my mistakes and tell me what level I am at.

Probably Wrong Prediction:: If DJI and Insta360 are successful with their soon to be released 'real cameras' then Sony will definitely exit the camera business by 2030

Volume up button. volume down button. Press and hold the side button. When the Apple logo appears, release the side button.I had to reboot my phone using Apple's instructions to get the touchscreen working on Saturday

ME:: tl;dr-ing $30 USD metal lever for Hario Switch ; Flip Switch (Metal Lever Upgrade for Hario Switch) – Foundry Coffeeworks

Combating DHS Lies <-- There I fixed it for you Minnesota :-) ; Combating DHS Misinformation / Department of Corrections

Touchscreen buttons on iOS apps eg, Apeman rear video mirror app, don't work on my iPhone16 Pro Max in constant rain

ME: LOL 100% agree with Jessica! ; Jessica Hullman:: Machine learning research is not serious research and therefore hallucinated references are not necessarily a big deal, agrees a prestigious group of machine learning researchers ¦ Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

OPM:: Paki Sabi, White Toyota, all such great songs by Sunkissed Lola ; SunKissed Lola - Wikipedia

Original Pinoy Music aka OPM:: Raining in Manila by Lola Amour #HighlyRecommended

ME:: How to export a range of a Google Sheet to a CSV file ; Bob Rudis aka hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦: 'I know you can do this via API…' - Mastodon

ME:: I am part of the kagi small web which means that my blog has an Activity Pub feed as well as an RSS feed; September 2023:: Kagi Small Web ¦ Kagi Blog

ME:: I don't think we live in The Singuarity but I can see how this is useful. See also: The Data Flywheel pattern and Claude Code, not code ; Will Schenk:: How I Use AI in Jan 2026

ME:: The software industry will be regulated completely not just the generative AI industry starting 2026 in the EU and that won't stop innovation. Prepare yourself :-) ; Denis Stetsov:: France vs Grok: AI Creators Face Criminal Charges

ME:: Canadians: the USA will attack our cyber infrastructure if they haven't already as long as the convicted criminal and people like him are in charge; Denis Stetskov via mhoye:: The First Full-Scale Cyber War: 4 Years of Lessons

ME:: tl;dr-ing find a good CLAUDE.md for your type of program and then create a personal ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md for your own coding style Nolan Lawson:: How I use AI agents to write code ¦ Read the Tea Leaves

ME:: tl;dr-ing: 'adversarial poetry functions as a universal single-turn jailbreak technique for large language models (LLMs).' ; Mike Hoye:: The Place Where The Firewall Ends ¦ blarg

ME:: MyTerms aka IEE P7012 coming in January 2026; the web on my terms and your terms and eveybody else's terms not the big companies' terms ; Doc Searls:: Securing the right to be let alone

ME:: Windows oh brother :-) right click > hit any cursor key > move window into your display with the mouse ; Froggypwns:: reddit:: Move How to move a window that is offscreen : r/Windows10

ME:: tl;dr-ing; Manifesto for the people's internet: decentralized, encrypted, slow :-) I empathize with this dream :-) ; markqvist:: MarkReticulum/Zen of Reticulum.md at master · markqvist/Reticulum

ME:: How Julia Evans makes her mostly static websites; Julia Evans:: websites.md · GitHub gist

ME:: fun with unicode :-) ; Nickname Generator 🔥 Online Stylish Nickname Maker 🔥 (◕‿◕) SYMBL

ME:: white, the 'right' asians etc nothing has changed in the tech 'mirrortocracy' since 2014 ; Carlos Bueno:: 2014::Inside the Mirrortocracy

ME:: LOL'Snarfus stagnator ' and 'Klingon troglodyte emulater' so true about developer docs even to other developers ; Annie Mueller:: How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

ME:: over the top but i'd buy one if it wasn't plastic. No a micro-plastic paranoid person but it can't hurt to minimize it! all metal/glass/ceramic is affordable and just as good might as well go for the non plastic! ; MHW-3BOMBER Rain Pour-Over Coffee Splitter

ME:: if these two articles convince 1% of the skeptics it would be a miracle :-) ; GO SCIENCE GO! ; Jake Scott:: CIDRAP Op-Ed: Vaccine myths that won't die and how to counter them—part 1 ¦ CIDRAP

ME:: John Reitano's lightning talk video explains it better not sure if it's internal only ; Mozilla staffer:: johnreitano/spekka: dead simple spec-driven development

ME:: Isn't a web server part of macOS already?!?!? ; BejBej apps:: Personal Web Server

Things that Work: Hario Tetsuya Kasuya Double Stainless All Metal Pourover Dripper with Aramse Sofi Top and holder. Best pourover coffee ever :-) !

ME:: tl;dr AI: AGI is more like twitter than jet engines in that it is fed by people and not predictable and not apparent from inside the software industry how others use it. But how general is it? And I agree, where do we go from here? Still skeptical but super thought provoking piece ; Robin Sloan:: AGI is here (and I feel fine)

ME:: A 'Marginal Tipping Map' is needed to tell us to do the difficult but obvious :-) ie: 100% renewable energy, 100% non fossil burning transportation and industry, etc :-) ; Unpolitics: From Knowing to Doing

Agree, do not upgrade to macOS 26 ; Daring Fireball: Why It’s Difficult to Resize Windows on MacOS 26 Dyehoe

ME:: LLMs reduce typing and the cost of using types so of course typed languages like TypeScript will be come more popular or something :-) ; Cassidy Williams:: Why AI is pushing developers toward typed languages - The GitHub Blog

Recipes that work:: I used smoked sardines and this was delish :-) ; Tori Avey's Mediterranean Sardine Pasta: Zesty Lemon, Capers & Chili

ME:: web app search engine for 159, 801 Unicode characters as of September 9, 2025; Unicode Character Table - Full List of Unicode Symbols (◕‿◕) SYMBL

ME:: i still want to make collages from Thunderbird support questions using Unicode icons and symbols, this along with wikipedia's list will help me figure out what's possible ; Huge List of Unicode Character Symbols

ME:: how to figure out unicode for fun icons and symbols in ruby, see also unibits gem and CLI tool and other related gems ; Jan Lelis, Yauheni Dakuka:: Idiosyncratic Ruby: Ruby has Character

Powerful lnav shortcuts when viewing logs: Control w for wordwrap, / to search, g for line 1, G for end of file, = to pause

It's 2026: Self Driving cars are still not proven safe and we don't need them to reduce cyclist or pedestrian deaths ; David Zipper:: Are Autonomous Vehicles Safer Than Human Drivers? We Don't Know Yet - Bloomberg

SQLite data schema for tab notes (in the profile as tabnotes.sqlite) in Firefox nightly so i can search all the tabs and their notes ; TabNotesStorage.init (TabNotes.sys.mjs - mozsearch)

ME:: Avoid solutions, start with How Might We....? ; Maria Rosala:: 2021:: Using “How Might We” Questions to Ideate on the Right Problems - NN/G

ME:: I want my own personal atmospheric cloud running my own software including 'AI'. It doesn't have to be on my own hardware, could be in a trusted cloud provider(s) ; Paul Frazee:: Atmospheric Computing ¦ Paul's Dev Notes

ME:: I doubt I'll ever go to mainland China but if I do I'd find a hotel in an 'old town' ; Steph+Chris:: Chinese Cooking Demystified:: What's a Chinese City actually like?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Accept, Time isn't holding up, forget mastery, more developing, droid, new normal to be confused, adventure not ordeal; Joey deVilla::Don’t feel bad; even the inventor of the term “vibe coding” is overwhelmed by all the AI-driven changes

ME::community energy sharing now yes please ; Tamara Kaňuchová:: 🗞️ Sharing is caring

ME:: tl-dr-ing: 'git diff --color-words' is a better way to diff for most situations (red deleted, green added) ; Holloway:: How can I get a side-by-side diff when I do 'git diff'? - Stack Overflow

grep command to get bash script to re-run SUMO AAQ API calls that fail using '-A 2' to get 2 lines after

