Turning my mind around about the future of software industry. I think it is going to become more vibrant and kaleidoscopic. It is going to go the way of carbonated water. Abundant but packaged as a flavor / personality / tribe. A transition from utility to experience.

Population density is the basis of civilization and culture as we know it. Protect your cities, make more cities, and tend to the third spaces

Anthony Bourdain wrote about this. This was his pitch for Parts Unknown. Trust me, read the whole thing.

Thinking about this.

Btw I believe we have a mostly wrong framing of what could be done in Europe. Italy's Leonardo supercomputer datacenter alone plus Swiss National Supercomputing Centre has more than enough compute to train a very large LLM. It's not something impossible, also there is not magic recipe: it's just scaling, every smart team with the GPUs is doing it. People that fatally believe it is not something within reach are wrong.

So fucking IRL they will never find me

I had a lot of Fable tokens to use up before my weekly reset, so I made this live 3D map of London with Three.js Every train, bus, boat and plane is real and live right now! - Tube, bus and riverboat data from TfL - National Rail trains from Darwin live departure boards - ADS-B for planes and helicopters - AIS feed for boats and ships - Map data from Overture and OpenStreetMap Trains and buses have no GPS feed, so their positions are inferred from arrival countdowns and departure boards, then animated along the track/route geometry

Claude insights roasting me 😅 "...and then catastrophically overwrote a Google Doc, destroying its contents entirely. The user still rated the session 'very helpful,' which is either supreme patience or Stockholm syndrome." it doesn't know that i am simply buying skynet insurance.

in most of america you experience a title run through a television in a living room you drove to. in new york the game was projected on the sides of buildings and strangers hugged on the sidewalk at midnight. density is just the precondition for collective joy

Very happy for my friends in nyc who CAN’T STOP WINNING! Zohran is a lucky charm.

By far the best attribute of Zohran’s mayoral stay so far is the bold “we can just do that” of moments like this.

I want to say a final thing about my Fable first reaction: I dedicated my life to programming and I'll use every innovation in the field, also to extract value and bring it to the local inference world, to Redis, and so forth. But:

Very honest, much load bearing

Opus 4.8 talks in an unnatural way and steers clear of any allegations of artificial intelligence.

Ended up watching the last 30 mins of formula 1 at a random pub in Dorking with train timetable ticker at the bar after hiking box hill. I am the queen of touching grass this week.

To me, one of the most fascinating and important questions, which matters enormously for both gender equality, general happiness and fertility, is seldom asked: What are the cultural and economic obstacles to a culture of romantic love, where people come to seek and find partners, who they might cherish, care for, and look after in the long-run? Western feminists have tended to criticise the nuclear family and celebrate single-mothers. But young, heterosexual women around the world are in fact often seeking love, a man who loves them so completely that he will prioritise their wants and welfare. And in societies where women are free to choose, this is becoming a binding constraint on fertility. (Boucher, 1760)

my subway take is that people who don’t actually ever take the subway shouldn’t be allowed on subway takes.

Spotify threw an iconic party for its 20th anniversary! Being together in real life is hell of a drug. So happy to work in part of internet ecosystem that strengthens human connection and joy. @eldsjal and co have created a place that is fluid enough to be part of how people listen to music and each other for a long time to come.

Being horizontal is underrated. If earth wanted us to walk on it, we would not be dealing with gravity!