Occupying TikTok with love - “And TikTok is full of advice about how to break out of this ‘200 views jail’ - have a niche, have a hook, look at trends - but maybe instead we could just think ‘how beautiful, TikTok are going to share my thing with 200 random people scattered around the earth’. It’s not a jail, it’s a window. (Or it’s a jail with a window)"
Do Not Shred Your Fingers In An Actual Blender - “Yes, sometimes LLMs can simulate humans. Yes, sometimes those simulations can be useful. But be wary of a simulation if you can’t verify its accuracy/efficacy. When you cannot yet distinguish fact from fiction, relying on a fiction pump seems unwise."
Pentagon research official wants to have AI on every desktop in 6 to 9 months - “‘We want to have an AI capability on every desktop — 3 million desktops — in six or nine months,’ Michael said during a Politico event on Tuesday. ‘We want to have it focus on applications for corporate use cases like efficiency, like you would use in your own company … for intelligence and for warfighting.'"
Java 25: Oracle’s Big-Tent Release—and a Clearer Roadmap for What’s Next - “Java’s momentum (by the numbers and the vibe) Oracle cited a 2025 VDC study claiming 73 billion active JVMs and reiterated Java’s position as the ‘#1 enterprise language.'"
The Post-AI Org Chart - The people need to stop saying the quiet part out-loud about job loss. The focus should be on doing more with what you have, not doing the same with less people. But, hey, investors, amiright?! // “This configuration reduces headcount (1:7:49 -> 1:7:14) by 53%."
“A person dies, but capital is forever.” // And, when the worker becomes the self-manager. Capitalism and the Death Drive
”advanced Unicode manipulation” Free Glitch Text Generator - Create Distorted & Zalgo Text Effects
Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships - “If you want the software to get updated—to have bugs fixed and security vulnerabilities patched—you want something very different. What you want is an ongoing supply of software, not a copy of a specific software artifact.” // A good overview of updating OSS software versus a one-time download and continuous use. Paying for support is one way to get the actual “supply chain” benefits enterprises and auditors crave. // The next question is: is it the job or the people running the project to do this supply chain stuff?
Dan Moren’s iOS 26 Review - “It’s one of the very best, most thoughtful, most useful changes in iOS 26.” // I didn’t notice this, and it is nice of you so a lot of things with text and other content on your phone (like link blogging).
Treat your to-read pile like a river - ”To return to information overload: this means treating your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it).” // Be comfortable with a to didn’t read list.