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Render HTML gist files on github as web pages ; Simon Willison:: Introducing gisthost.github.io

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Groundhog Day , bliss station, noun, gifts, extraordinary, slay, change, tidy, demons, plant ; A book by Austin Kleon:: Keep Going

ME:: gotta try this for beyond CLI interfaces aka TUIs (text user interfaces) in the terminal with ruby! ; Kerrick Long:: ratatui_ruby: 💎 Unofficial Ruby wrapper for Ratatui 👨‍🍳🐀.

ME:: tl;dr-ing: How to make a static website on Codeberg using R and Quarto ; Ken Butler:: Quarto websites and Codeberg pages (part 1)

ME:: Broken Achievement Society Social Scene :-) ; Doug Belshaw:: What promised to liberate us instead helps to control us

ME:: 2023 How to: read/write github gists using the gist API; Github Gist Is Here To Save The Day...Literally! - Resources / Community Tutorials - Developer Forum ¦ Roblox

ME:: tl-dr-ing Coping with the flood of misinformation and the fact that we know less than we think we do (e.g. how do toilets work really?): rigourously maintained factual chronological timelines, critical ignoring, cognitive elaboration ; Erin Kissane:: Landslide; a ghost story

So much for my memory :-). Opening day for me in the 2025/26 season was Dec 21, 2025 about 3 weeks after opening day for the 2024/2025 season ; November 24, 2024: Tag Eins des 2024-25 Langlaufsaisons bei Cypress :-) #FreeTheHeelFreeTheMind #XcSkiing ¦ Nordic Ski ¦ Strava

ME:: the bible is not anti-poor, anti-abortion, anti gay rights and anti-immigrant. Read it completely 'Christians'! ; Nicholas Kristof:: What Would Surprise Jesus About Christmas 2025? - The New York Times

ME:: Podcasts should be 15 minutes or less, prove me wrong :-). Substack is funded by terrible people and supports terrible people on its platform (as well as great people who don't realize that they are helping those terrible people) part 88888 ; Joan Westenberg:: Comfort Food for the Thinking Class: The Great Intellectual Stagnation

ME:: to import a LUT into No Fusion, tap on the multi-photo rectangular icon to import 1 or more LUTs OR Add New Preset > Tick Blank > Import ; LUT Import ¦ No Fusion Camera

ME:: tl;dr-ing: pick from or edit LLM generated regexes or add your own and see relevant examples in VSCode, seems like a practical and safe use of LLMs; Siddhartha Prasad:: LLMs ⭢ Regular Expressions, Responsibly!

ME:: automation makes the bits left over humans more challenging; See also Lisanne Bainbridge's paper: Ironies of Automation from 1983; Tae Selene Sandoval Murgan:: thoughts/on-using-language-models-for-programming.md

ME:: sparklines everythwere :-) Just kidding, only where they make sense ; Andros Fenollosa:: tanrax/quick-weather.el: Sparkline weather forecasts in Emacs

ME:: I didn't grow up with Mechado but I did grow up with Kaldereta and this dish has some overlapping ingredients Billy Parisi:: Mechado:: Cooking (probably) The Most Flavorful Beef Dish in the World - YouTube

ME:: Maple Syrup Curtain example 888888: Rossman doesn't ship to Canada but they ship to Malaysia and India and Laos :-)?!?!?! ; Rossman GPS Mount — gramm tourpacking ¦ bikepacking bags

ME:: tl;dring: ChatBots, Completion coding products like Copiliot, Agentic products like Claude Code. LLM-generated feeds & video games from AI content may work soon ; Sean Goedecke:: Only three kinds of AI products actually work

ME:: so true! 'Connoisseur-ship is, basically, a very elaborate and expensive form of peacocking.' <-- Joan Westenberg:: Don't Become a Connoisseur.

Like the car industry, the bicycle industry doesn't care about safety. If they did they'd lobby for separated bicycle lanes and have turn signals, brake lights, etc as standard equipment on commuter bicycles

The Hepatitis vaccination like all scientifically tested vaccinations saves lives.

ME:: I wonder how many tokens this will burn :-) Again nobody talks about the $$$$$ i.e. the costs; Anand Chowdhary:: continuous-claude CLI tool: Running Claude Code in a loop

ME:: sample Claude.md to decompile a N64 game from assembler to C language source code LOLz that this works but i guess it does :-) ; Chris Lewis:: snowboardkids2-decomp/CLAUDE.md at 852f47a4905a08d5d652387597bc5b47d29582f2

Recommended: Moody Ales de-alcoholized Lavender Sour, over 90% as good :-) as the original version with alcohol

Recommended: Field House de-alcoholized Salted Black Porter

ME:: Recipes that probably work :-) ; Lauren Keating:: Sheet Pan Chicken Thighs With Root Vegetables ¦ Healthy Delicious

ME:: go 'Te Hiku, Apertus and other smaller models for preserving small languages' go :-) ! ; Ethan Zuckerman:: Gramsci's Nightmare: AI, Platform Power and the Automation of Cultural Hegemony

Super hilarious when Canadian bloggers, vloggers, etc recommend products that don't ship to Canada #RealFreeTradeWithEntireWorldNotJustSuperLoopholeFilledUSMCAWithTheUSAAndMexico

ME:: All the benefits sound plausible but I still think self driving cars won't work in 2034 and we'd be better improving 'low tech' non self driving trains and buses ; The Economist:: Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

Hey Canadian Facebook people, post news links to your blog and then link to your blog post in FB. Easy peasy stop whingeing :-)

ME:: tl-dr-ing: substage is a macOS app that makes pandoc, ffmpeg, imagemagick, sips, etc usable for normal people via LLMs (using LLMs via OpenRouter and many LLMs) or something :-) Substage: Command line power, natural language ease.

ME:: part 8888 All software not just games will run on any device. Windows, macOS and linux software will run (or be emulated) on all machines is the future of software ; The Verge:: Steam Machine today, Steam Phones tomorrow

Always be coding in 2025 is always be writing specifications for LLMs to code and for you to verify?

ME:: tl-dr-ing: Courtesy of the oppressive Spanish Empire, Filipinos have been in North America since forever :-) Louisana in the mid-18th century is just one example of many! ; Wikipedia:: Saint Malo, Louisiana

Today is World AIDS day. Bring back the funding Canada, USA, etc We are all one. When so many are sick and funding can help reduce that now and in the future it's 100% common sense. Go science go!

ME:: tl;dr-ing: I 100% agree with my friend :-) Alan! Always be Attributing (TASL-Title, Source, Author, Licence(s) all with links if possible) and Always be Linking; Alan Levine:: Tools for Attribution of Open Content – CogDogBlog

ME:: Be seen plus SEE bicycle Light Rail light from Intrinsic Cycles looks good but how do I install this on my Wald basket (the basket blocks lights mounted on the handlebar)? Not a big deal I guess Wald basket bicyclists are not mainstream yet :-) Light Rail Kit – Intrinsic Cycles

ME:: tl-dr-ing: 100 characters, medium, subject, hints about the meaning of the artwork ; Mibs:: Mibyle: alt text 101 for artists

ME:: nobody mentions the considerable cost for LLMs and the considerable amount of time you need to experiment to see if an LLM works for you. Time and money require privilege and wealth; Federico Viticci:: The AI App Experience Matters More Than Benchmarks Now - MacStories

ME:: Specifications can be version controlled much easier than prompts and are therefore the future for AI assisted software development; Marc Brooker:: Kiro and the future of AI spec-driven software development

LLMs are just tools that are part of your problem solving system part 8888 :-) ; Marc Brooker:: LLMs as Parts of Systems

'Twas a beautiful sunny day to enjoy Fish and Chips at Go Fish at Granville Island with Dale and record over 40 in Vancouver #Lucky #Thanks

ME:: tl;dr-ing: LLMs are good at: writing SQL. get datacleaning 95% right and data enrichment running stuff in a loop against 1000s of records. Amazing it's too bad nobody does data journalism like this in the mainstream media in Canada :-) Lots of people doing non mainstream stuff like this in Canada I would guess ; CL Kao, Dori Wilson:: Data Renegades ¦ Ep. #2, Data Journalism Unleashed with Simon Willison ¦ Heavybit

Filipino food isn't just overly sweet spaghetti, Jolibee, adobo etc. It is also kare kare, kaldereta, sinigang, bistek, pancit, nilaga, and thousands of other dishes you and I haven't heard about :-) 7100 islands full of delicious food!

ME:: Yes please, corporations should pay their fair share for open source software, 100% agree with Erlend; Erlend Sogge Heggen:: Open Source Power

My Lumos Nyxel Helmet USB-C broke, aargh! Glue issue? Weird because my Lumos Ultra's USB-C port has lasted 5 years!

Filipino bread is actually awesome. Read Panaderia: Philippine Bread, Biscuit and Bakery Traditions by Jenny Orillos and Amy Uy to learn the full breadth and depth of it.

3 cars with their daytime running lights off Sunday November 23, 2025 during my 40 minute bicycle ride

Broken CFMU podcast scene :-) due to React perhaps?

ME:: 100% write one clear thought a day even if you don't share it publicly you'll get better at writing. 1 clear thought = 10 minutes IMNSHO :-) And you do have 10 minutes a day I guarantee it :-) ; Joan Westenberg:: Why You Should Write Every Day (Even if You’re Not a Writer)

ME:: Starcloud hides their 'secret compute in space' or something :-) ; Vaclav Vincalek:: Is this SciFi enough?

ME:: pre magellan Philippines was super interesting; Celestino C. Macachor:: Searching for Kali in the Indigenous Chronicles of Jovito Abellana By: Retracing our Past on Pandan Leaves – Pre-colonial Cebu

The Dominant Hegemony (DH) historically & today choose to NOT acknowledge their privilege & value their convenience (for food delivery, mobility etc) over paying non-DH folks a living wage. Cities aren't going away despite pundits and their dreams :-) of self driving cars (which we don't need and won't work; we already have public transit, trains and buses) and food delivery.

It's 2025: could websites, blog posts and newsletters use links to actually link to the restaurant, website, museum, etc that they're referring to pretty please :-) ?

My Apeman R1 Seeker rear view real-time video camera shows lots people illegally driving with their daytime running lights OFF behind me in the city of Vancouver.

The more lenses you look at the world with the better. For example: food, languages, books, sports, hobbies, volunteering etc.

Panasonic please add the LUT name to the EXIF in S9 JPEGs (and other cameras that support LUTs of course)

ME:: Recipes that probably work :-) ; Margaret Bose-Johnson:: Pink Pasta - Fettuccine with Beet, Smoked Salmon, & Feta ¦ Kitchen Frau

ME:: tl;dr-ing Tariffs are justified for two reasons: 1. to pay for international freight emissions 2. social, fiscal and environmental dumping 3. ; Thomas Piketty:: Rethinking world trade

ME:: use this to access all my computers from anywhere ; Tailscale blog:: The Tailscale node you mail to your parents

ME:: there is no man-boy problem, there is an underpaid and under represented problem for all minorities, not men. Grow up and do your share of the housework and childrearing man-boys :-) !; Jessica Winter:: What Did Men Do to Deserve This? ¦ The New Yorker

without-link-blogthis.rb: new ruby script for blog posts that don't reference a link I call this from linkless_blog_all_open.rb.

Revenge of renewables. Despite the USA and Alberta governments (and our former environmentalist PM), renewable i.e. solar and wind is the right side of history

ME:: free websites for folks who know how to use git for how long? Sounds great, except for having enough $. And grebedoc is codeberg spelled backwards LOL ; Catherine 'whitequark' and teammates:: Grebedoc — static site hosting for git forges

Small 'p' political Songs from the 1980s. Shipbuilding is my favourite? What's yours?

