Introducing Writing with Robots 🤖 A eclectic series of essays, transcribed by ChatGPT. world.hey.com/michoel/introd…

A fully grown airplane can eat dozens of helicopters in a single setting.

Familiar.

I just thought of the phrase "apex redditor": now to wait three years to use it naturally in a conversation

"rare earths" is insane marketing for stuff that isn't even particularly rare, just chemically challenging to distinguish. "inscrutable earths"

We need 100 grandmas for a UI experiment. It might be easier to teach them IBM AS/400 system than a modern molasses like glass UI with undiscoverable features & gestures. This'd be a huge blow to ostensible "User friendly" cult. "GRANDMA PRESS THE F21 KEY". Easy instructions.

You’ve shared enough pieces of lore about yourself.

Tomorrow I start a course in spoken - yes, spoken - Proto-Indo-European. This means that when I acquire a time machine (bound to happen) & travel back to year 3,001 BC on the grassy plains north of the Black Sea, I will be able to bargain for fermented mare's milk & mutton stew

I can finally reveal what I’ve been working on for the past year - CloudDump! It’s an app that allows you to *directly* upload all of your most important personal data into a publicly accessible database. Instead of using intermediate steps with the other apps, you can directly and effortlessly dump all of it yourself!

People’s IQs should be presented like the weather: Actual IQ: 125 Feels like: 97

@dhh I'm 37 and my wife is 36. You changed my mind about having kids last year, after 10 years of marriage. And here we are waiting for my baby boy to come into the world this week. Thank you, David ❤️

Short-lived experiment! Turns out the "256GB" model actually only has about 180GB free storage before I loaded any pictures!? Can't even fit my smallish Dropbox folder and a single camera dump. Should be a crime to sell a computer with this little storage. It's gone again 😂

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Prescient, from Shel Silverstein in 1981

What a dearth of imagination. Build orphanages. Fund telomere research. Hell construct a mechasuit. Build a blimp city. Create a digital tongue so you can send taste over the internet. Create a swarm of drones that give you giant stereoscopic vision of the earth. Fly your drone face to North Sentinel Island and become their god. A steak? You mustn't be afraid to dream a little bigger darling.

Ouija board but for Linux 😂

I'm so old I wrote that! That's assuming it's the Windows version, which is the one I worked on. The Win9x game, art, and original code, were done by Maxis/Cinematronics. I ported it to Windows NT, converted the x86 asm to C, made it work on RISC, and so on. Success has many fathers, and all credit should really go to the original designers... I'm just the fun uncle that brought it to the masses.

In Rails 8.1, when you get an error you will be able to click the line number and it will open your editor on that exact spot! PR: github.com/rails/rails/pull/…

dear front-end developers, we regret to inform you that Figma has added liquid glass

Turns out you can just hack any train in the USA and take control over the brakes. This is CVE-2025-1727 and it took me 12 years to get this published. This vulnerability is still not patched. Here's the story: