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Software • Systems • Keyboards • Investing • Stoicism • Taoism

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Joined March 2008
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Sketched: Traffic openprocessing.org/sketch/43… 🚦(My little foray into @openprocessing. Done over long weekend.)
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If anyone’s still worried about inflation, and looking to diversify their hedge, I’d say French long €OATs are a buy.
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I’m pleased with @airbnb’s new “Reasonable House Rules and requests”. A case of the private sector taking responsibility for social good. Though, honestly, it’s just basic customer service. These kinds of rules should be enforced on rentals generally, by government regulation.
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This “multiple worlds” stuff is junk philosophy sold to the philosophically illiterate. With all respect to Plato, the contest between Plato (religion, grand theories) and Aristotle (scientific method, reason) was won centuries ago, decisively in favour of Aristotle.
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As musical theory developed, composers created works too challenging for orchestras of the time. But then as orchestras improved, and composers developed more empathy, composers created works orchestras could more readily perform.
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Maybe similar developments are occurring in the world of developers and users of software.
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Some finance “experts” seem to treat investing as a kind of mathematical puzzle. The illusion that bonds are “safe” is an instance of this. They seem to forget the existence of the rest of the world, with all its complexity and dynamism.
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Travel Pass card permanently blocked by @TransportforNSW just for one bounced payment. 😳 No problem, just use @Revolut virtual card. God I love #fintech! 😊
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Similarities between math and strength training: math is quite difficult and strength training is quite numeric.
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Planning to read The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic (黃帝內經). Just from my initial investigations, this is a profound work. It is far beyond medical ... it is on the level of the great religious and philosophical texts. Cannot contain my excitement!
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I couldn’t agree more with the statement. We’re now becoming more of orchestrators for code alignment as well as projecting our systems thinking to dictate code structure more and more.
Replying to @hamptonism
What is becoming obsolete is treating software engineering as typing syntax. Engineering is shifting toward system design, judgment, and accountability, not vanishing.
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Blogged: We’re all full stack now conwy.co/articles/full-stack
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Blogged: Living systems blueprint Diagramming the systems you work with for enhanced understanding and rapid navigation. conwy.co/articles/living-sys…
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Exciting to see convenient, comfortable XR glasses hit the market! 🕶️ xreal.com/ Consumer applications are endless. • Real-time language translation with subtitles • Speech-to-text with subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing • Virtual exercise and sports coaching
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“The war between good and evil is in reality an imposition of stupidity and simplicity over wisdom and complexity.” – Tyson YUNKAPORTA
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Jon retweeted
🚨 CRITICAL: Active supply chain attack on axios -- one of npm's most depended-on packages. The latest [email protected] now pulls in [email protected], a package that did not exist before today. This is a live compromise. This is textbook supply chain installer malware. axios has 100M+ weekly downloads. Every npm install pulling the latest version is potentially compromised right now. Socket AI analysis confirms this is malware. plain-crypto-js is an obfuscated dropper/loader that: • Deobfuscates embedded payloads and operational strings at runtime • Dynamically loads fs, os, and execSync to evade static analysis • Executes decoded shell commands • Stages and copies payload files into OS temp and Windows ProgramData directories • Deletes and renames artifacts post-execution to destroy forensic evidence If you use axios, pin your version immediately and audit your lockfiles. Do not upgrade.
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There’s no rule that Agents, Skills, Tools or Commands must be LLM-based. Some use cases require 100% accuracy and determinism – for those cases, we can apply these patterns to regular code.
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AI replacement theory – a critique conwy.co/articles/ai-replace…
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