Pluribus anti-zombie zombie 1st 2 episodes blew me away. COVID-19 awareness in a denialist world parallels per Julia Doubleday?

Canada has lost its measles immunization status because of anti-science lies.

ME:: LOL Ryan,respectfully I think you are wrong but what do I know :-) ; Ryan Dahl:: Humans Are Just Stochastic Parrots

I disagree with the analogue note taking folks. I don't read my old analogue notes. #Ymmv

ME:: Recipes that probably :-) work:: Gotta try this with cashews since Simon is allergic to peanuts :-) ; Genevieve Ko:: Dan Dan Noodles Recipe

Polish is overrated in Podcasts :-) It's just audio on the internet. Get over yourself just post it :-) !

ME:: And so it begins go Firefox for Enterprise go :-) ! I was involved in the last Firefox Enterprise effort 2018-2020 and it didn't go anywhere; hopefully it will go further this time! ; Brian Smith:: Introducing early access for Firefox Support for Organizations

ME:: tl;dr-ing: fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI by an AI maximalist who seems more reasonable than most of them. Daniel Miessler:: February 2024:: Why I Created Fabric

ME:: clearly we know nothing about minds :-) ; Norman, Johnson, van er Linden:: 2024:: Do Minds Have Immune systems?

ME:: so many free LUTs to try on the S9 and in Pearla and not boring iOS Camera Apps so little time :-) l KROLOP und GERST:: Lumix S5II LUT Package

ME:: tidyplots in R looks easier and better for non software developers and software developers than Hadley's older ggplot2. Perhaps use it for art and SUMO data?!?! ; Jan Broder Engler:: Get started • tidyplots

ME:: Seems to me like fancy bidirectional database open source schema converters?!? That can be used to solve the ATProto Lexicon Interop problem among others. What am I missing?!? From 2020, what's the update in 2025?!? Geoffrey Litt, Peter van Hardenberg, Orion Henry:: Ink and Switch:: October 2020:: Project Cambria: Translate your data with lenses

ME:: Ollama is something worth looking into in my copious free time :-) i also need a 64GB RAM computer if I want to run local models it seems still! ; Ivan Palomares Carrascosa:: March 11, 2025:: The Beginner's Guide to Language Models with Python

ME:: I guess I should try the $20/month stuff?!!? I don't really want to though LOL ; Ethan Mollick:: October 19, 2025:: An Opinionated Guide to Using AI Right Now

ME:: I wonder how much further Paolo has taken this since June?!? Paolo Valdemarin:: June 13, 2025:: Building a WordPress MCP Server for Claude: Automating Blog Posts with AI

ME:: Need to explore Flame Graphs for support data and need to read the The Flame Graph ACM Paper ; Brendan Gregg:: Flame Graphs

I miss the sinigang at Symphonie Filipino Restaurant :-)

When will flickr's API and embeds die or break? Probably wrong guess: 2030 or earlier :-)

ME:: tl;dr-ing The USA became a democracy when Black folks could vote which was in 1965 when the Voting Rights Act was passed; Amanda Taub:: July 5, 2023:: When Did the U.S. Become a Democracy? - The New York Times

ME:: seems like mounting a tripod on bicycle handlebards with zip ties would be unstable?!? ; woofboy111:: The Hands Free Bicycle Camera Tripod : 6 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables

ME:: find is often easier to use with shell pattern matching instead of regular expressions ; How to randomly open a jpeg or JPG or JPEG or jpg file ; explainshell.com `-iname` to do filename case insensitive pattern matching and `-o` for boolean OR

ME:: yes....and :-) so much to learn from philosophy ; Wikipedia:: Both/and reasoning

ME:: Broken record: until we get a sterilizing vaccine I don't think wearing a mask indoors is unreasonable especially in respiratory season; i also think we should have windows open (as we learned from the 1918 flu pandemic) and HEPA (and far UV-C if there is a central HVAC unit like a heat pump or furnace if it really works) filtered air everywhere ; Julia Doubleday:: Beyond all reason - The Gauntlet

