”2022 was a now-unrecognizable time where absurd errors in AI were celebrated.” Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation | Max Woolf’s Blog

“Sometimes you get the sense that McCarthy believes the Twentieth Century actually ended in the 1980s and we just didn’t notice.” THE PASSENGER, Cormac McCarthy

Many things can be forgiven if you put on a clean shirt.

“impervious to the shafts of ridicule and insensible to slights” Notes from “The Story of the Typewriter”

“If the people building the tech are terrified of it, maybe we should listen to their fears rather than their sales pitch.” Ten Blue Links, “Pop goes the bubble” edition

“If you already have zero enterprise apps in Python, that remains the right number and Gen AI should not change that at all.” Rod Johnson, October, 2025.

My daughter’s swim school has a (brown) bar connected to it that has panoramic windows looking into the pool. It’s not number one, but this is very high up on the list of “Most Dutch Thing Ever.”

“Nobody below colonoscopy age remembers the expectation of paying for a news story to read the whole thing.” How Elon Musk’s Changes to X Made Our Discourse Far Stupider

”Trente Glorieuses” Trente Glorieuses

We should be calling it all “AIaaS,” but I don’t think anyone could pronounce that without going PG-13 in every EBC and MQ.