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The Ditherinator - Convert your photos to shitty old versions that will print well on dot matrix printers. Love it.
Webcurios 19/09/25 webcurios.co.uk/webcurios… “I COULD GET TO MARSEILLES IN 8 HOURS FFS. What am I doing with my life? Why am I sitting in my pants in Vauxhall typing words about the internet when I could instead be about to visit Southern France and drink pastis and throw fireworks in the streets with wild Mediterranean abandon? I am TERRIBLE at being alive.” // This person’s linkblog style is next-level.
“linguistic pyrotechnics” - Chatty-G tries to explain to me why I don’t like contemporary hip-hop: “2. Wordplay vs. vibe – [Wu-Tang,], Tribe, and OutKast gave you linguistic pyrotechnics. This new wave often gives you murmured hooks and repetition. To an ear trained on lyricism, it can feel like lazy filler."
I’m giving a talk on what platform engineers seem to be doing (and probably will do) to manage AI a #SREDay London today. Here are the slides: speakerdeck.com/cote/ai-p…
When you meet a new person in your field, one easy small talk question to ask them is: “if you were [insert your company name here], what would you do?” It gets you some free consulting, lets someone talk about themselves and things they know, and, you know, just gives you something to talk about that fills the silence.
UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/1… ‘The main uses were “transcribing or summarising a meeting”, “writing an email”, and “summarising written communications”. The bot didn’t do so well on anything more complicated.'