ME:: called my local pharmacy at 1808 Kingsway and got a walk-in appointment and both my 7th COVID vaccine and my yearly flu vaccine today! ; 2025 COVID-19 immunizations - Province of British Columbia

ME:: looks great need to write a github action to generate SUMO KB and Forum reports ; David Keyes:: 2023:: How to Use GitHub Actions with R to Run Code Automatically

ME:: Analogical programming by demonstration as opposed to programming with Fregean text ; Ivan Reese, Jimmy Miller, and Lu Wilson:: Pygmalion by David C. Smith - Feeling of Computing - Omny.fm

ME:: fastmail doesn't appear in this list?! ; The most popular email providers

ME:: Pointless 'drm' gotta pointless or something :-) ; Pixelmelt:: How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked

Jo Freeman:: The Tyranny of Stuctureless; ME:: a classic, please read!

ME tl-dr-ing; Computational poetry based on Telegu is cool ; koundinya:: Prāsa Programming Language:: Documentation - poetic computer

ME:: I need to dig deeper into Postmodern criticism, deconstruction, etc ; Brian Marick:: Deconstructing (cruddily) 'How to Deconstruct Almost Everything' // Oddly Influenced

ME:: make everything yellow :-) ; Nick Driftwood:: Goldilocks False Color LUT for Sony S-Log3 Cameras FREE!

ME:: rossandhisjpegs reviews blue night, reglisse, black frost-n and newtro; Gotta check these out! ; Ross:: Testing LUMIX LUTs, So You Don’t Have To - YouTube

ME:: Another LUT to check out :-) ; Camila Ballell:: Cinematic Retro Film Look - Free LUT for video editing ¦ Uppbeat

ME:: more LUTs to check out on my S9 and Pearla and not boring iPhone camera app some day ; True Log Conversion LUTs Free Download (Inc. Rec.709) - Bounce Color®

ME:: gotta check out NEWTRO, Warm Film, Teal Flat-S and of course Leica Monchrome on my S9 ; Comment by Bass Potoo:: Lumix S5ii lut recommendation : r/Lumix

ME:: classic paper about why groupware and social apps fail ; Jonathan Grudin:: 1988:: WHY CSCW APPLICATIONS FAIL: PROBLEMS IN THE DESIGN AND EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERFACES

ME:: What is the downside to uv? Doesn't seem to be one :-) It does it all, runs python, manages dependencies etc ; Rob Hudson:: From pyenv to uv: Streamlining Python Management ¦ Rob's Cogitations

ME:: if you can break a problem into a series of sub-problems and write that list of sub-problems you have always been capable of being a software developer. Now more than ever with or without LLMs ; Brandon Dixon:: Febuary 16, 2024:: Can you write? Great, you're a developer.

ME tl;dr-ing:: investigative skills, Evaluative skills and innovation skills are all things we need to improve to prosper in an LLM enabled world. LLMs have none of these skills ; Chelsea Troy: What can we expect of LLMs as Software Engineers?

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Show up as we want to show up and learn how to divert that negative energy somehow (in a way we feel good about it) ; John Cutler:: 2023:: TBM 254: Self-Gaslighting and the Doubt Loop

ME:: What does Jim Covello of Goldman Sachs think today in late 2025? Still an AI bubble? Is it bursting? LLM Winter? ; Ed Citron:: July 8, 2024 Pop Culture

ME:: is programming with local LLM inference better or worse a year later? My guess is (based on Simon Willison) that it's a wee bit better ; Chris Wellons:: November 10, 2024:: Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs ; 'I really tried, but never saw LLM output beyond 2–3 lines of code which I would consider acceptable.'

Ben Werdmuller:: Lifelogging under fascism...Imagine a device that lifelogged and stored quantified self data using strong, key-based encryption <-- ME:: I want this yes please!

ME:: Ben, this sounds great, how can I help support this? Ben Werdmuller:: If I started fresh...a private-by-default, federated platform designed for groups that already know each other or are actively building trust

Ben Werdmuller:: If I ran my life, private schools would be banned <-- ME::Amen!

ME:: LLMs are a useful tool to complement your learning and to help construct your meaning; you can use them to replace your labour and get good grades but that's not going to result in learning which is of course NOT about grades ; Soroush Sabbaghan:: AI can be responsibly integrated into classrooms by answering the ‘why’ and ‘when’

GitHub - yotam/PyFlickr: Download Images using the Flickr API via the flickrapi python package

ME:: looks great but sadly deprecated as of November 2024 since the maintainer/author doesn't use the flickr API any more sad face ; Sybren A. Stüvel:: Python Flickr API ¦ dr. Sybren

Highly Recommended for all folks not just Filipinos! Carmela Sison as Chef Mela is fabulous in Lasa ng Imperyo/A Taste of Empire, an adaptation of a play by Jovanni Sy Oct 9-19, 2025 at Presentation House Theatre, North Vancouver, $30

ME:: AI stuff to code effectively requires time and $ which many minority folks simply don't have ; Dr Cat Hicks:: New research from me: AI Skill Threat & contest cultures on software teams

Fuji Superia, Velvia, Kodak Ektachrome, Gold, Portra, SkyOptiimizer2, SunShadeSharp Luts from falk.wagenknecht- Google Drive

ME:: Go Blacksky go!!! I doubt that Blacksky will be under the 'thumb of Bluesky's moderation service' forever (if this is true, I don't know enough about ATProto to know for sure who is under the thumb of who) ; Bruno Dias,:: Delusions of a Protocol ¦ Azhdarchid

ME tl-dr-ing; lnav, a TUI tool to to colourize, filter and view multiple log files that works with zero configuration out of the box with standard log files like log files generated by ruby's logger gem ; Tim Stack:: lnav v0.13.1

ME:: tl;dr-ing: Attack the ideas and emotions that make The Convicted Criminal worship appealing ; Dave Rahardja:: It is impossible to reason these people out of their unhinged views, because they have a different epistemological system: they believe in divine revelation through authority figures, not collaborative observation ; Matthew Sheffield:: The Convicted Criminal super fans are impossible to argue with because they don’t actually believe in logic

ME: tl;dr-ing Stock firmware works (Unlike Rui, I have no need for low-level control) and so does OpenWRT. Something to consider in 2027 or something but by then there will be something shinier :-) LOL! ; Rui:: The Cudy AX3000 Wi-Fi 6 System (with OpenWRT) - Tao of Mac

ME:: tl;dr-ing: When we write the code to pass the test, it must be failing; Jason Gorman:: Test Driven Development Under The Microscope #1 – Usage-Driven Design

ME:: Zero to working space invaders code in 1 prompt! From Chinese 'frontier' ai company Z.ai way back :-) 2 months ago to July 29, 2025 ; Simon Willison:: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now, using GLM-4.5 Air and MLX

ME:: oh brother yet another governance error (this time by Ruby Central) screws my favourite programming language Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:: 'What the f*ck is going on with Ruby?.... For the moment we have to consider all gems compromised:' - narrativ.es

ME:: We all make sh*tty software as Dave Winer has said so many times! Including Microsoft and Samsung! ; Thom Holwerda:: Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews via Mike Hoye

ME:: Does this AI notes thing work :-) ?!? ; Notability note taking startup

ME:: this seems to work on macOS Big Sur 11.7 ; huksley's github gist:: Disabling photoanalysisd on macOS

ME:: Death of a disco dancer er Google Web search :-) Killed by Google AI mode and ChatGPT with GPT-5 search ; Simon Willison:: Google's AI mode is good, actually

ME:: Go science go! Explaining COVID science to privileged folks with 'educations' should NOT be required ; Jess Steier:: I inserted myself into a conversation at a bar about Covid and vaccines. Here’s what happened :: How to talk to strangers at a bar about Covid, dispel misinformation and explain the real science behind vaccines and mRNA vaccines ¦ STAT